the lighthouse effect

One of the things that I have in my heart that burns me the most is that a spiritual awakening comes to this nation from where God has brought us, as God has already done in previous times, amen?

There have been various demonstrations and manifestations of the glory of God that has come upon this people. One can say why has God smiled here and why not in other places? the truth is that God is moving all over the Earth. There are so many testimonials to so many amazing things that a western world cannot really believe them because they are so supernatural and so beyond the ordinary and everyday that our earthly minds cannot really understand the Glory of God.

Our Latin countries are being strongly touched by waves of the Holy Spirit and despite all the problems they have due to all the situations and problems that exist socially and economically in our southern nations, we tell you that there is a great spiritual wave that is touching those spiritual places. where within a decade we will not recognize the countries where many of us came from.

And God is changing the American landscape, in fact the fastest growing is the Hispanic population. I come from the population of Pennsylvania, there is a county in Pennsylvania, in central Pennsylvania called Landcaster that is growing, 54% of the population growth is Hispanic, impressive right? We are now the largest minority in the United States and you have to ask yourself: strategically why has God placed us in this position?

I know they are a Kingdom Church, yes? I know who preaches in this pulpit, I know what you must be seeing, it is an honor to really meet Pastor Roberto, he and Mercedes have been a blessing to us. And so my desire and my passion is an awakening, it is a cry to God because we came for a historic time like this, brothers. That there is something in the DNA of our peoples and who we are that God needs in the mixture of this delicacy that he is going to offer to the nations here.

And God wants to do something powerful in you; go tell your neighbor: God wants to do something powerful in you. Not just reserved for preachers and ministers, no. The normal person, the one who is smallest in the Kingdom is greater than David, Moses and all those in the Old Testament, right? The difference is that God now dwells in us and there is a lighting, there is an awakening, there is a beacon that God wants, to release a light that penetrates all darkness.

That is why I am going to read here in Isaiah 9 it says: "But there will be no more gloom for the one who was in anguish. As in times past he treated the land of Saul and the land of Neptali with contempt but later he will make it glorious by the way from the sea across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen great light, to those who dwelt in that land of the shadow of death the light has shined upon them. You multiplied the nation and increased their joy." How many want to be happier yes?

"They rejoice in His Presence as with the joy of the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the booty; for You will break the yoke of their burden, the staff from their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor as in the battle of Midian. Because every boot that the warrior wears in the heat of battle and the cloak rolled in blood will be to burn fuel for the fire."

"For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us and sovereignty will rest on His shoulders and His Name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father and Prince of Peace. And the increase of His sovereignty and of peace will not they will have an end on the throne of David and on his kingdom to strengthen it and sustain it with law and justice since then and forever the bosom of the Lord will achieve this." Amen, what a tremendous promise, don't you think?

Everything that has happened in two thousand years of the Gospel is impressive. Many of us all we hear is the bad news on the news, the bad news from the 24/7 news cycles. The only thing one hears is all the bad and all the tension that is in a world full of evil and full of darkness and with so many problems and challenges ahead of us. A country that we sing about has even brought us here as an example of a sovereign union that even God had to do with this union here in this country.

And yet we see all the racial tensions, all the tragedies like the ones we just experienced in Boston in the explosions at the marathon and how, so many things that we could detail from such bad news that there is. But there is good news, amen? there are things that God is doing that happen under the radar and nobody realizes it, they don't even talk about it. There is a testimony of it, there is a testimony of a faithful God, of a kind God, of a God who wants the best for us.

Go say amen there, okay? Who is your daddy? Who is this God who loves you? We sing of His joy and joy. Who is this joyful God, who is He who rescued you from darkness and placed you in the Kingdom of His beloved Son?

The effect of the lighthouse is very simple my brothers and what I want to do in these few minutes is simply to sow a seed in you, a seed so that you can catch the reality of His Presence with the reality of the Gospel of the Kingdom so that you are so drenched in God that the easiest thing you can do is move in the supernatural power of God and reach the neighborhoods in which you represent with the testimony of Jesus.

A town that was full of darkness, a town that was described in Isaiah 9 as being under the curse of God, a dark city, a dark time in the history of Israel and at that time the prophet Isaiah sees and prophesies that he was coming a light that was going to come on that earth and was going to shine on men and as a consequence was going to multiply a people and from that multiplication was going to deliver that heavenly joy to all those who received that light.

The effect of the lighthouse is very simple, my dears, because the prophet says that the people who received it were under this darkness and let me tell you: Boston, like any other city, can qualify as this, right? We have so many things so dark and yet here you are shining this morning, I hope your light is not a Sunday light, come on say amen, okay? that little dance they had there and how I like that brother playing there, his finger has more rhythm than the rest of us.

That joy that you have this morning when you begin to praise and raise your voices that you have on Monday morning when the choir is not singing and you can then go to your work, to your school and to the places where God has you and you can raise your hand without shame and say: my God reigns.

The increase of His peace and His government grows, grows and grows every day, He said: let there be light and He never said that the light should stop. The first principle is that this light came and stayed in one place. There is a need to change the environment, the spiritual climate in your heart, in your family, in your environment, my brother. As an individual person and as a collective body, a body of Christ there is a need to come and be filled with the glory of God; to praise and adore and declare the goodness of God. To be filled with His Presence, to become above all not a servant but an adoring heir son of the Most High.

Where you can fill your heart and truly walk, walk with that song and hymn in your heart. Where the Presence of God covers you like a cloak, where the joy of the Lord is not just your strength but a strength like a cloak around you. Where you walk God walks, where you walk the Most High walks with you. You don't have to pray to go up to heaven, to go down under the Earth; He is close to us in our hearts and in our mouths.

Let's leave anyway because we know this Lord so powerful and kind that we are no longer victims but victors, that we can chew and breathe at the same time. We can deal with our earthly problems here, the minimal things and little compared to the glory to come, my brother. And we can have everything within the reach of the Lord, leaving all these things in His hands and then fill ourselves with Him and be able to be the hands of God for others who do not know Him.

Look, they tell me a lot of evangelical things, but you know? we have the new things, we have the cure for all the malaise of humanity. The first principle of the lighthouse effect is to be filled with the Presence of God because He is God, He is good and He is worthy. If he does not bless your ministry for one more day, your ministry or your work, however, He is worthy of being worshiped. We don't do it so that he gives us things like a Santa Claus in heaven, come on, but we do it because he is worthy my brother, because he deserves our praise, he deserves our songs, he deserves our gratitude, right?

Before complaining on earth, complain in heaven. Talk to God first, when you don't have anything good to say don't say anything. Don't say anything about your brother, don't say anything about the things that bother you, that challenge you; first go to heaven, go to the one who knows everything about your life, who knitted you before the foundation of the world in your mother's womb, He knew you. He knows you perfectly, it has been a desire of God's heart that you were alive in the 21st century. He put you here, he positioned you in this place so that you would have a light, a salt that would bear fruit on Earth.

Shine my brother, go tell your neighbor: shine my brother. Don't worry about who shines more or less, you shine; go. It is not a competition. Look who's shining the brightest Lord? it is not a competition. You don't have to be jealous because someone is shining at a moment more than you, but you can be content with those who are happy and celebrate their blessings and at the same time cry with those who are sad because they have losses, because life is life say amen Yeah? there is no guarantee of anything, the only thing that is certain is that God lives forever.

Stay in His Presence, that the goal of your life is to be a worshiper, to love Him with everything. That is reflected in the climate in your family, it is reflected in your children, in your marriage that even if you make a thousand mistakes, God is in the midst of it, God will raise your family up.

The next principle is the following: that once you establish this reality that light has to shine on other men. You cannot keep that light hidden, in fact Jesus taught that if you turn on a lamp you cannot hide it under your bed, that once you turn it on you must place it in the most visible place not to be proud or vain or these things but so that you are more effective in your testimony, so that you can give him what you are receiving from heaven. Freely you have received, freely and freely give what you have received.

The important thing is that you are receiving from heaven, right? Because we can't give what we don't have. We cannot preach and change people's minds with our clever words, we cannot come to a world that is willing to see the supernatural answers of a good God and come with our human understanding. My brother, we have to come in the power of the Holy Spirit, we have to come in the power of a God who wants to change a person's life in an instant.

But when your words and your heart are filled with the fire of the Lord, we have to become the songs we are singing, that our souls burn with the fire of God. So when you are full of that when you speak you burn all resistance to the Gospel in other people and suddenly you have faith to work miracles and you don't need experts to go and do miracles for you, go on; He is here in your heart and in your mouth and you can pray and believe that God can move through you.

Come on, the world of super stars and the one who has 5 minutes of fame, all of this is an illusion of the enemy to confuse the people of God. Wherever you are, your brother is the hero in that movie, come on, say amen. You have to take off the Clark Kent costume and become.

You have to open your mouth boldly and sometimes shut your mouth boldly and let god be God and receive the wisdom to be able to change, change the spiritual climate of your office without saying anything to anyone but because you really pray and you really work for glory of God and really because God raises a platform for you to shine the faith of the Kingdom through Him in your goodness, in your fidelity and in your intensity for others.

When everyone comes dented and beaten from the weekend there you are on fire. Come on, how many are filled with the Holy Spirit? Children do not have a junior Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that is in you is in them. Many of them are so bold. Plus, I have more difficulties when my son makes me remember the sermons than I do, do you remember when you said? When my son Nicolás talks to me like that, it's like God is speaking to me in stereo because your children reproduce who you are, not what you say, because they can't give what they haven't received.

Shine your light on people. Number three, if you change the spiritual sphere and begin to shine on men, you will multiply a people. God brings multiplication. You cannot seek growth first, you have to seek God first. He is not going to fulfill purposes without first not dealing with the people of His purpose.

God is a God who loves people despite us, come say amen. That is why He says that if you are going to adore Him and you have a problem with someone, leave your praise at the altar and go be reconciled. That's radical, huh? Hey, but if God wants my praise, why is he going to tell me not to give it? because your praise is in your reconciliation with your brother. Because if you don't love the one you see, how can you love the one you don't see?

And we as the Hispanic people have to put our judgments and prejudices aside, leave our minds many times as orphans that there is not enough on the table so I am going to grab what I can eat right now and hide the beans here, papola? how many know about papola? for the afternoon, okay? (laughs)

So you eat as if you were never going to eat again without realizing that God is eternal, unlimited and there is never an end to His goodness towards you, that you don't have to be there all the way eating with your eyes looking at everyone, whoever approaches you by your side boom, but that there is more than enough for everyone and that you can enjoy what God gives to sow joyfully at all times and at all times.

God says: I want to multiply your seed so that you sow. God always wants to multiply us go. Celestial mathematics is never linear. Two plus seven equals a crowd that ate. One casts out a thousand, two. God's multiplication is always like this, they added to them, they multiplied in them; the primitive Church was in a process of multiplication.

And fourth: heavenly joy is the main emotion of the Kingdom, justice, peace and joy. Notice in verse 4 it mentions the word joy 4 times, I read it to you again. It says: "The nation multiplied" verse 3 "You increased their joy." When you received Christ Jesus, do you remember? the joy of your salvation, do you remember? Do you remember where you come from? Do you remember who you were before you met him? Maybe today you don't know him and you still remember too well, maybe today you can change your destiny and your life because you will meet who loves you from the beginning.

But there is a joy that when you receive Christ lifts all those sorrows, all that shame, all that oppression that you had been carrying and suddenly there is something that comes to your soul that is indescribable. There is something that you receive from above, it is sweet, it is a delicacy, it is something that is sweeter than honey, better than wine. Better than all we can imagine is that main joy that even the angels rejoice with the joy of heaven.

But also my brothers number two there is a joy of His Presence. In His Presence Psalm 16 says, "There is fullness of joy." When you begin to walk with Him and develop the fruit of the Holy Spirit of joy in your life, you have to change your face. Go smile at heaven right now, go smile at heaven, smile, smile. Some of you are so serious, with that seriousness you are not going to reach anyone for Christ. You have to smile, you go to heaven and you go crying.

Only on the cross my brother, the rest of the time he was very happy and He said: The joy that I have I give it to them Father, do not let any man steal your joy. You begin to live with that wine of the Kingdom, that joy, that delight. He delivers the river from His Throne to Zion and makes His people glad, He makes you drink from those waters of delight. You say: how do I do it? Praising, adoring, thanking, declaring the Word of God about you and about your life.

Thank you Lord that you have made me Your son, thank you Lord that you have saved me, thank you that I live in Your fullness, thank you Lord that I live for You; that from my womb flow rivers of living water. Listen, listen. Thus you begin to develop heavenly vocabulary, you begin to know the Promise of God, you begin to declare it about yourself because what God says about you is true.

May every man be a liar but God true. For your son that today you celebrated the dedication to Him, may your dad be filled with the Holy Spirit, amen? be so full that when you talk to him you tremble with joy and the power of God and you go to that place on the mountain above and there you raise your hands and declare the blessing that God is upon you. Exalt, exalt, exalt the Name of the Lord.

It is simpler than one thinks but it takes discipline because you have to overcome the sinful desire of your flesh to turn off what God has turned on (laughs). If you are bored with your Christianity you have to meet Christ, who will take you on the adventure of your life. When you don't have money, when you're tired, when you're discouraged, instead of staying there everything: poor me, falling under that condemnation that the enemy wants to come and put out that little flame that's there, instead of allowing the enemy to put you under his feet you rise and place the enemy under your feet.

but how do i do it bro? I know, I know how I do it. When you have no sense to adore him, adore him. When you don't have sense to thank him, thank him. When things are not happening in your life as they should or want to be happening, praise the Lord. It is there, brother, where you forge the discipline of being a son because He is worthy and not because He gives you things.

Don't you have a husband? praise him. Don't you have a wife? bless him. I can only make that joke because mine is here. God gives you a wife when he wants to kill your soul and then he gives you children to complete the job and then grandchildren are God's blessing but you can do what you want and give them back to the parents (laughs). God wants that smile, look; keep it there, that's a joy of the Presence.

And it says there: "As the joy of the one who reaps." There is a joy that comes when you go into the harvest, as a harvest worker. There is nothing like leading someone to the Lord, there is nothing like praying and seeing God heal someone. Look, I'm going to freak you out a little but: there's nothing like casting out a demon. I? yes you, it's not The Exorcist. In His Name they will cast out demons, in His Name they will lay hands on the sick, and?

There's nothing like being at the harvest with your radar on: fuuu who am I going to bless this day? Instead of looking for how I am going to be blessed, who is going to touch me, what is going to give me, what is going to be my part, there is a cell there, they are going to give me a discount from the anointing of God will give it to me. I'm not going to have to pray and God is going to give it to me anyway. No no no no no, you have your radar on and the selfishness that is in our hearts begins to go down and down and down its light.

And there is a joy, as I said, in spiritual warfare and God is preparing us in this area of war, not so much of war, note that the language in the Bible is of those who eat what they captured, the loot of the enemies, it is not about to win a war; The war was already won, yes or no, amen? It is harvesting with God and it is entering to redistribute that loot so that God releases His Grace and His Glory.

I don't have time to show you in Matthew 3 how Jesus models this lighthouse effect but Jesus in Matthew 3 when he hears that John the Baptist has been imprisoned goes to Galilee and says there in the language in Matthew 2, 12 and 13 from 12 to 25 but, he says that he goes to Galilee and remains there, mounts and begins to light up and change the environment, the spiritual climate of Galilee of the Gentiles says the Word. It even begins Matthew writes by the Holy Spirit: "So that the Word of Isaiah may be fulfilled" before Jesus having preached a single message, the mere fact that Jesus entered freed the prophetic destiny of that town.

When the Presence of God comes my brother that's the game changer, that changes everything because the sovereign God, the happy God, the supernatural God comes in your reality to a cinema near you. Start changing the way you see things, start changing the way you hear things, start changing the way you process things. Heavenly thoughts begin to come to the natural environment of Earth and the reality of the Kingdom is superimposed on natural reality and you begin to walk not as men and natural beings but as citizens of another dimension.

Matthew says that when Jesus set up His home in that place He begins to preach: repent, change the way you think, the Kingdom has come to you. Change the way you see things, the King is here, the King has come to bring order, to bring joyful order full of God's Grace, the pleasing desire of a Father to love His children, to adopt us.

Come on, how many of you would not have adopted yourselves? be honest, but God, rich in love and mercy, saw you and said: I want someone like that and like that and like her and like that little guy who throws a lot of rod but well I want someone like that and I want him in the 21st century, I am going to fill you with My Glory and despite all your errors, despite all your weaknesses I am going to glory in your weaknesses and I am going to bring My Power and I am going to manifest My Truth.

And he started preaching and boom! He did not choose an apostle or a disciple, he went two by two and immediately a people began to multiply. He started the disciples, he started preaching to Capoles, Jerusalem, Galilee, on the other side of the Jordan; crowds it drew. What drew these crowds? the love of God my brothers, the presence of joy. Someone who did not condemn them, someone who did not reject or judge them but saw them as they were in their misery, in their problems with all their stuff as we say in Venezuela and said: I want someone like you, I am going to adopt you, you are precious in My eyes, I always wanted to see you with me.

Today I touch your heart, Today I heal your ailments, Today I break the curse on your life, Today I change your circumstances. Today I am going to teach you how to adore a King. And start to heal, save, rid of demons. Amen.