When you lose it all, you win it all

I want to invite you to go to the Book of Genesis chapter 2 and I am going to title this sermon: “When you lose everything, you gain everything”, when you lose everything, you gain everything. Remember the words of Jesus Christ who said that he who loses his life will win it and that is a principle that is throughout the Scripture, when you give everything to the Lord and the Lord loses everything, then he returns it more than anything.

And this is the well-known story of Abraham and that moment in his life when God asks him to give up his son Isaac and sacrifice him to him, and it contains some very special lessons for this mother's day, I chose it even though it presents a man , a father, but the spirit contained in this message is absolutely propitious to meditate on the paternity and motherhood of the maternal-paternal Spirit of God, and the spirit to which we are called by the Word regarding our children, our motherhood, to our fatherhood. This text has lessons for fathers and mothers as well, but I dedicate it and its initial origin is precisely Mother's Day, so that is my inspiration from the Lord.

Chapter 22 of Genesis says beginning in verse 1: "It happened after these things that God tested Abraham" a test, he examined him, he examined what was inside his heart, how many know that actions reveal what is in the heart right? God tested his heart and said to him: Abraham, and he answered: here I am.

I believe that every believer must sign a blank piece of paper at the end and what that paper expresses is: here I am what You want of my life, Lord, what You want to write on the page of my life, here I am, I am willing, I am available, when there is that disposition on the part of the woman, of the man, then God can do and write wonderful things in the text of our life.

Abraham said to him: here I am, he did not know what God was going to ask him but God said to him: "Take now your son, your only son, Isaac whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”

"And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey" means he prepared it, girded it, and took with him two of his servants, and Isaac his son, and he cut wood for the burnt offering, and he rose and went to the place where God told him."

"On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place in the distance, then Abraham said to his servants: Wait here with the donkey and I and the boy will go there and worship and come back to you."

“And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on Isaac his son, and he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and they both went together, then Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said: my father, and he answered: here I am, my son, and he said: here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the holocaust? And Abraham answered: God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, my son, and they went together.”

“And when they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son, and put him on the altar on the wood, and Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay the throat. to his son, then the angel of Jehovah called out to him from heaven and said: Abraham, Abraham, and he answered: here I am, and said: do not stretch out your hand on the boy or do anything to him because I already know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only one."

"Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns, and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son, and Abraham called the name of that place "Jehovah will provide, therefore it is said today on the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided" bless the Lord His Word.

As I was saying, I dedicate this sermon to my sister mothers. This is one of the most beautiful passages of Scripture, I would say, the level of faith that Abraham shows is unprecedented, I do not believe that there is a moment more pregnant with spirituality and moral lessons than this moment and that it reflects in a more powerful the deepest and most mysterious values of the Gospel than this moment of sublime and total detachment from something we love. The level of detachment that Abraham shows in this passage is unique and inspires us to seek that same level of faith in our personal experience.

I would say that the Bible establishes this moment as a kind of marker on the pages of Scripture, it is a key point that invites each one of us to measure our faith, our level of surrender to the Lord in light of that act without precedents or future imitations of Abraham so that we measure ourselves in our willingness to fulfill God's Will in our lives and to do what He asks of us no matter how scandalous or sacrificial it may seem.

Certainly there are other passages that show us Abraham's faith and integrity but none I would say quite like this passage. The writer of Hebrews centuries after this event offers Abraham and this event in his life as a prime example of what faith is, as a paradigm of what faith is.

In Hebrews chapter 11 verses from 17 to 19 the writer says: "By faith Abraham" and this is when he is doing like this, a tour of examples of faith throughout history, "By faith Abraham when he was tested offered to Isaac, and the one who had received the promises" that is, God had promised Abraham a son years before, "the one who had received the promises now offered his only son, having been told: in Isaac you will be called offspring" that is, he is clarifying , this man who receives the promise of a son and now is his only legitimate son, now, and he has been told this is your offspring, now thinking that God was powerful to still raise from the dead from where in a figurative sense he also gave him received again; In other words, when God tells him: don't kill your son, it's almost like a resurrection because he was going to put the knife in his throat, and when the angel tells him: stop, it's like his son is resurrected again because in the mind Abraham's

I believe that God waited for Abraham to mentally cross the threshold of "do it or don't do it." When the angel tells him: stop, it is because Abraham has already made the mental transaction of beheading his son. Perhaps until that moment he was: I do it or I don't do it, I do it or I don't do it, but when Abraham passes by and says: yes and his will has already been adhered to, the angel tells him: stop, and at that moment God tells him returns, then it is a resurrection from which also in a figurative sense he received it again.

That is to say: the writer of Hebrews is pointing out that moment as something very, very transcendental in the history of faith, and in Romans the writer of Romans, the Apostle Paul says that Abraham is the father of all believers. Every person who believes in God in the Judeo-Christian tradition, every person of faith in a sense is a descendant of Abraham.

Verse 11 of Romans 4 says that Abraham received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness of faith that he had while uncircumcised, that is long to explain but, for him to be the father of all uncircumcised believers, those are we Gentiles, so that faith may be credited to them also for righteousness. That gentile people of which we who do not have Hebrew descent are also in that spiritual tradition that what we believe in God is counted to us for justification, believing in Christ for example is our justice.

And father of the circumcision, Abraham is not only the father of the Gentiles who believe but also the father of the Hebrews who believe God, so they are not only of the circumcision but also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father had Abraham before being circumcised. In other words, that act and those acts of faith of Abraham make him the father of the faith of others who believe.

Now, why is that act of faith recorded in this passage from Genesis so exceptional? Let's look at that a little more. As we know Abraham had received the promise from God to have a son, at what age, how many do you know? at 75 years old so if you haven't had a child yet, your child there is hope for you don't despair you know? mother and father. At 75 years old, this man has not had children and God tells him: You are going to have a child, I am going to give it to you, and you know what? God took 25 more years to grant him, the Lord likes His miracles to be unsettled first.

It took 25 more years to fulfill that promise and Abraham and Sara, his wife, had Isaac when Sara was 100 years old, I think those spermatozoa were already going with a cane to fertilize Sara, I got that forgive me (laughs), Lord have mercy on this brain. Siblings; Please get that out of your mind, imagine how a couple would feel to have a longed-for child at 100 years of age, when that dream of fatherhood and motherhood has already been abandoned, how one would love that child.

One thinks of the love of grandparents, for example, which is what I think is closest to that tenderness that they must have felt, Abraham was a grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather, and father, I believe, at the same time, there is a mixture of loves , and in fact before Isaac Abraham had had a son who was Ishmael here for Bible scholars but it was an illegitimate son, he was not his wife's son and it was not the son that God had promised him because He he had told Sara that she was going to be a mother, she was not the son born of the marriage union between Abraham and Sara; That son was the son of a haste on the part of Sara, rather because Sara told Abraham: look, this God has promised you this son and it's been 20 years, and you haven't had him so go to this servant, and Abraham very humbly and obediently, for what was left for the poor? He got close to Hagar and had a son with her named Ishmael, right? and how much trouble has Ishmael caused the world, he is the father of the Arabs, the Muslims.

One thing that God likes is to take time to give us what He has promised us, in our desire to have it sometimes we want to help God and artificially produce something that is not from God, we have to be careful. When God promises something He has His time and He fulfills it at the right time, wait for it and it will come, it will not take long says the Word of the Lord.

But now in Genesis 22 we already have that much-loved, long-awaited, much-desired son who is already seasoned at the peak of his beauty, 17, 18 years old, a handsome young man surely and full of life and energy, the hope of this father-grandfather, already enjoying the love and preference of his father, we find that surprisingly God asks Abraham to give him his son and not only that, but that he himself slit his throat in sacrifice.

Here we are not told that Abraham protested, there is nothing like that, but you and I can imagine how the first night that Abraham spent when God told him, sacrifice your son to me, that he capsizes, what level of agony he must have experienced , what a questioning of God's Will and morality that gives you a son, makes you cultivate love for him, makes you love him desperately, tells you that you will have offspring in him and then tells you: you know what? cancel all that, I repented, I changed my mind, kill me for My enjoyment. We are not told about Abraham's agony but one can imagine it, God asks him to give up his son.

And we know something interesting and that is that in this process in which God is asking Abraham for his son, not only is he testing Abraham, but he is rehearsing his coming drama because thousands of years later God is going to execute exactly what he is asking of Abraham to do and this time no one is going to tell him: no, don't do it, this time He is going to have to execute and in a sense kill His own Son Jesus Christ.

The language that God uses when commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac anticipates the divine drama itself centuries later. You read in verse 2 that it says: "And God said to him: Abraham now take your son, your only son" the only begotten Son of God who sacrificed himself on the cross of Calvary, "take your son whom you love" that beloved son, “take it and go to the land of Moriah and offer it there as a burnt offering” God offered His Son Jesus Christ as a burnt offering for us, the paschal sacrifice, the immolated lamb. Interestingly, God asks Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on a mountain and the Lord was also crucified on Mount Golgotha.

Another interesting parallel is that Isaac carries his own firewood, the firewood where he is going to be killed and beheaded as Christ carried His own cross. And another thing: Isaac, already a young man, could have imposed himself on his father when he was going to slit his throat, but Isaac stretches out on the sacrificial wood and lets them tie him up, and submits to this mysterious act on the part of God that seems totally capricious and arbitrary, like the Lord.

He said to him: Father, if it is in You, pass this cup from Me but Your Will be done and not Mine and the Lord climbed the cross for us too. He said: I could send a legion of angels to free me but if You tell me I will do it and that is what we have to do when God asks us to do something outrageous.

Despite the terribleness of the divine order, Abraham obeys with all good disposition, gets up very early, cuts the wood, goes to the place where God has indicated, does everything with excellence, carries a fire prepared to light that blessed wood where his son is going to have his throat cut, he executed everything perfectly. If it had been me, I get up at 3 in the afternoon, he got up at 5 in the morning to walk. He got up early, went directly to the place of sacrifice. We have to embrace the Will of God in our lives, we have to bless the hand of the one who slaps us, and in that there is spiritual greatness and there is great blessing.

Abraham's willingness reminds me how important it is that we not only grudgingly obey God but willingly obey Him and enter into the drama God sets before us.

When God gives you something, do not look for excuses to justify your reluctance or your delay in obeying him, but obey him with all your heart, with all your strength and give him more than what he even asks of you, and in that you will be greatly blessed and honored.

By being willing to sacrifice his son, Abraham shows an essential element of faith and this is what I am going to say: God is the origin of every good thing that you have and I have, and to Him ultimately belongs everything that we we call our What we have is not ours, it belongs to God, that is the essence of what is called stewardship in theology, you are the steward of what you have, you are not the owner. If your job lends you a car so that you carry out your work assignments when you drive that brand new car, you know that it is not yours, it belongs to your company and they have lent it to you so that you can carry out the work of the company. company, and you have to take care of that car because it's not yours, you can't say: oh look what a beautiful car I have, you have to take care of it and that's the way it is with the belongings of our lives.

We are always taking what belongs to God, everything you receive is from God and you have to administer it that way, and if God asks us or takes away something that He has given us at some point we have to bless it, kiss His Hand and gladly deliver what He asks of us or takes from us, that is the very essence of the life of faith, and you know what? in that disposition there is great security for your life.

Do you know which is the best insurance? when you buy a television sometimes they say: hey, do you want to buy insurance? And sometimes they charge you more than the TV itself over the years, you know?

But do you know what is the way to better secure your house, your marriage, your car, your children? Give them to the Lord, sign him a letter and say: Lord this is Yours and I am going to administer it to you for a while, I am going to do the best job possible but, and I am going to do the best job possible but I know that it belongs to you You, I am not going to take over it, I am not going to want to take over it, I am not going to dominate it, I am not going to try to do what I want with it, I am going to be Your administrator and I will always be looking to ask you: what do you want me to do with those belongings today? it is Yours and I want to manage it well, that is the essence of a biblical faith.

Everything belongs to God including our money, our profession, our children, our dreams, everything we love, everything belongs to Him. If there is something we love more than God, this has already become an idol and is idolatry. Everything that you place above the Will and the administration of God is idolatry, everything that you have you must take lightly in your hand. Correy ten Boom, a famous believer, said that she had learned to hold everything she had lightly in her hand so that if God took it from her, it wouldn't hurt.

At the very beginning of the formation of the Christian faith there in Moria we see that God is establishing a precedent that serves as the foundation of our faith and on this mother's day I have thought a lot about Abraham even though he is a man but he is the essence of motherhood as well and of fatherhood, he is a good example of how we should consider and love, and treat our children.

Our children do not belong to us. Mothers understand, your child is not yours, it belongs to God, we do not possess it, we do not control it, the Bible says that we should not take it to anger wanting to put it like putting it in a small drawer so that they do not move wanting to avoid pain and keep them micromanaged there, release your children to the Will of the Lord.

Children, do not take advantage of that either because I see some there saying: do you see mom what she is saying to you? It is a dance between parents and children, the father, the mother released as the son matures, the son and the daughter submit to their father, and honor him, they bless their mother and God blesses that son, that daughter who he blesses his mother and father, and then it is a wonderful dance that glorifies God.

Our children do not belong to us and they are a mysterious instrument of God for His Will to be done on Earth, and God honors you by bringing his instrument to Earth so that you can prepare it and sharpen it, and release it so that you can allow May the Kingdom of God advance on Earth.

God gives us our children so that we can take care of them and train them, and we have to consecrate them to God from the beginning, and do everything possible to form and educate them so that they love God above all things and that they come to be useful instruments for His Kingdom in His Hands.

God is giving you an arrow when he gives you a son, a daughter, God is giving you a projectile of love that you make explode for the blessing of humanity and instead of perhaps giving him a gun, give him a book, instead of buying him headphones so that listen to music that corrupts him take him to a museum one day to admire works of art and give him good music and put his creativity to work, talk to him about noble things, bring him to Church, invest in him.

If your son tells you: dad, mom I want to go to church on a Friday night to I Wanna or to Sunday school look, get undressed, lose what you have to lose, steal the morsel out of your mouth but if you can do something to enrich that creature so that it is useful in the Hands of God do it. When you get your children say: God has given me a treasure in my hand and I have to create something precious so that God can use it.

It reminds me of the story of Hannah when God gave Samuel also so in a miraculous way, what did Hannah do? Ana did not say: wow, I have waited so long for this son, I am going to eat him to the last bone, no, she took that son that God had given her miraculously and takes him to the temple, and says: I dedicate him to God do you know what that is? And he said: Samuel from now on will live in the temple and will be a priest for God, and Samuel became the great prophet Samuel, opened the prophetic dispensation in the Old Testament, a mighty man of God.

And then God gave Hannah more children interestingly, this woman whose womb had been closed for decades, when she gives up her son that God has given her as a sacrifice now God gives her many more children and that is the central dynamic of faith, when you give to the Lord, God gives you more, when you let go of things God tells you: now I am going to give you until you tell me: enough is enough, don't give me more. Many of us know what we are talking about.

Your children are instruments of God and have a mission to fulfill on Earth, feed that mission with your faith, do not see the devil doing bad things through your children, see God taking them through a process of formation and sanctify what who are living, and say: I will not let you go until I see the greatness of God realized in your life. Do not stop praying for them, bathe them with water with a precious mat and conceive in your mind great things that they are going to do for the advancement and glory of the Name of God. Do not ever release your children to the devil, do not give up, do not stop praying, do not stop crying out, do not stop watering it with your prayers and your creative expectation that God is doing something glorious in their lives, and even that you do not have a Samuel in your hands, do not let go, cry out to the Lord and believe for great things, invest in them because they are instruments.

And when something happens that you did not expect, something mysterious, when it seems that the machine has stuck and that they are no longer progressing, when it seems that they did something that is irremediable and that has damaged their lives, believe that in God there are no abortions, God always complete what He begins and keep fighting, and hoping, and bless, and believe for a glorious ending, no premature deaths of divine dreams.

That made me remember the words of Dwight L. Moody. I am now finishing a biography of the great evangelist of the 19th century, a very powerful man of God, a man of faith. Moody lost two grandchildren already when he was at the height of his life and I was reading, I was moved this week by a letter that he wrote to his son and daughter-in-law when one of his granddaughters died to comfort them, her name was Irene, and I am going to translate the words of that precious letter that Moody writes to his children to comfort them, he says, because he was elsewhere, he was evangelizing and he was in another city, he could not arrive in time to bury his little granddaughter.

He wrote a telegram and said, "I've been thinking this morning of the old prophet waiting in the Jordan Valley all those years ago for the chariot that was to take him home." He was thinking of Elijah. “God's carriage arrived in the Connecticut Valley” where they lived, “arrived yesterday morning at 6:30 a.m. and took our little Irene home to heaven. The first" that is, the prophet Elijah "was taken at the end of his days of active service, the other, Irene, was taken in the early dawn of her youth, but the prophet's service was no more complete," says Moody, "than the service of that little servant of the Lord, Irene, because God called them both and God never interrupts the service of one of his own.”

“Irene has finished her career, her work has been well spent here on Earth and she has accomplished more than many in their seventy years have accomplished, and we would not take her back, we would not want her back. Though her voice was the sweetest voice I ever heard on all the earth she never approached me since she was three months old without a smile even in the sorrowful times of her illness, but Christ had some other service up there for she."

"My life has been much better for her ministry here on Earth, she has made all of us better, I thank God this morning for the hope of immortality, I know I will see her on that glorious future morning more beautiful in the glory of her resurrection than when she was here on earth.” That is the attitude of resignation and surrender of someone who knows that our children have a mission to fulfill here on Earth and nothing happens in their lives that defeats God's purpose, God always has something and fulfills it, and time is perfect, and we have to surrender our children to the Will of the Lord time and time again, give them the best possible example, the best education so that they grow up and be men and women of faith who love the Lord above all things.

When we invest our children, when we invest our money, our marriage in the Kingdom of God, when we submit it to the Will of God and say: Lord, let Your Will be fulfilled in this that You have placed under our administration, when we detach emotionally from them and we consecrate them to the Lord then the Lord God blesses them and gives us much more than what we give to Him.

The greatest security for our children is a father who prays and says: Lord, let Your Will be fulfilled in the life of my son. Oh I wanted a great singer, I wanted an engineer but You have wanted something else, Your Will be done, do not control, do not own, release your children to the Lord and let the Lord take them through His process.

We have to get rid of the things we love the most brothers to the point that it seems that we hate them for being so detached. Do you understand when Christ says: He who does not hate his father and mother? It is not that you hate them in the sense of detesting them, it is that you detach yourself so much from the things of this world: children, money, time, ease, comfort, dreams, career, illusions, that you detach yourself so much to the point that your detachment becomes so deep that it borders on hating and hating, it seems that you hate because you are so detached from it, it is an active detachment, it is not a passive detachment when we say: Lord, I give you what I love the most.

The Bible says that there were large crowds that followed Jesus but He turned and said to them: If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and his mother, his wife and his children, his brothers and his sisters, and even his own life cannot be My disciple, and he who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

What separates one from the crowd of the great multitude that follows Jesus Christ because they have been told that the Lord heals and provides, and prospers, and blesses, and gives cars, and gives houses, and gives victories, and they follow him for the gain? What about a true disciple? The disciple says: Lord, whatever You want to give me, that is what I receive. You have given me children, I give them to You, I am going to take care of them, I am going to form them, let Your Will be done. You gave me a career, if you want it, Lord, it is yours. I love to sleep but if You want me to stay awake praying and crying out, and serving others glory to God. I love my money and it is good to have it but if You ask me for the advancement of Your Kingdom take it Lord it is Yours too.

Put everything you have at the disposal of the Lord, if God asks you in the most scandalous and aggressive way, give it to him and thank him for letting you be used, do not hold on to anything in this world. Abraham could very well have said: Lord, by no means, how dare you ask me for what you yourself have given me? That son is mine, I have longed for him all my life, You gave him to me, You cannot go back on Your promise, this son belongs to me, I am going to enjoy him until I die, I cannot give him to you; Abraham parted with what was legitimately his so that the Will of God might be fulfilled in his life.

If God had told you: Lord, I can't do that, do you think God wouldn't have left it to you? God would have respected Abraham's will. When God asks us for something and we decide not to give it to him, then there you are with your God, God is not going to force you. Now, you are missing a great blessing and by not entering what you have to love more than God within the Will of God, that is already adrift, you are in another zone of contingency and accident because what is certain is what is within the Will of God, no matter how many storms come, if it is within the Will of God, no one can take it from you.

What is the safest place in all of human history do you know what it is? The boat in the middle of the storm with Jesus inside it. That boat could never sink, not even a boat that was tucked into a mountain far from the sea would be safer than that boat because the Lord was inside it.

If your children are delivered to the Lord, they are under the protection of God, your money, your time, your dreams, your profession, everything is in the Hands of the Lord and you have told him: Father, do what you want from it, it is armored. , protected by the good Will of the Lord and if God takes something from you, He will more than return you in some way dignified, ennobled, embellished because you have made it available to Him, and Philippians 2 encourages us to have the same feeling that there was in Jesus Christ.

Abraham legitimately could have denied his son to the Lord but he did not cling to him, he let go of him. Christ could have clung to His uncomplicated perfect deity in heaven, but when God said to Him, Son, I need you to thin yourself into a baby and at some point to mount yourself on a cross and be sacrificed for the good of humanity, the Lord did not say to him: Father, how do you ask me that? I King of kings and perfectly divine Lord of lords, I become a fragile baby and participate in all the indignities of a human being? Do not ask me such a thing, but the Lord did not cling to it, but stripped himself says the Word, undressed and came down in the form of a man, and became obedient to death, and death on a cross. And do you know what happened? It says: "For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him a Name that is above all names so that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth." .

When you surrender to the Will of the Lord, when you surrender everything you love to the Lord, when you strip yourself of your glory and place everything at the disposal of the Lord God, then he exalts you, lifts you up, you experience happiness, you experience joy, you experience the real pleasure of having something that God now blesses with His blessing.

In conclusion, I ask you: are you willing, are we as a Congregation, am I preaching this message willing to give up everything that legitimately belongs to us, including our children, so that God's purposes may be fulfilled in our lives? This is what truly marks a Christian as a people of faith and not as a mere superficial follower of Jesus Christ.

The reason for children is simply the beginning of something much deeper, what God wants me to give him is your heart, he says: Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes look through My eyes, that is the radical position that God honor. Until a believing man or woman has reached the point of giving the Lord the seat of his will, he is not a true follower of Christ. Until God hears the noise of a branch that breaks of the will, he is not satisfied and will persecute us until that moment occurs, and that we lower our heads like the horse when the rider tames it, and allows itself to be mounted and used, and that is what God wants from you that you die.

I ask you this afternoon, what is your Isaac, what is your Isaac, what do you love the most? What is it that you say: Lord, I give you everything else but don't ask me for that? There are compartments in our life, there are armored boxes whose combination only we know and God is not going to open them by force, there we keep our treasure. The Bible says that where our treasure is, there will be our heart.

Is there something that you have not delivered to the Lord? Is there a son you love desperately and of whom you say: if they take this away from me, I'll die? Is there a man, a woman whom you love more than the good Will of God and the appreciation of God in your life? Is there a bank account, is there a house, is there a profession that you say: Lord, I can't give you this, don't ask me? and you have not said it with your mouth, you have said it with your heart, with your mind, invisibly, inaudibly, but you have told them and while you do that, the perfect Will of God is not going to be fulfilled in your life, but when you do it God says: That is what I was waiting for, now I am going to enter your life, I am going to bless you, I am going to multiply you.

God said to Abraham: Because you did not deny me your son, your only son, I will make your offspring be like the sand of the sea, like the stars of the sky, if the stars of the sky can be counted, your offspring can be counted.

How many spiritual children has Abraham had since those thousands of years in which he had an encounter with God on Mount Moriah? Countless generations of men and women who have him as their spiritual father because he had the courage to give to the Lord what he loved the most.

I encourage you this afternoon father, mother, give your children, prosperous person give your prosperity to the Lord, person who has some treasure give it to the Lord preventively. Lower your head there where you are and God is speaking to you this afternoon, the Lord tells you: I want you to leave here today having given me everything you have, I want you to sign a blank piece of paper and give it to me and on that paper you will be saying: Lord, whatever you want to write in the program of my life, I tell you: yes. If you dare to do that, your life will be something glorious, a heroic life, an epic life, you will never be bored, you will never be mediocre, you will not leave this world without leaving a mark, you will advance the Kingdom of God and most likely you will to have great joys, great enjoyments in your life because the Lord never whips us and takes all the juice out of us without also blessing us, God is also in charge of giving you blessings and pleasures that the devil and the world cannot give you.

Give the Lord your heart, give your life, this Church has to give this Church to the Lord. From here I give our program to the Lord, I give the Lord those seats, this rug, this platform, my ministry, I give them to you, I give the two services and the service in English to the Lord, I give our income, I give the future of this Church, I surrender the call of this Church, I surrender any aspiration for ministerial greatness to the Lord, we surrender everything, nothing is ours, neither you nor I have any right to determine anything of this Congregation because everything belongs to God, can you you say amen to that? because everything is from God.

And this is a boat, Lion of Judah is a boat, this place is a boat and the Lord wants to preach His Gospel to multitudes and says: Lion of Judah, can you lend me your boat? for me to get away from land a little and preach to this lost world, and you and I have to say: Lord of course if you take the boat, the oars and also the net that is inside I give you everything.

I invite you to give your life to the Lord this afternoon right now and if there is someone who wants to do it not only in a spiritual way, if you want to give your life to Jesus Christ and you have not done it before I invite you to do it now too, I invite you come forward here, raise your hand, if there is someone who wants to do it, as God tells you, if there is someone who wants to do it, we open this space, we want to pray for you, do you feel that call from God?

You can raise your hand, you can stand up, I open this space here while I pray for the other brothers, I ask if there is someone here who has not yet given their life to the Lord, perhaps a young man full of energy, future and talent, and you love him give your life to Jesus Christ, and you say: Lord with fear and trembling I give you my life, or perhaps you are an old man at the end of his years and say: do you know what Father? I understand that I have wasted my life but today I give it to you, and I invite you to come forward here, raise your hand as God tells you, if there is someone who wants to do it, we open this space, we want to pray for you

Do you feel that call from God? While we do that if anyone feels the Lord coming I want to invite you right now too, if you are a child of God, you serve the Lord, you walk in His ways, come by young man, are you raising your hand? Come here, accompany him sister, while; I know this boy, I think that probably since you were born, how good, today I feel fulfilled, what a blessing, like that at the beginning of his youth.

If someone else wants to come forward here I want this to be a total dedication of all of us, possibly there are other people I believe that God can bless, I declare God's blessing in your life, I tell you God right now is looking at you and He's examining every move of your heart and your emotions, and He is sanctifying, blessing, and releasing, and sealing every part of your being and as you walk this life walk knowing that you have the blessing and the favor of God in your life , He will enhance your intelligence, He will grant you great victories, He will bless you intellectually, professionally, physically, emotionally, He will be your partner in life, He will be your manager and your trainer and He will show you the way.

I've been where you are now as a young boy and I've seen the Lord bless me in extraordinary ways, and He has given me the desires of my heart and He will give them to you too if you obey Him and you follow Him so say: Jesus take over my life, just say that inside of yourself, give your life to the Lord as beautiful as you are, give your life to the Lord and say: Father I yield my life to You, my future I give it to You and I want You to walk with me every day of my life, there is no greater blessing than that I'm telling you, He will make you something extraordinary, He will make you into something great, powerful and beautiful.

And through you I bless many young people in our city, in our community, through you I bless countless students in high schools, in colleges, in middle schools, in kindergardens, and I bless this youth, and I declare that they belong to Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God not to Satan, and through you I bless them as well, and I call them to come forward to be blessed and to be taught, and edified by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, you are a chosen generation and I bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Is there anyone else right now who wants to give their life to Jesus? I open this moment for you too, do not resist it, do not fight anymore, surrender Isaac and God will return him to you multiplied and blessed, and transformed into something glorious.

And there Congregation León de Judá I invite you to reconsecrate your life to the Lord right now, to examine all the cracks in your life, all the cubicles, all the spaces, all the objects and if you do not have the mark that says Kingdom of God on apply it to him right now, surrender it to the Lord everything, everything, everything; your body, your intellect, your dreams, your money, your house, your family, your spirit, your emotions, your memories, give it all to the Lord and say: Lord, I am Yours, I am Yours, take possession of me, teach me how to get to another level of life, I bless you in the Name of the Lord, amen, amen, thank you Lord because you give us a new, incipient harvest, it pleases you to have these new creatures Lord who have a long way to go and bless them, we give them to You Lord thank you and so we ask that you give us the joy of seeing hundreds of them come to Jesus Christ Lord and live blessed and prosperous lives, thank you Father.

This Church submits to You Lord, we give you everything we have, everything we are, Yours is Father, glorify yourself in it and receive this blessing that is Yours Lord thank you, thank you Father, we adore you and bless you. People of God, stand up and give everything to the Lord, if you have made that pact there, if you have made that pact, raise your hand and give thanks to the Lord, and leave here a creature that belongs to the Kingdom of God to serve the Lord and give Him everything He wants from you, I bless you in the Name of the Lord, thank you, amen, amen.