What do you want me to do for you?

Those who were here, those who arrived early. What word did I start with? Even if we get hard or difficult for God, even if we turn our backs on God, when it is God's time, God will see to it that things work in his favor. I say in favor of God. And in the same way, when God has something for you, even if the situations around you seem to be adverse, even if the situations around you seem to turn into wild ant colors, if God's timing for your life... is going to happen.

It's going to give Close your eyes and say, "Lord, it's going to happen." ‘Sir, it is going to happen’ Or it happened. If it happened, it happened. And to the one that is going to be given, it is going to be given.

Father, I ask that your word right now serve as a seal for this testimony that my brothers have shared, Lord. First of all, I thank you for the way in which you have worked on Pablo and Ángela. Father to you the Glory. And just as I give glory for so many things that You have done in so many other of my brothers and sisters and for those who... this word now serves as strength, encouragement for each of their lives and their hearts. In order to achieve those things that You have already decreed for them.

We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

I want you to go with me to the Book of Luke, chapter 18. And it is clear that I did not speak with Pablo and Ángela today but look what we are going to find here today in the Word. Luke 18. I'm going to read a little bit of this story. Beginning at verse 35. Luke 18:35. Sorry Marlene, I know you were waiting there. Luke 18:35.

It says: ‘As Jesus was approaching Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging and hearing the crowd passing by, he asked what was happening, what was the tumult, what was the reason for the noise. And the people said to this man "It is Jesus who is passing by." Then this man began to shout and shout, "Jesus son of David, have mercy on me." And those who went before this man reprimanded him, telling him to shut up, but he shouted even louder, "Jesus, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me."

Then Jesus with his superhuman, supernatural hearing, heard this man and stopped and ordered them to bring him before him and when he arrived Jesus asked him saying... This is one of the most interesting questions I have seen in the Bible . So I want you to put yourself right now in that scenario, that Jesus sent for you and when you arrive in the presence of Jesus, Jesus takes your hand and says: 'What do you want me to do for you? ?'.

Listen well. Whether you are young or old, listen to that word. In the time of life, in the time of life where you are, the Lord calls you and asks you what do you want him to do for you? Think a minute. I'm going to give you a minute to think and if you're seeing me on the Internet you think too. One minute.

What do you want the Lord to do for you? The minute is up. I wonder, if God, if the Lord addressed me in that way, do you know the list of things that I would have in my head that I would not know which of all to choose? My confusion would be so much that I would be like “ah, hm, mm”.

There are so many Lord, I don't know which one to choose. But the situation is that this man had an emerging situation. It had something that had it there in front of the nose, or rather the eyes. Because the man was begging and that was what he told him: "Lord, the only thing I want is to receive my sight." Look how interesting.

Because the Lord's question when He stands up and says "What do you want me to do for you?" It's not like someone who says they're asking a 'random' question, that is, sporadic. He is asking a question on purpose because Jesus was not stupid, Jesus knew what his situation was. But he wanted this man to tell him.

You have arrived here tonight or you are listening to me here tonight and you have a need that you have right there in front of you. You wake up with it, you go to bed with it, you bathe with it, you eat breakfast, lunch and eat your snacks all with it. You have it right there. It is the pink elephant that is there in the living room of your house and you try to cover it with a rug but you know it is there. Or put it in the color you want. Rosita is the color they usually say.

But that's the situation you have there. The Lord approaches, gets into your life and tells you 'What do I want me to do for you? Tell me'.

Obviously, Jesus, I believe, was testing this man's faith on the one hand, because Jesus knew what he needed, but he was also testing this man's faith. And that question, Jesus was saying to him: 'Ask what there is' – in other words. Ask for what's there but ask well. Take a good look at what you are going to order. Don't come to me there with 'ñe, ñeñe. There is Jesus... no, no, no'. Tell me what you want. Now, I'm going on a mission, I have to get to this place and I decided to stop because you were screaming, you were doing a show there. I stood up to give you the attention you need, now tell me.

That is, my brothers, the Lord says to each one of us: "Tell me." "Tell me what you want me to do." Let's not be afraid, my brothers, of being – well, the word is not fear – self-conscious, rather. In being specific with God. But that with being specific, with being specific also comes a sense of consistency. It's not like 'Okay, I'm ordering today and I'm already giving up on that because I already asked you.' No, ask, and until you see that answer there...

Do you know why my brothers? Jesus himself, look at this other passage: Matthew. In Matthew chapter 7.

Matthew, Chapter 7, this is another verse that fascinates me. Matthew 7:7. Let's all read it in unison. It's here on the screen]. Matthew 7 and 8. Let's all go together, in choir. Let's say it in chorus or in voices. "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. Because everyone who asks receives and whoever seeks there is And to the one who knocks it will be opened.

I think this is one of the verses that I tell myself that can sound so simple and sometimes it can sound like a cliché, but there are times when we ourselves take the weight off those words.

I mean, one more time. Jesus is saying: 'Hey, here I am.' In other words, don't think that I am like a McDonald's window that you can come and ask for everything you want, but this window has a purpose, it has an intention. And the Lord wants to bless us, my brothers. What those words imply is that He wants to bless us, that He wants us to be intentional in our search for Him.

What if we are saying that we are living in God's time, that God has an intention. Look, ask God. 'Hey, Lord!', 'Well, what do you want?' In fact, it's like someone who says, asking Him the question: 'Hey, Lord!, what do you want me to do now? 'If it's your time, what do you want me to do? How do you want me to respond?

But the thing is that there is that record of searching and look, I'm sure, I don't have to imagine it, I know. Perhaps many of you right now would be there saying 'Oh, Pastor Omar, you don't know how much I have asked for! How much I have searched! How much I have called! And nothing, and nothing, and nothing.’

That would direct me, then, to another passage in the book of James. I am trying to ask the same questions that you ask. I am behaving like you.

James Chapter 4 verse 2. James 4:2. It says: 'You covet and have not. They kill and burn with envy and cannot achieve. They fight and fight but they don't have what they want because they don't ask for it.' In other words, I'm here contradicting what I'm saying right now. I know we ask but then verse 3, here is the answer for us. He says: 'You ask and do not receive because you ask to spend on your own delights.' Look, why am I asking wrong? To spend on my own delights.

How many of you would ask God for a million dollars? I would ask God for a million dollars, right? How many of you would ask God all the time to be able to travel around the world? And not to travel around the world in any way, to travel around the world on a yacht. No, if you are on a yacht, there is no first class there. The yacht is a yacht.

Look, those are good things to ask for. Make no mistake, those are good things to ask for. Is that the house? oh! I know what it is.

Look, one can ask for these things, my brothers, but I think that the most… Look at this, I am going to tell you the secret of all this. I believe that the secret is contained in the intention with which we ask before God. I believe that as human beings our personal interests, our delights will always be there, present. It is very difficult, as they say, to detach ourselves from that reality, because we are here, we are in this body. We live in a world that has all these influences around us and there are times when you're like, 'Wow! I want that too. I want that too.

It's hard not to be overwhelmed by that sense of covetousness and envy as that passage says. Of being able to have what we see in others.

Now, me aspiring to that out of a sense of envy or greed is something very different from me aspiring to something like that to see God's blessing in my life, share it with my family and share it with others to be able to transmit that same blessing of God. to their lives.

I believe that we as the people of God, we as sons and daughters of God, that is something that distinguishes us in this sense of how we ask, how we search, how we knock on the door. We have that difference.

If I get close to God on a mere whim -although I know that there are times when God teases us and grants us our whims, but not all the time it is as the commanding rule says- there are times that what God seeks He does grant according to the intention we have there in our hearts.

That if I am looking for all these things, what's more, I can put it even at the ministerial level. In other words, if I want to aspire to be a Pastor: why do I want to aspire to be a Pastor? For the Glory that comes with the title and for everyone to recognize me wherever I go? Or am I really looking for it because I am nothing and because my desire is to be able to serve others without personal recognition? Although personal recognition is something secondary and God save me from letting the juices go to my head. Because that temptation is always there.

What good is it to me to have a ministry of “hundred thousand people” and my heart is all filled with such a vain sense of vanity? Give me redundancy.

My brothers, I believe that, in this time that we are living now, in this time of God; I'm going to put the 'strawberry' at the top of the cake. In this time of God that we are in, I believe that more than ever God is, as it were, putting an X-ray on the intentions with which we approach before Him.

Listen well: God is analyzing the intentions with which we approach before Him.

In the same Book of Hebrews reminds us that the word of God is what? Alive and effective. ‘The word of God is alive and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword that penetrates to split the soul, the spirit and the joints and the marrow and what? And discern the intentions of the heart. Discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

It's like who says 'scanning' and He is making a scan of us. And if he sees something that is half cloudy, he will put you -as they say- on stand-by. It's like, it's not going to kill you, but it's going to put you on standby. Like until your heart is straight with me, until we settle accounts, God knows how many months ago, or how many years ago.

Until we settle those things, or until you settle accounts with other people, I'm going to stay here waiting. I am going to listen to you that you are going to be asking, you are going to be looking for, you are going to want to knock down the door, but until that is not seen, the door is not going to fall.

Wow, and I don't want to sound too rough on this but it's the truth, my brothers. You know what? I remember the words of Pastor Greg preaching on Sunday. He himself said that we are entering a time where that double personality with which we often address God, look, again it is not a fact that God is going to say to you “Phew, get over there, old shoe! I do not want anything with you".

It's not that, but it's going to be more like a more "bench" meaning, 'I'm going to bench you'. You will be like who says sitting waiting for them to give you the opportunity to enter the box and play like who says, and enjoy with everyone else.

But until you relay, I liked that illustration. Have you seen that? In a football or basketball game or whatever it is, when there is one of the players who shines further, what does the coach do? 'Come here, sit down. Timeout'. Or even ourselves with our children, we say to them 'Do you want time Out? Come on sit there for a while.

And it is God's way, as they say, to correct us and call and we can be there. It's funny to me because Lucas does this to me, he looks at me like "now". He does it to me, he gets like that, like a monkey, he looks at me like that and like 'Mm, mm' and what about me? Take a good look at this illustration because we laugh but that's how we are.

He starts like 'Mm, mm' and I what? ‘Mm!’ what do you say? Then he starts pointing his finger at me: 'Mm'. And I know he means the floor but he hasn't said it yet and he wants to get out of the chair. And me until I stand in front of him and look into his eyes and say: Lucas, speak clearly to me, what do you want? What do you want me to do? Then comes 'Floor'.

oh! Obviously, time has passed but I'm waiting for him to tell me.

For this reason, there are times when God has to deal with us in a very face-to-face way, but until you are clear or clear with me, you will not see what you are waiting for. And look my brothers, it may be that time passes and that time passes and that time passes. It may take time to get a house, but there will come a time when you will get it. Look, it may be that you are waiting for time for God to organize your papers for you, but perhaps because of an aspect of behavior or character that is so harmful in us, that perhaps we get so used to walking with it, but we are at the bottom of it. we know that this is like a block between me and God.

Until that character is formed and is more tangible before God, we are going to be seeing things halfway… halfway… halfway. We are going to be enjoying; Instead of eating bread directly from the table, we will continue eating the crumbs that fall. And the crumbs bless, of course, if I remember the biblical context: the crumbs bless. But why settle for crumbs if what God has is a whole roll of bread just taken out of the oven for each one of us?

My brothers, it is God's time. He is telling us, it is the time that I have with each one of you. But at the same time that He says that it's like 'I am willing'. He is saying 'I am here, I am playing my part. Now it's up to you to play your part. Ask, search, knock on the door. What do you want me to do with you?'

Take that question, my brothers, in your heart. Take that question away but not wanting to get an answer. Do not ask yourself the question trying to reach an answer. Just have an open heart until the Lord truly shows you, 'Okay. Here it is. This is where I want to work. This is where I want to act."

Well, then, one can say: Okay, Lord. This is what I want, this is what I need, this is what I ask for. I don't ask it according to a whim, I ask it according to what You are doing in my life or what You want to do with my life for others.

Amen? Amen. We are going to stand up and we are going to pray.

Father in the name of Jesus, once again. Father are some very simple words that I know that I have wanted to share with my brothers and sisters, which perhaps for many may sound like something redundant and routine, but for others I know that these words are words that refresh something in their minds, in their spirit and his heart. At least for me it is.

And Father, I ask that You fulfill your word, the intention and the desire that You have, Lord. May this word not crash against the walls, nor remain floating in the air, but may this word reach the hearts of my brothers and sisters tonight, Lord.

That they can get out of here presenting themselves in that panorama, Lord. That you are in front of them and you are telling them 'Look, it is my time for your life. It is my time to bless you. What do you want me to do for you?' Faced with such a question, Lord; Given such a disposition on your part, Lord, give us the wisdom and discernment to know what to ask for.

What do we not ask according to personal whims, Lord. But that we can ask with a sense of wisdom and discernment of what You do in our midst, of what You are doing in our midst, Lord.

Lord, you are looking for collaborators. We are collaborators with you and that Your Kingdom can be established in our midst. Help us to redeem time in such a way, Lord, that we can know your will and that we can, my God, work hand in hand with you, Lord. Move at your pace, move at your pace and be able to respond to the actions that You have for our lives.

May we not be ignorant, may we not turn our backs on you, may we not let ourselves be carried away by the pressures or circumstances of life, but may we always maintain that persistence of seeking you, of asking you, Lord, of knocking on your door and to be there until that door opens, Jesus.

I bless each one of my brothers and sisters tonight, Lord. I bless their lives, I bless their families, I bless everything they do, Lord. I bless your entrance, your exit, your lying down and your getting up, Lord. I bless you tonight.