Don't settle for less than the best

The word of the Lord as it said, I want to be obedient to the word of God and I want to go to a passage. First Chronicles chapter 13. The Lord changed my sermon a little, not a little enough because I am going to preach another Sermon different from the one I had.

Do you see what I say about that we have to believe, that we have to do what God wants and not what we want and we propose and He provides us and He blesses us, right?

So the two of us are going to cook this Sermon together, you and me now and the Holy Spirit, okay?

Chapter 13, where we see that David after being installed as King in Israel, one of the first things he intends to do is bring the Ark. How many have heard of the Ark, of the covenant? The Ark, ok most, all? How many have not heard, do not know what The Ark is? Don't be ashamed raise your hand OK.

He proposes to bring The Ark to Jerusalem and that is one of his first official acts as King, and… It would be nice if we had a president, it occurred to me like that for the moment, if I said one of my first official acts is going to be to make sure that Let us bring the Glory of God to America.

Nowadays, unfortunately we have a president and I say it like this, there are many good things that recommend him, right? He is an intelligent and very wise man and I say that with respect, but today many of these presidents want to restore homosexuality, its naturalness here in the United States, remove the rules that prevent homosexuals from being part of the military, remove the impediments that exist, for a behavior that is destructive.

Promote abortion in our nation, things that curse our land. We love homosexuals, we love any woman who has had an abortion and regretted it. But we believe that when a President, when men and women of the state promote these things, "curse the Earth" and no matter how good intentions they have and no matter how many federal and official programs they try to do to improve justice in this Nation, everything will result in sand and death, because God does not contradict himself

So hopefully there are rulers on our Earth who are truly, who put priority where it has to go! It sounds very loud for half past ten in the morning brothers, excuse me? But that came to my mind and I don't want to repress it because I believe that we have to speak the truth at this time. There are other things, there are other niceties that we could put in there but that's the truth and it has to be said that way.

David had a heart that loved God and so one of the first things he does is try to bring The Ark of God and put it back in Jerusalem and I'm going to tell you why he tries to do that.

But let me not get too far ahead and let's go to chapter 13 and then it says, here in verse 9, “So David—it's two or three chapters so I'm going to have to skip verses—David took counsel with the captains of thousands and of hundreds and with all the Chiefs and David said to the entire Assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the Lord our God we will send everywhere for our brothers" and Verse 3 :"And bring the Ark of our God to us because since the time of Saul we have paid no attention to it."

Look at that, it says, "since the time of Saul we have paid no attention to her", that impresses me when I read that part. And the whole assembly said "that it should be done that way, because the thing seemed good to all the people."

One question, though I realize right now as I read: Why did he take counsel with the captains and the Chiefs? Why with the military first? I think it was because the Ark, the Ark of the covenant, do you remember? God commanded that an Ark be made with very specific dimensions, which was like the symbol of his glory, it was like his very presence dwelling symbolically in the midst of his People.

In that Ark it was like a chest, a lid was raised, on top of that lid there were two cherubs; By the way, they say that one cherub looked in one direction and the other in the opposite direction, but their wings that were open touched each other and inside that Ark there was Manna -part of the Manna as a memory of the liberation from Egypt- there was Aron's rod as well, which blossomed, and these were symbols of God's presence in Israel, God's miracles.

That ark was kept in the most holy place where only the High Priest could enter once a year, on the Day of Atonement to intercede for the sins of the people. In that Holy of Holies the very presence of God was supposed to inhabit, I imagine in a very condensed form.

But that Ark came to be as a symbol of the presence of God in the midst of his People and that Ark many times the warriors took it before them with the Priests to war as a symbol of the company of God, with the armies of the living God. when they fought against their enemies, as a symbol that the armies of Israel needed the presence of God to fight their battles.

The Ark was extremely sacred and that is why I think he consulted with the soldiers, the generals, because in a sense they were devoid of that important support for the war and for the fights that the people needed to undertake, they were helpless in a certain way. sense and that is why David, who was a man of war and a very accomplished strategist, thought: “Hey! We need to have The Ark back in our midst, we need to bring it back to its place, install it where it needs to be."

What had happened? Why was the Ark neglected? Notice what it says here: "we have paid no attention to it since the time of Saul." Look at what had happened. What was happening in Saul's time? God's presence was not in Israel. There was a King who was a man who had become perverted, he was a rough man of understanding, he had no spiritual discernment, his heart had turned away from God.

God had rejected him, in the Priesthood was Eli as High Priest, an old man who had also lost his Spiritual understanding. His sons who were Priests had also become perverted and did all kinds of dishonest things and there was moral corruption and there was financial corruption among the Priests in Israel and Eli had never corrected his sons who abused their father's authority. And Eli had also lost the blessing of God, he did not have the approval.

What happens in a Nation when both the civil authorities have turned away from God and God's blessing is not upon them, as well as the ecclesiastical authorities have turned away from God and God's blessing is not upon them either? What's happening? The presence of God is gone, the presence of God is impeded, the gifts of the Spirit, the anointing of God, the Shalom of God cannot dwell in such a land.

So, the Hebrews had no discernment and they believed that "Well we have The Ark we are going to use it, because God said, where the Ark was there would be its Power," and they got into a war with the Philistines 20 years ago, incidentally because we do not have occasion to read all the passages. This came to me lately especially when I was now in Texas I started reading these passages and they took The Ark and suffered a terrible defeat and Israel's staunch Philistine enemies took possession of the Ark.

What happens when people believe that simply the presence of God is a matter of empty rites, programs, songs, physical things and not the actual presence of God that blesses those things? What often happens in the Churches? The presence of God is gone.

But the people keep singing just the same, the organs keep playing the same, the microphones turn on when the service begins. Everything that a Church does is done, the symbol of the Ark that to arouse the presence and movement of God. But God is not involved in any of those things and we believe that with those empty hollow praises, that program those empty rituals that do not truly represent a people that is living and enjoying the presence of God and we believe that with that we are going to receive the blessing and succeed in our battles, our fights against the Devil and all the forces that want to destroy our life. We suffer defeat.

God does not fall in love with a piece of wood even if it is covered in gold and a symbol and even if he has blessed it in another time. The Ark itself had nothing, the Ark was simply a symbol of God's presence. One would have thought "God is never going to allow that Ark to be taken."

It was taken, it was taken because the presence of God was not there at that moment and it is something for our Churches, because many times we continue doing the same things of the Christian life and we ask ourselves, Why doesn't God bless me? Why don't I have health? Why am I not prosperous? Why is there no blessing in my family? Why doesn't my emotional state change? Why are my finances not blessed? Well brother, many times perhaps it is because the presence of God is not with us and we have to look for that Power of God, we have to go where the Power of God is and make real the rites in which we participate.

If we come to Church simply believing that because the Pastor or the musicians are going to do certain things I am going to be blessed, stay away from that idea. You have to actively participate in the action for it to have meaning. Actions alone do not mean anything, what it means is the heart that joins the action and updates it and turns it into the power of God.

So the Jews went to war with an empty Ark and what happened? the Philistines utterly defeated him and seized the Ark from him and carried it away. Long story. God there defended his name, while The Ark was in the power of the Philistines and forced the Philistines to return it, a precious passage perhaps on another day we will discuss it, but God showed that those enemies of His could not remain with that precious symbol, and The Ark was returned with a strong hand and an outstretched arm to Israel, but it remained neglected, in the house of a man who received it and there it stayed for almost twenty years, simply neglected.

Because? Because in Israel there was no spiritual understanding: "well, the Ark was stolen and now it's somewhere over there and it's a good thing that hurts. " But there was no prophetic spiritual understanding to discern that that Ark had to be returned to its Holy of Holies where it had that being, as there was coarseness there was Spiritual clumsiness, the People did not understand how important it was to have that symbol of the presence, of the gifts, of the power of God in the midst of Israel. Of course, if the leaders did not have a Spiritual understanding, where there is no discernment, says the People perish, where there is no wisdom, where the Spiritual leaders do not have an understanding of the need for Power and the presence of the Glory of God, the People, the Poor does what he can but they are always slipping on the same quagmire.

But when David comes, he is a man who has a prophetic Spirit and who understands in an instinctive way what the Power of God is and how to mobilize the power of God. He goes 'Wow this is a scandal! How is it possible that we have neglected the Ark of God there in a… warehouse? How do you say warehouse in Spanish? Somebody help me, a warehouse, a warehouse. How is it possible that we have her stuck there with the horses and collecting dust carelessly in one place? Let's restore the...

David was extremely careful of the glory of God, remember that? We need God to give us a new and fresh zeal for the glory of God, in our Churches. So David says, consult with the national leaders 'we have to bring this Ark' and everyone says 'Of course'. Amen, let's bring it, brothers I feel, why am I preaching this?

I feel that God has spoken to me in this time about the need for us to seek the Glory of God more and more as Church and as the Universal Church of Christ throughout the Earth. The Glory of God has been underestimated, we have ignored the Glory of God as David says.

I believe that we have a People, a Church at this time that does not truly understand what the Holiness and Glory of God is. A People that does not understand what the mysteries of God are and how the Power of God moves and how the Power of God is aroused and activated so that the Church can carry out the tasks that God has entrusted to it. And I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ, as I said, on Sunday before last there are things that God is going to be restoring at this time, things that have been in disuse like the Ark, have been neglected, have been neglected.

And I believe that the Lord is going to call the Church to go to those neglected places and take back those utensils from the temple and those elements, those artifacts that are necessary for true worship. Because God moves through the worship of his people. God moves through a hungry heart. That is why we have to ask the Lord: 'Father, help us every day, teach us how to make your presence fall in love and how to unleash your presence in our meetings, so that the things that you want to be done in our midst can be done.'

I feel that we have to ask the Lord: 'Help us to put flesh, bone and Spirit in everything we do, in all the programs, in all things.' I hope that's not my cell phone because it would embarrass me tremendously. No, OK phew! Because that's what mine sounds like. This is how the alarm goes off, because sometimes you set the alarm and you don't even know why you set it and it goes off at the least appropriate moment. And I always talk about cell phones! The fact is that brothers, I believe that what God is asking of his people at this time is that we learn to fall in love with his presence.

I cannot put it in another way, arouse, activate, raise your presence in our homes in our services. Like this morning that we get involved in that moment of asking for the presence of God and when the presence of God descends, the gifts begin to flow, the oil activates the machine so it is easier to flow in that.

‘Lord help us teach us how to do it’ in a genuine way, not a mechanical way, but a genuine way of the heart, because I feel that this is what makes the difference, “that anointing that rots the yoke” as the Bible says. That oil that rots the rope and makes the presence of God break and flow and the ties break and healing flow and the gifts, understanding, discernment, the word of wisdom, healing flow.

It is in the midst of the presence of God where that moves. The Lord moves in adoration, the Lord moves in praise, the Lord moves when we declare his attributes. Then He comes and when He is present in a place the Devil has to flee, with all his illnesses, with all his ties, all his ropes and chains, he has to take them with him, fleeing because the presence of God is there.

I believe that every day more and more: Lord, help us to activate your presence and help us to be such as your children that we can facilitate your presence in our homes, our workplaces, our Churches, our offices, our cars, our bedrooms, that your presence may be in those places and dwell there Lord. Because where the presence of God is, there is freedom, as the choir says.

That Ark was a symbol of the presence of God, the Yekina Glory was supposed to be there, wherever that Ark was, there was the presence of God and David understood this and he wanted to bring that Ark. In David there was a Spirit of adoration David was the ultimate adorer, he was a man who adored the Lord, you will see him adoring the Lord in a moment if he gives us time.

The important thing is that, if there is something that can remain in us from this Sermon, it is only that: that God wants to bring down his Glory again on Earth over his Churches, but he needs a People that is hungry for his Glory and for His Presence, a renewed People, a People with understanding, a People that is not content with routine, a People that is not content with simply the normal, the mediocre, the basic.

How many of us give God only a little bit of our lives and we believe that we have already given him the great thing, we are already exhausted, tired because I went to Church on Sunday and there is nothing else. If they invite us on a Wednesday, how dare they not know that I have so many other things to do in my life. We are stingy with God, we are stingy and miserable with God.

Do you believe that God is going to flow that way in your life? Do you believe that God is going to flow in the life of a person who only gives him adoration and praise with a teaspoon of tea? God likes people like David who adored the Lord, forgot that he was the King and remained almost in his underwear adoring the Lord and did not care that the television cameras were there broadcasting nationally, internationally. That's a bit of an exaggeration of mine but just in case, don't go thinking: Oops! one moment.

He adored the Lord with ease, he was a first-class worshiper, all those Psalms he wrote, he was a tremendous worshiper, that's why God loved him so much. Don't you see that God always moves in praise in worship? People who love God's heart with all their mind with all their strength, those are the people that God truly honors and blesses. Like the woman who brought her the alabaster vase, a very expensive perfume and she was a poor woman and she broke that vase of perfume, knocked her head over and spilled the very expensive perfume on Jesus because she had so much adoration in her and she dried Jesus' feet with her hair and wept tears of love on Him.

The Lord was not scandalized by any of this, He received everything. While that petty Pharisee Simon looked critically and said: "If this man was a true prophet, he would not allow that woman to approach him." The Lord knew who she was, but he also knew that she loved him and adored him and had received a blessing and that is why she had so much love and that is why the Lord told her: "Leave her alone, don't you dare criticize her. Because she has discerned that He is anointing me for my burial."

What's happening? When there is adoration, the gifts flow, she spiritually discerned at that moment, by the Holy Spirit, without knowing that Jesus was going to be buried and it was like a prophetic anointing that she was doing over the body of Jesus. Because where there is praise where there is adoration, where there is an appetite for the Glory of God, God comes, God is pleased, look in the Bible how many times adoration unleashes the power of God and that is why David, let me stay there for a moment, because now there is very little time left, I want to be wise in the use of time.

But look, there are several occasions in the scripture, I will continue with this, there are several occasions in the scripture where in the midst of prayer and ministration to the Lord the gifts fall and the power of God flows. For example, if you look in Acts, Chapter 13 says there that one day some prophets and servants of the Lord met to minister to the Lord, it says, specifically.

It may have been -sometimes I thought it was a Saturday morning, mind you- I don't know why, there's nothing in the Bible to suggest it. But I imagine these men arriving at one of the houses around ten in the morning, right? and they all come seriously to adore the Lord, it says that- verse 2 well a little earlier- 'There were then in the Church that was in Antioch Prophets and Teachers Barnabas, Simon -the one called Ariger- Lucio de Sirene Manahen -who had raised together with Herod the Petrarch, Isaulus.

Imagine these Titans arriving at a house on Saturday morning taking off their coats with a serious face because they came to make something very clear to the Lord. I say brothers, look, when you can get together with four or five people in a house and worship the Lord. It doesn't have to be the Church alone.

I love it when I hear from brothers and sisters who meet in their homes, look, there doesn't have to be -sometimes we believe that there has to be a choir with seventeen instruments and four microphones and forty speakers for the presence of God to manifest itself. - sometimes take a day out of the ordinary and get together with four or five of your friends and meet in a room in a house and begin to worship the Lord and break the bread of the word.

One takes a ticket and they share it in harmony. Do not have Guille of Prophet or Apostle. Because many times, you know? they start fighting with each other because the brother monopolizes and begins to preach a whole Sermon with three points and four poems and all the other little brothers there. No! Share if you have a word of it, do not monopolize that is what happens, it kills many times it is the ego of the brothers, but share as brothers the bread of the word, adore the Lord, sing a few choirs and minister to each other in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Preferring, humiliating one another in front of others and declare the glory of God over your lives, your Church, your ministers, your family, your friends and then go home in peace and I assure you that this will be a great blessing.

Because God loves 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, I will be there' and God likes those simple meetings in homes, in houses. We have become too sophisticated. God likes his people to gather and adore him simply, extraordinarily, and that they adore him there in those places. There many times things happen that one cannot even imagine.

These men arrived there, they had the prophetic Spirit and they arrived with desires. Look at what it says here, it says: 'And as these men ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said.' There it says ministering these to whom? Lord, what does this mean? What does the word minister mean? That means serving the Lord, where does the word ministry come from? It's service.

These people were ministering to the Lord, that is to say, adoring the Lord, they were like a waiter who serves a client soup, water, dessert.

When we come to Church, do you know why we come? To minister to the Lord. That is the only thing that we come to do, is to declare to the Lord his attributes, recognize what he is, mention his principles, dedicate that time to the Lord.

Many people come to Church and do not know why they come to Church. Most of the believers, I believe unfortunately, brothers, we come to Church for a show or we come to Church because it is good to go to Church and we sit there, but our mind is not focused, we do not understand what we are going to to church. When one goes to Church one goes to minister to God. Everything that is done has to be leading and guiding towards only one thing and that is to please the Father, adore the Father and bring joy to his heart and give him the Glory that only He deserves.

When we adore the Father, we are doing what the Devil refuses to do and what the majority of human beings refuse to do, which is to give the Glory to God and we say: even if you don't give it to him, we will give it to him. to give. And then we come to the house of the Lord and we adore him and glorify him and exalt his name and everything that is done is directed towards giving Glory and Honor to Him alone.

That is why when you come to Church I beg you: "Understand what you came for" and tell yourself clearly: "I have come to minister to the Lord, I have come to make sure that I leave everything here before I go back." to my house. I leave all the Glory, all the honor that is in my heart, the gratitude. Everything there at the feet of the Lord.”

When I leave I leave empty because I left everything to God, and that is what pleases God, that is what unleashes the power to move God's blessing in our lives. That's what he does when we go out: we come out sweaty, we come out refreshed, we come out like an athlete after running ten miles and he's all sweaty, but it feels, the endorphins are through the roof.

He feels joyful and happy, light-headed, because he has done what he had to do and his body is happy. That happens with the Spirit when we give the Lord all the Glory, all the honor and we can enter into that intimacy with God. That is what unleashes the Power, the blessing in our lives, and that is what God is looking for, a people who worship him in Spirit and in Truth. Those two things are so important, in Spirit and in Truth.

What happened to David is interesting, because I think David wanted to worship the Lord in Spirit but he did not do it in Truth and there was a problem the first time, there was death. That is part of the story, the plot is there, because sometimes we have good intentions but we don't have a way to truly worship the Lord. As He has said to be adored, we do not have the truth, the part of the truth, we have the Spirit, good intentions, passion, desire to adore the Lord, but we do it indisciplinedly and that is not enough. There has to be structure, there has to be clarity, there has to be Biblical truth underneath the worship for God to properly receive it and have its impact.

So David, and well again, let's see for a moment, going back to these men, all male, right? It says that: 'Ministering these to the Lord, thank God that he said ministering to the Lord, because if he had only said 'ministering these' one would not clearly understand what happened there. 'They were blessing the Lord praying, reading the word.'

It was all like a big request for God to be pleased and they were fasting. Fasting is a word that nowadays we don't even know how to spell it many times. Many of us need to fast and ask the Lord for strength. Fasting is powerful, fasting has powers. We have to discover these artifacts that are hidden and neglected. We have to ask the Lord for the ability to understand, in that combination of praise, adoration, ministry of the word, prophecy ministering to each other.

What happened? Said the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit spoke, manifested himself. It wasn't that the Holy Spirit spoke - let's say in a way, I don't think it was audible - it was like a voice came out of the air, which said what follows. But prophecy flowed. One of these men who were a Prophet, the Prophetic Spirit came upon him and he Prophesied and said: "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Then having fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them away.'

Brothers, this is the moment, one of the most important moments in the entire history of the Church in the two thousand years that the Church of Jesus Christ has been on Earth. This is one of the most important moments. Why? Because there began the ministry of the Apostle Paul. Until that moment Saul was simply a man known that way a little bit because he had been a Pharisee persecuting the Church, he had converted, but he was rather simply a servant of God but he had no authority.

He did not yet have a specific ministerial call. But from that day on the Holy Spirit said: "I want that man, Saul and Barnabas, to be separated from me, because I have a special work for them."

So those Apostles, those Prophets - rather, and these teachers, understood and laid hands on him, perhaps after a time of fasting, he says: "Fasting and praying." I suspect they said: You know what? We are going to prepare ourselves for a while, we are all going to fast and perhaps a few days later they met in fasting and prayer, they laid hands on Paul, it was Saul at that time.

And Barnabas and they consecrated them for the ministry and sent them out in one of the most powerful ministries the entire Earth has ever known: the Ministry of Paul who wrote two-thirds of the New Testament and sparked the movement of the Church in the first century. .

Where did that powerful ministry and that prophetic word come from? From an ordinary meeting where people ministered to the Lord and worshiped the Lord. See, see what the declaration of the power of God does when there are truly consecrated people who understand what they are doing? The gifts flow, the power of God flows. Understand the connection. I want us to keep the connection.

David wanted to bring the Ark because the Ark symbolized the presence of God, from where came the gifts and power to defeat the enemy and to bring prosperity and blessing to Israel and the Ark was a symbol of that presence of God. So the question, how is presence attracted in our time? Through adoration, praise, the declaration of the power of God through fasting, crying out, prophetic ministries, through the assembly of men and women filled with the Holy Spirit.

That is the equivalent of bringing the Ark. In other words, now we do not need a wooden box, covered with gold to bring the presence of God. Now the presence of God comes to our meetings complete through praise and worship. That is the equivalent and we do not need to use a temple as a Holy of Holies covered with a huge veil. Today we do it directly by appealing to the throne of God and the presence of God comes down in our midst and does what it has to do.

So that is what happens when a people learns to worship the Lord. I ask him: Lord help me first to discover, that is what I, that is my request today, help me to discover the way Lord, teach me how to enter your most holy place, how to dwell in that secret place where your presence.

Give me the words, give me the formula so that your presence can come down at the call of my voice, not for me, but because you want your children to adore you properly. So that I can do the things that I have to do, so that your Church can do the things that it has to do in this time of history. Because where we worship the Lord in the way He wants, there it is.

I find it more and more difficult every day to ask the Lord for specific things, because the only thing that comes to me is to ask for the presence of God, to ask for the filling of the Holy Spirit. Ask for his anointing, because if we have that, everything else will come. 'Seek first the Glory of God, the Kingdom of God and his justice and all other things will be added', says the word. If we have the presence of God, everything else comes naturally, automatically.

Sometimes we spend our time asking the Lord: 'Give me money, give me health, solve my problem, heal my marriage, get me a job, improve my financial condition', when what we need is: 'Lord, give me your presence in my life, fill me with your Spirit'. If I have it, that everything else will come. If I am filled with the Holy Spirit and know how to go directly to the throne of grace I am going to receive everything I need.

We have to change our priorities and look for the giver of all the goods, instead of looking for the goods, instead of looking only for the give me, give me, give me. Fill yourself with power, seek the power of God in your life. Let us seek the power of God as a Church, let us seek the power of God for our families, let us become people hungry for the glory of God, because when we have the presence of God in our lives, everything else will come in addition.

The word says: 'Let us bend our knees, let us cry out to the Lord, let us draw near to God and He will draw near to us.' The Word says: 'Come near to God and He will come near to you', says the Word of God. What we need is to get closer, we have a lot of people, we have a lot of people who are not where they need to be regarding that aspect of talking, what one is talking about, about maturity, we have to…

It says….Chapter 4 James: “Where does the war and the lawsuits come from among you? It is not your passions that your members fight, you covet and you do not have. You kill and envy and cannot achieve, you fight and fight but you do not have what you want because you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly to spend on your delights. Oh adulterous souls! You do not know that the friendship of the world is enmity against God.

Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think that the scripture says in vain: “The spirit that He has caused to dwell in us yearns for us jealously. But He gives greater grace, so submit to God”, says the word, “Resist the Devil and he will flee from you, approach God and he will approach you. Sinners, cleanse your hands, and you double-minded purify your hearts. Grieve, lament and weep. Your laughter turns into tears, your joy into sadness. Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will exalt you."

That is what the Lord is looking for at this time. The Apostle Paul says “Why is it that you always ask and receive nothing? They are always saying 'I need this' and crying out to the Lord and crying that the devil is doing this to me and 'what a sad life I lead' and how much I suffer and 'how much I don't have' and what he says is: “Look, what you have to do is leave that friendship with the world, leave that love that you have for the world.

Leave that shyness you have with God. Bend your knees, come closer to the Lord. He will approach you. Cry out, sanctify your life. Consecrate to the Lord and that will give you the power that you need to do what you have to do.” And that is what God is looking for, do you understand? Our lives are inefficient, ineffective, not because God has grown weaker over the years.

God knows neither senility nor old age. God is perpetually young. What's more, He is not even young, because if He were young, He could be old or He would have been a child. He is just what He is, He doesn't change and He always has the same power. The problem is with us that we don't know how to trigger. Poor God!

He's up there on that bear biting his knuckles waiting for us to know how to call his power and He can move as He wants; rise from his throne and cover the earth with his power. Because there is a church that knows how to lower its power on earth.

But we are at that point, do you see the connection? I wanted to talk about maturity, but God is putting it all together. He says: “If you want my glory, put your batteries on. If you want my power, do what you have to do. Look for me as I deserve to be looked for. They don't look for me like any neighbor's son over there. You have to look for me as I say. I'm going down but you better know the protocol of how to approach me."

Because we want to see the glory of God, but we don't know how to fall in love with him, how is it that one asks that Almighty, absolutely, incredibly Holy Father to descend upon our lives.

When we learn to worship the Lord, great things happen.

I'm going to leave it there. Find yourself later, when you can, another passage to complete what I was telling you: when we raise up the presence of God and God comes down. And it is the passage when Pablo and -I think it is Silas- are prisoners... if someone remembers it, they let me send it to them, and they worship the Lord. They are imprisoned, they have just been flogged and they adore the Lord and the glory of God descends at that moment and the chains are broken and that jailer -there in 16 Acts, verse 25- "but at midnight Paul and Silas praying, singing hymns to God and the prisoners heard them and then a great earthquake occurred in such a way that the foundations of the prison were shaken and instantly all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were released "Because where the presence of God is there are no chains. There can be no chains.

Prisons by order have to open. Where is the presence of God, brought by worship. How much would it have cost Paul and his companion to worship the Lord with blood running down their backs, after being scourged? If it had been you or me, we would have said 'Lord, how do you allow them to whip me? Now I am not going to serve you anymore, at least for at least six months so that you can learn. But Paul is flogged, stoned, put in jail, and they worship the Lord.

I ask the Lord for that spirit, because we suffer any little thing and we stop adoring the Lord, we stop serving Him, we resent Him, we grow cold. Paul and Silas worshiped him, worshiped him and as they sang hymns the presence of God came down and broke the chains, the jail doors opened. This jailer who had perhaps flogged them himself, fell at their feet and said to them: 'what do I have to do to be saved?'

That same night they were eating mangú with cod in the jailer's house and taking him, baptizing him and his entire house, because the power of God descended to the adoration and cry of God.

Let us ask the Lord to visit us with his power. Visit us with your glory. Let's stand up.

I ask the Lord to teach us. Ask the Lord if something has touched you this word. Brothers, God is looking for a serious people. Those manganzones who are thinking about twenty thousand things while they worship, God is fed up with them. The lukewarm make the Lord nauseated, you know? God is looking for a renewed people, a mature people, a consecrated people, a people delivered to the Lord.

I ask you: start with me and start with the leaders of this church. It begins with those of us who have so much responsibility in front of you. Seal us, seal us, seal us. Burn us, destroy us and make us anew. Kill everything you have to kill, burn everything you have to burn, close everything you have to close, undo everything you have to undo but we want your glory, Lord.

We want you; it pleases you to dwell in us and in our midst. Burn all danger, Lord and leave only a seat where you can sit comfortably. In our hearts, our homes, our cars, our moments of intimacy. Teach us how to be a pleasant people before you.

Let us ask the Lord to consecrate us. Brothers, the Lord tells us: it is time, it is time to consecrate it, it is time to die, it is time to leave behind children's clothing, it is time to leave behind toys and doll games, it is time to die in order to live. Leaving everything to receive everything, weakening ourselves to be strong. Losing everything we love to have the greatest object of love that must be our God.

We have to die, die, die, die, consecrate ourselves, consecrate ourselves, consecrate ourselves. Double-minded people, the Lord tells us: unify yourselves, a single purpose because there is not much time left, there is no time to play, there is no time to wait. I don't want mixed adoration, I don't want divided hearts, I don't want minds reeling as they search for me. I want consecration, I want cleanliness, I want purity, I want surrender, I want you to die once and for all and dedicate yourself to my glory. The years that you have left on earth, dedicate them to me, dedicate them to me. Dedicate the strength that you have to me, consecrate them to me, look for me.

Abandon all double-mindedness and surrender. I tell you that I deserve the best and I will not settle for less than the best, the maximum, the extreme. If you give me less than the maximum, I don't want it, I hate it, says the Lord. If you give me what you don't need or what you have left over, I hate it, I don't like it. I want your life, I want your heart, I want your insides, I want the most of you. And I will have it or I will have nothing, says the Lord.

Let's deliver to the Lord. Father, teach us, I preach this myself, Lord, I don't know what I'm preaching, but I need you to clarify things and teach us how to abide in your presence, Father. Keep us from mistakes, Lord, keep us from dishonoring your holiness, dishonoring your Glory, Lord. Do not let us fall from the height from where You allow us to see certain things, Lord. Release your anointing on this town.

I want to invite you, if you feel that this is calling you to consecrate yourself and don't do it if you don't really feel it, go ahead, but it doesn't have to be everyone. But there is some of you who must be saying: 'I need you to give me everything and consecrate everything to me'.

If you are one of those, come here ahead. It doesn't have to be everyone... some if you feel calm and you know you're in that direction... Amen, stay there. There is no trial. No one has to look at who came and who didn't come. But I want to invite you in the name of Jesus. Go well ahead, go well ahead, that you give it to the Lord. I am going to be there with you because I need to give you more and I will not be happy until I have given you everything.

So I'm right there with them right now, because I need God to dig me up. Take a spoon and take out everything that is inside and put new things. I want him to have all of me, so Lord we give you our lives.

We want to see your glory, we want to see your glory. Consecrate yourself to the Lord and seal this delivery. Seal it and don't go back, don't underestimate the importance of what you're doing. Mark it there somewhere in your Bible and say on such a day I gave my all to the Lord and I am not going back, I am not going to continue playing with the Lord.

I am going to be a woman radically committed to God, a man scandalously devoted to God. I want to die and I stand on the altar and I ask the Lord to stab me once and for all and sacrifice myself before Him and that I remain delivered, delivered to Him.

Give to the Lord, give to the Lord, you will see that God will not get tired of giving to you. They will understand what it truly is, to experience the glory of God. Confess to the Lord your dedication there where you are. Live for him, work for him. There will be time in eternity to enjoy many other pleasures, here on earth give the Lord what you have left.

When you are there in heaven you can have millions of years to enjoy. Here on earth, God wants people consecrated to Him: servants and handmaids who give him everything and put up with nothing. That what He asks of you give it to him immediately because they have already put it in his hands.

Those are the people that God wants to bless, those are the people that God wants to use. God wants to speak to these people, God wants to minister to these people. God wants to use these people to perform his miracles.

Oh Lord! Have mercy, forgive us for neglecting your glory. Forgive me, forgive us for neglecting your glory, for not having enough sense to seek you as you deserve to be sought. we surrender. This church, Lord, I give it to you, I give it to you, I give it to you because it is yours, Father. Please take them out of our hands, Lord, and take control of her. Take control of her. We need to see your glory father. We need to see your glory.

May your glory descend on the earth! Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Avenge your glory, avenge your glory, avenge your glory, avenge your glory. Bring down your glory. Make the waters move, make the waters move so that your power may be manifested in our midst.

Hallelujah hallelujah!