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[Music] God's grace is wonderful, extravagant. International Christian Center New Life brings a fresh word, full of God's love, that changes lives, again and again. [Music] In 12 years of preaching, I was a fearful man. The Lord has been polishing me. You don't learn to fight unless you fight; you don't learn to run unless you run. And I give glory to God for the amount of study a person can have. I am characterized by my love for studying, but there is no other way for the Lord to teach you to overcome except by overcoming. There is no way for God to teach you to preach except by preaching. And not just anywhere, but in one of the toughest places I had to preach. Many preachers don't go there because there aren't big offerings there. In that place, we had to build the stage ourselves in a field in the Dominican Republic. Listen, listen well to the dynamic of it all. You go to the Dominican Republic, which is an island. There is a province called San Juan, which is not one of the most developed. And in that province, which for those from the capital is seen as the countryside, but for the people of San Juan, don't tell them that their San Juan is the countryside because you will get into serious trouble. [Music] The people of San Juan like their San Juan, a very quiet place, but it has the misfortune of being a very idolatrous place. So, in the fields of San Juan, it's worse than in the center of San Juan. A place they call La Zanja. Brother, have you been in hostile environments? That is a hostile environment. There, every house has a cross with its saint in front of it. There, the most important person is not the governor; it's the local sorcerer. The church doesn't grow. The festival of Ata Vale de Palo, where demons are raised, is so crowded, like a crusade, because the church has fallen asleep, and they are manifesting the power of their demons. I had to go there for 18 years, but I didn't go to preach a dead Christ, brother. Because if there's one thing God taught me, it's that a man with an experience is not at the mercy of a person with a simple argument. You can preach Christ beautifully, but if He hasn't revealed Himself to you, you are not qualified to speak of that God; you are simply another religious person. That's why the Lord tells the disciples, "You walked with me, you learned all things with me, but do not move from Jerusalem until the Spirit has come, because you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come." We urgently, desperately need the power of the Spirit to be witnesses of God. And I had already had an experience with God for hours in my room, like seeing smoke come out of the walls, and the Lord consuming me for eight and six hours in that place. No atheist could tell me that I didn't exist because that's what they explained theoretically versus what I was living and experiencing every day in my life. If you expose yourself a lot to fire, fire will warm you. If you expose yourself a lot to water, water will wet you. If you expose yourself to the presence of God, my brother, and if you expose yourself to the presence of God, that presence will enter you through your pores. And when you have a place, that place, no matter how hostile, will feel the presence of God in the perimeter. Thank you for your enthusiasm. [Applause] I arrive at this place, and I believe they at least have the stage, the sound. No, no, the patron, my honor, the sound of the church. I don't take them to the street; they are useless. And there's no stage. We preach a series. No, I'm going to preach on a stage. Look for wood, look for nails. A stage, brother, brother. And there was no sound. There was a colmado, a colmadón. That's the guy from the movie, the one who has the colmado, the sound system where they dance, where they drink a lot of beer. And I tell the man of the colmado, like Jesus told the one with the colt tied up, "The Master needs your colt." And the guy says, "Are you crazy?" That man just needs a greeting. If there's oppression, I'm talking like I'm talking to him. I need your sound for three days of campaign. In those three days, no one can watch or dance here because they are just three days that you are going to give to the Lord. And the man needed no further explanation. He said, "Take it. Give it to God." [Applause] The man was more sensitive than the pastor himself with what was happening because religion, religion makes you insensitive to the move. Hello, listen to this. Religion makes you insensitive to the move. That's why Jesus never had problems with people, my brother. Jesus had problems with the religious people who weren't understanding what was happening. Jesus didn't have problems with the good little sister next door. The good little sister wanted God to bless her, so Jesus is for her. He had problems with Caiaphas, who didn't understand the matter. The pastor doesn't understand. The man says, "Yes, I understand." How he understood, I don't know. But the man said, "Take the speaker." First day of the campaign, God tells me there's a woman. Listen to this very carefully because everything I'm telling you has a sequence. Here's a woman, 70 years old. She has some minor problems. "Okay, Lord, I've seen you do things." No, no, I'm not going to dictate the problems for you to say. I say, "What?" And God tells me, "Here's a woman, 70 years old." Keep saying, "Lord." God tells me, "She has ear problems, she's deaf." Problem number one. She has one ear that doesn't hear well, and the other she doesn't hear anything. Problem number two. God tells me, "She has bones that lack calcium. She went to the doctor, and this woman can no longer walk because her bones have degraded, and she has a syndrome." I forgot the name of it. Osteoporosis. She has that. I tell her, "Second problem. She has osteoporosis, problems with her bones, and no one helps." God tells me, "I'll tell you the problem. Her entire family is an idolatrous family. They practice witchcraft. Tell that woman to come forward." And I'm calling a woman who doesn't hear well, but those next to them told her, "So-and-so, they're talking to you. The preacher is calling you. The preacher is calling you." They bring her to me. The woman comes walking slowly. God tells me, "Put your hands on her head." When I put my hands on her head, she starts jumping like a 15-year-old girl. When I say, "In the name of Jesus, your ears are opened," the woman starts hearing loudly and runs all over the place like a 15-year-old girl. And that was the first miracle with which God marked the crusade in that place. Brother, there were 10 people from the church, 10 people. And that woman was sick, but the whole town, seeing this woman running with this miracle, all the curious people came to see. There was no Facebook promotion, no radio promotion, but the miracle of the Master alone began to do the advertising that the Master was in town. And when Jesus arrives in a city, He makes Himself known because He makes Himself known. And He has to pack His bags and run. When Jesus arrives in a place, notice that I started preaching hoarsely, and I'm speaking normally now. It's because Jesus is upon me right now, brother. The sequence of this testimony is not the great miracle. No, no, no, no, no. When I'm on the third day of the campaign, the sky clouds over, and it starts to rain. The pastor immediately starts throwing things at the sound system. No, I don't want this from the owner of the colmado. Wait, the one who sent me here is a very coherent God. God is coherent. If He starts something, He has the ability to finish what He started. [Music] God does not suffer from double-mindedness. God is not bipolar. God has only one attitude, and He fulfills what He promises. So, when you ask now, you have to ask based on God's conduct. If I see that what is happening at the moment goes against what I have, I have legality with God to tell Him, "You've crossed the line." That's why David said to the giant, "Who is this who attacks the God of armies?" It wasn't in his name. David said to you, "You come against me with what? With what? But I come against you with what?" [Music] If you come in the name of the Lord, before you step into the ring, the fight is already won. Brother, this fight is won. This fight is won. This fight. [Music] I am characterized by being very calm under the altar, and with my friends, we spend our time laughing. If you are my close friend, you see me laughing a lot, but I am a very calm person. I wasn't taught to dance, and I'm left-footed on both feet. I don't know how to dance. I don't know how to praise. You are the preacher. If he is pretentious, he doesn't jump. It's just that my personality is like that, calm. And in my ministry, I have faced much contempt because, seeing me calm, people look at me and say, "This is the preacher." And I've had people say, "He's 18 years old, he looks 15." Brother, I was like a young boy. I got off the stage and faced the rain. Listen to this madness because God deals with people who don't submit to human logic. And I told the rain, "Listen, rain, I don't know who sent you. I don't know if it's raining naturally or if it's raining because something is against this campaign, but you will stop, and you will not rain until I finish preaching because I am not doing my will here; I am doing the will of the One who sets His feet upon the clouds, turns the winds into His messengers, and has chambers in the depths of the waters. So, stop in the name of Jesus." That was a breeze that carried away the rain. [Music] Immediately, when that sign passed, a woman six feet tall passed. Imagine me, at 5'7", a dark-skinned Dominican woman, a fierce one, six feet tall. "I want the God you have." "You want the God you have?" I tell her, "But I haven't even made the call yet." "No, you don't understand me. I'm on the first day of the campaign." "And I..." "But what do you want?" "No, no, no. The first thing is that the old lady who was healed on the first day. My mother, I am astonished." And she tells me, "The second thing is that I am the patroness of this place. I was talking to the most powerful sorceress in the area, who was in front of me. I was talking to a woman who lived in a small house the size of the church bathroom, made of wood, and her objects and pictures where she did her witchcraft work were like this temple. I'm talking about a woman who dressed in her priestly vestments because her life was consecrated to one of these Haitian witchcraft mysteries. I wasn't talking to a little witch who lit candles and said, 'May you be deceived,' or anything like that. No, brother, brother, just as the power of God is real, she has her power. But David once said, 'God has spoken once, and twice I have heard this: that all power belongs to God on the face of the earth.'" [Music] And this woman is telling me, "I want your God." I didn't have to preach to her for two hours because my Bible says, I don't know about yours, but mine says that the one who convicts of sin is the Holy Spirit. The day you want to be the protagonist of the movie, the Holy Spirit leaves you alone. I tell her, "Woman, but what moved you?" "It's not what moved me, young man, it's what's happening here right now. I don't know if you understand what's happening. You're talking to a woman sensitive to the spiritual world, and what's happening here right now, I had never felt it. The only thing I ask God is that if He delivers my son to me, who is running from the police, sent an edict, told me He would send him to be killed, that He has already sent him to be killed, that He would bring him to me in a coffin so I could mourn him because he is a criminal. I have prayed to so-and-so, I have prayed to the saint, I have performed rituals, I have done everything I have to do. I have prayed to the seven powers, I have consulted with sorcerers from other countries, and he remains more rebellious. No one can change him. I don't want my son to die." I took her hand and told her, "If I am a prophet of God, your son, wherever he is, will be visited by God, and very soon you will hear testimonies of what God is doing with your son." The campaign ended that day. The next day at 8 in the morning, before I left for the city, they called me saying the woman wants to surrender all the objects. Until then, I didn't know the extent of what she had. I explained that she had a large house full of objects. I thought we were going to burn a small altar, three little pictures, a candle. No, no, no. At one in the afternoon, we were still taking things out and unearthing witchcraft. She was taking them out, surrendering them herself. I came on the plane with a sorcerer from here in San Martín, and we talked about her liberation. I'll give you that testimony later. And one of the things you have to know in the spiritual world is that the same one who lets them in is the same one who has to tell them to leave your house. No matter how united the pastor is, the pastor does not have the legality to give release to what you are letting in. I'll repeat it again: the covenant does not have the legality to give release to what you are opening the door to. That's why the Lord is a gentleman, and you are a door. That's why the Lord, to send Jesus, sent Him through the womb of a woman. That's why when you come here to receive the Lord, you are asked, "Do you accept Jesus?" because you are the one who opens your heart to what you want to enter. The woman began to take everything out, and while the woman... I sent her to be covered by a few warrior women who were there. While we were left with what we were taking out, and I remember we were near where the church bathroom is, and I was at a distance like this, to where this altar is. And I remember that suddenly, we were burning something, and a tall dark-skinned man entered the house. And suddenly, one of the Pentecostal brothers came out screaming. I call that a helicopter because it was spinning around. And I said, "What happened to the brother?" And I see another one running out, speaking in tongues. And I see another one again saying, "Run, run, you don't know what's happening here." I hope what's happening... When I entered the little house, I found the woman on her knees, screaming, screaming, screaming, and the dark-skinned man hugging her. "What happened here?" he asks me. "No, no, no, no, no. I don't know who you are, but I'm talking about the son of the woman who just entered the house." My brother, listen to me. I'm talking about the son of the woman. And he said, "I was on a mountain, hidden, and I had a revelation, and a voice told me, 'I am Jesus, and I have entered your family. Death was looking for you, but I came to meet you. Go to your mother's house because there, in the hair..." Thank you for your enthusiasm, my brother. [Music] But what I'm telling you, but the day is coming. Years. God gives you days. What I'm telling you is that sometimes you feel like your life is out of control, but it's until a moment manifests. Brother, they had businesses, they had colmados, bodegas. They were all called San Miguel, the name of the saint. On that day, those people began to remove everything, brother. I understand that there are people who are leaving things progressively, and I will leave that. "Pastor, that's because you are trying with your own strength to please God, and God takes it into account, and at a moment He reveals Himself. But when God has a clash with you, you don't need to heat things up much. You have to leave what you have so that all the means you have can enter." [Music] Why do I say this? Why do I talk about this? Because in 1254, the Lord is very angry with the religious. How is it possible that a woman who practices witchcraft, who hasn't sat in a service, is so sensitive to what God is manifesting at the moment? And how is it possible that someone who knows God, who sees the anointing, is so familiar with a service? Don't get familiar with the sacred; the sacred is sacred. How is it possible? Today there is a prophetic visit. So, God's challenge is for me, who moves in eternity. There are three concepts you need to handle today. The first concept is eternity. Eternity has no end. God says, "I am eternity. Eternity is in me, and I move in eternity." That is to say, I am the Alpha, but I am also the Omega. I am the beginning, but I am also the end. That is to say, I am not subject to human time. What happens is that God divides this into the following, into the following sections. First, say with me: In eternity, within eternity, there is time. [Music] Which is from the Hebrew word "chronos." The time in which you live and in which I live. That time is divided by milliseconds. Milliseconds make up seconds. Seconds make up minutes. 60 minutes make up an hour. 24 hours make up a day. 7 days, a week. Four weeks, a month. Twelve months make up, you know what makes up a year. Say with me: That is time. Within that time, there are seasons. You have seasons in which you are well. Solomon says, "There is a time for peace, a time for war, a time to laugh, a time to mourn." Because there are diverse seasons in which God manifests in your life. But there is a word that the original, that God is speaking here, is not about time divided by hours or minutes. When the Lord says, "You do not recognize this time," He is speaking of the word "moment." Say with me: Moment. This word means a span of time that God opens in eternity to interfere in your time, which will not be repeated twice. I will repeat it again: A moment of God is a span of time where God stops moving in eternity, opens a space in eternity, and introduces it into your time. And this is called a "kairos." God begins to move and dedicates that time to you. If you are not ready to receive what is a moment of God, someone else may end up taking advantage of what was for you. Listen, listen to a promise of God. It is fulfilled. It is perfect. But it is biblically proven by Solomon himself. He says, "I returned and saw under the sun." Solomon was walking and observing, seeing certain events, certain manifestations. And Solomon says, "I saw that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. I also saw that eating is not for the wise, nor favor for the eloquent. I saw that for all, there is a moment and an occasion under the sun." Touch someone and say, "Seize your moment." [Music] The sorceress I told you about, she didn't have much theology, but my Bible says there was a moment that would not be repeated. "What is it you're telling me?" "It's a kairos. The greatest blessings, the things that most elevate you, are not the things you are expecting. They are the moments of God, which you must be willing and on the alert to catch." If not, ask Jairus how it is that Jesus, having just arrived, suddenly the demon of the legion says to Him, "Come to my house," and Jesus goes. And there is a woman who doesn't qualify for the miracle. She is out of frequency, out of the route. She is nobody. Jesus doesn't know her. She is an unclean woman. She has a flow of blood. She touches a man, and the man she touches is cursed. This woman doesn't understand. This woman is there, lying down, but she knows that something is happening. It says that the crowd pressed around Jesus, but the entire crowd was not healed. Who was healed? Who caught the moment? She said, "If today I touch the garment of the one who is passing by, I will be healed." [Music] The issue, say with me, was not with her. It may not be your time. It may be that you feel that this is about brother so-and-so they are talking about. It may not be your time, but perhaps it is the moment for you to catch a miracle from God. Perhaps it is not with you. Perhaps it is not with you. Perhaps the issue is with Anita, but you say, "This will not happen again. The Master is with Jairus, but if I let this man pass, who assures me that He will come this way again?" The woman said, "I'm going to risk it." And sometimes you are very strong for many things, and you are, and you take risks for many things, but God wants you to take risks to catch His manifestation and to move in the words that He spoke, because He speaks only once, and He says, "My word does not return empty." He speaks once, and it will be fulfilled. If you don't catch it, that word will find fulfillment. It wasn't with her. It wasn't her time, but she caught her moment. God called Deborah, then Barak. The moment came. God delivered the captain Sisera into Barak's hand. Barak was a good evangelical. There are saints. God delivered the captain to me. And Deborah says, "The man is receiving, but Barak says, 'I'm not going if you don't go with me.'" Deborah says, "Because you doubt..." [Music] "...salvation will not come through your hand, but through the hand of a woman." Because when you don't have the right attitude before a unique manifestation of God called a moment, it will fall upon others who know how to take advantage of it. Touch someone and say, "If you don't want it, tell me, I'll snatch it. If you don't believe it, I do. If you don't want to sow, I do. Because it's a unique opportunity. If you don't want to prophesy, then be quiet, I'll prophesy, because I'm not going to be silent in a moment of God." Who took advantage of Barak's moment? No, no. Now, many preachers believe it was Deborah. In the villages outside of Israel, there was a woman named Jael. And someone around, a relative of Moses' wife, Samuel. She had nothing to do with the Jews. Perhaps you have nothing to do with it. Perhaps you haven't fasted like me. Perhaps you haven't prayed like me. But if you are on the alert at the right moment, catch what I let pass. Aha! It may be that you are the next blessed one. It may be that Jael didn't understand. He wasn't there when Deborah prophesied, but there was a word of God gravitating, looking for a prophetic womb. And that's where the word of God is today. It's looking for a womb to germinate. It's looking for... Say, "I'll catch God's moment." Where is the word of God? The captain entered his tent. And since the woman was not austere, she was not Israelite, she was not Hebrew, the captain felt confident. But say with me: There is a word gravitating. There is a moment of God that no one has known how to take advantage of. I tell him to the captain, "No, but your soul..." "No problem. No, Rudy." The captain is about to leave. I'm talking about Sisera, the captain. If it's Rudy, he said, "Enter." And the guy fell asleep. She went, got a stake from the tent, got a hammer. The woman gave the man something to drink. "I'll be right back." [Music] Don't trust too much when a woman tells you everything is fine, because he came with a hammer and a stake, and the man was asleep. The woman put the stake in his head. [Music] That hammer blow should have been Barak's, but at that moment, history was anchored. And Deborah herself begins to sing an entire song. Look for it in the book of Judges, dedicated to her. Who was she? Say with me: Nobody. Did her name mean anything? No. It didn't mean, "The Lord will lift me up," or "I bow down," or "I worship." No, it meant nothing. She was simply a woman who knew how to seize the right moment and got on God's hour. And that's why today I'm preaching about her, and that's why today her name resonates in eternity. All this closes in the Bible, and a woman who also has nothing to do with the Hebrews goes to Jesus and says, "I need you to heal my daughter." Jesus speaks clearly to her and says, "My daughter, our time. Our time. I have not come to the Gentiles." He looks at the place in the following way: "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." And the woman said, "I don't know if it's my time or not my time. I don't know much about theology. I don't understand what you're talking about. All I know is that even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the children's tables." Look, you know who Jesus is. You know that He is the Word made flesh. You know that He is the Prince of Creation. You know that He who spoke the universe into existence, sustains it with His hand, and with that, He also walked on earth. The Lord is the King of all constellations. Say with me: Nothing surprises Jesus. But this woman impressed Jesus, and He said, "But I have never seen, not even in Jerusalem, such faith as there is in this one woman." When you have the capacity to get on the prophetic and catch a moment, you surprise God's heart, because God's idea is that you take advantage of all His manifestations and become one with them. [Music] The one speaking to you right now may not have qualified, but when God spoke to me about nations, I looked for my passport without anyone inviting me because it was a moment of God. Many of you, the blessing will not come with an angel descending from heaven. Say with me: It is a moment that will manifest, and it only manifests once. I don't know how many moments you have let pass, but God sent me to tell you, "This ministry is dependent because I am about to manifest something great. Don't move too much, don't be too distracted, because what was yours might go to the brother next to you." But God's blessing does not return empty. Give it to the Lord and get on your knees. [Music]