Living Life with Purpose

Hebrews chapter 12, verse 1 says: “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God.”

I simply want to leave it there and use that text as a starting point for our meditation this afternoon. And as we have been discussing these past few Sundays, we have talked about how to live a successful life, a fruitful life, a life of impact, a life of creativity, continual growth, and personal development—being better every day and overcoming, day by day, our bonds, our structural sins, and the things that limit our growth and performance as servants of God. And there is that call in the Word of the Lord to lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us.

We have talked about many things. Let me see if, once again—always trying to... okay, we are going to move forward with this—we have talked about many different things, haven’t we? About a God who wants to bless us, who wants us to grow, who commits Himself to us; about the need for good reading, for good values to govern our lives, for determination, energy, persistence, and discipline; about thinking systemically, seeking allies and people who will support us in our efforts, growing in our analytical capacity, looking at life over the long term, and forging visions inspired by the Lord to which we can commit ourselves and then move forward, day after day, in that race of faith spoken of here in this passage.

And many times, when we hear all these things, we ask ourselves: Well, how could I develop those skills? How can I begin to clothe myself with that armor, with those attributes of a woman or man of God who lives life productively? How can each of us become fertile soil for the seeds of motivation, healthy ambition, and God’s good purpose?

And I have said that we must clearly conceive the project of personal transformation, that we have to embrace the idea that I am going to be a person whose being is transformed every day. That has to become like a conviction, almost a conversion that we must undergo in our own lives: coming before the Lord almost at a point of crisis and saying, “I am going to change. I am going to dedicate my life to pursuing those great values of the Kingdom of God, and I am going to pay the price, and I am going to be a person who lives life creatively.”

And in order to do that, we have to believe that God has given us a mind and a brain that is plastic: it can be shaped; it can change. No one should say, “I am already too old to change,” or, “I am too wounded; I have practiced these habits for too long to change.” I do not believe that anyone in the Kingdom of God should be fatalistic. How many say amen to that?

The world does not determine who you are; your past does not determine you; the wounds of the past and your present condition do not determine what you are. I hear so many Christians out there confessing defeat and believing that they are condemned to spend their whole lives stuck in the same quagmire because there is no longer any hope for them. That is a lie of the devil. A child of God can always change, can always grow, and can always be freed from any bondage that binds them. And speaking now on the human level, within the territory we inhabit, God has given us a personality, a brain, and a mind that are malleable; they can change. We have to believe that so that we can then say, “You know what? Now, in the Name of the Lord, I am launching myself toward what God has for me, and I am going to overcome the past.”

That is why the Bible says: “Leaving behind what lies behind and looking forward, let us pursue Christ’s calling for our lives,” right? So we must believe that the brain will reconfigure itself over time if we subject it to the right exercises and visions. We are free to pursue our project of personal liberation; we have freedom in Christ. We are not condemned by our biology or our circumstances. We must persist and maintain a long-term vision because the process of transformation takes an entire lifetime; we never reach the finish line. When death surprises us or comes to us, it should find us still with sword in hand, like a knight-errant pursuing the next conquest, pursuing the next summit, pursuing the next goal of personal transformation and self-improvement.

When each of us enters the Kingdom of God—as I have discussed in two different services; sometimes I do not remember what I told you in one and what I said in the other—we are often like Lazarus coming out of the tomb, bound with all the gravecloths. God has given us life; we come out of death, but then we discover that we are bound, and the Lord has to undo, one by one, the mental and emotional bonds, the distortions of the past, the fears, and the bad mental and relational habits, as we believe that throughout our lives God will make us more and more like Christ Jesus.

And that is why Paul says in one passage: “My little children, for whom I suffer labor pains until the image of Christ is formed in you.” And that image of Christ being formed in us is the project of an entire lifetime, and that is why we have to arm ourselves with a long-term vision. If you believe that sanctification is going to happen overnight—and sometimes we Pentecostals sin through excessive optimism, perhaps obsessive optimism as well—God is glorified in the long-term project and in our struggle. Even at times in our falls and stumbles, He is glorifying Himself in all of that and teaching us a great many things.

Do you remember that I told you God is a God of journeys? He is a God of processes; He is a God who delights in taking His time and doing what He wants to do in us. And that is why, when we decide, “I am going to change, I am going to be different, I am going to undertake the process and journey of self-improvement, change, and growth,” one of the things we have to do is align our lives with our values and aspirations.

Every aspect of our lives, every activity we undertake, and everything we do must become an ally in helping us achieve what we want to accomplish. That is why a child of God cannot waste time. I cannot waste my time on foolish things out in the world, talking and gossiping with other people, or wasting time lying in bed depressed and sad, or watching foolish things on television, reading magazines about what happened to Madonna or whoever else, which latest movie star divorced so-and-so, or whatever. How does that edify us? We have to redeem the time, as the Word of the Lord says, because night is coming soon.

We have to live life with purpose and with a sense of clarity, and everything we do must be aligned with that man or that woman whom God has in mind—in His mind—for us to become while we have the opportunity here on Earth. That is why we have to live life in complete harmony with the vision we have conceived, because inconsistency between what God has called us to do and the life we live daily, in our everyday lives—being inconsistent in those things—always leads to failure and tragedy.

There are many Christians who do not live up to the stature of their calling. We are kings and priests, the Word of the Lord says. How many say amen? You are a king; you are a priestess of the Lord. A king or a priestess does not go around living like a beggar or a scoundrel. They have to live up to the stature of their calling, and we have to pay the price.

Inconsistency leads to failure, and I want to speak about that for a moment. If there is one thing that stays in our minds this afternoon, let it be the importance of alignment. Mark that word in your life. I have to align my daily life, my values, and my actions with what I want to accomplish in my life. I want to be a man of God filled with the Holy Spirit; I want to be a counselor; I want to be a servant of the Lord; I want to evangelize people; I want to speak with authority; I want to heal my wounds; I want to become more like Christ every day; I want my daily life to be a process of adding new virtues, new knowledge, new skills, and new power. I have to live each day intentionally. That is another very good word: alignment, intentionality.

Because if you do not live your life according to the values you aspire to, you will be a schizophrenic person, divided, perpetually divided. And to be a divided person means having a double personality, and the Word of the Lord says: “Let the double-minded person not suppose that they will receive anything from God.” It says that such a person is like a ship driven by the wind, like a leaf tossed by the wind. They have no purpose; they are fighting against themselves, wanting to do one thing while, on the other hand, stumbling over their own mistakes and their own inconsistency.

We children of God have to live life with a mission, with a goal in mind, and we have to cast aside every weight that reduces our effectiveness in that race. Do you know that great Olympic athletes attain an almost perfect level in their art and athletic performance, to the point where victories in certain competitions are decided by one hundredth of a second or one tenth of a second? And the difference may be determined by a single inefficient stroke made by a swimmer in the water, by the way they kick their feet in the water or leap from the starting point, or by simple things such as what kind of suit they are wearing—whether it is a streamlined swimsuit that passes easily through the water—or things like that.

Or a runner’s outcome may be determined simply by how they move their arms while running—whether they run like this or whether they run efficiently. Things like that can make the difference. That is why nowadays there are extremely advanced clocks and everything is decided by a photo finish, with cameras determining the result, because everything depends on a thousandth of a second. And the gifted athlete, gifted musician, or greatly gifted person has to keep shaving off seconds, shaving away imperfections, in order to be better, better, better every day.

And I say that if secular people live this way, why shouldn’t the child of God who wants to attain victory at the end and win the race of faith? That is why they must always be identifying: Okay, what flaws are there in my personality? What things hinder my race of faith? What defects do I have to get rid of? If my mouth is a stumbling block to the goal I have set for myself, I am going to surrender it to the Lord and ask the Lord to bring it under control. If my temperament or my character is an impediment, I am going to surrender it to the Lord. If my malicious sense of humor is an impediment, I am going to surrender it to the Lord. If my tendency to hold grudges and take offense easily is an impediment to my ministry as a small-group leader or the leader of a ministry in the Church, I am going to surrender that to the Lord.

If I am a person who does not submit to authority, I am going to learn from Christ, who submitted to the Father even though He was equal to the Father. Whatever it may be in your life—if there is a mental bondage, something, an addiction, a practice, whatever it may be in your life—surrender it to the Lord. Die to everything that does not conform to the principles and values of the Kingdom of God—everything. And the more you surrender to the Lord, the more lightly you will run the race of faith, and the more the image of Christ will take possession of your life.

Again: inconsistency, the failure to align ourselves with the values we have embraced in our lives and with that image, that royal calling—in the sense of royalty—that we have, inconsistency and lack of alignment will lead to tragedy, because we have a devil, an enemy, who resents us because we have embraced the Kingdom of God, and a God who expects us to honor Him through what we declare with our mouths.

In other words, the inconsistent Christian has both the devil and God against him. Imagine what a tremendous dilemma that is. And so, when you enter the ways of the Lord, understand that you are entering into something very serious, because with any mistake you make, on one side we have an enemy who lets nothing pass and who will accuse us before the Throne of God, and on the other, an exceedingly holy God who says, “You know what? I cannot protect you, even though I want to, because I am a just God, and I have to abandon you to the enemy’s dealings.” The enemy comes—what does the Bible call Satan? The accuser of the brethren. He is the great prosecutor who accuses us before God.

And we have to remove from our lives everything that resembles Satan—not only the grosser and more horrible sins, but also those little things that cost us seconds in our race of faith.

So I think of a person like Samson, right?—to give you an illustration. The Bible is full of men and women who did not live according to their calling and ended in tragedy and great loss. When God created Samson, He created him to be a deliverer of Israel, and He endowed him from his mother’s womb. Samson was born under a spiritual weight, with a privileged calling, a mission he had to fulfill, and with a supernatural endowment upon his life; and God warned his parents that Samson had to live his life as a priestly man, a Nazirite. That meant that he could not cut his hair, because his hair was meant, as it were, to exemplify submission to the Lord.

He could not drink alcoholic beverages because he was supposed to live with his life totally consecrated—things that perhaps were permitted to other members of the Hebrew nation and that God had no problem with, but for him, who was one of God’s chosen, those things were not legitimate. So he had to live in a very great consecration because the calling was very great, the manifestation of God’s power in his life was very great, and the destiny God had for him was exceptional; therefore, he had to live an exceptional life. But Samson never embraced that calling of God upon his life.

He always wanted to have fun like any other young man. He wanted to enjoy the sensual pleasures of any other young Hebrew of his time. He forgot God’s command not to marry and become entangled with the women of the other tribes because they would be a stumbling block in his life, and then Delilah came along. Because when God has a calling for your life, all the powers of hell will come against you and will try to subvert God’s calling upon your life.

Let me tell you that this is a reality even for the most insignificant person: there are enough demons in the universe for the devil to dedicate an entire army to every person who embraces the Kingdom of God. So you need to know this: do not underestimate your importance. When you decide to live as a child of God and enter the ways of the Lord, all kinds of forces will come against you—cultural, social, and family forces; internal biological forces; forces from the past. All those things will be against you, trying to make you stumble in the race of faith, and you have to be alert to that.

It is not that you should live in paranoia, seeing the devil everywhere, but you have to know that you are called by God and that there are many things to which you must remain alert, because the enemy will try to undermine God’s calling upon your life. Then Delilah came along; then came the traps the enemy set in his life. And because Samson’s gaze was not consecrated to the Lord and his heart was not consecrated to the values of the Kingdom, the devil found fertile ground in which to sow the seeds of sin in his life and damage God’s calling.

And you know what happened, right? Delilah took possession of his life, and an entire plot was woven together little by little. Many times, the devil destroys God’s calling in our lives bit by bit. He is far too clever to suddenly throw a temptation at you that you know must come from the hosts of hell. No, he begins with one tiny decision in your life, with a thought that slips in; and instead of rejecting it, you deliciously keep it there just a little longer before rejecting it. And little by little it makes its way in: a conversation, one extra thought you keep there, a relationship, some friendships, a small habit that develops little by little. And by the time you realize it, you are completely sunk, engulfed, and saturated.

Study Samson’s life and you will see that gradual process. What happened? Because Samson did not live according to his calling, according to his destiny, tragedy came. At the end of his life, we see him captured by the Philistines, bound and with his strength gone because they had cut his hair, because he had revealed the secret of his anointing; and he could no longer do what God had called him to do.

We have a merciful God, and at the end of his life God gave Samson, who repented, an opportunity to redeem himself. And Samson said to Him, “Forgive me; I have offended You. Give me the opportunity at least to die honorably.” And in His great mercy, God allowed this tragic hero to make one last great effort. You know the story: with the supernatural strength God had given him once again, he was able to move the pillars beside which he was bound, and he destroyed many Philistine peoples, along with their princes and their warriors

and their leaders, in one final surge of divine strength.

But how sad: Samson could have lived a much longer life, but his appetites and his lack of discernment caused him to fail. We cannot do that; we have to learn from these things. We have to align our habits and our practices with our destiny.

Jacob, another man of God, right? Jacob was born with a calling from his mother’s womb, and God had already said, “The older will serve the younger.” Jacob and Esau were twins, and Jacob was born with a destiny from God upon his life. Although he was the younger, God had decided that he would inherit the birthright. In this case, Esau was born with the legal right, although there are other things at work here, right? But Esau was born with the legal right; he had the calling in the legal sense of the word. Yet God already understood that Esau would not live according to his calling either, and that Jacob would therefore inherit that calling.

And so we see that Esau—Esau was called to be the priest in his family, to inherit Israel’s birthright, to be a foundational man, a founder of the great things God wanted to do with His people. But what Esau liked was hunting. He liked being outdoors; he liked sports. He was an athletic, muscular, carnal man, a man of appetites. He did not devote himself to taking his masculinity and the testosterone that oozed even from his pores—that was why he was so hairy, because he was a virile, animalistic, carnal man, as the Bible says—and that testosterone led to the destruction of his calling.

Because when the moment came that he returned from the hunt—and, to be precise, from hunting animals out there—he came back hungry. And because he was a man of strong appetites that had not been mastered or tamed by the Word and the principles of the Lord, what happened? He was terribly hungry, and Jacob made him stumble through his mouth, right? And Jacob—sorry, Esau—was terribly hungry, and Jacob said to him, “Hey, let’s make a deal. Would you like to exchange your birthright for a good stew, a Madrid-style stew there with chorizo and pork chops and chicken and all sorts of things, right?”

And Esau said, “Oh, what! Man, yes, let’s do it, because I’m going to die of hunger anyway, so I had better eat now, because otherwise I’ll starve to death. Fine, take the birthright.” He did not think about what he was doing. He was not a discerning man; he was not a man who had grown up with the Word of the Lord, discerning the principles of the Kingdom, discerning the importance of what we confess with our mouths, discerning the moments when we may be doing things before God, the angels, the devil, and hell. And because he lacked discernment about these things, he took the confessions of his mouth lightly and sold his birthright for that blessed stew. How dearly it cost him!

Later he wanted to repent, but it was already too late. God had already sealed the confession of his mouth because he had not lived according to his calling. And how Jacob wept—one of the most tragic moments in all of Scripture is when Esau came before his father and said, “My father, goodness gracious, bless me and confirm the birthright in my life.” And his father said, “I am very sorry. I have already given it to your brother; I cannot take back what I gave him.” And he said to him, “My father, don’t you have at least a second blessing somewhere, a lesser blessing?”

Listen, it breaks my heart when I read that. This man, who had every right to God’s greatest blessing upon his life, is now reduced to this: “Dad, don’t you have a consolation prize there, please, even some tiny little blessing? Bless me.” And his father gives him—Isaac gives him—a blessing, but it is already too late because Esau did not prepare himself. He did not live each day saying, “I am a priest. I am the founder of my family. I am a foundation. I am the firstborn. I have authority before God. God wants to do great things through me. I am a prince. I have to live up to my calling.”

The French say, “Noblesse oblige,” which means that nobility obliges. Kings have to live like kings; princes, from the time they are little, have to become accustomed to the discipline of a prince. Esau did not want to do that, and so he paid the price.

Brother, sister, if there is anything I can leave there in your mind, it is this, right? You have to live life lucidly focused on what you are pursuing, on your calling, focused on the task of your personal transformation, on your calling to be a powerful person, a thinking person, a disciplined and analytical person who is in control of yourself and your appetites. That should be the sole project of your life, because your success will depend on your transformation, okay? The success you have in the future will depend on your transformation.

So I am going to leave it there because we have Holy Communion to celebrate, since we have already received so much this afternoon. But I want to invite you, brother: listen to the seed God is planting in your heart. I want to limit myself to something this simple, to one single Word for you: live up to your calling. Tell someone there beside you, “Live up to your calling.” And of course, the other person is going to say it back to you, because it is not so easy for you either, okay?

This church, this community, has a great calling from God, and that is not so anyone can become proud. On the contrary, what it causes in me is holy fear; what it causes in me is, rather, discomfort at the fact that God has called us for a purpose. Congregation Lion of Judah, listen to this—and I rebuke any pride that may be present in that statement and any glorification of a church or a name. Perhaps God has chosen us because we are the most impure people in all of Boston, but there is certainly a calling upon this church, and I am always pleading with you, my brothers and sisters, to live up to the calling we have.

Continue purifying yourselves, being healed, and cleansing yourselves, every one of you, because every one of you is part of a body called Congregation Lion of Judah, and we are part of a larger body called the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. But you—you can rob this church’s race of faith of speed and lightness if you do not purify and cleanse yourself more and more, if you do not consecrate yourself more fully. A single person can contaminate an environment, and that is why I always ask the Lord, as the senior pastor of this church, “Have mercy on me; help me,” because each one of us has to cleanse ourselves, for there is a calling from God upon your life.

That is why I always insist that when God wants to use a people, He circumcises them. Do you remember how God called Joshua before they crossed the Jordan River, before entering the Promised Land? God called Joshua and told him, “Circumcise the people for Me, because they are about to enter. Prepare yourselves, because beginning tomorrow God will do wonders among you.” And circumcision was a symbol of consecration, of surrender to the Lord, of God placing His mark upon every leader of a family and saying, “I claim you. I place a mark upon you, just as cattle are branded with a hot iron bearing the owner’s initial.”

And that is how God calls us. If God is going to do something through this congregation, you and I have—we have to live up to the Kingdom. We cannot be content merely to be here, yes, kicking up a lot of dust by singing and shouting; but you know what? Many times we do not live up to God’s calling, and God cannot be bribed with emotional praise. God’s heart is won through actions and deeds. In every area of life, my brother and my sister, you have to consecrate to the Lord everything you have and everything you are.

Your time, your talents, your energies, your marriage, your family, your dreams, your recreation, your conversations, your relationships, your money, your work—all your thoughts, everything—you have to circumcise it and surrender it to the Lord and consecrate it to the Lord. God has to go on sanctifying this church more and more each day. Every day, every day, I ask the Lord, “Lord, remove from us everything that does not suit You, everything that does not please You. Remove it. Begin with me, with fear and trembling, and deal with every member of Your people.”

The day we commit ourselves to the project of personal liberation and consecration to the Lord’s purposes, we will see the glory of God burst forth in our midst and the Lord’s purposes fulfilled before us. But align yourself; live life intentionally; live life with the awareness that you are situated within God’s plans and calling for your life, and run that race day by day, strengthening God’s calling upon your life each day.

Let us bow our heads for a moment now; consecrate yourself to the Lord there. “Lord, I consecrate myself to You; I surrender myself to You.” Say it to the Lord; say it to the Lord. “Father, help me understand what this means, and remove every imperfection from me, every encumbrance, every weight that is too heavy, every growth on my exterior that prevents Your wind from flowing through me and propelling me swiftly forward. I surrender it all to You, Lord. At this moment I surrender myself to You and to the values of Your Kingdom, and we surrender this church to the Lord.”

I also want to take advantage of this moment, while we are gathered like this, to invite anyone here. If God has spoken to you in this service in any way whatsoever, and you want to give your life to Jesus Christ right now, I beg you to listen to the Voice of the Lord saying to you: I am at the door of your life, I am knocking at the door of your life; if you open the door to Me, I will come in and dine with you, and you will dine with Me and have intimacy with Me every day of your life. I will walk with you step by step, and I will teach you.

When you fall, I will lift you up; when you offend Me, I will forgive you if you repent and confess. I am committed to you every day until the end of the world. I will give you all the resources and strength you need to become what I want you to be in My life, but you have to open the doors of your heart to Me. If anyone here this afternoon receives that call from God and hears it, I want to invite you to raise your hand. Raise your hand now; I would love to pray with you and ask God’s blessing upon your life.

Is there anyone who wants to give their life to the Lord Jesus? God bless you, sister, here. Anyone else who wants to say to Him, “I give myself to You, Lord”? There is a chorus that says, “All to Christ I surrender; I give everything to Him.” Anyone else? Raise your hand; do not be afraid. The Word says that today is the day of salvation. God bless you, young man, here as well. Anyone else? God bless you.

If anyone else feels that conviction from the Holy Spirit to give their life to the Lord, this moment is precious. God bless my brother back there. You are consecrating yourself to the Lord; you are saying, “Father, there is no turning back. I give myself to You; I surrender to You.” Anyone else? Feel free to do so. God bless you. This is not a commitment to Lion of Judah, to me personally, or to a denomination. This is between you and your God, making a covenant, entering into covenant. You are going to take hold of the Lord’s Hands and walk with Him, and He with you.

Anyone else? Come forward. If someone can accompany these brothers and sisters who have come forward, let someone accompany them and be like their armor-bearer there. Come here with confidence, without fear, because God is glad to see you come to the front. Come this way; we want to pray for you. I believe there must also be a man here in the Church who wants to give his life to the Lord—some man. Look at how wonderful these sisters are, but—amen! God bless you, Brother Patricio. God bless you. Thank you.

Is there another real man who will come here with his...? Amen, how wonderful! This man is big; that is how the Lord likes them to come. Anyone else, anyone else? Amen. Glory to God, glory to the Lord. Anyone else? Another young man, a husband? Your wife has been worshiping and praying for you for a long time. Perhaps you came to Church for the first time today and God has touched you. Do not resist the Lord; come to the front. We want to pray for you.

My brothers and sisters, I charge you in the Name of the Lord: listen, take the ways of the Lord seriously. Do not merely make a passing profession. Say to the Lord, “Lord, there is no turning back, there is no turning back. Today my life is going to change. Today something new and different begins, and today I die.” Say this within your spirit: “Today I die to my past dreams without You, and I want to live this life that I am going to live with You, Lord. I identify myself as Your servant, a member of Your Kingdom, Father. Take my appetites. Lord, take over my life. I consecrate myself to You; I give myself to You, Lord. You are going to be the supreme value.”

Lord, You are going to be the supreme value in my life from this day forward, and I will not place limits or barriers upon You, Father. Open your heart to Christ; open your mind, open your spirit. Open all the drawers to the Lord right now—everything, everything. Open all the drawers of your life to Him. The Lord does not mind your showing Him your humanity. If there are things you need to put right, the Lord will help you put them right. If there are battles you still have to fight against your ego and your flesh, He will help you.

If there are relationships you will have to break off, He will give you the strength to do it. He will not condemn you because you have decided to embrace this calling. He says, “I am with you every day until the end of the world,” and Christ wants to sit upon the throne of your heart and be its owner, its sovereign. Give Him everything now. Say, “Lord, I give myself to You. My sins, my dreams, my aspirations—I lay everything at Your Feet. Forgive my sins; heal my life. Sit upon the throne. I acknowledge You as my Lord, my owner, the Savior of my soul, my friend, the One who forgives my sins, the One who takes me directly to the Father, the One who guarantees my eternal destiny. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I am Your property.”

Say to the Lord, “Lord, I belong to You. Lord, I am Yours, and I yield my life to You right now, Father.” Thank You, Jesus; thank You, Lord. We worship You; we bless You. Father, bless this harvest. I mark them and seal them with the seal of Your Spirit and Your Kingdom, and I invite You, Father, to take control of every one of them—each woman and each man, Father. Oh, thank You, Lord Jesus, thank You. In Your Name, Lord. Amen, amen.

Allow me to say one more thing before we finish, my dear brothers and sisters. In keeping with what we have said, you know, we want to invite you: there are brothers and sisters who want to help you in your Christian walk, and we have, for example, about three classes that we offer between services. They are introductory classes on the Christian life, and we want you to take advantage of that instruction because the Christian life requires knowledge.

I encourage you in the Name of the Lord, as part of your commitment: what are three hours invested in the Kingdom of God so that you can grow more as a child of God? Sometimes you spend three hours watching a single movie—just imagine: three hours over three weeks. I invite you to take advantage of this opportunity we are offering you. Our brothers and sisters will give you more details. And secondly, we want to pray for you. Delmi, which is better, going over there or...? Are you already taking down the brothers’ and sisters’ names, or...? Okay, okay. Why don’t we do that for a moment? Look, it is a small inconvenience: go with our brothers and sisters over there for just a moment. It is going to take just a moment, and then you will come back. Come back afterward, okay? We simply want to take down your names and bless you, and you can return immediately.

Accompany them over there for just a moment, and we are going to bless these brothers and sisters. Thank you. And this is part of the race you are now beginning in the faith, amen? Glory to God.