Have you wondered what your divine purpose is? You and I were created to follow in Jesus’ footsteps in revealing the Father. What better way to reveal God as Father than to live in our true identity as sons and daughters? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches on how we do that and walk in our divine purpose.
is not the result of strength and
determination it’s the result of
surrender it’s a yieldedness to his
Divine Purpose that you are left here on
planet Earth because you’ve been given a
responsibility to reveal the father
well good morning
so uh so wonderful
to see how many of you are at the bazaar
yesterday
was it bizarre or what it was it was
bizarre I I love that event I love it I
I have learned though you have to come
you have to have a lot of cash
and you need to come hungry
because like every other booth there’s a
food booth
and maybe it doesn’t happen to you but
food talks to me
it it calls me by name very tenderly
very tenderly and and I I ate well
yesterday so it was very fun I love
seeing all the creativity of the Arts
and everything you guys do very very fun
there’s a picture of a big basket of
eggs and it says boneless chicken
laughs
Common Sense is a flower that doesn’t
grow in everyone’s Garden
or so I’ve heard
so I’ve heard it’s not that diabetes
heart disease and obesity runs in your
families that nobody runs in your family
I
all right
that one just snuck up on me I didn’t
know it would touch a nerve as deeply as
it did
even duct tape can’t fix stupid
but it can muffle the sound
there should be a calorie refund for
things that didn’t taste as good as you
expected
that just makes sense to me there should
be
I accidentally I accidentally went
grocery shopping on an empty stomach and
now I’m the proud owner of aisle four
my favorite childhood memory is not
paying bills
I don’t understand why people say
hurtful things like you want to go for
Iran or here try this kale yeah
anyway all right all right
um
last April I was actually going to
promote uh one of our own put this book
together called Legacy letters
and um I don’t know what happened I
don’t remember now since it was last
April but I think something happened
with Benny where I needed to skip a
Sunday that I was actually scheduled to
be able to promote this and I remembered
recently and asked for permission to do
it now especially going into the
Christmas season
um this is the most fascinating Journal
that helps to record specific details of
your family’s Legacy in fact I just
brought one to my mom here just a couple
weeks ago
and it’s uh it captures high points
challenging points and asking questions
and so it’s a guided it’s like going on
a tour guide for the most meaningful
Journey that you could leave your family
it’s the kind of Journal that everybody
in this room will wish you had for your
family that you inherited from your
parents or grandparents or whatever and
it asks a Carrie actually put it
together after her uh recently but with
questions she wished she would have
asked her dad before he died he died
early in her life and so she put these
questions together and in turn I went
through them with her mom but I just uh
I’ve just really been we have such
strong emphasis on Legacy on inheritance
that I thought you know what I want to
do what I don’t normally do I really
want to encourage you to consider this
book Legacy letters and uh and what you
do is you give it to a parent or
grandparent or whatever and encourage
them to write down some of the detail
cells so that you we can Steward well
the Legacy that we’ve been given it’s a
very very purposeful and I love it is
there anyone here 80 years old or older
that would like to do this right oh
there’s two in one row down here so all
right I’m sorry for all the other 80
year olds that I missed uh
Chris will buy one for you just uh just
go into the bookstore and tell them
it was a different Chris I met was that
Chris
yeah that’s right all right grab your
bibles if you would open to the Gospel
of John
and chapter 15 it will take me a little
bit of time to get there
um
but uh put a piece of paper there or
something let me take some time
I actually uh
a little off subject here I actually
felt a week ago I was supposed to
announce something
and I I was hesitant uh not for any
reason except I just missed my
opportunity
and I was reminded again this week
and it’s a word
um that I was given
in I believe it was October of 1989.
I have this word actually on my bed
stand next to my bed those little stack
of cards that I like to review of words
that the Lord has given me through the
years and this one is October of 1989 it
was actually from Mario
and in this word uh very specifically
among other things that he addressed he
specifically declared that in this
particular era that we’re living in
right now there would be a dramatic
increase of Miracles through preaching
through the preaching of the word
I just felt I was supposed to declare it
I’ve seen it happen through the years
we’ve had it happen here I remember a
lady with uh
esophagus cancer esophageal cancer right
back here just during worship anointing
Just Came Upon her and it just
disappeared over here a gentleman in the
preaching of the word uh his the Bible
turned blurry and it wasn’t until he got
home removed his glasses he found out
his eyes were healed and so we’ve seen
things through the years we’ve had many
many many of them two numbers to record
or to mention but I I feel like I’m just
supposed to say
come expecting because both the presence
and the word really is healing and I
believe it’s going to be uh tapping into
the gift that God has given us in the
presence where do we get that Romans 8
says the holy spirit will give life to
your mortal body specifically the
indwelling holy spirit will give life to
your mortal body the second passage is a
concept is repeated often in the Book of
Proverbs that there’s healing in the
word of God that the word of God will
actually give health and healing to your
body I’m saying this because I I want to
invite you to join with me on a journey
I want us to discover Divine health
I’d like for us to discover what Israel
enjoyed in the wilderness while they’re
in Rebellion they’re not born again
they were not filled with the spirit of
God and yet they experienced Decades of
divine health and if God did that for
them those under a superior Covenant
should have access to the same so it’s
just an encouragement
um let’s let’s figure it out let’s just
pray into it and I believe the two key
components for us will be the presence
of God and the word of God and taking
communion I know is a is a regular part
of that that exercise so all right
John 15.
if I were to choose one verse out of the
whole Bible
that best summarized or addressed my
walk with Christ it would be the verse
we’re going to read today
or read it in a minute but it’s abide in
me and my word abides in you ask
whatever you will and be done
I don’t understand
how this happened or why it happened
but the Lord actually
designed
everyone in this room to be a co-laborer
with God to actually partner with him in
the dance so to speak so that his
purposes are accomplished in the Earth
and he Jesus the Eternal Son of God
never stopped being God
Eternal Son of God
chose to live with limitations while in
his Humanity
we know that because he said it he said
referring to himself he called himself
the son of man the son of man can do
nothing of himself
but what he sees the father doing or
here’s the father’s side so the point is
is Jesus himself lived with self-imposed
restrictions we have to ask the question
why as God he could have performed
anything but he chose to set an example
for us of what life could be like to
anyone who was forgiven of sin number
one number two empowered by the Holy
Spirit he modeled that lifestyle
and then he invites us into that
specific Journey
there’s a secret that he gave you know I
I
you read you read the the gospels and
you see what Jesus did he would speak
and people would say
he speaks different than anybody we’ve
ever heard speak before he speaks as one
who has Authority not as the scribes and
Pharisees which is a real
punch under the belt so to speak he uh
the the people would just point to the
fact that he speaks with authority what
he speaks things change atmosphere
changes
Jesus revealed what actually happens
whenever he spoke in John 6 I think it’s
verse 60 63 where he says my words to
you are spirit and they are life in
other words when I speak to you my words
become presence and that presence gives
life
Jesus at the beginning of his ministry
before he had performed any Miracles
picture this
he’s just one of the citizens of a
community Nazareth
Nazareth he um as a citizen of the
community is given the opportunity to
read in the synagogue on their daily uh
reading of scripture their weekly
reading of scripture he stood and he
begins to read out of Isaiah 61. now
remember he’s not multiplied food he’s
not healed anybody’s nothing’s happened
it stands to read it’s his turn and it’s
he says the spirit of the Lord God Has
Come is upon me
to preach gospel to the poor to release
captives recovery of sight to the blind
so he’s making this decree over himself
and because when he spoke he only said
when you heard the father say words
became presence so here’s a group of
people they are the tenth generation of
people who had not had a prophetic word
or a dream no encounters with prophets
nothing of the living presence happening
among them as was in their history and
is now common for you in me today they
were void of that so ten generations of
nothing Jesus stands up and he says the
spirit of the Lord God is upon me and if
you can imagine everybody in the
synagogue goes
because something just happened
something was just released in that
moment over them that they’ve never
experienced before in their life nor do
they know anyone who’s ever experienced
that
because all the generations before them
10 Generations nothing 400 years
so he speaks and suddenly there’s this
atmospheric shift presence fills the
room and he announces what he will be
doing with his life
if Jesus made that kind of a confession
that kind of a decree over his own life
as the Son of God perhaps maybe
it might be useful if you and I took on
the same thing and started making
decrees of what God Said is supposed to
happen in our life making the decrees
the spirit of God is upon me say that
with me the spirit of God is upon me to
release captives
recovery of sight to Blind
set captives free
prisoners free
that’s what we were born for we were
born for this and Jesus makes this
decree before anything ever happened
which is extraordinary
but he gives us a secret
he gives us a key it’s tucked away in
one little verse I’ve only been able to
find it one time in the whole new
testament
it’s in John 3. we won’t look there now
but I believe it’s verse 13 where Jesus
basically says I Ascend into heaven
to be with the father
can I just think with with me on this
this is early in his Earthly Ministry
he’s got three and a half years of
Earthly Ministry this is early
in that season
and here he announces no one has
ascended to Heaven except he that
descended
that is the son of man who’s in heaven
so he makes this very unusual claim
that he actually spends time in Heavenly
Realms with the father while standing on
planet Earth
teaching on this gives opportunity for
people to get really weird
but it’s worth the risk because if I get
12 of you to get it right it’ll be good
we’ll shape the course of history with
12.
the Lord has made it possible to live in
Heavenly Realms towards life towards
circumstances in life for most of us our
walk with Christ Is Us persuade trying
to persuade him to invade Earthly
problems and repair them
but Jesus didn’t Minister that way and
that may be the reason the son of man
everyone he prayed for was healed
everyone the father directed him to was
healed
every situation of a a funeral was
raised
even his own
every situation turned out differently
and I think it’s because he’s given us a
secret and he gives it in this one verse
he ascends
into the realm of heaven with his father
while standing on planet Earth
it’s not something you sweat and groan
for it’s something you you ask for
it’s not the result of Labor it’s the
result of surrender
it’s already in the purpose of God for
us to experience heavily Realms while on
Earth
later Jesus would die
he was resurrected
he ascended to the right hand of the
father and he was glorified
later he would ascend
but this tells us
I’ll put in my words because he was
sinless
he could appear before the father as the
son of man
the disciples watched his lifestyle
you know they had to be
overwhelmed and floored by the
extraordinary Miracles the creator of
Miracles the walking on water all the
things he was not afraid when there was
a life-threatening storm and they were
scared to death he was not intimidated
by the need of a of a fifteen twenty
thousand people crowd that were hungry
and they had no food none of those
moments ruffled him he moved in such
confidence and faith
they saw the Miracles they saw the
walking on the water they saw him speak
and this is one of the things that
really arrested the heart of a nation
was that whenever he talked
everything was different
was different suddenly people who didn’t
believe now believe
people were resistance are now hungry
extraordinary thing whenever he would
speak so the disciples the 12. they all
saw that but there was only one thing
they asked him to teach
them to do
said teach us to pray they watched him
go to the Mountaintop spend the night
there come down the next day knowing he
had prayed all night and watched
everybody in the crowd get healed they
watched the result of the mountain they
watched the result of the encounter they
watched the result of him spending time
with the father he came down and was
able to implement the heart of the
father in the Earth
I remind you
Jesus’s main purpose in coming to Earth
was to reveal the father
you say well he came to die and that’s
true but that was to reveal the father
he came to destroy the works of the evil
one that’s true but that was to reveal
the father he came to make an open
display of the foolishness of the powers
of Darkness but that was to revealed
father all of those things were had one
Target in mind and that was to come to a
planet of Orphans and reveal the ache of
their heart although they lacked the
language for it and he revealed the
father
his absolute seamless partnership with
his father made it possible for him to
anything he prayed for
what’s done
John 15 verse 7 and 8 two verses that
we’ll read
how did I end up in John 16. it’s a real
good chapter it’s just not what I wanted
you to go to so let me see if I can find
it here
what’s that
yeah yeah John 15 is
but I ended up over actually I was in
17. all right
sorry about that I’m back I hope you
missed me I I missed you
verse seven if you abide in me
and my words abide in you
you will ask what you desire and it will
be done for you
by this my father is glorified that you
bear much fruit
so you’ll be my disciples verse 8.
I believe
because of the context
he’s saying the father is glorified
through answers to prayer
and that the fruitfulness of the
believer’s life is answers to prayer
let me take it a step farther
I believe
you and I owe the father
answers to prayer
it’s awkward to put it that way because
we think that he’s the one
who is going to answer what he has
already determined to answer and we need
to step into the river if you will the
flow of what he’s already accomplished
and that’s what answers to prayer are we
step into the flow of what he’s already
intended to do
answers to prayer are actually
the most practical one-up the most
practical evidences of an ongoing
relationship with God
it’s an Evidence of his involvement in
me and my surrender to him
So In this passage he says if you abide
in me my words abide in you you will ask
whatever you want so what do we have in
this verse we have the three main parts
of our life number one abide in me it’s
the presence number two
your word abides in my heart
the value of scripture
so the presence scripture and number
three is purpose
our purpose is revealed in answers to
prayer we were actually designed if you
can picture it this way
every person in this room was created
once forgiven of sin
created to live in a seamless connection
with the Holy Spirit
you were designed for him
Everything About You from personality to
unusual gifts perceptions everything
that’s not defiled by sin
is actually a part of the design of how
you relate to him some of you relate uh
through Concepts and insights others
through tangible Sensations that you
feel in your own body he works so
differently and so diverse and by the
time you get it figured out he changes
the lesson you know so you get to learn
a whole new one but the whole point is
is he is discipling training us to
respond seamlessly
to this holy spirit so that he can be re
so that he can enable us to reveal the
father in the Earth how is it done it’s
through answers to prayer
it’s not just answers to prayer
it’s this something happens in the
presence and the intentional embracing
of whatever God says that shapes the
capacity in me to dream Beyond human
limitation
that was really good let me say it again
because
I need to
there’s something about the abiding in
presence
this one who knows no limitations
and his word which is filled with hope
and promise and purpose those two things
being activated in me as a gift and
treasure
releasing me the capacity to dream at a
level that is beyond human expectation
to dream at a level that actually
influences the outcome of history and
influences the destiny of humanity
what he says whatever you desire will be
done he is not saying
dream of whatever car you want and I’ll
provide that for you I’m thankful that
kind of stuff happens
but that’s not the purpose here he’s not
looking to to create you know people
with mansions on the hilltops you get
one awesome enjoy it but the purpose of
this prayer is a lot different than that
it’s actually the kind that shapes the
course of history it literally shapes
the course of history you can read the
record of intercessors during World War
II and you can find specific prayer
meetings that happen at specific times
when battles turned and changed in a
moment because people were standing they
got praying very specifically we’ve
watched it throughout history where the
Lord has moved upon certain individuals
to show them what exactly to pray for
what exactly to do
and I believe we’re at a critical hour
where all of our of our nice ideas of
what God would want to do in the Earth
as good as they are
until they’re breathed out of his mouth
they do not shape history I don’t know
if that makes sense to you I can pray
for Revival every day of my life till I
die but it’s not until the spirit of God
empowers that prayer to shake heaven if
you will it’s not until that kind of a
prayer is prayed that something happens
because there’s there’s there’s
something about the yielded soul in
prayer that Delights the heart of God
because he created us for the purpose of
co-laboring to work with him to be
partners in the dance where he leads in
the dance we simply demonstrate who he
is and what he’s like
foreign
if you abide in me there’s two classic
books uh one uh probably is more well
known than the other practicing the
presence of God by Brother Lawrence
father Lawrence he he lived uh every day
of his life
um in this particular season to uh to
live aware of the spirit of God on him
24 7 or all of his waking hours and he
he says he never arrived at at never
losing awareness of him but he got
better and better at it so much so that
his times were in the monastery always
washing pots and pans the presence of
God was this manifest in those moments
as when he was in solitude praying in
the temple so he had cultivated and
developed an awareness of the spirit of
God that was ongoing and it made every
menial task
filled with eternal purpose
it took every menial boring part of life
and energized it with Divine Purpose
the second book is by um
George Peck and it’s called Throne life
and it basically says this in fact let
me just use Paul’s scripture in Romans 6
where he talks about our water baptism
he says if you then being baptized
let me rephrase it in the same way that
Jesus was raised from the dead when you
emerge out of the water you raise up in
newness of life so think about this in
the same way in the same measure
to the degree that you believe Jesus
rose from the dead to that degree
you have been born again transformed and
the spirit of God lives in you with
nothing impossible it’s it’s he links it
to the reality of the death and
resurrection of Christ
Throne life
when you’re born again
you are put literally in Christ
who is seated at the right hand of the
father that means you’re operating your
residence of operation
is at the right hand of the father
implementing his purposes on the Earth
your prayers matter
but they are the result of surrender to
presence and surrender to word
something happens in the heart of the
person who becomes energized with
presence who becomes ignited with the
promises of God’s word something happens
in that person’s heart where they pray
things that actually
make a difference
I ended the first years earlier trying
to think of a way to put it if if
nothing’s happening when you pray
if his word
doesn’t matter to you
your word won’t matter to him
it doesn’t mean we aren’t of value to
them but to shape the course of history
requires a surrender
it’s not the result of strength and
determination it’s the result of
surrender it’s a yieldedness to his
Divine Purpose that you are left here on
planet Earth because you’ve been given a
responsibility to reveal the father how
is it done one of the primary ways
is through answers to prayer
and so he says if you abide in me that’s
actually living in the felt realization
of his presence
everybody in this room has a let’s just
call it a muscle it may not be developed
but it is there it’s a gift it’s a
muscle uh a a capacity an awareness an
ability to live aware of God
everyone has it for some it’s
undeveloped
for some the fear of being an extremist
has kept you from exploring a gift that
he gave you he gave you an invitation
theology is not to make you smarter it’s
the invitation for encounter so that we
once again through our lifestyle
illustrate and model what this Living
Word looks like
if you abide in me
living in the felt realization of
presence
you don’t you can’t develop that in
busyness you have to shut things down
and spend time in quiet
people come to me they say I’ve really
prayed about this that’s awesome Have
you listened thank you
everybody complains to God
and call it prayer that’s right
Have you listened
cultivating the awareness of the spirit
of God I think corporate worship is one
of the main ways that God teaches us to
recognize his presence
the beautiful thing is is we are not
left with the need for thousands once we
leave the building because we’ve learned
to interact with the spirit of God we’ve
learned what it’s like to honor him and
to celebrate somehow the anxieties and
the fears and all the junk that we came
in with just peels off and we stand
there in this place of absolute delight
and peace that can and must be
maintained throughout the week you lose
it don’t worry next week is coming
we’re here to recalibrate get back to
due north and find out how to live this
life but the life is to live with
constant awareness of the spirit of God
number one number two he said if my word
abides in you
it’s an intentionality
it’s a
it doesn’t happen by accident there
actually has to be an intentionality on
my part that says God spoke to me
it means a lot to me
I’m going to have it typed out on a
three by five card
I’m going to stick it next to my bed
for 33 years
I’m going to ponder it often
I’m going to pray it
I’m going to declare
if you abide in me
and my word abides in you
the best example was Mary the mother of
Jesus
the words that were given to her by the
Shepherds and the wise men and Anna and
Simeon the whole group they would speak
things to her and it said she there’s
two words that they used that that were
used to describe this part of her
journey number one says and she would
treasure these words in her heart
another word that was used is she would
Ponder
she would she would bring out of
concealment if you will Treasures you
you hide away
not because
you don’t want anyone to know
but because you’re a steward of
something divine
and it’s not open for human trafficking
Joseph
shared his dreams
at an inappropriate time and created
problems for himself they didn’t
necessarily have to face
Psalms 105 says until the time Joseph
until the time that his word came to
pass the word of the Lord tested him
his word was the dreams
given from God but spoken out of season
and so that whole season he was being
tested by the word of the Lord to get
him now ready to inherit what he had
declared over his own life
Mary
took the treasure and then she’d bring
it out and ponder it
review it consider it think over it
if you have a
a vase that’s worth a million dollars
first of all I want to know where you
got it
you have a vase that’s worth a million
dollars you don’t put it on the coffee
table where the children are playing
right why well it makes no sense it’ll
break for sure
it’s if you treasure it if you value it
you’re going to put it where it’s safe
it doesn’t mean you put it in a safe
never bring it out but you only bring it
out in safe environments
I believe in broadcasting the good news
to anyone and everyone
but there are some things that he has
spoken so deeply and Tenderly to you
that your stewardship over that word is
the willingness to share it with no one
I know that goes against so much of what
we believe and say but I hope you
receive it in the context there is a can
he say something to you that you will
not broadcast because it is intimately
for you
sometimes we work to gain notoriety by
sharing what God has shown us when in
fact we’re supposed to sit on it
so he says if you abide in me there’s
living in that felt realization of
presence and my word abides in you you
take that which is an absolute treasure
and you bring it out at the most
appropriate times to review to ponder
those two things working in you will
qualify you to pray the most extreme
things and watch them happen and he says
whatever you desire will happen
what he doesn’t say is that if you pray
when I tell you to pray I’ll answer your
prayer
that’s how it’s commonly taught
and I I get it the you know us praying
holy spirit-led prayers is huge and the
Holy Spirit leads us to pray something
then that’s what we do
I remember years ago we were having
leaders uh uh conference
and we had just received news that our
friends were down in Fiji and our
earthquake had happened in the ocean
there was a tidal wave headed towards
Fiji do you remember this Chris we began
that we began to pray as a group we had
just gotten the news on the front row
here we just began to pray as a group we
started to pray that God would protect
them and we specifically prayed it’s a
weird prayer God put a block wall a
brick wall between that wave and that
Island
strange way to pray I know but it was a
really Holy Spirit anointed prayer and
somebody found a painting that was
painted here prophetically the night
before
they went and got it and put it up and
it was a wave with a brick wall and an
island
and they’d painted it the night before
how do you know that gives you
confidence in your praying you know
suddenly this prophetic imagery takes on
meaning and power and it was an
intensity it took place in our prayer
and the news that we received just a
little while later is the title we’ve
had dissipated completely the point is
there’s none of that stuff that cannot
that there’s not a Divine answer for
if if we just step into the place of
praying the heart of God over a matter
I know we’re supposed to pray as he
leads us
but I think
I think there’s a certain amount of
Liberty
I don’t know it feels to me like God has
put himself at risk to the desires of
his surrendered people
four times in three chapters he says
whatever you ask for
four times
this is the same context where he says I
no longer call you servants I call you
friends
singing I Am A Friend Of God doesn’t
make you a friend of God
it’s a good song
but it requires time
I remember when Brian and Jen
the Haley was
first born actually
but Haley was due I think the day or two
later it’s a Sunday morning and I was at
the back door and she stopped by and she
was great with child ready ready to
convert to their first child
she stopped at the door and said I’m
ready and so I had to spontaneously laid
hands on him prayed she instantly went
into labor don’t come to me if you’re
pregnant because it hasn’t worked one
time since then but it worked then
and come to find out she was in a real
uh critical shape condition
and when she was born it’s very very
scary
period of time but I just remember all
of us being up in the hospital room in
the waiting room praying now I remember
Benny separated herself from the whole
group that was praying
and she got along with God
and this is what she said she said
father
what are we doing
all she wanted to know is what is he
doing because she would do that
and he spoke something very simple to
her
buy or sell
she took that step did what he said
prayed accordingly
and the thing turned within a very very
short period of time it all it altered
why
collaboring
it’s co-laboring it’s
it’s doing what he’s doing it’s saying
what he’s saying
it’s discovering his heart it’s like
surrender will take you everywhere you
need to go
surrender will take you everywhere you
need to go everywhere that your heart
aches for surrender will take you there
so that your faith can be demonstrated
something happens in these moments and I
believe that the Lord is um
you know here’s what I think I think I
think Peter learned this can’t prove it
but
I think Peter learned it I think that’s
why his shadow healed
I think it’s why his shadow healed your
your Shadow will always release whatever
overshadows you
if you live in the felt realization or
presence everything about you even
Shadows become important significant and
meaningful everything
I’ve seen it happen walking by somebody
and the shadow heals
we’ve seen these things happen through
the years
but they’re exceptions
I think he’s inviting us into a
lifestyle
what would it be like
to have one hour of your day
just one hour where every thought you
had
was a thought from him
every perspective you had in that one
hour
was a perspective that he had
I’ve got this sense that it would become
so addicting
that we would want to press it on to two
hours a day
and three
in Genesis it says
that there was night and it was day
which made up the first day
our day begins at night
for the believer
Monday starts when you crawl into bed
tonight
and I think what we do
when we crawl into bed at night that we
have that moment of Stillness of
quietness
to activate
an affection for God
to activate an awareness
I in those moments I’m not wanting to
intercede for the Nations I want to go
to sleep you know I’m not trying to
think of the next song I’m just saying
you know in bed I’m it’s not that it’s
just this moment of seamless connection
to the spirit of God in this place to
have a Burning Heart of affection for
him that in those last moments of my day
the first moments of my next day
they began
abiding
and his word abiding
somehow it positions me it Crips me if
you will
to reveal the father
on Monday
through answers to prayer through acts
of obedience through stepping into
places of Courage simply because
of that felt realization of presence and
the intentional embracing of anything
God says
and I believe that the Lord is giving us
opportunity for this verse
foreign
he opens things up like this to us
so that they matter
so that they so that they matter so that
so that
it it doesn’t matter that I can quote
points from a message what matters
as I see through his eyes and I feel
different about my situation
I sense his heart over this impossible
thing and I don’t fear it any longer
because I now realize it’s no longer
impossible
that the felt realization of presence
has bolstered up this gift of Courage
that is a part of the Christian Life
it does not mean it’s not up in ups and
downs what it means is our lifestyle
continuously improves by increasing the
awareness of God in our life and the
awareness of his word what he said over
our lives
I think it would do all of us
a real good thing to
confess over our own lives the spirit of
God is upon me
say that with me the spirit of God is
upon me
the spirit of God is upon me
why don’t you stand
the spirit of God is upon me
he’s anointed me
to release captives
recovery of sight to the blind
preach the gospel to the poor
see the spirit of God is actually upon
us for this purpose
I think I’m going to try that tonight I
like that when I get into bed I I don’t
want to pray for the Nations but I think
I would like to just make a declaration
over my Monday
the spirit of God is on me
seamless connection with the heart of
God
nothing can interfere without my
permission
let me rephrase that the only things
that can interfere
interfere because I gave them permission
so father I pray uh
goodness I prayed this 100 times about
through the years
but I ask again that you would gift us
with an awareness of you that actually
wakes Us in the night
where we actually become
stunned in our awareness of the almighty
God who is with us
and that you’d give us the determination
of heart to Value whatever you say
to write it to quote it to sing it
to confess it
whatever you say over our lives
and then I pray that the next 12 months
13 months
would be the most
incredible months of breakthrough to
answers to prayer the scariest largest
request we could ever come up with that
in this next season they would be
fulfilled because we abide in you and
your word abides in us I ask this in
Jesus name amen amen all right
good son
before anyone leaves I want to make sure
I give opportunity to anyone here who
has never made
a personal confession of faith in Christ
you’re here because God brought you
even if somebody drug you here you’re
still here because God brought you
and I believe and I’m going to ask
there’s no moving around at this moment
this is too holy of a moment for uh
for anything else
I want to give opportunity for anyone
here who has never made a public
confession of faith
of what we would call surrendering your
life to be a follower or disciple of
Jesus Christ
if that’s not been a part of your life
you’ve never been what the Bible calls
born again
but you can tell by the own discomfort
of your own soul that you’ve got to get
things right with god well he’s made it
possible for you to actually be born
again
Everything Changes in a moment of faith
and if that’s you I’m going to ask you
to acknowledge that by just putting your
hand up saying that’s me I don’t want to
leave the building bill I don’t leave
the building until I know I have found
peace with God and I know what it is to
be born again put your hand up high
anybody put your hand up high if that’s
you
okay right back over here is one
wonderful thank you
yeah
beautiful I bless you in the name of the
Lord anybody else real quickly
all right here’s what I’m going to ask
we’ve got trusted friends anyone over
here that wants to pray with people
about your relationship with Jesus we’ve
got a group over here I’m going to ask
this one gentleman to raise your hand
come on down come right over here we
have trusted friends that will talk with
you pray with you if you brought this
guest uh then walk him down I would like
Ministry team to come forward today is a
day of Miracles and if you’ve come
needing a miracle this is the place to
be who’s taken my place you are would
you please come on up here and tell them
what they’ve won yeah I’m so glad that
you watched this video I do pray that
it’s a great great strength and
encouragement to you and I’ve got a
verse that really is My Cry for all of
us and it’s Psalms 20 it’s verse 4. may
he grant you your heart’s desire and
fulfill all your plans
that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that
this would be the season of rich rich
fulfillment
thanks for joining us