Your attitude determines your destiny

Chapter 13, Book of Numbers. We see here the well-known story of when Moses, while the Israelites were in the desert, and for the brothers who do not know the biblical story we simply remember. The Jews, the Hebrews were in Egypt for centuries, long held captive there in Egypt. They were slaves and in reality God had allowed them to be in Egypt so that they would become a great and powerful nation.

They grew numerically and the time came when the Hebrews had already reached a very large number -1 million plus people- and God now wanted to get them out of Egypt. And the Lord - you remember the story - sent Moses as a deliverer and led the Hebrew people out of the clutches of the Egyptians and God's purpose was to take them to Canaan, a land that He had reserved for them in another part of the Middle East. And there the Lord had reserved a great blessing, a great provision, a great abundance for the people of God. A land - he says it flowed with milk and honey - of great abundance.

God had decreed that the tribes, the nations that owned those lands were going to be exterminated, they were going to be extirpated from the earth for their great wickedness, their great sin. They had been morally corrupted with human sacrifices, great sexual perversities, all kinds of corruption. And God had decreed that those nations had to be cut off from the land and that land was to be given to the Hebrews.

We also know that Abraham, already centuries before the Hebrews went to Egypt, when he was simply a nomadic man Abraham had traveled those lands and as if he had marked them for God,

Centuries ago, God already had the purpose of delivering those lands to his people and everything that came between Abraham's day and the arrival of the Hebrews in Canaan was simply God's preparation, throughout history. Set the stage so that the Hebrews could finally reach the promised land.

And here we have then in Chapter 13 that the Hebrews are already very close to entering Canaan, they have left Egypt and everything is already prepared for them to enter Canaan. God already intends for it to be so. Look at that, they are on the very brink of entering into the blessing. That is why I say that it is important that we understand that many times God has benevolent purposes, God has great blessings and plans for our lives. But you know what? We have the power to frustrate and this may sound a bit scandalous. We have power to frustrate the great blessings that God has for us.

God has allowed human beings, in their free will, in their freedom with which He has created them, to have the right to close the doors to the blessing that God has already prepared for them. Because of disobedience or simply because of obstinacy or because they love the attractions of the world more or whatever. And we can lose the blessings that God has.

I would say, one of the clearest illustrations of this is salvation. God sent his son Jesus Christ, Christ died on the cross, lived here on earth, had three years of ministry, left his church established, left a whole word of instruction for us. And already in the mind of God, God wants everyone to be saved, he says. God wants everyone to proceed to salvation.

How many know that? God does not have a quota for people to be saved. God does not say “Only 144 thousand or ten million or three billion will be saved”, No! God wants everyone to enter into salvation.

What's going on? Many people do not follow the prescriptions that God has established and lose their souls because they do not obey what God commands, which is to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. Receive Jesus, walk in the paths that He has established. Then the benevolent purpose of God is frustrated.

They will remember when Christ, seated on the mountain in Israel, looked at Jerusalem and said: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who stone your prophet. How I wanted to cover you as the hen covers her chicks and you didn't want to. And now it says “Your land is left completely desolate because they disobeyed God's plan. And here we see God already gave to enter the Hebrews into the promised land.

And then, in chapter 13, in verse 1 God speaks to Moses saying: 'Send you men to spy out the land of Canaan which I am giving to the children of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you will send a male. Each prince among them."

God commands Moses to choose a representative from each of the 12 tribes, a noble man, a man who is the head of his family and to send them as spies to the land before entering the land, they are close to it. Before entering the land, God says, "Send me 12 men to do some sort of reconnaissance of the land." A kind of espionage so that they can see what the land to which I am sending them is like.

And look here, in verse 17 it says: 'So Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, saying to them: 'Go up from here to the Negeb and go up the mountain. And observe the land as it is and the people that inhabit it, whether they are strong or weak, whether few or numerous. How is the inhabited land, if it is good or bad and how are the inhabited cities, if they are camps or fortified squares and how is the land: if it is fertile or barren, if there are trees in it or not.

In other words, God is saying to them: Go and explore that land that God has told us is ours. Look to see what the land is like, examine the tribes that are there and come with a report on what weapons they have, if they are strong, if they are tall, if they are numerous, if they have large armies. Examine the conditions of the land: if there are good trees. That is, a total recognition of the land.

And then he says, "Come back with that report to us."

I see something very important here. One would ask, why was that necessary? If God had already said that they were going to enter the land and they already had the land declared by God to be part of them. Why did they have to do this detailed reconnaissance? So accurate from the ground?

Well, I believe that God wants us to be people of order, people who take time to analyze His promises, to analyze what He has declared about our lives. I believe that faith does not deny intelligence, there is no conflict between faith and one to make healthy explorations of God's promises, to know what God has said, to study the Bible. Use the mind to understand.

I believe that many times, we Christians believe that simply because God has told us that he is going to give us this or that, I am going to sit and wait for him to come. I believe that you have to make an effort, you have to show part too, you have to study, analyze things.

And God wanted these men to enter the land and when the people were to enter -because there were going to be battles- God told them "this land is yours", but when they entered that land there were going to be enemy tribes there that they would be waiting. There were going to be wars, there were going to be fights, and God wanted them to be prepared too.

It wasn't just, Okay, God was going to send them, he was going to kill the whole enemy world and they were going to go in and take the land like nothing happened. No, they had to do their part too, they had to study the conditions, they had to prepare because there were going to be battles.

Brothers, I believe that this is the case in our life as well. God has declared certain things about our life but it is not like the devil is going to be there quietly with a toothpick in his mouth waiting for us to go in and take everything that God has declared.

How many know that there is opposition and struggle in the life of the Christian? There is going to be a fight, we ourselves sometimes in our flesh sometimes oppose the blessings that God wants. People we love will oppose our entering into God's blessings.

How many brothers converted to the Lord and right away the first enemy they had was people from their own family, from their own house? What did they say you are becoming a fanatic Hallelujah, you just want to be in the church and giving the money to those Pastors who what they do is steal it and take it for themselves, etc., etc. No?

And now what you want is nothing more, to be reading that Bible, that's all you do. Before, you used to go to the movies and parties with us, you drank and this and that, and now you don't want to do anything. You are becoming a bore, a fanatic, aren't you? A sanctimonious

Sometimes the oppositions to our life come from within, sometimes our own habits, the emotional and mental ties that we have from the past when we enter the ways of the Lord and God wants to give us blessings and cleanse our land and organize our lives. We have ties, we have wounds from the past, emotional things that bind us, depressions, fears, inferiority complexes, ties to people, to environments.

How many people want to enter the ways of God and love society and prestige so much and do not want to enter the ways of God because the cares of the world, as the parable of Jesus Christ says, keeps them away? They want, the word falls on them, they feel love. When they go to church they cry, they feel joy for the Lord but there are enemies inside and enemies outside that oppose these people to enter the ways of the Lord.

And it will be better that you understand that, that you study, see? What they did was to reconnoiter the land, to know both the good that was in the land and also the enemies that were in the land. And so that when they entered the reality of that fight they would be prepared. And I think that's how we have to do it.

We have to study the word, we have to know the nature of the promises that God has for our life and also the responsibilities as well as the enemies that there are.

Because the Christian life is not a walk in the park. There is fight. The Bible says that the kingdom of heaven grows strong and the mighty take it by force. So you had better know the nature of that land that God has before you. It is good land, it has flowing milk and honey. But a land also of battles. Prayer is required, fasting is required, purging one of many things is required.

You have to leave things behind, you will have to fight battles with enemies who will want to destroy your soul. Because the devil only knows how to kill, steal and destroy. He does not want a life to enter the ways of the Lord, he is consecrated to hinder every inch of ground that you want to conquer, that God has given you.

And it will be better that you study well in depth that you know your responsibilities, that you know the word. What are my commitments? What are my rights? How do I enter into the use of my rights and what God has declared in my life? And take time to study.

I believe that this is what God wanted, for them to enter that land, recognize it well, know its nature and then be clear about what they had to do and what awaited them ahead, then proceed so that they would not be surprised. whatever they found on the other side.

But here comes something important, brothers, and it is the following. Look, I believe that in the long run the most important thing for us to enter into all the blessings that God wants to give us in our lives, the most important thing is that we believe God. As far as we know, there is going to be a war, there is going to be a fight, there are going to be difficulties, but God is more powerful than all those things.

Paul in his book to the Romans says: "We have many things," he says, "neither death, nor life, nor principalities, nor angels, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor any other created thing. can separate us from the love of Christ.” There are many things in life that are going to oppose us it is true. But Paul also says that 'before in all these things we are more than conquerors'.

There is nothing wrong, on the contrary, I advise you, as I say, that you know the nature of the battle that awaits you in the Christian life. May you know that this is not a bed of roses, that the Christian life is a life of difficulties, struggles and trials. But that you also know that before all these things you can be more than victorious and that everything you go through and all the giants that come against you, all the dramas, all the difficulties in which you can go through for your life, all that is matter for God to create a man, a woman filled with the holy spirit.

A woman, a man of a complexion that does not get upset or freeze, or die for anything in this world. Let him know that everything the devil throws at him he can hit a hold run and take him off the field because he is already seasoned, he is already prepared, he is used to fighting and he knows that God in all these things always brings us forward.

He, in everything, brothers, that is what I believe, that whatever comes into my life in the name of Jesus, in the word I can find a solution for it because God is with me. I have to believe God. You understand? And there are two types of Christians and that's really the core of my message.

There are two types of Christians. There is a type of Christian who believes in God, what I call, who has a sufficiency mentality. A sufficiency mentality.

Say with me ‘Mentality… of sufficiency’. This is very important.

What does a person who has a sufficiency mentality mean? It is the person who, as Paul says: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." That is the person who walks to the Christian life saying 'in God I have more than what I need for life'.

That person who sees himself as a great bag of blessings and provision and resources. It is the person who, as Paul says: "God has blessed me with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places."

That person has a smug mind. When shortcomings, problems, difficulties, obstacles come to his life, he says “No, although there are obstacles, I avoid them. I have analyzed them. I believe that God is more than powerful to get me through."

That is the sufficiency mentality. Not a mentality that sticks its head in the sand like these 'ostrich' birds, I don't know how to say it in Spanish. Ostrich! Thank you. My brain already got a little slow this morning. No, it's not that we ignore the complexities, but despite the complexities we say 'God is more than powerful to get me through'.

Let me tell you, that is one of the things that at this stage to look for in the construction of our building, there are many difficulties, many complications along the way. But I always believe that it doesn't matter, the Lord is more than enough. If this is from God, and if it pleases God, we are going to install that building there and we are going to see the glory of God. We have to move on.

Are there complications? Clear. What project of that magnitude, what great thing in the world, what thing that God wants to use to bless a nation is not going to have its difficulties? You think that the devil is going to stay there quietly, letting a powerful and beautiful Sanctuary be built for the Lord. No!.

You see, that's the nature of life. But I believe that before, in all these things we are more than winners. What if God gave us money so it rained on us, we wouldn't build muscles for battle. Knows? Faith is created by pushing against inertia, against resistance. This is how a man is created, a powerful church that sees the miracles of God done.

So there is a type of Christian who has a sufficiency mentality and I am going to show you here how I see this. And there is another type of Christian who has what I call a 'lack mentality'.

Say with me 'Lack Mentality'.

That is the type of Christian who focuses on limitations, obstacles, dangers and problems. But he doesn't see God's provision. He is the type of person that when he is going to enter his promised land, when he contemplates what God has declared and promised him, he says, “Hmm, yes but I'm not sure if it's true or not. And I have seen that so-and-so served the Lord for many years and it did not go well for him. And look at him there as he is, poor thing, in that dilapidated little house and how good I tried once and it failed. And that I have no education and that this is perhaps for people who have a lot of faith”, etc.; and they begin.

He is the type of person that when he tries something, he failed the first time, they get discouraged, they throw in the towel, they don't keep trying. He is the type of person who does not like to fight. When things got tough in the family and at home and the wife told him "If you continue with those Hallelujah, I'm going to divorce you", they immediately stop going to church so that the woman doesn't divorce him. .

He is the person who when he enters the Gospel and crashes the car and already says “Oh, good! If that is the case, I am not going to enter the Gospel because it was better for me when I was outside the Gospel” and they stop going to church. He is the person who, when he enters the Gospel at six months, is fired from work and has already thrown in the towel because "when I was outside it was much better for me." He is the type of person who only focuses on the problem, the difficulties.

And that is what I say, again, looking at the situation of the Sanctuary and all these things, they are great challenges. But God has been blessing us over and over again and I cannot let a difficulty, a situation take away my spirit, my joy.

I cannot let the magnitude of the task focus me solely on the limitation. I have to look at the supply. I want to keep my mindset focused on God's provision. The abundance of God, what God promises.

I tell you, brothers, the destiny of your life, whatever results in your life, the curve of your life, whether it be upwards or whether it is going to be flat or whether it is going to be declining, is going to be determined by which of those two mentalities you cultivate. Which of these two postures do you hold upright and try to adopt as the motto of your life?

Do you know how many times what results in our life depends on what happens here in this part, the mind? Vision, the ability to envision. It is the attitude, your attitude determines your destiny. If you have an attitude of limitation of smallness, that any little thing already exhausts you and tires you and destroys you and that any little problem already throws you to the ground. And if you see yourself as something small, that you don't have, that you don't know, that you can't, your life will follow that path.

Now, if you believe that you have a great, powerful God that lives within you and that it is the power of God that leads you to victory, your life is probably going to be very different. Because you are going to dare to undertake things. How many times have you undertaken things thinking that it was not going to work out and it did work for you? And when you came to see you had a great blessing sitting there on you.

I always try to believe that, that I have to believe that there are things that sometimes seem to me "No, they are not going to work out" but I do them in the name of Jesus because God is with me. Because I have a sufficiency mentality and the sea miraculously opens up in front of me.

And Joshua and Caleb of those twelve leaders that God sent through Moses to spy out the land that God had promised them, ten of them after spying out the land returned with a negative report and two of them who had a 'different spirit' says the Bible, they came back with a positive report. They believed God and said, "We are going to enter that land because God has given it to us."

And that is why I say that Joshua and Caleb, those two, exemplified a mentality of sufficiency, of abundance, of strength in God, of power in God. And those other ten men represented that lack mentality, that pusillanimous mentality, that mouse mentality, who couldn't see beyond the problems and the difficulties.

Their mind, their mentality, their self-esteem, their self-image, how they saw themselves determined their attitude towards God's promise and ultimately their final destiny. Because of those twelve men, only two entered that land that God had promised. The other 10 died of the plague because they offended God with their disobedience and negative attitude. Only two of them entered that promised land.

Watch the drama here. There is a lot of fabric to cut in this! But I just want to leave you with this: abundance mentality, lack mentality. Which one is your program? What is your computer program? What is the attitude, what is the posture that governs your life?

I encourage you in the name of Jesus this morning to walk out of here saying, 'No! I am going to cultivate a mentality that I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me. I am going to cultivate a mentality of sufficiency in God. I am going to cultivate a mentality that even if the giants come into my life, I believe that in God I am more than powerful to defeat them and come out of the war stronger than ever. That is what I want you to engrave in your heart. I want to have, I am going to cultivate, I am going to fill my life with a mentality of abundance.

These twelve men go to Canaan, spend 40 days there exploring the land, and return to the land. Look at verse 25, it says, “They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. Then Moses meets with them and all the people are there listening to them. And look what is the report that ten of those men bring to Moses.

Verse 27 says, "And they counted them saying, 'We came to the land to which you sent us, which certainly flows with milk and honey.' That's when I think Moisés began to worry a little. That certainly was like saying: Yes, the truth, Okay, it's fine, it has milk and honey flowing. That's true. But they were already preparing for the negative part.

You see the lack mentality overrides the promises of God. Go over power. It does not focus on what is ahead, the blessing. I say, brothers, for you to get ahead in life, you have to have an ability to see things before they are. And you have to almost like enjoy them, you have to live them.

I don't know, how many of you like to sit down and figure out all the details? Like let's say if you were a rich person. You sit sometimes and there in your mind you visualize things. You are a great singer, a great movie star and you see yourself, right?

You listen to a piece of music and you see yourself playing that piece, you get inside the artist and you can see the people listening and admiration. I don't know. It all depends. How many people can view something? And visualize the blessing.

If you want a house, can you see that house in your mind? Can you see the rooms? Can you see that little window when the sun comes in in the morning? Do you see yourself with your cup of coffee watching that sun rise above the roofs of the other houses? Can you see the details of the well-polished, very beautiful wooden floor? Can you visualize God's blessings in your life?

When you have a project, can you already see that project before it is done? I used to see this building when it was just rubble and dust and pieces of wood and brick lying on the floor. And that's why I got into it. I have already learned brothers, I cannot see things as they are. I have to see them as God has declared them. I have to see them through the eyes of faith and I have to celebrate God's blessings before they are.

Most human beings can get into things when they're already there. But you know what? When things are done they are too expensive for you to have. It is so.

Look, a neighborhood. There were people here in this neighborhood of the South End that when it was a disaster and it was an area that had a very high train that ran down Washington Street and that every time that train went through there it would shake all the buildings and all the apartments. But there were people who, years before they knocked down the train, knew that they were going to knock it down, and you know what? They bought the houses around. They bought them for pennies.

When this neighborhood was full of trash and crime, they bought their houses. They suffered for three or four years, but guess what? Now they are sitting on a nest of money. Because the properties they bought for $50,000 are now worth $500,000 or a million. Because? Because they had the vision to see them before this neighborhood became an exquisite neighborhood for people with money. They bought before.

Now, those who enter now, have to pay today's price. In real estate it is like that, the one who makes money is the one who dares to buy before things are real. Because there is vision, they can see things before they are.

When this financial crash was in full swing here a few months ago, Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, if not the richest in the world, in that terrible time when the world looked like it was going to fall apart. pieces, bought nearly a trillion dollars of stock. Because? Because that man has vision and he thought 'That's not going to last forever'.

And those shares that cost pennies, which used to cost dollars, he bought them for pennies and now I imagine he's laughing just going to the bank. Because he had vision, he was able to see things before they were. He was able to visualize the blessings, he focused on the blessings instead of the curses. He focused on the gold locked up rather than on the difficulties of getting to the gold. You understand?

These men did the opposite, these men focused on the problems and missed the blessings like that, and that is one of the characteristics. The lack mentality focuses on the problems, difficulties, dangers, complications but does not focus on the possible blessing.

Look how they say: "She certainly does flow with milk and honey and this is the fruit of her." They couldn't deny, they brought bunches that two men had to carry [of grapes] because the bunches were so big. Read the story.

Now he says "More" -therein lies the problem- "but the people who inhabit that land are strong and the cities are very large and fortified and we also saw the sons of Anak there", and his knees began to tremble because the sons of Anak were basketball players [6.7, 6.8] they were very tall guys and Jews are short people.

I imagine that in those times – 3 thousand years ago, imagine – even more. Then it says: "Amalek to the Nebeo, the Negeb, the Aethean, the Jebusite, the Amorite dwell in the mountains and the Canaanite dwell by the sea." See they were mentioning all those giants, all those big people. Oh yeah! There is blessing. God said but the people are so big that we have to fight with them.

And then look at the difference, that is the lack mentality that focuses on problems, difficulties, obstacles, dangers, limitations.

Look at the sufficiency mentality now operating. Verse 30: “Then Caleb” – one of those two Joshua and Caleb – “made the people silence before Moses and said: Let us go up immediately and take possession of it because we will be able to do more than they”. Hallelujah.

Do you see the difference my brothers? The sufficiency mentality is a “resolute” mentality as they say in English, resolute, clear, firm, secure. "We will be able to do more than they." Forget if they are big, the harder they fall when we hit them. We can do more than they. They focused on what they had. What they were, what they could, right?

"But the men who went up with him said: We will not be able to go up against that people because they are stronger than us." Caleb and Josué say: We are stronger than them. They say: They are stronger than us.

See, there you have the lack mentality and the sufficiency mentality perfectly expanded. And the children of Israel spoke ill of the land that they had reconnoitered, saying: “the land through which we passed to reconnoiter it is a land that swallows up its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in the midst of it are men of great stature. We also saw there giants sons of Anak, race of giants”.

And look here at this very powerful psychological lesson: "And we were like locusts in our opinion and so we appeared to them."

Look, depending on how you see yourself, that's how your life will be. Write that down, if you want, and go live life with that word: Depending on how you see yourself, that's how your destiny and your life will be. If you see yourself as a tadpole, there, as a person who has nothing to offer, a poor thing. A person who never had anything, who was never loved, who was never told anything nice, who was never able to go to school. Forget that your life is going to be a failure. You are going to be just a basic person. Amen.

Look, I'm going to go to his funeral and I'm going to preach at it, because that's not a problem. Amen.

God loves you and you will go to heaven like everyone else. But wouldn't you like to enjoy in this life the blessings that God has given you and be able to have a productive life and have good things and get ahead and progress? And it all depends on how you see yourself.

If you see yourself as a person filled with the holy spirit, the power of God that dwells within you, God's promises are for you. God is more powerful in you than any problem, any difficulty, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are with you.

You have the mind of Christ, you are seated with Christ in the heavenlies. God has provided you with every blessing in heavenly places. This will be your life. You will dare to undertake new, big, daring things, you will go beyond what you are and have the time to go towards what God has for you. The destiny that God has for you. You will dare, you will always push the frontiers. It won't just stay where you are locked up.

Some people 'Well, God gave me this job and with this I eat and dress the boys and that'. But look, maybe God wants you to be the owner of that company, not just a worker there, exploiting you. 'Oh! It is that things are done this way and that is how they have always been done.

Look, maybe God wants to give you a different way so that you can do it in a way that has never been done before. You invent something else, inspire many and bless others and may God's blessing enter your life. Don't believe, don't just live within the four walls of who you are, but see yourself as God sees you.

And look how interesting he says: 'We looked like lobsters', it's like insects. The lobster is that tiny insect. 'before those great men and so we appeared to them'. Know what? People will see you as you see yourself too. That's true.

If you are self-conscious, you feel inferior, if you think that everyone is better than you, stronger than you, people are going to treat you that way, you know? People are like animals, when they smell weakness they stand on anyone. Look, it's true.

People, they don't have to be great psychological geniuses, people smell the thing instinctively. They are like animals. If a dog knows that you are afraid of him, forget it, he will jump on you and do what he wants.

Why can a man control a horse, an elephant? Because a man has a will that can control that great animal. The mind of an animal is a limited mind. That man who thinks he's stronger finds a way and gets on top of him and dominates him and guides him where he wants. And that great animal allows itself to be dominated.

Now that that animal knows that you are afraid of it, it eats that man alive. Because it all depends on how you see yourself. Many people complain that 'they treat me badly, that they don't appreciate me, that they don't...'. Look, change the way you see yourself, give yourself respect, give yourself value. Believe that you have in God.

If one is in Christ, he is a new creature, no matter what he lived in the past. If in the past they did not give you value, your parents did not encourage you, they did not value you, if you grew up in a dysfunctional family, if you did not go to school, now in Christ Jesus, you are more than that. You have gifts of God within you, you have the mind of Christ, you can get ahead. You can do new things.

Do not live in the past. How do you see yourself in Christ Jesus? What has Christ done in your life and how has he transformed you? A transformed mind is needed so that one can enter into everything that God wants for our life.

What does Ephesians chapter 1 say? One of my favorite passages. Ephesians 1:16. Paul says: "I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, so that the God of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him."

Paul prays that the Ephesian readers will receive understanding from God. Why this understanding? It says here: 'Enlightening the eyes of our understanding so that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you and what is the richness of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints and what is the super-eminent greatness of his power towards us what we believe'.

In other words, Paul says: “Brothers, I continually pray that your minds be opened, so that you understand how great is the wealth that God has placed in you. How great is the hope, how great is the power that God has made dwell in you.”

Do you know what often limits us Christians? That we do not understand how great is the provision that God has placed in us. We have the engine of a war tank and we walk around with a Volkswagen engine, from a small motorcycle. We don't use the power of God, we don't use God's provision because we believe, right?

When we converted to the Lord, an angel came and took out that tiny Volkswagen engine and put a jet propulsion airplane engine in us and we continue to believe that we have the same engine and that is why we do not dare to do bigger things. But that engine is there waiting for us to press that accelerator to roar like a giant and fly through the air at thousands of miles per hour.

But we don't believe it. And Paul says, 'I pray that your understanding will be transformed, be renewed. So that you understand what God has made dwell within you. How great is the power for us who believe. If you don't believe, forget it, nothing is going to happen in your life. If you believe God, then the power of God is activated within you.

'According to the working of the power of his might, which he wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and seating him at his right hand in heavenly places.'

The same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells within you. That's all I can tell you. But everything depends on your mind being transformed, that you can only believe God. If you see yourself as still sitting there in your little abused or neglected child seat and don't understand that you are sitting in the heavenlies at the right hand of Christ Jesus reigning over the world, then you are going to always be that abused little girl, sad and depressed.

If you believe that God made you new in Christ Jesus, then it is different. If you were raped as a child and you still live thinking about it - and look, it's not that I'm minimizing the pain of that - and you have focused on that and you have lived sitting on that rape and it has taken control of your identity, then you are missing the opportunity.

Because before Christ you are a pure virgin, no one has touched you, no one has hurt you. In Christ Jesus you are a new creature, you are completely new. Forget about the past, forget about the struggles of the past. Forget the failures, forget the wounds, forget the problems and distortions of life.

In Christ Jesus you have something new, different. Christ dwells within you. Christ has healed you. The pains of the past can now be turned into steps for spiritual greatness. No human being can become a great man, a great woman if there is no pain in their way, you know? If there is no failure, if there is no defeat, if there are no wounds, if there are not some scars.

What general, what warrior who is worth what he is will not have some wounds on his hands, on his face, or on some part of his body? If you've fought battles, someone must have hit you in some way. And those wounds are his sign of honor, you know? And so it is in life. No one reaches death unharmed, there will always be defeats, wounds, failures, scars. But all that in Christ Jesus is what makes you a great man, a powerful woman.

Don't let the devil whisper to you 'you failed, they made you, they gave you, they didn't make you, they didn't tell you, they didn't give you, they didn't affirm you'. That's the devil's lie. In Christ Jesus you are perfect, you have the mind of Christ, you have power and God wants you to renew your mind so that you can see what God has made dwell within you.

Live with it, that's the sufficiency mentality. That is the mentality that dares to do things. That is the mentality of a confident woman, of a self-confident man who, despite whatever, walks with that security. God is powerful within me.

Last point. The Hebrews when they hear this bad report are filled with rebellion. They say "God made us come here to kill us." Now with this report that these people have given, they are filled with fear and begin to murmur about Moses, they begin to murmur about God. Read the story, we don't have time.

They want to stone Moses. just imagine. That man who has taken them out of Egypt, now they want to throw stones at him because they say “what this man brought us to is to die here. Look at the report these men bring.” They did not want to listen to Joshua and Caleb.

So Josué and Caleb insist. Look at verse 7 of chapter 14: “And they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, ‘The land through which we passed to spy out is a very good land. If Jehovah is pleased with us, He will take us to this land and give it to us.

Brothers, if God is with you, who can be against you? If God has told you 'this is yours', who can take it from you? If God has promised you blessing, prosperity, success, joy, peace, transcendence, who can take that away from you? Nobody can take it away from you.

If God is happy with you, it doesn't matter if the devil roars around you. It doesn't matter that all men are against you. All that interests you is that God approves of you, that God has good purposes for you and that you believe God and that you connect with what God wants for your life and that you stay fixed there.

Every day, every day. When you get up each day, connect with what God has said. Don't connect with your emotions, with bone pains or with what happened over the weekend, or the week. Connect with what God has said. Focus on God's abundance mindset.

‘Therefore do not be rebellious against Jehovah. Do not fear the people of this land, for we will eat them like bread. Their protection has departed from them and with us is Jehovah. Do not fear them.

They focused on the God who was with them, you see? That is the difference. God is the equalizer. God is the one who makes the difference in matters. There was a series a few years ago called 'The Equalizer'. I don't know, how many saw it? confess.

The equalizer was a man who was traveling through different cities with a tremendous revolver and he was the "equalizer", he was the one who made the difference. When a person was being oppressed by some thug, by some gangster or something like that, this man would arrive as the great hero on the white horse. And since he had war training and knew how to use his pistol and had strategies and all that, he defended that humble person who had no chance against that strong enemy.

He was the one who made the difference. That's why it was called 'The Equalizer', right? He equalized the battle. Know what? God is the great equalizer. Maybe the devil will have more power than you, always. Life will be stronger than you always. But if God is with you, he equalizes the battle. What's more, He puts her on the other side completely.

That is why they say: "In the face of all these things we are more than conquerors." "If God is pleased with us, He will bring us into the land." What we have to determine in life is what God has said about my challenge. What has God said about my dream, about my vision? What has God said about what I want to undertake? What has God said about that business I want to open?

What has God said about that career that I want to undertake already advanced in age? What has God said about that house I want to buy? What has God said about that man or that woman whom I want to marry? Because if God has said Amen, I bless you. Go ahead, reach out and forget about all the problems that lie ahead. It doesn't sound very spiritual, but it is so.

Now, if God has said 'No' to you, don't try to ask him. Was that a question, God, or was it a statement? If God said 'No' it is no! Close the door, cry, kick your feet, but don't go in there because you're going to have problems. If God is with you keep going. Don't look at the giants, focus on the promise that God has declared over your life. That is what makes all the difference.

Don't focus so much on life's difficulties. What God says to me this morning is: Don't look around you so much. Do not always be thinking about this, that the other, how difficult the world is, the economy, that nothing can be done, that you cannot get a job because there is 12%, whatever unemployment, so I am not going to go look for work. What I'm going to do is get into bed and cover myself with a big sheet to depress myself. To simmer me there in depression.

No, because you can't. So-and-so tried and has been looking for work for seven months now and hasn't found anything. So what am I going to try for? Many people. Brothers, do not look at the circumstances, look at the God who is above the circumstances.

I cannot suppress this verse. It says: "He who watches the wind will not sow." That is the great sage Solomon. "He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap." Know what? It's the truth. If the planter thinks that it could rain tomorrow or that there could be a drought or that lightning could strike the plant that he is planting or that an insect could come and eat that plant... he would never plant. Because there are always 20 thousand problems.

Listen to me, whoever wants to cook possible gloomy scenarios is going to come up with 17 possible tragedies that can happen to them. Whoever thinks about this, about that, about this difficulty, about this problem... the life of faith is not like that, brothers. The life of faith does not focus, although it examines things to know the ground that is walking as we saw- in that. Okay, that can happen, the other can happen. Amen.

Those are the conditions. But after he recognized what could happen, he says 'Not now, I'm going forward'. Look at verse 5, it says: "As you do not know which way the wind is" -precious words, this is pure poetry- "or as the bones grow in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you are ignorant of the work of God, He which does better, if this or that or if one and the other is equally good.

I've always taken that word with me, you know? I say, I can't be thinking about what can happen. I always try to recognize what can happen because I like to walk lucidly in life but after I have recognized what can happen to me and I still say 'this is where I have to go', I have to walk safely. I cannot live a life of fear and fear, but I have to live an entrepreneurial life.

I have to sow seven and eight, distribute. Don't let my hand rest.

As a Pastor, I always have to continue investing in my congregation, looking for new things, developing new programs. Working to improve my ministry, to improve myself as a person. I have to always be sowing. I cannot be worrying about the disaster that may come or what happened to me or the difficulties that exist. Because if I focus on the dangers, I'll stay narrow on the problems.

What happened to the unfaithful servant? When they gave him his talent he took his talent and put it under the bed because he was afraid that if he lost it his master would damn him when he returned. He let fear stop him from investing his talent.

And you know what? Fear freezes many of us. The fear of what may happen, the fear of circumstances. We think 'if I sow my seed and an animal comes and eats it', or if I do this, or if I go to school and then I don't get a job or if I apply and then they don't accept me or if I get married and fail. Or if I buy this house and lightning strikes and knocks it down and then I don't have money to build. I don't know, anything.

If I buy this car and I can't pay for it within six months. It's good that you know more or less but there comes a time when you have to make a decision. Go ahead. Many people freeze and do not make decisions because they are afraid of what might happen.

Look always in life, there is going to be an element of danger in everything you do. And if you're intimidated because there's danger, you're never going to move on. The only thing you have to do in your life, when you want to undertake something new, pray, fast, search, explore, read, consult.

Now after you've done it, after you've rocked all of this in a really big bottle and if there's still a green light and you say 'I can go ahead', forget about going ahead. And if things didn't work out, leave it to the Lord and learn and go to the next battle.

I don't think one can be… after you've done everything you could, throw yourself in the name of the Lord and let God take care of the rest. Don't live afterwards crying over spilled milk. That's another thing. I believe that in God there are no failures. I believe that in God there are experiments that did not work but that improve us for the next time we try.

In the life of the child of God there are no failures, brothers. God honors and the devil opens the field to the determined man or woman who, after doing their homework, after doing their homework, says "I'm going to keep going because God is with me." And if I was wrong, God is powerful to make that fried egg, make an omelette or whatever. But He is going to make it possible.

Those are the words, aren't they? Don't be afraid of life's difficulties. Move on. Believe that God is with you. Life is long, there will be many battles. Some of those battles you are going to lose. But you will never be able to lose the war. He will lose three, four, five battles but that will help him to be wiser, more sober, more understanding, have a better mentality.

In the life of the son of God there are no losses, brothers. There are experiments that make us stronger.

Let's stand up.

I ask you brother, sister that you cultivate that mentality of sufficiency. The mentality of Joshua, of Caleb. Do not cultivate that pusillanimous mentality of those 10 men who stayed in the desert.

Know what? All those people that came out of Egypt, none of them entered the promised land. God made them stay 40 years in the desert. Why did the people of Israel stay in the desert for 40 years? Here's a Trivia answer.

Do you know why they stayed 40 years? Because God told them, 'For every day that those spies were there in that good land that I gave them and that they denied my promise and my blessing, you are going to have to stay a year in the desert.'

So for 40 days of espionage they had 40 years in the desert because they offended God by not believing God's promises. Let's be careful, brothers. When God promises you something and declares you a blessing, believe God. Because it is dangerous to have God's blessing in your hand and denigrate and neglect them.

God's blessings, when they are not used and taken advantage of, become hostile within us. You have to run with God's blessings. You have to process the blessings of God, you have to live in the blessings of God. That is the word of God for your life.

Say amen to the holy spirit. believe.

The Lord tells you 'Walk life safe in me. I'm with you. I will give you the land that the soles of your feet tread on, just look that I command you to make an effort and be brave. Do not fear or dismay because I will be with you wherever you go.

Undertake life with faith, with security, with confidence, dare to sow. Dare to negotiate, dare to invest, dare to do great and different things beyond your current capacity. Because the God who is with you is more than powerful to cover any deficit in your life.

The Lord is with you. Cultivate that mentality and believe that in Christ Jesus you are more than a winner, that you can do everything in Christ Jesus. And that even the failures of the past, even the difficulties and deformations and traps of the past, all of that God recycles and turns it into material for the coming glory that He has for you. Receive in the name of Jesus that spirit of Joshua and Caleb this morning.

Receive it. Father, I take my portion. I who have preached this message, I ask you to help me eat that delicacy, Lord, which is your word. Renew me first, Father so that I can bless your people too. And renew each one of your children who are going through battles, they are going through difficulties, they are fighting, they have wars and there is time of lack in their lives.

But I declare in the name of Jesus this morning that you are more than powerful to overcome any complication, Lord. Create yourself a brave people, Father. Create for yourself a powerful people, create for yourself a people that does not look at the giants but that sees the land that You have promised, Lord.

In the name of Jesus we are renewed, Father. Those who have been battling a long time. They have been rowing all night and have not gone out on the way, I ask that You enter their boat and take them forward. May You calm their storm, Lord, and may You bring blessing to their lives this morning.

we renew ourselves Receive the spirit of sufficiency in your life. Receive the spirit of power and confidence. Receive the spirit of hope that is in Christ Jesus. Receive the spirit that celebrates the riches that are yours, they are there. They are there, the riches are yours. believe it. In the name of Jesus.

Father, fill us with a new spirit, a fresh spirit, a spirit of renewal. We say that You will not let us be ashamed. You will not let us stay in the desert, Father. We will enter the land that You have promised us.

We adore you, we bless you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Give glory to the Lord. Cultivate that blessing of God within you. Thank you Jesus. Amen, amen, amen.

Glory to God. Glory to the Lord.

Brothers, I bless you in the name of Jesus.