A harmonious community

The Lord has put it on my heart to share with you, in the coming weeks, as He directs from the Book of Acts. Praying to the Lord that we begin now in this new year and a series of teachings and we are going to be sharing from the Book of Acts, from the life of a vital community such as the primitive community. The first Church that God raised up under the dispensation of Christ, let's say the economy of Christ.

And what was that church like? What values did he have? For some reason the Holy Spirit appointed Luke to leave a record of what life was like for those early believers.

Because God wanted the life of those first believers to be like a paradigm, like a model, a norm to which we should aim.

And as we see how those first Christians lived, the fervor, the love, the passion, the anointing, the continuous direction of the Holy Spirit; the centrality of the Holy Spirit. The desire to manifest the power of Christ and his Resurrection.

That these values were distinctive values of all Christian communities throughout history.

And that is why it is important that we periodically revisit what were the hallmarks of that community of faith, how they lived. I think it's natural, right? As we can see, as the centuries went by and the church became increasingly complex, acquiring more scope, more impact, more numbers, the need for organization, structure, hierarchy, influence, and interaction with the secular world. That essence that Acts presents to us, was becoming more complex and more like normal life. And there will always be a tension between the purity of that life that the book of Acts expresses to us and the reality of daily Christian living.

We may not always be able to measure up to what the Book of Acts tells us, but that must be our aim and our goal. Amen?

That intensity of life that we see here in the book of Acts and I believe that this is the secret of a powerful community, a contagious community.

And as we see how those early Christians lived their lives we should feel inspired to imitate them and be like them. Certainly our pastoral desire is that this church every day go more and more in the direction of what we see here embodied in the pages of the Book of Acts.

I suggest that you read this book, study it thoroughly, buy some commentary, pray about it. Make it the subject and theme of your meditations and may God help us this year, these months we will learn a lot about the Book of Acts.

I am not going to start at the beginning, at some point we will touch on some of the events from the beginning, but rather the Lord gave me this morning a passage in Chapter 4 of the Book of Acts, verse [I don't know what went to print as that she got smaller at the moment] 32 of Chapter 4 of the Book of Acts.

And we're going to start there and then we'll go back, forward. Let's see how God puts this together.

But there is an element there that in fact, this morning in the nine o'clock service, that element that the Lord had pointed out to me became very real as we saw the English-speaking brethren in the English service participating in such a vital and God moved in such a beautiful way that we actually said, “You know what? We are going to cancel the service in English” and we were all here together.

And when we saw that rapport between Anglo-Saxons, Latinos, Africans, Afro-Americans, Poles, Asians, I said "Glory to God." How beautiful is diversity when there is unity!

And that weather we had this morning was beautiful.

Here are a few items that God wants us to highlight even briefly today before we leave here.

Look at Chapter 4 verse 32, Book of Acts, it says: 'and the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul.'

The original Greek said there was a heart and a "psyche"-a mind. ‘They had a way of feeling and a way of thinking, their reason and heart, emotions and intellect were united, intertwined. There was a way of feeling and thinking. It was the same.

What made that unity possible? The validity of the Holy Spirit. One Spirit directed them, one head: Christ Jesus. ‘They were of one heart and one soul, one mind. And none claimed to be their own, nothing that they owned, but they had all things in common.

Another hallmark. First there was mental and emotional unity and purpose and secondly there was a feeling that what I have is not mine but is for the kingdom of God and for the needs of the saints. Wow!

I don't know if I live up to that verse. I want to be and I don't think we are at the level. It was that sense that all things belong to the Kingdom, it is not mine, it is God's, that is what is behind the concept of stewardship. But also when there is a need in the people of God I must be a resource and an instrument for the blessing of my brothers.

How many can say amen, even by faith, to that value? We have to be a generous community.

God's anointing is transmitted not only through signs, miracles, wonders, but also through a life of generosity and sharing our needs with one another.

They had all things in common. It says: 'And with great power the Apostles bore witness to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus.'

Power, unamis, authority, anointing, filling of the Holy Spirit, effectiveness in Evangelism, conviction and authority in witnessing of Christ. And not of any aspect of Christ, but of a very important aspect: of the Resurrection.

Why the Resurrection? Because it was what endorsed the deity of Jesus and his messianic character. For the Apostles, the fact that Christ had risen and that God had raised him was like the imprint, the seal that this is the Messiah.

It was like the sign that Jesus is Lord.

That's why I tell you, don't let yourself be put in a poke. Do not believe any Christian or any church that tells you that the Resurrection is something merely symbolic and that it is something like a symbol of the grace and power of God. They try to poeticize and prophesy the resurrection.

No! For the first Christians the resurrection was a historical fact. If Christ did not rise, we are the most worthy of shame, in the universe, because that is what centralizes the claims of Christ Jesus.

Christ rose bodily [and we've talked about that].

He made sure they knew it wasn't a ghost, it wasn't a video projection that was walking among them, and he ate to prove it.

And I don't think it was like Casper that they saw the food going down his stomach like that transparent. He ate and said “Hm, how delicious is that fish. Give me another little piece, Pedro, please”. They put garlic, onion, lemon. He wanted them to know that he was a living being in their midst: the risen Christ.

Know what? I believe that Jesus, seated at the right hand of God the Father, has all the marks of the cross on his hands and feet. Perhaps I am getting into hot, theological territory, but I believe that we will see it, we will see its signs, we will see its marks.

That did not disappear with the Resurrection, that is there. Then they testified to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

And what happens? He says that "abundant grace, look, was on them." Funny. Grace from where and Grace from what.

Abundant grace was upon them. Well, but what is grace first? I believe that abundant grace means 'great favor was upon them' I believe that great blessing was upon them, great resources came into their lives. Great prosperity was coming upon them, great success in what they undertook was upon them. Great favor was upon his actions, statements, purposes, efforts.

Now where did that grace come from? I think there are two things. Look, when a community – I am going to go into this matter a little more deeply than when there is this harmony in the people of God – two things: unity and generosity is what the first verse declares. When there is unity in God's people, when there is generosity, that is the perfect conduit for the power of God to run through a community.

What does the writer say, the psalmist? He says: "Look, how good and how delicious it is for brothers to live together in harmony." Because sometimes we're together and we're not pulling our hair out, right? That was not the idea, we are together but we are in harmony. Living together in harmony, why? "Because," he says, "there the Lord sends blessing and eternal life."

It is like the ointment that runs down the head of Aaron, the priest: it runs down his head, runs through his beard, and reaches the edge of his garments.

Where there is harmony, where there are authentic relationships, where there is genuine love on the part of God's people. There the Holy Spirit comes and pours out blessing, and pours it out in abundance.

Because the image of the safe is that there is an oil that is so abundant that it runs down to the clothes.

But the “sine qua non”, the central quality, absolutely irreplaceable, is that the people of God live in that harmony and in that generosity where everything belongs to everyone, in a sense that we understand that nothing is mine. If my brother suffers, I suffer. We are one body. If my brother has a need. You don't have that need. If my brother needs comfort, if he needs money for something and his need is genuine. It is not because it is 'lambón' but because it really needs it.

[General laughter]

There are people out there who abuse generosity. The Bible says that we have to work with our hands. We cannot abuse each other. Sometimes there are people so abusive that it kills the generosity of the people. But when there is genuine generosity, we have to say 'present' and support each other. Be aware. Why didn't my brother come this week? Why haven't I seen him for three weeks? oh! I have to call the Pastor to visit him. No! Visit him, lazy. Call him on the phone. You are your brother's keeper. Invite your brother to eat if there is a need. If your brother is lonely, call him on the phone and invite him to your house. If your sister is in need, go and pray. Take two or three sisters and pray and fast together. Bear each other's burdens. 'We prefer each other'.

But, notice that as a consequence of that lifestyle that he describes here, "abundant grace was upon all of them."

Grace, who felt grace towards these Christians? I believe that there were two entities that felt grace and gave grace: one was obviously God, who lavished his gifts, his anointing, the filling of his Spirit, prospered his purposes, his efforts. It gave them winsomeness, sympathy. It made them cute and attractive and blessed their community life. Grace was upon them. But do you know who else had favor with the apostles and the Christians? Who else do you think? The town, the people, the community.

People saw this community of men and women eating together, sharing bread, praying together, demonstrating such great spiritual vitality. Living in such a different way than other communities live that people were saying “Wow! It's great that we have such people in the community! What a great blessing that there are Christians in our midst!”

The people were surprised and kind of said: 'Although they are not Jews, although they have a different belief than Moses... wow! But these are special people.’

They grew in favor before God and before men, like Christ Jesus.

When the Holy Spirit is in a community, in a church, truly in a community and their spiritual values enter the level of behavior and daily life and relationships between them, the people, the community believe in that Gospel.

Why are so many people hardened today against the Gospel? It is not because they are hard-hearted and hate. Many times we ourselves, Christians, have made it difficult for them to believe in the Gospel. They understand?

Because we do not live in a genuine, authentic Gospel that glorifies the name of Jesus. And because we don't reflect.

If you go around all depressed and down and complaining and gossiping about people, who is going to want to believe in that Gospel, tell me? They better stay out there and they're totally bad.

But when people see Christians living the Christian life genuinely, with love, with grace, mercy, generosity, power, vitality, authority… who doesn't like that? As the Dominican meringues say.

Everybody wants to go in. We have seen that time and time again. When people hear the voice of the teacher, people feel the genuine and they know that they are before the genuine and there is resonance in their spirit.

"One abyss calls another to the voice of your waterfalls." Spirit speaks to Spirit and people feel desire and don't know why. It is because they are seeing the Gospel unfolding.

When a community lives like this abundant grace is on everyone. There is grace from God, the gifts are manifested, the power of God.

All things that come with grace, the charism, the "caris" of God are manifested.

And look at the result of all this: “So there was no needy among them, because all those who owned land or houses sold them and brought the price of what was sold, they put it at the feet of the apostles and it was distributed to each one. according to your need”.

Notice that we have begun not so much with the baptism of the holy spirit, the languages that the disciples spoke on the day of Pentecost, the great miracles, the healing of the lame man at the gate of the Beautiful, the deliverance of Peter and John by the angel when they were in jail, the ground that trembled when the disciples prayed, the fillings that there was of the Holy Spirit; but with the ethical life of the Church.

Because for me that is very important. Behavior. Many people talk about 'power, power, power'; but 'power' for what?

Why do I want an electric cable full of electricity in my hand, what it is going to do is it is going to burn my house down and it is going to burn me and my family as well.

One wants the energy of God running in a disciplined way, doing transformative works in the lives of God's people: their finances, relationships, family, studies, intellect, emotions… all aspects of life.

The ethical life of the people of God. That is the most important. Let there be integrity in the way we live life, let there be generosity. That is the great miracle and that is what the writer was interested in here.

To the very principles of the Gospel emphasize. Look how that manifested itself and there is a lot of cloth to cut here.

I do not believe – brothers, do not think that I am telling you that right now I want the ATM to take all its money and bring it here and place it at my feet or those of the pastors – that the Church of Christ…

That's why I was saying this is a long-term historical development. I personally do not think that we are called to live in communism. In a large commune where all of us as evangelical hippies have everything in common. This is talking about something that God was doing at that time and that when there were needs people felt moved...

I believe, brothers, that God does expect us to have extravagant gestures of generosity towards one another. I have heard of people who have given very precious things for the Kingdom of God and so that others may also be blessed in their church.

If God calls you to bless a brother, a relative, a member of the family of faith or someone from outside with a material blessing... do it and do not be afraid and believe.

Be generous with your assets.

I think the final twist on this is first: everything you have belongs to God, nothing is yours. Neither are their children theirs. Sisters, your womb is not yours, just in case, you know?

Man, your money is not yours, your masculinity is not yours. You have nothing. That car that you shine every Saturday morning, that is not yours, it belongs to the Lord. Understand that. There is nothing.

And that is what I think it says here: “nothing is mine. Everything belongs to the Kingdom. Everything I take lightly." If there is a need that my brother has, my church, the Kingdom of God, I have to give it and I have to enjoy giving it and sharing it.

When one lives with that generosity, brother, the glory of God on earth.

Do you know the best way to be happy? Of, of, of Be generous.

Do you know the best way to become rich and have abundance? Share your assets.

Be a cheerful giver. Don't let God's blessing stagnate within you. It is not a deposit, simply a tank where it is filled, filled, filled, No! Of.

Let the water run and that is a blessing.

Someone told me: “Look when you leave your house in winter and the temperature drops so that the pipes do not freeze, open the key so that a droplet of water continuously comes out. If a drop of water comes out, your pipe will never freeze.

Your drop of water falling, a single drop from time to time makes the water flow and does not freeze and does not break the pipes.

There are people whose money pipeline is breaking, because they have it tightly closed and what they do is accumulate, accumulate.

[General laughter]

And the cold of life comes and destroys what they have stored so much. Look, there is always a droplet and not just one droplet, but several drops of blessing flowing to others through your life.

Share generously.

The more you give, the more you have.

That is the secret of prosperity. The more you share with your brothers, the more generous you are with the Kingdom of God, the more you receive.

What kills possessions is that, it is believing that the more I have, the happier I am going to be.

Possessions never made anyone happy.

And I tell you, brothers, from time to time let go. Give a full hand and you will see that there is a blessing.

Don't be reckless either, of course. But be a giver and characterize yourself by being generous, because that will make the Grace of God flow.

What I see here is a community that was so in love with Christ, so in that first love, in that first passion for God that they stumbled upon such a powerful truth.

Now, I wish we could live at that level of steam: giving, giving, giving.

But the law of life is that you always come to a moment of normality.

But I want and the Holy Spirit wants our normality to be generosity. And that we come down from that perfect glory that he describes here to a life where we are always giving and sharing with others. A life of transparency with each other. Of love, of preferring each other.

The values of the Kingdom of God that the Word of God emphasizes so much.

Look, so that you can see that this is not just something like that.

Turn with me back to Acts chapter 2 verse 43. It's what I call a Kingdom life of mutuality where God's kingdom values of generosity and sharing with one another characterize.

This week has been beautiful, we have been together all week coming here, laughing together, praying together, crying together. Praying for each other. Ministering for one another.

I say, that is the life of God's people.

This is a very diverse community, people from all countries, all nationalities, colors, socio-economic levels, education levels.

God's desire is that this community glorify Christ by living in harmony with one another. Despite our diversity let there be generosity and unity.

So, look how it says here in Acts chapter 2 verse 43. It says. 'And fear came upon everyone and many wonders and signs will be done by the apostles.'

There were miracles, signs, wonders.

‘And all those who had believed were together and had all things in common. And they sold their properties and goods and distributed them to all according to the need of each one. And persevering with one accord every day in the Temple and breaking bread in the houses, they ate together with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people.

You see what it said “Grace from men and from God”.

And the Lord added to the Church daily those who were to be saved.

There is a lot of fabric to cut in that passage. When there is a life, a genuine experience, blessed by God, when there is fellowship, love, mutuality, mutual support, humility towards one another, preferring one another, having relationships truly in accordance with the principles of the kingdom of God; Know what? the glory of God is unleashed.

People bless us and want to be with us. People are converted and pass to the ways of the Lord. The Holy Spirit manifests his power and his gifts and we seek each other, we enjoy being with each other.

I ask the Lord: 'Every day the air in this church is cleaner and cleaner. Remove all pollution, all gossip. Do you have a debt to someone or someone to you? Forgive her and bless her. Do you have to forgive someone? Forgive him. Do you have to apologize? apologize.

Don't be there keeping accounts and taking interest every day and looking for a way to trip up someone who did something. Forgive and ask for forgiveness. If you believe that you know more than someone. Look, that person has a lot to teach you. I always say in the churches the humble have a lot to teach the powerful and the powerful the humble. The businessman with money can teach the poor how to make money and the poor teach the powerful how to appreciate the little things in life: the tortilla with salt and fried beans and enjoy it.

Sometimes the rich can't because the money won't let him. The poor man there, calm there in his house, ah! It is the greatest thing in the world. So we all have something to teach each other. We have to see the value of the other person and remove any contaminants. If there is someone you don't like at church, ask yourself why and invite that person to your house and bring them inside. Invite him to eat and put the best delicacy on the table to tell the devil "You're not going to get away with it."

We have to do prophetic acts. Brethren, that has incredible power. You know what's going to embarrass the devil? An ethical life, a life lived according to the values of the Kingdom of God. The devil doesn't care about people who yell a lot, speak many languages, and dance their bows down. The devil don't care about that, he can deal with it. When the devil doesn't know what to do when a person lives in the light of God's values. A person who manifests the fruit of the Holy Spirit. A church that is distinguished because they love each other.

The Lord Jesus Christ in his priestly prayer [John 17] said: "Father that they be one, as you and I are one so that the world may believe that you created me."

The major apologetics about the deity of Christ and his messiahship is that we love one another as he loved us and that we be one as he and the Father are one. That is what convinces the world the most.

And I sometimes see a lot of growth in Latin America, great churches, great advances, many evangelisms. But sometimes I don't see the impact of the Gospel on society and many poor people and many rich people each on their own. There are rich people in the churches who do not speak to the poor. The servant arrives and sits in the back while the rich man is in the front and they are not seen there. They see each other when the servant arrives at the house so that they order her around and treat her badly and not pay her the salary that they should pay her.

And yet, in the church the whole world is worshipping. This is not of God.

The Gospel when it enters is an explosive bomb that turns everything upside down and upside down. It undoes all the schemes of man, installs justice, installs love, installs integrity. There are no divisions.

I don't believe in a middle class church, an upper class church, a lower class church. It's all mixed up, all blessing each other, respecting each other. That is what God wants. A church where the values of the Kingdom of God destroy all the carnal schemes of man and install the values of the Kingdom of God.

The rich serve the poor; the little one is held to be the most important. The weakest is cared for by the strong and the strong humble themselves before the poor because the poor have something to teach them. And the rich share their goods. And the poor are given the opportunity to express the values that God has placed in them or reach the height they have to reach.

The Gospel knocks down all human schemes and installs divine schemes and allows us to live as angels and as members of the Kingdom of God as carnal, biological earthly.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you know what will glorify God? What is the sign, the greatest prodigy that the Holy Spirit can do? It is a community where the values of the Kingdom of God are manifested every day: love, humility, meekness, patience, tolerance, forgiveness.

Where those values are, there is the glory of God. There miracles occur without one noticing, just because. Because that life according to the values of the Kingdom attracts, opens a void through which the grace and power of God enters continuously.

And we have to strive to do that, we have to strive to be a church that manifests the values of the Kingdom of God. Our appetite, our hunger is that, to see a prosperous community. Children who are studying and learning because they have parents who, instead of buying them guns, buy them books and instead of putting them there to watch a silly video on Saturday mornings, they take them to a museum so they can immerse themselves in works of art. and with culture. They understand?

That is the Kingdom of God. Men serving their women or wives, wives forgiving past offenses and serving their husbands as well and not pointing out what a man lacks: "Oh you in church and look how you behave!"

Serve your husband, submit to your husband and husband do not abuse your wife's kindness. Reconciled and converted marriages. Young people in High School learning instead of dropping out, living pure lives instead of promiscuous lives, in control of their emotions and their appetites. That is the glory, that is the miracle, that is the fact.

That is the Pentecost that God wants. Churches where the values of the Kingdom of God are manifested in all dimensions. The government of the Kingdom of God is manifested. It's people being blessed in their finances, saving, not stuffing the credit card red hot but paying their bills on time, living orderly lives, buying a little house on God's time not the time the bank tells them ' Look, I'm going to give you 6% interest and in 18 months I'm going to raise it to 15%'. And one says Amen, "coot duck" comes out, I'm going to do it and then he's up to his neck in water, no.

In God's time, in God's time. God is going to bless, God is already blessing. I know that over the years this community is going to be a prosperous church in great measures. But it will be by force of applying the values of the Kingdom of God.

[Applause]

Look, let's abandon that magical mentality that if I name it, I'm going to receive it. 'Oh Lord! I claim that latest model Cadillac - now it's that BMW, that Beemi as they say out there - I claim that 18-bedroom house.

No no no! Work, lazy. Get to work hard and save and organize your life.

[Applause]

The power of God, the power of God is going to bring will, self-control and wisdom, strategy, intelligence, physical energy and that is going to become a reality.

God's miracle is going to run through the pipes of your life and it is going to manifest itself in a growing blessing, in yours, your generations are going to be blessed.

That is the miracle, that is the miraculous life of God. God's miraculous prosperity manifesting like that. Now there are also going to be miraculous manifestations. But I believe that the norm of the Christian life is when God channels his graces, his favor and his power through normality. Where it's like 'come on, someone is carrying us'. And nothing, we are working but we don't get tired because there is a breeze from God behind us that makes what we do easier. Our investments, our efforts, are blessed, strengthened and endorsed and supported by the grace of God that is with us. Understands? God's favor.

It is like one makes an effort and instead of burning out one feels stronger because one is resting on the values of the Kingdom of God.

I believe that this is what God wants for his congregations. The wind of God is blowing on humanity. Incredible times are coming, powerful changes are going to take place in the human field and God wants to bless his people, God wants to prosper his people. And he is waiting for a people who live according to the values of the Kingdom of God to manifest his favour, to manifest his power, to manifest his glory in unprecedented ways.

I tell you: tie your belt because the best is ahead. Expect great things from God but also apply the values of the Kingdom of God.

God willing, brothers, beginning with the one who speaks to you, that we can live lives that honor the name of Jesus Christ, lives as it says here, right? ‘where the horizontal and the vertical meet at the cross. The mystical and supernatural meets the ethical and the everyday.

There is a mixture of the cross: the vertical and the horizontal. Both. A life at two levels, where the power of God is manifested at both levels. That is what God wants for us. That is the great Pentecost that God is waiting to pour out on his people.

Amen?

We are going to stand up and we are going to ask the Lord to make that a reality in our lives today; may his glory be manifested more and more every day.

We give all glory and all honor to the Lord. We ask that his word be installed in the depths of our hearts and that this beautiful community that God is raising up no ruse, no stalking of the devil manages to harm it.

We are going to ask that the blood of Christ cover this community and cover its leaders, its pastors so that the devil does not have a loophole to enter.

Let us ask the Lord to sanctify us, to keep us.

We declare our essential fragility, our total dependence on God's coverage. None of us by ourselves is powerful enough to protect ourselves, to live a life that pleases the Lord. It is only by the mercy and grace of God.

I want to declare that this afternoon without any doubt, any fear, anything that dilutes that recognition.

This church will remain because God is in the midst of it and covers it with his blood and mercy. Their leaders will be able to walk in integrity or because they have integrity in them, but because the mercy of God shelters and covers them and that the prayers of the people of God cover and bless them and keep them walking fully before God.

This church will be able to live in harmony because the Holy Spirit will disseminate the character of Christ in its midst. This church will be able to live with the word as its foundation because God gives us the wisdom to know that there is refuge only in it, for a sinister world populated by wild beasts that want to kill, steal and destroy. And only those who are shepherded by the Shepherd of Shepherds can aspire to reach a victorious life at the end of the day.

If this church is going to be what God wants it to be, it will have to be by the grace and mercy of God and to that grace and to that mercy we trust this afternoon and say "Lord, your people know that they are fragile children who only by the hand of Father taking him and guiding him through the abysses of life he will be able to get to where he has to go”.

We declare our dependence on You, Lord, and our desire to honor You in all things. Renew us in flight and give us new strength to serve you better and better and do not let us fall from the heights to which you have pointed us and bless your sons and daughters, Lord. Form a people worthy of your name that brings joy to your heart when you look at it from your throne.

We bless this town, we bless this church, we bless each soul that has come here today, each family, each community represented here, Lord.

We ask that You come down with Your glory, Lord and Your grace and fill the whole Earth, Father. We unleash the movement of your spirit in the world, beloved Lord. Holy Spirit fill the Earth with your glory.

Open the heavens and let down the glory of God. Your matrix, Lord, opens and releases the water that You have to give water to this humanity, Lord, thirsty for You

Rescue, Lord, your creation. Rescue your people, Father. Rescue those who are to be rescued in that last harvest and prepare your church to be a mother of nations, Lord, and to be a discipler of nations, Lord.

Prepare your children, prepare your apostles, your prophets, your evangelists, your pastors, your teachers, your poets, your counselors, your theologians. Lord, your administrators prepare them, Father.

Send your power, pour out your power. Let signs, wonders, miracles be done. Not to glorify any name or any church but to glorify the name of Jesus.

Lord, make the skies so fine that Your glory can go up and down: from Heaven to earth and from earth to Heaven. May the barriers between eternity and time, Lord, blur so that we can climb and ascend like Jacob's ladder, Father.

Your glory descends, the prayer of your people ascends, the declarations of your people come before your throne, Lord and be honored.

And lower your blessing, Lord, on humanity. Cover the ground, sir. We want to see your glory manifested and we want to be your instruments, we want to be transmitters of your grace and your power, Lord, here on Earth.

We want to be men and women who walk like angels on Earth, Father. Restore your people, heal your people, heal me first, heal your leaders, heal those who preach your word.

Send workers to your harvest, build congregations that reflect the vitality of the Kingdom of God.

Lord, send your spirit, send your grace. Restore your children, Lord. Look at the generations Father, look at the youth in this city, they need to be rescued, Lord. They need a model, they need pastors who will go and preach the Gospel to them.

Lord, look at the instructions that the devil has stolen from us, look at the resource that once was in the hands of your people and today belongs to the wicked and the confused.

Return to your people, Lord, the resources and belongings that belong to your people.

Return, Lord, the vessels that have been taken to Babylon, return them to your temple, the utensils of your temple, Father.

Return the Ark that has been captive, Lord, in the hands of the Philistines and place it again in the middle of Jerusalem so that it can be used to carry out the battles that your people have to fight.

Send your spirit, send your power. Baptize your people with a new baptism. Pour out, Lord, your anointing on earth. A new Pentecost on earth. Send your spirit. May it be like the days of Joel, Lord where the old dream dreams, the young see visions, Lord.

The servants and the servants prophesy, Father. Pour out your glory on all flesh, Lord, on the nations, on India, on the Middle East. We declare the fall of every anti-Christian spirit, Lord, who resists the preaching of your Gospel, Father.

We declare that the Middle East will come at the feet of Jesus Christ too, Lord. That curtain will fall, Father. You will open channels for the word to reach the Middle East, Asia, Lord, China, Japan. Father, Thailand, Vietnam, all those countries, Lord of Asia come to know Christ. Russia, Father, Mongolia, the ends of the Earth, Holy Father come to know Jesus Christ.

Australia, Europe, Father come to know Jesus.

May the powers and principalities of reason be ashamed and fallen. In this very nation where Your word was once preached with respect.

May he be born again, in the White House itself, Lord. Reverence for Jesus Christ and a faith grounded in Christ. Not in generic faith, but faith in the only begotten son of God.

We ask, Lord, restoration, Africa, we consecrate it to Christ. values, sir. Those nations enslaved by corruption, Father. Put people who lead them with fear of God and with love for their neighbor.

Haiti we bless you, Lord. We bless Latin America, Father. All those nations under corruption and exploitation and robbery, Father. May they have just, loving, honest, merciful leaders and may the Gospel run, Lord like fire through a pasture with all its values, all its nutrients and all its commandments and upright precepts transforming societies and cultures.

And right here in Boston. We declare that Boston belongs to Christ. And all those New England villages with churches sometimes confused by heresy to be restored back to a pure, biblical gospel, Lord.

Give us back the earth Father. Your people reclaim the Land, Lord. Your people claim what is theirs. Your people claim the values of the gospel.

Give glory to the Lord. We bless God. The Lord is here. We declare new times, we declare a new flow of the spirit. We declare the restoration of what God has declared for centuries. A church that is capable of doing what God has wanted his church to do.

We declare new times.

We declare new times.

We declare a genuine and authentic flow of God on Earth and on his church.

Come Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit.

Invite the Holy Spirit to take control of this church, of this nation, of the entire Earth.

May God do what he has wanted to do since creation and before the foundation of the world.

We want to see the glory of God.

Lord, give us the privilege of seeing your glory installed on earth.

And forgive us for making things difficult for you so many times, Father.

We want to be useful people to your Kingdom.

Give us eyes to see and hearts to feel, Lord.

And minds to reason according to the mind of Christ.

We adore you, we bless you, we glorify you.

Give glory to the Lord.