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Hello everyone, God bless you. Welcome to our channel. Are you sure the messages here spoke to your heart? Subscribe and activate the notifications. God will speak to your heart. According to the book of Kings, chapter 20, from some verses with you, 19-22. According to the book of Kings, chapter 2, verses 19 to 22, you see, people, I'm putting some things here because I want to make an application to bless your life this evening. The men of the city said, Elisha, this city is well-situated, as my lord sees. However, the waters are bad, and because of this, the land became barren. Elisha said, Bring now a new dish, say "new dish," and put salt in it. And they brought it. Then he went out to the spring of the waters, put salt in the dish with the water, and cast it, saying, Thus says the Lord, Let these waters be healed, and let there be no more death or sterility. They were healed, those waters became healthy until this day, according to the word that was released by Elisha. Keep your Bible open so we can understand this word. The other day, I was walking with a friend, and he said, "Man, I would love to be a pastor." And a tremendous mistake you are making. This is the only function, this is the only place that has nothing to do with whether we like it or not. It's crazy, but it implies that no one becomes a pastor by themselves. God chooses his pastors, male and female. When I take someone, I tell them, "You will be this." I put them in an environment they don't belong to, causing tremendous disruption to their lives and bringing a burden they cannot carry. The entire pastoral calling comes from a call from God. The person and the church recognize the calling that God gave. My son told me, and he says, "Dad, when I grow up, I want to be a pastor." I said, "How beautiful, son. But you will only be that if God calls you. It doesn't matter if your grandfather is a pastor, I am a pastor, your uncles are pastors, your relatives are in ministerial exercise. You will only be what you said you would like to be if the Eternal calls your name." As from the womb, God gave me a word about his life. I already know he will be, because God showed me in the word. Luke 1, one morning, God woke me up and said, "Your prayer has been heard. Get up, wake your wife, because what she is carrying is a servant whom I will use, and he will be called John." I woke my wife and said, "Our prayer has been heard. You are pregnant, and it's a boy. He will be called John because he will preach the gospel." Now, this is an experience God gave me. Now he needs the experience God gives him. He was developing his ministry, had had a tremendous experience at Carmel, and this experience at Carmel with God was so tremendous that when the experience ended, God always said, "Elijah, Elijah, pass now in such and such a place, and today so-and-so will reign over Israel, today so-and-so will reign in such and such a place." And then God said, "And today Elisha will be your pastor, prophet in your place." It was God who called Elisha. Then he passes where Elisha is, and he says to Elisha, "Elisha, leave everything you are doing, because God has just called you to the ministry." It wasn't Elijah who chose Elisha; it was God who chose Elisha. He only trained him; he only enabled him. Now, pay attention. The journey between a spiritual father and his son is a precious thing. All the training that God used Elijah to administer to Elisha's life equipped him for the work. And there came a moment in Elijah's life when God spoke to him that the time of his ministry was ending, and that there would be a moment in his history when God would take him. He is worried about the spiritual sons he has fathered and the legacy of the ministry he received. So he makes a final missionary trip with the conviction that on this day God will take him. So he passes through two cities where there were prophetic schools and seminaries where there were pastors of the church. He confirmed the ministry of the pastors, he solidifies the work, and continues on his way. And Elisha goes with him. At a certain point, he asks Elisha, "What do you want to receive, because God is going to take me? You already know that the ministry is coming to an end." Then Elisha makes a challenging request: "I want to receive a double portion of the spirit that rests upon you. I want this spirit of primogeniture, of fatherhood, that God has given you." And he answers simply, "See, this function is not mine; it is God's. It is God who has to release it in your life. But if you are attentive to what God is doing in my life, perhaps the father will release this grace upon you." The Bible says that they cross the Jordan, and I hope you have patience to explain this. And when they cross the Jordan, they are walking, a whirlwind of fire passes between them and separates them, and Elijah is taken by God. Elisha witnesses that scene. He falls to his knees, watching God take Elijah. And as Elijah is ascending, he makes a declaration: "My father, my father!" The Bible will say that a piece of Elisha's garment comes loose, and when the mantle falls, and those scenes dissolve, and Elijah is taken away, Elisha comes, picks up the mantle, puts it on himself, and returns on his way. And the Bible will say that he reaches the Jordan, tears the mantle, and says, "Where is the God of Elijah?" The Bible says that the Jordan is parted in the same way that when he came, it was parted, it was divided. The waters of this instant are divided. I believe that when Elisha makes this declaration, "Where is the God of Elijah?" he is affirming that up to here it was with Elijah, but from here on it is with him, Elisha. In my life and in your life too, there is a circle, there is a time, there is a moment when we see other people achieving, accomplishing, building, marrying, prospering, and we are just watching. But a time comes in our lives when God says, "Now it's up to you. Now it's your turn. Now is the time that I have given you maturity so you can manifest yourself in my presence." And it's interesting that many, when they reach this hour or this time, are not prepared, or are bedridden, are unhappy, or are scattered, or are insecure. So many tremendous things in our lives are lost in the process. But God brought me here tonight because nothing will be lost in the process. He who began a good work in us will complete it. Tell the person next to you: God has not finished what He has for your life. There is no expiration date. Be inspired. God has great things to do with you and to accomplish in your home. Whoever believes, let them raise a shout of victory. Now, pay attention. It is the beginning of Elisha's ministry. Look at this. The other pastors will have to recognize the function that is in him. And the first manifestation in Elisha's ministry, this one we are reading, people say to him, "The city where we live is well-situated. The place where we are is a tremendous place. It has everything to be prosperous, everything to grow, everything to work out. The place where we are." If it had just a little investment, if it had just a little bit from an intelligent, capable manager, "Oh my, my neighborhood, my home, my family. If a door opened for my son, if something was invested in my small business, my workshop, my God, I would be the best here." Perhaps I've said this to you before. "Wow, you have all the ways, you have the knack." Now, see, when someone identifies this, they can also identify that there is an absence or a problem, there is a difficulty there. Look at this interesting thing. The people said, "This city is well-located and has everything to grow, to prosper, and to be something significant here. However, there is a problem." The text will say, "The water of that city, the water that flows in that place, has become bad water, sick water, poisoned water." And this process generated a barren land, generated a place where nothing grows, nothing gives life. You plant, but nothing yields a harvest. You invest, but nothing happens. You battle, but you don't arrive. You fight, but it seems someone is always ahead of you. When I started reading this text, the Holy Spirit gave me a word. I want to be a prophet for you here tonight. My word is short, it's simple, but I want to tell you that it will be decisive in this final stretch that will bring this year of 2019 into 2020. Look, you will receive it, even with your hand raised, in 2020. It's a new year, but the next decade, the next ten years of your life will be the years of greatest manifestation of God's grace in the entire history of this house, this ministry, and your life, so that Jesus may be glorified. Only those who receive this word, let them shout a victory. God does not want us to give up on what He has given us, the place where He has planted us, because the place where God has planted us is a place where He wants us to flourish, a place where God wants us to be manifested. So, often, the result of what we are doing is the result of tremendous investment, but it doesn't yield results. Why? Because the land where you are stepping is barren. The place is barren because the water is bad, because something is sucking the energy, some sickness, some problem is stealing the results of what God desires to accomplish. So, see, you need to understand that God planted you there not to be there, but to heal that place. God placed you there not to spend a period there, but to produce life where you step. So, Elisha saw the diagnosis. There was much to produce, much for the city, much to manifest, much to accomplish, but the result was catastrophic, terrible. What did he do? He looked at those people and said, "Bring me a new dish." Enemy, a new dish. Repeat it again: "New dish." There are things that you and I did and they yielded tremendous results, but it was in another structure, in another context, and at another time. There was a time when I went to church, and on Sundays, those strange lights. That time, the church, and everyone was wearing a tie. There was a time when the church had those dances that today it has. There was a time when you wore those shoes that were miserable. They say he's a demon sucking mangoes. You put your foot in there to be alive. Today you have a shoe that supports and corrects your stride. It helps all your muscles and bones not to wear out, so you don't have a suffering foot. Do you remember that to buy a Coca-Cola, it was only on Sundays, and you divided it into four glasses? You remember that you couldn't wait for Sunday to end to Monday to go to the newsstand to see the latest news. The newspaper is bankrupt, beloved. You are at home, you open your cell phone, you know the news before the newspaper guy. So, see, an outdated mentality prevents your growth, prevents God from accomplishing in your life what He desires. So, they will be saying, "Bring me a new dish." God has new things to deliver. I know new things to do. God has new things to accomplish. My dear, you cannot say, "I, I, I have." I sometimes worry when someone says, "Yes, I, I, I miss old things." Only as a memory. I'm not talking about old age; I'm talking about old things that have passed. People, to take a picture, you had to take a picture. Now, you take it on the spot. The guy says, "Come back in 14 days to see if it turned out." You take the photo. You don't like it, you throw it away. You take a photo too fat, you take another one, taller and thinner, and there's even a trick in there that corrects it, a Photoshop. So, there's an ugly guy, but he looks better than a thief. A mix of mother and the guy appears in the photo, he looks like a soap opera heartthrob. That miserable guy fell from the fifth floor, face-first onto a fire hydrant, but in the photo, he looks good and is a champion. Look, Elisha, looking at that crisis, said, "I'm going to put, I need a new dish, because new ideas can..." I'm not saying that some things are foundations, columns, there's no way. You can't remove an old landmark. It's a foundation that supports this. But if the wall is blue, if the wall is black, if the ceiling is white or gray, if the battery is inside or outside the aquarium, if a book was written in one way or another, that can be changed as needed. See, grace is greater than rules. Rules exist for us to know the way, but when the rules prevent grace from manifesting, leave the rules aside and use grace to reach every life, every family, every person. My God, it was forbidden for me to wear sneakers to church. The church drums were forbidden. A guitar, the devil's guitar. The devil created nothing, my brother. The devil is a usurper of history. But the Bible says that in these last days, we will take from his hands everything he has stolen and bring it back. Excellence. It's a new dish. It's new things that God will do. I went to Goiânia recently. In the middle of the service, a dog entered. A character. The guy was a dog. The lion. And that thing. And all the children around heard the past call. "What is this? This is the character who leads the children's service." And he sang praise, and all the children were there. When it ended, he said, "With me, kids." The kids went with him. More than 200 children in the children's parliament. I was shocked. I said, "What? In the Family of Faith, I will create a character." I'm telling you, the character is already here. The guy who did that praise, José from Globo, is drawing for us. It was the pastor. The first evangelical in Globo. Now it will be the gospel of the Family of Faith. Miserable. He will create a character for us. I called the pastor couple and said, "I want a character for when I'm singing with the children during the service, and then leave with the children." The problem is a new idea, a new dish. There are things your father did that were a blessing to his life, but if you do them now or repeat them, you will break. You need to ask God to renew your mind, to renew your head, and for you to be a manager in such a way that the things you received as inheritance in your hands will not die, they will prosper, they will multiply, they will grow, and the Lord's name will be glorified. My God, will someone understand this word? Now, it's not because new things are coming that we will throw away the old ways and say, "They are no longer useful." I make a point of keeping in my office the first camera we had when we took photos. It's stored. I have the first cassette recorder there, stored. I have the first old radio, from 1912, it's there. I have the first filming machine, it's a huge thing, but it's there. My son asked if there was a typewriter. He said, "It's the great-grandmother of Apple." She was already working with me, and I was already into this. And look, everything modern is in your hand. It happened now with my son. Someone was planting, someone was investing, someone was dreaming, someone was laying foundations, someone was building for you to fly. Do not despise the things that were generated, but learn that you are doing something new, and the light will come out. And the time God has placed before you is such a tremendous time that His name will be glorified in you. He asked for a new dish. Then he asked for a second thing. In the text, it says, "Bring me some salt." And he took salt and threw it in the dish. No one understood. He took salt because salt has a power of preservation. Salt has a tremendous power to purify. You don't know why you are new, but ask the old ones. Meat was preserved with salt. When you cut your leg, if you have a wound somewhere that has no medicine, take salt and put it on it. It stops immediately. There are many things in your life that are bleeding that lack salt. There are many things in your life that are out of place because the time is wrong. And the same way that God gives me new ideas, I need to understand what preserves, what needs to be preserved. Jesus said, "You are the salt of the earth." But he also says, "You will be the salt of the earth, the flavor of this city, the flavor of this marriage, the flavor of this family depends on your life and your spirituality." If you lose your seasoning, if you lose your grace, if you lose the understanding of what God is doing in your life, your home becomes tasteless, your marriage becomes flavorless, your children will be a contaminated generation. But when you are firm in the word, the flavor of God in your life, the seasoning of God in your home, it will preserve your children in this environment that is the world. Your children will go to university, they will graduate from these schools, but they will not lose their faith because the salt will preserve them. The salt will take care of them. Do you understand this? Then he did a tremendous thing. See what he did. By taking the new dish and the salt, he asked, "Where is the spring? Where do the waters flow? Where do they sprout?" And they said, "There." "Take me there." And he ran there. What team? Help me, please. Hold the microphone. I'm almost done. He said, "Throw it into the spring." Take me to the place that is sick. And he took water from the spring, after the new dish, and he made a brine. When he got there, everyone was looking at him, like you are looking at me. What is he going to do? He took the spring and poured it. When he poured it, he released a word: "Be healed, and let there be no more death." That's what God is doing with you tonight. He is taking the word, and the word of God is the water of the Spirit. The word of God is this water that flows over our lives, and it will enter the spring of your life, it will enter the hidden places of your marriage, of your professional life, of your ministry, of your virtual relationships that you may have been hurt in a church, wounded in the ministry, and you are here hiding, and you don't want to be remembered, you don't want to be noticed, you don't want to be activated, you don't want to be used, you don't want to participate in anything. But the water is arriving there, and it will fall into the spring, and a word is being released: "There will be no more death there. There will be no more setbacks there. There will be no more bankruptcy there. There will be no more misery there." It's not my limited, closed, small mind. No, God will expand your mentality. God will open your vision. And God will... Will someone understand this word? You were not born to be a tail. You were born to be a head. God placed it in your hands. It has nothing to do with your skin color. It has nothing to do with where you were born. You may have been born in the worst place in Suzano, but in that place where you were born, the Bible says, "Blessed is the man who, passing through the valley of Baca, the dry valley of Israel, makes it a spring of life." Where God has planted you, there will be life again. There will be grace again. There will be peace again. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] My God, will someone understand? See, see, when he threw the brine into the sick water, he released a word. I came here tonight to release a word, a word of life over you. It was like a code for me when the pastor spoke about the Thursday meetings, and when he went up to the altar, I saw it as a VIP bracelet, a password that gives access to a key that opens places. When I entered here tonight, the Holy Spirit was very clear to my heart: I am placing a key in the hands of these people, and this key opens doors, and these doors give access. Pay attention. In God's word, there are tremendous revelations that are keys. Look, the scripture says in Isaiah 55: "Come, you who have no money, and buy without money." When do you buy something without money? When you understand that what God is doing in your life goes beyond human mentality, beyond matter, beyond established conditions, and what He is doing is the manifestation of His power, creating life in the place where you are. In the valley of dry bones, the prophet released a word, and life began to be manifested. It was a key that opened a word of authority that tonight is opening the doors that were closed before you and is giving you access. Access to the throne of grace, access to the Lord's presence, access to this victory, access to this radical, powerful change that God will release in your life. Look what happened when he threw that brine into the water and released a word. Not only was the water healed, but everything around it became fruitful, produced life. When you enter that company this week, when you step there, you will no longer need to be under condemnation, or under fear, or under insecurity, or under rejection. You will be there under a word, a divine decree in your life. No enchantment against you will work. No contrary prayer will work against you. You are under the mighty hand of the Almighty God. Whoever receives this word, let them glorify the Lord. I know, I understand. For me, we have already trusted in our hearts. People who received tremendous graces from God. We have already heard people say such divine things from God, but not live them. So today, when someone speaks, we become incredulous, disbelieving, fearful. This has been a time when Satan has stolen the key of faith from us. But tonight, your faith will be activated, and your faith will overcome your impossibility. And when your faith is activated by the things God has said about you, they will come to life in form, because the only way God can accomplish anything is when we believe that He is capable of doing it. Tell someone next to you: Your God still does. Tell him: God cannot deny Himself. And He is not mistaken. Tell that person: He does not change. Men change, institutions change, governments change, but our God does not change. Acting, He is acting. Acting, He is acting. I don't know where you are planted, but the place where you are planted may be completely sick and barren, and you can't see anything. Let it be done. Everything has been done. There was a couples' meeting, there was an entrepreneurs' meeting, there was a meeting, but everything around you is barren because the water that flows there is bitter. But tonight, the barren waters are being healed, and the rivers of God will flow in this place. And as the rivers of God flow, everything around you will be healed, will be restored. Ezekiel 37 says that a man went out to measure the waters that came out of the sanctuary. When he reached a place where he could no longer measure, only swim, the Bible says that the text speaks in this way: "Where the waters were deep, everything around them, everything on the banks of that river prospered, became fruitful, grew, had life, because the river produces life where it passes." Where the waters of that city passed, there was death, but after being healed, the waters passed, and life sprang forth. Where you pass, life will spring forth. Life will spring forth. Someone will speak of you: "You lived through a very sour period, a very bitter period, a very difficult period." You will say, "Yes, I lived, but a word, a word was released over my life, and I took the Lord's word for my life, and I was healed, I was healed. My home was healed, my ministry was healed, and it was healed. I started to produce fruit. I produced joy. I produced joy. I produced life." And there will be life in your home, there will be life in this church, in this street, in that street over there, there will be life in the other churches here in the city, because our God has not closed Himself off with anyone. Our God has a king in His kingdom, and it is arriving. This city is a good city, but it was sick. It will be healed. It will be healed by your life, it will be healed by your story, it will be healed by your ministry, it will be healed by your steps, it will be healed by your words, it will be healed by your marriage, it will be healed by your business. My God, will someone do something here tonight in this house? I testify. The last seven years of my life were the most difficult years of my life. The pastor has been in one place for 30 years, and after 30 years, God took me to a new place. By making this move in my life, people who related to me did this: they cut me off. There were people who never looked at me again. There were people who avoided me on the street. When I passed by, my son was watching a game at Ponte Preta's stadium. He likes football. As a father, he is a guy who looked at him, for him, and he couldn't have children. The day he ran for him, God opened the womb of his wife. They had twins. He saw me, looked, and changed fields and left. [Music] In these seven years, I have been fighting to keep my soul intact, to keep my house shielded. I know what it is to be called a dog, I know what it is to be called a thief, I know what it is to be called a rebel, I know what it is to be called a wretch and to have your name associated with bad things. Now, see, when something happens to you, you have two reasons. The first, perhaps the most natural, is to feel abandoned, to feel hurt, to feel wronged. You have no way to prevent problems and difficulties from reaching your life. And when the problem arrives, you don't know where it will leave you. It will grab you and leave you somewhere. The problem is that when a crisis, a difficulty, a struggle arrives, we want it to leave us in a better place, and it's not always the place where it leaves you that is the best place. And we have a dangerous idea of measuring ourselves by what people think, say, see, understand. I have not made any move in my life based on my will. I have made a move in my life based on a word I received from the Lord. "Your time here is up. Give me Isaac and make yourself available." Now, see, the pastor in a church with over 18,000 members, one of the largest churches in this nation. Then God takes me to pastor a place that had 60 people. It rained more inside than outside. That church had a monthly budget of 1 million reais. Camps in always 60 countries in the world. I go to a place with 60 people, and the first offering is R$64, which doesn't even pay the church's electricity. Do you think God was breaking me? Do you think I was seeing something wrong with me? Did He want to punish me? No, He was simply writing history. Now, what happens to me in the movements that life brings, I have no way to alter them. I can, I can try, I can move, I can, but you leave where circumstances leave me. Now, internally, I can decide. I can decide. No one decides for me. It's not what they do to me that determines what I will do. Jesus, when He sat at the table, and He washed the feet of the 12, He also washed the feet of Judas, and He did not change who he was, knowing that Judas was the problem. It's things that happen to you. You change who you are. Do not alter who you are. Remain faithful. Remain sweet. Remain gracious. Remain active. Remain faithful. Remain. Remain with the heart of a servant. Now, how can it be that when God plants you in this place, it wasn't just the ugliest church in the city, it wasn't just the most run-down church in the city? When I stepped there, everyone said, "This guy won't last 30 days." It's been seven years. Everything around him is changing. The neighbor, the barracks in front, the school that is there, the well in front, the properties, the businesses. Because, see, it's not what they do, it's you. What you do. Something that is done to you. I decided where I pass, where I pass, life will spring forth. Where I pass, miracles will happen. Where I pass, people will improve their lives, will prosper. Where I pass, they can speak ill, they can criticize, they can throw stones. Every stone that arrives, I will make a step to climb from glory to glory. Say, "Faith is grace, and grace is victory." My God, will someone understand this word? I could have left the city, and the water would have remained bad, and everything around would have died. But I received a, I received a calling. I have the calling. You have a calling. It wasn't Bishop Julio who shouted your name. It was the Eternal who shouted your name, daughter. Among so many brothers, among so many people, God chose you. No one would have chosen you, but God chose you. No one would have given you, but He gave you. And He gave you because He trusts in you. You are this water, and today He releases a word: "It will be healed. It will heal your brothers, it will heal your brothers-in-law, it will heal the people around you, in that work, in that company. Everything will converge in your life, and no one will understand what you will say." "I received a word of grace, and by grace, I will release it." [Music] [Music] Life began to spring forth where there was death. The block in front of our church is one of the most powerful military police stations in Brazil. The highest suicide rate. We are here, they are there. What separates us is an avenue. But from here, we are always saying that death will not reign there. Death will not reign there. In these seven years, the rate of soldiers who committed suicide in that barracks is zero. It has nothing to do with you being a soldier. It has to do with understanding who you are. You are an agent of miracles. You understand what God has done for you, and you understand what God has made you to be. You are not a pitiful creature. If you were a model, if you were a great player, people who have things, they have things, and when their things end, they end. Who they are. Now, what you have does not end, because what you received is not from here. It is eternal. It is divine. It is a divine particle poured over you. It is the very power of the Holy Spirit that dwells in your life. You have not discovered your potential, and whoever says you will not get there does not know the God you serve, nor the plan He has for your life. God brought me here tonight to pour this water inside you. You will get up and start living what God projected. He projected your home, He projected your story to be. When the waters were healed, the Bible says, "The waters became healthy, and everything around was healed, was restored." Today is the last day of sickness and bleeding. And if you arrived here bleeding like that woman for 12 years, your bleeding stops today. Your bleeding is over today. Your soul that bleeds non-stop ends today. You don't know what they did to me. Dr. Joyce Meyer, but she is the third most listened-to preacher in the world. She was abused by her father, her uncle, and her husband. And even being abused, she became the woman she is. Your pain will not be greater than God's work in your life. Your pain will not be greater than God's promise in your life. And you will no longer cultivate this pain. You will use this pain as a vehicle of healing for you and for thousands. You will heal thousands. You will raise thousands. God will use you. My God, is someone understanding? God did not bring you here for another service. God brought you for an extraordinary banquet. The best of your life is ahead, not behind. The best of your life is here, it's in the future. And God has just placed in your hand this key. The next decade, the best decade of your life. The next decade is the greatest story, the greatest journey you will take. And when you get up tonight, you will not be the same, so that the name of Jesus may be glorified. If someone has to be remembered for victory, let them applaud Jesus. [Music] [Music] Give a shout of victory. Give a shout of people who believe.