Declare what God has declared

Today we have something very special and it is being able to participate in the ministry of Apostle Héctor Torres, his wife Miriam, who is also with us. For many of us he doesn't need much of an introduction because we have either read some of his books or have heard of his very strategic work in the area of intercession, of spiritual warfare. He has been used by God through the years to raise awareness among God's people of the need for intercession, how through spiritual warfare and the declaration of Christ's lordship, our cities can be won for the Lord. We know that we are not involved in a merely religious, or even a social, economic battle. The Apostle Paul says, 'our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers'. That is to say, underneath all the desire to see our cities transformed there is a spiritual warfare that has to be carried out. If the strong man is not bound, his house cannot be evicted, or it can be taken. And then, Apostle Torres has been used by the Lord to raise that spiritual level, that awareness in God's people of the need to pray, to fast, to cry out, to wage spiritual warfare, to declare the lordship of Christ. And God has used him a lot at the level of this same nation, not only among Hispanics, he is, by the way, I confirmed this morning, a Colombian national, as is his wife. He is from Bogotá and she, are you from Bogotá too, sister? They are both from Bogota. And as I was saying, we have quite a large group here. How many are Colombian? Say amen here. Okay. There are out there, they listen to them, so there are Colombians. Colombians are celebrating having 2 worthy representatives of them today. I know they have something very special for us and I said, God has used him to impact not only the Hispanic world, but also the North American world. He is perfectly bilingual and as you will perhaps see, he is a great blessing. I know that God has the word, our Brazilian brothers have brought it and we are happy to be participating with them also this morning in the ministry of Brazilian pastors, our brother Edson Porto, who is a dear friend of ours, has also been very involved in his coming. It's not the first time he's come to Boston, by the way, but it's the first time he's come to Lion of Judah. And we are honored by your presence. Give a big round of applause to welcome Apostle Héctor Torres. By the way, God bless you. He brings books and other resources that you will also be able to enjoy later. That's my cell phone and I apologize. I do not know what happened to me. My cell phone never, ever rings, except today, to embarrass me. Amen. That keeps us humble, and that's good. A little more Lord. Amen. So we welcome Pastor and Apostle Héctor Torres. And as I was saying, there are recordings of different types of him that are going to be available on this side, coming out, so you can take him with you, his ministry, his words. We are happy to have you brother. Welcome to the house of the Lord and to our church here, my pleasure. Thank you very much, Apostle Roberto, it is a blessing to be here with you. Glory to God. For my wife and I it is a great honor to be here in this tremendous congregation that God is using in this city, this ministry, that is yours, mine has less. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God has given us the privilege of traveling around the world, we have been by grace in 5 continents, 47 nations, more than 300 cities in the world, but God is doing something today that is wonderful. In the Bible it says, in Abacuk 1:5 "Look among the nations and see and be amazed because I will do something in your days that even if I told you, you would not believe it..."

We are seeing in our continent, in Latin America, a move of God without comparison, incredible. In the city of Bogotá, Colombia, the capital of Latin American megachurches, pastors from Argentina, where there was a great spiritual revival, go to Bogotá to see how megachurches work. We have churches of 120 thousand, of 100 thousand, of 50 thousand, of 40 thousand. In Bogotá, a small church is a church with 500 members, and thus we are literally seeing what God is doing in nations like Guatemala, where 48% of the population are believers. We are seeing communities like Almolonga, Guatemala, where 9 and a half out of every ten people are believers. Santiago de Atitlán, 7 out of 10 people are believers. In Cajamarca, Peru, 9 out of 10 people are believers. So we're seeing something mightily incredible what God is doing and probably the biggest spiritual awakening in the world right now is on the African continent and the Latin American continent. Glory be to the Lord. So that I could share many things with you. We literally don't have the time to do it and I think the Lord has given me a specific word for this congregation, so I'm going to be obedient. But we are going to have some of our materials available, as Pastor Roberto said. We have the transformation video. I don't know how many of you have had the privilege of watching the transformation video. Raise your hand who have seen you. Hallelujah! Well, those who have not seen him will also be saved, as brother Alberto Motesi said. It is a video that talks about the community of Cali, Colombia, Almolonga, Guatemala, Quiambú, Kenya, Emmet, California, who have been God's instruments to change the entire world. Based on this transformation video, a spiritual movement of prayer originated in South Africa in Cape Town. In South Africa, a pastor and a businessman saw that if God could do something in a community like Cali, Colombia, which was involved in the Cali Cartel, the city with the highest AIDS rate in Latin America, the capital of salsa and the Latin American party, and if God could do something there, he could also do it in Cape Town. And based on what they saw in the video of transformations, of what God was doing in the city of Cali, Colombia, they summoned the church in Cape Town, South Africa to prayer and they were surprised because in the first convocation they found more of 45,000 people who went to pray. The following year 13 cities across the nation of South Africa joined in prayer. The following year, 22 nations south of the Sahara on the African continent, and more than 25 million people came together to pray on the same day, linked by television, satellite, and radio. And the following year all the 52 nations of the African continent including Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and all the Muslim nations, also the believers joined to pray on that day of prayer. From there arose a vision of prayer for the entire world. In the city of Pataya in Thailand, we had a continental meeting and there was a challenge to have what is now called a world day of prayer. To be brief, I want to tell you that last year on the day of Pentecost, Pentecost Sunday, we had 204 nations of the world. In the world today there are only 223, well today there are 24 because there was just a month ago that a new nation emerged, 204 nations of the 224 nations of the world united to cry out to God and more than 500 million believers joined to ask God for a visitation from God. I think God is doing something wonderful. Never in the history of the church has there been a prayer movement like the one we are seeing today. Never in the history of the church have we seen the growth and multiplication of the church like what we are seeing today. God is doing wonderful things. And for those of us who are in this nation, I want to tell you that God brought you to this nation with the purpose that you be an instrument of blessing, that you be an instrument of transformation. I want to tell you that all of us are instruments of transformation and bearers of hope. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Some of the prophetic words that we have heard in Argentina, in Bolivia, in Colombia, in Venezuela and right here in the US is that the next spiritual awakening in this nation will come through the Latin American and Ibero-American church , including the Brazilians. So that we have an intrinsic part of what God wants to do in this nation, and I believe for this reason that there is a movement that is literally generating persecution and aggression against us Spanish-speakers who have immigrated to this nation. For God there are no borders. Glory be to the Lord. For God there are no limits. Hallelujah! And some of the laws, I can tell you about the governmental laws that nations have, are not laws that agree with the word of God. We could say that in the US there is an abortion law, but biblically abortion is not something in which God agrees. So, we can in a certain way think that there are some anti-immigrant laws that are truly not with the heart of God. God's heart is, he tells his people, "treat the foreigners in your midst as if they were your own, since you were formerly immigrants." They know that the nation of Israel immigrated as a whole, the Hebrews, to Egypt. Glory to God. In the Bible we have the story of various biblical personalities who were, in quotes, wet, among them Moses and Jesus Christ, so glory be to the Lord because there was immigration due to consequences, many of us Latinos are here because there was some political persecution In nations like Guatemala, El Salvador, in short, others emigrated here for economic reasons, but literally no one immigrated here if God did not bring them. Amen. Because we are here, whatever the reason we think we are in this nation, in God's purpose, he used those circumstances to bring us to this nation and be instruments of blessing. Amen. This is how he did it with a young man named Joseph, another of the wet ones from the Bible, who was taken by merchants to Egypt, sold as a slave, was unjustly imprisoned but who throughout the process of his life, in each negative area of his life we find a powerful scripture that says, 'but God was with him'. Amen. Hallelujah! The Lord transferred Philip to minister to the Egyptian and he did not have to pay him a passport or anything like that, it was something like that, let's say... God can do some things that we don't think they can do , but whatever the circumstance for which we are here, we know that God had a plan and purpose for us in this place. Amen. We are instruments of blessing. God brought you to this city, God predetermined that you would be here with a purpose. Amen. Hallelujah! I don't know why I'm here because this is not my message, but the Lord is putting something here in my heart in Acts, Chapter 17 verse 24 says: “The God who made the world and all that is in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by human hands..." That is, God does not dwell in temples made by human hands. This building without the believers is just a building. It is not a temple of God. The temple of God is here, you and I are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So the true temple of God is when two or more believers come together to seek the face of God, to do anything in the name of Jesus. God does not live in temples made by human hands and tells us that he is not honored by the hands of men as if he needed something. God doesn't ask you to give him because he needs it. He asks you to give so that you may be blessed. Amen. Glory be to the Lord. And he says that "...he is the one who gives everyone life and breath and all things". Everything you have, your job, your car, your apartment, your house, your television, everything you have, God gave it to you and it is not yours, it belongs to God. Because the Bible says, "... the earth is the Lord's, its fullness, its inhabitants, and all that is in it." Amen. So what you're wearing, the clothes you're wearing, that nice tie you have on, belongs to the Lord. He says that he is the one who gives everyone life and breath and all things. And listen very carefully, "... and from one blood he has made the whole lineage of men..." That is, before God there is no difference between the English-speaking, the African-American, the Native American, Asian, Latin American, we are all of the same blood and come from the same family. Amen. So for God there is no respect of persons and we have to overcome the way we think, the way we live, the way we operate, to think of himself what God thinks of us. Amen. And then here, that he "...has made of one blood the entire lineage of men so that they may dwell on the whole face of the earth...." And here is the part important that says, "... and he has predetermined the order of times and the limits of his room..." Another version says, "... he predetermined the order of times and the place of your dwelling..” When you were in your mother's womb, he wove you together and he was already planning that he was going to send you to the city of Boston. Amen. Because in Psalm 139 it says that "...all the days of your life are written in the book of God...." Amen. So God predetermined it that way. You live in these times because God predetermined it so. You live where you live because God predetermined it so. The circumstances of life, the circumstances of the world took you and brought you to this place, but you came to this place because God predetermined it that way. Amen. And God brought you to be an instrument of blessing. This is the promise that God gave to our father Abraham, saying, “…blessing I will bless you…” Hallelujah! "... and in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed...." Hallelujah! So we are instruments of blessing. And it says that "... God predetermined the order of times and the place of our dwelling so that we seek God..." Hallelujah! It says here, in verse 27, "...so that they may seek God if by some way feeling they can find him, although he is certainly not far from each one of us...."

How many know that God is near? God is as close to you as your prayer. Glory be to the Lord. And if you are a believer, God is as close to you as within your heart. Because the Bible says that Christ in us is the hope of glory. Amen. So, you live where you live because God predetermined it that way. Hallelujah! And you live in these times because God predetermined it so. Perhaps, says the Bible, for times like these you were called. Hallelujah! I believe that God is going to use our Ibero-American and Latin American people so that we can be instruments of blessing where in the past they sent us missionaries who brought the word of God, who brought the Gospel of good news to our lands, who paid the price and who shed their blood on our lands, to deposit their word. Today, my beloved, we are returning that blessing because God is bringing our immigrants, our men and women of God from all over the continent so that we can now be missionaries in a mission field like there is here in the US today. Glory to God. How many believe it? You are a missionary of God in this city and in this nation. Hallelujah! Now, I don't know why this message, this is not what the Lord had given me, but I am obeying. It says here that "....he predetermined the order of times and the place of his dwelling so that they seek God..." Hallelujah! There are three ways to seek God. We can search for God, first we have to search for how to know him. Second, we have to find out how to serve him. And third, we have to seek God in prayer, continually seek his face. Amen. Say, 'so that they seek God.' Now maybe some of you came to this country and were not believers when you met Christ here in this nation. How many of you can say, 'that's me'? I came here and I was not a believer but I met the Lord here. Glory to God. How nice. Glory to the Lord. Now, you may have known the Lord in your country but the Lord brought you here, because there was a purpose here and he had you seek him in this nation, so many came here as unconverted and here they met the Lord. Hallelujah! Now, also the Bible that once we know him we have to find how to serve him. Psalm 37 18 is so beautiful it says ".. the Lord knows the days of the perfect..." Tell the person next to you 'you are perfect before God'. Hallelujah! How nice it is to know that because God perfected us. Hallelujah! Because when he speaks of the perfect here he is speaking of those who have been perfected by the blood of Christ. Hallelujah! Psalm 139 tells us something wonderful, it says, “..O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You have known my sitting down and my getting up, you have understood my thoughts from afar, you have scrutinized my walking and my resting and all my ways are known to you...." Do not think that you are surprising, do not believe that the Lord is surprised because you are in Boston, that the Lord says, 'oh, what is that sister doing in Boston if I wanted her in New York? No, my beloved. He says, "... all my ways are known to you, says verse 4, for the word is not yet in my tongue and behold, O Lord, you know it all..." < /p> So gossips should be careful, the Lord knows what he is saying. He says that the word is not in my language and behold Jehovah, you know everything, he says, behind and before you surrounded me..." Glory be to the Lord. “...and you laid your hand on me, such knowledge is too wonderful for me...” How tremendous. Glory be to the Lord. In verse 16 he says, "... my embryo saw your eyes and in your book were written all those things that were later formed without missing one of them...." One of my favorite versions , the Nakar Colunga version says, and another version of the American Standard Bible says, "... and in your books are written all the days of my life without missing one..." How tremendous , Glory to God. I have heard some preachers say that when a person gives himself to Christ, his name is written in the book of life. I think that is wrong, based on what I see in the Bible. I believe that God does not want anyone to perish, rather that everyone come to repentance. Jesus Christ shed his blood for the sins of the whole world. God does not want anyone to perish, so I believe that God's plan and purpose is for everyone to be saved, therefore, in God's plans for everyone, Christ already paid the price for everyone, so that everyone will have the opportunity to be saved. Rather what the Bible says is that I don't want you to erase my name from the book of life. Hallelujah! And I believe that unfortunately many people have opportunities to know God during their lives, the word is presented to them, the Gospel is presented to them, they have opportunities where they can see the hand of God, but their hearts are hardened, which Satan hardens, because The Bible says that Satan hardens our hearts and blinds our eyes so that we do not see the light of the Gospel. Then the person dies at the last moment without knowing Christ. So I believe that Christ sheds tears because his name has to be erased from the book of life. Now, it says here in Psalm 37 28, "... by the Lord the steps of man are ordered and he approves his way..." Hallelujah! By Jehovah the steps of man are ordered and he approves his way. After this service I'm going to talk to God in there and I'm going to say, 'Lord, why did you take me out of what I had to preach for... but hey, here we are.' Then the The Bible says that God brought you to seek God. The first thing we have to look for how to meet him. Once you know God as your Lord and savior, the Lord says that you look for how to serve him, because God did not reach you to be a bench warmer, to be an observer, to be a fanatic, a fan, a fan of the team , but for you to be part of the team. Hallelujah! The future of your city, the future of your nation, the future of your business, the future of your life, the future of your family is in your mouth and in what you do and declare for God . Amen. Glory be to the Lord. He says, “..To seek God, Hallelujah! there is the last way to seek God which is to seek God in prayer. The word tells us in the Book of Jeremiah, in Chapter 29, and verse 13, well, I'm going to read you Jeremiah 29:7 so you can see the context of what the word is saying to us here through the prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah 29:4 says, “...Thus says the LORD of hosts...” Who said? Jehovah of hosts. "...Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all those of the captivity that I have transported from Jerusalem to Babylon..." That is, here the Lord is speaking to the people of God who was led into captivity. It says that “... build houses and inhabit them, and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them,....” Literally we too have been brought or were brought to this place for God and the purpose that God has here for you to take root, to plant, to take firmness. “... build houses and inhabit them, plant gardens and eat their fruits, marry and beget sons and daughters...” Glory to God. "...give your sons wives, give your daughters husbands so that they have children and multiply there and do not diminish yourselves..." How many know that there are many who are alarmed because we are multiplying? ? Hallelujah! The English-speaking church is growing, by what we call, by relocation rather than reproduction. They are relocating. Those who don't like one church go to the other, but they are not winning souls, but Latinos are multiplying in two ways: in generic reproduction and in person reproduction. Amen. Glory be to the Lord. That's why they say we are now the largest minority in the US and in some states in the southeastern US they are afraid that they will soon be the majority. The state of Arizona, one of them, the state of Texas, the state of California. 80% of students in Los Angeles County are Spanish-speaking. Hallelujah! In San Antonio, Texas, more than 55% of the population are Spanish-speaking. For the year 2010 it is estimated that in Phoenix, Arizona, more than 50% of the people will be Spanish speakers. Hallelujah! We are reconquering Glory be to the Lord. Hallelujah! But there is God's purpose. God brought you to be an instrument of blessing. It says here, “.. multiply and do not diminish...” Amen And then verse 7 says, “... seek peace...” Say peace . When the Bible in the Old Testament speaks of peace, the word peace is literally the Hebrew term shalom. And the word shalom in Hebrew means the following, 'fullness, completeness, integrity, health, well-being, security, solidity, tranquility, prosperity, perfection, rest, harmony. Hallelujah!. So the Bible says, “... seek peace, seek health, well-being, security, integrity, tranquility, prosperity, perfection, rest and harmony of the city to which I sent you. We are instruments of blessing. Hallelujah! And God called you to seek all this and peace does not simply speak of the absence of discord, or turmoil but comes from the Hebrew root, shalom, which means or represents much more than the absence of violence. It represents the fullness, the totality of what the human being seeks and needs. Amen. So that you and I are instruments of God to supply the human being with what he needs. Glory be to the Lord. So, we find that, “.,.. Seek peace in the city to which I had you transported... –another version says the one I sent you to-“ Say to the person next to you, 'Where did God send you?', Hallelujah! It says, “..Seek peace in the city to which I sent you and pray for it to Jehovah..” As we say in Colombia and Latin America, 'clearer not a rooster crows'. God brought you to cry out for this city, to cry out for this region, to cry out for this nation, to seek his face asking for the city because when you are an instrument of blessing for your city, everything you do will be blessed. Blessing I will bless you and in you the nations of the earth will be blessed. Unfortunately today we find many of our fellow Spanish-speaking Ibero-Americans, Latin Americans who come and the only thing they have on their lips is a curse. This country is I don't know what, it's useless, ta ta ta ta, here's something, here's the other. My beloved, we are instruments of blessing and not of curse. By the way, the word bless is a compound word from the old Castilian that was the word well to say, which was abbreviated to say bless. And the word to bless or to say well originally in its Spanish context meant to declare what God has declared. And the word curse was the opposite, declaring something contrary to what God has declared. So you and I are called to declare what God has declared. That is why the Bible tells us that if anyone speaks, speak according to what God has said. How many of you speak? Raise your hand deaf-mutes. If they raised their hand they are deaf-mutes. So, we are instruments of blessing and not of curse. The word bless means to declare what God has declared. The word curse is to declare something contrary to what God has declared. That's why the Bible says in the book of James, “..if someone wants to have good days...” How many want to have good days? “.... and live in peace...” How many want to live in peace? Listen to what Santiago says: “... if someone wants to have good days and live in peace, restrain their tongue....” Put a brace on them. If anyone wants to see good days, hold your tongue. Hallelujah! And then Santiago says; “... because the tongue is a wicked member. With that tongue we bless the God creator of all things and curse men made in his image and likeness....” And then he says, “...How can we do these things? –says Santiago- that shouldn't be like that..” Why? Because God called us to be instruments of blessing. To speak something contrary to what the world says but according to what God has declared. Then, he tells us here “... pray for her, Jehovah, cry out for her Jehovah, seek her face for her, Jehovah, because in her shalom you will have shalom; in its prosperity, you prosper, in its health, have health, in its well-being, you have well-being, in its tranquility, enjoy tranquility; in all this, everything that happens or happens in our community, Hallelujah! It directly benefits me and my children. Hallelujah! amen So, it says here, “... because I know the thoughts that I have about you, says Jehovah, God is speaking to his church, he is not speaking individually, although we can take it personally. But when God speaks he usually speaks corporately. These are the plans that God has for the Hispanic people, for the believing people, for those he has brought to this city. “... I know the thoughts I have about you, Christian church in Boston, are thoughts of shalom...” That is, God has thoughts of shalom for you, of fullness for you, of totality, of health, of well-being, of security, of solidity, of tranquility, of prosperity, of rest, of harmony. Those are the plans God has for you. "...I know the thoughts I have about you, says Jehovah, thoughts of peace and not misfortune or evil, says another version, to give you the end you expect..." < /p> There's the key. To give you the end you expect. My question is, what end do you expect from God? What are you expecting from him? The Bible says that he wants to give you the end you expect. To give you the end you expect. A friend of mine named Alberto Motesi, and I don't know how many of you have heard of Alberto Motesi, probably the most powerful evangelist in all of Latin America today, pastor to presidents. I was the executive director of the Alberto Motesi Evangelistic Society. He said something that really shocked me once. I heard him say, 'tell me the size of vision and I'll tell you the size of your God.' I'm going to say it again because I'm not going to take offerings after this: 'Tell me the size of your vision and I'll tell you the size of your God.' If your vision is small, your God is small; If your vision is great, your God is great, but if your vision is of the impossible, you have the God of the impossible. Hallelujah! How terrifying. Tell me the size of your vision... And unfortunately our paradigm, our mentality of poverty, need, disability, inability, lack of self-esteem drive, all this has led us, the Spanish-speaking people, the Hispanic Americans, to believe that perhaps God does not love us the same as others, that perhaps we do not have the capacities that others have. My beloved, before God there is no partiality. We are all equal before God and you seek your future and you declare your future and you have a vision of the impossible and God will be able to do impossible things. Hallelujah! God is a God who does extraordinary things through ordinary people. Tell the person next to you, 'You're an ordinary person.' Hey, please don't be mad, because today the word ordinary means you bought it at Kaymart or Walmart or even Target. But if you want something you have to go buy it at Dillards or Macy's. My beloved, the word ordinary means that it is the same as the others, that there is no difference. And before God we are all ordinary, but of ordinary quality. Tell him 'I am ordinary quality'. It's like they say in English, it's an oxymoron, that is, it's a word that kind of doesn't match. Hallelujah!. My dad used to say, "Shout, but quietly." Hallelujah! The Bible says to run the race slowly. Hallelujah! How can you run slow? OK that's fine. In any case, we are instruments to be instruments of blessing, we are ordinary people, people the same, there is no one different, you and I are the same. Maybe God uses me in one way but God can use you in another. I need you and you need me, we mutually need each other. The Bible says that the church grows and is built when every joint supplies according to its gift. You have something that God gave you. There is a gift that God gave you. There is an ability that God gave you. There is a talent that God gave you. And it is that God needs us in his church, not so that you sit on the bench on Sunday, so that you sing 4 choruses, so that you give a tithe that many times you do not, Hallelujah! And for you to go and forget everything. God called you to be an instrument of God so that you work with God, so that you do what he has called you to do, and so that you supply according to your gift. Amen. Hallelujah! So the Bible tells us that God used ordinary people like you and me to do extraordinary things. And God wants us to be instruments of extraordinary works. Hallelujah! The Bible tells us, I know the thoughts I have about you, thoughts of peace and not of misfortune to give you the end you expect. If you have good hopes, the Bible says, the Apostle Paul says, 'I know, I am assured, I am fully persuaded, he says, I know that through prayer and ministry of the Holy Spirit this will result in my deliverance according to my desire and hope.' What hope do you have in God? What faith do you have in God? Hebrews 1:6 says that he is the rewarder. If you come to him you must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him. Amen. Hallelujah! Then, God is going to give you the end you expect. And what are you waiting for? Get deported? What are you waiting for? Work as a secretary? My beloved, God's will is that you be head and not tail, that you be above and not below. The Lord wishes to bless all the work of your hands, all the promises that God gave to the Hebrew people are ours and even we have better and greater promises because we are part of a new and better covenant made in new and better promises. Hallelujah! It says here, 'to give you the end you hope for'. Chapter 29, verse 12 of Jeremiah says, "... then you will call on me, you will come, you will cry to me and I will hear you..." Oh, how tremendous. The psalmist says, 'Jehovah will hear when I call to him...' How many know that God listens to you? Hallelujah! If you pray, he listens to you. Jehovah will hear when I cry out to him, he says then "...you will call on me, you will come, you will cry to me and I will hear you.." And then he says, "...and you will seek me and find me.." Hallelujah! What did we say search? In prayer, "you will seek me and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart and I will be found by you..." The word you will seek me, the word you will seek there, is a word that alludes to an urgent search, to a very great despair to see a visitation or a change of God. It is a fervent longing to see what God can do and in fact it alludes to something similar, for example, you have to be at work tomorrow at 8:30 in the morning. It's 8:20 in the morning and you can't find the car keys, you have a meeting with the boss who's going to give you a promotion if you're there on time for work, and you can't find the keys. And desperately you search under the bed, on the table, in the kitchen, you put the whole family, the wife, the children, look everywhere to find the key. He doesn't know they're in the car, they stayed there. But, there is a desire, there is a concern, there is an urgent need and the whole world is mobilized for that. My beloved, this is the passion you are looking for here. This is what it says here, then you will diligently seek me and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart and I will be found by you, says Jehovah. Hallelujah! And what does it say too? And he also says, "... and I will make your captivity return..." Glory to God. Hallelujah! He is a God who listens to prayer. He says then you will seek me and you will find me. In Hosea, Chapter 10 and verse 12 it says: “...Sow for yourselves in justice, reap for yourselves in mercy, make fallow for yourselves because it is the time to seek the Lord until he comes and teach you righteousness....” Hallelujah! It's time, he says, it's time. It is the time to seek Jehovah. Hallelujah! It is the time to sow and to reap. It is the time to harvest. It is time to seek Jehovah until he comes and teaches us justice. Glory be to the Lord. In Lamentations 3:25 it says the following: “.. the Lord is good to those who hope in him and to the soul that seeks him....” Say search. Hallelujah! The word wait there literally in the Hebrew means expectation and hope. It appears 50 times in the Old Testament. It is the substantive root of an expectation, that is why he says the word, that he will give us according to our longing and hope. Hallelujah! According to my longing and hope, he says, literally here I would say, good is Jehovah to those who have expectation, to those who wait, to those who have hope, to the soul that seeks him. Good is Jehovah. Glory to God. Verse 26 “...it is good to wait in silence for the salvation of the Lord...” And the word salvation, Hallelujah!, is literally the same as the word shalom. Did you know that the word shalom in Hebrew has the same meaning as the word salvation in the New Testament? The word soterium in the New Testament meant health, well-being, prosperity, tranquility, harmony, joy, peace. It does not simply speak of the salvation of the soul, that is why the Bible says that when you speak of salvation in the New Testament you are speaking of health, prosperity, well-being, freedom, peace of joy, peace of understanding, of all these things. The Lord is good to those who wait for him. The Bible says, “... let the redeemed of Jehovah say so that he is good and great is his mercy....” Say, great is his mercy. How tremendous, great is his mercy. First Chronicles 16:11 says the following: “...Seek the Lord and his power...” Seek the Lord and his power. And then he says, “... Seek his face continually, remember the wonders he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth....” How tremendous. Glory to God. How tremendous it is to seek the Lord, which is to seek his face. He says, "...so that they seek God if in some way by feeling they can find him although he is certainly not far from each one of us..." Say, the Lord is close, he is as close as your lips. It is what the Lord is. You and I are instruments of blessing and God brought us to this place to be instruments of blessing in this community. How many believe it? Hallelujah! It's what God said. So, that is why the Bible exhorts us and tells us that we must deposit within our hearts everything that God has declared. I have with me for sale my last book, it is called "El consejo de Elifaz". It is a powerful book that talks about 8 principles for a life of success, prosperity and tranquility. One of the Chapters talks about the power of prayer, the requirement of faith, I highly recommend it. It is a book, it is in hard cover, very nice to give to the unconverted because it was a book written in the same style as La oración, by Javes or the book His best life now, by Joel Austin. Of course it's better than both naturally. But in the book of Job, by the way the book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible, it was the first book written chronologically. And in the book of Job we find a man named Eliphaz who, seeing the situation in which Job found himself, gave him advice that, in terms of advice, was very powerful advice, advice without comparison, but we find that God rebukes that advice. But God does not rebuke him for his content but for the spirit behind his message. How many know that you can say the same thing but in a different spirit? And if you say one thing in a spirit of grace and mercy and blessing, it's very different than saying the exact same thing in a spirit of judgment, condemnation and so on. And that is the reason why God condemns the advice of Eliphaz. But here in the Bible it says that when Eliphaz says to Job, he tells him, "... Return now in friendship with God and you will have peace and therefore it will be good for you in everything..." < /p> How awesome. The word says, now return to intimacy with God, have intimacy with God again. Intimacy...comes through meditating on his word or praying before God in our privacy. Because the word intimacy is the deepest and most mutual knowledge between two people or between two beings. In fact, the intimate relationship between husband and wife conceives or generates, or gives birth. That is the purpose of intimacy, to conceive, to engender. And when you have intimacy with God you will conceive what God wants to give you, you will engender the promises of God. And that's why he says, return now in friendship with God and you will have shalom. How many want to have shalom? Shalom, prosperity, well-being, health, totality, excellence, perfection, all those things, return now in intimacy with God and you will have shalom and for that reason it will be good for you in everything. How many want to be good at everything? Hallelujah! So, if you want to have God's shalom, if you want everything to go well, you have to dedicate quality time to God. In a relationship it is imperative that there be time for intimacy, it is imperative that there be time for communication. What kind of marriage would it be if a husband and wife live and never speak to each other? If he comes and visits her every 30 days. No, that is not a relationship and that is the relationship that we have with God many times. We are so busy doing everything except what God has called us to do that we don't have time for God. When I was vice president of various banking institutions of the Bank of America, of Citibank of New York, I worked 7 years in the stock market, I taught a workshop to the supervisors called "Too busy for business." It was that many times the bank supervisors and managers were so busy that they could never generate business and had no time for their clients. And that was counterproductive. It also happens to us, perhaps we are so busy in things, many times in the things of God, that we forget the God of the ministry. We are so busy in the ministry that we forget the reason for the ministry. He says, return now in intimacy with God and you will have peace and therefore it will be good for you in everything. And then he says, 'take now...' Say, now. When? Now. Now take the law from his mouth and put his words in your heart. Hello, now. There are several words in the Bible that speak of the past. Others that speak of the present, and others that speak of the future. But in the Bible we find some words that are eternal and constant, that have no change. The word now, the word never, the word always, the word eternal, the word never, have no change. So it was now, in the time of Job, thousands of years ago, it was now in the time of Christ, it was now in the time of the Protestant Reformation, it is now in the 21st century. That is why the Lord is speaking to you. Tell the person, God is speaking to you. Say now, ".... turn now or take now..." say, now, ".... turn now and take now the law from his mouth and put his words in your heart. Because? Because the Bible has more than 20 thousand promises of blessing for the children of God. And if you don't know what God's promises are to you as a citizen of the Kingdom, then you will never be able to claim what is yours, you will never be able to declare what is yours, you will never be able to take possession of what God has already given you. That is why it is imperative that we deposit the word of God in our hearts. Hallelujah! The Bible says, 'Now take what you read from his mouth and put his words in your heart.' It says, “... if you return to the Almighty... – that is, when you seek the Lord and the word return there is like when a bride looks at her boyfriend with eyes of love, when a child holds the hand of his mother or his his father and he clings to them, is to look for him, to be close, a security process. “... if you return to the Almighty you will be edified and you will remove affliction from your tent....” And the word tent in Job's time people lived in the desert, they were inhabitants of the desert and everything they did they did inside awnings or tents or tents. Hallelujah! Paul, he sewed tents, made tents, and the Bible talks about spreading your tent, the Bible talks about being blessed, it will be the tent of the righteous... So that tents will be where they lived, where their family, stores were where they traded, stores were where they worshiped and served God. So, in stores, that's why it says that you will move away from your home, you will move away from your business, you will move away from your company, you will move away from your congregation, you will move away from your city, you will move away the affliction. How many want to drive away grief? Hallelujah! Glory to God. Take now the law from his mouth and put his words in your heart, if you return to the Almighty you will be edified and you will remove affliction from your tent. How terrifying. Proverbs 11 says, "...the house of the wicked will be desolate but the tent of the upright will flourish..." Hallelujah! The store of the upright will flourish. Glory to God. How awesome. Hallelujah! Glory be to the Lord. What tremendous promises we often have who don't know. In Numbers 24:5 it says, “... how beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your rooms, O Israel....” The Bible says, “... put up stakes, spread your tent because you will spread out to the right and to the left....” Hallelujah! That word is a prophetic word for this congregation. An extension will come to the right and to the left. Hallelujah! The Bible in Isaiah 60, “... the little ones will be thousands and the least a strong people. Hallelujah! God is going to raise up thousands here and God is going to raise up a strong people, glory to God. Glory to God. We declare it. Hallelujah! And it says, among other things, verse 27, I don't have time for all this, because they never told me what time I finish, but how much do they give me? 15 minutes. Raise your hand those who give me 15 minutes. 15, 30, 45, glory to God. We have plenty of time. Verse 27 says "...you will pray to him and he will hear you and you -hear this is the part we don't like- and you will pay your promises...." < p>Your votes, you will pay your votes. And then he says something very interesting, verse 28, one of the most powerful Scriptures that I find in the entire Bible, he says “...and everything you declare, how much? Everything, half, some things, the good, the bad? Everything you declare will be established for you and light will shine on your paths.” Everything you declare will be established for you. How awesome. Proverbs 18:20, and 18:21 has a tremendous statement because Proverbs 18:21 everyone knows it, says that death and life are in the power of the tongue and whoever loves it will eat its fruit. And what does that mean? That you are an instrument of blessing or curse. What you declare is a blessing or a curse. Everything that comes out of your mouth is a blessing or a curse. Hallelujah! By the way, blessing has nothing to do with finances or giving to someone because we are going to bless, we are going to give this. No, that is called charity, mercy, offering, whatever you want to call it but it is not a blessing. For it to be a blessing it has to be spoken, he says with his mouth you bless and with his mouth you curse, that is what the Bible says. That is why a blessing is the right thing to say, and a curse is the bad thing to say. So, cursing or blessing proceed from the mouth and it says here in Proverbs 18:20, "... with the fruit of the mouth of a man his belly will be filled..."

How many want to be full? My wife is already saying, I think that for today we want Brazilian rodizzio, she says, but the fruit of a man's mouth will fill her belly. What you talk is what you eat. Death and life are in the power of the tongue and whoever loves it will eat its fruit. That's why the Bible says, hold your tongue. And he says, "... he will be satisfied with the produce of his lips..." Glory to God. So the power of our words is amazing. That is why in the book of Job it says, "... how powerful are the right words..." Glory to God. You have to start speaking and blessing what God has told you to bless and speak. And the more deposit of God's promises you have, the more you can declare, because everything you declare will be established for you. Amen. The Bible says that what you have deposited in the heart speaks the mouth. He says, “.. from the good fruit of the heart, comes good fruit. From the bad fruit of the heart comes bad fruit..." The Lord says to the Pharisees "snakes and vipers, how can you speak good, being evil...." But we are good. Glory to God. Because through the mouth of man what happens? The man is justified or by the mouth of the man the man is condemned. Then the Bible exhorts us to deposit God's promises in our hearts, to declare God's promises in our hearts, to be instruments of blessing. Hallelujah! I believe that one of the most powerful conduits of power and authority that we find in the word of God is what you declare, it is the power to bind and loose is in your mouth. Amen So, all of creation exists because of what God said. The Bible says that he created all things with the power of his mouth. And the Bible says that he is the one who calls things that are not as if they were. Amen. We're done in a minute. Now take the law out of your mouth and put its words in your heart. Amen. Then it tells us, Proverbs 4:20-24, you know that God wrote a letter specifically for you. How many are children of God? Raise your hand who is the child of God. It says there in Proverbs 4:20 to 24, it says: “My son, -that is, God is speaking to you. Tell the person next to you, 'God is speaking to you'- "My son, be attentive to my words, incline your ear to my reasons, do not stray from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart because they are life to those who find them and medicine to their whole body..." And then he tells us, "above all things kept, guard your heart because it flows life or death flows from him, he says, and put away wickedness from your mouth and put away iniquity from your lips...” Jesus Christ said, 'He does not live by bread alone man, more than all words'. How many words? From every word that comes out of the mouth of God. And furthermore, Jesus Christ said, 'the words that I have spoken to you are life and they are spirit.' Amen. Glory to God. Be careful what you say because we as Latinos learn to speak the negative. There is a negative mentality. We say old horse walk or not walk. My beloved, old horse, put it out for a walk and buy yourself a new one. In our language we say 'better known bad than unknown good.' No, my beloved, bad is never better than good, whether you know it or not. Hallelujah! We have to learn to declare what God has declared. Amen. Hallelujah! We have to be instruments of blessing. How nice it is that even the new birth begins with these things. This concept begins with what you declare and believe with your heart. I conclude with this: Romans 10, verses 8 to 10, says the following: “More than just saying, the word is near you in your mouth and in your heart. This is the word of faith that we preach, that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved, because with the heart one believes for justice, but with the mouth one confesses for salvation.” Remember that the word salvation means well-being, prosperity, health, harmony, tranquility, joy, excellence. ".... because with the heart one believes for righteousness and with the mouth one confesses for salvation..." Well, the Scripture says "everyone who in him believes he will not be put to shame..." Hebrews 11 says "he who comes to him must believe that he is, that he is the rewarder of those who seek him..."

Please stand up this morning. I want everyone to close their eyes for a moment. I don't know how many of you are listening to me through a radio or television program, the Internet, some of whom are being translated at this moment or some who will perhaps listen to this message later. The Bible says, look, I have set before you today, today, not tomorrow, today before you, says God, I have set life and good, death and evil. God gives you the choice to choose life and good or death and evil. He says, I send you today. He doesn't ask you, he sends you. It is an order from God. I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his precepts and statutes. So that? So that you may live and be multiplied and Jehovah your God bless you in the land to which he took you, as Boston is. He says, 'but if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and you let yourself be led astray, if I call heaven and earth as witnesses today, against you who have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse'. But he says, choose life so that you and your children live, loving Jehovah, your creator, listening to his voice, following him because he is life for you and prolongation of your days so that you can inhabit the land that God swore to your parents. Jesus Christ said 'the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.' There for a moment if you are here for the first time or perhaps you have come before and you have listened, you have liked the music, the praise, you have felt a presence of God, but you have never made a definitive commitment with God to open the doors for him of your heart so that he dwells within you, so that he is with you, so that you become part of the family of God, this is the moment in which you choose life and blessing, or death and curse. But God says, choose life so that you and your children live. If there is anyone listening to me right now who knows they have to make this decision, I want you to quickly raise your hand. I want to join you, and I want to say a prayer with you. Someone who wants to say, 'I want to make this confession of faith, I want to receive Christ as my Savior'. There's someone up there that I see. Hallelujah! I think everyone knows the Lord. Let's get this over with. Please open your eyes, grab the hand of the person next to you, look the person in the eyes, groups of two only, groups of two only, and the person next to you in front or behind, anyway, hallelujah! Look into his eyes and say the following as a promise of God's blessing, tell him the following: “The Lord is your guardian, the Lord is your shadow, your right hand. Jehovah will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. Jehovah will keep your exit and your entry from now and forever, if you walk in the midst of anguish, he will revive you. Jehovah will fulfill his purpose in you because Jehovah's mercy is forever and he does not abandon the work of his hands. And the God of peace, the God of peace, the God of shalom, will shortly crush him, hey crush him, he will crush. The God of peace will shortly trample, smash, crush, crush Satan under your feet. I declare it to you. I prophesy it to you. I establish it. Receive it and you will see it in your life.” Amen. Amen, amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Hallelujah! Glory to the Lord. Hallelujah! We have absolutely heard a very clear statement, the importance of what we declare with our mouths, what we harbor in our hearts. We are people of prophecy, we are people who declare with our mouths the things that God wants to do. Let us make sure that our confessions are always positive confessions, confessions grounded in the word, in the spirit of God. Let us be careful what we declare with our mouths, and what we harbor above all in our hearts because we have great power. Hallelujah! Thank you Lord, thank you God. Thank you for your call this afternoon, Lord, to be people of a word based on that good purpose that God has for our lives. We declare, Lord your good purpose, we receive it, oh God and we walk in it. Thank you Lord for your word. It is your word, not the word of man and that is how we receive it. Glory to your name. Thank my Lord. Give the Lord a big round of applause this morning. Amen.