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Glory, glory to God. I want to start today by bringing a word that [hoarse] I sought from the Lord to understand what the Lord would like to say. I truly have a commission and a burden in my heart to truly be a builder of the church of Jesus, right? Each leader who is here, I know they have this same burden, right? The pastor every Sunday and I say that for me the biggest challenge is preaching on Sunday, because preaching after he preaches is very difficult, right? He jokes with me, but in truth, right, every Sunday we have received so much revelation, so much powerful word that has transformed our lives, I say: "My God, will I be able to handle preaching, right?" Of course, I don't have to compare myself to him, because in truth my function within the body is a little different, right? I am the mother, he is the father, anyway. And each one within their within their calling, he has an apostolic calling that I recognize, a very strong pastoral calling that establishes foundations. And we are a church of foundations. We are a church truly founded on the word, on the rock, which is Christ. And this brings me a lot of responsibility to be able to, right, uh, participate in this building, to place some little bricks there in this building today, but you also need to be in what God is doing. Amen? Because the pastor every Sunday has to be discerning which path the Lord wants to take, what the Lord wants to bring us, what the Lord wants to teach us, what the Lord wants to align our hearts. And remembering from last week, right, from the word, how many were here last Sunday? How many heard the word last Sunday? If you didn't hear it, you need to hear it, okay? These are words that truly determine the way you will live. If you really want to change your story, change your life, change what you have lived up to now, up to this day, you need to truly put God's word, uh, into your life. You need to truly put it into practice. Amen? God's word will say that the prudent man is the one who hears my words and practices them. So, we have to be careful not to be here Sunday after Sunday as mere listeners of the word, but we have to be practitioners. So when you hear something that seems like a repetition, it's on purpose. Why? We do the same thing with children, because the word will only be ingrained within us by repetition, by hearing it over and over. Why? The word from last Sunday, perhaps some here don't even remember what it was. I know it's in there, it's a seed, so it fell on good ground, it will germinate, it will bear fruit, it will grow. But it needs to continue to be watered. Amen? Watered with faith, with other words that God will come and confirm in our hearts. So, uh, the pastor spoke about confessing the word. Amen. The power of confessing God's word. And this confessed word, it will determine our lives. Amen. He also said that they are like what? Seeds that we plant throughout our lives. And that what we live today is probably a planting of what we lived. We planted yesterday through our confessions, through what I have been declaring in my life. And declaration, he also said that it's not about what I say here when I'm in church only, because sometimes you come once a week and then the pastor tells you to declare and you declare with faith. Your heart is in it, you are in an environment of faith, so you have faith to declare and you declare and everything, but in reality we will be tested when we leave these four walls and go into our daily lives. When you get there in your morning, what do you do? First thing, when you get out of bed, what do you do? What do you do on Monday, on Tuesday? What do we declare? And I'll tell you, I am caught by surprise. That word spoke a lot to my heart, because many times we know how to prophesy, we know how to declare when we are praying, when we are in God's presence, but we are sometimes caught by surprise in the everyday, you know? In that ordinary that you live every day, the moment your child does something stupid and you, bam, let out what you shouldn't. The moment you are nervous, agitated by your mood, by your hormones there, by some situation and you release words of death. So the Lord taught us that our mouth has the power of life and death and we will eat the fruit of what we declare. Therefore, I want to speak today as well, completing this word, uh, that has, I will ask you a question, is it possible for me to declare something if my heart is seeing the complete opposite of that? You normally won't declare. Why can you declare in church? Because the pastor is showing you an image, he is talking to you, he is filling you with faith and he is showing you in the word that this is what is true. And then you go and declare and then you say, you leave: "My God, this is it, I will live it." Then when you get outside, the image you start to see, the circumstances around you start to tell you the opposite and you start to confess according to the images you are seeing. So if we want to change our confession, we need to change our heart first. What is the image in my heart? And to start talking about the heart, I wanted to say, the message I will speak today is: "Guard your heart." And look how powerful it is to guard our heart. I would like to read with the church in Proverbs 4:20 to 23. Look what it says: "My son, attend to my words, incline your ears to my teachings. Do not let them depart from your eyes. Guard them in the innermost part of your heart, [music] for they are life to those who find them and health to their body. Are you following there? >> Above all that you should guard, guard your heart, for from it proceed the springs of [music] life. It's the same version. >> I will repeat. Above all that you should guard, guard your heart, for from it proceed the springs of life. Everything that happens in our lives originates from it, it proceeds from our heart. How we live, how we behave, how we speak, how we react, how we live in community, how we live in family. They all proceed from our heart. And how do I live day to day? What is my reality day to day? We are bombarded with what? Bad images, bad news, contrary diagnoses. We have never lived in a time of so many bad, malignant diagnoses. Is it true or not? We have never seen so many diagnoses of cancer, we have never seen so many diagnoses of tumors, this, that. We are living in the end times. We have never seen, at least in our generation, so many rumors of war. Every day, if you stop and really start looking at the news and focusing on what is being said, you will live in despair. Or really focus on the news and see how what Trump just this week, yesterday I opened Instagram, I said: "My God, let me close it, so much stuff, I don't know if you are aware, so much stuff is coming out, I won't even say it because I want to generate an image of faith in your heart. But I want to say that this is the reality out there, it's the reality that you and I live, that we face. Maybe it's not just the news or the Instagram you open and see a lot of bad things bombarding your heart and stealing your faith and bringing hopelessness and bringing anguish and sadness and fear. But will I be able to handle it? Wow, but now? Wow, just now I was going to buy my house. Wow, just now I don't think it will work out. And then we start, like Peter, to succumb, we are truly robbed of a place God called us to inhabit. Do you know what place that is? The place of God's promises. Everything Christ conquered on the cross of Calvary was to place us in a position of heir children. Do you know what it is to be an heir of such a great, so powerful God, creator of heaven and earth? Let me tell you, you are an heir of God. >> Hallelujah! >> And within this inheritance, there are so many promises. Do you know that God's word has more than 7,000 promises written about me and you? But many times we are full of these promises or we are full of the news or what we are living as reality. Many times our heart is full of negative things, things that steal our faith, our joy, our hope. And then we leave this place of position. Because let me tell you, this place of inheritance is a positional place. Everything Christ conquered is a positional place. Did you know that you are seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus? But pastor, I'm sitting here watching you today. Let me tell you, but the spiritual position God has placed you in is in this place, a place of much superior authority. And it is in this place that God calls us to ascend. To ascend is to leave this rational mind, this natural mind, where you see all things only with physical eyes. Let me tell you, what hinders us the most today are our physical eyes. Believe it or not, you know that visionaries, men who have truly built legacies, grand things, like Walt Disney, for example, before seeing the image with their eyes, before he saw Walt Disney built, [music] what happens? He saw it with his heart, he had a clear vision of what he was going to do. And then many say that he didn't even see a little bit of what he once dreamed of, but his dream continued. Everything that is a vision will truly lead you to persevere. When you have a clear vision, it leads you to walk faithfully in it. Now, when you live by those, by these natural eyes, I'm always worried, no, I won't touch this because it's too big, it's impossible. I don't have money today. Do you think the visionary thinks [music] that he doesn't have money today? Ask Márcio, if he works with visionaries, he has an investor who, for me, his name is not investor, it's visionary. Because in truth, he might be going through the biggest hardship, the biggest difficulty at the moment, but he's already saying, Márcio, prepare, we are going to make the biggest investment we have ever made in the United States. Prepare, but my God, he's there with his account asking here and so on, going through situations. But it doesn't matter. A visionary sees beyond the reality he is seeing, it's a vision of the heart. And that's what God called us to do, to be these people who see beyond circumstances. And if we don't understand this, we will live every day, you know? As I said the other day here, like a roller coaster. I'm weak, I'm strong. I'm weak, I'm strong. Today I'm good, today I'm bad. Today I'm full of faith, tomorrow I'm defeated. Today I'm a winner, tomorrow I'm a loser. You don't know how we will live a stabilized life? It's when we truly walk by conviction. We walk by faith. Faith is the firm foundation of things not seen. However, I hope. The visionary doesn't see, but he is sure it will happen. He doesn't know how. He doesn't have the money for it. He doesn't know who will help him build it. But he doesn't want to know. He already sees it done. The Lord wants us to see it done, because his work is already done. Amen. But for me and you to reach, to live this full and abundant life that the pastor preaches every week. Then you say: "Wow, pastor, but the pastor talks so much about this full and abundant life and I'm not living it?" What is happening? Is the problem with the word? No, the problem is that we are not walking according to what the word teaches us. We are not walking by faith. We are still walking by sight. So, there's no way I can want to change my confession if I don't change my heart first, if I don't change the sources first. Because he teaches to guard my heart above all else, because it is a source. What is a source? It's the spring of a river. It's where everything begins. So many people sometimes have potential, I've seen people with so much potential, with intelligence, with capacity, you sit down and say: "My God, this one will go far." But if they have emotional problems, if they don't really know their identity, they remain limited, stuck, and they can't flow. And this is very frustrating. You see that our heart is linked to many things in our lives, you know? God has a great calling on your life. He has already told you this and you are stuck today. Why? What is holding you back? The disappointments you've had in the past with leadership, what held you back? Or are they the small things surrounding you, entangling you, and you have let them take over your heart and you have truly stopped living the promises God has already spoken about you? So what will he say? How can I guard my heart? He is saying here, my son, attend to my words. Hear my words today. You know, we hear here today, but tomorrow you will hear thousands of other things that will try to remove these images that God is speaking here to you today. But how much of God's word is in our eyes? You know that the Jew [music] everything he does is literal, right? Everything the word says there in the Torah for him, it's all literal. So, what does he do? He even, and Deuteronomy says to have God's word on your forehead and that it should be placed between the eyes. They literally use a small box that is tied there with a ribbon, with something that fastens it, and when they pray, they place this small box full of God's promises on their heads and they believe that it will enter their heads. Was that what God was saying? No, it was an image, it was an idea. It was something God wanted to explain to them, or perhaps he was saying to us, right? Because the Bible is full of images. Amen? If you look at the Old Testament, you will see images, you will see shadows of what was to come. Today, you and I live the reality of the promise. So, the entire Old Testament is God describing the promises, it is God promising, it is God showing, it is God signaling that the lamb was to be killed. And then there was a lamb that was sacrificed. Ah, there was to be a high priest who would represent us before God. So there was a priest, a high priest who represented the people. So everything was a figure of what God would bring to us today. >> Look what a powerful time you and I are living. They believed, they taught, they waited to see the promise, but they couldn't see the promise. And the proof is the Lord revealing it to us today. So today, we cannot negotiate and walk by sight anymore. We need to walk by these truths. So, having God's word, as he is saying here, in your eyes, is reading God's word every day. It is filling yourself with this word. And not only that. Do you know what he is trying to say here? You need to make this word internalize within you. This word needs to generate an image in your heart, because then it will be ingrained in you. And then when the enemy comes to show you something, you say: "Ah, ah, I know that God's word says [music] this, this, and this, and I will not yield." >> Hallelujah. >> You internalize the word, the word starts to become part of your life. [music] This is the goal of the word, it is to eat, to nourish yourself. Do you remember that the manna was sent every day to the people, to the Jewish people there in the desert? And that manna represented Christ, it was for them to eat. Because when they were eating in a figurative way, they were [music] nourishing themselves with Christ. Today, you and I nourish ourselves with Christ every time we hear God's word. Every time we hear the gospel, every time we are truly reading the word, we are nourishing ourselves with Christ. And do you know what is happening inside you? It's not neutral. If the word is the word of the gospel, if the word is the word of Christ, it is metabolizing, it is transforming you, it is generating images in your heart, and this image in your heart will lead you to guard your heart. Now, if the images in my heart are what the world is telling me, I will live with my heart vulnerable. I will constantly be releasing sources of dirty water from my heart. So, my confession will not be aligned. [music] I need to be full of the word [music] so that I have faith in my heart. I need these images of the word to be ingrained in my heart so that I do not sin, so that [music] I do not choose something that is outside of his will, so that I understand what his perfect will is. God's word will say: "Do not conform to this world." Do you know what it means to conform? It means to standardize. It means to mold yourself. So, do not mold yourself. It's like putting a cake into a mold. Don't do that. Don't mold yourself to the pattern of this world. The world is constantly molding you, you know? You are constantly putting your eyes [music] on what deforms you instead of giving you the form of Christ. What are these images that deform me, that contaminate my heart daily? I will tell you first, comparison on your social media all the time. Today we are living the era of comparison. You are constantly comparing yourself to someone. You are constantly feeding yourself with what is there. And then you look, an image is generated, it goes where? To my heart. Brother, let me tell you, nothing is neutral. Our greatest struggle today is to fight against the system of this world. It's to swim against the tide. And I say even to us, I am a pastor. You know, I'm already of an age, more mature. [music] I know the harm that Instagram, that TikTok causes. I know the damage. We are aware, we read. Then I ask you: "And yet, is it so difficult for us to limit that in our lives?" But let me tell you, they are daily choices. They are daily choices. What do I feed myself? What am I looking at? What are the images I am bringing into my heart? How many hours do I spend on social media? How many hours do I spend on social media versus God's word? If you are spending [music] more time, you are not guarding your heart. How is your heart? [music] You hear the word once, 40, 50 minutes, an hour here on Sunday, and then you will just wait to hear it again, you won't even prepare to share it in the cell on Friday. Do you think that in this way your life will truly be transformed, your heart truly guarded? What is the source that will flow? Do you think your confession will change? And let me tell you, if your confession, your heart doesn't change, your faith doesn't change, and your confession doesn't change. And if your confession doesn't change, your life also doesn't change. Perhaps you are there, because many things in our lives have not yet broken through, because God's word is faithful. [music] It is faithful to fulfill all that for which it is designated. God's word, once it is declared, has the power within itself to be fulfilled. That is the power of God's word. A seed that has the power, when it is sown with faith through the mouth of someone who possesses the life of God. It has [music] the power to create, it has the power to generate. We can see this in Christ. Christ was 100% man, 100% [music] God. And what did he do? All the words that came out of Christ's mouth had results. When he was facing a storm, the disciples terrified, frightened, and then he says, but where is your faith? This is how we often act. When the storm comes, everything is fine, you are super believing. But when the evil day comes, when the storm hits, [music] you start to succumb, despair, say: "My God, everything falls apart, the heart [music] loses peace, faith is gone. We cannot live like this. I can feel the winds. I can, being human, feel fear. I feel fear. But courage is not not feeling fear, it is going beyond fear and doing what needs to be done. It is declaring what needs to be declared. It is looking at the Lord Jesus and saying: "I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I know that this is temporary and it will pass. I know that I have already been healed on the cross of Calvary and so I take possession and I will not accept this illness in my life." And then we start to walk by faith. Why? Because our heart is full of imprinted images of the Lord's truth about us. >> But be careful, bad news is there all the time. Be careful with how much you feed yourself. Guarding your heart is your responsibility. He is not saying: "I will guard your heart." He has already given you everything. He accomplished the work. He finished it. He placed you in a ready, accomplished work. He sat down and said that you are sitting with him. Sitting means a place of rest, a place of peace, a place of absolute certainty that all things have already been done by him. There is nothing more to be done. The other day I heard a woman say, I don't even know why she appeared to me, and she said: "Wow, I'm going to take a break now and so on." Because yes, she came to the conclusion that she lived her Christianity and she spoke a lot on the internet, taught many people, and she came to the conclusion that she lived her life totally deceived because she was not in the gospel. So she lived trying to fight, to struggle, to do and achieve. And she said: "My God!" And now I discovered that it wasn't like that. I discovered [music] that it was by resting. I discovered that I don't have to keep knocking down demons and fighting, struggling, and doing. It's all done. I have to really position myself, I have to declare, I have to command. It is already done. And she said that she carried such a heavy burden that now she wouldn't even speak anymore, because I think she had to recompose herself now, find herself, because her whole life she lived like this and now I see that I was totally mistaken, she was living the Christian life by her own strength. How many of us live this? We think it's us who do it. We get up in the morning thinking we will handle it, thinking that God will prosper us by ourselves, doing, thinking we will make it happen by the strength of our arm. Let me tell you, this is foolishness. It is foolishness. Because we who are in Christ, in Christ, have truly been placed in a position to be [music] ready. >> He has already conquered everything. And I need to walk in this place. I need to see myself in this place. What is the image you have in your heart today of a sinner trying to reach heaven, of a sinner trying to overcome sin? Let me tell you, you will live by what you believe. If you do not align your life, your beliefs with the truth of the gospel, you will continue trying by your own effort. It will not change things in your life. What changes our lives is our way of thinking. As I was saying, I will go back to the verse. Do not conform to this age, but be transformed. How, church? Higher, by the renewal of your mind. How do I renew my mind? By the word. There is no other way. It's not by studying a lot, it's not by acquiring human knowledge. There is no human wisdom that will change your life. There is no coaching teaching. Let me tell you. All of that is self-effort. Me trying to improve my [music] life. What changes our lives is understanding who we have living and dwelling within us today. It is understanding that today we have a new identity. It is understanding who we are, but we are still not so conscious of our true identity in Christ. We oscillate. One day I believe I am a beloved daughter of God. Another day I think [music] God doesn't love me. Because he, he allowed this in my life. God's word says that God proves his love for us in that Christ died for us while we were still [music] sinners. That is the extent of God's love for you. He doesn't love you because you are walking perfectly. He doesn't love you because you pray a lot, because you now read the Bible a lot, because you now go to church every Sunday when you didn't before. Let me tell you. No, God's love does not fluctuate for you. >> [music] >> He loves you because he is love. He loves you because God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. This is the gospel. This is the truth you need to walk in. We need to leave this place, set our eyes on God's truth. Amen. Amen. >> Where we set our eyes, it will have the power to generate an image in your heart. And this image will produce faith or fear, faith or unbelief where you have been walking. We cannot one day walk in faith and another day in unbelief. We cannot walk in faith, in courage, in conviction, and the next day in fear. As I said, fear will knock on our door. We are human. We will feel it naturally, but we cannot remain in this place. Amen. We need to fill ourselves with images that are God's word. So, Matthew 6:22 says: "The lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light." How are your eyes today? Let's do an eye exam. I'm not talking about these eyes that are already [music] losing their clarity. Today I depend on glasses. I'm talking about the eyes of your heart, you know? Paul says in Ephesians 1:18, if you can put it up, he says: "I also pray that the eyes of your heart [music] may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance granted to the saints." What is this? How many here have prayed this? I always pray [music]. God, enlighten the eyes of my heart. God, enlighten the eyes of the church's heart. [music] Because if the eyes of your heart are not enlightened, you will leave here the same way you entered. You can see the pastor speaking many words, [music] but what is it to enlighten the eyes of my heart? It is to have revelation. It is a light that turns on within us and you say: "Wow, now I know who I am. Wow, this is the truth. I will no longer walk [music] this way, I will walk like this. Wow, this is God's word. You know when you read the scriptures and it is revealed to your heart, this is your heart [music] enlightened. This will make you guard your heart. This will fill your heart with faith and this will change your confession. Amen? So, we cannot just settle for reading God's word in a natural way, like you read a book. I need to spend time in the word. When he talks about having the word in your eyes, I need to dive into the word. I need to open it and it doesn't matter the quantity, if it's a verse, but meditate on that verse. Let's stop and meditate on this verse quickly. Look how much in this verse I focused on talking about the eyes of the heart, which is revelation. But look what he is saying, that he wants to enlighten the eyes of the heart, so that you may know the hope for which he has called you. What hope is this? The hope of the riches, of his glorious inheritance granted to you. The saints are glorious. Do you know how glorious it is? Perhaps not. Perhaps I need more. Then God reveals it to me. You will see a verse like this and say: God, truly enlighten me. I want to see more. What is the richness? The richness is this inheritance that we receive in Christ. We have a great inheritance and we are unaware of the entire inheritance. If you don't know that it is yours, you won't enjoy it. If today I had a rich, millionaire father, and he passed away, [music] if he died, he would leave me, right, he could leave me a great inheritance. And let's say I no longer have contact with him and I didn't know that he left me an inheritance. I didn't know there was something there [music] for me, a lot of money. It will stay there and die there. I will not enjoy it. I could be in need here and be rich, having a lot of money, an inheritance. [music] This is the inheritance God has given us. Sometimes you are living like a wretch, defeated, [music] being an heir of God and co-heir with Christ. We cannot conform, church. This is something that burns in my heart. If there is something that burns in my heart, it is to see God's children living the abundant life. Abundant life [music] is having peace. Abundant life is having joy. Abundant life is being healthy. Abundant life [music] is having Christ, is having love, is being loved, feeling loved. And not by my husband, by my children. Today I told them, I praise God for your love, but I am satisfied in him. >> I am loved by him. So it doesn't matter if they show love or gratitude for me. It's very good to be honored, it's very good to be loved by the people you love, but I need to be satisfied in his love, because if he doesn't fill me up inside, no one else will fill my heart. Amen? This is guarding our heart. [music] We need to live like this. Hallelujah. So this is the power of images in our hearts, [music] right? And I said, I was talking there that Luke 6:45, did I read it or not? I have a blank. So let's go. Luke 6:45, [music] please. Jesus saying, look, it's 44 arrived. [music] It's like this. Who identifies with me? Have some blanks from time to time. Oh Jesus, I have the mind of Christ. Put your hand on your head. I have the mind of [music] Christ. My mind is renewed more each day. It is strengthened. Ah, it will not, Lord, [music] be forgotten, no. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Look what God's word will say. The good man, from the good treasure of his heart, brings out what? Good. The evil from the evil treasure brings out evil. Evil, [music] because the mouth speaks of what the heart is full of. What are you saying? It's what fills your heart. And many will say: "Ah, no, pastor, I only speak when I'm angry. I only speak when I lose my temper, right? When something very serious happens, I get agitated and let me tell you, no, you are speaking what fills your heart. Remove today, in Jesus' name, these lies. Remove today this deception that is, you know, holding you back, keeping you behind, preventing you from advancing, preventing you from changing your confession, [music] preventing you from planting good seeds to harvest a certain future that he has prepared for [music] you. You and I need to do a check-up on our hearts today. I know we don't have to [music] probe and [singing] as they say in a way, you know, be introspective. The Bible doesn't teach that, but he says: [music] "Search my heart, see if there is any wicked way," right? So, ask the Lord to search your heart today. But it's not for you to fall into condemnation and guilt, no. I'm telling you to say: "Lord, remove [music] all the dirt that I have let in here, all the lies that I have believed as truth." Do you know what strongholds in our minds are that rise up against the knowledge of God? When Paul says, "Destroying every stronghold that rises up against the knowledge of God." They are wrong thoughts, [music] lies that you have believed your whole life as truth. And they block God's truths, God's knowledge about you or about who God is. [music] And they block it from entering and descending into your heart to bring the correct image for you to live correctly. And then you live limited [music] by what you are seeing. You live limited by what your father said about you. You [music] live limited by what you have heard your whole life. We were sharing there on Friday, right, in the cell. And how powerful it was. I am sure that in all the cells it was so powerful, so much sharing, [music] because it's a topic that affects us. We all identify with it and we recognize that throughout our lives we have professed [music] and we talked about how many of us are today the fruit of what we heard in childhood. Or not only heard, but saw. So, our eyes and our ears are constantly receiving images, [music] you know? Ah, but images in the ears, yes. What you hear generates an image. Stop and think, even a song generates an image. If you hear a country song, then you will imagine something. [music] If you hear a song that declares the beauty of Christ, who will you see? You will see Christ. We need to be careful with what we are contemplating. Let me tell you, the Bible says that we are transformed by beholding the Lord, but we can also be deformed by beholding [music] wrong things. What are we contemplating daily on our phones? I don't need anything else, [music] just a phone. I don't need a magazine anymore today. I don't need to open a newspaper today. I just need a phone. There is everything bad there, terrible images, [music] to destroy your heart, contaminate your heart and contaminate the source of life. From where everything flows, it flows from there. If you cannot limit it, cut it off. You know when Jesus says: If your hand, if your eye, you know, causes you to stumble, tear it out. If your hand causes you trouble, [music] tear it out. He is saying: Remove everything that is hindering you, that is killing you, that is stealing God's truth, that is destroying the correct images about you. Otherwise, you will continue in this cycle without seeing change in your life. Do you want to break through in an area of your life? Fill yourself with faith and hope [music] from God's word. Amen. The Bible is [music] a book full of images. What prayer? The Bible is a is a book full of images. Everything you will see, especially in the Old Testament, you will see God always bringing an image so that we can understand what he was [music] saying. Is it true or not? I'll give you an example here. Psalms 1, let's read it together. It will say here that the man who delights in the law of the Lord, remember? Psalms 1, it will say: "The man who delights in the law, in God's word, and meditates on it, he will be like a tree planted by streams of water, that in due season yields its fruit, whose [music] leaves do not wither, and all that he does will prosper." God is making it without imagining. I pray this over my life. I am like a fruitful tree, [music] planted by the river of waters. I bear fruit in my proper season. My leaves do not wither, and all that I do will prosper. And I believe this because it is an image I see myself in. I see myself that these waters are the Holy Spirit who nourishes me, who brings me food, who brings me strength, who brings me vigor, who brings me life. Because a tree needs to be nourished by water, doesn't it? And Jesus is the sun of righteousness, and he shines upon me and he nourishes me, and therefore I bear fruit for him. You need to see yourself this way. And I pray this over people, because this is praying the word. [music] Another thing that is powerful is to be full of impressions in your heart and of the word imprinted in your heart so that you can release it in prayer. Prayer is not simply looking at anything. When you pray aligned with the truth of God's word, you will see the difference, the result, the power it has. Amen? It is effective, but I need to be full of the word. Psalm [music] 128 also brings an image, it says, from verse 1, if you can put it up from verse one, it says: "Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor; you will be successful and prosperous." Then he says, your wife will be like a fruitful vine. Look, inside your house. Is that how you look at your wife, a fruitful vine? Look. And your children will be like olive shoots. Do you know what an olive shoot means? Anointing. It's anointing. Your children are full of anointing. Amen. Around your table. So you already imagine yourself there in your home, enjoying, if you are a man, if you are this man, enjoying your fruitful wife, amen? And of
children anointed and blessed. So these are images that he brings to us [music] so that we can imprint them on our hearts and keep them in our hearts. These are the truths about us. [music] These comparisons are images of God to shape my faith, your faith. [music] Amen. within our hearts. If you see yourself as a beloved child, justified, blessed, favored, you see your [music] home prospering, what will you reap? You will declare according to this truth and you will see, you will live this. Amen? May you also see that this is the year of multiplication. [music] And this word was not just a word for anyone. This word was for me, Lord. I will live the multiplication. I will, Lord, see my cell multiplying. I will see, Lord, leaders being raised up. I will see, Lord, those families being [music] transformed. Because it is not only about us and our blessing, but it is also about this [music] word in the Lord's will, in what he has called us to, he has commissioned us. And sometimes we see ourselves as someone [music] shy, someone who lacks skill with words, someone who doesn't see themselves capable of fulfilling [music] God's calling. Let me tell you, he has already deposited within you everything you need to fulfill his calling. You just need to respond, [music] you just need to say: "Here I am, Lord, send me. Use me, Lord. I want to be this instrument. I want to [singing] be this prophetic mouth that releases life, amen, [music] over people. But there is a danger, brothers, another danger here of when we do not guard our hearts. Look, I want to quickly read Numbers 13:33. [music] [music] We also saw giants there. Let me read here. The sons of Anak are descendants of giants, and in our own eyes we were like grasshoppers. [music] And so we were in their eyes. Look at how sad this is. How many know this story? It's the story where Moses sends the 12 spies [music] to spy out a land that was promised by God. A land that was promised [music] by God to them. It was certain that they would receive that promise. Amen. Because the one who had given it, delivered it to them, was the Lord. In the same way that today we live, we already have the inheritance in Christ Jesus. It is already, it has already been given to us, it is already ours, [music] but still sometimes we waver and look, they arrived there in that land and indeed saw many giants. God didn't speak, God even sent them, go and spy. He wanted to see what was in their hearts. Go, spy the land. Go, take a look, see what's there. And they saw, they saw many good things. They saw giant bunches of grapes, they saw, you know, much abundance. [music] It was a land flowing with milk and honey, as the scriptures say, but there were giants. It was a city that needed [music] to be conquered, but God had already given it to them. This city was already theirs by inheritance. [music] Amen. So, but 10 is not the minority, it's the majority. 10 returned giving [music] horrible reports. He began to say that they were in the eyes of that giant like grasshoppers. They saw themselves as grasshoppers. And he also said that the giant [music] saw them as grasshoppers. That is, he looked at the size of the giant. How many times do we look at the size of our giants, the size of the mountains before us, forgetting the size of our God, the greatness of our Lord, the power he has, [music] amen, to determine all things in our lives. However, two refused [music] to have that vision. This is very interesting. Joshua and Caleb, the Bible will speak, will bear witness of Caleb, that Caleb had a different spirit. Let me tell you, you have a different spirit. You don't see like the world, you don't see, you know, with these natural eyes, you see with the eyes of faith. You need [music] to be like Joshua and Caleb, who in the face of that circumstance, in the face of, you know, seeing those giants there, do not see yourselves as the devil is trying to show you. See yourselves as God truly speaks about you. >> You need to see yourself first, because then your enemies, when they understand that you know who you are, in God, they will give up on you. Now, when he manages to steal your identity, he uses the authority that God gave you against [music] yourself. This is how the devil works. Every time I step out of my position as an heir, out of my position as a child, out of the position [music] that God called me to, that I am a beloved child, that I am justified by Christ, he comes, steals the authority that God gave you. He gives you a key of authority. He tells you that you can bind on earth. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. [music] That was the extent of the authority. He gave his name and said: "Use my name in your favor and whatever you declare, I will fulfill according to my word." This is the power he gave us. But in the face of that circumstance, seeing those giants, he looks at all of that and says: "My God!" Only two [music] managed to see what God was showing. The land they were going to take by inheritance. [music] A great land that he could look from one side to the other. He said: "My God, each here, each tribe will be able to take possession of a side and we won't even be neighbors, we won't even get close to so much land we have to conquer and take possession." [music] This is what God is telling you. There is so much of God for you. Because you are looking at scarcity, [music] at what is not working, at what went wrong, because you are looking at closed doors? Stop talking, if one door [music] closes here, another will open there. And the Lord, the door that he opens, no one closes. And the door that he closes, no one opens either. Let me tell you, stop giving importance to the devil. [music] Stop giving importance to what he is saying. Give importance and relevance to what God is saying to you. Amen. What the word of God already guarantees us, victory against our enemies, victory [music] against circumstances. Amen. Do not be afraid of migration, [singing] no. For if the Lord has established you in this place, it is he who will make you remain for all [music] the days he has for you here in this place. We need to walk like this. We need [music] to walk in faith. We need to look at who we are, you know? And have some pride. Lift your head. When it comes to Satan, to your enemies who try against your life and paralyze you, [music] you say: "I know who I am in God. I can do all things through him who strengthens me." It was the Lord who raised me up. [music] It was the Lord who brought me to this nation. It was the Lord who anointed me. So I will, [music] I will, Lord. I will, I will destroy walls in Your name. I will declare to this mountain, mountain move out of my way and I will believe with my heart and it [music] will be done for me. Oh, Jesus, I believe. I believe in a victorious church. I believe in a church full [music] of faith. A church that does not walk with its head down, defeated, not knowing its identity. A church that does not keep saying it looks like a grasshopper, that will be swallowed, destroyed by these giants. [music] Let me tell you, the devil has already been defeated. He has already been defeated. Oh, Jesus has already triumphed [music] on the cross. He has already crushed his head, he is already destroyed. Now you and I need to walk in this place of authority. [music] You and I who are outside of our opposition, [singing] of our place. And if now we fill ourselves [music] with these true images that the Lord is speaking about us, we will walk in victory. [music] We will walk above the circumstances. Do you know how God calls us to see? Like [music] the eagle? How does the eagle see? Much further. It sees eight, I don't know how many times, I think it's eight times [music] more than the normal vision of a human being. This means it's a broad vision. Ask the Lord for the vision of [singing] heaven. Ask God for his vision for you. Ask [music] him to make you see the promises he has already declared over your life, whether in the word, or through a prophetic word. [music] I want to bring to your memory what brings hope, church. What [music] brings you hope, bring it to memory. Bring it to memory. He who promised is faithful to fulfill all his [music] words. Ah, the word of God has in it the yes and the amen. All his promises have the yes and the amen. Do you already have the amen [music] from the Lord? Do you already have God's approval? Simply align [music] your heart with heaven. Align your ears to hear what the Lord is saying, what the Spirit is [music] declaring about us. Arise, church, arise as an army, [music] positioned. It is time to fight. But you know, it's a war that has already been conquered and already won. [music] It's a positional war. We are in Christ seated in heavenly places. We [music] will fear no evil, for the Lord is with us. We will fear no evil, for the Lord is with us. Your rod [music] and your staff protect us, they comfort us. Ah, the Lord prepares a table in the presence of my enemies. He anoints my [music] head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me [music] all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. This is your place. This is my place. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, [music] Jesus. We adore you, Lord. No matter, no matter the circumstances, [music] no matter, Lord, what we are seeing. We decide today to imprint your [music] truth on our hearts, about ourselves. We look to the Lord and see that the Lord is [music] powerful to do infinitely [singing] more, abundantly, ah, Lord, [music] beyond what we ask or think, according to your power that operates in us, [music] church, it is through us. It is through us. The Lord will do [music] today. It is through me and you. >> [singing] >> It is through me and you that today the Lord positions us [music]. If you were beaten down, if you were with your head down, if you were perhaps with your heart contaminated by the devil's lies, by [music] what he tried to put in, the wrong images, I want to tell you today, the Lord [music] revives you, the Lord awakens you, the Lord fills you with faith, courage, and then you can declare, [music] start declaring, start declaring the truths of my eyes [music] [singing] in a place of confession. I console myself that my faith [music][singing] is not by what I see, but by what I believe, [music] I fix my eyes on the author and finisher [music] of my faith. Yes, not by [music][singing] what I see, but by what [singing] I believe. My [music] eyes on the author [singing] and finisher of my faith. [music] I fix my eyes [singing] on the author and finisher [music] of my [singing] faith. >> [music] [music] >> Thank you, Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray that the eyes of your church's heart may be [music] illuminated by the revelation of your word, Lord. Open our eyes, Father. Illuminate the eyes of our understanding. Help us to comprehend spiritual realities. Father, remove everything, Lord, that is natural from our minds. Cleanse [music] our hearts. Ah, Lord, come today like water, like a river flowing, gushing, cleansing, Lord, all the wrong images, images of failure, [music] of defeat, of fear, of rejection, of insecurity, of sin, [music] in the name of Jesus. Thoughts contrary to your truth, Father, in the name of Jesus, begin to purify, begin to come with your water, Lord. Your water is your word, [music] your word cleanses us. Your word cleanses us. The Lord says: "We are already clean through [music] your word." And I declare this. You are already clean by the word of God. [singing] And I declare in the name of Jesus your [music] heart clean, pure, a fountain gushing. Rivers of living water. [music] He who [singing] believes in me, rivers of living water will flow from within him. Let rivers of living water flow from within you. [music] Because you believe in the Lord. Because you trust in the Lord. Because you make him your strength. [music] My reward is [singing] you. [music] Engrave eternity in me. Jesus, [music] for everything is [singing] temporary here. The reward is you. My [music] reward [singing] is you. Engrave [music] eternity in me, Jesus. For everything is temporary [music] here. The reward is you. My reward [music] is you and engrave eternity [music] in [singing] me, Jesus. For everything is temporary [singing] here. The reward [music] is you. My reward [music][singing] is you. Not by what [music] I see, but [singing] by what I believe. I fix my [music][singing] eyes on the author and finisher [music] of [singing] my faith. Yes, not by what I see, [music] but by what I believe. I fix my [music] eyes [singing] on the author and finisher of my faith. [music] I fix my eyes on the author and finisher [singing] of my [music] faith. Father, at this moment, Lord, I pray for [singing] your church. I pray, Lord, that this word may become [music] a rhema within us, may become a revealed word, a word, Lord, that will continue to echo in our hearts, reminding us every day [music] of who we are, of the Lord. Father, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus, that from today on each of your children will be able to filter, Lord, what enters into their [music] hearts, through their eyes, through their ears. I declare now, Lord, their [music] eyes, Lord, natural eyes and their ears, O God, which are, Lord Jesus, channels through which, Lord, many times enter, Lord Jesus, thoughts, enter, Lord Jesus, feelings. O Father, I declare all of this consecrated to the Lord. [music] Consecrate your eyes to the Lord today, you know? Consecrate. If I consecrate and separate for the Lord. Father, I will not listen [music] to just anything. Father, I will not listen to just anything. I will only look and listen to what [music] edifies me, what adds to my life. I declare, Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, our ears [music] consecrated to the Lord, our eyes consecrated. Father, I declare that every contrary thought, [music] Father, will be, Lord, removed. I declare that they are clothed with the full armor of God. I declare that the helmet of salvation is what guards their minds, O God, [music] in the name of the Lord Jesus, I declare, Lord, that the breastplate of righteousness is that, Lord, which is placed upon them, knowing that they are the righteousness [music] of God in Christ Jesus. And this, and this breastplate, guards their hearts [music] from the attacks, Lord, Father, from the fiery darts of the evil one. I declare that they are guarded in this truth. They are, Lord Jesus, [music] also, O God, clothed, O God, with the shield of faith. Ah, Lord, by which they will extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil one. I declare also, Lord, that they already have [music] the sword of the Spirit, Lord, which is your word. And with this word they will destroy, Lord, all the fallacies [music] of the devil, all the lies, everything, Lord, that rises up, Lord, in a contrary way. [music] Every accusing word, Father, in the name of Jesus, every word of insult, every word of intimidation, [music] they will destroy in the authority of the name of Jesus, because, Lord, this authority has been given to us. [music] Father, I declare a church that has understanding of the authority they have in Christ Jesus. [music] And they will see, O God, they will see, Lord, the fruit, Father, the fruit, Lord Jesus, of a prosperous life. They will see the fruit, Lord, of walking with [music] their heart in Christ, Father, full of peace, of joy in their spirit, Father. Abundant life is a life in the spirit. [music] And I declare that this church will live a balanced mind, Father, a heart full of faith, a heart full of hope [music] and peace. Ah, because the Lord, your word says that the Lord knows the thoughts that the Lord has concerning you are thoughts of peace and not of evil. To give you the end that we expect. And I declare, Lord, [music] that this is what will govern their minds, these thoughts of peace that the Lord has concerning them and not the lies that the devil has told. I declare that from our [music] mouths will only come words of life. Only words of life. Consecrate your mouth to the Lord. Lord, we consecrate [music] our mouths, our lips, our hearts to you, so that we may live according to [music] the reality of our new identity in Christ Jesus. We give you all honor and all glory, because we know [music] that this is the kind of prayer that the Lord will certainly answer. Thank you, Lord, for this church, Father, alive. Thank you, Lord, because the Lord has called each of your children. And thank you, Lord, because the work that the Lord has begun in their lives, the Lord will finish, will [music] perfect until the return of Christ, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. [music] >> [music]