take up the mantle of authority

I invite you to take your Bibles to reflect on what God has for us today and, Father, I take advantage and I beg you that once again you grant me Your grace, Your favor to be able to bring this word to each one of these children. and your daughters who have gathered here today, Lord.

Father, as we well know, may Your word not return empty, but rather reach that purpose for which You send it. Your word is alive and effective and I ask that it reach the depths of the hearts of my brothers and sisters, including mine, Lord, so that we can align ourselves even more with the way of life that You want for each one of us. I ask this in the name of Your son Jesus to whom I give all Glory. Amen and amen.

Well, brothers, since we have been reflecting in these last days on the character of Elisha; As we well know, the Pastor has been bringing a series of messages that talk about the life of this character and others that are related to the life of Elisha.

Today I felt anxious to also share another additional part of Eliseo's life, that the Pastor and I agreed 'Okay, well I'm going to say this and you say that, no, no'... but yes We talked and I wanted to share this word that has been a great blessing for me and I want to share it with you, because I know it will be a blessing too.

I would like you to accompany me to the Book of Second Kings Chapter 2. I am going to read some verses. And start reading the story like this:

'It came to pass that when the Lord wanted to lift Elijah up into heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah came with Elisha from Jilgal...' -and I want you to pay attention to these names- and Elijah said to Elisha: "Stay here now, because the Lord has sent to Bethel" and Elisha said "As the Lord lives and as your soul lives I will not leave you". So they both went down to Bethel and the sons of the Prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that the Lord will take away your Lord from you today?" and Elisha said 'Yes, I know boy, shut up, don't say anything'.

Elijah said again "Elisha I need you to stay here now, because the Lord has sent me to Jericho" and Elisha returned and said to him "Long live the Lord and live your soul, I will not leave you" and so the two of them went to Jericho.

And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho approached Elisha and said to him "Eliseus, do you know what? That today they are going to take your Lord from you" and Elisha once again replied "Yes, I know, no. say nothing".

Elijah returned and told him "Elisha, please stay here..."-they saw how the intensity of Elijah's words changed-..." because Jehovah has sent me to Jordan and he said "Long live Jehovah and live your soul, that I will not leave you." And they both went, and fifty men of the sons of the prophets came and stood before them in the distance, and the two of them stood by the Jordan. Then Elijah took his cloak, folded it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the one side and to the other, and they both passed dry.

I would like to stop for a moment while reading the passage, my brothers, because there is something that I would like to share with you that has been very enlightening for me. Particularly, when trying to understand different stages in our life of faith.

I always like, every time I preach, to bring a message that will not only shake your emotions but also stimulate your mind and thinking. So that you leave here thinking and reflecting on what is the treatment that God has with your personal life. And not only your personal life but also your personal life in relation to other people that you may have around you.

But in this story when we look at the character of Elisha; Elisha, of course, was the man chosen by God to replace Elijah in this prophetic ministry.

Each one of the things that Elijah did once and Elisha was chosen, he was like his apprentice: wherever Elijah went, Elisha was there. All the things Elijah did, Elisha was there to witness. All the type of teaching that was given, Elisha was there receiving it, also learning, being shaped by Elijah in all these aspects.

And of course, the time came when Eliseo had to go up to the plate, take his place and receive the baton from Elias. And that type of transition was something very interesting that I now want to try to nit-pick with you on it.

If you realize, the story moves in different cities. The first city is Jilgál, the second is Bethel, the third is Jericho and the fourth place is said to be the Jordan River.

And you know what, my brothers? There are times when I start to think that when the Bible emphasizes specific places, specific names, I like to pay attention to that because there is something that is enclosed there.

And I want us to pay attention to this: these three cities have a very particular meaning. The first city from which they leave is Jilgal, I was able to identify that this is the city of 'New Beginnings'. The city of New Beginnings in the history of the people of Israel. If you look at the book of Joshua, chapter 5 verse 9 write it down, you don't have to read it, but write it down, Joshua 5:9 was the place where God met Joshua and told Joshua to take care of circumcising all that second generation of the people of Israel who had left Egypt before they entered the Promised Land.

In other words, God was saying to him: "We have to prepare this town. We have to make a clean slate. We have to start everything from scratch." It was the place of a new beginning. That was where the people were already preparing to enter a land, a place that God had promised each one of them; a prosperous place, a place where they would inherit God's blessing and where many others would receive that blessing after them.

But they had to prepare.

The second place is the city of Bethel -Bethel also has a meaning that is very particular- and I can identify the city of Bethel as the 'city of Dreams and Visions'.

If we remember, the character that I can connect here is Jacob. When Jacob had this dream where he saw a ladder and that angels were going up and down that ladder and that he then received a word from God that said "Surely I will be with you and with your descendants", He imparted a blessing on Jacob and he seized that blessing.

But it all began with a dream, with a vision that 'impregnated' him, as I sometimes say, impregnated Jacob and Jacob was able to have a direction, to have a sense of knowing where he was going so that he could then head in that direction.

The third city we are talking about is the city of Jericho. In the city of Jericho it also has a history and I can identify the city of Jericho as the city that means the 'Past Victories'.

The city of Jericho was the first city that the people of Israel conquered. It was the first city that was seized under the leadership of Joshua and after that came many other victories that this town managed to achieve.

Those three cities are very important. Number 1 Jilgal the place of new beginnings, number 2 Bethel the place of Dreams and Visions, number 3 Jericho the place of Past Victories.

The fourth place that this story mentions is the Jordan River and the Jordan River for me is the most interesting of all.

Because the Jordan River in some way or another has this meaning that it is the place where one passes from death to life, it is the place where one crosses from a past life to a totally new life. If you remember, it was there before the Jordan River, in the book of Joshua, once again I refer to the book of Joshua, that it was there that the people had to prepare to cross the Jordan and then reach that promised land that the first city that they found was… which one? Jericho.

That was where God dealt with them. They were leaving behind, they were dying to a past life, a life that represented oppression, a life that represented slavery, a life that represented impossibilities and now they were heading into a life that was the complete opposite, the complete opposite.

As I think of these four places, my brothers, there are times when I start to think that many of us go through those stages of life. There are many of us who in one way or another found ourselves in some of those cities.

It may be that many of us, right now, are enjoying a new beginning -of those Jilgals of life- and we are there joyful because there is something new that has started, there is something new that has been undertaken in our lives and it may be that there is nervousness but at the same time there is kind of emotion because there is something that is ahead. And that is often accompanied by a sense of sleep, of vision, that one has a dream of wow! How cool to be able to achieve this! and how one gets excited, one is enthusiastic and one says hey, let's get to work. Let's go ahead! And we jumped out there.

But there is also that other stage of past victories where many times we remain thinking and reflecting, as we well say "in the years of yore", how beautiful those golden days were, so to speak, where sodas were worth 25 cents instead of a dollar. , where things were, as they say, softer and more fleeting and you don't suffer as much as you did now; where people expressed a better sense of morality, where people lived with a finer sense of camaraderie, of greater respect.

And now it's like everything has gone to hell and we're left thinking about those things from the past.

But then there is also that place, where many times, it is the most difficult of all.

What does that Jordan mean? It means the Jordan River where I have to die to something in order to cross to that place that God is bringing, or to which God is calling me to get to. Do they follow me where I go? Check this out. The prophet Elisha has some very interesting characteristics in this story, because the prophet Elisha demonstrates a certain attachment - how would I say? - as an attachment to Elijah. And tell me, who wouldn't like such an attachment to a person who is so used by the Lord that everything he touches turns to gold, so to speak? But that his attachment reached a point that I think God began to worry about.

If you pay attention every time they stopped at a place that Elijah told Elisha "Please stay here", those places where they stopped - I wanted to mention this - each one of those places where they stopped had schools of prophets and if you remember well in past preaching -these schools of prophets is what seminaries are like today- which is where this group of men were preparing, who were even used by God in that area of prophecy and those were the men who gave him direction the people of Israel in some form or another.

Elijah, in this case, was like who says "the cream of the cream", he was the prophet of the prophets and he was the one in charge of providing direction to each of these places.

So, traveling from one place to another, I imagine that perhaps the prophets were preparing to say goodbye and say "Look, don't worry, Elisha, he's here, he's going to take my place." Like who says preparing them, but I think there was something else going on behind the scenes there.

Because the mere fact that Elisha didn't want to get away from Elijah, there was something that God wanted to do, that he wanted to kind of deal with him. There was an umbilical cord that God wanted to break in Elisha so that he could truly enter into the ministry that God had for him.

you know? Let me say something. When I started studying at the Seminary, one of the first classes I took was a class on Pastoral Counseling and I remember that one of the first things the professor mentioned was that when giving counseling one has to be careful with those ' parasites of society'. And that expression hit me so hard that I said to myself 'Parasites of society? What do you mean?' and he began to explain that these are the people who -if you understand what a parasite is, the parasite is this organism that sticks to another and lives off another and sucks the life out of the other organism until it leaves it skinny like me . Something like that.

That's a parasite - but the way he explained it with the treatment of other people: they are the people who are always depending on what others can do for them. They are the people who are always like in the maintenance: "If you don't give me this, then I don't work".

And it is very interesting, because this morning I have reflected on some examples that may seem funny but, you know what? They make you think.

For example, when I was a child -obviously a child depends on his parents who can supply each of his needs- being dependent in that sense, well, it goes with nature, because the child cannot manage on his own and there are to give him that care.

But when one grows up and one is entering adolescence and -at least I'm talking about boys, adolescent boys if they remember from that time- but there were times when adolescent boys had that syndrome of being a "couch potato". I mean, we were glued to the... Okay... Imagine this: a young man sitting on the sofa at home with dirty underpants, watching television, flipping through all the channels. Obviously the child is less than 10 meters from the kitchen and his mother is "pingo al tango" doing different things, preparing dinner, doing laundry, taking care of the other child who is younger and is there moving from one side to another , from side to side.

And that youngster on the couch has the nerve to say to his mom, "Mommy, can you bring me a little piece of cake with a glass of milk?"

Do you know what my mom told me? "Go get it yourself," that's what my mom used to tell me. But it is an example, my brothers, because it is like a habit that develops. Because unfortunately there are parents who say "Oh, yes, mijo, mija! Don't worry, I'll find it for you." And "paf" they come and give it to them, what's more they put it in their mouths if possible.

Look, a scoundrel, let him stand up on his own and look for him there in the kitchen.

And it may seem somewhat funny, but you know what, my brothers? Those are things that remain stuck in the person's psyche; Because little by little, since he didn't develop that habit of bandaging on his own, of not having to depend on anyone to satisfy his needs when he reaches adulthood, the same thing continues to happen to him.

It's sad sometimes, to see now, people who are perhaps in their twenties or thirties and are attached to their parents as if they were still 12, 13-year-old children, because they have that total dependence on people there.

And that is just one example.

If you talk about the couple relationship, there are times when the couple relationship is also the same: where the husband or wife can say "Ah! My life is nothing without this person" and they die if they take that person away from them. panorama.

Although it may sound romantic but hey! He also has his "like there's something wrong there" side.

If I bring that example to the realm of the life of faith, my brothers, you know what? this is very special.

I was speaking this morning and I used Pastor Samuel as an example that there are times when we have this person that we love very much but we come across issues like this, they occur in different aspects, but they are the type of person who approach you and they say "Oh, Pastor Samuel! Pray because I have this and this problem".

But when they ask Pastor Samuel for this, they come here and they keep dealing with their problem, they keep falling into the same hole and they keep getting dirty with the same mud and then they come back again a week later and "Oh, Pastor Samuel! If you I knew, I fell again. Pray for me." "Yes, don't worry, I pray for you" and he comes back again and without wanting to he goes and comes back and gets dirty in the same mud again and the repentant dog comes back with his tail between his legs "Oh, Pastor Samuel... .!"

You get the idea, right?

There are times when there are people, my brothers, who in their life of faith like to "catch the tail", as they say, depend too much on the prayers of others and do not exercise their life of faith in the way that God calls them to that they can exercise their life of faith. And this is something very important, my brothers, because - I don't want you to misunderstand me - that is, it is beautiful and precious to be able to pray for others and seek others to pray for you. But you know what? The time will come when God will tell you "Okay, put your pants on and start praying" because you cannot depend on the anointing of another person or as brother Hernán said today, he tells me " You cannot depend on the capital of another person. You have to seek that your capital, of your spiritual life, of your life of faith, can grow in the way in which you yourself develop that connection with God".

When Elisha is at this moment, there was something that Elijah asked him: 'When they had passed -I am reading the story after Elijah hit the water for the first time- Elijah said to Elisha "Ask me to do what you want before I am taken from you" and Elisha said "I beg you that a double portion of your Spirit be upon me".

I imagine that at that moment, Elijah kind of paused and began to think about what Elisha was asking for. Why do I say that? Look at what Elijah answered him: "You have asked for a difficult thing."

How many of us have asked for a double portion of the Spirit? I have prayed many times for a double portion of God's spirit but you know what? We are asking for a difficult thing.

Tell the person next to you, tell him "You are asking for a difficult thing", "If you have asked for it, you are asking for a difficult thing".

Do you know why Elijah said that? If we know Elijah's story well, I can only tell you that there was a moment in which Elijah was running because he was afraid that they were going to take his life because of the ministry and the call that God had given him that a moment came when which the guy got depressed in such a way that he was saying to God "God eliminate me because I can't anymore".

Now imagine Elisha saying "Ah! I want a double portion of what you have."

Caramba! Of course you are asking for a difficult thing. Imagine everything that I have lived, twice as much for you. In other words, we are not only talking about the fire that descends from heaven and that consumes everything, the holocaust that is on the altar.

We are talking about how miracles are, so are persecutions and trials, my brothers.

It is beautiful, it is precious to ask for a double portion of the Spirit and today more than ever we need it. But we have to know what we are asking for and ask ourselves if we are willing and ready to face whatever comes with it.

you know? I identified a lot with Eliseo's story when he asked for that double portion and I am going to use an example here -I am going to use Roberto as my example- because this is something that happened between the two of us a long time ago; not long ago but it was a good conversation that we had that for me was a great learning experience.

I had a problem in my Pastoral role here in the church and it was that every time altar calls were made to pray for the sick I had a big problem, he gave me a shin guard every time we did that; because I was realizing that when people passed in front and I in my faith at that time I would come and pray and pray and pray for the people. But I saw that it didn't happen, they didn't fall to the ground, they didn't cry, they didn't shake, they didn't do anything, but the issue was that precisely, the issue is that Pastor Roberto came behind me and prayed for the same people and "plaf , splat, splat" to the floor everyone.

I'm making a confession here Pastor.

Look, brothers, I tell you that it gave me a trauma. I'm going to tell you why.

Look at verse 14 after Elijah was taken up to heaven and all that and Lord don't take Roberto in a whirlwind and all that, that's not what I'm saying.

"But after he then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off he turned and stood on the bank of the Jordan and taking up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off he struck the waters for the first time and said 'Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?' Do you know what happened? That first blow from the waters, what happened? No! The waters didn't open from the first blow! The waters didn't open from the first blow, that's why there's that question there: 'Do you know? Where is Jehovah the God of Elijah?'

Do you know what that means, my brothers? That makes me understand that Elisha, even at that moment in his life, had not personally known the power of God working in his life.

He was fully feeding on the Elijah anointing wherever he went. It was like Elijah's shadow, wherever Elijah stood there he was. If someone fell, Eliseo would catch him, that was what Eliseo did at that moment.

He learned directly from Elias but had not had that personal encounter with HIM.

That is why when I mentioned this personal example with Roberto, I came to a moment where I sat in the office with Roberto and we had a man to man, face to face and we were talking and I told him "Roberto, I have a problem with this. I feel uncomfortable. I pray and then you come and I don't know if people have a preference with you that your hand smells better than mine and they fall with you, then, or something".

The issue was that after Roberto laughed, he came out and told me "Omar, look, God has given you the authority that you have and that you deserve. You have to seize that authority, take that mantle of authority and live under what God has given you, what God has called you to do".

That word soothed me a lot. That word made me reflect in so many ways that it was not until almost a month that we had here this time of prayer and intercession for healing, sick and what do I know what I told you, my brothers, that when we were going to start He gave me a shin pad to pray again and this time it was worse because I had Roberto on my left and Pastor Gilberto Samano on my right. And I said wow! I have these two great ones here, we had people in wheelchairs on this side and I was just here. People were looking at me like "let's see how miracles start now", wow! Let's talk pressure.

But you know what, my brothers? At that moment there was something that... those words that I had spoken with the Pastor in private, those words echoed in my mind, they said "God has given you the authority, God has given you the authority for you." be able to do this."

And you know what, my brothers? I forgot that Roberto was next to me, that Gilberto was next to me, I went crazy, but in all my right mind and I began to pray there and with the authority of God he fell, amen, and if they didn't fall, amen, if they cried amen, if they didn't cry amen... whatever God wants.

See that it flows as God wants.

If it happens at the moment, amen, if it doesn't happen, amen.

What am I saying with this my brothers? I had to get to that moment where I had to tie that mantle of authority in my hand and hit the waters for the second time, it is more to hit the waters for the third, fourth, fifth time until I see the power of God working in me. life.

And in the same way, each one of you, my brothers, has that call from God to experience the power of God in your life personally.

Do not depend only on Fulano, Mengano or Sultano to pray for you. Look, give it your hand, take that mantle of authority and claim God's blessings for your life.

The beauty of all this is that we are all serving the same God and we are all part of the same team.

If someone falls when Roberto touches him, someone will be there to catch him and he won't hit his head. If someone preaches nicely, look, the other will be able to take care of visiting someone in the hospital. So it is that how God works, that God gives that anointing, that power that is manifested in different forms, that multiform grace of God of which the Scriptures speak.

But the point is that in order to do that, in order to move in that realm, at that level, we have to seize that blessing, that power of God working, operating in us and through us as well.

In other words what I am saying, my brothers, is that each one of us has to reach our Jordan. This is where the fire really burns, because in order to experience that we have to die something in us. This is where I see that connection with those four places that the story talks about, those four stories, it is not that one is more important than the other.

I believe that they are all a cycle that feeds on each other and that one informs the other.

When I look at our lives, my brothers, I can say that each one of us has one of those moments or we find ourselves in one of those moments. That perhaps now you are experiencing a process where something new is beginning in you, that something new, a new stage is in your life and you have that illusion and at the same time nervousness of what is going to be, with what I'm leaving to find, will I have for this? Am I going to have for that?

What's more, perhaps, if you even think "Oh! Mommy and Daddy, I left them over there and I'm here alone." That was my story, my brothers.

When I arrived here in the United States, I told them that those first six months in the semester that I was in the seminary, I told them that I was 'ready' to give up everything. I was a mamma's boy, I have to confess, please.

I was so attached to my parents that when I found myself here alone in the first snow storm I lived in a 10 by 10 dorm, it was a real little box. When I started to feel so cold that I couldn't get out and I was alone in that dormitory, which was a student dormitory and obviously it was Christmas... well, winter weather like that, the students had left. I was the only one living in the building at the time, the only one.

I got depressed there, I literally got depressed, I reached a point of not believing in God, my brothers, no matter how heretical that may sound. I was saying like God this, something went wrong in the calculation, I'm not going to follow this I'm leaving, I'm going back to mommy and daddy's lap.

And do you know what my brothers? It was in those moments that God told me, "You had better cut that umbilical cord, otherwise you won't be able to see the glory that I have for you."

I tell you my brothers, God dealt with me strongly, I wanted to reveal myself, I wanted to leave, I did not want to put up with anything here. There were so many things that I came across that honestly I lost perspective there at the beginning of everything. But the Lord, in the midst of that solitude, spoke to me, brought me a word and told me very clearly: "Cut, cut, cut and let me work in you", my brothers.

I tell them that I do not regret having stayed, I do not regret having stayed because everything that I have lived through to this day - and look, I am saying everything, and when I say everything I mean the good, the bad and the oddly I mean everything, the good, the bad and the super bad. If it hadn't been for any of that, I wouldn't be here right now.

All because I dared to stand in that Jordan and dare to cross, I tell you there have been several times that I have had to cross there and I know that it may sound like a testimony that I am giving here, but I don't know who this word is reaching.

Because I believe, my brothers, that today more than ever the Lord wants his people to live with that level of authority, that if he looks, it is beautiful and good that we can ask others to pray for us, to intercede for others, but at the same time. same time that each of you can on your own experience the blessings that God has for you in store in his wealth.

But in order to reach that level, my brothers, there is something to which we have to die. There is something we have to cut with. That just like Eliseo when he saw that Elías left "Dad, don't go, dad please" he left.

Defend yourself now by yourself, well not by yourself because you are in good company.

I wonder brothers, where you are right now, in which of these stages you are right now, in which of these stages you are right now, Amen.

Get ready all those who are in the Jordan because we are going to pray for you right now. But I want you to think about this my brothers, it may be that right now you are in a new stage of your life, that you are there with full force, at full fire and that you are enjoying all that new thing that it brings and you are enjoying of nervousness.

It may be the beginning of a marriage, or it may be the mere fact that you came from your town here that you came from your country here, it may be that perhaps you got a new house and are enjoying all the headaches that a new home brings. home, it can be so many things.

It could be that he got a new set of teeth and now he's smiling at everyone. There can be so many new stages in which one finds himself, but the important thing is that we do not remain stuck there, because this new stage, my brothers, will lead you to another.

This new stage will lead you to a stage of dreams of visions, where you will be able to capture and at least hope that we can capture what God has for us, what God has for you, what God wants to do. with your life, that perhaps God gave you an opportunity that perhaps you were on the verge of death and God rescued you from there.

Now the Lord is bringing all these impressions into your life of how he wants to use you so that you can flow into what God has for your life. That stage of dreams, visions, of being able to undertake something new something wonderful; that perhaps you want to start a new company, or start a new job, or that perhaps you are single, single and you were afraid of marriage and now you are like 'Look, yes, now yes, I already have in mind who is going to be my future husband or wife'.

We are going to start there in that direction. I was going to say rip his head off, but no, no, no, that's not what I mean. And that stage of dreams, it's beautiful, it's precious, now that you don't start dreaming about pregnant birds afterwards, there's no problem, because the moment you start dreaming about pregnant birds, you lost, you lost your vision, because it's very difficult to think in a pregnant bird.

From that stage of dreams, my brothers, I know that God leads you to a stage of victories, where you can see and recognize how God has been with you in the past; as God has prospered it, he has blessed it and will continue to do so.

But the important thing is that here where we are now, we don't get stuck in the feeling of 'oh! Those years of yore, so beautiful! that God was dealing with me and now everything is so sterile, so stagnant, no no no.

Hence you know what? If you have reached that point in your life, where you feel that you are stuck, only dreaming of the past and have no vision for the future, I have to tell you that you have to reach the Jordan.

You have to reach the Jordan, because there is something that is going to have to die in you, there is something that is going to have to die in you, for you then to truly be able to enter a new stage of new beginnings, a new stage where you can dream again, to a new stage where you can achieve new victories in your life.

If you get stuck in one of those stages, you're left behind. But if you get to that stage of the Jordan River where you can say 'I have to die to this', and you think, think you have to die.

If you say that you are in the Jordan, why do you have to die?

You have to die depending too much on one person and that this one prays for me or that one prays for me, or mommy this mommy that, or daddy this, daddy that… ah, ah, ah! Take the bottle out of your mouth and start eating real meat.

Maybe you have to die to keep fighting with the same problem with the same addiction, keep getting dirty in the same mud. If you have to die to that, then look, stand firm and if you have to hit the water again for the second, third, fourth, fifth time, the sixth, the tenth, the number twenty... Hit the water with a song!

I tell you my brothers, I am convinced that the power of God moves in our midst in a big way, in an intense way and only the only ones who can truly explore that, experience it, capture it, live it, are those who they put their pants and skirts in place and look and dare to throw themselves at that level.

If you decide to stay back there on the periphery, that's not my wish, I don't think it's God's wish.

God wants you to go deeper, that you dare to experience something new, that if you already feel like your life is stagnant, there is nothing new, there is nothing exciting, there is nothing adventurous, look, you know what? dare to do something.

What's more, I'm going to tell you one last thing, yesterday there was an evangelistic activity here in Blackstone Park of another Church that had invited different Church Ministries here to participate, and although I tell you, personally, I believe that the Weather conditions were totally contrary to that activity taking place, but... it did!

The mere fact that it happened -well, don't say too much Amen yet, okay?- the mere fact that it happened, made me think and reflect on many things. On the one hand, it made me reflect on the People of Christ, the body of Christ in its entirety, I am not talking about León de Judá, I am talking about the Body of Christ in its entirety. It made me think how prepared the Body of Christ is to truly be able to evangelize today.

How wise we are to reach those lives that need God's love!

But in the same way I said to myself "Lord, I am sure that this effort -although to our eyes it might have seemed null- You are going to get fruit from there". Do you know why my brothers? Because whatever it is, God remains faithful, God remains faithful.

They made me preach under the rain and under the rain, you know what? I was preaching to the windows of the buildings that were around there, there were two or three brothers and sisters there with their umbrellas, singing 'Glory to God, Hallelujah', but I began to preach to the window of the apartments. It's nothing like you, okay? If my kayak went there.

What my brothers were saying, there came a moment where I said to myself: "Lord, I am going to preach what I always say: no word that comes out of my mouth in Your name is going to come back empty, no Lord ”. I had to say it like this: "None"

So I am convinced that at some point that gesture that happened yesterday, in some way or another, it may seem that it was fanatical, but even that fanaticism is going to touch someone's heart. So, my brothers, I believe that each opportunity of our lives, each moment that the Lord gives us to be able to get closer to Him... Look, one of two very easy things can happen.

Elisha when he gave the first blow to the water, he could easily have said: "Well, the water was not divided, because that means that this is not for me." Elisha could easily have left that cloak there, to be carried away by the current of the river because the safest thing is for someone else and it could have easily gone.

But I imagine that Eliseo, after he hit the water for the first time, when he saw that nothing happened, maybe he started crying, maybe he was left desperate thinking, reflecting as if he were calculating: “What happened? What happened? What word did I not say correctly? I didn't get comfortable maybe I grabbed it in the wrong hand. Elías always hit him with the right or the left. How was it?" Maybe he just stood there thinking.

But there was a moment where he said: "No, Elias told me that if I managed to see when he was raised, that this double portion was going to be on me. And I saw it, I saw it, I remember it very well I know how the horses, I know what the car looked like, I know how that whirlwind took him, I saw it, so he gave me a promise. God that is your servant, there is a promise in my life I claim that promise. I'm leaving I am going to wrap this cloak back in my hand and I am going to hit the waters so that they divide and that is where I am going to know your power in me."

I ask you what your Jordan is today, perhaps you have hit the water one, two, three, four times and you are about to throw in the towel, I tell you: "don't let go", "don't let go" , "don't let go" Hold on to that cloak like never before and seek to experience the power of God in the midst of your life.

You know why? Because God is going to find you, God is going to find you, sooner or later you are going to see that God is going to find you, sooner or later you are going to see that God is going to do that miracle that the waters are going to divide and You will see the other side very clearly and you will be able to walk in that direction.

So my, brother, my sister, this is the word that I want to share with you today. I see this whole group, I see young people, older people, I see that perhaps there are people who have doubts about what I am saying right now, I see people who are like "Give me more, Give me more" but you know what? I I'm not going to give you more, I'm going to let God give you.

Let's stand up and let's pray please.

What is the place where you are? Whatever that place is, God wants to meet you there. God wants to meet you there, God wants to give you an experience, God wants to talk to you, God wants to form you, God wants to deal with you, God wants, God wants, God desires.

Because? because you are his son, you are his daughter, and if you are here it is with a purpose. If you are here, perhaps you are thinking of all the wounds that you have marked on your body by different events, different things that have happened throughout your life.

Look, you know what? You have come to the right place to find healing in your being. You have come to the right place where, yes, there will be people who can pray for you, but there will also be people who will encourage you to seek to meet God in a very personal way.

God honors when someone can pray for you, but God honors even more when you get close to Him personally. That touches the heart of God, that moves the heart of God. Whatever your past, whatever the future He has planned for you.

God is honored when he sees his sons and daughters who approach him and say "Where are you God? Where are you? Where are you?. The pastors speak this, my brothers, my cell leaders tell me this, this and this, but I still haven't found you, I haven't experienced you”.

Look, you know what? I encourage you, I invite you to make today the day that you can experience the power of God in your life. I said right now that I want to pray for the people who are in the Jordan. I want to take that opportunity to pray for you now. If you recognize that you are right now in your life at a time where you have to pass from death to life, that you have felt stagnant or stagnant in your personal walk, that you have felt stagnant or stagnant in your relationship with Christ, that you Have you felt stagnant or stagnant in your life, you with your family, with your husband, your wife, your sons, your daughters, whoever you are, I invite you to make today the day that you cross that Jordan, that you die to what you have to die and that you accept, that you accept, everything that God has for your life.

If you are on the edge of the Jordan right now, I invite you to come here in front, I want to pray for you, run from where you are, if you are up there on the balcony, come down, we will pray for you, come on to pray for you

Because I believe that there is a letting go, there is a breakthrough that God wants to make in your life.

God wants you to experience that touch of God. God wants you to break that umbilical cord to which you have been connected for too long that perhaps is preventing you from experiencing God's touch in your life.

He wants, He wants, He wants that you can, that you can achieve that right now.

He wants you to be able to achieve that right now, in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

Believe it, believe it

I am not talking to you here about any fallacy, I am talking to you about something very real. The Lord wants to manage your life, He wants to give you a new beginning, He wants you to be able to experience HIS power, His touch in the midst of your life. He longs for you, He wants you, He wants you to grow, he wants you to live up to what He has for you.

If you have to cry, cry, if you have to laugh, laugh, if you have to forgive someone, forgive, if you have to let go of any dependency that you have, let go and start depending one hundred percent on your Dad who is in heaven.

Hallelujah, we adore you Jesus, we adore you Jesus, we adore you Jesus. We bless your name Lord. Oh! You are holy my God, you are holy Lord Jesus, you are holy Jesus. Blessed are you, blessed are you Jesus.

Move in the midst of your People Lord Jesus, bring a touch of yours Lord, bring a touch of yours on each one in the name of Jesus. Right now,

Jesus, I declare, I declare, I declare, over each one of your sons and daughters who are here, Lord, whatever stage they are going through right now, Jesus, I ask for your powerful intervention in the midst of their lives, Jesus.

Father for those who are crossing that Jordan my God, who have to die to something in them, who have to let go of some dependency to truly launch themselves to be able to experience Your power in the midst of their lives right now, Lord.

I declare in the name of Jesus by the authority that is given to us by you and by your spirit, I declare Lord that each one of my brothers and sisters can take that mantle of authority, Lord in their hands and that they dare to strike those waters that are separating them from that promise that You have for them, Lord.

Father may the waters be divided and may it be You bringing blessing, may it be You bringing freedom over each one of your sons and daughters my God.

Whether they are men, whether they are women, whether they are young, whether they are single, whether they are married, whether they are entire families right now, Lord, I declare it, I declare it over each one of them; that they can seize that mantle of authority that only You give them. Meetings with you Lord, I declare meetings with you. Meetings with you in your workplace, meetings with you along the road, meetings with you in the privacy of your room when they are praying, when they are eating, when they are doing whatever I declare meetings, meetings with you my God that they bring a new sense of direction, may they bring new dreams, new beginnings to their lives, new victories Lord, so I declare.

A generation of yours that rises up today my God based on your power Lord, based on your promises.

O Father! You are powerful, Lord. I declare it, I declare, I declare a word a fresh air, Lord, a fresh air on your sons and daughters. I declare a new beginning for each of your lives, Lord Jesus. I declare firmness, I declare courage, Father.

May we not be afraid of anything or anyone Lord, if not that we can completely depend on you Jesus. Bring, bring Lord Jesus, bring that renewal that You have for each of their lives in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus we declare your blessing Lord.

Whatever the situation of their lives, Lord, right now we declare that Your Holy Spirit cover, cover this entire room, Lord, from the smallest to the most adult, Lord.

We declare Your blessing on their lives.

Oh! To you be glory and honor Jesus. To you be the glory and honor Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Minister your people, Lord.