Words of Gratitude

Dear brothers and sisters,
To put in a few words what the Lord did this past 2 weeks is impossible, it is like trying to put water from a swimming pool in a bottle. It really has been rivers of living waters flowing all these days in the Church Retreat, the Sunday Service and the Pastor's Conference. God used mightily His servants bringing the Word of God, and through it deliverance, healing, strength, encouragement, etc.

All the visiting pastors and members from other churches as our church have been blessed and were astonished of everything that God did these days, people being filled with the Holy Spirit, people receiving specific words, healing of the heart for some people that had lost babies, natural healing and as the Bible says "signs and wonders" that follow those who believe. I have heard many testimonies of Pastors being encouraged, many came with many questions that were answered in the sessions so they were very grateful for everything, most of this pastors work in difficult areas of the city and have little or no support but God always responds to the soul that seeks Him.

Rev. Sanchez and his wife are very bold when they have to deliver the word of God but at the same time very humble to consider everyone in the building and pray and bless as much people as they can. We already have in our minds next year, we are praying that God will allow them to come with their family because we know they sacrifice a lot leaving their boys at home to preach in many places. Please pray with us and meanwhile we will continue to not being just hearers but also doers of the Word.

Rev. Sanchez and Evangelist Abigail have taken a part of the peruvian people in their hearts, we have also taken a part of their heart and love for God and His work in our hearts. May God bless them wherever they go.

Ps. Gustavo Rodriguez

Holy Spirit Rain down!

The last morning with the pastors was a such a powerful meeting.  Everyone came in the meeting excited with hearts full of expectation looking for God to do something great in their lives.  As the Word of God went forth everyone shouted and rejoiced as God lifted our hopes, raised our faith and empowered us by His glorious Holy Spirit.  As The Lord continued to move throughout the church pastors where praying for one another and crying.  It was a beautiful service.   All over the church God saturated His men and women of God!  It was like a heavy rain pouring down!   As God’s presence kept raining down in this service and we were just soaking it all in, many Pastors could barely move God’s presence was so strong at one point.  Many pastors testified about their faith being restored, their hearts being healed of hurts and bruises. We left the meeting very late with just a few hours til the night service but we did not care.  God did something very real for each and every one of us.   We have been touched by the hand of God.

The night service was unbelievable!  The Holy Ghost swept through the house like the book of Acts and we had a mighty revival!  The church was packed tonight from front to back.  We had many other pastors and visitors from other churches in the meeting tonight!  But when the winds of the Holy Ghost began to blow it moved everyone in the building! Young children, teenager and even the elderly were filled with the Holy Ghost!  People were healed of sicknesses and many were delivered!  One lay said that “ I had to smoke cigarettes at least one every hour, I prayed to be be free but always went back to smoking but tonight I was in church four hours and I felt the power of God like never before! After about 4 hours in His presence I realized I never craved a cigarette once! Then I realized that I did not have a taste for cigarettes any more.  God delivered me!  I am free!”  As the Holy Ghost kept moving, we saw about 100 people or more dancing in the Holy Ghost, talking in tongues with great joy! All over the church the Spirit was moving! The elders and the ministers of the church were on fire tonight! The church was praying for one another.  Children praying for parents, brothers praying for sisters!  People were stirred up and using their gifts for the Lord.  The longer the service continued the more God moved!  Young people were laid out under the power of God all over the church!   Teenagers, elders, Pastors and evangelists!  The house was saturated by the power of God!  Wave after wave of the Spirit filled that house!  Just when you thought it was over the Holy Ghost just kept moving!  God was working and nothing was going to stop Him!  This was His time to move on his people!  And we were not going to miss our hour of visitation!  It was incredible!  At one point Abby and I jut stood in a corner praising God in amazement!  We could not believe our eyes!   God was moving like rivers of life all over the church!  Jeremiah said It’s just like fire shut up in my bones! And this move of the Holy Ghost is not going to die out but it is going to move on and bring revival to this nation of Peru!

My friends God is looking to move in this last day! All He needs is an available vessel. That’s all He is looking for is a yes!   Yes, I will go, Yes, I will pray, Yes, I will give, Yes, I will use my talents! So take your place in the Kingdom of God right now and let God work a miracle through you.  That’s right I said through you not for you but through you!  God wants to work a miracle through you.  God wants to heal through you.  God wants to deliver through you!  You are the temple of the Holy Ghost!  You are the mouth piece of the Most High!  You have to speak the Word!  You have to move the mountain!  You have to lay hands on the sick if they are going to recover!  So don’t you dare sit back another minute but get up!  Stir up the gift of God in you!  Let the power of the Holy Ghost come upon you!  I don’t care what the devil is doing!  God said no weapon formed against you shall prosper!  I don’t care how bad things look. God said upon this rock I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! So rise up in power!  Rise up in victory!  Rise up in the anointing of the Holy Ghost and let the Father have His way in you!

God bless you

Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez

Immediately!

The church has been packed every service! Word has been spreading of this great move of God and people are coming to be a part of it here in Peru.  Many lives have been touched and decisions have been made by many people to serve the Lord. God is truly in control.  The Lord is moving in ways that we would have never even imagined. So many good reports are coming back of broken homes and families being restored and marriages that God has put back together, that it keeps us rejoicing all throughout the day.  One young lady had a problem with her hand. She could not use it due to damage in the joints and muscles so the doctors just gave her a brace to keep on it to help protect it but she was going to have to live like that for the rest of her life.  This young lady said. “I was at the altar seeking God and I began to cry out to the Lord and say Jesus heal me, and immediately the pain was gone! I took the brace of my hand and I could move it and grab things with my hand with no pain! I was jumping and shouting sand running around the church sharing with everyone what the Lord had done for me!"

There is one word that this sister shared that stands out and it is the word "Immediately". This word means: swiftly, speedily, suddenly, straightway, instantly, urgently, direct, at once, without any interference or delay, immediate action, this moment, this minute, this second, right now!  When I look in the Bible I read many accounts where Jesus did things immediately!  Matthew 8:1-3 “When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.  And, behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.  And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.  And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."  Luke 13:10-13 "And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.  And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.  And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."

My Friends. there may be somethings that you may have been waiting for God to do for you. Maybe you have been waiting for a job, maybe you have been waiting for a healing, maybe you have been waiting for family members to be saved or delivered! Maybe you are facing an impossible situation and you have been waiting for a miracle!  Well I feel like prophesying to somebody right now and  I want to tell you that you that you don’t have to wait any longer!  Your God is a God that can work it out for you immediately!  In Jesus name, the wait is over!  There are some doors that have been closed that are going to open immediately!.  There are some situations that have held you up that are going to turn around immediately!.  There are some sicknesses that have lingered around and won't seem to go away but a healing is about to take place immediately!.  There are some children that have run off like the prodigal son that are going to come to themselves and come back home immediately!  There are some financial needs that have kept you back from moving forward but your prosperity is coming Immediately!  Immediately!  Not a year from now!  Not a month from now!  Not a week from now, immediately!  Swiftly, speedily, suddenly, straightway, instantly, urgently, direct, at once, without any interference or delay, immediate action, this moment, this minute, this second, right now!  So whatever you have need of, open up your mouth and lay claim to it right now and watch God move!  Immediately!

God bless you!
Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez

Amazing Love, Amazing God!

The Pastor's conference started today!  It was wonderful watching the pastors and leaders gather into the House of God.  Everyone was shaking hands with pastors they knew and also meeting other pastors for the first time.  Our great friend Pastor Pena from El Faro church was with us in the meeting.  He got to meet my wife Abigail for the first time and we all just had a great time fellowshipping before the service.  Pastor Gustavo, the pastor who is hosting the conference here in Peru, did not waste anytime getting me up to minister.  We slowed things down this morning and really began to teach on Kingdom Authority.  As I began to teach many pastors were weeping and crying in their chairs.  Some just fell to their knees as God began to show them their place in the Kingdom of God.  I was only able to teach for a little while longer because the Shekinah Glory fell in that church. God Himself was imparting into pastors and leaders! Men and women were all over the church crying and weeping before the presence of the Lord. God's amazing love overpowered and overwhelmed all of us! One pastor said “It has been so hard that I wanted to give up but this morning God spoke to me and He put a fire back in my heart and it is burning!  I will preach the Gospel like never before in Peru!” Another pastor said “I have been in a dry place for a long time.  I let the problem of the people overwhelm me and weigh me down.  I felt drained and spiritually dead but today God has lifted my burdens and filled my dry soul with rivers of life!"   So many mighty and powerful things happened this morning! I was about to stop writing but I just have to share one more testimony!  A Pastor shared “I have had many problems with my feet and when I walk it was vey painful.  The devil kept telling me you are not being healed because God is finished with you. It was hard to preach and pray and do things because my feet were always in pain.  But when The Glory of the Lord begin to fill the house, I heard the Lord say "Walk"!  I stood to my feet and I just began to walk and  As I obeyed God’s voice and walked the pain left my feet! I have no more pain!  Now I can fulfill the scripture in Isaiah 52:7 that says “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”

Glory to God!  Somebody ought to be shouting by now!  God is truly amazing and we just give Him all the glory!  If you have enjoyed this blog and these great testimonies I want you to send a generous donation in to WWLM right now!  Help to keep us preaching and teaching the Gospel to men and wemon just like these.  We need monthly sponsors that desire to see the Hand of God move in the missions fields.   So give and be a part of this great mission outreach today because God is moving and you can be a part of it by giving today!

God bless you
Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez

Sold out!

What a great time we had in the House of God Sunday Morning.  Everyone was singing and praising the Lord.  All the people were still excited about the family retreat.  The worship leaders sang and danced before the Lord. Great joy was in church!  Abigail Sanchez preached a powerful message on what you have to offer God.  This message challenged the people to give God their everything holding nothing back from Him!  As people came to the altar they came crying and really seeking God!  The Lord was doing a great work in the hearts and in the lives of His people.  It was truly a morning of sweet surrender!  You know it is easy to offer God what we want, when we want.  Especially when it is on our terms.  And many times we can say God you can have this in my life but you can’t have that. S o we choose what we give God and we hold back the rest for ourselves.  Or we give God half the situation and we try to work the other half out because we really don’t believe that God is able. Ouch!!   Or we don’t give God anything because we don’t think what we have is of any value, so we do nothing!  But God is looking for a total surrender!  He wants you to give him your life, your time, your talents and your family.  You must put everything in his hands if you want to see Him really move in your life!  God is not looking for us to be ordinary Christians that just come to church every week doing the same old routine.  But God is looking for us to be stirred!  He is looking for His children to begin to manifest the power that He has placed inside of us.  It is high time to break open your Alabaster box.  It is time to release the beauty and the fragrance of the precious anointing that is deep inside of you.  Yes, it's time to be Sold out!  God desires to use you! God wants to make you the head and not the tail.  He wants to use your life for His glory!  So give God your all and watch Him do wonders through you!

God Bless you
Rev. Melvin & Abigail Sanchez

Somebody ought to Testify!

In Luke 17:12-19 it says “And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:  And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.  And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,  And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.  And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?  There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.  And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole."

 After the Lord did such a great miracle in this man’s life, he just has to come back and say thank you. On the last day of the camp meeting here in Peru we all gathered in the church to hear testimonies of what the Lord has done in the lives of people during the retreat. So we are going to share a few of those testimonies with you.

 One young man said “ I came to these meetings looking to hear a word but I never expected God to move like He did. The first night Rev. Sanchez preached it was like a tornado hit the building. I have never experienced that before in my life. I got filled with the Holy Ghost for the first time and could not stop speaking in tongues all night!”

A pastor’s wife shared “I have been in a battle for a long time and many times I felt like I wanted to quit. I came to the meetings tired and weary from the devil warring against my mind.  Satan filled my life with fear and I could not seem to overcome it but during these meetings God set me free from the fear and filled me with power and I am renewed and revived and ready to fight the good fight of faith!

Another sister shared “I was in a place that I was coming to the church but not really serving God, I was going out on weekends looking for things of the world to satisfy me but was always left empty. I came looking for God to really change me. Last night I felt God so real in my life for the first time. I did not care what anyone thought I was praising my God. When Rev. Sanchez laid hands on me, God touched me! God delivered me and filled me with the Holy Ghost. I never knew what that felt like to have the power of God inside of me. But I feel it and it is real and my life is completely changed! "

 

An older lady shared “I always thought that healing was just something they made up on television for money. I know healing was in the Bible but I have never seen it before for real. But I came to the meeting with sever pain in my body. Even when I moved I had pain. But as the message was being preached I fell out of my seat under the power of God. This has never happened to me before! When I opened my eyes I was on the floor and when I got up the pain was gone. I started jumping and shouting because God did it for me! Now I know that every promise in God word is real and it is mine!"

One man shared “I had bad pain in my stomach, I could not eat or sleep. I went to the doctor and they could not find what was wrong but the condition was getting worse. At the altar Rev. Sanchez came by and said Nothing is impossible with God and when the word was spoken I felt a fire in my stomach and I fell to the floor crying and talking in tongues. Some of the brother had to help me to my seat because I could barely walk the presence of God was so strong. It was not until the next day that I realized the pain was gone! My God healed me!

 A young girl said "I was trying to serve God but not really letting my light shine. The world was really pulling at me and I started letting down in many areas of my life. When Sister Abigail preached on mantles it changed my life forever. The power of God came upon me like never before. I was shouting and crying! I could feel the love of God so strong in my life. As I was praising God I could no longer speak Spanish! God filled me with the Holy Ghost! It was beautiful! I felt like someone else was inside of me talking. I felt so full of power that I had to do something, so I started praying for my brother and sisters in the church and God was using me. I am so excited and I want to do more and more things for God."

 A Father shared “My wife and I love the Lord but we have been having problem with our children. Our kids are at a place were they are not really trying to serve God but we have kept them in church. This morning when Rev. Sanchez spoke on the candle stick the presence of God filled the church like I have never seen in my life. God’s power was touching people everywhere. As the spirit moved I could not find my children anywhere and I was concerned because I wanted to bring them to the altar. As I got closer to the front I found not one but all of my children on the floor crying! God had filled them all with His Spirit! My wife and in were jumping and shouting and crying! God did a miracle for our home and now we will all serve God together!"

Well my friends I hope you enjoyed these testimonies. There are so many more testimonies we could share of how God delivered, encouraged, healed and filled people with the Holy Ghost! But the good news is that God is not finished working in the lives of our brother and sister here in Peru. And God is not finished working things out for you! So keep praising Him and trusting in Him no mater what your situation looks like because no matter what the enemy may be saying my God is not a respecter of persons. What He does for one He will do for all. If He heals here, He will heal there, If He saves families here, He will save your family there, If He delivered here, He will deliver you there! Remember whenever God does something for somebody else that’s your time to rejoice because it means you're next in line for a miracle! So get rid of your fear, step out of doubt, shake off everything that tries to tell you God won’t do it because the devil is a liar! Oh Glory to God! So you might as well stop reading and get to praising! Because God is about to do something powerful on your behalf! You don’t have to see it, you just have to believe it, you don’t have to feel it , you just have to know it! The song writer said “ Right now if you believe God will work a miracle for you! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

God bless you

Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez

Healing is the children’s bread!

What a beautiful sight it is to see the sun shining over the mountains this morning. The birds are singing, the flowers are blowing in the wind. I made a decision to walk up the side of the mountain that the camp is on while I was praying. So as I looked over the church grounds and all the land and small impoverished homes built on the side of the mountain, I begin to think about the faithfulness of God. And how God’s Word never returns void but it accomplishes the thing He has sent it out to do. God never sleeps and He never slumbers and He always stands ready to fulfill His promises. God truly has His hands stretched out wide towards His people here in Peru. As I walked back down the mountain and went into the service to minister on “Our Ability to Create”, the Lord began to walk through the meeting changing lives and meeting needs. One lady shared “ I suffered from a severe case of back pain for years due to a hernia, I could barely take the pain but this morning while the word was being preached the presence of the Lord came upon me and all my pain is completely gone!" The service was just as powerful. Sister Abigail preached on “Mantles” and teenagers flooded the altar and many were filled with the Holy Ghost. As the power of God continued to move all the families gathered together and prayed for one another. Fathers were praying for sons, mothers with daughters, children praying for grandparents, it was awesome! Entire families were crying out to God in groups scattered all over the church! Tears flowed from the eyes, shouts of praise, cries of deliverance and victory filled the air. God’s mighty hand was in this service and He was healing relationships. Families were healed today. The hearts of the children were turned back to their parents and everyone was calling on God! We were in church late last night. And God just kept moving, people were falling out  under the power of God. Young children crying and talking in tongues! Elders stirred up their gifts and allowed themselves to be used by God. It was truly glorious!

But I cannot end this report without telling you that God still heals! He has never lost His power. I don’t care if you have problems in your body, in your marriage, in your mind or in your family. Our heavenly Fathers holds the remedy, He has the answer to it all! I want to encourage you to bring your need into the presence of God and watch God work. Jesus said that healing was the children's bread so it is already yours! You just simply have to have faith in God! Don’t you dare carry that problem or that sickness another moment but cast your cares onto Jesus right now because He cares for you. Because what would take you a lifetime to try to resolve can be done in seconds in the presence of God! So this morning grab a hold of your daily bread and rise and be healed in the name of Jesus!

God bless you

Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez