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2 Kings, chapter 7, says, Elisha answered, "Listen to the word of the Lord. The Lord says, 'Tomorrow, at this time, at the entrance of Samaria, 7 liters of flour will be sold for one shekel of silver, and 15 liters of barley for one shekel.' God, my God. It says that for one shekel of silver, you will also be able to buy 15 liters of oil. Verse 2. This verse is dangerous. Put it on the screen. Because verse 2 says that the king's personal assistant replied to the prophet, look how bold. Even if the Lord were to open the windows of heaven, what that man said could not happen. But Elisha answered him, 'You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.' Say with me, 'Amen.' Amen. Listen, today I came to talk about something very interesting. One word. This message has one word. Say with me the word *davar*. I didn't hear you. Say *davar*. Motivate me to preach and repeat *davar*. Why am I going to talk about *davar*? Because when we talk about word, theologians will immediately go to the written word and say, 'There is a Greek word that is *logos*.' When we talk about this, many will go and talk about the word *rhema*. Traditional theology confines everything to *logos* and *rema*. But there is a little Hebrew word that means *davar* or is pronounced *da*, which means what materializes what God spoke. Please, say with me, what God spoke will materialize. From the invisible, it will materialize. When you go to Hebrews 11, it says that all that is seen was made from what was not seen, through what? Through a word that God released. So, here we read something that, for you to understand the context, it's good for you to understand that this people was going through a political and military crisis, and famine broke out, and this brought with it many dangerous events. Anyone who knows a little about geopolitics, anyone who has studied ancient tactics a bit, will realize something interesting: that there were wars that were won without a sword. Nowadays, nations like the United States impose penalties and taxes that can weaken a nation. At that time, the Syrians surrounded Israel, the Bible says, they besieged it and blocked trade. We are not going to use the sword; they will eat what they have inside. When they run out of that, they will have to surrender. They will be broken emotionally, broken economically, broken spiritually. And do you want me to tell you something? It's the same thing that the enemy does sometimes. He doesn't enter your house; he simply puts a fence around you so that what you were expecting doesn't reach you, so that those things for which you prayed don't happen, so that your marriage weakens. He seeks for you to destroy yourself. But please, touch two people and tell them, 'Whom God has called, God does not let go. With whom God begins, God finishes.' Someone, please, prophesy here with me and make a demand on God. What does this have to do with *davar*? It has to do with the fact that an ox head, a donkey head, was a coveted delicacy. They were starving. Do you want me to tell you the most critical thing they reached? Two women agreed and said, 'Today we will eat your son, and tomorrow we will not eat your son.' One of the women entered into the business, killed the child, and they ate him. But when it was the other's turn, she said, 'My boy, I will not give him to you.' They went to the king with a simple little problem, and the little problem was, 'We already ate mine; we have to eat hers.' Oh, you know that story; we can't go there. The king had to use wisdom to know who the boy's mother was. And the king said, 'We will solve this quickly. Let's see, let's, let's cut the boy in two.' Oh, my God, Holy Father. Listen to me carefully, the problem was solved right there. The king threw himself on the ground. The king said, 'What evil are we paying for? They are eating the boys.' Say with me. Everything was wrong. Say, everything was wrong. Say, until the word of God arrived, until a *dabar* from God arrived. A madman of God arrived. In this church, there are madmen of God who know that a bad season ends with a word, who know that 15 years of process end with a word, who know that a word is more powerful than an empty bank account. Is there anyone here who is crazy when things are bad? Oh, when things are bad, those who know about that need come in. But when there is a crisis, the experts in the matter come in. There are many here who are experts in medicine. There are others who are experts in business. There are others who are experts in things that have to do with mathematical equations, experts in science, but here there are people who perhaps are not experts in any of that, but are experts in believing God. They are experts in leaving their burdens in his hands. They have developed spiritual muscle and know that in a second God can overturn someone here, please, worship. Someone here, please, understand what I am telling you. A madman of God arrived who didn't know about economics, didn't know about geopolitics, didn't know how big Israel's army was, didn't count the Syrian army. But God told him to prophesy that by tomorrow, at this same hour, here there will be food, here things will be cheap. Oh, a religious person could have said, 'What is that madman talking about?' In fact, the king's personal assistant knew some theology, knew something about God, because the term he uses is not from an ignorant person. Anyone who talks to you about the windows of heaven, anyone who tells you what can happen if God opens the window, knows something about God. But what good is it to know something about God if you are not going to believe him at the moment he wants you to believe him? What good is it to know the Bible if you are not believing what this Bible says? My Bible says that I am more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. My Bible says, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' My Bible says, 'I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread.' Oh, holy Father, my Bible says that momentary tribulation produces in me an exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Listen, one who reasons everything always stands up. One of those YouTube critics stands up, who criticizes the manifestation he doesn't know. It's easy to criticize the miracle the pastor ministers through a video, but how do you steal from the one whom God has put on his knees, whom God has healed? You can criticize it, but what God does will not stop. Now, when a *dabar* from God is released, be careful how you opine. If you don't understand it, be quiet. And why did they put on that mantle just now? If you don't understand it, be quiet. Because when there is a *dabar*, it is because there is an instruction. And if there is a divine instruction, it is because what is going to happen comes with a materialization of what is prophesied. Does anyone here understand what I am talking about? The prophet told him, 'Look, your eyes will see it, you will see it, but I doubt you will be able to eat, because it is no longer against man, it is against what God spoke.' And I have news for you, nothing can stop God's purposes. If it doesn't stop him, man doesn't stop it either. Say with me, *Davar*, there is a word over your house, over your family, over your children, that will materialize. Pastor Sondi had a word over her son. She called things that are not as though they were. Many times I came here and saw that boy only in pictures. Who is my squire today? The man they called. The *dabar* materializes what is not seen. I want to prophesy that tomorrow, by this time, your phone will ring with timely news. Does anyone here believe that? I thought you had believed the word. Do you know what happened? Ask me what. That there is always someone inside who doesn't believe, God will send someone from outside who believes more. Whenever there is someone warming a seat and not believing what God has spoken, there will always be another person who believes more. The church I pastor has wonderful people. Once a prophet came and said, 'Everyone who sows in this ministry will prosper.' A lot of people believed him according to their level of faith, according to their measure of faith. But one person who had been to church three times said, 'But it seems they are not believing it. Pastor, how much do you pay for rent? If God partnered with you, I want to be a partner with God. I will pay for the rent until you have a church.' They called me this morning and told me the following, pastor. They told me, 'The lady wants to speak with you. The lady is blessed. The lady is prospered. In Santo Domingo, there is a mall called Blue Mall, and in Blue Mall, they display exotic cars, there are restaurants, and by consuming food there, if you calculate, you are participating for one of those cars. Hundreds and hundreds of people eat today. They called the lady, and they told her, 'The Mercedes is yours.' And the lady said, 'But what is happening? What is happening? Do not wage war against what God has spoken. Walk on the word that God has spoken. Anchor yourself in that word. Seal yourself in that word. Tie yourself to that word. Because if God said it, it comes with restitution. Your victory is not in what this little black man is saying. Your victory is in obeying what God has spoken. The high official, by his rank, said, 'Even if God opens the windows of heaven, that cannot happen.' The prophet, the prophet doesn't know about economics. The prophet, the prophet doesn't know that oil, that oil cannot go down. The prophet doesn't know that the bank is about to take my house. The prophet doesn't know that the husband has already packed his bags. The prophet doesn't know that the doctor has already given me the result that there is terminal cancer. No, it's not that the prophet doesn't know that; it's that the prophet knows that if what came to pursue you to kill you is great, the one who covers you and guards you and who released the word is greater. Someone prophesy and say, 'It will materialize.' If you are crazy like me, grab two people and say, 'It will materialize.' Prophesy to two and say, 'It is done, it is done. It is done, it is done. It is done.' You know what? Don't let your investiture allow you to move more in logic than in God's madness. I grew up among old women. My brother Abel also grew up among old people. They knew nothing about physics, they didn't know what the state of matter was. They didn't know that first things go from solid to liquid and from liquid to gas. They didn't know any of that, but they ran out of gas at home. They didn't know any of that and said, 'I haven't finished cooking in the name of Jesus. I'm going to turn on the stove right now.' And when they turned on the stove, they cooked for three times with a prayer. Albert Einstein wouldn't understand that because it's not science, it's *davar*, it's the word of faith that materializes. It can make you very refined, it can make you theoretical, but my father-in-law was once invited to preach somewhere, his car broke down, it was making a terrible noise. What does he know about mechanics? He said a prayer. The car started, he traveled 9 hours, and when he took it to a workshop, he heard something fall. When they opened the hood, the mechanic said, 'What tow truck did you bring it with?' No, no, I drove it here. You couldn't have driven it here. No car can travel 9 hours with a broken and internally damaged engine. He said, 'I didn't travel with the engine; I traveled by the word.' May someone here understand what I am talking about. This is the year of unusual things. This is the year of God's madness. This is the year where we will buy without money. Thank you for your enthusiasm. But do you know who I am looking for? Ask me who. The lepers. Those who are not perfect. But they believe God. The lepers who say, 'If we stay out here, we will die. If we go in there, they will kill us. If we are going to die anyway, I'm not going to die feeling sorry for myself. I'm going to die believing. I'm going to die marching. I'm going to die prophesying. I'm going to die walking towards the purpose.' What good is it to be an apostle? What good is it to be a prophet? What good is it to be a person with investiture if you cannot march like those lepers? I know a woman who was told, 'Terminal cancer. How many months do I have?' 'Three months.' But I look fine. It's not that the cancer is in the pancreas. In three months, that cancer spares no one. I have fasted for people with pancreatic cancer, and God decides to take them. It's not that they didn't have faith; it's God's will. Now, this woman said, 'If I'm going to die, why should I die feeling sorry for myself?' She said, 'I'm going to go into 7 days of lethal fasting, and if God wants to take me, let him take me sanctified.' Her daughters could only knock on the door to see if she wanted water. She only said, 'I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.' After the 7 days, she came out with rejuvenated skin, she came out a bit plumper. 'Mom, what happened to you?' 'I don't know, but I want to get tested again.' When she got tested, a brand new pancreas, no metastasis, her organs were clean. The word says that while there was a commander who doubted, there were lepers who marched. Grab two people and say, 'If you want to doubt, doubt. But I am not here in a vigil to waste time. I am here materializing a promise from God.' Can someone here prophesy something? Look, it says that when they took one step, it was as if 10,000 took a step. The greatest miracles happen while you are on the way. You can prophesy very, very, very well here, but until you take the first step, the *dabar* does not begin to materialize. Do you know what happened to us? We went into a place for 350 people. They said it had sound included, and when we turned it on, it had nothing to do with this glory; it looked like a plantain bus, and I said, 'We cannot minister with that sound.' Look, I tell Nadia, my wife, 'My love, let's rent for now because we don't have the capital to buy sound.' That is, to complement the sound, we need $5,000. I ask my engineer, 'How much will it cost to at least do something that sounds better?' I have a friend who, for $5,000 per service, $5,000, he doesn't bring the equipment because it's for you. I calculate that for 8, $5,000 for 8, how much is that? It's a bit of money plus what we are paying for rent. By the third service, we will be broke. I say, wait, no. That business is not it. The business that suits me is believing God. The business that suits me is walking with the word he gave me. I told her, 'Nadia, take the little black card that God gave us. Go to the sound seller. Go with the engineer and start asking for sound with your mouth. And when you are in front of him, swipe that card without hesitation. If God sent it, he will provide. Where will the provision come from? Oh, my provision comes from higher than those who are above. And my wife, a pastor's daughter, is missing three screws. She's crazier than me. I saw her quoting the most expensive. No, that's for the poor. Give me that and give me this. It was by video call. I was in Colombia. When Nadia stands up to pay, I get a message on WhatsApp. There are Puerto Ricans here. Raise your hand, Puerto Ricans. God bless Puerto Ricans. A Boricua called me who attended the last service at the place we were at. He was marked and told me, 'Man, you know that no one is excited to give, but when God moves you, you have to do what God says. Man, send me your account number, and I will put $5,000 in it.' I tell her, 'Nadia, don't swipe the card; something is going to happen here.' Nadia is in front, and the lady is looking at me. I tell her, 'Listen to the prophetic instruction. Don't swipe the card; God told me he would move people.' When the first $5,000 comes in, grab two people and say, 'With that sign, anyone can believe.' God is already speaking to you. Immediately, I get in communion, and a second WhatsApp message comes in. There is a very good friend of mine, he congregates in a Baptist church, but he likes the fire of the Pentecostals. He doesn't congregate in my church. They are those strange people who are not always there, but they appear when they need to. They are those people who come sometimes, but because of them, all those who always come can come. He tells me, 'Son, he tells me, my son, I've been thinking about you for a few days.' And I tell him, 'That's God who has you thinking about you. Your church is well organized. We have RNC, we issue tax invoices.' That's what I wanted to know. There are blessings that don't reach you until you organize the ground. He tells me, 'What happens is that what I was going to pay in taxes, I'd rather sow it to the church.' And what he sowed for the church was what was missing to buy the sound that no one was expecting there. It came in right away. In the account, there was nothing, but in heaven, there is no crisis. A word from God is more powerful than the skills you may have, than what is in your account, than the connections you may have. There is the sound. Look, it doesn't even reach your ankles yet. I come here to be inspired. Give a round of applause to the pastor and the pastor and this team for the excellence with which they do everything here. Pastor Abel and I received a tour and said, 'We will reach that level.' And God has shown us that he is with us. So, grab two people and if God is with you, what is the fear? March. Even if you have leprosy, march. Even if you feel weak, march. If you are going to die, die marching and believing, because supernatural miracles will happen starting Monday in your life. You heard the prophetic word. Starting Monday, don't silence your phone; turn on the ringer, because the same phone that rang for bad news will ring for powerful things. There are people here who will close powerful deals. There are people here who will sit down. Oh, my God, Father, I see people signing with a blue pen, things that were not meant for you. Please, someone understand. I didn't come here today to give you a nice message. I came with the *dabar* of God to tell you, it will materialize. Look, when those lepers went to fight a battle, there are many of you who are mentally prepared to fight a battle with immigration. There are many of you who are mentally prepared to fight a battle with the bank. I remember when I went to get my visa the first time, I was mentally prepared for what the consul would say. And when I stood up, I went to get the visa because God had already fought the battle. When the lepers arrived, there was no one there; everyone had run away. Where you see a battle, God arrived a long time ago to fight the battle for you, because the word of God does not go behind; the word goes ahead, clearing the way. The word breaks chains, the word... Someone here, worship. [music] Someone say with me, *Davar*, look. When those lepers arrived, there is a message there because there are exegetes and scholars who believe it was Gehazi and his son who had become leprous because of a word from Elisha. We'll get into that later because you seem to like depth. There is evidence that Gehazi was healed of leprosy because we find him talking with a king later on. At the moment Gehazi decides not to bury the treasure again, but says, 'Let's take it to eat.' At that moment, he rectifies. There are mistakes you made yesterday that God is putting before you the same temptation so that you can rectify, and God will remove the reproach that had trampled you and give you victory over what shamed you yesterday, but you cannot keep stumbling over the same stone that knocked you down. There are two types of people. There are those who stumbled, and there are those who fell in love with the stone. Those people said, 'We cannot bury the mantles, we cannot bury the treasures. We have to rectify.' Shake hands with someone and tell them, 'Repent of what you need to repent of. Ask for forgiveness. Shake off that life and sanctify yourself. When you sanctify yourself, what was stagnant begins to flow. When you sanctify yourself, what would have arrived in years arrives in days. When you sanctify yourself, the demons that wouldn't let you sleep have to run away. My brother, your war is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers that only respect the blood of Christ. When those lepers arrived to give the news, the first one who wanted to celebrate was the one who said things wouldn't happen. I don't know why there's this custom that the one who didn't believe in you says, 'I knew he would achieve it.' It's an old thing. My brother says that the guy saw it, but people walked over him and killed him. The spiritual world is delicate. There is a message that I cannot preach here tonight or tomorrow because no one will applaud it, called Untouchable Keys of God. The grace of God is wonderful. The mercy of God is wonderful. But Ananias and Sapphira wanted to take advantage of that and touched an untouchable key. And Peter told him, 'Look, your body will be carried out by those four young men. It is not that God cannot be mocked. God is very merciful, but he is also a consuming fire. There are people who fall, and God has mercy on them, but there are codes that humans break that are stronger than a moral fall. When you step on the mantle that God used to lift you up, God will take it into account. Because if God is using the one who is using to lift you up, and you are tearing down the one who is going to lift you up, what are we going to do with you? Grab two people and don't step on the mantle that lifts you. Don't mistreat the mantle that God used to sanctify you. Even if you don't understand it sometimes, pray. Pray for him, but don't get up in the evangelical culture, there is a custom, as we say, glory to God, we disrespect. And in the spiritual world, respect is an important piece for you to be able to move. That is why there are people who will get cards that God did not send and win a battle. My Bible says that when Satan was fighting with the angel Michael over the body of Moses, he did not utter a word of disrespect. There are evangelicals who disrespect him more, and he only said, 'The Lord rebuke you,' and thus he won the battle. I don't know, I want you to know something. When Elisha spoke, when the madman of God speaks, say amen. When Pastor Sondy and I were coming on the plane, there was an old woman. I respect the crazy old woman in God, because on more than two occasions, angels have manifested to me in the form of an elderly woman. On the Pasamayo road in Peru, in the middle of nowhere, an elderly lady stopped the bus and got on. People said, 'Where did she come from?' The only empty seat was the one next to me. She sat next to me. She was singing a song. She said, 'Where is death your sting? Where, grave, is your victory? You could not stop the Christ of glory.' And she repeated and repeated. 'Where is death your sting? Where, grave, is your victory? You could not stop the Christ of glory.' And the lady fell asleep. I was coming from a powerful miracle service. The bus had a television, and they showed a hot scene like those in movies. I kept watching because that won't do anything to me or affect me. And that lady woke up and gave me a slap that stung. I said, 'This abuse of confidence.' I testify to it, and my forehead still stings. She hit me between the mouth and said, 'You are coming from a great victory; do not contaminate yourself.' And she began to sing. 'Where is death your sting? Where, grave, is your victory? You could not stop the Christ of glory.' She said, 'Leave me.' And she asked to be let out in the middle of nowhere. We looked out, and the lady disappeared from everyone's sight. She arrived only to give me that slap.