Keys to a healthy life

I invite you to turn to Philippians chapter 4 and we are going to use verses 12 and 13 as the basis for our meditation this morning. I want to continue these weeks talking about the keys to a healthy life, especially in the area of our spirit and our emotions, and I told you that I wanted to resume a series of sermons that I preached some time ago but that I left half completed because others intervened. things and I also wanted to give some time to rest a bit on the topic, although it is a topic that includes so many different truths of the Christian life that in reality the only thing it does is unify many different truths that are revelations of the Word of God for life Christian in general.

After all we know that the Word says that Christ has come so that we have what? life and how? life in abundance, that means joy, sufficiency, superabundance. The Lord does not give us with a spoon, he gives us with an immense ladle and takes a pot and pours it over our heads with anointing and blessing oil, it is God who gives us generously.

Christ wants to give us our land, Christ wants to give us our inner territory. Christ wants that when we come to His feet, when we come to the ways of the Lord, when we enter into the Gospel, things change. If our life was a life of defeats and sufferings, and troubles, then the Lord wants us to start walking a different path, the Lord wants through His Word and His Spirit in us to give us the tools to live successful lives, so that our marriages work well and not only well but bring joy and energy to our lives, so that our homes are not places of division and discord but places of refuge and rest, that our children are prosperous and reach their goals, that our finances May they be blessed, may our bodies be vigorous and if we have any disease that God decides not to cure, may we, despite all this, live with the joy of the Lord, may we live above circumstances, may we overcome our deficiencies, defects, Past wounds, complexes, fears.

The Word of the Lord contains tools for all kinds of challenges, amen? How many can say amen to that? there is no problem, there is no difficulty, there is no circumstance that the Word of the Lord does not have good advice, a powerful suggestion, and not only a suggestion but a solution, and we have to be like miners who enter the Word of God to extract from it those elements of life that help us overcome our difficulties. That is why I believe very much in the healthy life of the children of God and when I say healthy I do not mean only the physical part but the entire totality of our being: emotions, will, thoughts, intellect, body, spirit, all areas of our being, and that is why these meditations are so important.

Those who stayed this beach in the morning are going to miss a blessing. We bless those who are elsewhere, but you who are here, God is going to speak into your life, God is going to bless you this morning, I want to share these teachings from God for your life.

And Philippians 4:12 says, and this is the apostle Paul speaking, and remember that this man is in jail, Paul when he writes the Letter to the Philippians is in jail. In fact, when Meche and I were now in Rome, it was the second time for me, for her it was the first time, we visited what tradition says, I think that it was quite a historical foundation, which is the prison where both Pablo, first, and then Pedro, it is a prison that everything indicates that the two of them were there at different times, and the truth is that this is not like the prisons here in the United States with air conditioning and color television, it is a dungeon where you can still hear the drops of water falling because it is underground and there is underground water that runs, and it scares anyone.

And Paul is writing the Epistle of joy, the Letter of joy, it is an Epistle that overflows with joy, joy. "Rejoice," says Paul, "again I say to you, rejoice." How a man put in jail who didn't know if he was going to live, in fact Paul finally died beheaded says the tradition, it is not known if this time, because he was there a couple of times, but here Paul's letter oozes confidence and security and is an encouragement to all of us.

And Paul says in verse 12, and that's why I point out the importance, because he's in trouble, he's locked up. But he says: "I know how to live humbly and I know how to have abundance. In everything and by everything I am taught, as well to be satisfied as to be hungry, as well as to have abundance as to suffer need" and these words are immortal words that must be engraved in your heart and mind, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". Believe that when you go to get your driver's license and take the test, believe that the Lord is going to give you the answer, when you go to an interview for a job, believe that the Lord is powerful, God is powerful in you.

Through this meditation what I want is to explore the importance of that attitude or of our attitudes in general in the struggle for our personal improvement. When we want to grow, when we want to overcome defects in our personality, wounds, things that hold us back, external circumstances that block our way, the path to success in life, we must have that belief that Paul had that "I can do everything." in Christ who strengthens me", that should be like the platform on which we undertake anything in this world.

It depends on what you believe there in your mind. There are attitudes, there are beliefs that are so fundamental that they frame everything we do, they are the background of our actions or our lack of action, what you believe about yourself, what you believe about your circumstances, what What you believe about the world, your "worldview" say the philosophers, your worldview will determine a lot what you do or don't do. If you believe that you are destined to fail you will fail, if you believe that you are a loser you will lose through life over and over again. If you believe that the world is already made and that it cannot be changed, forget it, your life will be a total futility, you will not change. What you believe will come true.

The believer, however, believes, as Paul says, that "we can do everything through Christ who strengthens us", with Christ we are more than conquerors. That principle is a principle of health and healing, and of prosperity and victory in the Christian life, "I can do everything in Christ", I can win in any circumstance even if the doors seem closed. Although the walls of Jericho, like the walls that confronted the people of God to enter the Promised Land, seem totally closed and that there is no way out, that we have no resources, we believe that God opens resources and that God can even with a praise to break those walls, but it is in that we have the right attitude.

I want my sister Vitalina to come by. Sister Vitalina, for those who don't know her, is the mother of my brother Jonatán, Pastor Jonatán Toledo who was here, and it's good that this sister has given birth to a man of God like Jonatán, whom we love and who blesses so many children. And sister Vitalina, she is visiting us from the Dominican Republic and she comes from time to time, and she always leaves a sweet taste in us because of her simplicity of heart, come here sister. Give Sister Vitalina a round of applause (applause).

I put her in trouble this morning because she has a beautiful testimony and I believe that testimonies cannot remain within us alone, we have to share them to bless God's people and I believe that she exemplifies that. The reason why I think it is important is because Sister Vitalina is an example of a woman who has overcome very hard, very difficult things. Sister Vitalina: tell me something, I know that years ago you went through a very difficult situation and tell me something about it, what happened in your life and in your own very simple words.

Sister Vitalina: God bless you all and who lives? Christ, and to His Name glory. I am going to tell you three verses before I tell you what the Pastor asked of you. A verse in Jeremiah says: "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything difficult for me?" and in Lucas it says: "Because nothing is impossible for God." And the other says in Exodus: "For I am Jehovah your Healer."

David said in the Psalms: "My God, I cried out to You and You healed me." I was sick for many years, brother, walking in the street, not knowing about me, waking up in the street, that was terrible, brother, that was a very hard and difficult situation. You can write a brother book and we are not finished, but our God is Almighty. As Pastor Roberto was preaching last Sunday and forefather that you have to call the elders of the Church to that portion that is in Santiago "and pray for the sick, and anoint him with oil" they did all this in my state of illness, but you know that you have to wait on God. And sometimes we pray and we want God to answer at once, but no, in God's time it is that God heals us.

Pastor Roberto: Sister Vitalina, before you continue, what you are saying seems precious to me, we are already blessed, describe that condition you went through a little better, to what point your state of confusion and let's say, emotional discomfort reached, tell us something because I think what God did after that is extraordinary in light of what you went through.

Sister Vitalina: well, that came to me as a result of a problem I had with my husband who was Pastor of the church and there was a church in my house, then he fell into adultery with a girl I was raising and that caused me to lose my faith. memory because it was very hard for me, for the brothers, we cried a lot and I fell into depression, I lost my mind until I was on the street without knowing about myself, but the power of prayer is very great.

Pastor Roberto: I also understand that your husband abandoned you, that is to say that your world fell apart, collapsed and everything that you had founded in your life, all of that disappeared from one moment to the next.

Sister Vitalina: but brother, having the Word of God in mind and heart, because I, my children and I learned the complete Psalms from the Bible

Pastor Roberto: how many children do you have?

Sister Vitalina: three, two females and one male, the female is called Jocabé Eunice which means "the glory of Jehovah" and "victorious", and Heiely Eunice which means "the one who keeps the treasures of Jehovah" and "victorious", and Jonathan Samuel, which means "requested from God" and "gift from God," then the Word of God (applause), yes, we must keep it in our hearts, brothers, because look, when I was already in a state where no one could see me, I I went to my Pastor's wife in a naked state, and without hearing from me with my hair as you know because I woke up on the street, I lasted three days without hearing from me or anything, then when I got to her, she said crying: "My God, heal her or take her away." If the Lord had wanted, the Lord would take my life and I would die, but the Lord was pleased to heal me, in His time, because they prayed a lot, brothers, it was praying and praying for God to heal me. The brothers didn't even think that God was going to heal me.

Pastor Roberto: how long did your crisis last?

Sister Vitalina: ten or twelve years, and my son here, and Jonathan did not think that. When Jonathan saw that God healed me and he saw me here, you don't know, I was happy, it was because of his joy, it was not because I was here, because he said: "Mommy, a miracle from God, and you are here! " and he gave me kisses and hugged me because he is our Almighty God, the God of miracles, and I tell the brothers wherever I give my testimony: don't call me Vitalina, call me Miracles because I am a miracle of God here in Earth, God bless you all.

Pastor Roberto: Wow, tremendous, what a blessing, Sister Milagros. I know that she could continue because her testimony is truly impressive, how she has been all these years, the doctors had already given her up, the psychiatrists already said that there was no solution for her, they had tried all kinds of medical resources, psychology, electric shocks if I may say so, everything and then twelve or thirteen years in that condition. Jonathan was already here and you were still affected, that is, it was something terrible, and look at her here serving the Lord and inspiring all of us, and God has given her land, glory to the Lord, everything is possible.

And she talks about how "through fasting and prayer," that makes a big difference because she even says when she was in her unconsciousness she kind of had it left, and that's why it's so important for us to treasure the Word of God, because many Sometimes we are going to be in crisis and the only thing we can do is remember a verse. When we are in the darkness of unconsciousness many times the Word of the Lord comes to the surface because we have treasured it there and we have kept it, and Sister Milagros, I am going to call her that, in her great suffering she says that she remembered the Word of God, and there in her total emotional crisis she began to fast and pray, fast and pray, and believe that God could heal her, and God did the miracle and there we have her, glory to the Lord, because it is like that brothers , everything is possible.

Even if the doctors say no, even if you yourself have reached the end of your rope and it seems that there is no way out for you, God can make a difference, never give up. If there is someone who should never give up in life, it is a believer, a child of God because I believe that there is always a way out and that is one of the principles that I am going to share with you. My motto in life is that there is always a solution and there is always a way out, and until I find the way out I am not calm about a situation.

Sometimes there are small things in life, minimal situations in life and I am there: "Lord", but I say: no, there has to be some solution to this and God always provides a solution, something comes out, something happens; always believe that in Christ Jesus there are possibilities, and that is why we have to believe that we can do everything in Christ.

And here I believe that there is the importance of that clarification "I can do all things in Christ", that is an expression that Paul continually uses in his writings, "in Christ". Paul was so aware of the Christ within him that his awareness of Jesus in him allowed him to believe that he could do anything. And I think that is one of the things that I think we have to cultivate, brothers, the consciousness of the Christ in us.

Do you know that Christ lives in you, Christ is within you? the Lord has said: "I will come in and dine with him, and he with me, I will be with you always until the end of the world." He says before His departure: "I am with you and I will come, and I will be in you." When you walk, the Power of Christ goes with you, the resources of heaven are with you and that is why you can say "I can do everything", not in yourself, not in your own strength because in you you are nothing, but in Christ Jesus within you you can do everything, and that is what makes the difference.

Do not focus so much on what is around you, do not focus so much on the painful, difficult, onerous circumstances, do not focus so much on the difficult path, focus on how powerful Christ is within you and that awareness of Jesus, and that is something that we have to cultivate over and over again, and again through the years, cultivate that awareness that Christ is in me, and that is something that does not come naturally because when problems come, okay, what do I have? What I can do; Think more about who I have inside of you. If you understood what I just said, you would be jumping right now like a Pentecostal there (laughs), it's not what you have but who you have inside of you, that's what makes the difference, and we can see that wherever we want. .

David is one of my heroes because David had an awareness of Almighty God who was with him and carried him through any circumstance. Look at how David says in Second Samuel chapter 22, look at David's self-image, how he sees himself with God by his side. It says in verse 32, Second Samuel 22:32: "For who is God but Jehovah alone, and what rock is there besides our God?"

You see that he is not directing his trust towards himself, he is directing it towards that God so powerful that he has, and then he says: "God is the one who girds me with strength and who clears my path", hallelujah. The one who gives you strength is Jehovah and you have to be aware of Him continuously. "Who makes my feet like hinds and makes me stand on my heights, who trains my hands for battle and makes the bronze bow bend with my arms."

You know when we sing that chorus "He trains my hands for battle" as it says "to bend the bronze bow", that's what you're singing, it's that Scripture from Second Samuel 22. And we have to believe that, We either believe it or we don't believe it. If you don't believe it, don't sing it or at least sing it to come to believe it, but don't sing it simply like a parrot, because evangelicals are like that; we are beasts here in the service but when we go out "I can't, I don't have, I shouldn't, I don't want to". One has to let that truth that one has confessed break down within one and spread through all one's veins and blood.

"Who trains my hands for battle so that the bronze bow is bent with my hands." He was saying that a warrior used, it is a bow not made of wood but metallic, of bronze, and to bend it, so that the bow bends when it is pulled and to be able to shoot it required a great force because it was a projectile that was going to be thrown through the bronze arch. Then he says, God not only makes sure the arrow hits but gives me power to just bend the bronze bow. Think of that image and you will see that you are going to be blessed.

"You also gave me the shield of Your salvation and Your kindness has magnified me. You have widened my steps under me and my feet have not slipped. I will pursue my enemies and destroy them, and I will not return until I finish them" the man is speaking of war there. But your enemies can be your complexes, your mistakes from the past that attack and obsess you. They can be the things that you did not achieve in life, the rejections you received, the poor childhood you had, the lack of your parents, the death of your mother when you were nine, ten years old and all these things can sometimes become enemies of our prosperity and our blessing. God gives you the strength to finish off your enemies, destroy them completely, crush them and leave no trace of them as he did with the life of our sister Vitalina. Say amen even if it's to please me, amen? God is powerful, the resources of heaven are with you.

And then I want to talk about positive confession, the way we use our mouths, what we speak and say because I like how David expresses himself, he expresses himself with that positivity, right? and I think one of the ways for us to grow in our struggles is by learning to change our vocabulary, you know? Remove the I can't for the I can do everything, remove the I don't know for the God of my wisdom, remove the I don't have for the God who provides me with everything I need.

The confession, the way we speak with our mouths and things. The Bible says that the power of life and death is in the tongue, and sometimes, part of the problem is that we have had so many troubles and setbacks in our lives that we have acquired a defeatist vocabulary and we are always confessing negativity. or sometimes we repress praising the Lord and then it becomes a nail that grows inward. We have to release praise, release positive confession, believe that God is powerful. Even if you are terrified inside, say: the Lord is with me and I am going to get ahead.

There is another thing that I also want to say and it is the following, you know? If you have lived a life of failures and difficulties, if you have had many problems in your life and you enter the Gospel then you will have to undergo a reprogramming process. Sometimes learning to think like David takes many years. You have to undo the old mental patterns and the memories of past defeats, and the trauma that has caused those defeats to get into our consciousness deeply into our psyche, and then when we try to positively confess or believe that God, when you want to change you discover that there are these mental brakes, your neurology is configured according to the defects and the failures of the past, so when you want to speak positively there is a brake. You have to start changing that, it's going to take time.

That's where I come to the last principle that I discussed last Sunday, which is patience and persistence, because when you do, personality and character changes often take place over the long term as we get rid of old thought patterns and replace them with new ones. new ones, and also the time that it takes time to reprogram itself, the neurology of the brain, it takes time. If you have been trained to think that you can't, you shouldn't, you don't know, you don't have to, it takes a long time to change that.

It is interesting that David makes his confession, that is called David's deliverance song, Second Samuel 22. It says: "David spoke this song to the Lord on the day that the Lord had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of of Saul." David had gone through many difficulties, his path was a very hard path and he was persecuted by his enemies, he had many failures, and the day came when David saw that all his enemies were already defeated, that God had already installed him in the kingdom that he had promised him, then that song sprang from him, but it is interesting that it was after some victories.

I believe that what happens in the Christian life is that when we enter the territory of faith we have to win our victories. As you take risks and dare in the Name of the Lord to conquer areas of your psychological-emotional territory, and you see that God is powerful, when you undertake something and start a little business or dare to learn to drive and get your license, or you begin to learn English and you see that yes, you can speak it, or you begin to struggle with a computer and you discover that yes, you can, little by little you win little battles and then your faith grows, but it is an ongoing process long term and we have to commit ourselves throughout life to reprogram and change our way of thinking, confessing, believing, waiting, undertaking, it takes time and there is patience, there is persistence.

You have to undo and you have to redo, you have to change the old defeatist vocabulary, you have to change the fatalistic, negative pattern, and that takes time for those neurological paths that have been built, because the brain inscribes everything, replace it or supplant it with a new and different vocabulary, and a different way of thinking and expecting, that takes time, be patient with your own process of growth and transformation of your way of believing, but every time you achieve something, thank the Lord, mark it, write it down, celebrate it and put it there in your consciousness so that you can gradually change your way of hoping and believing, that consciousness of Christ in you that becomes stronger and stronger every day as you gain achievements and climbing mountains.

Another thing I want to say is that sometimes brothers, we will not be able to change a condition of our life, but we will be able to overcome it and take advantage of it, and use it as a stepping stone towards personal development, if you understand what I am saying say: amen. Do you know that there will be things in your life that you will not be able to overcome no matter how much you want? and you will ask the Lord, Lord, get me out of here, and God will have something else in mind, but within that situation you can find satisfaction and joy and victory and even use it as a stepping stone to greatness.

Do you remember the video that I showed last Sunday about Tony Meléndez? I imagine him as a child asked him: Lord, make me grow arms. Nick Boyachic I think it's called he was born without arms and legs, he says that every day when he was a child he asked the Lord to make him grow arms and legs and God never made him grow arms and legs but he found satisfaction within your limitations, and sometimes the victory that God has for you is not necessarily getting you out of your situation but precisely making you prosper within your situation, amen? and make you see that there is victory there too.

Many times we spend our lives regretting what we do not have and what we cannot overcome and then we focus so much on the limitations of what we are experiencing that we do not think about: wow I can fluff my pillow, I can decorate this cell, I I can make it a place of blessing too, because sometimes it will be like that. Sometimes we preachers don't like to get involved in complexity and we say: no, God is going to get you out of everything, God is going to give you victory in everything, God is going to make you grow arms, God is going to give you wings, but we don't tell people: look, sometimes God has other purposes. It can be a physical deformation, it can be an emotional or mental limitation.

Paul asked the Lord to remove the thorn that he had that we do not know what it was, three times he went before God and said: Lord, deliver me from this sting, deliver me from this anxiety and the Lord three times said to him: Paul, it is enough for you. My Grace, My Power is perfected in weakness, because Paul needed that rival coach to keep him sober, humble, dependent on God because God had given him so much and his tendency would have been to take pride.

God put an artificial barrier in his life and Paul wanted to get rid of that barrier but God told him: No, no, no, you need it, that crutch is important for your personal greatness, if I take it away you will destroy yourself. How many times do we ask the Lord: Lord to win the lottery for me? If I win the lottery, I'm going to give the tithe to the Church, and I would like it to be like that, they did like that, right? but God knows that may not suit you. Lord give me that job in California! but if you go to California you're going to get lost there, perhaps God wants you here in Boston suffering cold in winter so you can learn to be humble and simple. If you go to California you go away from your family, away from your Church and then maybe there is something there that God does not want you to experience.

But no, if you focus on "oh, God didn't answer me, God didn't give me" but who knows what God has for you in this place, sometimes God's nons are His show of mercy to us and we have to learn. After you prayed, cried out, fought like a warrior, if the verdict is still no, find peace and joy in that, and victory in that.

That's why Paul says, right? I know how to live in any situation I find myself in, whatever my situation I can prosper in it, be it abundance or scarcity, be it being satisfied or being lacking, he says: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." We have to remember that context in our life.

One of the principles that you remember is that "in the world you will find trouble", this is a fallen, deformed, sinful world, it is not the world that God designed when he created it, the fall intervened and God is in the process of transforming it and reform it. Meanwhile there are children who die prematurely, there are accidents in the street, there are birth defects, there is misery in life, there are tsunamis that destroy entire populations, there is war, there is famine, it is a fallen world, it is not the world that the Lord designed not what He wants, but in that fallen world you can find happiness, you can find joy, say amen in Jesus Name.

Within your divorce that you did not want, you can find a future for your life. Within your developmentally disabled little boy you can find and create a powerful man too, and you can find joy and fulfillment in your life. Within that exam that you failed you can pass it and move on, and next time pass it with 100. Everything is in what you can believe that God can do within you. Whether in poverty or wealth, whether in health or sickness, the Lord is with you and gives you victory, and you can take advantage of everything in life. That is the armor of the believer, brothers, that is the platform of a child of God.

To overcome pain, deformities, destructive habits, it is necessary to believe that with Christ we can change or that our circumstances can change, or that we can live above our circumstances. The Apostle Paul says, "Before all these things we are more than conquerors" and what is he talking about? He is talking about that neither angels, nor principalities, nor powers will be able to make us fall or defeat us, that neither death nor life, but in all these things; There are times when in the midst of life's difficult situations we can build a garden and be a blessing to many, but we have to believe that my situation, my condition can change, I can change. I don't have to live my life subject to depression all my life, I don't have to live my life subject to a sexual dependency or some kind of obsession, or some distortion of my psyche that leads me to do things that I know I They are not from God and instead of adapting to it, and trying to sanitize it and give it another name, I say: no, I can do everything in Christ who strengthens me, God can help me to overcome and overcome, and to get ahead, and to bless to others too, amen? we have to believe that God can help us change instead of getting used to our demons, we have to know that God wants to give us victory.

And that I was saying that it is so important that we are aware of the Christ within us, one of my favorite passages is found in Ephesians chapter 1, I refer you there and it is possible that I even let you go a little early this morning, it would be a miracle but pray because everything is possible in Christ Jesus (laughs), I always ask the Lord to give me brevity but he has never granted it to me and I have learned to conform to that (laughs).

Ephesians chapter 1 verses 17 to 22, Paul prays, you have heard me speak of this perhaps in some prayer, he says: "I pray, I make mention of you in my prayers" verse 17 Ephesians 1, "so that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him" note that Paul is asking: give this people and a spirit of supernatural revelation and wisdom but that does not stop the thing, to What, why is he asking for the spirit of revelation and wisdom? It says: "Enlightening the eyes of your understanding" and here comes the punch line "so that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the super eminent greatness of His power towards us who believe" underline there "those who believe", "according to the operation of the power of his strength which he operated in Christ raising him from the dead and seating him at His right hand in heavenly places."

Do you know that sometimes we need God to enlighten us to understand the war tank that we have inside of us? sometimes we think that we have a small volkswagen there that is only enough to go to the store to buy, you have inside you an F-11 or 14 fighter plane or whatever is out there, you have a powerful engine that can I don't mean to take it to the moon, it can take it to Jupiter, it can take it to break the barrier of time and space, and go like in Star Trek, warp speed to another dimension. God gives power to his children, but we have to be aware.

Paul says: look, I'm praying for you to understand what you have inside. We convert, we accept Christ as Lord and Savior but we do not understand that the power of God, all the power of heaven is within you, brother believe it in the Name of Jesus, power for whatever. Power to eat less, power to exercise in the morning, God gives you power for big things and small things too. Power to turn down that second chop and say, no, I've had enough, God is powerful. Do not ask him: Lord remove the calories from this food, no, ask him: Lord give me authority to say no.

Sometimes I ask: Lord, make a miracle like with Yiye Ávila that I lose 40 pounds in an instant, no, no. Go on a diet, start exercising because I need a strong, confident, and disciplined person. God can help you buy your house, the Power of Christ within you can help you go to university, it can help you, if you have been a housewife all your life and you have dreams of study and self-improvement, He will. can do. Wherever you go remember that all the resources of heaven go with you.

I tell my brothers sometimes: look, it's true. One would like to have their documentation and glory to God if we can have it, but you know what? that if you are deported God goes with you on the plane and when you are there the angels will be waiting for you there, wherever because God is powerful to make prosperity anywhere. Do you believe that God can only give prosperity here in the United States? no, that's not funny, it's easy here. God can give it to you in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, wherever, the Lord is powerful to open the way. The Lord tells you: I have given you all the land that the soles of your feet tread on. All the earth, that means anywhere. If you are here rejoice but if they take you to another place wait for God's blessing wherever you go, I will be with you wherever you go. And there are principles, he says: "Look, I command you to make an effort and be brave" you have to make an effort and undertake battles in the Name of Jesus.

Stand up my brother, my sister, stand up and there you kind of make those waters move in the Name of the Lord, tell yourself: I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me. In the Name of Jesus I declare a blessing over your life this morning, I declare that Christ is powerful within you, that whatever problem you have, God will give you the weapons and resources to solve them, okay? whatever you are looking at now towards the future God is powerful, receive God's provision in your hands right now. Move your hands and say: Lord I have it, I receive Your grace.

Lord: I myself confess from up here that with You I am more than victorious, that I can do everything with that powerful Christ who dwells within me. I have the land, my future is bright, our children are going to be blessed, there is victory for those of us who believe in Jesus. Lord: this morning I banish hopelessness, I banish negativity, I banish fatalism and I receive hope. Oh, we are going to win the victory brothers, we are going to live and not die, we are going to prosper and not become poor because God is good and His mercy is forever. God loves you and He has not called you to defeat. In Christ Jesus you can win.

Believe the Lord and gird your loins for battle. It may take months because great victories take time but persist in the Lord and be encouraged by that awareness: God goes before me like a powerful giant opening the way, He will defeat. They will come one way and flee seven ways when they want to hurt me, even though an army encamps around me, says the Word, my heart will not fear, even though war rises against me, I will be confident, hallelujah.

Do you think that it is written there simply for poetry? that is written to encourage warriors. This morning God is pleased to tell you: renew your contract with Me, I will be with you and you, your assignment is to strive and be brave, keep my Word within your heart continuously, live in My ways, obey Me and I will give you victory . No one will be able to face you all the days of your life because I have put victory in your hands. The children of God have every right to do great things this morning. Let's declare: God is powerful, amen? In the Name of Jesus, leave here with the hope that God is with you as a mighty giant, hallelujah.