We have to renew the vision

Let's go to Joel chapter, we're going to start with chapter 1 and the other one is in chapter 18, Kings 19, First Kings chapter 19 and I'm going to use these two passages as a starting point for the meditation. And again, we continue with this theme about our week of fasting and prayer, and I want to invite you to reflect this morning on the need for times in which we have to seek the anointing of the Lord, we have to renew our vision.

And in this passage that is a Book that is known as a Book of revival, we see in verse 12 of chapter 2, we are going to start there, I am going to do it from this starting point, it says: "Therefore, then, convert to Me with all your heart, with fasting and lamentation, tear your clothes and return to the Lord, your God for he is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and great in mercy, and who hurts from punishment. Who knows if he will return and repent? , and leave a blessing behind him? This is an offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God."

That is the call that we must always keep in mind in our lives. When there are times (microphone change), there are times when we need to recognize that there is something missing, something we need from God that we don't have. There are times when we have to recognize that there is a drought, that there is weakness and that we have to return to the source, we have to return to the place where we find what we need to strengthen ourselves and be able to follow the path of faith.

Joel is a Book that talks about a time of crisis in the life of Israel. Joel is a prophet that God used at a time in the history of Israel when there had been a very great national disaster, a plague of terrible insects, locusts, lobsters in English, had devastated the entire land; that's very common in the Middle East, especially in the old days there was no pest control and this kind of thing, and periodically large numbers of insects could come, and pass like a cloud, and eat all the crops, and destroy, and leaving the nation completely in crisis because food was lost, and the nation was entering times of scarcity.

That is why the Book of Joel begins that way. For example, in verse 11 he says: "Confused farmers, groan vineyards for wheat and barley because the harvest of the field is lost, the vine is dry and the fig tree perished. The pomegranate also, the palm tree and the apple tree. All the trees of the field are dried up, so that the joy of the sons of men is extinguished."

Later in verse 17 of chapter 1 it says that: "The grain rotted under the clods. The barns were desolate, the barns destroyed because the wheat dried up. How the beasts groaned, how troubled the oxen were because They had no pasture. Also the flocks of sheep were desolate. To You, O Lord, I will cry because fire has consumed the pastures of the desert and flame has embraced all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field will also roar to You because the streams of water have dried up. and fire consumed the desert prairies."

What do you see here? drought, devastation, crop failure. Everything that is supposed to produce fruit is destroyed, it is devastated, there is no food, there is no food, there is no greenery on earth. And of course that can be an image, from what we see later, what is the solution to this national problem?

But the important thing here is that drought. And from what we see later in this Book of Joel, Joel is concerned with more than just physical drought. The Book of Joel teaches us something and that is that many times the physical drought in the nations or the spiritual droughts in our own lives are more than simply the product of an external situation, a crisis, an illness, lack of money or the like. to be. Many times behind these things there is a need to seek the Face of God, to search for the solution in God, to scrutinize our ways as that text from Jeremiah says where we have to scrutinize our ways and return to Jehovah; where we have to say: why are these things happening in my life, why is there not the blessing in my life that it is supposed to be?

And then we have to look for the reason. When there are crisis situations in our lives, when we are going through difficult situations instead of looking for a psychiatrist, and psychiatrists have their place, instead of looking for a psychologist or taking pills, or whatever, first; then if God tells us: Ok, he gives us the freedom to look elsewhere for a solution, ok, but the first thing that the man, the woman of God, has to do is go directly to the Throne of God and ask: Lord, what do you want to tell me? , what is happening in my life, why this situation?

And we have to know that ultimately and in the first instance the solution is always in the Lord. The man, the woman of God who is convinced of something is the person who knows that it is the Lord where we have to go first. Joel, directed by the Holy Spirit, knows everything that was happening in Israel at this time and warns the people that the solution is to go to the Lord first.

The droughts in our lives, what happens when we don't even smell the lilies as they say over there? We come to Church and the choirs do not move us, we try to pray, we do not feel anything. The Christian life becomes a routine, our life does not reflect the hallmark of what a life filled with the Holy Spirit should be.

Perhaps there were times in our life when being in the House of God was our great privilege and our joy, if a time of prayer was called, we were there. We met the Lord and there was an enthusiasm for the things of God in our hearts, we loved reading the Word. The choruses that we remembered came out easily from our mouths and God felt very close to us, it is what the Bible often calls first love.

But like all first loves, neglect can come and routine can come. And many times the drought comes into our lives, and then we simply come to Church because that's what we do and because it's good, or else we just come from time to time, and if we don't go we don't feel any need or any sense of loss; we just go when we feel like it, when we want to or when we feel like it, and then our life falls into a spiritual rut because there is a drought.

The devil is wearing away and life is wearing away our love for the Lord, our passion, our feeling the Presence of the Lord and that happens with all human things and all material things. You buy a new car and the first few weeks that new car smell, the smell of the new car, how many know what I'm referring to, right? the cart smells great. The leather, the leather of the seats, you get into the car and right away it hits you in the nose, right? the dashboard is shiny there with all its dials and all its perfectly clean indicators, etc., the fresh carpet.

But what about time? The air is starting to get stale, isn't it? You spilled some coffee on a Monday morning while you were speeding to work, it stays there, it gets in there and forget it, when summer comes and it's 90 degrees it's going to smell and they're going to remind you that that's there. The day he hit the car for the first time, it was scratched, what a pain, how much that hurts! TRUE?

Because that is the nature of life. All things in the world lose their shine with use. Marriage is the same. The first time you saw the one who was going to be your wife, you almost melted there in front of her, didn't you? all the poems you read in childhood come out at once. Then over time what happens? already familiarity, habit, that first love is already lost and we already see each other as if it were an old flip-flop there, we simply put it on and that's it. The passion was lost, the enthusiasm was lost, right? We no longer go out to eat or anything, but rather we put the woman there to cook day after day and she, the poor thing, wants to be taken out even if it is to McDonalds on a Sunday but no, you ignore that.

Enthusiasm is gone because that's the way it is with everything, and that's the way it is with the Lord too many times. The Congregations are getting into the routine and we are here on Sunday, and the issue cannot do everything, and we use this Pentecostal style, right? we jump, we say this, we say that but the heart is not behind it and we cannot settle for the routine. We have to measure there, where is the passion on this day, where is the enthusiasm? what's going on?

I am always measuring the state of the Congregation, the spiritual state, and I know that there are times when spirits drop a little, and in my own life there is also. In those times when I detect that something is happening in my life I have to go back to the source again, I have to get my batteries back, and I have to put on my sweatsuit and go back to the treadmill to get in shape. I have to go back again to seek the Lord's anointing and that is how it has to be throughout my whole life.

When there is drought, when the plants are devastated, when the caterpillar and the locust have eaten the food we have to go to the Lord to seek blessing and fresh visitation from the Lord. And so it also happens with the nations that are declining and are dying of their former glory, and do not realize that the problem is a distance from the Lord.

Joel, as a prophet of God, knew that what was happening in Israel, in Jerusalem, was not simply the product of a biological, physical, or natural disaster, but that there was something behind it and that the solution was to go to the Lord.

This nation, I cannot miss saying and pointing this out, the United States is a nation that is very similar to how Jerusalem was. This nation has been moving away from the ancient foundations on which it was founded. While America remained a God-fearing nation, it was never perfect. It bothers me when Bible scholars and theologians tell me that when I say, when it is said: this nation was fearful of God; oh that's good, this nation has always oppressed the Indians, the blacks and this kind of thing, I know that. This nation was never perfect and no nation has ever been perfect, and no nation has ever been a seeker of the Spirit of the Lord perfectly well, that's not the idea but this nation is when you see their tone and what this nation stated in their official proclamations, and in its Constitution there was a fear of God.

And in this nation up to now there has not yet been a man who is elected who is an atheist for example, because in a way there are still God-fearing people, there are committed Christians and there are God-fearing people who are not the ones who are committed. but they fear God, and today, even if it is pretending, they have to say that they are Christians because they still know that they are.

In the future it will not be necessary, in the future there will also be atheist presidents and there will be presidents of other religions who will try to impose their religions on this nation as well, but there is still at least a healthy fear, there has been; I don't think there is necessarily a healthy fear of God right now, but there has been. What's going on? According to this nation, it has been slipping more and more from that national fear that they have proclaimed as the norm to follow, although they have not followed it perfectly, but that has been the fundamental norm. To the extent that this nation has been slipping, it has been losing vigor, vitality in the world has been losing respect in the world.

Today this nation is the laughingstock of humanity and there are many nations in the Middle East, in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America that see this nation as an exporter of all the filth and all the doctrines of error that are corrupting our societies. in other countries, and they want to corrupt those societies with their, and put economic pressure on them so that those nations adopt the crap that has been adopted here.

And that is why this nation is declining more and more every day. A nation that used to be owed to her today is a debtor nation, owes trillions of dollars to people who cannot necessarily be trusted to mean well to this nation. Do you know which nation the United States owes the most money to right now of all? to China, and China is a sleeping giant rising up that has no love for America, and one day it might ask America to pay it all that money in one fell swoop, and there might be trouble.

This nation has become a debtor nation, a nation with all kinds of national crises. Because? because they have moved away from the Lord and each day it is losing steam, it is losing vitality, it is losing anointing. Because when churches, when nations, when individuals stray from their spiritual foundations, that's what happens.

By the way let me tell you something interesting, this is a bonus for you. When the pilgrims came here, the Puritans, John Wincob who was going to be governor of Massachusetts sometime later, he wrote a document on the ship they were coming from and he talked about it, he said, God has brought us into this new world. , and they were still only a handful of people, they did not clearly know that of that handful of people who came seeking religious freedom, they were going to be the most powerful nation in all of human history, and the most influential, the United States.

But they knew in their hearts that God had brought them for something extraordinary and he said that God had called them to be a city on a mountain, so that people would look at that society that was going to grow here in the new world, and use it. as a prophetic sign. But he also said: and if we stray from the call of God, if we stray from this pact that we have made with God, he said, we will become an object of gossip and laughter, and ridicule before the nations, and he said so him 400 years ago, and I believe that this is going to be fulfilled, and it is being fulfilled.

Because God does not affiliate with anyone ultimately, God affiliates with His Truth and as nations, families, individuals affiliate with God's Truth then God blesses them, and God supports them, but when they stray even His people Israel drive them into exile, and this nation will have to pay for that.

But what I want to say, brothers, is that we have to be very careful to always stick to the fundamentals of our lives. God has blessed Congregación León de Judá in many ways, he has prospered us and he has blessed us, but you know what? we have to always be taking our pulse to see where we are spiritually and not rest on our laurels.

God has given us this beautiful building but that is nothing, that is not for us to be proudly walking around with our heads up, on the contrary: we have to humble ourselves more before the Lord, the Lord made this possible and He gave We give all the glory and all the honor. And what we have to do rather is humble ourselves more and fear more, and say: Lord You have visited us and you have blessed us, what do You want us to do now with what You have given us?

God wants us to walk around more humble than ever, let's not walk around saying: oh Lion of Judah this, Lion of Judah, we are nothing except what God wants us to be and what God blesses us. If we stray from God's anointing God's anointing will leave us and we'll be like every other decrepit Church out there with one building and 20 people here all cold in our services. We have to continue seeking the anointing of the Lord and always give glory and honor to the Lord.

We are in a time when we need to refresh ourselves spiritually. As I said at the beginning of the year, the work has been hard, the walk has been long and we are a little tired, but that's nothing, amen? do not get tired there, what you have to do is seek the fresh anointing of the Lord and fill us up again.

I beg you to understand that on my part, I am not in crisis, okay? Yes, I am a little tired and exhausted like soldiers, but I am healing, and I am recovering, and I am going ahead in the Name of the Lord, amen? so pray for me but don't worry too much, amen? I don't have any plans to kill myself or jump off a building, the Prudential or the John Hancock, that's not on my agenda at all, okay? I am more in love with the Lord than ever and we are moving forward.

But I understand that when one has finished a marathon one has to regain strength and amen, that is natural, our Church also needs to regain strength. There are still many challenges ahead of us. Now is where the good part begins, brothers, now is when you have to tighten your seatbelts because now is when the mission comes. This temple is just a stepping stone to climb higher, that's all. The object, the end of our Church is not the sanctuary, this is simply the starting point, now what we need is to seek more anointing from the Lord, a fresh anointing from God.

The Lion of Judah needs to receive the Word of God, we need to unify, consolidate. Do you remember that word we have used this year? I want to consolidate our Church, when I look, you know what? that when I look from up here many times when we are singing, I see two Congregations: I see an exalted Congregation that praises the Lord and I see its lips moving, singing with joy and I see many people there flattened, frankly. They don't move their mouths, they don't sing, they don't raise their hands, they don't do anything. And you will be able to say: not because I sing in my heart, I sing. Stop that, God wants us to praise him in spirit and in truth, with our mouth, with our body and with our spirit.

If you don't know how to sing, even if it's a short song, don't worry if you're out of tune, the Lord receives you there in purified stereo and high definition, and everything else, okay? Raise your voice, force yourself to sing. Men: perhaps you are not used to singing, many of you are not used to singing either, but practice it; you will see that it is easy and you discover that place there where you can adore the Lord. Strive, develop the skills of a warrior, a person filled with the Holy Spirit. I ask the Lord to give us a complete Congregation.

When I look from here I want to see a town on fire for the Lord, and a town that lives the Gospel not only in here but also out there, in life. I want you all brothers, even. I am asking the Lord at this time for an even Congregation, listen to that, this is my prayer: Lord, help me to develop an even Congregation.

By that I mean that the slowest run as fast as the fastest, the least anointed be as anointed as the most anointed, the newest soon get their act together and be crying out to the Lord like the person who has been in charge for forty years in the gospel. Do not be left behind, the race says the Word is not for the fastest, nor is the battle for the strongest, it is the person who has the anointing of the Lord and a person with a year of life in the Gospel can be so powerful and so anointed like one who is fifty years old, so seek the anointing of the Lord.

So what I am saying is that when times of drought come in our lives, when we feel that the thermometer is dropping, the spiritual temperature is dropping, we have to go back to look for the source, we have to fan the fire of the gift of God that is In us. The Word that I was saying when Paul tells Timothy: "I advise you to fan the fire of God that is in you and he adds, because God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and self-control." We have to always be fanning the fire of God in our lives.

And then that's what happens: when times of drought and need come, we have to go back to seek the Lord's anointing. Your life has to be a periodic and continuous search for the fresh anointing of God, because it will wear you out. It is natural that when you work and make an effort, and have difficulties in life and at work, and have gone through difficult times you run out of gasoline, that's natural.

How many times do you add gasoline to your car? how many times do you need If I make a couple of trips to the outskirts of the city when I come to see my tank is empty, I have to go back to the gas station and refuel it, and that's how much happens in spiritual life as well. Spiritual life is very similar to physical life, it is not created. That is why the people who are kept alive in the Spirit are the people who periodically realize that the thing is dry, and that we need to return to the source, and ask the Lord to open the heavens.

We're going to sing that chorus at the end of the service: open the heavens upon us because that chorus is actually based on that, it became clear to me this morning, right? that this chorus is based on this passage here where it says: "The field is devastated, the earth mourned because the wheat was destroyed, the must dried up, the oil was lost." That chorus that we sing: The trees of the field have dried up, the wine and the oil have finished, Your town is, how is it? desert and without fence, between something the cry is heard and then it says: open the heavens above us, open the heavens right? make it rain on Your branch, make it rain, make it rain Lord, send the rain.

We have to ask the Lord: send the rain Father, periodically in your life. If you want to have a long-term life and last until the end of the race, you have to know when there are dry times in your life, and you have to go back to the source. If there was a crisis in your life, if there was a defeat, a situation that took you away from the Lord for a while, if something happened that you were asking the Lord for and it did not happen, you had a failure, something happened, someone disappointed you in the Church, you had a fight with some brother and you got upset, and you left for a while and now you are looking for, well: look again for the anointing of the Lord.

Ask the Lord to visit your life again and to refresh you. Take one day off, take two days off, start fasting, dedicate time to the Lord, take a morning off, declare half a day of sickness and it's legitimate because you're sick and you need to heal, you're not going to be lying; Say: I'm sick and tell your boss: I'm sick, and seek the Lord, okay? because there is physical illness and there is also spiritual illness.

So if you take days off for other things, when you have a cold you stay in bed tossing and turning all morning. Well, if you are spiritually dry declare a sick day and seek anointing from the Lord, and stay half a day in your house and say: I will not leave here until the Lord does not visit me, do not bless me, as Jacob said to the Angel: I'm not going to let go until you bless me.

There are times when you have to do that with the Lord, you know? I am not going to stop crying out and asking, and bothering the Lord until he gives me the anointing, and the Lord loves to be bothered for that. Maybe he doesn't like it when you bother him about a BMW, but if you bother him for an anointing, you'll see that he's going to give it to you because that's the way it is, the Lord loves that we ask Him for those things.

So Joel, after his gloomy diagnosis about the drought: "The beasts of the field also bellowed at You because the streams of water dried up, and fire consumed the desert prairies" what is the answer that Joel proclaims to this crisis? agricultural national? what does it say, or: we are going to look for a new plan to plant again, we are going to plant a new economic plan to put more pipes in the nation so that there is more water, we are going to ask the economists to meet and announce a new plan national land restoration, no.

What is God's response to Joel for the national drought, and what is God's response to you for your spiritual drought and for Lion of Judah? Look what it says in chapter 2. Chapter 1 is problem, chapter 2 is solution.

It says: "Blow the trumpet in Zion and give an alarm on My Holy Mount, tremble all the inhabitants of the earth because the day of the Lord is coming, because it is near." Sorry, let's go further in verse 12, it says: "Therefore now, says the Lord, turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and lamentation, tear your hearts and not your clothes, and turn to the Lord your God because he is merciful and clement." Verse 14: "Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him?"

I like this way he says, "Who knows if?" that's somewhat rhetorical. Many times when we ask the Lord: Lord, renew me, there is a certain degree of doubt in us; Is the Lord going to restore me, will the Lord take me out of this drought? Is it really like the Bible says that if one cries out to the Lord and seeks Him, God truly visits us and renews us, and strengthens His Presence in our lives? The answer is always brothers yes! If you seek the Lord He meets you halfway, the Lord always responds to those who approach Him.

The words of Santiago come to me, who speaks precisely about that same search for the Lord. Look here in chapter 4 of James, verse 2, it says: "You covet and do not have, you kill and envy and cannot achieve, you fight and fight but you do not have what you want because you do not ask, you ask and do not receive because you ask badly for spend in your delights. O adulterous souls, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity against God?"

Many people are ineffective in the Christian life because their heart is compromised with the world, half a foot in the Church, one foot in the world, their heart is perverted by the things of the world and by spiritual lukewarmness. And James says: Anyone who wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. You have to define yourself. For one to have effectiveness in the Christian life one must be defined.

Now look at what it says later in verse 7: "Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you, draw near to God and he will draw near to you." When one approaches the Lord, the Lord always approaches a brother. God is never going to leave you there fluttering, asking for His Presence without Him visiting you. If you dedicate yourself to seeking the Lord, He will renew you, He will answer your prayer. I know that if we as a Congregation cry out to the Lord, God is going to visit us, God is going to refresh our life as a Church and he is going to give us a fresh vision about the future.

"Sinners, cleanse your hands. You double-minded, purify your hearts, let your laughter turn to tears and your joy to sadness, humble yourselves before the Lord and He will exalt you." That is God's call for our Congregation, it is to humble ourselves before God, seek His Face, recognize that we need to purify ourselves and close that hole that has opened up in our life as a Church, and return to the old paths, and cry out to the Mister.

And that's why Joel goes on in verse 15 saying, "Blow the trumpet in Zion, proclaim a fast, call an assembly, assemble the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the elders, assemble the infants and those who suckle. Get out of your chamber the bridegroom and the bride from his bed, between the entrance and the altar let the priests, ministers of Jehovah, cry and say: Forgive, O Jehovah, Your people and do not deliver Your inheritance to reproach so that the nations may rule over it, why must say among the peoples: where is your God?

Joel says: summon the entire nation, summon the priests and the people who are celebrating, the children, the women, the elderly and we are going to gather as a people, and we are going to cry out to the Lord, and we are going to ask the Lord to renew, and visit His people again.

And verse 18 says: "And the Lord, who is solicitous for His land, will forgive His people. The Lord will answer and say to His people: Behold, I am sending you bread, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them and I will never again reproach you among the nations." Verse 21: "Earth: do not fear, be glad and be glad for the Lord will do great things." Glory to the name of the Lord, I believe that God wants to do great things among us but we have to seek the Lord, we have to cry out to the Lord.

I had told you at the beginning and I'm going to leave it there just as one more thought for your own study, and that I also wanted to base part of my meditation on First Kings chapter 19 or Second Kings chapter 19? that Elijah after his great victory against the prophets of Baal, and Jezebel threatens him with death, and says: just as you did with my prophets, I am going to do to you too.

And Elías is tired, he just slaughtered I don't know, 400 men? How many were the prophets of Baal? 450, ok 50 more, he beheaded 450 men, don't ask me about that because it's very deep, but he was also there in that fight for a whole day with the devil himself and those prophets there tearing their skin off and screaming, and he in tension of that fight. And of course, when he has that great victory that triumphs over the prophets of Baal and the Lord's people return for a while to seek God again, one would expect that Elijah would then go to have a great party but no; he was exhausted, tired, burnt out neurologically, emotionally, spiritually and he is filled with fear at the threat of this queen, and he goes to the desert alone.

And there he collapses and says: Lord, enough is enough, take my life because I am no better than my parents. The man was right to feel burned out and exhausted. And that is why I believe that Elijah also went into the desert because he was a man who found his healing in the desert, and that was where God spoke to him. Sometimes we have to go to the desert, we have to, as it says: cry and cry out, and humiliate ourselves, and afflict ourselves, and stop eating so many sweets and so many good things that what they do is give us calories, and they damage our bodies all ways, and we have to go to the desert for a while to seek God.

There in the desert the Lord finds Elijah and the first thing he does is put Elijah to sleep because his body was exhausted and his mind too, and he puts him in one of those dreams, anesthetizes him and puts him to sleep, and to rest ; and an angel lifts him up, and there is a baked cake and a glass of water to cool him off.

Note that God did not give you rice with chicken and beans, and salad, and plantains, it seems that I am hungry (laughs), right? He gave him a baked cake, a couple of tortillas there, some tortillas and a glass of water because when God, what matters is spiritual food, we fast and exempt ourselves from delicious things.

Take one day, take two days, take half a day, whatever God puts in your heart. Turn away from things that are appetizing and spend time afflicting your soul and seeking the Face of the Lord, and crying out to the Lord. What fasting does is that it underlines our requests before God. It is not simply going hungry, it is telling him: Lord, I prefer your things more than things of the flesh. Then cry out to the Lord at that time, seek renewal.

God put him to sleep again and a second time the angel woke him up and said: Get up and eat, and he had more simple but strong food. It says that Elijah walked forty days and forty nights until he reached that cave where God spoke to him. And after that fast and that time of loneliness and brokenness, God showed Elijah, gave him a revelation about who God truly is, because Elijah only knew the God of thunder, the God of the wind that breaks the rocks, the God of the earthquake, the God of fire because that is the God that Elijah knows. He was a violent man because he needed to deal with violent people, but God wanted to bless him, heal and restore him, and show him another side of His personality.

The tender, motherly God who gave His servant food, put him to sleep and rest, and spoke to his emotional need. And God in the cave appears to him through the still small whistle, not through the wind and the thunder and the fire and all the violent things he was used to but through the still wind because what he needed his heart on fire and in crisis at that moment was stillness and peace; that God would take him in His arms, kiss him, lull him to sleep and tell him: Elijah I love you, you are not alone.

Elijah thought he was alone. When God says to him: Elijah, what are you doing here in this cave? Elijah says: well Lord, a great jealousy has seized me because they have persecuted your prophets, they have killed them and they persecute me too to take my life. And God asks him the same question twice because God wasn't convinced that was the true answer. Elijah was not alone, he was not as alone as he thought; there were seven thousand people in Israel who had not bowed their knees to Baal like he had.

And God wanted to show Elijah, he wanted to renew him, his spirit, his life, his ministry and so it happens in your life. God wants to renew you, God wants to renew your vision, God wants to give you a new song and you have to seek God. God wants to give a new song to the Lion of Judah but we have to look for it in prayer and cry and go to another spiritual level.

God is saying to those who are like this, double-minded: Look, unify your spirit, stop playing religion now; define yourselves once and for all and consecrate yourselves to the Lord. God wants to give you a new song in your life this morning.

And at the end God tells him: Elijah, now I want you to go and anoint the king of Syria, the one who is going to be the king of Syria and anoint the one who is going to be the new king of Israel, and also anoint the one who is going to replace you in your ministry. What thing huh? God gave Elijah in that desert a new revelation for his life and his ministry; He renewed him, showed him love and affection, and told him: now return to the ministry, and now you are going to do extraordinary things at the international level, at the national level and at the spiritual level, I am going to use you and not only that but you will not you are alone, there are seven thousand more that I have reserved for myself in this nation of Israel.

That is what happens when one seeks the anointing of God. If you have had any failure in your life, I feel that God is speaking to some people here who have had a difficult time in these last months or in these last years, something has happened to you and you have had a great loss, and something It has happened to you and you have felt a tremor in your life, and God is telling you now: Well, if you look for me I am going to heal you and I am going to renew you, and I am going to give you the same joy, and the same passion of start. No matter what has happened in your life, I want to visit you again and I want to bless you, and I want you to start again, fresh, fresh to seek My anointing. That's the Word of the Lord to us this morning.

Lower your head. Ask the Lord for fresh anointing, commit yourself this week, we are going to seek God, we are going to seek His Presence, we are going to seek His Face. Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Lord Jesus.