The widow's oil

Second Kings, Chapter 4. Speaking of Faith, speaking of the God provider. The Lord impressed my spirit with this passage. Just this morning as I was praying to God to seek his blessing in today's service and it coincides very well with the themes that we have been dealing with, which is the theme of Faith this year.

At least my sermons and I know that my brother Pastors -who have also been preaching- have been fitting into this theme of Faith. Because this is a year of Faith, this is a year to believe the Lord, to know that God is more powerful than circumstances, that God is even more powerful than our inability, our mistakes, our defects, our sins. Faith wins, Faith makes mountains move, Faith removes obstacles, Faith is the gasoline that makes it possible to move the vehicle of the son or daughter of God.

How good that worked out for me! Say Amen, even though you don't know what I said there.

Faith is the fuel, Faith is what makes everything else possible. There is the Bible, there is the praise system of the Church, there are the programs of the Congregation, there are the declarations of God in his Word and the promises for his children. All of that is like a car, it's like the gear, the seats, the engine, the transmission, the muffler of the car and all the other components of a car.

But what if you don't have gasoline in the car? How many of you have ever run out of gas? Admit it. It has happened to me at least once in my life, if I were honest I would have to add 'many more times than that'.

But, in other words, gasoline is what mobilizes, enables the parts of the car that are potentiality to become actuality, that they can be moved, that they can be updated. And so it happens. God's promises are here. The eternal declarations of God are here. The rights of the son or daughter of God are here.

But if we don't activate them through our faith, they stay like the car... stopped. There are people who have a beautiful car but they have it in the canopy in the garage and from there it doesn't move, collecting dust.

News recently came out in London, a doctor died -already old- and when his descendants went to clean out the garage -which was full of junk and all that- they discovered a car worth about 5 million dollars, an antique . I think it was a very old Rolls Royce model, like from the 30s around… 37… 40s around. Very old, in immaculate condition, but full of dust. And when they took it to auction, he got 4 million and a bit of dollars. But this man had it sitting there in the garage, he didn't use it.

And what happens many times? What happens with our Faith and with the promises of God? They are locked in there, but many of us don't even read the Bible sometimes and if we do read it, we read it in a passive way instead of wrestling with it and taking its nutrients and putting them into practice.

And faith is what makes it possible for the vehicle of God to move, to believe God, to put hands and feet and action on the promises of God, on the Word of God. That is why we have to say: "Lord, activate my Faith. Make me every day a man, a woman of faith, who dares and sets God's machinery in motion."

It is believing God, it is daring, it is taking a step in the name of Jesus and believing that what God has promised will be actualized in my life. That's why when God tells you: "Give me in the name of my name and I will bless you." You have to act in faith and do it and God will bless you.

Here is a case very similar to this case, which shows us the faithfulness of God.

That is why -again- we want to enrich the concept of Faith that we have and that is why I want to discuss this passage that incorporates some of those elements of Faith that will help us to be people, precisely, of Faith.

Chapter 4, Verse 1 says, "a woman, one of the wives of the sons of the prophets, cried out to Elisha" - everyone say 'she cried out', very important. Cry out to the Lord in our time of need. "He cried out to Elisha" - there is Faith, Faith is required to cry out to God.

And cry out is not just any word, right? Cry out is an intense, urgent, deliberate, aggressive word. Many of our sentences are passive, generic, general sentences, just in passing, quick because we have other more important things to do.

But to cry out is to cry out to God as Bartimaeus cried out to Jesus as He passed near him and said, "Jesus, Lord, son of David, have mercy on me."

It is crying out to God, it is daring one, it is bringing the request to red hot.

It is the friend's request at midnight -which we also discussed- that with the urgency he has to not be embarrassed by his visitors, it is his turn and his neighbor's turn there to give him that little cup of sugar that he needs and those three teaspoons of coffee to give to people who have arrived unexpectedly.

It is the faith of the Syro-Phoenician woman who cries out to the Lord, who tells him, "Lord, my daughter is seriously tormented by a demon" and who does not give up when the Lord says to her, "You know what? I don't have time , that is not my calling. I have to attend to the Jews first and perhaps later I will have time for the Gentiles" and she says to him "No, Lord, even the Gentiles have the right to eat the crumbs that fall from the table " and the Lord says "Woman, great is your faith "by that word, your daughter is..."

It is the faith of the woman with the flow of blood who touches the mantle of Jesus and that touching constituted an implicit cry, silent but physically very powerful and it robbed Jesus of power and she also left with her miracle.

We discussed that. Do you remember too? How many remember that time, right?

It is the faith of friends who bring their paralyzed friend to his bed and break the roof and lower this poor man down and present him there to Jesus and say "Let's see what you are going to do with him here now. No You have a way out. The house is full of people. You have to do something."

And the Lord moved by their faith says "He healed the friend" and the man left with his stretcher on his back that used to support him and now he supports her. Because there is clamor, right?

"She cried out to Elisha saying, 'Your servant, my husband, has died and you know that your servant was a fearer of the Lord.'" Notice "your servant" twice. "That your servant was fearful of the Lord and the creditor has come"...

Who is the creditor? It is the person who comes to collect from you, not the one who believes, it is the person who believes that you owe him money and comes to ask you for that money. There is a very big difference between a creditor and a believer. A couple of letters but they make a world of difference.

It says "The creditor has come to take two of my children as servants." This creditor was not easy. He wants to take two children of this poor woman as slaves for what they owed him. "And Elisha said to him: 'What shall I do to you?'"

Remember that question when Bartimaeus comes to Jesus with the cane... the poor man comes with the cane... evidently he is blind and the Lord says to him, "what do you want me to do for you?" And Bartimaeus says to him, "that you heal me, that you give me my sight". Thank God it was more respectful than that. He told him, "Lord, may I receive my sight." He humbly told her. Why did Jesus ask him 'what do you want me to do for you?' Because the Lord likes to hear from our mouth what we need.

That is a principle that one sees over and over again in the word.

The Apostle -I think James- says, "why don't you receive? Because you don't ask". Because they do not ask, they do not receive. You have to ask the Lord and you have to be specific, you have to be clear, you have to describe the need and you have to describe what we want in great detail; name and surname. God likes us to express ourselves.

He knows, but brother, if you don't cry, if you don't pray, if you don't take time to define your needs, don't expect to receive anything from the Lord. Sometimes God in his mercy gives us something but when we reach maturity, He expects us to behave like mature people and present our needs to the Lord.

So... she... "What do you want, what do you need, what will I do for you? Tell me what you have at home." Wow! There is a lot of fabric to cut there. ... and she said: "Your servant has no things at home."

How sad it would have been if she had stayed there! But at that moment the light bulb went on, "but I have one thing for you, a vessel of oil." Do you see how revealing the word of the Lord is? “She added, 'I have nothing in my house but a jar of oil.' And He said to her, 'Go and borrow jars for yourself from all your neighbors. Empty jars, not a few.'

There's a lot of specific instruction in there, isn't there? "Come in later, lock yourself and your children and pour into all the vessels and when one is full put it aside."

I imagine this lady taking note... look for a piece of paper, there quickly, while Eliseo told her. "Okay, I have to do this, I have to look for jars from the neighbors, fill them all, lock myself in with my children and when one is full, put it aside."

A series of specific instructions. "And when one is full, set it aside. And the woman went away and closed the door, shutting herself and her children in. And they brought her the vessels and she poured out some of the oil. When the vessels were full, she said to one of her sons 'Bring me still other vessels'.

The woman was already excited about it, right? he liked what was happening.

She was already picking up her spirits now, "Mm, I like this."

Imagine if they did that with money. "Find yourself a dollar and give it to him and when that dollar multiplies, find another." Imagine, how nice it would be like that, right?!

'When the jars were full, he said to a son 'Bring me still more jars. And he said "There are no more vessels."

So what happened? "The oil ceased. She came later and told the baron of God." You have to testify when God works miracles, you have to go. Many people receive miracles and remain silent and then they keep the joy and do not share it with others. If God does a miracle in your life, watch, testify, let others know.

…" and the baron of God returned who said "Go and sell the oil and pay your creditors. And you and your children live on what's left."

Glory to the name of the Lord! What a beautiful miracle! This is one of the first miracles that Elisha performs and I believe that we are going to be talking about Elisha's life in these next few times when I am intervening. What happened? Didn't like the message? No, lie.

It's the second time I've done that and the first time it didn't work out for me, so feel free. The second miracle that the Bible records about the Prophet Elisha in his new role. Elisha was apprenticed to Elijah and now Elisha has the Elijah anointing. Elijah has been taken, Elisha is his successor and the Bible begins to record here miracles that Elisha performs.

That's why he told them that we're going to be dealing a bit with Elisha's life... because Elisha's life exemplifies many of those great miracles that are part of the faith process and how does God do miracles in our lives? What is the dynamic?

This passage, if you break it down into its constituent parts, holds lessons that you can take home and apply in your life and that will do great things in your life, too.

The faith of this woman exemplified in these actions that occur between her and Eliseo are for us too. They are recorded here because it is God's way of informing us and saying, 'what happened to her can also happen to you if you use the same principles.'

So our question is, what are those principles that are locked up there? and the Holy Spirit enlightens us through them. Let's focus for a moment on the word "creditor" or "creditors". This woman comes to Elisha, cries out to him. Widow... no social security... no more social security, no more Medicare. There are no stamps, no coupons, or anything like that. She is totally dependent on mercy, divine intervention.

And the creditors come and tell her, "your husband owed us. The credit card has 3,000 dollars here, the Visa and the MasterCard have 1,500 and you have to pay us and if not, we're going to take two of your children with us.

For me, creditors represent that hard aspect of life, life in all its weight in its demands on us, that wears us out, that it asks for something from us. It is the hard part of human existence, it is the need of the human being. It is like the friend at midnight who arrives and has a need and who represents the man, the woman in her state of "NEED".

Life is like that, life is blind in its demands and life does not care if you are young or old, woman or man, whether you behave well or not.

Life comes with illness, it comes with debt, it comes with financial failure, it comes with a family problem, a marriage problem, and it demands something from you. It demands energy, it demands intervention of some kind and it tells you you have to pay me, I am suing you I am putting a weight on you. That is life, Christ said that in the world you will find "affliction". In the world there is always friction, everything in life is friction and friction, everything costs something.

The money we need to pay our bills costs something. It is that life is an incredible creditor and life comes with its demands, it comes with its weight on us, it comes with its crises. Periodically different types of situations will come. "Ah! that the boys have to go to the University. We have to pay and we don't have money to pay for the University. Creditors. Marriage gets hard and difficult. Creditors.

The son, who until then was an obedient child, begins to hang out with youngsters with bad behavior and begins to exhibit behaviors that threaten our well-being and our peace, his future and are the creditors of life.

And then the question is: before the creditors of life, when tragedy comes, when loss comes, how are we going to react? What is the alternative, the option that the son of God has to deal with the creditors… of life?

What do we do... what does the human being do when the creditor comes to his life?

Well, many lament and complain: "Why me? Wouldn't there be someone else out there who would like this problem better?" "Why me? If I do what I can, I go to church, if I I serve the Lord." "Why me? If I tithe, why does this vile come to me, which I did not expect?" We complain, we lament, we accuse God of not being faithful in his promises. Others get depressed Others of us are filled with anxiety.

Different things we can do and life becomes bitter. We stop going to Church, we stop praying, or we simply put our hands on our heads and are scandalized by what is coming and poisoning our lives.

Or… we can do as this woman does, who cries out and goes to the source, goes to where the power is, goes to where she knows the solution is. She goes to where Elisha is, who is now the successor of Elijah the prophet of God. Elisha represents the presence of God, represents divine authority. This woman was in a sense like a pastor's wife, we could the equivalent, the children of the prophets of whom she speaks here, she was like a community of servants of God headed by Elijah.

There was something like a school of Prophets, a Seminary that produced servants of God, who served remember a context where it was, Ahab, Jezebel, Ochosias, these impious kings of Israel and these men served the Lord there.

So, this widowed woman of a Priest, not an official Priest, but as a prophet -we could say a Pastor-, has no one to go to but she knows that in the person of Elisha is the Anointing that was before in Elijah, which it was transferred to him before he was taken away by God.

So Elijah represents the presence of God, Elijah represents the resources of the kingdom of God. Elijah represents a man filled with the Holy Spirit who has divine authority to transact in the spirit world.

Today we thank God we don't need Elisha. We have access to the Father through Jesus Christ. Say Amen. "We can confidently enter -says the word- the throne of grace and receive opportune help", says the writer of Hebrews. We don't necessarily have to go to Elisha today.

It is good when we share our needs with the Pastor, or with a brother from the Church to help us pray and that is good. I'm not saying no. But you know what my brother, my sister? You, through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit -who dwells in you- you, can go directly to the source and present your need to the father. You can cry out to God.

When problems come into our lives, instead of putting our hands on our heads, let us raise our hands to Almighty God, the God who wants to help us, wants to help us.

Brothers, let's learn to pray, let's learn to cry out to God, let's learn to be people of Prayer. I always say that... however we should not wait until we have the enemy on top of us to then cry out. We must not wait until we have water up to our necks, to then seek God.

I encourage you rather to live a life of continuous prayer. A life of spiritual hygiene where you are always bringing your needs before God and doing them proactively.

As your child is entering High School, begin to pray for the scholarship. When he graduates four years from now, don't wait for his college bill to come in and then say, "Oh Lord, have mercy on me!" Start Praying. In fact, start praying when you are in the womb and say, "Lord, he is going to college."

Better yet: "And I need you to start preparing that scholarship for me now." Or better yet: "The money to pay myself." Do you understand what I mean?

We have to be praying proactively presenting our needs continuously. I believe a lot in proactive prayer. I believe a lot. Do not pray when you have a health problem and Glory to God. If it's the only thing you can do, do it now, but always pray for health in your body. Bless your body, declare healing over your conductive system, your veins, your heart. Declare healing on your digestive system, your bones, declare my body is healthy. Visualize healing, every day declare God's healing in your life. Don't wait until you have to fight.

It helps a lot to pray proactively. Pray for your finances every day, bless your finances. Don't wait again until you are in financial trouble. Ask the Lord every day "Father bless my finances. I declare your provision." Prayer is the key to crying out to God.

Now when the need comes when the crisis comes, the word says, 'be anxious for nothing, if your requests are not known in all prayer and supplication before God'.

When the need comes, cry out to God, instead of struggling... Pray.

And this is what this woman did, she went to the fountain, she went to the prophet and asked him. And how cute is his way of presenting his needs! It says, "Your servant was fearful of Jehovah and the creditor has come to take my children." Right? And your servant my husband is dead.

Why does she emphasize "your servant"? Because this was not just any man. It was very important that the prophet Elisha knew that this man had been faithful to God, that this man had faithfully served Elijah as the head of a community of Faith that served the Lord. So, she is identifying herself and personalizing and individualizing herself before the prophet. It's telling you here are my credentials. I am the widow of a man who served the Lord.

Brothers, how important it is that when we come before the Lord, we have authority; may our prayers be backed by a life of service to the Lord; by experiences with God.

That is why the Lord says, 'we have to pile up good works in heaven, invest in heaven where the thief does not steal, where rust does not corrupt things'. May our lives be lives of fidelity.

I know what I'm telling you, let's not wait for the Moors to be upon us to then become Christians who go to Church every Sunday. We are going to live our lives in the holiness of the Lord, we are going to live our lives in service to the Lord, in good works of service to God. Because when the need comes that will give us authority, security to cry out before God.

This woman came and said, "Look, this man served your lord Elijah and now he has died and they are coming to take his children, I am his wife." There is authority brothers. We have to accumulate those things.

It is not that our works are what motivate God. But it is very good when our life is lived in this way, which gives us that security that we can come before our Heavenly Father. And He is good and faithful to bless our Faith and our good behavior.

‘The creditor has come to take his two sons,’ and Elisha said to him, “what shall I do to you?” Again, brethren, I just underline that there. Over and over again the Lord asks us in our faith life to be specific when we present our needs to him.

Let's just say, 'Lord Bless me', or 'Lord Provide me in Jesus name Amen'.

The Lord says, "Well, what do you need me to provide?"

- 'A bicycle'

- 'And how many wheels do you want, two or do you want two small ones next to it because you don't know yet... Do you want a JWIN or what brand do you want?' No? ‘How thick do you want the wheels?’.

Specific needs must be presented to the Lord. You have to cultivate that certainty that it is what I want, that it is what I ask for. I believe that many times God puts up with their responses because He wants to lead us to define our needs and to be specific before the Father.

May we be proactive in seeking God's blessing. In presenting what we need. Let's take time. Those 3-minute sentences there soaked in water while we brush our teeth, that has to go down in history.

The children of God have to take time to be deliberate. If President Obama came to your house, I'm sure you wouldn't say to him, "Look, sit there, I'll be back in a minute," and while you're washing the dishes, you'd talk to him, would you?

God wants you to be deliberate. Take time. Get up a little earlier. Be your mind lucid; have a little coffee so that your mind is very clear. So, talk to God, show God that you take Him seriously. And look, brother, I tell you, that kind of praying makes an incredible difference in how you feel after it's over.

So, “what do you want me to do to you? tell me what you have at home”. God always likes us to contribute something. Listen, that is one of the strongest lessons that I can give you from this entire passage and for your life of faith.

Listen to this well: God always likes you to give him something. That you invest something in the miracle. We sometimes have this idea of ourselves as those little eagles, that the eagle sucks and puts the food right there in the little mouth, right? And God wants men and women warriors. God wants men and women who are part of the miracle.

Why do you see when the disciples say to the Lord, “Lord we don't have food to give to all this crowd.” The Lord has said to them, "Give him something to eat."? The Lord says, “Go and see what is in the crowd,” and when they come back… what do they come back with? Five loaves and two fish.

They found something. The Lord likes you to do something. Because? Because the Lord takes it seriously. Because the Lord does not want to create parasites that are always just receiving. The Lord wants people of Faith, people who put something into the miracle, who exercise a little.

It's like the father who doesn't want to simply when his son comes, "Dad, I need 20 dollars" "Okay, here it is." "I need 100 dollars." "No problem here it is."

No! It says "Go to work even if it's at the supermarket and even if it's one of those 20, earn 5" right? So that he learns, he develops independence. Never give your children everything they ask for, brother, please. I know that many of you have no problem with that.

But those who do, brother, have your children do their part. Because that's how they create personality, independence, solvency, develop their gifts, etc. Help but do not substitute. How beautiful that fell! Help but do not substitute. That is God. God always wants to work with us and through us, that's why he tells him, "what's in your house? look for something."

To Moses he says, “what do you have in your hand?” "A stick". "Well, go with that where Pharaoh and I are going to do a miracle through that rod." God always wants us to put something.

If you want God to work in your life, ask yourself what can I do to start the machine? What can I do to start the process? Many times we want, 'Oh Lord, I want to study, I want to get my university degree!'

But we're sitting there watching TV every day and doing nothing.

Pick up the phone call the admissions office and ask them to send you a catalog home. Or go yourself if you don't dare to make a phone call, go and commend yourself to the saints and get there with fear and trembling and knock on a door and say, “anyone who speaks Spanish here?” -even. “I want to learn English,” and he asks and looks for some paper or something and begins.

And that person will tell you, "well I'm not the right person, but I know someone here is another department," and when you come to see you have what you need.

God begins to work in your deposit. There is a deposit that we can always put in our life and God wants that from you. God wants action on your part. God wants an effort on your part. That is why it is so important that we understand, brothers, that God does not replace us.

God wants to bless us, but He is saying, 'okay, I already gave you the word, I promised the blessing. Now take the blessing and start walking in Faith that I am going to open the sea before you.” Strike the sea and the sea will open.

I believe that it is one of the things that the Latino community needs the most, to be able to break the inertia of the study and of our economic situation, of our dismembered and broken families.

How is the Latino community going to get out of its quagmire? How are we going to have the next generation that is a great blessing? Ourselves. You have to fight, you have to be people of discipline, you have to work, you have to make an effort, you have to believe in God, you have to start ordering your life, you have to start making efforts.

If you want to buy a house, don't expect that you're going to win the lottery and that's how you're going to buy it. There are a lot of people like that. "Well I want a house. I trusted I am going to pray to the Lord to win the lottery. I'm going to buy two or three tickets at the pharmacy for the lottery,” right?

No! Better start saving and fix your financial life and believe that this is the beginning of God's blessing. Start asking around what opportunities there are; start moving. No, what do you have at home, there is always something in your life that you have to do with God, that is the support, the base that God wants to use to lean on the spirit and from there launch into the world.

Look how interesting. Why didn't God simply lower Jesus Christ as a spirit and had to go to a Mary and ask her permission to use her womb, so that her son would incarnate in her and then begin to walk on earth?

Don't you see there something that God's miracle needs a human base to run into the world of time and space? And that's why God worked.

He needed a base and Maria was the base. Christ was the jewel and Mary was the setting of the ring.

God always needs something from you.

The miracles of God the divine energy to run on this earth needs a material conduit, a wire and that wire is you, that wire is your faith, that wire is your actions of faith, that wire is your initiatives, your efforts. Sometimes clumsy, inadequate but that's all God needs: a little effort on your part.

The effort will not be enough but God does not care, what He wants is, "give me something, give me a base, give me a point of support."

How many here, those who are already more advanced in age in our countries, when they could not buy a ball, took a stone and wrapped it with thread? Don't raise your hand, you don't have to, don't worry. And then they would tape it around it and with that they would have a ball there to play with. It wasn't just thread, because if it had only been thread it wouldn't have the solidity... it needed a stone inside for everything else around it.

And I think that's the case, right? God's miracle is ethereal, it is spiritual, it is abstract, it is an essence, an energy. But the energies need a physical conduit to fit.

And so it is in our life that God wants to do a miracle in your life but he needs your action, he needs your investment, he needs your belly, he needs your faith, he needs your initiative, he needs your effort that will seem inadequate but that is what He wants for you. let the law be fulfilled, so to speak, and then come the miracle and action of God.

I have stopped a lot here. I think I'm going to round it off there, I'm going to stay in the middle of the sermon. And, the Lord will help us move on at some point if He wants. But I will be prudent.

I want to end by noting that fact, right? And stick with just him saying, "what do you have at home?" Then she says, "your servant has nothing in the house."

Let's focus on that matter of, 'okay, what can I give the Lord to do his miracle? What can I contribute?

Ultimately one of the things we have to say is, you know what? Look, the truth is that I can't, I don't have the solution. It is important. Before God works in our life and does something, I think, in a sense, in a first stage is to say, 'Lord, I can't. I have not. I am not the solution.'

I think it is good that the man and woman of God know that, 'I am not the last Coca-Cola in the desert. I am weak, I am fragile, I... Lord, this problem is too big for me and the truth is that I don't know what to do.' It is good that one reaches that point first.

When you recognize that a situation is too big, instead of saying, 'No, I can. I know what I have to do and I'm going to deal with this and I'm going to have some solution'.

No! Say, 'You know what, Lord? As Josaphat said "Lord, we don't know what to do and towards You we turn our eyes". How cute is that expression!

"We do not know what to do and towards You we turn our eyes".

Every miracle begins with an acknowledgment: I don't have the solution and the truth is that I don't have the resources to resolve the situation. I don't have the strength to master this addiction, this problem, this difficulty... ah! but I can do something. I can cry out and I can make a start.

Well, "all I have is a few jars of oil." Well that must have been the Holy Spirit illuminating her because what was a pot of oil going to do in a problem like that? But the only thing I have of value here at home, the only thing I could think of... Oil was valuable in the Middle East and still is in many parts of the world. 'All I have is a pot of oil.'

Sometimes -again-, that was not enough. We do not have, but there is something, there is a seed that we can contribute and that is it. So Elisha says: "You know what? With that, go and ask for yourself, empty vessels" and we'll see what he's going to do. I leave it there. Then we will continue further.

But I want you to focus this morning on the fact that God is saying to you, “I want to work a miracle in your life. I have the solution to your problem but there is a part that I want you to do. I want you to cry out to me desperately, to find time to fight your miracle, to invest." And... "Don't tell me that you don't have anything. I understand and accept your humility to say that you can't, but there are also something. Search. There is a part that I want you to do. There is an effort that I want you to undertake. There are some gestures of faith that I want you to dare to do because that will be the vehicle, the basis that I I am going to use it to move in your life and do the miracle. And I am going to work in your actions of faith".

'Cast your bread into the waters, for after many days it will return to you,' says the Lord. If you don't throw the bread into the waters it won't come back to you. You have to dare to invest it, you have to dare to move it to do something with the little that you have.

Become a person of action in your life, but let it be a disciplined action, in faith, in stillness. Because you do things, you make an effort, you give everything you can and then you rest at the end of the day because you say, 'I already did what I could do. The rest now has to be done by the Lord. I did my part.’

That is the deposit that I am placing in the hands of God.

Now, I believe that the Lord is going to incarnate in this and He is going to send his miracle into my life and I am going to continue working. I'm going to do what I can do. The only thing I have is a little oil and many empty vessels. A big, wide heart that waits to see the Glory of God. And in that wide and willing heart God is going to cast his anointing. Amen.

God wants us to believe him. Believe him. There are no failures in the life of the child of God.

I recently read a question, 'If you knew you couldn't fail, what would you do? What would you dare undertake?' If you know that you cannot fail, what would you dare to try to do? What efforts would you undertake if you know that God's blessing is, God's promise is on your life?

Let's stand up in the name of Jesus. Take that word and let it mark you, to impact your life this morning. God wants to bless you. The circumstance, the crisis of life is not going to destroy you, it is not going to defeat you. The crises of life are exercises that God has allowed in your life to make you stronger, that's all.

"You will not die, but you will live," says the Lord. God has your miracle, God has your solution. Believe the Lord. Walk in faith. Take actions of faith and let God reach out to you, you will not sink. Get out of your boat and start walking. The Lord is with you as a mighty giant. Receive that word of Faith this morning, appropriate it and say "that's for me, that's mine." Lord, mark my mind, mark my sensitivity. Mark my spirit. Help me live like this. When the giant comes, instead of running away, I go to my dad and throw him at him. I do my part. I throw a stone at it if I can but the Lord is the one who is going to put the anointing there.

The Lord is going to do the other part. Amen. Hallelujah! Father, thank you, Lord. Arm us with faith this morning, Lord. Arm us with Faith. Hallelujah! Arm us with faith, Lord. In the name of Jesus, I declare God's provision over your life. In the name of Jesus, I declare men and women terribly dangerous to the devil.

People full of faith, daring people, thrown people. People active in the Faith. Father, make us your warriors. Make us heroes, Lord, yours. Create for yourself a people, Father, worthy of the great Christ that we have. The Almighty Christ. Forgive us for not living up to, Lord, the call and the kingdom that we have received.

But we want to improve, Lord. We want to be more in line with what you expect of us.

Sermon by Dr. Roberto Miranda recorded August 2, 2009 in Congregación León de Judá

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