CULTE SPÉCIAL GRADUATION - Ibrahim OLENDE

[singing] Let us adore Yeshua. Let us adore Yeshua. Let us adore. [music] Beloved, this afternoon, it is not a man that we have come to see. It is not a person [music] who is fallible, who is mortal. Beloved, this afternoon, let us become aware that we are before the King of kings. Let us become aware again that we are before the Lord of lords. Beloved, let us become aware that we are before the throne of grace. [music] The throne from which heaven and earth were created. Beloved, if heaven and earth came out of nothingness, beloved, the solution that you are seeking, where you feel that [music] you no longer have a solution, where you feel that there is no longer a voice, where you feel that there is no way out, beloved, I tell you welcome into what is [music] called the kingdom of possibilities. Here, everything is possible in His presence, [music] everything is possible. Beloved, pour out your heart in adoration now. Pour out your heart and speak to your God for a few minutes. Speak to your God. Present to Him your impossibilities. [music] Did you come this morning, this afternoon, with an impossibility? [music] Something that you feel is already a bit too much for you. Something in your family, something in [music] your life. Personally, you feel that there is no more solution. Perhaps you have even stopped praying. Oh beloved, welcome to the kingdom of possibilities. Welcome, beloved. Here, the term impossibility has no place. Ah, beloved, we worship the God who, in the midst of the Red Sea, the [music] children of Israel arrived, there was no way out. Ah, they did not know that God was capable [music] of creating a special way out for them. So, this afternoon, speak to your God, speak to your Father, speak to your Father. Do not worry [music] about how it will happen. Do not seek by what means, do not seek by what ability. You have a few seconds, present to Him your most complicated files, your most difficult files, what keeps you from sleeping. You [music] told Him that you do not doubt. So this afternoon, Father Lord, we [music] exercise our faith. We exercise our faith, Lord, we exercise our faith, O Father, [music] and we present to You, Lord, all the situations, O Father, that seem impossible to us. Lord, now we present to You situations of sickness. [music] We present to You situations of blockage, of difficulty, O Father, now Lord, Your hand of grace [music] is established, O Father, Your hand of grace is decanting. Your hand of grace is [music] decanting. Your hand of grace is decanting. Beloved, if you have someone sick in your family, start [music] praying for that person. Start praying for that person. Beloved, oh this evening, this evening, we are invited [music] to the king's palace. He asks us what our hearts want. So, O Father, Lord, we have faith in You. We have faith that You are [music] able to do everything. We have faith, my Father. We do not believe in abilities. We believe in You, [music] Lord. That is why we worship You. That is why, O Father, Lord, these are not [music] songs. We do not come to sing, Lord, to satisfy our hearts. But Lord, these words truly come from the deepest part of us, Lord. These words, Lord, we think them and we truly realize them. [music] Father, when we say that we do not doubt, Lord, yes, sometimes fear, fear can overwhelm us, but Lord we know that we have a God. We know that we have a God. Job said, "My Redeemer [music] will stand even at the last. My Redeemer will stand even at the last." Beloved, even when the storm is blowing fiercely, Jesus is in your boat. Jesus is in your boat. Jesus [music] is in your boat. Jesus is in your boat. Can someone who is reassured raise an acclamation for the Almighty [music] God? Ah no! Beloved, acclaim as if the miracle had already come. Acclaim as if the miracle had already come. Acclaim as if the miracle had already come. Before Him, there is no impossibility. Before Him, there is no delay. If you feel that somewhere you are late, I present to you the God who said that He would restore the years that... Ah no, there is someone who does not understand. You were told that at your age, you should [music] have done this or that. Look at your friends, look at the members of your family. Now, you come with the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Ah, [shout] He is able to accelerate your life. Beloved, [music] in the space of one day, your life can accelerate. Ah! Can we acclaim the Almighty God? [music] Ah! Father, this afternoon, we are grateful to You. This afternoon, [music] we give You infinite thanks because we know that You will do it. Beloved, tell your neighbor, He will do it. Start preaching to your neighbor, perhaps your neighbor next to you, your neighbor. Tell him with conviction, He will do it. You too, neighbor, accept and you also respond. He will do it. Wow! We are not before a God of impossibility. The impossible does not exist with Him. In any case, if we have listened [music] to the testimonies here, we understand that the impossible does not exist with God. So, we give Him thanks. We can still acclaim the Lord. And before we sit down, we are going to take up this good [music] habit that we have of acclaiming for the people that the Lord has raised up so that you and I would be here today. We acclaim for our fathers, Apostle Yve, Apostle Ivan Castanou, for their respective wives. We acclaim the Lord for our papa in North America, Pastor [music] Celesta and his wife. We acclaim the Lord for their lives because they paid a price. And we acclaim the Lord for our papa [music] here in Gatineau, Pastor Tony and Pastor Malka. We acclaim God for their lives. They must know that we thank the Lord every day for the fact that they paid the price. And now, you and I, [music] we are going to acclaim the Lord for the shepherds that God has given us at the JP Gatineau Ottawa. For the shepherds, [music] the young people who have accepted to sacrifice their youth, they said no, no, we do not give ourselves to passions. We come, we pay the price. The price is the greatest. Ah beloved, bless the Lord for their lives. We bless the Lord for the life [music] of Shepherd Emmanuel, for the life of Shepherdess Deborah. We bless the Lord [music] because truly he pays a price and truly we can be grateful to God for having given them to us. Amen. Now, you are going to acclaim the Lord also for your neighbor. Perhaps we have not yet [music] acclaimed for him. You, you are going to acclaim the Lord for him. It is a day of joy today. It is a day of joy. If your neighbor is a bit stiff, tell him neighbor, neighbor. Amen. We give thanks to [music] God and we can take our place in His presence. I was told to dress according to the day's fashion. So it's not that I've become a lawyer, although perhaps it's a prophetic message as well. But we know that we are already lawyers. We pray, we intercede. Interceding is already being a lawyer. Amen. [music] So today, we celebrate during this special service, we celebrate all the people who have gone through this success of graduation. Can we acclaim the Lord again for our graduates? We can still acclaim the Lord for their lives. And today, you saw on the... Thank you very much, singers. You saw on the theme of the service, it doesn't say "special service for graduates", it says "special graduation service". So that means grace is here. Is there a future graduate? A future graduate. A future [music] graduate. Do the future graduates have faith? That God will do it? We know that [music] every year at the JP, we will celebrate hundreds and hundreds of graduates here each year. Failure will never be our portion. In any case, if you fail, know even that it's not possible. Know even that it's not possible. If you fail, it's that you have succeeded. It's just that perhaps the average didn't reach what you expected, but you succeeded. According to men, they will see, they will say "wow" because here God has not established us here for failure. God has established us here for success. So as we celebrate this graduation service, I always remember the day I graduated. There are some who will say "Ah, it seems like that was years ago, man." [laughter] But it's not that long ago. Just know that it's not that long ago. That day, I felt as if a weight had lifted. The weight of stress, studying at night, the weight of all those things. When I came out of there, when we were celebrating, we celebrated, we jumped, we jumped. I said to myself, "Well, when we were in front of people and all, I was putting on a bit of charisma first. I said, 'Well, all the same.' After a moment, I said, 'First wait, I'm going to relieve myself.' I went into the bathroom, I checked there was no one, I locked it. I first screamed. I first screamed. I said, 'No, finally this day has come.' Because we talk about it like this because today we see the results but often we didn't see the sleepless nights. We didn't see the liters of coffee. We didn't see the all the time because you have to study at night. But this ceremony alone marks the fact that you went through training. You were given knowledge and you were tested. And according to the program for which you were evaluated, it was [music] deemed that you had the required skills to obtain this diploma, and we give thanks to God for all these graduations because it is an important step in life. But today, I would like to talk to us about another graduation that awaits us. Oh, this graduation, this graduation, it is even more formidable than all the other graduations that exist. This graduation is the reason why we live. It is the reason why you and I are on the land of the living. We say thank you to the Lord for diplomas, for work, for the dimension of glory to which He leads us. But all these things, all these blessings, have only one purpose. It is that on that day, the day of this graduation, we may also present ourselves with gowns like that. I don't know if it will be black or white gowns. It's white, right. But on that day, we will present before Him and tell Him that, and we will be proud. And when we present ourselves before Him, we will be able to say to Him, "Daddy, I went to earth. Yes, I made mistakes. Am I perfect?" No, I am not perfect. Did I always do everything right? Was my life a straight line? No. And then, He Himself will tell us, He will tell us that I never expected you to be perfect. And if your mistakes of yesterday, those that make you feel guilty today, and if all this was a journey, a journey through which He wanted to teach you things, a journey through which He wanted to forge you. And if today the things in which you remain, you say to yourself, "Lord, I am not like others. I have done such and such a thing in my life. I have made such and such a mistake. I struggle with such and such a thing." And if all these things were, in the end, [music] not things that disqualify you, but if all these things were like the sword with which Goliath came. When I read the story of David and Goliath, I have always been amazed by that part. Goliath came, he knew he was going to face a little one, he knew he was going to face someone weaker than him, but he came with a sword. I said to myself, "But Lord, You know that You are going to face a little guy from the neighborhood? Just a slap, it will pass." He said, "No, I must crush this little one today. He came with his weaponry." And the good news in all this is that the same sword with which Goliath came, that is the one that cut off his head. We too, sometimes we feel that life presents itself before us with a sword. You leave, you leave one trial, you go to another, you say to yourself, "Ah, I don't know if you played Mario or the adventure games of the time when you succeed in a level, you say to yourself 'No, but then you meet what was called the boss.' After him, there is another boss. You feel that 'Lord, I finished such a level, I move on, look at this trial again that presents itself before me.' But on that day, when we present ourselves before Him, we will say to Him, 'Lord, all these trials through which I passed, look, they forged me, look, they made me who I am today.' And I greatly like the Apostle Paul when he takes this example, he tells us, I think it's in 1 Corinthians. It's in 1 Corinthians where he speaks to us. He tells us that when he will present himself, he will say, he will say to his God, 'Look, I have finished the race.' Because yes, there are many who give up. There are many who give up. The Christian life, beyond everything, is not a marathon. I don't know if when you yourselves were new converts, you had this. Me, the day when I was converted, when I felt that when you see when you pray the first time, you pray in the room, you feel a bit of freshness, we didn't know if it was the wind or if it was... You say, 'Well, now I am seeking someone, I must lay hands on someone.' That means you come out of there even when you listen to a sermon, you say, 'Ah, but it seems like, look, it seems like I can be a better preacher until the day you get the microphone for the first time, Lord.' But when we are in the wings of the new convert, sometimes we think that we have already arrived, but in fact the Christian life is not judged. It's not that which judges the success of the Christian life. The Christian life is judged by one single thing. That on which you and I will be evaluated on that day. It will not be in relation to the beautiful hairstyles we will have had. It will not be in relation to the houses we have accumulated. It will not even be in relation to the diploma we have obtained. Whether you have a PhD, whether you go, it will not be in relation to that that will evaluate you. The element on which God evaluates your curriculum, your journey, is your faithfulness. Will you have been found faithful? Will it be that on that day, when He comes, will you say, you will say to Him, 'Lord, look at me at the beginning, I had preached, but then especially for the brothers, they say... after there was the... ah, the calamity, when it came you say, 'God, You Yourself, when You look at the calamity, God Yourself, You Yourself do not see...' Oh, we ask here what is the... well, I don't want to, but the most important thing is not that when you arrive on that day, you say to God that look, I have accumulated such a thing, I have finished with such an amount in the bank, but I... I don't know if I want to say the pleasure or the misfortune of announcing to you that all that will remain. Personally, an experience that struck me in my professional career was the day I had worked with a lady who was at that time, and I had worked with her in my profession. In any case, I had made a plan with her as part of my work, and 3 weeks later, I was told that she had passed away. And when I was told that she had passed away, I first went back into the person's account. I looked, I saw it was millions, and not just one or two. And I said to myself, 'This is what I am running after, this is why I say, Lord, let me have even just 0.1% of that first.' That's why when they already increase your salary by 100 dollars, you already change your walk, you feel, it seems like they have dust, why are you running every day, you get up in the morning, you say to yourself, 'But is it that easy to leave this? Is it that easy that... in fact, it hangs by such a thin thread...' The objective behind what sometimes makes us cry, 'Lord, I also want to have that car, Lord, I also want to...' In a fraction of a second, we can lose it, but what God will evaluate us on is, 'Did you hold on? Well, did you hold on?' The exhortation today, I would like it to be like a little reminder for us today, that each of us, each of us personally, you ask yourself the question, 'Where am I in my level of faithfulness? Is the same zeal that I had at the beginning? Is the same love that I had at the beginning? Are the times of prayer that I used to spend, I spent, and then now, I am not talking about time in terms of quantity because life can evolve, but I am talking about the quality of the prayer life.' At that time, when you prayed, you felt like you were right before your Father. But unfortunately, often when we grow in the Christian life, we feel like we get used to God. I now know God a bit too much. Even when we read the Bible, you open a Bible verse, you start reading the first words, you say to yourself, 'Ah, I already know the ending. It's like I've already read it, it's old hat.' Where are we, each of us, in our level of faithfulness? And the Bible reveals it to us in Matthew 25 verse 21, it speaks to us about the parable of the talents. It is that parable where a master gives talents. When we speak of talent, it is not really like someone talented. They are monetary talents. But often, we draw a parallel with natural talents. And on that day, the one who will have made the talents fruitful, the master will say to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' He did not say, 'Ah, well done, good and competent servant. Well done, good and rich servant. Well done, good and handsome servant. Well done, good and very strong, the strongest in the world, the most spiritual of servants.' No, the criterion on which we are evaluated is our faithfulness. Are you capable of remaining faithful? Are you capable of remaining faithful? Does faithfulness form part of your daily prayer subjects? Is it something for which you cry out to God? There are many [music] in the Bible who started, but very few finished well. We are told the story of Saul. Saul was a formidable king. It is said of him that he was very handsome. He was very tall. He had all the attributes of the world, but over time Saul did not hold up. And if today the fact that you come to church because you don't yet have 100,000 dollars in your account. If someone gives you 100,000 now, there, [laughter] if it comes, they send you an Interac immediately. There are some who will first stand up. They say, 'Well, pastor, call me a little, the pastor first.' Do you now want to teach the pastor? 'Pastor, you know the blessing of God. You feel that you are more blessed. You actually know more than him just because you have accumulated some numbers on your phone.' Money today, we don't even see it. It's not even paper anymore, it's numbers on a phone. And that's what is the object of our pride. Look at what I possess. Look at what I have. In the Bible, we speak of the story of a king. I didn't give it to the registry, but if you can find the verse where it speaks of King Uzziah. King Uzziah was a formidable king. He was the son of... I think his father was called Amaziah. And then Uzziah had been elected king very young, I think at the age of 16. And Uzziah respected God. Uzziah also had started like us, perhaps at the JP of his time too. He was there, he also jumped when they called for praise. He was there, and then he was made king. At the beginning it was good. He was perhaps a king. He said to himself, 'Yeah, but I am king. I fear God and all.' But as the years passed, his throne, his throne became more and more important. At one point in the Bible, it speaks, if we can find the verse where it speaks of [music] the heart of King Uzziah that let pride enter. Beloved, there are blessings that are not even blessings. There are things that you call blessings, but the devil can give them to you. You know that the devil gives money. The devil is capable of giving money. He knows when he looks, he says, 'Hey, young one here, he is there, he is boiling for the Lord, he does all these things, but I know how to get him. I will give him money. I will give him a prosperous business. From the moment this business starts to prosper, [music] he will no longer have time. Sundays will now be his sports days. No, [groan] I need to keep my figure, I need to do my waist.' He knows that if I give him such a thing, I will lose him very, very, very easily. Faithfulness, does faithfulness form part? There, that's it. Verse 16. But when he became powerful, when he was not yet powerful, everything was fine. When he was not yet powerful, he was fervent. When he was not yet powerful, he was devoted to God. But when he became powerful, his heart was lifted up. And why did his heart become lifted up? To lose him. Your own heart can lose you. And his story was what? It was that when he became powerful, he said to himself, 'Do I need to wait for a priest to be able to offer a sacrifice to God? I am so powerful. I think that I should have all the rights. I should have all the rights.' Faithfulness. Is faithfulness a quest for you? Personally, I remember once [music] it goes back a long time. I was praying for a project. I [music] really cared about that project, and all the calculations were good. When I did, 'There, I will do such a thing, there I will do such a thing,' and everything was good. You know the time when you pray just so that when success comes, you can say, 'Ah, I had prayed.' So that you can comfort yourself a bit. It's like sometimes the brothers, they will pray, 'Lord, is it her or not?' You yourself in your heart, you have already decided that it is her. You don't even leave God the choice to say no. Perhaps [music] no, you yourself in your heart have already resolved. And when I was praying for that project, I was expecting something extraordinary. [music] And I remember one morning, I had gotten up, I was praying before going to the service, and I heard a phrase, I don't know why it was in English, and it was me personally, it is one of the rare times I truly heard something audible. I said to myself, 'But what is happening around?' And the phrase was like a question that was asking me, 'Will I [music] be your king?' Will I still be your king? Yes, thank you, today you worship Me. Today you have no problem dancing. Today you jump. But when they put a million in your pockets, you feel that you become heavy. Even when you try to get up, the money is telling you, 'No, you, after all, you are a millionaire.' Will He still be your king? Will you be found faithful? That is what you will be evaluated on on the day of this graduation. Will He be able to look at you and say, 'Look at My daughter, look, look at My son, he has seen everything that a [music] man could have, but his heart never stumbled. His heart never crossed to the other side.' Will you be found faithful? Is faithfulness a subject on which you concentrate in prayer? Is it a priority for you, or are you currently too concentrated on God? 'Answer me, answer me, answer me first.' Perhaps God is telling you, 'Yes, I know that I will answer you. You have a right to these things, but I do not want that to lose you. I do not want that to lose you.' One of the people who has always marked me in the Bible is Abraham. Abraham waited for so long. Isaac for Abraham was not just a son. Isaac for Abraham was perhaps years of prayer. Isaac for Abraham, perhaps it was cycles of 21-day fasts. He fasted, he fasted, you know, he waited for so long that it almost caused, it even already caused trouble in his family. Isaac for Abraham was not just a child, it was the fulfillment of a prophecy of God. But when God asked him, he said to himself that yes, it is very good to have Isaac. But I prefer to have God. I prefer to have God. Does faithfulness form part of your objectives? Have you already projected yourself? Saying, 'Yes, I project that I will be a star in such a field. I [music] project that I will give conferences.' You know when you stand in front of your mirror and you try to mimic a bit, how you do your conference and all, do you ask yourself the question, 'Am I also seeking, am I also asking God for the ability to be faithful?' Because it is on that, it is the thing on which we will be [music] evaluated. That is the differentiating factor of those who will succeed in the Christian life or not. You cannot do a curriculum for graduates, you know better. You cannot do a medical curriculum [music] and on the day when they ask you questions, you answer in Spanish. They ask you a question, they say, 'How, I don't know which vein or which artery does such a thing.' You answer, 'At all times, men have always been passionate about history. They have always been passionate about geography.' You are off topic. I pray that you will not be off topic in the name of Jesus. I pray that you will not be off topic in the name of Jesus. Faithfulness. Will you be found faithful? And when we speak of faithfulness, faithfulness is vast. There are a few particular areas in which God expects us to remain faithful. Before all else, God expects us to remain faithful in our relationship with Him. In our relationship with Him. When we speak of the relationship of spouse, as we see in the Bible, see it as if in the natural world. Are you truly a faithful spouse? Are you truly a faithful spouse? Faithfulness in our relationship with God goes through—I have spoken about it here—the quality of our prayer times. Are we still passionate about prayer, or has prayer become a burden? It is still heavy. I know that the stars pray at night. So when you are called to lead (prayer), is it heavy or is it still a pleasure somewhere? For myself, I am married, but for those who are in engagement relationships, often at the beginning, I don't know when you start to know the person, even when you are not yet in a relationship, that feeling, I don't know why, every time we talk we always make strange gestures. Sometimes you take the phone, understanding that you are talking, you take the broom, you turn the broom, and you unplug things. There are people laughing here, there are people who have experienced that. You spend your nights there, you are not sleepy, but when the pastor puts the prayer vigil here... And that passion that you have at the beginning when you start to know the person, you feel that her voice, it seems like when she speaks to you, you no longer see the time passing. Sometimes you look like that and you have talked for 5 hours. But the trap is that precisely when you start to get used to the person sometimes, it is that you have not committed adultery in the strict sense of the term, but you have started to commit infidelity. Because infidelity is not always cheating. Faithfulness is also not respecting what you had resolved. [music] One day in your heart, you had resolved, you had said, 'Lord, I will serve You.' And me, when prayer starts, when especially the pianists start to play, we start to talk, sometimes we talk ourselves, we no longer think about the things we say. There was someone one day who had said, 'God Lord, I want to go to heaven. If You are going to kill me, kill me only. Kill me only.' Until at one point they realize that, pardon us, in prayer sometimes we talk but we don't realize. One day you might have said to God, 'Lord, I will serve You regardless of circumstances.' But on the day they tell you that the study permit has been refused and then they call you [music] and say, 'Come sing.' That's when you will see, you will see Deborah's number, 'Who is that calling me again?' [laughter] You see your leader's number, you say to yourself, 'But who is that again? She doesn't understand that I have so many problems, even...' But it was perhaps a promise you made to God. Beloved, God does not take words lightly like we men do. He does not take words lightly when we are before Him. He is serious. God is serious. He is a serious person. It's not a joke. You tell Him that you will serve Him, but will you serve Him in difficulty, in scarcity, and also in abundance? The Bible tells us, 'What will separate me from the love of God?' That must be a decision for many of us here. All of us, the great majority at the JP, we are in a season of preparation. And one of the elements on which the Lord will prepare you the most is to prepare your heart for the day of success. It is to prepare your heart. Sometimes you go through circumstances, you say to yourself, 'But why, Lord, why do I always go through this?' There is a verse that is very, very interesting in the Old [music] Testament. It says that God tests us to create in us a pure heart. To create in us a pure heart, to prepare your heart. Will you be found faithful in your relationship with Him? And when we speak of faithfulness in the relationship with God, the relationship with God through prayer, through meditation on the word, through your ability—when I speak of serving, I speak of serving God in your church. [music] I speak of also serving God through the lives of others. Are you capable of giving all your time for someone from whom you will not draw any personal benefit? Are you capable of giving your time? Are you capable of giving of your finances? Especially here, I come back to this subject, it is complicated. Are you capable of giving your finances for someone? You don't even imagine that maybe one day she will pay you back. No, you don't even imagine. But you give just because you say, 'Lord, I just want to do Your will.' And in the Christian life also, the faithfulness on which God mainly tests us is our ability to grow with Him. We are in a magnificent series here. Grow. One of the phrases that the pastor said that struck me, he said that everything that does not...

Does not grow, does not die. If your relationship with God does not grow, it dies. If your passion for God does not grow, it dies. Will you be found faithful in your [music] growth? Will you decide? Because we have seen it, growing is not, it is not a mistake. Growing is not a fatality. Growing is a choice. The Apostle Paul tells us, he said that when he became a mature man, he himself made it disappear from him. That means it is an intentional act that you perform. Will you continuously keep performing these acts to grow? And I will finish there. Our faithfulness will also be tested in our ability to recognize what God has given us, and to work on it. Today, we celebrate the graduates. My dear graduates, I want to tell you that this is only a first step among many other steps that await you, many other steps that await you afterwards. What will set you apart will be your ability to continue learning. How do you consider your diploma today? Do you tell yourself it's just a diploma that my parents paid for, or have you already taken your diploma? For those who are already graduated, have you already taken your diploma [music] and brought it before the throne of grace? You say to Him, "Lord, I believe that this is something You gave me. Why did You give it to me? Why did You give it to me, Lord? Why did You want me to pursue this or that course? What am I supposed to represent of You there?" The Bible declares in Colossians [music] 1:16 that all things were created by Him and for Him. Your diploma was also created for Him. Have you ever asked yourself, "Lord, why am I studying this? Why am I doing this? Is it just to earn money?" Oh, if it's just to earn money, you will get discouraged very quickly. You will get discouraged very, very, very quickly because you will realize that sometimes, even with the most diplomas you have, you are not the one who earns the most. And Pastor Tony said it here during the careers service, but your work is not just a job. Your diploma is not just a [music] diploma. Your studies are not just studies. It is a mission. We must consider ourselves on a mission everywhere. Wherever you go, you are on a mission. Personally, that's something that kept me going during my studies. I pursued a very, let's say, long course of study. People often asked me why I was doing all this. But when we started, when we were taught a course, others just saw the possibility of passing the course, just the possibility of getting a diploma. But when I studied, I studied in the finance sector. When I studied, I told myself, "Lord, with this knowledge, perhaps I will help someone one day. Perhaps someone's life will change because I stayed up tonight to revise. Perhaps one day this knowledge, perhaps it won't be useful to me, but perhaps one day it will be useful. Perhaps I will influence someone's life through the knowledge You give me." How do you see your diploma? Will you be found faithful in the sense of recognizing what God has given you? In the sense of recognizing what God has given you. And when I speak of recognizing what God has given you, I am not even talking about [music] diplomas first, I am talking about your natural talents. How do you work on the natural talents you have today? How do you work on them? In the parable of the talents, God speaks and says, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Not because he buried it, but because he took it and made it fruitful. How do you make it fruitful? Some of you here, God gave you a project a long time ago, like Pastor Tony, since 1940, and you have already prayed, hands have been laid on you. "Oh Lord, they are making the pastors suffer. One day, we really must go before all the pastors. We will say, 'Pastors, forgive us, shepherds, forgive us.' They lay hands, we fall, they pick us up." That means the grace you are seeking, you have already received it. Do not seek a new grace until you have used the one you have already received. The grace you received at the last retreat, what have you done with it? All the decisions you made, what have you done with them? Have you ever stopped and said, "Lord, I take my weaknesses, I take what I lack, and I bring them to the throne of grace, before the throne of grace. Lord, You and I, let's make a plan for how I will fill them?" God has not called us to mediocrity. No, it's not possible. God has not called us to mediocrity. God has not called us to mediocrity. You cannot remain at the same level of competence in your field as you were last year and this year. Because for you, it's not just a job. For you, it's something God has entrusted to you. Others can consider it as they wish. But you are aware that God has placed you there as an ambassador. You cannot afford to remain at the same level in your life in general. I might perhaps single someone out. There are some here. God had already spoken to you about learning English. Ah, is there someone? We already have confessions here. God already told you, in fact, how do you expect to understand the fact that you come to Canadian territory, a territory that is 80, I don't know how many, 90% English-speaking? And when you pray, you say, "Lord, wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, God will give it to you in possession." All this, you pray, God has given it to you. But you don't even speak the language of the territory that God has given you in possession. And you do nothing to work on it either. You do nothing to improve yourself. It's because you consider that your life belongs to you. Not working on your gifts and talents is one of the greatest proofs of selfishness. You don't work because you are selfish, because what you have is enough for you, because you say, "Yes, but I'll live my little life, I'll find my little job, I'll..." But what if God wanted you to pay for the studies of hundreds and hundreds [music] of people? Imagine yourself on that day, standing before God, and God shows you and says, "Look on earth, [music] you see these hundreds of orphans who have no education, it's because you didn't want to work. I had given you the gifts, I had given you the ability. It was you who were supposed to be the light. But you wanted to sleep. But what killed you, you had the graces, but what killed you was TikTok. You had everything already, but you, God had given you the grace to heal the sick, perhaps, and all that, but He just wanted you to enter into a great level of intimacy. But all the sick people you were supposed to heal, the illnesses remained, because of what? Checking TikTok. You didn't like fasting, you didn't like fasting. So perhaps through, in any case, I won't go there, but the ability to work [music] on our gifts and talents. Do you have a plan for your own life that you have made with the Holy Spirit, saying this year, this is the gift I will develop according to what God has given me. This is how I will work on it. What are you doing with your time? Today is June 28th. You've noticed that time is passing really, really fast lately. Do you know that we've already passed the halfway point of the year? Resolutions? Thank you. Where are we with resolutions? [laughter] 2026 is my year, it's my season. 2026, I have the grace. It's my year of wealth. 2026. But brothers, the way you yourself treat even your own projects that God gives you, the mediocrity you put into what God has given you, you say I received this project from God, but the way you treat it, God Himself looks and says, "But sometimes the angels are asking God." He says, "You haven't even seen someone else to give it to, only this one." God says, "No, wait, angels." But God looks at how he eats the seed will not have time to pray. How you treat what you say you received from God. Apostle Rival told us, he gave instructions to UG JP, he said, "There is no mediocrity here. No, there is no mediocrity. There will be neither in the EJP nor in EJP Gâtino a young person who will find himself at 40 years old and then find himself mediocre because he says, 'No, I had given my.' No, that will not exist and it will not be your portion in the name of Jesus. There will be no regret in your commitment to the Church of God. There will be no regret in your commitment to your relationship with God. The Apostle Paul says it. He says that I am what I am, not by myself, but he says he speaks of the grace of God. He says that the grace of God in me has not been in vain. This sentence alone reveals a troubling reality. You know that you can have the grace of God in you and it is in vain. It produces nothing. That means one can even take anointing oil, make you drink it. Make you drink it, put a little in your ears, put a little, even give you an anointing oil infusion. But one can even give you the oil in question. You will then cook with it. You cook fish with the oil, meaning when you finish eating the fish, you speak in tongues. You speak in tongues. They give you the anointing oil. But all these graces can be in your life and be in vain. Why? Because you don't work hard enough. Graduates, if you think you have arrived, that is your biggest mistake and that is what will harm you. Will you continue to learn in your field? Will you continue? Will you have that passion to say, "Lord, I am not in this field like just anyone, I am in this field as an ambassador of Christ. I must be excellent." Young prodigy, that's not a slogan. Young prodigy is not a slogan. Young prodigy is a reality. A reality that has already been birthed in the spiritual world. A reality perhaps for which people have prayed for months, months, months, years. They have already done their work. But you, what work will you do? What is your [music] development plan? What is the development plan for your relationship with God? What is the development plan for your gifts, your talents, your skills? These projects you have received, with what ardor do you work on them? Do you work on them as if it is something God has truly given you? Will you be found faithful? You can come, as I said today, it doesn't mean you will go to hell, you will go to heaven. But you will be shown, you will be told, look, look at these people who have no homes. I had anointed you in such a field because it was you who were supposed to build houses. I had anointed you. I had given you entrepreneurial abilities, graces. You will say, "But God, you anointed me for that." He says, "Look at the retreat [music] you went to. My servants laid hands on you. Now we have a new retreat on which God will do great things again. His servants will pray and we will wait for Him. But what will we do after this one? Will it be another retreat, or will you say even before going to the retreat that Lord, I am not going there to pass my time. You will start to work on this thirst. Already, I announce that whoever comes to the retreat without having prayed beforehand, you have come for tourism. If you haven't spent even 1 hour with God saying, Lord, this time let it be different, truly give your place to someone else. Don't even waste the fuel. If you don't even have 5 minutes before arriving, if you don't even say a few words to God saying, "Lord, please, it's not for nothing that You have moved Your [music] servants. Please, the grace that is in their lives, I want it to leave a mark in mine." Beloved, you will have wasted time. Will you be found faithful? Will you be found faithful? This is truly an exhortation and an opportunity for each of us to look within ourselves and say, do I pray for my faithfulness? Do I ask God, "Lord, give me the grace to be faithful?" So, we will finish there. We will stand up. Keep me, Lord, faithful to You. Keep me, oh Lord, faithful to You. Keep me, oh Lord, faithful to You. This is a prayer. Keep me, oh Lord, faithful, do not let me be corrupted [music][singing] me, Lord, faithful to You. Do not let me be lost. Keep me, [singing] oh Lord, [music] He is here. Never let me replace You, me [singing] oh Lord, He is here. Never let [music] this passion die. Keep me, [singing] oh [music] Lord, faithful to You. I implore You, [singing] Lord, [music] keep, beloved. This is a prayer you must make to God. You must decide. You must say, Lord, I do not have [music] the abilities. Father, I implore You, King of Kings. In times of difficulty as in times of abundance. [music] Father, I do not want to let go. I want to be faithful until the end. I want [music] that until the last second of my life, please Father, they say of me that I held on. Keep [singing][music] Lord, let them not say I grew for a moment, then for another moment. I stopped growing, [music] I was tired. I implore You, Father, keep me faithful to You. Oh, keep me, Lord, keep me, [music] [singing] oh Lord, faithful to You. Keep me, keep me, [singing] oh [music] Lord, faithful to You. Keep me, keep me, [music] [singing] oh Lord, faithful to You. Lord, keep us, keep us. Keep each one of us, keep those who have graduated. We bless You for their lives. [clears throat] We bless You [music] for their lives, for the journey they have taken, for the sacrifices, for all that You have done. We thank You. But after one stage, another door opens, and we ask that You help, that You empower. And even if there is someone who has not necessarily graduated recently, but to whom this message has spoken, you may have graduated a long, long, long time ago, or you will soon graduate. The message is a message of prevention because the truth is that many men, the Bible teaches us, it has [music] spoken of King Uzziah, how at times of blessing, at times of grace, of favors from God, they lead to distance, destruction, but that will not be your portion in the name of Jesus. So, if you are in this place, we will give you the opportunity, you who are connected. If you have not yet accepted Jesus in your heart, say this prayer with us. And if you don't know what accepting Jesus means, it means that first, you haven't accepted Him. And in addition to that, I want to add something. If I ask you, if you were to leave the earth, if you were to die today, would you be close to the Father? If you cannot give me an assurance with assurance, a yes, it means that you too are concerned by this call. So say this prayer with us. Lord Jesus, this afternoon, this afternoon, I want to give You my life. I want to give You my life. Faithfulness. Faithfulness begins first. It begins first by saying yes to You. by saying yes to You. So, I want to accept You. So, I want to accept You. into my heart. into my heart as my Lord. as my Lord and my Savior. and my Savior. So, Lord. So, Lord, I want to give You my life. I want to give You my life. I want to walk. I want to walk as You have planned. as You have planned. In order to fulfill Your plans. In order to fulfill Your plans. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. So, while our heads are bowed, if you are in this place, just give a sign [music] with your hand. Just give a sign. If you are in this place, we are applauding [music] God. But if it's your first time, give a sign with your hand. We want to take the time to bless God for your life. Don't be ashamed. Our heads are bowed. So, there is a hand. Wow! Wow! Can we [music] applaud the Lord? Oh! Young people's church, take the time to bless [music] God. Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Sister, we are going to [music] ask you to take your belongings while we continue to applaud the Lord. Take your belongings. There is a counselor in front. She is right there. She has a big smile. We [music] applaud because there is joy in heaven [applause] and we applaud because there is joy in heaven. [music] It is the best decision you have made. So, you can follow her. Oh! Can you take the time to applaud God? Oh, such a word, such a word. I pray that we will re-listen to these words. You see, it's a word that goes beyond whether you are graduated or not. It's a word of life, faithfulness. in what God entrusts to us. I pray that God finds you faithful. I pray that God finds us faithful. Amen. No, you have to give a good amen. Amen. Because you see, the problem with our regeneration is that we want things without faithfulness. Say amen. Say amen. You want things from God, but you are not faithful. I am not faithful. That's where the problem lies. Because every time you and I want to obtain things that require faithfulness, in fact, we are trying to pass ourselves off as thieves because there is a price behind it. What you want, there is a price behind it, it's called faithfulness. And you know that everything you obtain without having paid the price, and that it was not a gift, is theft. There are jobs reserved for you. The price is faithfulness. There are graces that you must seize, that we must seize. The price is called faithfulness. Today, we agree to be faithful in many areas when there is money involved. Ah, I'm going to get something. When there's money, suddenly, abruptly, we become faithful. In fact, we are not faithful, we are people. We are just agitated by money. Your true faithfulness is when there is no money. When there are no rewards, when you are boiling God, no, at some point you do things, has God changed His level of love towards you? Never. That's how He manifests His faithfulness in time and in circumstances. I pray that we leave this service with the mindset of people who decide to become faithful in the name of Jesus. [music] Amen. So, we want to take the time to welcome the people who are visiting us for the first time. I know the sister who passed by earlier, it was her first time. You are here. Just give a sign with your hand. Ah, there is no hand. No, there is at least one hand. First time at the Young Prodigies Church. Wow! One hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand. Besides the sister who left, is there anyone else? So, welcome to the Young People's Church. At the Young People's Church, we have a special way of welcoming first-time visitors. So, Young People's Church, can we welcome our brothers and sisters? We are in the [music] joy of welcoming you to LJ. We are in the joy of welcoming you to LJ. We are We are in [music] the joy of welcoming you to LJ. We are we are in the joy of welcoming you to Jesus. A youth fired up to glorify Jesus. [music] Amen. So, welcome to the Young People's Church. A church of young people, by young people, and for young people. We welcome you. If you don't have a home church, we decide [music] to welcome you. If you already have a home church, we bless God for shepherds. But if you don't, we decide to welcome you. The brother, the sister next to you [music] has decided to welcome you. There is still room. There is still room. There is still room. There is still room at the Young People's Church, there is still room. [music] There is still room. There is still room at the Young People's Church. There is still room. So, we ask you to take your belongings as well. There is still room. Join [music] the counselors who are behind. There is room while we celebrate God. There is still room at the Young People's Church. There is still room. Wow! There is still room. There is still room. There is still room at the Young People's Church. There is still room. There is still room. There is still room at the Young People's Church. Amen. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. God has been good to us. OK. OK, alright. OK. Alright. No problem. I'll follow them, you see, I'm following. So, we're going to share some information. So, starting this week, say with me Operation. [music] No, say it well. Say it well. Operation. Operation. If your neighbor hasn't said it yet, there you go. Operation 1 2 3 Operation Zero Zero Retrograde Retrograde This summer, the Lord has placed a burden on LJ, which is that we will not lose anyone. You know the summers where you left and then you came back and said, "Pray for spiritual softening," God will not allow that, it will not happen. It's been a while, we started in May, we started pushing. I know many are not here, they are on vacation. But even when you are on vacation, when you are on vacation, God is not on vacation, Satan is not either. I repeat, you who are back there, who are following me, you who will re-listen to the message, and those who will not re-listen, you know people who [music] will not re-listen, you cut the part, you send it. So this summer, it's Operation Zero Retrograde. Where you are in the summer, you are on vacation, etc., etc., don't think that Satan has forgotten you. He hasn't forgotten. That's why I implore you, don't get lost, don't get scattered. And that's why starting next Friday, we've finished the 21 days. Thank you. Yesterday is dead, today is alive. We're starting again. So this Friday, I'll cut at home, they don't want to know. Well, this Friday, we have 12 hours of prayer, it will be very special. [music] 12 hours of nonstop prayer. You've never prayed for 2 hours. Come, someone. I saw your face, don't worry, we've never done this. We're not dead. If you don't know how to do this, that's [music] why I'm going to share the strategy with you on how we're going to do it. That's why I didn't want to have this online. But well. Well, Father, we want to thank You. Thank You for those who are connected in the name of Jesus. Amen. We can cut the live.