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How can we impact the world?

Eladio Alvarez

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Eladio Alvarez

Summary: The message is about impacting the world and the importance of evangelism. The speaker discusses the reasons why people do not convert to Christianity and emphasizes the need for Christians to be a light in the world. He also highlights the importance of prayer and spiritual connection in evangelism, using the example of Cornelius in Acts chapter 10. The message emphasizes that salvation can only come through Jesus Christ and that it is the duty of Christians to spread the Gospel.

The speaker discusses the importance of being connected to God in order to win souls for His Kingdom. He uses examples from Acts chapters 8, 9, 10, and 16 to illustrate how God connects people in need with those who can help them through prayer and evangelism. The speaker encourages listeners to make a commitment to pray for and evangelize ten people in 2013 and to persist in their efforts. He also shares a personal testimony of how a pamphlet he distributed led to a woman accepting the Lord and asking for prayer for her husband.

The speaker shares a personal testimony of distributing pamphlets and seeing a tangible result in someone accepting Christ. He also encourages believers to ask God for courage and to prepare themselves for evangelism. He emphasizes the importance of divine connections and the need to soften hearts with the Gospel message. The prayer at the end asks for God's anointing and preparation for evangelism.

The tribe of the Lion of Judah had three important characteristics. The first was that he had his position within the strategy to be able to march, my brothers had a fundamental position. That is why this Church has a fundamental position of leadership, of leadership, of impact.

The second thing was their attitude of war, of going forward to fight, to conquer, and this Church has that characteristic. And thirdly, it was a tribe that gave honor and glory to the Lord, and it is good that this Church also has that attitude of giving honor and glory to the Lord. We could say in the New Testament a prophetic attitude of calling, of going forward, of preaching, of conquering, of showing leadership, and this Church has done so. Amen? very good my brothers how good.

So in this little card that we have, first we are going to pray, we are going to ask the Lord for a blessing, let me pray. So seated as we are, let us bow our heads: We thank you Father for this moment of being here Lord in Your House which You called House of Prayer, thank you Lord because we have come to adore You, to praise You, to recognize Your Greatness and Your Power. Beloved Father, one of Your names in the Old Testament is Most High because there is no other equal to You Lord. We know it, we recognize it because we have read and mainly because we have experienced Your great love for us. We give you honor and glory and we thank you through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Lord. Thanks, Dad.

We also thank you for the Holy Spirit who has not left us alone, Lord, for this reason, Father, we pray to the Holy Spirit to speak to us once again, bless us, Lord, in this beautiful service of honor and glory for You. Speak to us Lord like never before in Jesus name amen.

Amen. Well, my brothers, the title of the message says there: Impact 2013. There is the text of Acts chapter 1 verse 8, we know it very well, it says: "And you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth" Acts 1:8. The big question is my brothers that each one of us has to ask ourselves is how can we impact the world? how can we impact? How can I, you, each one of us as children of God, representatives, ambassadors of the Great King impact my boss, my colleagues, my neighbors, my relatives who still do not know the Lord Jesus Christ?

But before answering that question it is important that we see why, God says here that he wants everyone to convert, if we can please put Second Peter 3:9, Second Peter chapter 3 verse 9 tells us my dear brothers that: " The Lord does not delay His Promise", although some consider it delayed "but He is patient with us, not wanting that any should perish but that all should proceed to repentance."

God wants, this is essential for us my dear brothers, God wants everyone to come to repentance, God wants. That is why He sent His Son "because God so loved the world that He gave His Son so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish." God does not want anyone to perish, absolutely no one. That's why he wants to win, that's why he sent his Son, that's why he made each one of us witnesses of Jesus Christ to preach the Gospel. That great truth must be present in you, God wants to save everyone around you.

Second important thing: the only transformation solution for humans only is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Second Corinthians 5:17 says it: "So if anyone is in Jesus Christ, he is a new creature." What is going to make people transformed, who are going to change, who are going to have a resounding change of mind, heart, life, soul, spirit, destiny? It's just going to be the power of the Gospel, Jesus Christ. Nothing else.

That is why I placed these two fundamental aspects. God wants to save everyone because that must be present in our hearts. That is the Will of God, that is what we have to do. And secondly, the only means, the only reason, the only solution model for this world is Jesus Christ alone, amen?

After that, see: if God wants the whole world to be saved and the only way is Jesus Christ, the big question is there in red, so why don't the unbelievers accept Jesus as the Lord and Savior of their life? why?, what is the reason? And I have discovered in the Bible that there are three reasons why people do not accept the Lord Jesus Christ, they do not convert.

Let's see according to John chapter 3 verse 19, John says: "And this is the condemnation, that Light came into the world and men loved darkness more than Light because their works were evil." So let's put there you can write number 1 according to John 3:19 why don't they convert? because they decide, place the little word there: they decide, that is, the text says: and this is the condemnation. Why are they condemned? It is not God who condemns them, this is the condemnation.

That the light came into the world, Jesus Christ came into the world and men decided, that is, people do not accept Jesus Christ my dear brothers by their own decision, free will. They love sin more, darkness, dirty things. They decide unfortunately, it is their own decision. God has given that power to each one of us, to love him or to reject him and this first reason is that they decide. We can invite them, we can give them a pamphlet, we can offer them to come here, we can bring them, we go to their houses, we give them a pamphlet, we preach but they don't want to, they don't want to, they love darkness more, they love sin more.

That is why the first reason why they are lost according to John 3:19 because they decide, place the word there they decide to love the world, sin and darkness more. The second reason why people get lost. According to Second Corinthians verse 3 and 4 "because our enemy has" says "but if our Gospel is still hidden among those who are lost it is hidden." The 4th please: "In which the God of this century" what did the God of this century do? "he blinded the understanding of the unbelievers so that the light of the Gospel and of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them."

Second reason why people don't convert, do you know why? the devil, the demons Satan with all his darkened net, blinds, darkens, blocks, they cannot see. They are ready to see sin, dirt, wickedness, lies, deceit, so many dirty things, vices, pornography has blinded them. They hunger and thirst for evil.

So the first reason is because people decide. The second reason is because the devil does his job, that a large part of humanity is blinded, blocked, unable to look, observe the resplendent light that is the Lord Jesus Christ. And also why don't people convert? because we are not being; Let's look at Matthew 5:14 to 16 please. "You are the salt of the world. A city established on a mountain cannot be hidden, nor can a light be turned on and placed under a bushel, but rather on a candlestick and shine on all who are at home. So let your light shine before of men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven."

The third reason, brothers, why people do not convert, is not a problem of themselves because they decide, it is not a problem of the devil, but the third reason is because we are not light, we are not illuminating. Jesus Christ increases further there in other texts and says: salt and light. We are not doing our job. We are not impacting, we are not evangelizing, we are not moving, we are not illuminating.

He says a light has to be up to illuminate the city. And it says something that agrees with me, verse 16 says: "so it shines." God wants my brother, God wants our light, the power of the Gospel to be illuminating, illuminating. It says: "so shine your light before men so that people may see." My brothers many times we in Catholicism did works, we did thinking that salvation was by works but when we become evangelicals, Christians we no longer do anything, everything is done. It seems that we are done with coming to church on Sunday, to sing to it, to give our offering.

That's not bad, that's not bad, but you know what my dear brothers? we have to hand out brochures, we have to evangelize, we have to pray, we have to walk, we have to open our house, we have to illuminate. People have to see that Jesus Christ is Lord and is giving birth. Give our Lord Jesus a round of applause, he is giving birth. We have to illuminate our testimony, our neighbors.

On one occasion there was a brother from the Church who invited him to his neighbor it was a Sunday and he said: "not next Sunday", it was the other Sunday "not next Sunday". It was about three times and for the last time when the Christian told him the following: I know your life, I hear the screams, I hear your bad character, I hear how abusive you are with your wife and your children, am I going to go? to the Church with the testimony that you are giving me? I prefer to stay here. Wow.

We have to bear good witness. The light of the Gospel has to illuminate. Amen. Jesus Christ waits. Jesus Christ challenged at the beginning of His ministry and those twelve later illuminated with power and authority, so we have to do. We have to be a fire, a raging burning flame throughout New England and let people know that Jesus Christ is the light of the world, the only salvation, the only model, amen?

A week ago we heard President Obama's message, excellent, well, an excellent oratory is not bad, several solutions. A good economy, that we once again be number one in industry, in technology. What an excellent message, what motivation. But the real reason my brothers how this nation is going to become great, successful, powerful is only under the power of this Word, amen, amen. What a pity that the president lacked that, my brothers, so that this country, your nation, my nation, our nation the United States returns to the ways of the Word of God on which it was founded.

Now there in green it says: what should I do to impact my world? Pray in connection with God. Amen pray in connection with God and up there we see the parts that say: text, next to it it says: person in need and result of the connection. The title of this meditation is called: connection, connection and here I want to focus. Give me these ten minutes that I lack, the Pastor tells me yes but the homiletics teacher when I was studying there in Brazil my teacher told me: Eladio when you are invited for the first time in a Church preach with enthusiasm, biblically and in third place short so that they invite you again (laughs).

So I want to come back here again, thank you Pastor for those two minutes you give me. What I want to see as we look at Acts chapter 10 my dear brother is to see the God connection. There are several ways of evangelism in the New Testament and in the book of Acts: homes, personally, through the masses, through healing, personally many ways. One of them, one of them is the spiritual connection. What does connection mean? look let's see.

A person connected with the need for the Gospel but is connected, is asking, is hungry and thirsty for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, wants a relationship with God, desires and we will see later the connection of a servant of God, of a man of God , of a woman of God who is connected seeking the Will of God and then I can imagine God from above is looking at the needy, is looking at the one who can supply the need through the message and brings them together, unites them and that is the connection .

You my dear brother, I can be connected, we must be connected asking God for that neighbor, friend, partner, the boss, that co-worker who wants to get divorced, who is having problems in a marriage with difficulties, has a drug-addicted son, He has difficulties, he has financial problems, he doesn't know what to do, but then he wants something, a Word, he is hopeful and then, when you are connected, God takes you, takes you and connects you. We will see that.

First let's look at Acts chapter 10, Cornelius 10:1, chapter 10 verse 1. "There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius" Cornelius is a soldier, he is one of the first Gentile converts. Centurion, he had 100 soldiers, that's why the word 100 comes from, he had 100 soldiers in charge of the company called "la italiana". Verse 2 please, the next one or three. See, look at how he was, he was not a Christian but he was pious, fearful of God, a good leader in his house and he did a lot of alms, he was open-handed to the people and he always prayed to God.

Verse 3 is that 3? "he saw clearly in a vision" notice God revealed a vision to him. Unbeliever, gentle, fearful of God, he gives an offering, so there are people like that out there, there are people like that who are moralistic, there are people who have good morals but do not know Christ the Lord. "He saw clearly in a vision about the ninth hour." Very well gone. Come on Acts chapter 10, we are there. Notice what verse 3 says: "He clearly saw a vision how the ninth hour of the day an angel of God entered where he was and said to him: Cornelius. Looking at him fixedly and frightened, he said: what is this? Lord and said " notice what he says to the angel: "your prayers and your alms have gone up for" what is memory? to make you remember look.

I don't want to get into that but only in this way touching the prayer a little makes you remember God. I don't know about money, there must be a thermometer there, a file, I can imagine that God is there and sees the file: wow Eladio doesn't pray, but positively: wow Manuel is praying, he needs hey angels, go help! He is being faithful in his tithes and he is having financial problems. Wow, there is a thermometer, something that measures that reminds God, I don't know how that will be up there in heaven, but it reminds God. And I take the opportunity to do a little commercial here Pastor: bring your money from last Sunday I'm going to repeat. Notice what is being done are works for the Kingdom for the honor and glory of the Lord.

About 3 years ago I bought a car on credit and I paid a fortune, now I have bought another car too but at one point God told me: are you giving the same for the missionary work? and sometimes one pays 20,000 dollars for a car, and for missions, how much does one give, for the work, how much does one give? Remember my brothers this is biblical. Money is not what God can buy. I'm not meaning to say that, I don't want anyone to misunderstand me, but it's there and I'm not using it to manipulate, but my brothers, let's be faithful and generous, amen.

Returning to the topic, look at this man has good characteristics but he is incredulous. But then let's go to Acts chapter 10 verses 8 and 9. Let's go to 8 and 9, it says: "to whom he sent after having told them everything." The 9: "the next day while they were on the road" what I want to show is that the instrument of God, Peter, look at verse 5, sorry sorry verse 9, not 10, 10 sorry I'm not with my Bible . Let's go to 10 please.

"And he was very hungry and wanted to eat but while they were preparing something for him, an ecstasy overcame him" on the 11th please "and he saw heaven open" Peter is seeing "at the same time and that something like a large canvas was descending that he tied from the four points was lowered to the earth in which there were all terrestrial quadrupeds and reptiles, and birds of the sky. And a voice came that said to him: get up Peter kill and eat, then Peter said: no Lord because nothing common or unclean I have never eaten." And the voice returned to him the second time: "What God cleansed, do not call common. This was done three times and Peter did not understand and that canvas returned to be picked up in heaven.

"And while Peter was perplexed" notice he was stunned "within himself as to what the vision which he had seen would mean, behold the men who had been sent by Cornelius who inquiring after Simon's house came to the door, and knocking asked if a Simon who had the nickname Peter lived there. And while Peter was thinking "this caught my attention in the vision," he said to him, "who told him? the Holy Spirit here: "behold, three men are looking for you" look "while Cornelius is here" he is in Caesarea, receives an angel and tells him: go and look for a man named Peter and then he sends, there in the same moment Peter is connected with God, he has a vision.

God is telling him: Peter I want to win over the Gentiles and he shows him the animals and he says: no, no no no, no and he shows him three times and he is still thinking but at that moment they are knocking on the door and that text says , the Holy Spirit says, it seems that he gets a little annoyed and tells him: "Hey, Peter, come down and open the door because there are some men who are looking for you" and they will tell you. Pedro goes with them, right? I am going to read the text but the beautiful thing is that he goes there, enters and let's see this text.

On the sheet it says Acts 10 44 to 48. What is the result of Peter going to that house? Look, it says: "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the speech." The word fell in the original catches my attention. Do you know what fell is like? like when someone grabs a brick and throws it with such force because there are Cornelio's friends, neighbors, relatives in that house. Peter is preaching, it is a nucleus, it is a cell, and when the Holy Spirit sees that it falls, it comes with force, with power, it anoints.

When you open your house, my brother, there is praise, there is adoration, there is Word. My brothers, the Holy Spirit rejoices and comes, it does not come like that, it falls anointing, blessing, baptizing, healing, curing, feeding, exhorting, there is a power. That is what was in this cell.

The other text says: "And the faithful of the circumcision who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles" amen, connection. In Caesarea a needy man named Cornelius, in Joppa the man of God receives the revelation. Then he goes and preaches: there is salvation, there is healing, there is anointing, there is baptism in the Holy Spirit, there is salvation, there is all my brothers. God's work was done, that's connection.

Acts chapter 9 Saul of Tarsus, let's see Acts 9 and 10, what is the figure here? Saulo we know who he is, he wants to kill, he wants to destroy this sect the way. And then on the road going to Damascus he meets Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ tells him look at a detail here, the Lord does not say: "Saul, Saul why do you persecute my Church", says "Me". My brother, know this: any injustice that is being done to you in your work, whoever it is, is being done to the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Just wait, don't defend yourself Jesus takes the fight, the fight for you, amen. Glory to the Lord.

So then what happened? Saul is touched, he does not convert, he has not converted and he goes to the city blind, humiliated and all that. 9 and 10 says: "There was then in Damascus a disciple named Ananias" says Ananias. Ananias my brothers never appears again in the New Testament and Ananias is a humble little brother who is not like the apostles, the disciples or something like that, but he is a little brother, what is he doing? to whom the Lord said: "in?" what is he having? In his house Ananias has a vision and he replied "here I am, Lord."

The other please, and the Lord told him: "get up, go to the house called right and look in the house of Judas for a man named Saul of Tarsus because behold, he prays" see? Jesus Christ knows who prays. Jesus Christ knew that Ananias was connected in a vision praying so it is revealed to him. Ananias, who is it? an unknown little brother who never appears again, for us we humans say that it is worth nothing but for God you are praying my brother, that nobody knows, that it may not appear in the bulletin, our name may not appear in the notice board but God knows that you are praying. So God uses that little sister and connects.

And he tells Ananias: go to the right street, there is a man named Saul of Tarsus there. Wow Lord! I would be scared too. That man is persecuting the Church, he is killing. Go and see why it is a chosen vessel for me. Amen, we don't know who that is that is going to convert.

Look, Jesus Christ knows where the unbeliever and needy are. Jesus Christ is better than a GPS. What was the name of the street where Saul of Tarsus was? At that time there were no numbers, right? number so, so, there goes what's up? We are not going to see the text but there he is converted, he is baptized, he is healed and there a tremendous man of God is born.

Third place going for a while to Acts chapter 8 who is the person in need? the Ethiopian. Felipe Acts chapter 8, Felipe what is he doing in Samaria, do you know what my brothers are doing? is doing a tremendous evangelistic campaign. Notice if I am the evangelist doing a great campaign and if I were Felipe I would say: Lord, I rebuke you, that is not from God, I am doing a great campaign here, how am I going to go there into the desert? imagine but that's how God is. That was an instrument the Ethiopian. And so he is connected, how is he connected to God, what is he doing? He's reading, he's reading the Isaiah Bible. And then the Holy Spirit takes him out of here so that he can evangelize a person, an Ethiopian who is in his car, his car well 2013, 15 what do I know and then Felipe tells him: understand what He is.

But how am I going to understand if I don't know who you're talking about? Stay connected by reading God's Word. There are incredulous people who are reading the Word of God and all that remains is for you to go. I can talk to you, I can explain. I would like to teach you more let me talk to you about the Word of God. Connected and then baptized. Result of the connection.

The last example there are several examples in the Bible, I only brought 4. Acts chapter 16 Lydia. Lydia is a high class person. The apostle Paul arrives in Philippi, which is a city and whenever he arrived he went to the synagogue and there is no synagogue Acts chapter 16, and then he investigates; there are some women praying in the river, he asks for the Word, preaches and says the text that while Paul is preaching the Holy Spirit touched the heart. That is why, my brothers, when you open the Word, speak the Word, preach, expose, give advice from the Word, God is touching that heart. And she opened the heart of Lydia and she accepted the Lord and she went and she and all her household were baptized. Amen.

Connection. Down there it says: connection is the spiritual mobilization of prayer of the Church for the expansion of the Kingdom of God. Now let's put the leaves. I would like you to place this Church, what is the name of this Church?, what is it called? Lion of Judah very good. Its objective this 2013 impact the life of 1400. If we multiply 1400 by 10 of each one, how many will we win? I say let's go because I want to help them in prayer and I really want to help them. 1400 times ten, how much would it be? We can impact 14,000 people, amen?

You know 10 so you say impact the lives of 14,000 people through the power of the Gospel and the ministry of my Church. So there on the left side it says: I promise so and so before God to pray for the salvation of the following ten people and to evangelize them through my testimony, evangelistic pamphlets and through the ministries of my Church in this 2013. There are 10 names but you should not do it lightly, at home because there is one of the points there: meditate.

And there is a text below that says: "If My people humble themselves and pray, My people upon whom My name is called and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins, and I will heal their land." Second Corinthians 7:14.

There are now four steps to finish, four simple steps to win souls. My brother, pay attention to me, you have to look around in prayer. How can God use you so that you place the name of Juan, Pedro, Magalí, María, your boss, your boss and, secondly, look up in prayer. Thirdly, be attentive and fourthly, persist in what you have sown.

I want to end with a testimonial. On one occasion I, I make brochures every time the last time I made 10,000 brochures, the last one we have done was last Valentine's week, we make 10,000 every month. And then I said to God: Lord, I want to see the result of a pamphlet, but palpably, I want to see the result. So I was in the city of Towtown, my phone rang and a person told me: Pastor, I have read your pamphlet, I said: wow, she is incredulous, let's see, and she accepted the Lord, and after she praised the pamphlet, all that I asked him: are you a Christian? Yes, I am a Christian, but please pray for my husband. My husband's name is Camilo. Are you incredulous? Yeah. And then I told him: I'm going to Rhode Island, where do you live? He gave me the address and to cut the story short I told him: I'm going to go to his house, he's there, he told me. Go, go to my house.

It was more or less 11 in the morning. I went, knocked on the door of the house and a man opened it. I told him: does Mr. Camilo live here? and then the person who opened the door looked at me as if indicating that Camilo was there, then as I was dressed like this in a jacket and tie he looked at me and said: the Christian is my wife, I don't want to know about religion, go away like that. Then and the man who opened the door smelled like and I saw some bottles of beer there but I had already set foot in the door. So I told him: Mr. Camilo, I'm not here to talk about religion, I'm here to talk about a person.

Then he stood up very aggressive and told me: could it be that you haven't listened to me? Go away, I don't want to know about God or Jesus Christ, and I didn't move my foot from there. Then the man who opened the door told me: your son died, your son was killed, that's why you don't want to know about God, about Jesus Christ, about the Bible, you don't want to know about anything, go away. So I pushed a little more and told him: Mr. Camilo, if you find yourself angry and angry and even against God, you are absolutely right because the worst thing that can happen to a person is to bury their own child, the normal thing is that the children bury their parents, that is natural and I already put the whole body in and he was left like that.

And then I told him: look, Mr. Camilo, there is a name for when the wife dies for the one who remains: widower, there is a name for the one who remains when the father dies: orphan, but there is no name for when the son dies, there is no name in Chinese, in Portuguese, in English, it doesn't exist because it's a pain, and I've already taken three steps, and he's already with his eyes like that paying attention to me. I told him: there is no pain because it is indescribable, there is no name rather. And number one in pain is the death of a child because that is not normal, what you have experienced is not natural and you are absolutely right, you are absolutely right.

Pedro I told him, I am already close to him, I want him to know the following that the only one who can understand him is a person who also killed His Son and he said to me: who? and I tell him: that is called God. I am crying at that moment, that moment I am crying and when I told you that person is called God, he is the only one who can understand you, this rubbish of drinking, of vice is a hoax, that pain that you have is the only one that can heal and heal you is called only God, Jesus Christ and you today have to accept. The man was crying, I was crying and then he said: I want to accept Christ.

I knelt down and there was the other one and I told him: you too kneel down (laughs) and there the three of us hugged and I told him: repeat this prayer, he repeated the prayer. We grabbed the beers and dumped them, emptied everything, and this man experimented. I was hurt, with anger, with hatred but the powerful Word of the Gospel in connection.

My brother, there in his neighborhood, in his building, in his building, at his work there is a man, a woman that God needs to take care of and the only connection is you, it is me. I leave you this little card and this challenge so that very soon we will have thousands of people as a result of prayer, of connection. Yes you can, God bless you.

Amen, thank you, brother Eladio, that illustration definitely stays in one's mind. There is no but that is worth it when the Lord has a purpose in a person's life and we often raise so many objections that people are not serious and we anticipate them and many times we create a monster that often never materializes when we are following the The will of the Lord and what we want through these months and weeks is precisely to fill the hearts of all of us with a sense of courage. The Christians asked God to give them courage. It is a very rare word in the Old Testament boldness, to preach the Gospel.

The apostle Paul also told believers to pray for him so that God would give him courage to preach the Gospel and if you look for that word in the original it is a word that refers to a mixture of energies that have to do with vigor , physical courage to dare, passion, authority, commitment, effectiveness, all these ideas and qualities are embodied in the word boldness. And one of the things we have to ask the Lord at this time is that he give us courage. And it is something that God evidently can and is willing to give.

Perhaps you don't feel daring, perhaps you feel rather shy or even afraid to preach the Gospel. The brother was talking about how the devil has blinded the understanding of unbelievers. We live in a culture where the enemy has blinded people's understanding like never before. This nation, this culture is a culture that is closed very closed as I have said before like the walls of Jericho and no one can break those walls but the power of God touching our hearts, filling us first with that courage, that courage to proclaim the Gospel and preparing those sacred connections, supernatural mysterious connections.

As in the clear case of Cornelius where God was doing one thing there and he was doing something else in the heart of Peter and uniting these two characters for the miracle to take place, the chemistry of a conversion and who knows how many lives were touched by the conversion of the Ethiopian or Cornelius. And that is what we have to ask the Lord my brothers. Yesterday, when Brother Dough Tony gave us the training on Evangelism, he talked about what we have to do is start walking by faith.

Many times the only thing one can do is put one foot in front of the other and sometimes trembling and fearing one begins to walk, and one trusts that the Lord will open the way. The Word says: "Those who trust in Him will not be put to shame." I have put my foot forward and I hope that each one of us is putting it too. The Lion of Judah Church has put its foot forward this year and we are saying to the Lord: there is no turning back Father. We are going to burn the candles, we have already burned them.

What we are going to do from now on is eat, drink, dream Evangelism and we are going to raise up an evangelistic people. And we are going to do the work that the Lord wants. We set out to build a building and we have to fill that building, not once because we could already fill it once on a Sunday but twice and even three times we have to fill it but we have to prepare ourselves. We are going to prepare the nets, prepare our hearts, our minds, we are going to feel the call of God, we are going to feel the passion of God for souls. We are going to ask the Lord to fill us with supernatural anointing, courage, capacity, knowledge and ask the Lord to make those divine connections. He is the only one who can make those connections possible.

There are people out there who need the Gospel, you are going to bring them to the Church and you are going to do the work of softening hearts with those tracts, with those cards, with those readings from the Bible, those biblical texts, you are going to share with they in the streets with the waiters who are going to serve them, with the cashier who is going to serve them in the supermarket, with their neighbors. Let's ask the Lord.

Stand up this afternoon and we are going to ask the Lord for that spirit that the Lord has made dwell in the heart of our brother Eladio and his wife and in the name of Jesus we are going to prepare ourselves and we are going to ask the Lord to open his anointing on us and let his mighty spirit fall. Father in the name of the Lord we are committed, we are willing Lord we want to see Your Glory manifested. We are saying that you do the work, rather you do the harvest, you give the growth, we sow. We want to sow Father, we want to throw the seed, there is a sower who has to go out and sow. There is a good seed that is Your Word, You have placed it in our hearts and there are lands now to which we have to take that seed, Father, and we ask that You prepare us.

Prepare this Congregation. Prepare every man, every woman Lord. Set those divine appointments Lord, bring those people to us and bring us to them. Give us the Word Father, give us the effectiveness, give us the anointing, bring the revelation, bring the sense of commitment. Father in the Name of Jesus we rebuke that vacuum that the devil has established among the people in the city, those artificial disconnections Father of false privacy, of false pluralism Lord, of false respect for human rights, the greatest right that a being has man is to be saved and to have eternity with God.

Help us, give us understanding, make us an effective Church, Father, in the evangelization of souls. Prepare us Lord we are at Your disposal. We say amen to Your so-called Father. Thank you Lord thank you in Jesus Name amen.