June 28, 2008 CGC City Takers
CG: Why City Takers?
Pastor F. Hechavarria: Because it’s time for a takeover! Do you realize that God wants to use you to snatch the lives of young people out of the hands of the enemy? There is a generation that’s waiting for a rescuer. There is a generation that’s waiting for someone to rise up and make a declaration that they will take over their cities. My father in the Lord has a hunger and a passion to take over Miami and what we’ve done is joined with the man of God to take a stand here in Miami and declare that Miami is a city for God! City Takers is a response to the hunger and the passion in the heart of the man of God that there is a need to take this city. We’ve decided to put our lives behind just to go in the search of somebody else’s life.
CG: Define a City Taker. Can anyone be one?
Pastor F. Hechavarria: You who are reading this, you can also be a city taker! It doesn’t have to do with degrees, race, age, it has to do with passion, with hunger. How desperate are you to see God turn your city upside down. If you make a decision to go after God, to go after those in your community and neighborhood that need Jesus Christ you are a city taker. The bible declares that God chose you before you were in your mother’s womb to do great things. So you are a city taker! All it takes is for you to make a decision and you’ll see the changes in your school, community, everywhere you go, you’ll see an entire city turned upside down.
CG: How do you plan to stay connected with the other youth leaders that came to the City Taker’s conference?
Pastor F. Hechavarria: We’re going to keep in contact with them in a very powerful way. We have enabled our website to be a place where you can come and upload your pictures, video’s, blogs, everything that you are doing in your city to take over it. City takers are not just a few of us here in Miami but leaders from all around the globe who came to this conference. Another way we are going to stay in touch is by getting together again at our next conference in 2009 that you can already register for on our website.
CG: What are your expectations now that the conference is over? What about the rest of 2008?
Pastor F. Hechavarria: The conference was not just a weekend thing. The main purpose of this conference was to instill in young people’s hearts the hunger to take over their cities. One thing that I’m expecting to change is to see those that were far away from having passion to take over or perhaps not that interested in someone else’s life or how well someone else was doing to getting full of fire to take over their city. Did you know that there are teenage girls around your neighborhood that are getting pregnant around the age of 12 or 13? Did you know that there are young people that are being shot right now even as you read this? Did you know that there are young people that are taking their own lives by committing suicide? Do you realize that there is so much need in your city and unless you stand and become a voice those people will be on their way to Hell and there will be no one to rescue them? That’s what I’m expecting to change. I’m expecting for you to change your perspective about your community. I’m expecting for you to go after the lost. I’m expecting for you to really have that passion to take over your city engraved in your heart. That you will go to sleep thinking about City Takers. That you will get up in the morning thinking about how you can take over your city. When you do that I give you my word you will begin to see God moving like he’s never moved before in your life, family, church, and city.
CG: During your session you mentioned that you had a message but the Holy Spirit had you minister instead. Why do you think that God was so persistent in having you minister instead of giving the message that He gave you?
Pastor F. Hechavarria: Great question. Why did God tell me to take half an hour of my session just to be able to minister? One of the main ways that my father in the Lord has taught me to take over a city is through signs, wonders, and miracles. What good is it if all we talk about God who can heal us when we never demonstrate it? What good is it that we stand in the city and we proclaim with a loud voice that God can heal the sick, deliver the bound, and raise the dead but there is no manifestation of what we are declaring? Declaration without manifestation is void.
God wants you to manifest what you are declaring. I believe it was so impacting because there were so many young people in there that they had heard about a healing God but they had never seen a foot that was flat to make an arch. They had never seen a leg that was this short to get aligned to another leg. They had never seen an arm grow to reach the length of the other arm. They had never seen the miracles that they saw there. So that’s why I believe it was essential that God impressed me. Weeks before my session came He told me, “Son, I want you to demonstrate. Go minister and demonstrate my power amongst those that are merely talking.”
