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Dr. Roberto Miranda

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Dr. Roberto Miranda

Summary: The passage in Luke 9:1-6 teaches us about the attitude we must adopt as servants of the Kingdom of God. While power and authority are important, the Lord wants us to cultivate an attitude of dispossession and detachment from material things. This is important to avoid corruption and the loss of legitimacy and values of the Kingdom of God that has happened throughout history when the Church has received power and prosperity. We must be prepared within ourselves first, with a heart that is not attached to material things, so that when blessings come, we can enjoy them without putting our affection on them. The Lord wants us to use His power and authority in a Kingdom way, with an attitude of dispossession and detachment from material things.

God wants to give authority and power to His Church, but first, individuals must go through a process of crucifixion, dispossession, and putting their treasures where they belong. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, and the rich young ruler was asked to give away his wealth. The Lord wants to settle in what people love the most, to sign a voucher stating that it belongs to Him, so that individuals can be used by Him. God wants to create a people who have died to self and live for the Kingdom of God.

The speaker encourages adopting a disciple mentality, where one dies to self and lives for the Kingdom of God. He shares personal stories of God's provision and encourages giving everything to God and living like a pilgrim. He invites anyone who has not yet given their life to Jesus to do so. The speaker ends with a prayer for God to establish His purpose in the church and for His glory to be seen in the nations.

Luke chapter 9, verses 1 to 6, the Word says: "Having gathered his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority." The Lord Jesus gave his disciples power and authority over all demons and to heal diseases, and he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. Very important this endowment of power.

But I want to talk about other things that are even more important, I think. "And he said to his disciples: take nothing for the journey, neither staff nor bag, nor bread nor money, nor take two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there and leave there. And wherever you are not received Go out of that city and shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them. And leaving they went through all the villages announcing the Gospel and healing everywhere." The Lord bless his Word.

I want to talk about an attitude. A mental, spiritual disposition that we need to cultivate and that the Lord wants us to cultivate and adopt in order to be effective servants of the Kingdom of God. The Lord wants you and I to adopt a mentality, a way of seeing the world, the life that is extremely important to be able to carry out the tasks, the tasks that He wants us to carry out. And that is what this passage is about.

Normally one would take this passage and approach it from the perspective of the power and authority given to the disciples, and certainly that is tremendously important. Because we who believe in the Holy Spirit and its validity for our times, know that when we enter the Gospel and are filled with the Holy Spirit and cultivate the gifts of the Spirit, we receive power, we receive authority. The Christian life is a life of power and authority, as that video pointed out very well.

We are not called to the Gospel to continue there enduring and enduring, and clenching our teeth while we receive blows from the devil and from life. There are many approaches to the Gospel that sort of focus on the ability of the children of God to resist, accept what God sends us and simply live life obediently, meekly, with illnesses, the sufferings of life, and sort of focus that in That is truly the power of the Christian life. Power to resist and endure.

But what I see in the Word is that God calls us to a life of power to overcome and to advance, amen? To conquer and to overflow. The apostle Paul says that before in all these things we are more than conquerors. Amen. That's so true. And it is important that we understand this: when Christ calls us to the Gospel, he calls us to live a life of victory over circumstances. The deficiencies, the diseases, the needs, the ties of the mind and the emotions, the past that wants to besiege us, all these things. When you enter the Gospel enter with the expectation of being blessed and prosperous.

But there is something that the Lord wants you to put as the foundation of that life of power and authority. There is a condition, there is an infrastructure that is under that power that He wants to give you. And that is truly what I see in that passage. The three passages, the three versions in the Gospels where this first sending of the disciples is found. Because according to Scripture, it is the moment in which the Lord tells the disciples: now is the time for you to put into practice what you have been taught, what you have received from Me, the instructions. And now I am going to send you so that you can learn how the ministry is done, how the work of evangelization of the nations is carried out.

And He sends them to a practicum. An experiment so they can learn some things. He sends them to put into practice the values of the Gospel, what they have received. And he says that he trained them, gave them power, authority to heal the sick, to free captives and to proclaim the Kingdom of God. There is a great task that the Lord wants for us. And I know that the Lord wants power and authority for our lives. But there is a precondition, there is an attitude that He wants to cultivate in us and that I want to mark before leaving here this afternoon, with what this passage really wants to teach us.

This passage shows us that there is a fundamental attitude that we must cultivate in order to become true servants of Jesus Christ. Where do I find that substratum, that base that the power of God must have in our lives so that the power of God can manifest itself legitimately, authentically so that the devil cannot resist it or subvert it, damage it, or make it ugly? . What does it take for you and I to truly use God's power and authority as God intends us to use it, in a Kingdom way?

It's in verse 3, where the Lord told the disciples: "Take nothing for the journey. Neither staff nor bag, nor bread nor money, nor take two tunics." There is what the Lord wanted these men and women to adopt as their mode of operation. To receive power and authority, to be able to announce the Gospel authentically, to be able to do the work of the Kingdom of God in a sustained way without the enemy coming and damaging what we are doing. Without him being able to come and then distort the manifestation of the power and authority that we have received, something is required.

And before I tell you what it is, if you haven't already figured it out, let me tell you something. Throughout history the Church of Jesus Christ has been empowered many times. It has been given dominion over the nations many times, and each time it has become corrupted and turned its authority over to Satan. The devil has been able to deceive her and has subverted that authority that she has received. When the Church has moved in the power and in the Grace of God, there has been a blessing.

Every time the Church acts in a legitimate way and uses the values of the Kingdom of God, it receives power, authority and grace. But the problem is that every time the Church receives that power with power comes property, wealth, influence, the masses come. The powerful people of the world are coming. Professionals come, kings and authorities come, they come, they enter the Church because God gives that power to the Church. But if the Church is not prepared in its interior configuration and in its attitudes, and in its values, that same authority and that same power, and that same influence and prosperity become a curse for the Church. And then the Church loses its flavor. Like salt then says the Lord that it is no longer good for anything except to be thrown away if it loses its flavor.

How has that been? For example historians clearly recognize, more or less in the fourth century of the time after Jesus Christ. Constantine, the great Emperor Constantine was converted, and the Christian Church went from being a poor, but growing, persecuted Church to being the official religion of Rome. Constantine converted to the Lord and with him his entire court converted, all his soldiers, the important people of the time converted. And the Church came to have authority. But with that authority, with that prosperity also came corruption.

The loss of legitimacy and the values of the Kingdom of God came. And then the Church began to be corrupted. Powerful people came, educated people came, and in order to give place to these people, the Church began to change the values of the Kingdom of God. And that Church became a very influential Church but a corrupt Church that did not reflect the values of the Kingdom.

And throughout history all the monastic movements of the Church, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Histercians, all these were revival groups that came to the Catholic Church with old values from the Word to renew and then God blessed them with prosperity. because where the Gospel is there is power. But also with that prosperity they were also corrupting. Many of these monasteries became powerful, rich sites, a lot of art, a lot of culture, but they lost their original vision.

The Gospel has always been nourished, the ministry has always been nourished by new people who come and renew those who have been corrupted. But I believe that the problem is that there has not been an adequate formation of the leadership of the Church that is capable of resisting this process of seduction that is unleashed when the world comes to us as a product of the power that Christ gives us. I believe that what happens is that we have not been prepared within ourselves first. We have not been sealed with the attitude that befits a servant of God with respect to material things and the things of this world, and the values of this world, and the security that we seek, and the appetite for riches and things of the world.

And then many times you see that the servants of God and the Churches are preaching the Gospel but unfortunately it is a corrupt Gospel that tastes of flesh and of the world. And that's why you see so much of this easy prosperity gospel, give me your money and God is going to give you a big house, and he's going to give you a car and a job. We have distorted the true prosperity of the Kingdom of God and I believe in a God who prospers and blesses brothers. I've seen it in my own life, in my family, and I believe that. When the Kingdom of God comes it is to bless and prosper us. But the important thing is what is inside your heart.

If your heart is attached to material things. If in your heart there has not been a death to the affections of the world, you are still raw. So when blessings come into your life and prosperity comes into your life, and properties come into your life, and material blessings come, those possessions will possess you instead of you possessing them.

I believe that the Son of God must have gone through a process. That if prosperity comes into his life, academic achievements or influence or governmental power or whatever, that person must have gone through a process in which God has killed in him or her the attachment to those things. And then that person uses them and enjoys them but as if they were not his, knowing that they do not belong to him and knowing that just as they came, so they can also go. One uses them and takes advantage of them but lightly without putting his affection on them.

So if God gives you a nice house like the one we saw there in the video, you enjoy it. But if one day something happens and you lose that house, you know that God is still sitting on His throne loving you as He loved you when He gave it to you. And you say as God gave, God took away, the Will of the Lord be done.

If God gives you an extraordinary job, you enjoy it, you invest in it, you invest your creativity in it. You take advantage of the benefit that work gives you. But you know that if one day the Lord tells you: you know what?, now I need you to serve me full time. That job you have enough distance from him emotionally that you can say: ok Lord, when do you want me?, ready. And if you have to leave it, you leave it, if you have to reduce your lifestyle to the basics, you do it, because your work does not own you, you own your work. And if the Lord asks you, you give it to him.

Because you know that this world is fleeting and you have gone through a process where you are living here but you are not from here, you are living in the world but you are not from the world. The world does not control you, it does not own you. You are lord of the world and you move in it, you enjoy creation, but creation does not govern you. And that is what the Lord wants in our lives.

God wants a posture where blessings come but we don't get attached to the positions and blessings that come from God. And I always see in Scripture that God always wants to take us to that point of dispossession and detachment from material things. And that's what I see. Why does the Lord give them authority?

Look, God can give authority and power to His Church because that comes from Him and He cedes it to them and transfers it to His servants, and He does it by decree almost so to speak. The disciples at a time when the Spirit rested on them on the day of Pentecost were instantly changed. From being cowardly and tiny people, and scared and fleeing from those who crucified the Lord, for the moment they became lions. And the same Peter who denied Jesus Christ three times now announces and tells the whole world: it is better to obey the Lord than to obey men. So if you don't like it too bad, I'm going to preach the Gospel anyway.

And he is filled with courage and valor, and the Church becomes an overwhelming force, why? Because God transferred power to them through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. But there is something that I believe that God does not do it that way, He chooses not to do it that way, and it is to foster in us the attitude of a servant detached from matter and the things of the world. And that has to happen through a training process in us that with the passage of time, every day we are stripping ourselves more and more of that attitude that the typical, common and current man has, the woman, who we believe that Possessions are everything, my life is everything: friends, money, enjoyment of material and sensual things, clothes, I already said friendships, social things, prestige, a good car, a well-decorated house, fine clothes.

The day has to come when all those things lose their fascination for you. You can use them, you can enjoy them, but you know that it has no life, that is not you, you are more than those things. And if you don't have them, amen, you can be happy. If you have them, you are willing to give them to the Lord whenever He wants. And I see through Scripture over and over again that God wants to put us through processes that dilute and thin those threads that the world has tied around us, over and over again.

In order for a man or a woman to be used with authority, they first need to go through a process of crucifixion, of dispossession, of the self, of the appetite for material things, of putting their treasures where they have to go, of loving more the Kingdom of God and eternity than the things of the world and matter.

Think for example of Abraham: God gave Abraham a son. At 100 years of age he gives him a son. After 25 years of promising it. At 75 years old, this man believes that he is going to go to the grave without an heir, and his wife alike. And he tells them I'm going to give you a son, and he cooks it for 25 years on a slow fire before giving it to them at 100 years old. And after he gives them to him, when this son is an adolescent, who has learned to love him well with the love of an old man, he tells him: now give me your son and kill him, and sacrifice him to me. Can you imagine the atrocity, what happened in Abraham's heart and mind when he had to take his son to that mountain to sacrifice him and kill him?

But Abraham said: well, Lord, if that's what you want, I can't understand it, but if that's what you ask of me, I'm going to give it to you. The Lord wanted to bring Abraham to that point of being willing to give him what he loved the most. His whole life was encrypted in that son, his affection, his offspring, the promises that the Lord had given to Abraham, all of that was encrypted in that young man and God allowed him to go through that process. Until at the very moment of putting the knife into his son, God sends his angel and tells Abraham: stop. Since you were willing to give yourself your son, your only son, I will give you offspring that if you can count the sands of the sea and the beach, your offspring can be counted.

And I am going to give you influence, and you are going to be a blessing to the nations. Whoever curses you I'm going to curse, whoever blesses you I'm going to bless. And the nations will rejoice in calling themselves your descendants like us here today, how good that we are descendants of the father of faith, Abraham, through whom Jesus Christ came. But it all began with a moment of death where Abraham had to give what he appreciated the most to God, in his heart, in his mind, because that is where that process has to take place. Not necessarily in matter.

It is that in us there has to be that takeoff, from within. And I see that in all of Scripture. Look at the rich young ruler. When that young man, who is a man of influence, would have been 30, 35 years old, in those days he was nothing, as I now see people who are 35 years old and I say how young they are. You get older and people look younger, right? But this man was, we say the rich young man, he was perhaps 30, 35 years old, at a time like that, 30, 35 years old, he was a young person because it was a society that looked more towards the elderly.

So this young man in the prime of his influence, his career, his prestige. Because he was a man of money and social influence. Some believe that he was a member of the religious Sanhedrin. People saw him as a prestigious person. And that young man in the prime of his manhood approaches Jesus with a compelling need, full of anxiety. It says that he came running and threw himself at the feet of Jesus Christ and said: Lord, what must I do to inherit eternal life? He did not know what to do, he was overwhelmed by uncertainty about the future.

The Lord looks at him, and since the Lord has drilled eyes, he immediately went to the center of his heart, where He knew which foot this young man was limping on. And set him up. And he said: well, no problem, it's good that you are interested in the things of the Kingdom. Look, all you have to do is: keep the commandments. Keep the commandments, be good, and study the Bible and go to church. And he says: but Lord, yes, I have done that since I was little. Furthermore: I am a pastor, I am a preacher, I am a member of the Council of Churches of the Assembly of God. I have kept that from my youth, he says, and it has not given me satisfaction.

Because that's what I tell you, brothers: you can come to Church every Sunday. Jump, give money. But it is what occurs in the mind, in the heart, in the emotions, in the will, that is what counts. For the Lord it is not so much the doing as the being. Being is born from being. What you do is born from who you are and from the works that God has done within you. The most difficult work of the Christian life is what is given within me. What no one sees The formation of my structures of my brain, my mind, my will, my emotions. That is.

Because that is where everything else is born, that is the driving force of the human being. If your emotions are fine, if your spirit is fine, if your mentality is aligned with the Kingdom of God, what comes out of you will be good. The Lord says that the treasure of the heart speaks the mouth. And it says that what is in the heart is that all things are born. Homicides, crimes, oppression, theft, everything is born from what is inside the human being. Therefore the first thing that God wants to work with us is our inner being. Our affections, priorities, appetites, what we give importance to, what is the priority in our life.

So when the Lord tells the young man this and the young man answers: I do all that. Every Sunday I go to Church, I lead the praise in the Church. I preach from time to time, I am a member of the board of deacons. And the Lord tells him: oh well, thanks for informing me. So you only need one thing, you know what? No problem, since you already have all that done, I'm going to give you just a small allowance. Take everything you have, all your money, and all your possessions, the houses you have, the cars, sell it all. Have a big auction or sell it to the bank, whatever, and give all the money away to the poor. And then come and follow me, and you will find the peace and the answer that you need.

It hit him right in the center of his heart. He reached for it in his mind, where his treasure was. He aimed that rocket at him, that missile right there, at the very core of his appetites and what he valued most, his money. And this is the thing, brothers, that until God comes to settle in what we love the most, we cannot truly say that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

The Word says that this young man, when confronted with that assignment that God gave him, says that he returned home with his head down and sad because he did not have the courage to do what Christ told him to do. As the Lord saw him return to his reality, he said: ah, how difficult it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Because?. Because you have something to. You don't have to be rich in money, one can be rich in beauty, rich in friends, rich in talents, rich even in rhythm. You can be rich in rhythm and dance like a top, and that's what you like, and you want to go to the clubs every Saturday night, and it's not bad in itself, but it's not the best place, and everything that comes. And since rhythm is what he likes the most, the Lord tells him: you know I want you to give me your rhythm. And you say: Father, ah, but why didn't you ask me for something else?

You can be rich in energy of any kind. Good humor, one of those spicy humor that people love when they are at parties but it is not what pleases God, and you don't want it so God says: ok, no problem. Where is our wealth? That's what we read, where your treasure is, there is your heart. And the Lord wants to go to your treasure and have you sign a voucher where it says: that belongs to Me. And then when you do that, you give to God what you love the most, the Lord says: now you and I can work, now I can use you. Now the devil will not be able to play havoc in your ministry and in your life. I believe that this is the legitimate way to undertake a ministry and service to the Lord. Or in any aspect in our life.

I can of God, God wants to form you. Then, why did the Lord say: do not go? If you are going to serve me on this mission trip, do not take two robes. Don't bring money, bring what is absolutely necessary. Do not take food or money, or a saddlebag or staff for the road or anything. Why two tunics? Because two tunics reflect how secure one is.

Sisters, when you travel, how are those suitcases? They go on a weekend trip and it seems like they are going to Africa or Asia for 10 years. They need two or three people to push the suitcase full of different handbags for each moment, and shoes of different colors and the earrings that go with the shoe, and with the necklace and all the things. Because one is thinking about convenience, about all the things that can arise. And the Lord told the disciples, you know what? I want you to get rid of all the security scaffolding that one uses in life.

And I want to begin to build in you an appreciation for the simple reliance on my provision. I want you to learn to trust Me, and to trust that if I send you to something and you depend on Me, you will not lack for anything along the way. So don't take me anything. Go and trust in my provision for the road.

And that's what we have to do. Life is a road. You still have 20, 30, 40 years to live, and you have to believe that Jehovah is your provider. You will not lack for the road. And then you have to live, not depending on the bank account, on friendships, on your cunning, on your preparation. You depend on the Lord, your trust is in the Lord. He is the one who will provide you for the road. And I tell you something, if you learn to live with a fierce and militant dependence on God, the Lord will not miss a single second of your life. Cultivate that dependence on the Lord.

And when the Lord tells you: get rid of yourself. Because I have other interests, and give me your property, and give me your gifts, and give me your talent, whatever, give it to the Lord, whatever, because God is your Provider. And where that came from will come more. God can provide you.

Let's finish for a moment, I ask the musicians to come over here quickly and I ask them to wait a couple more minutes if you can, okay? So it's important. God wants to create a people used by Him. I believe that God has truly extraordinary things for you and me in the future. But He wants to forge in us a disciple mentality. A mentality of a person who has died to self, to need and who lives for the Kingdom of God. Look, the mercy of God, the provisions of God have no end, they have no end.

I don't know if I have used this illustration from our own life. Years ago when Mecha and I got married, and I was still doing my graduate studies, Mecha was just starting her job, I remember once. We had even already bought our house in Summerville, and money was tight. And God has always kind of allowed that sometimes the money and the saddlebag only arrive in a couple of small coins. And God allows it to reach that point to show us: I am your Provider, I am the one who can renew that for you.

I may have told you this: I remember that I was around Union Square there in Summerville, I don't know why I clearly remember where the place was. And God has always provided me with brothers, I can give you stories of how I have always had to walk believing in the God who is my Provider, and he has allowed me to live like a king, like a prince, brothers, I tell you, he has always given me the best, but it has always been like that, I depending on Him. And He longing for me as we Dominicans say. Sincerely, always giving the best of the best.

So that day I am walking a little troubled because there are things to pay, bills to pay. And for some reason I opened the wallet and there was a little card, which I tell you that I have never known where that little card came from or how it got into my wallet. An angel put it there, I don't know, God created it out of nothing, I don't know, what happens is that I no longer use a wallet, everything in my pocket, very biblical, right? I don't know why but at some point I stopped using a wallet. But it's there, the wallet is there somewhere, and one day I'm going to look for it, I carried it with me for many years in my wallet.

And there was a tiny card there almost the size of a wallet that said the following: live it to the Lord, leave it to the Lord. He didn't say anything else. And I was surprised to see it inside my bag, but in light of my need, of my condition, I knew that God was telling me: hey, I have never lacked you. I have never left you. Leave Me, throw your load on Me and I will take care of your need. I believed and received that Word from the Lord, and it goes without saying that God provided, he blessed me, I don't even remember what the situation was or how it was resolved, but I assure you that it was resolved, and the blessing and provision came. Because God wants us to learn to live like this.

And on another occasion God gave me a sermon that I felt was a blessing, rich, and that was well appreciated by my brothers many years ago. You go to my house and there are two boxes of sermons, which I stored there for years and years. I wrote sometimes 12 and 18 pages of preaching notes. Thank God those times are over. And that's how long the sermons were too. The fact is that that day the Lord gave me a Word that I had not written. And you know what I had thought: it's good that I'm writing all these sermons, because the day will come when I will have 100, 150 sermons and I no longer have to write new sermons, and all I do is take out sermons from there and I preach them, I reheat them and I come back and I preach them and that's it. I don't have to work anymore to do sermons.

Look where my faith and my ambitions were at that time. So I preach that sermon that day, and I was regretting that I had not written it, I had no note for the blessed sermon. That sermon is so good, I'm going to lose it, I'm going to waste it. And my desire was to get home and start writing it right away. And the Lord told me inside me: where that one came from, many more are going to come out. The Lord told me: I have no limits, just as I gave you that I can give you other sermons. Don't worry about putting it there and putting it in bronze, if My creativity is infinite.

Rather worry about making a connection with My Spirit, because if you are connected with My Spirit, My Spirit is infinitely creative and you will always be creative with My Word, you will not lack My Word. That is what you have to make sure. And the Lord has never lacked, that water for the glory of the Lord has always flowed.

And that is why I encourage you this afternoon my brother, my sister, stick to the fountain, and make sure that if the Lord asks you for something, you give it to him, and that your affection is in the Lord, in His Kingdom and in the things of eternity. Make yourself an instrument in the hands of God, put your affection in the Kingdom and the Lord will never tire of blessing you.

I end with this: what happened to the story of the disciples at the end of it all, when they went to work? They preached the Gospel, they did as the Lord told them, they didn't take money, they didn't take anything. Look what happened: days later, in Luke chapter 22, verse 35, we see the Lord again with his disciples, and it says here: "And he said to them: when I sent them without purse, without knapsack, and without shoes, what did they miss something?"Look at the question.

When I sent them without money, without credit card, without Master Card, without cash, without a computer where you can transfer money or whatever, when I sent them only depending on My mercy, My Grace and My provision to do the work of the Kingdom, did they lack something? Did I fail something in my promise? And they said: nothing, we lacked nothing.

Brothers, if the Lord promises you a blessed life, do not hesitate, do not hesitate. Launch yourself to live life and work for the Kingdom and be an instrument, a channel of God's Grace. Sell, give away, lend, invest, get rid of, give, to the right and to the left, distribute to seven and eight because the Lord will not tire of blessing you. New are his mercies every morning, hallelujah.

This afternoon I invite you: adopt the mentality of a servant, a servant of God. Sell what you own, give it all to the Lord, strip yourself within yourself. Close your eyes for a moment and focus on the call of the Lord. Right now you are the young man, the rich young woman and the Lord tells you: sell everything, get rid of everything, die to yourself, what do you love the most? Die to your dreams, die to your appetites, die to what you love and appreciate the most, and dare to place it at My feet. Even the desire to do things for Me, give that to Me. The desire to be used even, look, even that give it to me, and simply love me and value me for what I am.

Appreciate Me nakedly in what I am worth by Myself, lose yourself in Me. Lose your life and you will win it. Die and you will live. Destroy yourself and undo yourself on earth and you will bear fruit in abundance for My Glory. Slim down and you will have many spiritual children, and you will have blessing, and you will have glory in My Kingdom. Live like a pilgrim, you are passing through the world. You are a foreigner, do not become attached to anything in the world, do not love the things of the world, do not love what is in the world, because loving something that is in this world is enmity with My Kingdom and enmity with Me. Love My Kingdom and love Me for who I am.

Get rid of, let go of everything you love right now. And may the next few years of your life be that, give the Lord everything He asks of you, one thing at a time, one thing at a time, one thing at a time. Your character, your temperament, your personality, your attitudes, your way of being, your way of speaking. Tell him Lord: I want to be like You. I want to love like you, talk like you, walk like you. The Son of Man has no place to lay his head, says the Lord, and I want to be like You in my spirit, and if You call me to be a pilgrim who has nowhere to lay his head, I will do it for the glory of Your name. , because my desire is that Your name be exalted and glorified.

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. People of God adopt the attitude of a disciple. And if there is anyone who has not taken that step of faith, of adopting the mentality of a disciple, I hope that we are not too hasty in our spirit to give our lives to the Lord right now.

There will be someone who has not taken that step of faith yet, to give their life to Jesus, and who wants to do it before we leave here like we presented those children. Perhaps you feel called to present your life to the Lord and give yourself to Him this afternoon. I would like to bless you and place you in the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ. If there is someone who has not done it yet and wants to do it this afternoon, I want to have that opportunity and bless your life.

Amen. Surrender your life however to the Lord here within your heart. This Church is given to you. I give you everything I have, everything I am Lord. May Your Name be enthroned in me, in us, in this Church. Install your flag in the very center of Congregación León de Judá. Install, Lord, the symbol of Your Kingdom in our hearts. Let the Lion of Judah not be seen, let the cross of the immolated lamb be seen. The flag of the Kingdom of God is seen, the name of Jesus Christ is seen.

No other value, no pride, no reputation, only the name of Jesus, nothing else Lord, the values of Your Kingdom establishing itself in this Church. We are hungry and hungry to see Your agenda set Lord, through this community. May Your Glory be seen and known in the nations. Establish Your purpose, own us Lord, we give you everything. We give you everything, thank you Lord. We adore you, we bless you. Thank you Lord, praise Your Name.