SID: So what is transformation?
MALDONADO: Transformation is the process that leads us into be like Christ. The purpose of transformation is to be like Christ, to change the heart, to be used as a vessel to carry the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory of God.
SID: Okay. That begs the question now, and this is a word you don’t hear much and you may not like it. I got you now. Surrender, what does that mean?
MALDONADO: Surrender is a part that has yielded to the Holy Spirit, yielded to God, yielding your insecurities, yielding your fears, yielding yourself. And we don’t believe in surrender any more. So in other words, we have to yield the natural to receive the supernatural. Surrender is an exchange. In other words, you know the Anointing works through an exchange. In other words, we yield to God and God will release what He has for us. But today, unfortunately, because of many messages, [unintelligible], positive thinking, self-help gospel, we, they empower self. They don’t believe in denying our self. What about when the Bible talks about, present your body in a living sacrifice? What about when in the Bible when Paul says, “I die daily.”
SID: Wait a second. I never hear that spoken in congregations. Why, Guillermo? Why don’t they say that?
MALDONADO: Because we empower self and that’s the reason we don’t have power in the church. The access to power is through surrender and dying to self. In other words, if we want to access power like Jesus did, Jesus went to the Jordan and Jordan represented dying to self. But the question is what Jesus had to die to, he didn’t have any sin, Jesus had to die to be God. Jesus had to die to be God. In other words, he had to die to be God. So us, we have so many areas to die to.
SID: So he was demonstrating supernatural humility and he couldn’t do that without the power of the Holy Spirit, and you can’t do that without the power of the Holy Spirit. Now when you taught on this with 250 people, tell me what happened.
MALDONADO: Okay, because the condition of the heart is the condition of your life. If you want to change your life, if you’re tired of the way your life is going, so you must change your heart, because the heart is the seat of the presence of God. God has two thrones: one in Heaven, one in our heart. So in that seat of the presence of God, so the state of your heart will determine the state of your life. So that’s the reason we need to change the heart. So if you’re tired of your life, you need to change your heart. So one time I was ministering and the Lord said to me, “I just want you to see. I’m going to show you how sicknesses, depression, diseases are connected to the heart.” And I said, “How many people are sick, oppressed, depression and all kinds of sickness, come up to the altar.” I will say like maybe 400 came unto the altar. And the moment I take them to surrender, insecurities, unforgiveness, to forgive and to deal with the heart, in that moment, Sid, 250 people, I say, “How many people are sick?” And they told like 250 people got healed instantaneously.
SID: But you know, when I read the New Testament, that’s normal.
MALDONADO: Yes.
SID: According to the Bible. But it is abnormal according to religion. I want you to pray a supernatural prayer right now.
MALDONADO: Yes.
SID: So that everyone would be normal, normal as defined by the Bible.
MALDONADO: I want to pray with you and I want you to stretch your hands. First, you need to surrender. You can’t be fighting in your own ability. You need to yield your heart to Jesus. You need to forgive. You need to release it. And that moment I will heal, restore you and deliver you. Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, right now where you are in your place, in your home, in your office, Father, I release the presence of God, the presence of the Holy Spirit, fall in your place, in your office right now, the power of God. Father, I pray for supernatural encounter for those people that are watching. I pray, Father, those people that are frustrated and unsatisfied, and they don’t know what to do, stagnated, release the power and the presence of God and their heart be changed, the heart be transformed. There’s people right now being healed because you release and forgive. You just release fear. You’re being set free of fear in your mind. Be touched, be activated in the supernatural. Be transformed and those with a hardened heart, right now the presence of God fall on you. And you are being changed into glory, into the Glory of God. From glory to glory, receive now. Amen and amen.
SID: And as Guillermo was praying, I also heard someone is getting a new hip and someone with arthritis in their fingers, it’s gone. There’s no more pain. But I want you to experience having intimacy with God. Let’s start out. Let’s cover this space. The Messiah died for you. The Messiah paid the price for your sins. The Messiah rose from the dead. The Messiah wants to live inside of you. Say this prayer with me out loud and mean it to the best of your ability. Dear God…
MALDONADO: Dear God.
SID: I’m a sinner.
MALDONADO: I’m a sinner.
SID: Against you.
MALDONADO: Against you.
SID: And you alone.
MALDONADO: And you alone.
SID: Have I sinned.
MALDONADO: Have I sinned.
SID: And I’m so sorry.
MALDONADO: And I’m so sorry.
SID: I believe
MALDONADO: I believe
SID: That Jesus died for my sins.
MALDONADO: That Jesus died for my sins.
SID: And I am clean.
MALDONADO: I am clean.
SID: And now that I am clean
MALDONADO: Now that I am clean
SID: I ask you Lord Jesus
MALDONADO: I ask you Lord Jesus
SID: To come inside of me.
MALDONADO: To come inside of me.
SID: Take over my life.
MALDONADO: Take over my life.
SID: I make you Lord of my life
MALDONADO: I make you Lord of my life.
SID: Amen. That means so be it.
MALDONADO: Yes.
SID: And the Bible says if you confess with your mouth, you will believe in your heart and you shall be a child of the Living God. Hold that head up high.
MALDONADO: Come on.
SID: You’re a child of the Living God.
MALDONADO: Thank you Jesus.
