God wants us to live healthy lives

I want to take a moment to return to what I started two Sundays ago before leaving for Spain, I told you that I was going to be in Spain directing a retreat that consisted of three days and several interventions on my part, several teaching times, and I He asked me to minister on the topic of healing, and the topic was: Healing wounds. And so I have never been forced to explore this subject of healing in such a comprehensive way, but what I have done is preach isolated sermons on the subject.

Emotions are something so important in the lives of the children of God and the healing of wounds from different types of tragedies and losses that we experience in life, and it is important that the Church of Jesus Christ give the people of God tools to be a a healthy people, a healthy people, a people that reflects the wealth and blessing of the Kingdom of God.

And then, as I was saying, I had never had to develop that idea, that topic in such a comprehensive way, from A to Z, although we can never truly monopolize and exhaust a topic as vast as the topic of healing and spiritual health. But it was a good exercise for me to have to present our brothers like this, different teachings and that they had a sense of coherence throughout, and that the same theme was being repeated, and reaching deep into the spirit of the brothers. It was a great blessing for the glory of God; our brothers declared themselves blessed and we had precious times of ministry, and I realized that this is very useful material for all the people of God, and I want to share it with you in the next Sundays when I can, I will be sharing these messages oriented towards the theme of spiritual health, healing.

And I want to be very clear about that, that I am not only talking about healing, because many times when we talk about healing it is like we are talking about something defensive, like we are curing things that already exist, and we are, as always, defending and rectifying the crooked, the hurt, but God wants more than that. God doesn't want us to be just healing wounds, right? always there like on the defensive, in deficit, but above all, God wants us to have what? health, that we have life, that we have life in abundance. Christ says that: "I have come that they may have life, and life to the full."

So my desire through these messages will also be to instill in you and share with you principles for a healthy life, a healthy life, that we are not there just limping and always rectifying what is crooked, but that we know how to live lives abundant and how to heal ourselves at the same time we are receiving some blows, some shocks, that there are also defenses in us that allow us to live healthy lives.

If you will allow me an image, and again: one of the things that you are going to understand, and it is good that now I do not have to translate like this morning because I can allow myself a little more time, although everything is a blessing, we know, but I I can allow a little more time to eat, shade well and nit-pick. Because in the next few Sundays, when I can, I'm going to be taking these principles and I'm going to take this whole seminar that I gave, and I'm going to start somewhere, end there, move on later, I'm not sure I'm going to have that. as sermons prepared in itself but it will be like a continuous teaching; where time catches me there I will stop and continue next Sunday in the next intervention.

But now what I want is to establish a frame of reference, a frame so that you can understand: everything that I am going to say is going to fit within that frame, and these are going to be the themes that are going to govern all my presentation to through all the time that I'm going to be working this.

One of the things that I was saying as I was saying there, as I was pointing out this issue of God wanting us to live sane and healthy lives even while we are in battle and fighting, and this image of the human body came to mind: do you know that Are you inadvertently battling germs and enemies of your body? This world is a world permeated by germs and microbes, and we are always in battle situations. And God has made the human body in such a marvelous way, that while you are sitting there "from the quietest" as we Caribbean people say, your body is battling against a number of beings and microorganisms that are hostile to your health.

God has provided you with an incredible immune system and defense system, that while you, for example, are in your body right now, you are breathing and your body is processing oxygen and producing toxins, carbon dioxide, other types of substances negative, your blood is running, there are cells that are like small health factories and collect the toxins and waste that your body generates from all the fire that is in you and all the things that are happening, it takes them, takes them away , you expel them in different ways, through sweat, different ways in which those toxins are expelled; there are white cells that are fighting the infection that wants to kill your body almost so to speak, there are a lot of filters, when you breathe in there are little things in there in your nose that filter pollen and dust and a lot of things and don't let them in .

If you are a healthy person, inside of you, without your realizing it and without it interrupting the functioning of your life, there is a fight between good and evil so to speak; the life that is in you, the health that God wants your body to have, and also, elements that are the product of a fallen world, and that do harm. Listen when I said: a fallen world, you know what came to my mind? the cockroaches, notice how the mind is. What justification is there for cockroaches?

When I get to heaven I will ask: Lord, what did you want with the cockroaches and the mosquitoes? Why did Noah have to put cockroaches and mosquitoes in the Ark? (laughs). Did you know that cockroaches are the most resistant beings in the universe? When the world has ended, the cockroaches will still be running around, I think, among the, I don't know (laughs).

But it is so, there are evil and harmful things in this world that have no apparent justification. However, here we are the most bathed, perfumed, well dressed, but there is an internal struggle within us. And thank the Lord if all is well, one is healthy, relatively healthy, although no one is totally healthy, there are always things in us that remind us that we are imperfect and fallen beings. This is how one happens in the normal spiritual life of the human being, there are many things that are always battling inside you, wanting to destroy you, wanting to harm your life, there are struggles that you have, tragedies, losses and a number of things. But also the life of God is moving within you, amen? the Holy Spirit is within you leading you into all truth: perfecting you, polishing you, working within you.

And although you do not realize at night you are processing things there, nightmares that we sometimes have, fears that surface and one does not know where they come from, and the Word of God is ministering within you, the Holy Spirit is working in your life, the good Will of God is manifesting within you and there is a struggle. But we're not supposed to get paranoid or neurotic about that struggle, we're just supposed to live within it knowing that if all goes well, the Lord, the life principle always prevails and pulls through, amen?

So I invite you to this dynamic concept of the Christian life. What occurs in the biological and physical world also occurs in the spiritual, emotional world of the believer. There is a continuous struggle between these two principles of life, evil, good intention on God's part and also problems with which we will always be confronted. So when I talk about health and healing I'm talking about a very, very tense and dynamic process.

So every time you hear me talk about healing and health in these last days, I'm going to be talking about two extremes and a continuous process that occurs between those two extremes. The first principle that you are going to hear me elaborate is the following, it is a positive principle and that is the basis of all our living, and it is the following, listen to this: God wants us to live healthy lives, amen? God wants, His intention is that we live an abundant life in the Lord.

Christ said: "I have come that you may have life and have it to the full." When you enter the ways of the Lord, you know that you enter to be blessed, to be transformed, to be healed, to be an heir to the riches of the Kingdom of God. Don't come to Christianity just to suffer, you know? Come to Christianity to be a recipient of all the promises of God for your life, to be made a man, a woman more and more powerful in God, to reflect more and more each day the character and the beauty and the power, and the authority of Christ Jesus because that is the desire of God. And the Bible is full of promises and calls for us to enter with an expectation of blessed life and abundant life in the Lord. And God not only wants us to be blessed but also to be a blessing to others.

I have always said that this parable of Jesus Christ when the five foolish virgins and the five wise virgins, when the foolish or foolish virgins did not prepare themselves, remember? for the arrival of the bridegroom, and when the bridegroom arrived unexpectedly at night they did not have oil for their lamps, they were deficient. And then they approached the five prudent virgins who had prepared very well and their lamps were full of oil, ready for when the bridegroom arrived and to light them at once at night, they did not know when he was going to arrive, which is an image of Christ Jesus right? those five wise virgins were ready.

But what happened? When the five foolish virgins, these members of the bridal party, who did not have their oil for the lamps, approached the prudent virgins, the prudent virgins told them: look, we can't help you, because what's going on? If we share our oil, which is limited, with you, we will be left without a whistle and without a flute, neither you nor us. So you're not going to have enough oil and neither are we, so: sorry, we can't help you.

But knows? I believe that, in the Kingdom of God, God wants us to have oil for ourselves and for others who also need it, amen? God wants to give us so much blessing and abundance that when people come into our lives and say: listen to me, how can I heal myself? where can i find a solution for my troubled marriage? Where can I find hope for my life? How can I get healing from this depression or anxiety that is killing me? you say: I have the answer. I am going to bring you to Christ Jesus, I can pray for you. I have experienced healing in my life and I have the power to share that healing with you as well.

So God wants us to be transmitters of the life of God. May the life of God in us be so abundant that it seems as if we are always overflowing with oil and others come and take oil from us, and anoint it, and are healed and blessed too, glory to God, that is God's purpose. .

And that is why the Bible is full of references to the positive character of the Christian life, God's good intentions for us, the riches to which God has called us. Look for example at one last passage so as not to elaborate the point too much because we have to keep running, Ephesians, one of my favorite passages. I am going to be repeating many of these passages because the truth is that there are a series of passages that are like the basis of this study.

Ephesians 1, I think maybe I even read it last time but right now refreshed in the perspective that we are using. Paul prays in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 16, Paul prays for the readers in the Church in Ephesus, he says: "I do not cease to give thanks for you making remembrance in my prayers, so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory , give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, enlightening the eyes of your understanding" for what? "so that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you and what is the riches of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the super eminent greatness of His Power toward us who believe."

I hope that you feel overwhelmed by the flow of images that the apostle Paul is emitting there about the tremendous blessing that God has declared on your life. Paul says, look: I pray that your understanding is supernaturally open, so that you are able to understand everything that God has placed in your hands. Because you know what? many of us suffer because we do not understand how great God's provision is when we enter into the life of the Gospel. It's like biologically we are not capable of processing everything that God has placed in our hands as children of God.

The promises of God, if I had time, it would only take a long sermon for that point alone, that in Christ Jesus we are heirs to such great riches, that we need God to supernaturally uncover our brains in order to understand how great it is. the wealth that He has placed in our hands. And the Bible is designed to alert us to all the weapons, the supernaturalness of life to which God has called us, His good intentions for us.

I think of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, I don't know if I talked about it; again, so many things because I don't know if I preached them to you or to those in Spain, but it's a mogolla there, a holy mogolla what I have right now in my mind, but it's worth repeating. The risen Lord Jesus Christ, full of power, the Christ who has fulfilled His promise that He will be raised on the third day, and these two disciples walking around defeated because they believe that their Master has been crucified and their dreams ended there. God is a renewal of dreams by the way, like that image has arisen a couple of times here in our midst.

And the Lord approaches them, and they look at him but do not see him. It's like their understanding couldn't process the fact that their Master had risen exactly as He had promised them, their biological eyes were closed. And yet the risen Christ is walking right next to them.

And while they are here with that defeat that: yes, we thought that He was the one to come and deliver Israel, and all these things, the Lord in all His Power is walking beside them. But the fact that a man could rise from the dead was something so radical and different from what they were used to that even when He promised them they were unable to believe it.

And the disciples alike. The other disciples who are over there in a room defeated too, sad because their Master has been crucified and they lost their dreams, and although Mary and the other women who saw the resurrection come to them and say: look, the Lord has risen exactly as He promised. We saw some men with shining clothes and they told us that the Lord has risen, they think: bah! those are fairy tales, we already know that the Lord did not raise anything, he died crucified, they cannot believe it even though these women come from the tomb where they have seen angels.

Not only that, but when the Lord appears to them physically, who for a moment appears in their midst, when they see him they believe he is a ghost, and the Lord then has to take them around: what do they have to eat? there was a piece of fish and I think it was a honeycomb, and the Lord says: Look, I am not like Casper: The Friendly Ghost that I eat things and they go away, and you see that they go away, no. I have meat, I have bones. I am the risen Christ who is in your midst, believe it.

They couldn't believe it because the idea of this Power of God that had invaded history, the Power of resurrection so powerful that it was with them, they couldn't process it and God had to be redundant in convincing them: No, it's true. And do you know that many times in our lives that is one of the biggest challenges we have? It is the fact of: how can I believe that everything God says is for me and is true, and I can use it, and I can fight against the evil in the world, and I can heal my wounds, and I can have a blessed marriage, and my children are going to be blessed, and my descendants, and I am going to be a blessing and can I fulfill my dreams? because the Bible is full of these promises of blessing and we have to believe them, we have to move within them.

But that is one side of the matter. There is another side of the matter that is the negative and dark side of the Christian life, and the reality is that many times, despite all those promises of God and all those things that the Bible declares are ours, our daily, daily reality many times it seems to deny what God has promised. Who hasn't woken up on a Monday morning and looked at that snow that's falling over there through the window, and you want to tuck yourself in again and stay asleep but you have to go to work? And who, in the midst of a painful and troubled marriage, have not doubted God's promises many times?

How many brothers in this time of the great economic crisis? Some brothers lost their homes despite their best efforts, and they prayed to the Lord, they did spiritual warfare, they did everything they could but ended up losing their homes. How many brothers are battling different types of diseases and difficulties? They have cried out to God, they have prayed to the Lord, they are people of faith, they have waged spiritual warfare, they have asked other brothers to pray for them, they have come to the front and continue to struggle with difficulties of illness and struggle in life. How many brothers have dreams of overcoming and other things they want for their professions, their jobs? They do everything they can but they still haven't reached that fullness that God has promised in their lives.

How many people have been struggling for years with thoughts in their minds, spiritual strongholds, spiritual ties? And it is not for lack of prayer, it is not for lack of sincerity, it is not for lack of fasting, it is not for lack of others praying for them, it is not for lack of good intentions that they have to please the Lord and it is not for lack of repentance and recognition that they need healing? Yet from time to time you are still visited by these ties and difficulties and resentments and other things, aren't you? How many can say: hey, I recognize myself in what you are saying, Pastor Miranda? it is so.

On the one hand we have the luminous promises of God and on the other hand we also inhabit a reality of struggle and, as I said, spiritual microbes and also God's blessings in our lives. I remember the words of Jesus Christ: "In the world you will have affliction." I know that He also said: "But take heart, I have overcome the world" but stay for a little while before you become Pentecostal and enter the second part. Remember that the first thing is important.

I believe that one of the problems of many Pentecostal brothers is precisely that: that we are afraid to admit that the world is difficult. We are afraid to recognize that there is a struggle within us and then we kind of put a veneer of spirituality on the realities and we come to Church, and we raise a lot of dust saying only positive and good things, and there are little brothers there stewing in their own juice, drinking her little tears there quietly as if to say: well then, what am I, outliver as they say in English? What's wrong with me, is it that I don't have enough faith, is it that I'm in sin, is it that God doesn't remember me?

Because we fall so in love with the luminous, positive part of the Promise and the intention of God and we do not sufficiently recognize the other part that is the struggle, the conflict in a fallen world, a world that is designed to contradict the Word of God in we. And our Christian life moves between these two extremes, that is the truth; We are like a boat that is on a long journey, and sometimes there are times of sun and a light breeze that pushes our boat forward in a very beautiful way, and at the moment the sky turns gray and even very dark, and lightning and thunder begin , and the sea becomes rough like the disciples in the sea, and then we ask ourselves: where is God at that moment? where are the promises of God?

And I think that because many times we don't make enough recognition of that part of the struggle of life and that we are imperfect beings in an imperfect world, and because we don't mention that part of the Christian life enough, then we don't give the brothers an adequate diagnosis of what in reality is the life of the children of God, which is a continuous fight in which God has promised us victory, but it is a fight anyway, and we have to get used to knowing that we are warriors who We always need to put on the armor of God because the bad day comes and visits us on different occasions.

Pablo was a great expositor of these two dimensions. If you look for example in the Letter to the Romans in chapter 6 I think it is, he talks about us having died to sin. For example, he says in verse 6 of chapter 6: "Knowing this: that our old man was crucified together with Him" speaks in the past tense "so that the body of sin may be destroyed so that we no longer serve sin, because whoever has died has been justified from sin." In verse 14 he says, "Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you are not under law but under grace."

In verse 11 he says, "So reckon yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." And so a number of statements that: ok, as children of God we are dead to sin, that is the Pentecostal Paul, the Paul we like to listen to, you are dead to sin, God has done the work. But on the other hand, in chapter 7 he also talks about his inner struggle that he has with sin, the same Paul who just said that we are dead to sin, that we consider ourselves free from the yoke of the law, from sin and from look at how death is expressed in verse 21 of chapter 7: "So, wanting to do good, I find this law, that evil is in me, because according to the inner man I delight in the law of God, but I see another law in my members that rebels against the law of my mind and that leads me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. Wretched that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?"

What happened to you Paul? Didn't you just say that you are dead to sin and that God has freed you from sin, and now you have dropped your confession and you have a fight against the little devil and the little angel that is with you there fighting with each other, and that takes you to do things you don't want to do? Is there a contradiction in Scripture? No no. It is the recognition of two realities that we inhabit in this fallen world, and that we have to learn to deal with both.

And I believe that the maturity of the children of God is knowing how to maintain the balance between what God has declared, the good intentions of God, the riches of divine provision, the power of the Holy Spirit in us, the call of God. to believe that in all these things we are more than conquerors, that we can do everything in Christ Jesus, that we have been healed by the wounds of Christ on the cross of Calvary, and also the reality that we live in a world where the devil reigns. And the Bible says that the prince of this world, third John says that: "The whole world is under the evil one" and that you move in a field of war both inside and outside, and that you move in a world hostile to the purposes of God within you, and that you yourself will inadvertently cooperate with Satan's destructive intent in your life, but that does not neutralize the other part that is God's blessing within you .

And I believe that, again, the Church needs to alert believers: that is the nature of your experience here in the world. And I believe that in this recognition that while we are in the world there is going to be a struggle in us but that this does not neutralize the blessing and the intention of God, and then learn in the midst of the din, in the midst of suffering, in the midst of the disease, in the midst of things that happen that we cannot explain, God is with you there, God is in the midst of your struggle, God has not become shorter and God will be glorifying himself in the midst of your afflictions He will be with you, in the fiery furnace there will be angels there.

God does not deliver you from the fiery furnace but sends angels and they make sure that you emerge victorious from all your trials. Maybe you're going to come out weaker and half dizzy but you're going to come out more powerful and victorious than ever.

The son of God processes everything that happens in his life and turns it into gold, brothers. The afflictions, the trials, the difficulties, the struggles of this world ruled by evil. If you have the right perspective you can take all of those things and turn them into steps for greatness, for growth, for the perfection of your life.

That is why the apostle Paul says that: "To those who love God all things work together for good." What we have to ask the Lord: Father, renew my perspective so that I can understand whether it is prosperity, health and that everything is going well, or whether it is times of illness, marital struggle, pressure, battling, with imperfections in my character , to fall where I do not want to fall into practices that You have not blessed, that in all these things I am more than a victor through the one who gave himself for me on the cross of Calvary, and that I can be victorious in any situation that I inhabit, be light, be dark, "before in all these things we are more than conquerors."

I believe that many believers distance themselves from the Church and decline in their faith, and stop being a blessing to others, and slow down in their service to the Lord because they do not know how to navigate the times of drought and times of difficulty in their lives. When the little brother that you thought was a paragon of virtues treats you badly and betrays you, and does improper things, when again, there are moments of financial drought in your life, when everything is not going well for you, that in those times you too say: no, it is not that God is not with me but that God is battling with me to go and take me forward, He is using this time of trial for something that is going to be a blessing for my life.

The apostle Paul says: "For this slight momentary tribulation produces in us an ever more excellent and eternal weight of glory." In another passage he says that: "Although the outer man is weakening, the inner man is renewed from day to day" hallelujah. Although sometimes the principle of good that God has declared over your life seems to be annulled by the principle of evil in which you move in this world, you have to confess: the Lord is with me and I know that I will see him at the end of this test, I will be victorious, I will get ahead.

My brothers, God turns everything that happens in the lives of His children into gold and blessing, and part of our victory is to recognize: while I am in this world I am not going to have a perfect life. While I am in this world there are going to be things that are going to be simply a product of the evil of this fallen universe that I inhabit. And I will always be struggling with ties and with things that are not to my preference, but I believe that in all these things God is glorifying himself.

If you are going through difficulties at this time, if you are going through a time of spiritual drought, illness, struggle, if you are struggling with something in your life, entrust yourself to the Lord, abandon yourself to Him, rest in Him and do not stop do good while you are struggling, keep trusting.

Now if you are in a time of victory, if right now you are in the times of fat cows, well look: save up for when the bad day comes to your life, okay? rejoice in the Lord, amen? celebrate, hallelujah If all is well at this time and the bills are paid, and there is food in the pantry, and your marriage is very good, and work is going well, and you feel the Presence of the Lord when you get up and when you go to bed glory to God, celebrate and thank the Lord for that blessing. And remember that when the times of drought come, God will also be with you there, and that God will be using those times to form in you a powerful person in the Lord. If you are going through difficulties, believe that the powerful Spirit of God rests on your life and that God has good purposes and good blessings for you.

So what I want is to remind you brothers that we always move between these two extremes, even if it is that point I want. Adopt a dynamic and active attitude to the Christian life. The Christian life is not one of simply being there in a little paper boat that always moves in a gentle breeze. The Christian life is a zigzag between moments of blessing and moments of trial and difficulties but in everything the Lord is glorified and embraces that. God does not want you to only have times of prosperity like this, God wants to also form the image of Christ within you. And sometimes He calls you and says: you know what? come here for a while, I want to deal with you, I want to bleed you dry, I want to weaken you a little so that you are more like My Son Jesus Christ.

I want to remove a little that attachment to the world, that bad blood that is inside you, I want to make a transfusion in your life. I want to detach you a little from the love of the world and I want you to learn to have intimate time with Me as well. In those times you simply rest in the Lord and let Him take you to the next stage. Ask the Lord to fulfill His purpose in you, that it be a blessing, be it difficult and test, the Lord fulfill His purpose in your life.

We tell people in marriage when we are going to marry them: In riches or in poverty, in health or in sickness, in all that life gives and in all that it takes away, you will be faithful to each other. Did you know? That can be a very good expression for the children of God also when we marry Christ. In health or sickness, poverty or wealth, cool breeze or dangerous storm. In everything we have to be faithful to the Lord and fill ourselves with the armor of God, confess that God is with us and that we will emerge victorious from all the difficulties and all the trials of life.

The most important thing is that you are like Christ, God is committed to that. Sometimes He will use times of obvious blessing and sometimes times of treatment for your life but in all it will be the same benevolent Hand of your heavenly Father working in your life. Acknowledge it, acknowledge it that way in all things and at all times.

A dynamic vision of the Christian life between the Promise of God and His call to triumph and victory, and the struggles and tribulations of life, between these two extremes we will always move but the Grace of the Lord will be there continuously.

And we're going to see through these principles that we're going to share later that that's something that is continually through all the pages of Scripture: victory in the midst of trials, growth in the midst of tribulations. Healing, power in all the wounds and all the deficiencies of life. The Lord has promised to be with us until the end of the world and to bring us out victorious from all our difficulties and all our wounds. May the Lord bless you brother.

Put your head down there for a little while. I know that we have Holy Communion that we have to celebrate and then after this, those who want to stay and have a time of ministry where we are going to move in that Promise of God, that He is in the midst of all circumstances, all situations. of our life, and we will pray for each other. If you want to stay for a few minutes, those who have to leave can also feel free to do it quietly, but we, those who want, those who feel the Lord to confess that good Will of God in their lives, we are going to do it. so too.

Christ has come into the world so that we may have victory. He has died on the cross, shed His blood, shed His life for us, His body was wounded, crushed for our sins so that the principle of evil that wants to rule this world and reign over this world is neutralized. And when we celebrate the Lord's Supper and remember the body and blood of Christ shed for us, that is what we do: we remember that in that crucifixion of the Lord there is life, there is power, there is triumph over all circumstances, the blood of Christ, the Jesus' body crushed for you has generated and unleashed an incredible source of blessing on your life, believe it and receive it.

If when you ingest these very simple, very humble symbols of the body of Jesus, the bread, the juice of the vine, remember: through your faith and by discerning the body and blood of the Lord in this simple, there is a power that the mystery of the crucifixion is unleashed in your life, receive it now in the Name of the Lord. We have these, for those who are not familiar, given the number of brothers that we have, it is often difficult to keep them separated, you can take the plastic that is on top, it covers the symbol of bread, and below you open the other, high technology of the communion scene, there is the symbol of the juice of the vine. But what matters is that our faith transforms these symbols.

If you believe that the Lord is present in these symbols, that is what makes the difference: your faith, your transforming vision so that this becomes something very special of intimate communion with the Lord's sacrifice on the cross of Calvary.

So we consecrate in the Name of Jesus, Father, these symbols, these elements of the body and blood of Jesus. Allow them to be a blessing to Your people Father, give us discernment now of what this means Lord and transform it into something life-giving, inspiring for us. We do it in memory of You and Your sacrifice, in Your Name, amen, amen.

Brothers: the Word of the Lord invites you, if you have believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior you have received him as the savior of your soul, you have believed that the sacrifice of Christ on the cross is precisely a redemptive agent for your life , you have confessed Christ as your Lord, you can enjoy this moment.

The most important thing is that, that we repent of our sins. No one is fully deserving of participating in this mystery of the Lord's Supper, but if you have repented of your sins, you have believed in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you can celebrate this moment even if you are not perfect, simply repent of your sins there, Confess your need before God, receive the Lord's forgiveness and the Lord wants you to participate in this symbol.

If you have not given your life to Jesus yet I advise you that perhaps you do not participate in it because it will not have meaning for you. This only has meaning if you have believed and received the Lord as your Savior. And by the way as we distribute the sacrament symbol and someone wants to accept Christ as their Lord and you want to raise your hand where you are, I'd love to pray for you, we open this time as well. If you have not received the Lord and want to do so this afternoon I would love to pray for you at this time.

Will there be someone who wants to give their life to the Lord? If you haven't done it before, we invite you to do it now for a moment. If in the course of the next few minutes you feel that call from God, just stand up, raise your hand and I will pray for you where you are.

The Apostle Paul says: "For I received from the Lord what I also taught you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and having broken it, having given thanks, he broke it and said: Take, eat, this is My body, which is broken for you, do this in remembrance of Me." Let's eat the bread.

Thank my Lord. "In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying: This cup is the new covenant, it is My blood. Do this every time you drink it in memory of Me." Let's drink from the cup.

"Therefore, brothers, every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you announce the death of the Lord until He comes." Thank you Lord, thank you Father for the privilege of participating in Your mysteries, these powerful symbols. Thank you because You are in us twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five or six days a year, Your Grace, Your mercy does not cease to flow in us, be it in tribulation or anguish, hunger or nakedness, danger or sword, in all of You. you make us more than conquerors Lord.

Thank you because Your Word is a wealth of promises and trust, and of wisdom that by framing life experiences in the light of Your revelation everything is beneficial, we can dwell in hope even in the midst of pain and in joy we can see it in a proper way and interpret it in the light of Your provision and Your blessing as well.

Father: on this afternoon whatever our circumstances, we are going through what we are going through, we believe that You have not abandoned us but rather the opposite, you always remain faithful in our lives. We ask you to fill us with that confidence, that constancy, Father, so as not to abandon the race until the day that You call us into Your Presence, knowing that we are more than winners in all afflictions, in all difficulties, Almighty God continues with us until the end. of this century. And one day You will step on Satan's head, cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone, and give us a world that is renewed, and completely transformed, just as we ourselves will be transformed into the perfect image of Christ Jesus. Meanwhile we look towards that day and rejoice in everything that You make possible Lord in our lives.

We receive healing from You Father, thank you. Be Your Name glorified and we leave here full of hope and joy in our hearts in the Name of Jesus, amen and amen. People of God, I bless you in the Name of the risen Christ, full of power that dwells within you, come out of here to be victorious.