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Acts, Chapter 6, begins by saying: “…In those days, when the number of the disciples grew, there was murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Then, the 12 summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, it is not fair that we leave the word of God to serve tables. Seek then, brothers, among you 7 men of good testimony filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom whom we entrust to this work, and we will persist in prayer in the ministry of the word. The proposal pleased the whole crowd and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Philip, Procurus, Nicanor, Timon, Pámernas, Nicholas, Procertus of Antioch, whom they presented before the Apostles. , who praying, laid their hands on them and the word of the Lord increased and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem also many of the priests obeyed the faith..."

Father, in the name of Jesus I ask that it be your word and your spirit speaking to us, Lord, thank you that your power is perfected in our weakness and I ask you, Lord, that you be only the diamond of your word that remains with us on the day from today. We, as the León de Judá Congregation, stand before you as Samuelito in the Bible, saying, speak, Lord, your servant listens to you, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Thank God. This text begins by saying that in those days, as the number of the disciples grew, etc., etc., growth. How many here want us to grow as a church? Really? Are you sure you know what you're asking for? We are sure?

He knows that growth, we know that it is a blessing, things that are alive grow, what does not grow is dead. So of course we want to grow. But you still want to grow when the chair you're always sitting in is already occupied by a person you've never seen. You still want to grow when there is no easy parking. You still want to grow when there are people different from you who bother you. What I mean is that growth has growing pains.

When children are growing up they sometimes experience physiological pain. Sometimes a bed wets, when they are growing and learning new things. Not that I would know any of that from personal experience, but just to say that when children and adults and people grow up, life gets complicated, it gets complicated. And it does not indicate that the move of the Holy Spirit is not genuine. On the contrary, sometimes no matter how genuine the word is to move the spirit, the headaches also increase with the number of people.

Because how many of us know that people are not easy at all, we tend to be somewhat complicated. I know that I am, so if one adds 100 more, 500 more, 1000 more, the growing pains set in. So with families that grow up in a small house, with each child, each new blessing from on high, a new baby, new children, and the house is already full and one has to wait to use the bathroom and one already steps on one's calluses. little, and we already grew up. Blessing, but it comes with headaches.

So it was for the early church. The spirit moved and they grew, but trouble also arose and we are going to talk a little about that. And I think this speaks to the León de Judá Congregation. Thank God we have growing pains. Ever since I started here 12 years ago, growing pains. It is that the spirit moves and new people enter. And we as an institutional church have to grow along with our numerical growth.

you know what? I often say that the church is not an organization so much as an organism. The Church of Christ is not a Christian club, it is not an organization like any other club or organization. Thank God we are a living being. The Holy Spirit is in you, he is in me and unites us, we are one body, and we are all members of this body, whether I want to or not, we are connected and we need each other and we cannot exist and live without each other. We are one body.

But we are also a body that is growing, that needs coordination and from there comes the administrative and institutional aspect of what a church is. How many have seen or remember or maybe you are experiencing it now, going through adolescence, puberty? A boy who grows a foot in a year and walks in and you say, and who are you? Here yesterday and here today, it grows fast.

But sometimes it takes time for the coordination of the body to adjust to the growth of the body. And there is certain, the word in English, there is a natural awareness, there are things that come out, the voice, the voice cracks, I don't even know how to say that. There are small marks on the face that appear, because there are new hormones and the body is changing. But later time grows and his features and everything is in order as it should be.

And it is so with an adolescent church. There is growth but then the coordination of the body has to grow at the same time, with the physiological, spiritual, and emotional growth. When a church is living that like any other teenager, there are things that happen. There are things that fall between the cracks, there are institutional errors and there are people who are sorry because the organization lacked coordination. And there are people sometimes, like these widows, who are neglected in a time of need.

So it was at this time. Do we believe that the Apostles wanted these neglected widows? You think they sat down and said, you know what? Those Greeks are not going to give food to those Greek widows. It was not on purpose. Nobody wanted that. But it happened. There are things like that that happen in a church that is going through its growing pains. There are always things like that. In English it is said, there are balls that get dropped. There are things that fall through the cracks. There are problems in terms of the physical plant, space for people, parking, room allocation, equipment and furniture management. We have to organize ourselves to be able to handle growth.

Now, it sounds unspiritual sometimes to talk like that. I want to think about prayer and fasting and anointing, and I hope that we think about that every day, brothers, because without that we fall into being a Christian club. You have to pray, you have to move the Holy Spirit. But one also realizes that the movement of the spirit and the organization are not contradictory.

When Jesus did the miraculous catch, do you remember the miracle? He tells the Apostles, look, go, launch out into the deep and cast the nets. And they catch and Jesus speaks to those fish in the spirit and all…but a net was still needed to pull those fish. They still had to work together and call other boats to get the fish into the boat. If there is no network, there is no miracle. Or rather, if there is no network, the miracle is wasted. You have to have good networks to retain and enjoy and enter the fullness of the miracle that God has done.

The multiplication of the loaves and fishes, remember that? That wasn't, I said in English, a free for all, that wasn't some crazy riot like everyone getting into one time like crazy. No, no, no, what did you do before? What did Jesus do before performing the miracle? He assigned his disciples to divide them all into groups organizedly and sit them down on the green grass. Thank God, because he is the good shepherd and he knows how to guide his people. They had to organize themselves to enjoy the multiplication of the loaves and fish.

You know that this morning I was remembering an event that I have tried to forget for 10 years. One night, it was a night on October 31 before we had a Hallelujah night like we have now, but the children's ministry did something here. They invited me to speak to the children. I usually say that I love the children's ministry, I cover there as a pastor, but don't leave me alone with a small group of children, they eat me alive, so that's not my gift. My gift is to oversee and bless and cheer on those who do well.

But that night they put me there to talk to the children. So I did, and I came up with the great idea of offering and providing candy to these kids, so I later came up with a big candy thing. Imagine what happened to me! Like piranhas they jumped on me, they ate me like goats. It was a riot, thank goodness our children's ministers know how to organize better than that.

What I want to say is that there is a blessing but you have to think, you have to organize. Things that are organic processes sometimes. New believers, like new babies, need food, they need love, they need connection. It is something human, but if structures are not organized to do it, this organic and natural process does not occur. Cells are needed, classes are needed, ministry is needed, contexts for a highly human process to take place. So what organization was missing in this case of the Apostles.

And you know that it also reminded me of other moments in my life here in León de Judá. You know that when I started the pastor here, about 500 people, and the pastor alone, there were no other pastors, there was no secretary, there was no office, there was no telephone, I don't know. How did he? He knows that in gringo churches you never see that. Already for 500 people there are already 15 pastors. And he alone and thank God it was not alone, it is that there were anointed leaders by his side.

But in terms of infrastructure it was minimal. And we, I remember, here in this office making our first photocopy, it was a sacred moment. And the pastor speaking to me, there, we are going to organize ourselves in these years. And Carolina and all the others already entered.

But organizing almost always requires crises. It takes a mess and then he realizes, look, we have to organize this mess that's going on. If someone wanted to use a room in this church, do we know what to do? Get it off the internet, he's saying, look, I'm in Chile, why are they talking to me about that.

But here, to set up a room, you have to call Carolina and reserve it. Before, 12, 10 years ago, if you wanted to use a salon, what did you do? You arrive and you go in and use your living room, thank God. But then what happened? The little sister so and so arrived with her little group to have their meeting, and then the brother arrived, what do I know, and they arrived and both wanted to use the same room and the old man and the old woman left. As it is said in English, the tempers fly. And there are problems because they both want to use the same room. And then what happens? Call someone like a shepherd, to put out the fire. Everything is stressed and things are not going well.

And then we come up with the brilliant idea, look, maybe we can allocate rooms? That you believe? And 10 years later, do you know what just happened to me after I preached the sermon in the morning? I went up to my discipleship class and it occurred to the brothers last week, look, why don't we move to another room where there are windows? And I said, well, I don't see anyone here this week, why are there problems? Me, the pastor, I just preached that, so there we are in the room and the other brothers arrive, the crown ministry, which I didn't know they had started, because I didn't talk to Omar who was organizing that. And there the two waiting. Thank God for the mercy of the brothers at times like this.

I'm still screwing up 10 years later. We are in a process of growth. And sometimes it's funny and everyone, we can all laugh about it. And that's where love enters that softens all friction, gives the benefit of the doubt, much is forgiven. But sometimes when there are misunderstandings, when there is a teen organization, some of the mistakes cause problems and cause harm to people.

These widows had to go hungry for a few days due to lack of coordination. And that's in the church of Acts, so this makes me feel good. It is that we are not so bad, they also had their headaches. But there are hurt people. There's real pain that happens. And we must recognize that we have to grow to avoid this and to heal this, but in any process of growth, such situations will occur. And those widows have to forgive, forgive whom? To the Apostles? I guess so, mind you. They must have thought, but maybe it's Pedro, he's just there killing people and he doesn't care about me. I guess I wouldn't have said it after Ananias and Sapphira what happened, I wouldn't say that after that.

But have they thought? Have they thought about it? They don't care that my widow here that I know goes hungry. Those Apostles don't care. Have they thought about it? You also have to forgive, you have to recognize that things happen when we are growing up, growing pains. This does not excuse, it does not mean that we leave the problem as it is. It is fixed, it works as we are going to see, but you also have to forgive a lot. You have to give the benefit of the doubt and recognize that if we are going to grow, things are going to happen, things are going to happen.

You can imagine how that problem happened. It is a time of revival, people accepting Christ day and night, demons flying from people, new people coming in. Do you know that the day of Peter's first sermon, what day was it? Pentecost. It was a party. The people who were there, the majority from Jerusalem, from other places and stayed to seek God. They stayed in Jerusalem. So you have in the church not only people from that town, but also hundreds and maybe thousands of people from outside who came and stayed.

He says, look here I stay. The anointing is here, I stay here, I sleep on the street, I don't care. But also some widows among them. And so at that time a widow had no choice. If you don't have children or family, or uncles, there was no welfare, so that's why the church took on that burden. But they also said that if the widows have families that take care of each other so that it is not a burden for the church, they have to work on things. But there people from outside, immigrants, a lot of people, a lot of things happening, it's easy to imagine how it happened.

Now, the problem was, and let me read it again, in Acts, Chapter 6, verse 1, which says;

“…there was murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews…”

I want to stay on the word gossip for a moment. Has anyone here murmured? Why do we murmur? Why not speak out loud? Because you don't want the bad thing you're saying to be heard. There is a children's song by Steve Green, do everything without complaint or backbiting. Do everything without complaining or arguing. And me teaching my son this verse and then 5 minutes later realizing my own gossip.

When I have a microphone I am very aware, because everything is heard over the internet, even when it is on mute. Murmuring, complaints, oh, those people neglecting…. So, and it was between two groups. The pastor already talked about it, I'm not going to go into all that again, but there were groups, the Greeks, so they're all Jews but they're Hebrew Jews, those are the Jews who grew up in Jerusalem, who were traditional Jews, who spoke Well Hebrew, they grew up there, where the temple is, they are Jews from Jerusalem, Hebrews. But there were also Greek and Turkish Jews who came from elsewhere, who perhaps spoke Hebrew with a different accent. Perhaps his physical appearance was different and some prejudices could have entered the situation.

You know what? In León de Judá we are a terrible sancocho here of people, imagine. What a variety of people! In any row there are 5 countries represented. Any row and any group. And they know that with the cult in English things are getting even more complicated, very spicy now. Only in Spanish we have almost 30 countries represented. Do you know how special that is? And now with the cult of English we have people from Africa, people from Haiti, Afro-Americans, gringuitos, Japanese, mixes that are all here together and there must be more than 30 countries. Thank God, because now there is a new nation and there is a new king. We are a new people, a holy people, our identity and citizenship is in heaven. It is a prophetic testimony.

But it's also a complicated life. It is a complicated life. So you have to always, always recognize the prejudices that one might have and say, Lord, maybe I grew up hating the gringos, or what do I know, a certain country, or such people, distrustful of certain people, Lord, forgive me, it's My brother is my sister, although his style, his way of being bothers me a bit. We must recognize the prejudices we have and repent, it is a sin. And God doesn't want us to have that.

It could have been that here, with them. The Hebrews looking perhaps with contempt at the Greeks who were among them. But you know what? The Apostles don't scold them for racism, so I think it's more likely that it wasn't so sinister. I think it is more likely that it was an oversight.

Think of our own church, it's natural. The people of a country know each other, the people of a part of a country know each other. There are natural friendships, they are countrymen. It's natural. It is that they are all banilejas, not even Dominican, they are banilejas. Everything has to be from Baní, to work there they have to be from Baní, and no... and let me tell you, it's not because it's better than another country, it just happened to be next to the house.

But the point is, people naturally know each other, thank goodness. God uses this in our church, because there are natural networks that form within the variety that we have. And this can be nice and good, but here, I think it's more likely that the Hebrews who were running the program because they were from there, most likely among themselves, knew who the needy widows were. But the Greeks from the outside, from another country, another culture, did not know who they were.

They know that it is very possible in a large group to get lost in the crowd if one is not connected, which is why small cells or groups in any form are so important. Because otherwise, one can get lost in the crowd and we don't want that. We are a family, but if we are not in a smaller group we will not meet. And people are not going to know about your needs.

So in this case it was like that. So the careless Greeks, I think it was not on purpose. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. But it was only because of the situation. But sometimes a situation can hurt, you have to fix it, so they entered the matter together.

And they know that it is natural to take a little step back, about different races, it is natural when someone is different to feel when there is mistreatment that the cause is something deeper. When I was studying at the seminary, I hung out with the Koreans, I like kimshi, I hung out with them. They told me that in this place they sometimes felt a bit marginalized. So if there was a conflict, a problem their first thought was, it's because I'm Korean and they like me. And there was one particularly grumpy administrator who tends to happen sometimes, and there she was in the office and she was herself to them, grumpy and her first thought, she treats me bad because I'm Korean. But after a year they realized that she is mean to everyone, thank God. And the bill says, ok, it's like that. But that's how it is.

There are things like this that happen in a community and it is necessary to solve the structural problems that result in the neglect of a widow who needs care from her church. So what do the Apostles do? Two things: on the one hand, I see that the Apostles did not handle this in a completely democratic way. In a certain aspect they were very decisive as making decisions. But the other side are super democratic. Let's talk about it.

The most important thing is to recognize that the church of Jesus Christ in every country there is a tendency to imitate the civil government. If you are in a democracy, try to be democrats, if you are in a dictatorship country, have the pastor be the leader, something like that. So, it's natural. But the truth is that the church of Jesus Christ does not respond to a civil government, it does respond, but it is not a civil government, it has to seek principles of the word to manage its affairs.

So, if you see, the Apostles begin gathering the group and I don't see here that the people approached them. It is that they were good leaders and they knew that there were gossips, they knew. Our pastor had a gift, I don't know what, but he knows everything, he looks at you and knows you. It is a gift of wisdom and discernment that he has. And I, well I don't know, if I'm talking about him behind his back or if he's looking at me so… forgive me.

But the leaders know more than we think they know, ok, the Apostles knew that there were gossips. So they themselves, I think, did their homework to investigate the situation and already think of a solution. And I think, I imagine there was dialogue but there was also strong action. Gather the people and there to talk about the thing and they say something interesting, they say in verse 2:

“…it is not fair that we leave the word of God to serve tables…”

You know what? That in Spanish this sounds bad. It is not fair that, it sounds like a child, it's not fair. But that is not the original, the word is not good, it is not pleasing to God, it is not correct, it is a better translation. It is not right for us to neglect prayer and stewardship of the word in order to attend to this program and bring food to the tables.

I think it was not a comment that this is not valid. I think it was worth a lot. I imagine that the Apostles had to face the temptation to assign one of the 12 to take charge of the program. Maybe not Pedro, Juan or one of the important ones, but how about Bartolomé. What has Bartholomew done? Perhaps an Apostle who has nothing else to do. Let's put him to manage the program. It must have been a temptation for them. But they resisted, they resisted.

The temptation to reach out, even though they could have done it, because they knew, if we solve that, it's a band-aid, it wouldn't be a long-term solution, because the role of the Apostle is different. So you have to look for another mechanism to solve the problem. They recognized his call. How ugly, I imagine, for some who expected the Apostles themselves to get involved.

I imagine that some have thought, they don't care, but it's not the truth, it's not the truth, so they knew they had to dedicate themselves to prayer and the word. Jesus himself did this, remember? Jesus begins to heal and cast out demons and heals Peter's mother-in-law and she stays at home, and everyone there, remember? And then the next day, Jesus gets up very early in the morning and he goes to a mountain still dark, like these men in our church, at 5 in the morning, praying in the field and there praying, praying, praying, comes Peter with the bargain, searching. I can visualize them, breathing heavy. Here you are, we are all looking for you, what are you doing here? There are people who need to heal, the whole world looking for you. What does Jesus tell you? He didn't say, oh, I'm coming. What did Jesus do? Look, I have to go to other towns, that's why I've come, if I stay here healing everyone who needs healing in this town, then I won't fulfill my mission.

Jesus had to leave some sick people there. That is hard, to fulfill your mission, to sacrifice yourself for the salvation of the world, but you have to say no to say yes to what God has given you. Now, don't get me wrong, I believe that pastors should sweat a lot and move chairs, thank God, each chair for me is a prayer. Fill this chair with a blessed person.

I believe that ministry leaders should get their hands dirty and I loved it, I think my favorite part of being a director of discipleship was being the flight attendant during exams and walking in with a table on wheels. So things have to be done sometimes, stewardess.

But, if the Apostles only started directing that program and stop praying and preaching the word, where is the church? They had to find a solution that would meet the needs of the widows and also of the Apostles. It is a discipleship solution 3, a win win solution. It's not a win for me and you're stuck there, okay, I don't care, win—win. Find solutions, approach a conflict without looking at the other person as your enemy. This is important in a church, in a family. And knowing that my enemy is not that person, it is this situation that together God is going to give us wisdom to solve.

So the Apostles had action thank God and learned to delegate. I don't know if you have seen, we have some cars here that drive the children's ball teams, some cars in the house, two or three? How many have seen children of 7, 8 years old playing soccer? How is the field? You have seen? There goes the ball, and there is a whole bunch of children that fall on top of this ball, have you seen? And they all move like a bargain and the…. There yelling, excuse me, stay in your position. But no, everyone wants to be where the ball is, everyone wants to be where the action is.

The blessings of the growth crisis was that new positions were opened for new servants of God to rise up under the apostolic anointing of the Apostles. But they had to play in their position, they had to invent new positions that God gave them to play that with anointing and excellence.

You know what? This is painful, this is painful. I think it's easier for new people to get used to a church that has more layers of authority. But how many were here 10, 12 years ago when one could call Pastor Roberto at any time day or night, he is there in the house, like an uncle in the house, another member of the family, and now it is not possible.

You know what? Our pastor has an apostolic calling. This does not mean that he is perfect. Look, today he has a headache, he is human, flesh and blood like us. But he is an Apostle who has a call that is regional and also national. His heart is not in a church, it is in the Kingdom of God, his vision for the new temple is not only that the Lion of Judah be bigger, that we have more space, it is to make a revival center in the New England region . He is an apostolic pastor who has his local and also regional call. And you know what? If you are here in this church you share this call. You are in an apostolic church, it is a church with tricks, it is a church with growing pains, a church with a thousand problems, but a church with a special call, to make a revival center for the nation and nations, an apostolic church.

So I say that because if we're going to be in an apostolic church we have to be like this group in the early church and adjust our expectations and know that the leader, let's say if you're a cell leader, or if you're in a cell, this leader of cell represents the shepherd for you. And if you are a cell leader, the cell leader coordinator represents the pastor for you. And there goes the chain, and there's a chain of authority. And in this way the apostolic authority flows to the people who serve from all levels of the ministry, of the institution.

If we try to deny that and function in another way, we lose the apostolic anointing that is there for everyone that God has called to serve in this church. Look what happened here, the Apostles got super democratic in a way, they gave the people the opportunity to choose their own leaders for this program. In our church we vote for some things, we don't vote if we are going to obey the Bible or not, there are certain things that there is no vote. But you do vote to elect deacons, you vote at congregational meetings to approve the budget and other important things.

And here in the Bible the Apostles gave the people the opportunity to choose their leaders, but with certain requirements: they must be a man filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom. If not, even though the decision is unanimous, we have veto power. They set the parameters of the decision and then delegated the responsibility of managing the program to those people.

I want you to look at the names with me please, verse 5, the names of the first servants here in this case, the first one they chose Stephen, this name sounds. He becomes the first martyr of the Christian church, a very powerful man. If there was no growing pain, if there was no solution, where is Esteban? Esteban snapped out of this growing pain.

Look next, who's next, Felipe. Do you remember Philip? He ministers to the eunuch and then the spirit takes him to another place. Anointed men of God who moved in the same anointing as Peter and John and James. The apostolic anointing passed because the Apostles laid their hands on them and the anointing passed to them.

I want the anointing that God has given Pastor Roberto on my life. Now, I will never be Pastor Roberto, my beard doesn't come out as good as his, my voice will never be as..., but I can have the same anointing, the same faith, the same vision. Men, women, children, youth, can move under the special anointing that is in this church. If we give important place to the anointing and delegated responsibility that has to exist in a large church. If you notice, there is a list of names here and they are all Greek names.

So among themselves they decided, you know what? We're going to give the people closest to the problem authority to fix it. And so the anointing flowed over them. Is not easy. Because it means that these widows could not enjoy the close presence of Peter and John. And you know what? There is pain sometimes, getting used to not being able to have so much access to the senior pastor of a large church.

You know what? Many of you have not seen in the process that we live in this church, that the church learns that there are others who can marry and have funerals and all that, but the first funerals that the pastor had to miss, that he could not be there, I I never forget the tears he had knowing that he couldn't be in certain situations. And there were tears. There is pain for everyone to get used to certain structural changes that always have to happen.

But by opening this space, others arise who can minister and the harvest is greater, and we can take care of the harvest and have nets for miraculous fishing. I know what your ministry is, maybe you minister to youth, or teens, maybe you have a cell, maybe you participate in a cell and make calls, maybe you teach Sunday school or give abstinence classes or maybe you work in the parking lot, anywhere in the service in this church there is an apostolic authority that is available to you, regardless of age and God has called us as a church, not only to grow numerically but to grow as a church in terms of maturity.

It's time for us to grow up and to grow into our sides. To grow to fill the big sack that has been placed on us and God calls each of us to do that. It doesn't matter if you have a day here in this church, you are part of that, of this call and it is up to us to say yes to the Lord. Say Lord, if the question is asked, do we want to grow? I want to say yes. I have gone to churches where a leader tells me, I like it small. I like small. And it was said by a good person, who loves God, but loves a church where she can meet everyone and have a lot of access and there remains the question, do we like it, are we satisfied like this, or do we want to fulfill the call that God has for us?

The temple is more than a building, it is a responsibility, it is a call to extend our vision to an apostolic vision, to put ourselves on the same wavelength that the pastor has of God. That he has not searched, believe me, he does not believe the big thing, but he knows what God has given him and God has given it to all of us in him. So I invite you today and now, you can stand up and we are going to respond to the Lord.

Esteban and Felipe came out of that mess that the primitive church lived through. I believe that there are some Estebanas and Estebanes and Felipes and Felipas here in this church, some are still 5 years old, some are 80, but people with a call that we have not yet said yes to. And it's time to say yes. To say yes, Lord, is to put my calling and also to respect the apostolic anointing that God has delegated to those who supervise my ministry.

I invite you to close your eyes with me and I want you to think about your ministries, what you do in the church, and some of the people, children, adults, youth, who are under your care, or perhaps the task you are under his care, visualize the context, the moment who is there, visualize yourself there. And I also want you to visualize the face of the person that God has placed to supervise you, not the pastor, not the co-pastor, but the person in the ministry that organizes where you are, and to see in that person the authority that God has given him. given to him or her and also to think about your responsibility, to minister under those under your care. If you are not serving in a ministry, you do not have to look for it with eagerness, God is in charge of raising his Stephens, he just says, Lord, here I am, I want to serve, I want to move chairs and greet the person next to me and I want to serve you, God, in whatever you want, here I am.

Let's pray, Father, in Jesus' name I thank you for the sacred privilege of representing your kingdom in the lives of others. I present to you the ministry that you have given me, I present to you the tasks and the people who are under my care, help me move in the apostolic anointing of this church and serve, Lord, so that one day I can hear the words, well done, faithful servant, enter into the joy of your master.

Lord, I present to you my supervisor or supervisor in the ministry, forgive me for the times that I have said that I submit to the pastor but not to him or her. Sir, I bless that supervisor. I thank you, I ask you to help that person to grow in you and be all the leader that you want him or her to be.

Lord, if I don't have a ministry I tell you, here I am, here I am, Lord, I want to be used by you, Lord, open opportunities to serve tables, I will gladly do it. And each person that I serve I do it in the name of Jesus as if it were for yourself. Thank my Lord. We receive the apostolic anointing in this church, we ask you to help us, Lord, to organize ourselves, to be faithful, to grow and give us, Lord, patience. I also want to invite many of the Congregation that we have to forgive, some of us are the neglected widow, we must forgive, Lord, we forgive the church, we forgive the pastor if we have blamed him, we forgive. Sir, we want to be a part of this community and we want to grow together. We dedicate ourselves to you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen.