Sid: Sid Roth back with Apostle Guillermo Maldonado and Guillermo there’s a subject not too many people talk about but it’s so important and that is “Why people have hardened hearts? What is a hardened heart, what’s the evidence of a hardened heart?
Guillermo: Sid the hardened heart is a heart that doesn’t hear, that doesn’t perceive, doesn’t sense, and doesn’t feel in the Spirit realm on spiritual matters. In other words, a hardened heart is a person that can be in the presence of God everybody else is being touched and crying and weeping but that person is totally doesn’t perceive the presence, doesn’t perceive and I’m been in services and I ministered to people and I see people under the power healed and delivered and those people don’t feel anything. And one of the example in the Bible is Jacob when he was running from his brother and he said “He had an encounter with the presence of God and at the end he goes the presence of God was here and I didn’t know it.” In other words is it possible to be where the presence is and not feel it? Yes, it’s possible, when? When your heart is hardened and why the heart is hardened and those people that don’t know what the heart is in very simple terms if your listeners if a heart is the seat of the presence of God it’s where God lives. If you don’t know Jesus well God is not the center, your heart is not the center. But if you know Jesus any time you recognize that Jesus is the Lord and Savior Jesus comes into your heart. God has 2 thrones one in heaven and one on earth. In heaven is where he lives but on earth it’s by the Holy Spirit lives in our heart and our spirit.
Sid: So you’re not talking about a physical heart you’re talking about the Spirit of God’s resting place in our own spirit or the Bible uses the term heart.
Guillermo: Yeah, in other words its synonym the Bible where it talks about heart they want to talk about Spirit it’s the same thing. The man we’re spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body.
Sid: But there are so many people that are Spirit-filled they speak in tongues, they love Jesus but they have this hardened heart what can they do about it?
Guillermo: Yeah because it’s not about any denomination any person a Spirit-filled person can have a hardened heart. And let me tell you the causes of it because many people can have it and they say “Well I don’t have it.” Well first of all the Bible talks about Hebrews that a continuous sin hardened the heart. Two…
Sid: No no no let me interject something. There are so many Christians today addicted to pornography; I said Christians I’m not saying non-believers. There’s so many Christians addicted and you know what they don’t see anything wrong with it. I don’t understand it, I don’t get it Guillermo!
Guillermo: And yeah the thing is Sid when you don’t call sin sin and you call it issue like a lot of people in church call it today you will not repent you will not see anything wrong with it; that’s the reason we must speak truth. When we speak truth and we preach against sin we are going to lead the people and where conviction of the Spirit will come. So what we do is one of the things that hardened the heart is continued sin. If you are doing pornography continually well, that will harden your heart. 2nd: is holding an offense, offenses what I mean it’s an offense. Well offenses people get offended for anything and the moment a hardened heart will eventually when you get offended your heart is hardened. 3: emotional wounds and 4: disobeying the voice of God.
Sid: Excuse me what do you mean by emotional wounds?
Guillermo: Okay emotional wounds like unforgiveness, rejection, guilt, there’s some people that for example they been hurt for so long that the heart develops like callouses and in such a way that for them that emotional unforgiveness, guilt, rejection is so part of them that their heart is totally covered with flesh and that’s the reason they need a circumcision of the heart. So and that’s one of the things that brings a hardened heart. And 4th I would say disobeying the voice of God. The moment many believers that are listening to me and God has spoken to you about something specifically sow a seed or speak to a person about Jesus anything and you have disobeyed and you notice that God is not speaking to you any more he said “Why?” Because you have disobeyed God and your heart become God when you disobeyed His voice. And lastly is #5 which is unbelief. There’s so many times people struggling with unbelief and the Bible calls it an evil heart of unbelief. And this will causes the people of Israel they did not get into the promise land because they’re heart was hardened with unbelief. So unbelief will harden your heart. So if we see the conscious of it and so why? And some people say there are some of the things that harden my heart so the question is what are the findings of a hardened heart, if you know, if you’re listening to me now and you’re saying “Pastor I don’t feel the presence, I feel like I lost the fire for God, I lost the passion for souls, I lost the passion for prayer, there’s something that is off in me maybe my heart. I’ve been in the services where the presence of God and I don’t feel anything and other people are crying and weeping, I’m going to tell you, I’m going to tell you exactly…
Sid: Let me throw a couple more symptoms that are coming to mind “I don’t read the Bible anymore because I’ve read it for so many years I don’t get anything out of it anymore,” that’s a hardened heart.
Guillermo: Yeah there you go that’s what I’m saying when you go up to the scriptures in so many areas so if you listening to me can you tell me Apostle can you give me some signs in a hardened heart. If you have it a hardened heart doesn’t feel God’s presence that’s one of the signs. And I’ll just give you one of the examples in the Bible where Jacob did not feel the presence of God. So in number 2: A hardened heart doesn’t allow faith to flow. When a person’s heart is hardened faith is not flowing. Number 3: A hardened heart moves from commitment to wishful thinking. In other words one of the first signs of a hardened heart is that they pull their commitment in what they’re doing for God in tithing and bringing an offering to God they stop giving and if they serving they stop serving, they pulling their commitment and their family and their finances in. And you see because a lot of people don’t give in church today Sid because they’ve been burned out because they told them and they used that money and they never used the money where they told them and they said “No, I’m not going to give to God.” What are they saying “Your heart is getting hardened because you saw somebody abuse your trust, somebody had promised something and didn’t do what they promised.” So Number 4: A hardened heart rebels against God. What I’m saying rebels against God is you see a person who has a hardened heart you will see him give you 20 excuses why not to go and congregate and attend church. He will give you 10 excuses for not to give and he will blame somebody else. And I will say that indifference and a critical spirit are one of the signs of a hardened heart. When a person is indifference to the presence there is indifference to the word and preaching and is very dangerous.
Sid: Okay you have stepped on the toes of a number of our listeners right now what do they do about it.
Guillermo: Yes, it is very very important to say Sid that we must give solution when the Bible… there’s consequences when if we keep that hardness of heart, that’s the reason we must do something about it. And first of all the Bible promises that if you don’t change the hardened heart calamity will come suddenly in your life. That’s what the scripture said and brokenness sometimes without remedy. What I’m saying by that we must do something and this is very important in what I’m going to get to. The cure for the hardened heart is the circumcision of the heart. What do you mean the circumcision of the heart? We must allow we must renounce our trust in our fallen nature and begin to trust completely in the divine grace of God.
Sid: That sounds like a definition of faith.
Guillermo: Yes, that’s what it is we must get to God and say “God my heart is hardened and we of course Sid we must repent and of course there’s another word that we don’t used today and we don’t use the word repentance because we think “Well, I’m not going to do that.” Well, we must repent because unforgiveness is a sin, pornography is a sin, if there is something in our life we must repent of that sin and the moment we repent we have to allow God and say “I want you to circumcise my heart, I want You to take the areas where I have resisted God.” Because a hardened heart resists God and we have God I want You to do whatever You need to do and surrender the areas where my heart is hardened. And from that moment on I can see the Spirit of God following on many people right now where the heart is being circumcised. And you will see if you allow me you tell me when I can pray for the people.
Sid: Right now you can.
Guillermo: Okay, there’s people that are listening to me now that are saying “I know I’ve got those signs of a hardened heart and I really want to be changed. I don’t want to continue that way because a hardened heart can take you the worse places. So number one let me pray. Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ there’s many people they’re good Christians, they speak in tongues, their filled with the Spirit but they don’t feel the presence, they don’t want to read the Bible, they don’t want to follow God, they don’t want to seek God and right now I pray for your power and your presence to come in their heart. And Father I lead them into repentance if you see any area of your life you say “Pastor I really, I know that sin can harden your heart and right now I release that conviction Holy Spirit release that conviction in the hearts of them to repent and to renounce of their sin.” And right now Lord circumcise their heart bring the change in the people and now as a result Jesus release signs, miracles in their body, finances, right now I declare that your body is healed if you were sick because your heart changed. Right now you are healed arthritis people with arthritis are being healed, people with mental condition are being delivered, schizophrenia are being delivered because you changed your heart in Jesus mighty name be delivered, changed by the power of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Sid: Amen. Tell me about where you were teaching on this subject and there were 250 healings and deliverances in one meeting.
Guillermo: Yes, the state of the heart will be the state of your life. What do I mean by that? If your heart is corrupted your life will be corrupted. If your life are full of forgiveness your heart is forgiveness have forgiveness you will have forgiveness in your life. So if you don’t like the state of your life you need to change your heart. So one time the Lord said to me “I’m going to show you how sickness and diseases and oppression in the mind of My people are connected to the state of the heart. So I called the people and I start talking about offenses and unforgiveness and I said “I’m going to lead you in a prayer of repentance because people don’t believe on forgiveness. Well doctor said it’s not sin, its sin the violation of the law of God. God said “If you don’t forgive I don’t forgive you.” So I lead the people into forgiveness whoever hurt them and the moment they forgave the miracles, the healing on the people. I mean you’re talking about arthritis, diabetes, heart condition they ran about 250 people I saw it and they said “Oh, the moment I forgave I was healed.” And many people never connect the condition of the heart with the condition of the finances. Many people said “When you prayed I got a breakthrough in my finances.” And so I’m talking to the listeners right now and your complaining about your finances, your marriage and you say “Pastor I don’t know what it is,” check your heart if your heart is hardened you won’t be able to have a breakthrough. What’s the reason for this program? To tell you yes, you can do it, yes we can pray, yes God but you must recognize the areas that you need to change and let the Holy Spirit fall on your and change your heart.
Sid: You know someone said, a smart man, “A definition of insanity keep doing things the same way and except different results.” Well rather than walking in a big circle the way my Jewish people did in the wilderness for 40 years when you were 1 week away from the promise land. I’m going to tell you something this brand new book by Guillermo Maldonado “Supernatural Transformation” subtitled “Change Your Heart into God’s Heart.” There are prayers he teaches in the book but then he has prayers for you to pray and these are supernatural prayers that will give you that brand new beginning that fresh start. And then the 2 CD’s Guillermo the presence of God is so strong on the series that is called “A Broken Heart Surrender to God.” Are you seeing transformation going on in your congregation when you’ve taught on these areas?
Guillermo: Not only that Sid is that I’ve seen it all over the world remember my books are all over the world. I can see people that when they read the first chapter they started weeping and crying. And that moment they had an encounter with the presence of God and their life will change. And you know there’s something that the listeners need to listen to this what I’m going to say “Change is not change until there’s a change.” And I can see 100’s of people that have told me “I just read 2 chapters and the moment I read 3rd chapter something happened to my heart I was totally changed.” Like I said “The reason I put supernatural transformation is because information is supernatural it has to be done circumcised by the Holy Spirit. Areas in our life that we’ve been struggling for so long trying to do the same thing and we don’t see any change; but the moment you read this book it will tell you how to do it and I always lead the people into the area of being activated and being led into a prayer where they can be set free and you can be one of those persons.
Sid: And I have to tell you God’s raised up Guillermo to teach on every aspect of the Bible and they’re outstanding teachings but as far as I’m concerned this is the most important teaching he has ever done….
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