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Good morning. Are you awake? Yes or no? Yes, we are alive. How much time do we have? Uh, we have 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Does that mean activation or like prayer? Total. Ok, that means 15 minutes for me. All right. God has put in my heart to pray. and and to be able to share with you about the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. I would like us to read Matthew chapter 6. We are going to read Matthew chapter 6 starting from verse 9, which is what we know as the Our Father. Uh, I am reading to you in the NVI, it says the word of God, you should pray like this. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, forgive us our offenses, as we have also forgiven our offenders. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their offenses, neither will your Father forgive you yours. Do you know when we pray? And this is another tool, it's not something that goes against what you've heard, but if you haven't seen a way for your prayers to be successful, ah, I want to share this other tool that you can use. I know many people know this portion of the Bible. How many know this prayer of the Our Father? But how many perhaps understand it? Ah, I had to see the word when it says, hallowed be thy name. Yes, I was seeing when the prayer says, "Hallowed be thy name." What does this mean? This comes from Jesus. And when I look it up, this phrase, "hallowed be thy name," is a phrase that makes us position ourselves. Like in John 17, and he says that just as we are one with him, he is one with the Father. He has given us all his glory and he allows us to be with the Father in the same way that he is with the Father. Now, at that moment of the Our Father prayer, he was on earth, but at the same time he was seated on the throne with the Father, he came as a man to defeat the works of the enemy without knowing sin. And Jesus, uh, fulfilled everything on the cross for us. So, when we read in scripture, we can imagine ourselves, position ourselves in that place with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is taking a different position on the situation you find yourself in. It's like stepping out of that situation and looking at it in the third person so that you can see what is happening, what God wants to do at that moment. So it's like surrendering our knowledge to God, in which you are purifying your heart. You are recognizing that at that moment you are not in sin because you are in Christ. Because when we stand, we position ourselves in Christ, there is no sin. I'm not saying we don't sometimes sin. But when we begin to see ourselves through his eyes and when we begin to look at our situation through the eyes of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we enter, we align ourselves that yes, we do not want to walk in sin, perhaps you are not in that place yet. But that is the grace of God. And the more you visualize yourself, you position yourself in him and you recognize and realize, e, this is the temple of God, I am the temple of God. Would God do this? Would God do what you have been doing? Would he react the same way you react? This aligns us with the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. We position ourselves, we enter into the Father, we begin to be guided by the Holy Spirit, and we begin to receive from Jesus. How does the situation look when you do it this way? It starts to look different. That's why Jesus would withdraw and spend time with the Father, and when he returned, things changed. Miracles could be seen happening. And if Jesus lives in you, the hope of glory is also in you. Heaven is in you. Does that make any difference in your life? Well, that means your situation is going to change and it has to align with what the Father says. People have free will. No, it's not about, I'm not going to change people's free will. And Jesus Christ also doesn't change from being free internally, but he invites us to have a relationship with him. So, if you have a relationship with your parents, you act differently than just acting like, "Ah, it's my dad." Because if you had no respect for your father, you probably wouldn't listen to him. You'd probably do things just so he wouldn't get angry. But if you have a relationship, you will do, what you do for him will come from love. You will do it with love, and if something doesn't align with you, then you can say, "Father, can we talk about that?" And when you have a relationship, it's not God having this power over control of your life. And no, it's not you in a situation where there is rebellion. In a relationship, things change. You can see each other's perspective. If you don't observe, Moses goes to God when God wanted to finish off all the Israelites, he wanted to remove them from the land. And Moses somehow seems to correct God and says, "Wait, wait." He says, "It's your people." Was God testing Moses' heart? Because God wanted to remove all the Israelites, except Moses, and start over. But Moses intercedes and says, "No, no, Father, this is your people." And all these people who don't know you are watching. So, as you go, people are watching you. And as we have this relationship, we function through this relationship, we see our situations differently because we take this time to take it in prayer and see God's perspective. And it can sometimes be, I don't know, 5 minutes in the bathroom if you're out. And as you grow in maturity, it can even be 2 seconds in your mind, and for a moment you can pray and say, "Lord, I think this is not where I should be. How do you want to change this? What is the reality in heaven about this? Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Seriously, God changes the weather. For example, Joshua stopped the sky and the moon. So, man can stop the weather. If I had a little more time, I would teach you about that. But I want to help you understand this. You have Christ in you. Hope of glory. You are in the position to be in Christ, not to destroy someone, not to counter-attack someone, it's to hit someone, it's to love them deeply, because people often don't know who they are. If they knew who they were, they might not do that to you. They wouldn't do that to you, they would act differently. What if those people who have hurt you don't really know Christ? You have the opportunity to show, to bring Christ. So, you are the one who has the opportunity to show what Christ is like and what heaven is like. And people will even be surprised and say, "Well, you didn't react like everyone else would have." Others would have walked away from any situation we might have caused. What is different about you? That is opening the door to Christ. So, any situation in your life is an open door for you to go higher, to grow, and to position yourself on the throne, right? Not to be the God of Jesus, but for us to align ourselves with him and be his hands and feet here on earth. When you have this, you can pray differently. The Bible also says, "Give us today our daily bread." Who is the bread of life? It is Jesus. When we have him daily, you have all provision, all situations are controlled in him. He has control of all situations, and your life can be different. The Bible also says, this prayer says, "Forgive us our offenses, as we have also forgiven our offenders." When we forgive, that opens the right for God to forgive us. So, if there is a lack of forgiveness in your heart, resentment and bitterness, if you are offended, someone has offended you and you are offended by someone, you have to take care of that. If your hand is closed, can you receive something? Because if you have a closed hand, it seems like you want to hit someone, or you have something, it seems like you are holding onto someone or holding onto something, and you are not in a position to receive. What if your debts or your offenses have not been removed? Because you cannot receive. I believe much of the provision that God wants to give us is here, but we have this protection from the enemy that is preventing us. that is preventing us from receiving what God has for us. Because lack of forgiveness is not something that comes from God. Confronting it, seeking revenge, trying to get revenge on the person. That does not come from God. You did it to me, now it's my turn. That does not come from God. So, but when you step away and you separate yourself and you seek and say, "Lord, examine my heart," and often it's just about removing it at that moment. Perhaps sometimes God will lead you and tell you, "Talk to this person, or go and sow, or go and do something good for this person." Often they don't even need to know why you did it. It's something between you and God. And the next thing, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Deliver us from evil. When we are in Christ, it is like in Psalm 23, he leads us to green pastures. It's like the lion of the tribe of Judah and you are a little sheep in front of him. There is no animal or demon that will come against you, and even the wolves wouldn't see you. That is to say, it doesn't mean that life doesn't happen, yes, often bad things happen to good people, but the change is the way you respond. Jesus Christ had many negative things happen to him. But he was not moved by the bad things that happened to him. And yes, often some might say he had the right and reasons to be angry, but it was very rare. And often you have to see if you have that anger. I suggest you go before God to examine your heart, that there is nothing blocking you from within, blocking you and preventing you from loving that person, like, I don't know, people at the carnival. They are a threat. People are not a threat. The enemy can kill this body, but he cannot destroy your spirit. And if God wills, God can even resurrect your body. But when we align ourselves, we are one with Christ, we have a different perspective on life. No, it's not that we are begging, and we are not living with lack. We pray hoping it will happen because God is a good, good Father. I love these words. Yes, the Bible says it is the enemy who has come to kill, to steal, and to destroy. Not God. Cancer is not something that comes from God. Diseases are not something that come from God. It is something that comes from the enemy. But what can God do in your life at that moment? What if at that moment God doesn't heal you immediately? I got sick and they thought it was cancer, I wasn't healed immediately, but God gave me a word. This illness is not for death, but for the glory of God. And there was a pastor talking about a parable. He said, "These two people had the same illness, one died, one lived." My aunt had the same illness they thought I had. She lived less than a year and she died. She was a Christian, but I knew I wasn't going to die. I had a different perspective because I withdrew to seek God, and God showed me that word in the Gospel of John. This will not kill you, and I will show myself strong through you. And many doctors saw how God manifested in my life. I never had surgery, and that was in 2009. I wouldn't be here today, and even if it hadn't been cancer, a stone that was hurting my liver, that could kill you. And it was completely blocked, and that's why many thought it might be cancer. But when I freed myself from unforgiveness, that opened the door for God to have the right to heal me, and it took 9 months to show me this. But much, much of that time, I tried to have a different perspective on life. My pastor saw that perspective. My pastor said, "I've never seen a person so sick have 10 days so sick. You had a different way of looking at life." If you could take that perspective, change your situation, spend time with God, God, what is it that you want to do in my life in this? You didn't cause it. I'm tired of hearing people blame everything on God. He didn't cause it. You can't even say he allowed it because he has given you free will, and there is a lot of garbage in this world out there, and sometimes we walk this spirit of clumsiness. And yes, for example, we all know we shouldn't consume so much sugar, but have we stopped consuming sugar? No, the coke, brother. And God is sometimes working with you. God doesn't just want to work with you sometimes. God wants to work with you every day. I want to read, I want us to read Revelation chapter 4. You know? I would like you to put yourself in a position, imagine you are there. I want to help you understand how, as Christians, as children of God, we have the right to be in the position in those heavenly places, as the Bible says. And you and I can do it because Jesus Christ finished his work on the cross. that a man who never knew sin, who was born yes of a virgin, who was tempted in the same way as you and I, he overcame temptation, knew no sin, and carried all sin, all our sin to the cross, all the sin of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And the Lord said, "It is finished." That term, "it is finished," "it is done," becomes a reality in your life when you position yourself in your identity as a child of God. when sometimes it seems like we don't understand it all. As we read this portion of the Bible, I want to ask you, close your eyes and focus on God. Give him 5 minutes. Give him 5 minutes. And as we read, remain there with your eyes closed and visualize what John is saying in this portion of the Bible, because this allows us to see heaven through John's eyes. Also for you. It is a vision for you. As you are there at the end with the Father on the throne and Jesus in your heart. Ask the Father to sit you on his lap and allow you to align your life today in such a way and continue doing this until it becomes a reality and becomes more real in your life, incorporating this truth into your life. In this place. I want you to do it also by spending those minutes visualizing your situation, the things, the problems you go through in your life, instead of just telling him, "Lord, help me." That you can each time ask him, "Lord, what do you want to do? How do you want me to react? What do you want me to do?" I believe you will see situations change. So let's read Revelation 4, and as we read it. It's an exercise, truly incredible, church. Close your eyes. Revelation 4. Close your eyes and visualize what John is saying. After this, I looked, and there in heaven was a door standing open! And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. The one on the throne looked like a jasper, and a carnelian in appearance, and there was a rainbow all around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. In a circle around the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on them sat twenty-four elders, dressed in white and with gold crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, burning like seven torches, were the seven spirits of God. Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, front and back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like that of a human being, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all over, even on the underside of its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being." Now that you have imagined it, remain in that place and ask the Father. Can I be on your lap? Can I sit on your lap? Father, visualize it. Thank you, Father, for allowing me to be on your lap. Allow each one of us to have an encounter with you, to know, Lord, that we can be one with you, to be aligned, Lord, with you, with the Father. Allow my brothers, Lord, to manifest heaven right here in their seats. that comes for ever and ever be the glory. Take this moment to speak with him, take this moment so that while there is worship, you can bring that situation, that problem, that situation that has stolen your joy, your peace. and that you can say, "Lord, help me to be in the position of a child of God who has a heavenly Father, and help me to change my perspective. How do I see things? How do I see my family? How do I see my marriage? How do I see the problem I am going through? Help me to change my perspective during the next few seconds. Listen to the Father who listens to us. He is seated on the throne. Who lives for ever and ever. To him be the glory, the honor, and the power. To him who sits on the throne, who lives for ever and ever, be the glory, the honor, and the power, be the glory, be Father, I thank you for this church, Lord. and bring your power upon each person to have that voice in their own lives, to be one with you, Jesus, just as you are one with the Father, that they may continually remain filled with the Holy Spirit. that you, Lord, may flow continuously upon their lives, that you may manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit in them, and that they may walk having the fruits of the Holy Spirit, self-control over their own lives. Lord, standing in the position, Lord, where heaven comes here to earth in their own lives, that you may bring heaven to your family, whether you see the change or not, that people may see the change in you, and through that change people may know the God that you know, that people may see how you have changed. Then, your wife, your husband, others will change. Not because you want them to change, but because you were changed, because your heart came and aligned with the will of God. And you were able to show Christ to others. Your children will want to know the God that you know. You can bring Christ to your work, not just to be preaching, but to serve there at your work, that people may see love, kindness, that the same people may see the fruits of the spirit in your life and be like honey that can be what attracts others to the kingdom, speaking the way God speaks, sharing for those whom God wants you to share, not just to go around hitting people with Bibles, but to speak, to love them, to love them madly. to the kingdom of heaven one at a time. Your community, people can see how someone walks differently even there at the same store. People see when someone different arrives at the gas station, and they can be drawn to the light of Jesus that is in you, that they can be drawn to Jesus, that you shine so brightly with the light of Jesus. The same people will ask you, what did you do? What do you do? How do you know what you know? How is it that you walk in this life that sometimes seems like hell? When difficult times come, people Jesus says they will come because you are walking with him. You can walk in the valley of the shadow of death. If you think about it, there is a shadow, but it is not the valley of death. For a normal person it is the valley of death. Effectively it is of death, but you have God's protection. As you go through that valley of death, with your eyes fixed on the promise, imagine yourself there in this river carrying the ark of the covenant. You have Jesus in you. And even if everything looks horrible, how can I stand in this? But with God, just as you stand in that river, God opens a way and you can walk on dry land, and the enemy under your feet because you are focused on Christ, walking and guiding you towards the promised land, looking at your enemy, not at people, because the spirit of the enemy and all his demons are removed, they are cast out in the Jordan River, and you are walking towards this promise. Please stand up. I want you to think about that. We can say many things, but we are not living your life. But I want you to take that step towards the kingdom of God today. And in doing so, you will have this new heart in you, which will help you have a different perspective on life. May your heart have the longing to see this church grow in such a way that you can serve in different areas that God has called you to serve, also taking the church beyond the walls, seeing how people unite and come to the kingdom of heaven. Not just to grow the church, but so that today you can see one more person encounter Christ and that the kingdom of heaven may grow. This place, the place is just a tool. Find that place in life and remain in the kingdom of God. Take that step. Why don't you do it as a physical act? Why don't you do it as a physical act and take a step forward trying to say, "Lord, today I decide to take a step of faith to be part of the work of the kingdom of God. You are positioning yourself in Christ. You are aligning yourself with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and you are going to manifest heaven here on earth. Amen. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. You are often the answer for the situation of someone around you, and today we commission you to take that control in your life. with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in such a way that you are that vessel that manifests encounters where other people encounter Christ anywhere. We love you. Thank you very much. You have been very good to us. and we long for us to build a relationship. We are excited to hear testimonies. Testimonies are important. Continue sharing testimonies. If you don't share testimonies, it's as if it never happened. We need to celebrate what God is doing, not hide it in the name of Jesus. Amen. An offering of joy. Hallelujah. God has been good. I know there are many testimonies. Ah, but share your testimony of what God has done with friends, family. Amen. for the word. Take your place in Christ. Take your place in Christ. Tell two or three people, say, "Don't hold back. Take your place in Christ." Amen. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. I believe it was a blessing, truly. Ah, listen to me. Ah, the food is already prepared. What is the dynamic? We had discussed the following, right? It's in our hearts. A few weeks ago we talked about this, that we could, that we would take that step of faith, right?