Transitions - God will speak to you through your efforts

Says the word of the Lord in Joshua 1:1-7 "... It happened after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Num, Moses' servant, saying, "Moses my servant is dead, now therefore Arise, cross over this Jordan, you and all the people, into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel. As I had said to Moses, I have given you every place where the soles of your feet will tread. From the desert and Lebanon, to the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the great sea where the sun sets, will be your territory. No one will be able to face you in all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you, I will not leave you or forsake you. Strive and be brave because you will distribute to this people for inheritance the land of which I swore to their parents that I would give it to them. Just make an effort and be very brave to take care to do according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn away from it, neither to the right nor to the left, so that you may prosper in all things that you undertake. This book of the law shall never depart from you, from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may keep and do according to all that is written in it. Because then you will make your way prosperous and everything will work out for you. Look, I command you to strive and be brave, do not fear or dismay, for Jehovah, your God, will be with you wherever you go..."

The word of the Lord for us. I have chosen this passage because it is a passage that tells us about transitions. The key word here is transition, changes, going from one space to another, making a transition from one era to another, with all that that entails. Here we have a key moment in the history of the people of Israel. They have spent decades in the desert, they have experienced memorable events, they have seen the manifestations of God's power and glory and provision, they have fought battles, they have had moments of disaster, they have experienced epic moments, they have been led by a very special leader , full of anointing and full of the power of God, they have lived with the expectation that something awaits them on the other side of the Jordan. And for decades those youth who are born in the desert have grown up hearing the stories and the promises of the ancestors and what God has to fulfill in the future.

And now, they are at a key moment in their history and God has chosen a man named Joshua, born and raised on that path in the desert. And it is a moment of great uncertainty and great potential for the people of Israel as well. There are dangers and there are possibilities too. and there are unknown things waiting for them on the other side of the Jordan.

And the Lord approaches Joshua and speaks these words that we have here, but he is also speaking to the people of Israel, and by extension, he is speaking to us as well. How many of you know that Scripture is not simply a record of historical things that happened a while ago for us to look at and say, oh, how nice that happened? No. The Bible tells us that they are exemplary things, they are biblical, spiritual principles that are registered in these events and that are applicable to us as well.

And certainly here are some very powerful principles that we can use at this time as well because we are entering a new year, we are in a new year. We are just taking off this year and we know that, I told the brothers last night, time does not have divisions, time does not know that today is January 1, time flows like a river that has no barriers, but simply flows . We assign separations, we divide life into cycles of a year, this month, a week, 24 hours, a minute. They are our conveniences and that is important. They are cycles of life and it is good to mark life that way. And we have marked life in years and in all the cultures of the world, perhaps the years do not coincide, the beginnings of the year do not coincide exactly, in Asia, in China, they have a different year than us, they celebrate it in a different way , but we do know that it is important to separate those moments in life and to know when something begins, when something ends. That helps us to live life better and to take account of things, the experiences of life.

So, we are now at the beginning of a new year and like Joshua and like the people of Israel before us there is an unknown land, as for those people. A marvelous land of promise, of danger, and of possibility also opened before them. And this year that we are now beginning to live is also a year of possibilities, dangers, and promises.

Actually, to tell you the truth, I don't want to know what's going to happen this year. I believe that there is everything, but perhaps there will also be difficult moments. I prefer that if they come, when they arrive I confront them in the name of the Lord and God will be faithful.

But there is everything. The good thing is, though, that one of the things we see here is that God is in control. But what is important at this point in the text is that we understand that like Joshua, like the Hebrew people, we also find ourselves in a space, a time, a land, this land is not physical although it could be, it is a dimension of experiences that they are ahead of us. It is a virtual territory that awaits us there 365 days of experiences, struggles, wars and giants that we are going to conquer in the Lord, rivers that we are going to cross, things that we are going to discover within ourselves that we did not know were there.

They know that in Deuteronomy, Chapter 8, the Lord speaks about how I kept you in the desert to test you, to find out what was inside you, to teach you to depend on me, not to depend on yourself. And part of the experiences that God is going to bring this year are for you to discover yourself, so that you know yourself better and so that you know when to go to the Lord and ask for mercy, measure yourself and know how much you need to change, how much you need to give to the Lord.

Not everything is going to be good, but I assure you that everything that happens in your life is because God has a purpose for it, everything. Everything, everything. The Hebrews did not know what was waiting for them out there. God had told them, I give them, but there was a mass of experience that would await them there, mixtures of obviously good things and apparently bad things, but that in the long run they were all forged by God, for sublime purposes that he had, benevolent towards His town.

And so you and I now find ourselves looking towards this coming year, and it is already here with us, Lord, that promised land that you have for me, what does it contain, what things does it contain?

Look what it says here, it begins, “Moses my servant is dead.” There I see several things now. I see the beginning of this new land that God has for Joshua and for you and me, there are things there when we look back, there are things that happened in the past year that were also perhaps negative, Moses has died. Moses was not given a retirement with social security and a pension for the 40 years he was serving the Lord in the desert. It's not like he had a mansion in the promised land named after him and a car of the year.

No, Moses, his death was a bit of a problematic death because Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land because he had failed in a very strong way before the Lord. Because to whom much is given, much is required and he had made a mistake before the majesty and lordship of God and God had a very special purpose for this man, and therefore Moses is not allowed to enter the land fiancee. He dies but God already has a substitute, Joshua, whom Moses has trained, whom Moses has prepared. A man with a heart like God required it.

And so there are things in your life that have had to die. That's why I say, brothers, let's always remember something about God, God is sovereign. For this reason, every day, as I told you in our sermons about complex faith.

I understand one thing and that is that I cannot control God, I cannot totally control the events of my life. I cannot believe that everything that is going to happen in my life must necessarily be good. God is sovereign. God is faithful. The only thing I tell them again is this, you know something, if God does something in your life, if something has had to die in your life, if you have had to leave something in the desert, if someone has died, or if there has been failure or if there has been a lack, if there has been missing the very target, in the center of the target, God has mysteriously been involved in all of that. And he already has good things that are going to come out of it.

Because from Moses comes Joshua. Out of death comes life. From the difficult experiences that you have had, there are good things that God has prepared for you. Life is like that, life is complex. There are losses. Just yesterday, I learned of the death of a person very close to my family, murdered here in Boston, a young man full of future and promise. He gets into a fight to separate two people and he gets killed. Life is like that, brothers, it is complex.

Christ says, in the world you will find affliction, but he added, but take heart, I have overcome the wall. So I see here, the first thing is that, that there is death, there is problematic. I believe that we can all point to the black dots in the past year, but I also advise you to look at the blessings. God is the great recycler, I always call him that. God recycles everything. Nothing is lost to God and God is also an alchemist par excellence, he turns coarse and ugly things into gold. He loves to take our wounds, our faults, our losses, our tragedies and glorify himself in it and make something even better out of it.

But we have to let things die. And we have to bless them, mourn them, and then move on, because Joshua has to come into his role and Moses has to die for Joshua to come to life. So remember that, ultimately, you haven't lost anything. If you have the faith and I have the faith to believe it, God has to glorify himself in everything that has happened in your life and he will glorify himself this year as well.

Commend yourself to the grace of the Lord and say, Father, if I live, I live for you, if I die, I die for you, whether I live or die, I am yours. Amen. And to those who love God, all things work together for good. For me that is the final card that I always play. I can ask the Lord for a number of things and I ask them with passion and I put all my effort into the things that I long for and desire and I fight for her, but I know that up there in her record, the Lord has a letter that I signed the blank that says, your will be done and not mine. Amen.

And that gives me peace. You can fight for your desires, battle for them, pray for them, fast for them, cry out for them, but in the end tell the Lord, but Father, I know that you have the last word. And I entrust myself to your grace. I entrust myself to your mercy, I entrust myself to your powerful arms. I don't know what awaits me but I know it's going to be good at the end of it all.

The Lord Jesus, looking at the cross, says, Father, deliver me, I don't want to go there, but let your will be done. Listen to me, and what benefit did God get from that cross. Here we are taking advantage of that. That is the mystery and that is what we have to understand.

Because here in this passage there are, as I say, there are promises, possibilities, but there are also things that are dark and dangerous and full of fear. That's life. But how wonderful it is that, brothers, in the midst of all this, what prevails is a positive tone, of victory. There is a minor tone that is there, but in the end it is a major tone of resolution, everything is fine. God is in control.

Because I see in this passage at all times there is a blessing that awaits, but God is a great painter and you know that there is no possible painting without a shadow. Contrast is needed to enjoy beauty. All art needs contrast. Every drama needs a villain. That is necessary. And the Christian life has to be defined by moments of struggle, suffering, in order to truly, sublimely enjoy what life is. We don't want those shadows, but shadows are necessary for the Christian life.

But in the long run, the wonderful thing about this passage is that the final tone is positive. Look at what he tells you in verse 2, he says, "to the land that I give you," that is, not that I am going to give you, no, I give it to you, that land is yours. I am giving them to you. I have already given it to him. There is a title that says this land belongs to my people.

God always speaks in the present. The Bible says that for him everything is yes and amen. I know that in the mind of God, for my life, there is victory, for your life there is victory. Your land God gives it to you, you live in the eternal positive present of God. You have to live with that confidence, that certainty that yes, tests are coming, giants are coming, they are going to throw a stone at me here, someone is going to try to stab me there, but God is with me and in the end I have the victory , because God gives me the land. God gives me the land.

Verse 3 says, "I have delivered to you, as I had told Moses, every place that the sole of your foot will tread on." Hallelujah!. How many can believe that? Amen. look, you can say God has given me the 364 that are ahead of this year, God has already given them to me. When you wake up in the morning you are entering a virtual, temporary terrain that God already gave you. The question is now, simply that you have to deal with the particulars of that field.

Because there is the contrast. God tells him, "everything you step on is yours, I have given it to you," now there were a number of giants waiting for them to cross the river to start throwing sticks at them, everything they had to defend their land. But there was that contrast. God had told him, spiritually, judicially, I have given them that, now, they are going to have to fight it.

And that is the paradox of the Christian life. That on the one hand we move in the good will, the blessing, the promise of God. I believe that, brothers, that should be the governing position of every son, every daughter of God. We have to live our default posture, our primary, essential posture must be one of victory, blessing, sufficiency, God's love, God's approval. You don't have to earn God's approval, you already have it, you live within God's approval. You do not have to earn the good will, the good intentions of God, God has already given them to you.

Now, within that you live and move within them. Your life will depend, and the results of life will depend on the attitude with which you enter it. If you enter life with a mentality of insufficiency, of lack, of limitations, of always seeing the glass half empty, you are going to have problems in life. But if you, as a son of God, as a daughter of God, move and live within that idea that I am the favorite, I am God's favorite, I am the apple of God's eye, God has carved me in his palm, says the Bible.

The Lord says in a passage, look, if the woman can forget about the son to whom she has given birth, I will be able to forget about you. That has changed a little today, it is no longer so valid, because there are women who forget about their children and abandon them. But what in the cultural context, the mother who loves her son, and who does not leave him for absolutely nothing, and God says, look, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you, says the word of the Lord here.

He also tells Joshua, “I will be with you wherever you go, I am with you, I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” You have to cultivate that posture of faith in your life.

Now, within that position of faith, difficulties will come, struggles will come, giants will come, because that is the conflict. I have given you, I have given you everything you step on, but you have to develop that on the ground.

That is the paradox of the Christian life. But I advise you to cultivate. I believe that one of the hallmarks of the Pentecostal mentality is that positivity, which we sometimes exaggerate, because we do not see the problematic nature, but the positivity of the Christian life. I believe that the essential position of Scripture is one of a benevolent God who loves his creation, who loves his children, who gave his Son for his church. We are part of that church, we can believe that the years ahead are good years, they are positive years, they are years of blessing, God is going to bless my children, he is going to bless my family, my work, my health, my finances, because he has promised.

I have given you the land that the soles of your feet tread on. Trust in the Lord and enter this year believing in God's good will, because living with a sufficiency mentality is like a magnet that attracts good and positive things. If you live with uncertainty and fear in your life and with insecurity about whether God is going to do it or not, he is going to love you, he is not going to love you, this and that, you are going to fail.

One has to cultivate that positive mindset. That is why it is so important, brothers, to eat the word of God continuously. Listening to good Christian music, it's not that I don't listen to other things as well, that's fine, but you know, I have learned, brothers, that according to what I eat, that's my physical state and that's the way I am spiritually. As Christians this year I advise you and myself, we are going to consume good material so that our minds are filled with that positive attitude.

If you read a number of things where the bad guy always wins and you don't know if God is with you or not, or whatever, your mind will be that way, complicated. It's okay, you can do that to enrich yourself and to learn, but the very basis of your life has to be things that feed you that attitude of faith, of positivity, because when you acquire that positive attitude, in Christ, that will bring good things, that will motivate you to take risks, that will motivate you to undertake great things for the Lord, that will motivate you when the giant comes not to look at his greatness, but to look at the power of God within you, that It is bigger than any giant.

Therefore, God chose Joshua, and Caleb, the only two who entered the promised land of the old generation, were Joshua and Caleb. All the rest died and stayed, those who entered were a new generation. Why did Joshua and Caleb enter? And why did God choose Joshua? He says because there was a different spirit within him. When God sent out those 12 spies, only two gave a good report about the land to which God was calling them. The 10 said, no, there are some giants there who are basketball players, they measure 6.8, 6.7, 6.6 and we are 5.2 here. They are going to eat us and they are going to destroy us, we looked like tadpoles in front of them.

Yes, it is true that there are good things there, but whatever, forget it, that land swallows its inhabitants. Joshua said, if God is with us, we are going to butter him and we are going to eat them like bread, he says. Josué had a mentality of faith, of sufficiency. He said, if God is with us, we are going to hit all of those with bats and they will be running away from us in a minute, even if they are big, the bigger, the harder they fall, Josué said.

And that pleased God. Just as God was displeased with those 10 who said, well, yes, it's true, there are good things but the truth is that the bad things are above the good things.

I advise you cultivate a positive mentality in God. and consume everything you can to promote that in your life. If you are going to serve the Lord, try to spend time fasting, in prayer, preparing your mind. If you're coming to church, don't watch a novel before you get here. No, spend 10 minutes in prayer and bless the service and come covered, full of good things.

We are at war, brothers, and we need to strengthen ourselves to have that positivity that no, the land is mine. This year is good, it's going to be a good year. On earth flows milk and honey, there are giants, but they will be defeated. Difficulties come, but God is going to give me the power to get ahead. Hallelujah!

And that will please the Lord and he will activate his power in your favor. And they will see the blessing. I don't guarantee a year free of problems but I guarantee a year full of victories. To the Lord be the glory. Receive it if you are able to receive it. I have given you every place, every day, every hour, every job, every relationship, every situation, every difficulty, if you step on the soles of your feet, you are going to hit a home run. Everything that the devil throws at you, you are going to take out of the field because I am with you.

And God enters from the desert and Lebanon and to the great river Euphrates, all the land, the Hittites, to the great sea where the sun sets, will be your territory. No one will be able to face you in all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. Hallelujah!.

I've always liked that. As I was with Moses, I will be with you too. You know why we sometimes think like yes, blessings and power and victory, that is for pastors, evangelists, those who have a special card, an exceptional entrance to God. Look, the Lord is with each of his children, the oldest and the most humble, God is with you. The God who was with you last year will be with you this year. The God who pulled you out of the hole last year is going to pull you out of the hole again this year.

God's mercy is continuous. The good will, the good purposes of God are eternal. It says, I have loved you, with eternal love. The God who manifested himself in the Red Sea, manifests himself today on North Hampton Street, in Roxbury, in Dorchester, in Jamaica Plain, in Hyde Park, in Roslindale, in Chelsea, in Lawrence, wherever you come from, name it , the Lord is with you, as he was with your dad, your mom, who served the Lord, is with you too.

Do not hinder the Lord. As he was in the book of Acts, the Lord is with us too. For me this word is just a starting point, that's all. Because this word, one has to live within it. I have to put my name where Joshua says, I have to put my name where Joshua says, where it says Moses, where it says Paul, where it says Jesus, because it is the same God. This is simply a way to initiate me into dealing with God.

And these people are just excuses, they are scaffolding so that I can understand what God wants to do for my life. So don't hinder him. Don't say, oh, that was for those times, the gifts were for those times. The Lord rebuke that doctrine. The gifts are for today. God's gifts are for today, for your life. Today God can give you revelation. Today God can give you wisdom for life's problems. Today God can give you deliverance from the demons that want to destroy your life. Today God can give you your children, in a miraculous way as he gave them to those great heroes of faith. Today God can bless you, prosper you, open doors for you, provide for you, heal you, free you, enlighten you, support you, defend you. The same God who was with Moses is with you today and will be with you tomorrow, and will be with you all year. Believe it and live that way in the name of the Lord. Launch yourself to undertake great things for the glory of God. Dare in the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah! And don't be intimidated by battles you have lost or will lose. That is a word that I want you to engrave in your heart. Do not be discouraged by battles you have lost or will lose. Because the important thing is that you win the war and that you learn from the battles that you are going to lose or that you have lost. Because when these people were going to go in there, they were going to lose battles. A number of horrible things were going to happen, as soon as they had left for Canaan they already had a problem, they had the great victory of Jericho, the anathema came that one was left with an ingot of gold and a Babylonian mantle, and there was mortality and trouble, there were problems. That is the life of God's people. in the life of the people of God there is everything.

I said out there, that whoever wants a high bun that can withstand pull, whoever wants a high bun that can withstand pull. Whoever wants God's blessing has to fight, has to fight too. It comes from everything. In life there will be losses, but that does not mean that God will not be with you.

Don't stop dreaming big things is what I want to tell you. Even though you lost a battle, keep dreaming and keep believing that God will be with you in the future, trust in the Lord. He has given you all the land and he who is with Moses and will be with you too.

That's why you have to work hard and be brave. It says, push yourself and be brave. There is a paradox here and it is that God tells him, I have given you everything that steps on the soles of your feet but he tells him, make an effort and be brave. And Josué could have asked, well, but how is that? If you have given me everything why do I have to strive? What I have to do is enter the blessing.

Where is that house that you told me is mine? I am going to enter her and I am going to possess her. The paradox. Look, God blesses hard-working people, brothers. That's a little asterisk, God's blessing is with you, his good will is with you, but you're going to have to work, you're going to have to pay the price, you're going to have to invest. God's blessings come at a cost. Salvation is free but the extra blessings you have to fight and work for them.

God likes strong and courageous people. It is something that has haunted me every day of my life, that God does not do everything for me, I have to work, I have to make an effort, I have to peel eyelashes. Sometimes I have told him, Lord, but why don't you make things easier for me? He says, no, because I am forging myself a powerful man, a brave warrior, and if I give it all to you, you are going to be a parasite, like an eagle opening its mouth so that the mother will come and chew your food and throw it on you.

God doesn't like that. God honors the fajona people, as the Caribbean people say, the hard-working people. You have to give it to the Lord, you have to read the word to get the gold nuggets that are inside it. You have to get up a little earlier. You have to give, you have to invest, you have to agonize, brothers. I don't know if it's my vision of the world, but you have to agonize in the Christian life.

And if you want to serve the Lord, you want to be blessed by God, you have to fight. There are people that I would like to get inside so they wake up because that is what they need to receive God's blessing. But there he is, oh, blessed, and they don't flinch at all, one dies of a heart attack and they are calm, they will become calm old men, because they don't suffer, they don't cry, they don't do anything, God willing, amen . This is how they spend their lives, brothers.

I have learned one thing, that God honors the man, the strong and brave woman. All through the Scripture I see that, brethren. I always see God finding his servants working. He finds Moisés taking care of goats there. He finds Elisha taking care of some oxen. He finds Gideon threshing wheat so that the Midianites won't take them away. He finds Pablo persecuting the Christians and knocks him off his horse. Wherever you look, you see people working. He calls Levi while he is working at the money exchange table. He calls Pedro when he is washing the nets to fish.

Why is it that God always kind of calls his people while they are working? because they are hard-working and brave people, they are working. to the shepherds, it is revealed while they tended their sheep. And I believe that it was revealed to the magicians while exploring the stars and taking notes about the configuration of the stars. What's that? A star. Strange, it doesn't move. And he spoke to them.

God will speak to you through your efforts. Job. Usually God is not going to call you while you are there fighting with the pillow and the sheets since you do not know what to do with it because it is tired of you, but you are holding on to it and fighting so that it does not escape you. God is going to speak to you when you are praying, when you are reading the word, when you are serving, when you are preaching, when you are investing. That's where God is going to tell you, it's time. I want to tell you something, strive, be brave, do not fear or dismay, God will be with you. Don't say, oh, I'm too tired, I can't go to church, I don't have enough money, I can't give. I'm too busy, I can't serve.

Look, throw yourself in the name of the Lord. Invest in the name of the Lord. The more tired you are, give more to the Lord. God will give you new strength. Hallelujah!

I have a struggle in my life, because on the one hand I know the importance of resting, of also taking care of family things and all that, but I have also learned that where God has blessed me the most is when I enter that zone of sacrifice and I give to the Lord the fruit of my tiredness and my sleeplessness. It's like that's where God blesses. I understand that it is something problematic, because many times I have preached the importance of rest and other things, but I have also learned, brothers, that it is mysterious but how God renews you in flight when you give to the Lord.

And there is a promise in God's word of renewal and blessing, of strength, so you can dare to be generous with God and give a little extra. Give it to the Lord, don't give it to the deacon, don't give it to Roberto Miranda, don't give it to León de Judá, give it to the Lord. He says, Father, this is my offering, the sacrifice to you. and God says, the boys get tired and tired, the young weaken and fall, but those who wait for the Lord will have new strength. Hallelujah! They will run and not get tired, they will walk and not get tired, even in their tiredness God will renew them in flight. Live on that level.

Because it is the same, when we give to the Lord, sometimes we are waiting for the bill to go up to give to the Lord. No, give it when the account is low and that's where God will visit you and bless you. Go to church when you're tired and bored and don't want to go, then say, you know what? Now I am going to go, and that sacrificial investment, I am going to glorify God with it and that is where God is going to bless you.

I'm going to ask the musicians to come here and the people say amen. Come over here and we're going to celebrate the sacrament. But brothers, I want to invite you to an aggressive, militant life posture, trusting in the Lord. There is much more to this passage, much, much more. I will resist the temptation to continue ruminating.

I only point out there the importance of the word of God. This book of the law will never depart from your mouth, but you will meditate on it day and night to keep it and do according to it. God's blessings have their preconditions, effort, meditation on the word. Do you remember what he told you? You have to meditate on the word, you have to feed on it, you have to be saturated with it.

Word patterns have to become our neural, neurological patterns as well. Our brain has to be reprogrammed by the word of God so that we can think as the word of God thinks because then you will make your way prosperous and everything will work out for you.

Listen to me, in a sense I would like that not to be there, and everything will work out for you, because it is problematic, because not everything apparently works out for us. What God says is that it will work out for you, in the end it will work out for you, in the end you will win the prize. Don't worry, there will be problems in the process but everything will work out for you. that's the way I understand it.

But the important thing is that you believe that it will work out for you. If you undertake things in the name of the Lord, everything will work out for you. that is God's promise. People of God, Lion of Judah Congregation, as you look towards this year do not fear or dismay because Jehovah your God will be with you wherever you go.

That is God's promise to us, we receive it, we celebrate it, and we want to live in that depth and in that height of God. Let's stand up even for a moment and welcome that word into your heart and into your life.

Say, Lord, I receive your good will for me, I have lost battles, I have failed you in some things, I have not clearly seen your blessing in some moments, and I know that difficult times await me ahead, but thank you, because you have said, I have given you the whole earth, I have given you every day, I have given you all the circumstances, I will be with you on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And as he was with your ancestors, as I was with those great men and women of the Bible, or with your mentors and examples from the past, I will be with you too. My grace will be with you as it was with Moses, and as it was with Joshua and as it was with who you were last year, who had victories, I am with who you are now as well.

I only tell you, strive, be brave, believe in my promise and live life in the principles of my word. And you will not be defeated or defeated in any situation that you face because at the end of it all I will make sure that my fidelity is manifested in your life.

So dare to undertake great things. Don't look back, look ahead, the land that I set before you this day. Thank you Lord, thank you. We take your word, Father.

Help me to believe for myself what I am preaching, Lord, help me to internalize it and live it and make it real in my nervous system, make it real in my brain, make it real in my emotions, make it real in my will, make it real in the tissues of my body, make it real, Lord, in the muscles of our body, make it real in the decisions of each day, make it real in the daily life, make it real when we set foot, when we get them out of bed, Lord, and step on the cold floor of our houses, there we can say, God has given me this little piece of land that treads on the soles of my feet and the next, and the next, and the next, because God has promised to be with me all the days of my life.

We receive it and we thank you that we can live life like that great Canaan that is before us, Canaan is mine because you have given me the land. My life belongs to you and it belongs to me, it is not to the devil, it is not to circumstances, it is not to men, you and I, Lord, together we are more than conquerors. We want to live our life like this in front of you, Father, we want to consume ourselves in front of you like that.

We love you and we bless you, Lord. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank the Lord. Hallelujah! For your goodness and your mercy, for your good will and your favors, thank you Lord Jesus. Have a seat, brothers.