Bill Johnson teaches on revival and how to overcome resistance through persistence in prayer and step into breakthrough. This message was shared just before the 110 year anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival of the early 1900s. Prayer plays a key part in the outcomes of the situations you face. There are times that God will do what He has planned to do regardless of your participation, but most of the time He is wanting to co-labor with you through prayer so that your partnership with Him has an impact on the course of history. Teaching from Daniel 9 and 10, Bill Johnson shares how God answered Daniel’s prayer the moment he started praying, but it took persistence in prayer for Daniel to actually receive that answer. If you don’t get an answer to prayer, it’s not the time to give up, but to lean in and persist in prayer until the breakthrough comes. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: Daniel 9 Daniel 10 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on January 24, 2016. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #Prayer #Breakthrough #Revival
sometimes we are Arms Reach away from
the Breakthrough we’ve been praying for
but because we fail to persist in prayer
we don’t fuel the heavenlies with the
reinforcement that are needed to bring
the solution and answer that was
actually released to us the moment we
started
praying oh good morning morning nice to
see
you happy people yes yes good
me
too I got some newspaper headlines here
that
are
amazing police begin campaign to run
down
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jaywalkers something went wrong in Jet
crash expert
says
pretty good
chance War dims Hope For
Peace it it could have that
effect if strike isn’t settled quickly
it may last a
while miners refuse to work after
death
red tape holds up new
Bridges new study of obesity looks for
larger test
group
astronaut takes blame for gas in
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spacecraft local high school dropouts
cut in
half that’ll teach
them and the winner is typhoon rips
through Cemetery hundreds
dead
I think it funny why don’t you open your
Bibles to Daniel chapter
9 I
uh I’ve got an enormous amount of
material to cover in a short time so I’m
going to kind of go quickly and Skip
around and we’ll just need you to follow
fast so are you ready to listen fast and
follow fast you ready to do that good I
if not I I don’t know what to tell you
it’s just it’s going to be a quick one
we’ve had a good morning full morning
but I I do have a very very very
specific word to
share um just hold uh your the paper or
something in uh Daniel 9 we’ll get to it
in just a moment 196 on April 9th the
isua Street Revival began with a small
handful of
people a oneeyed uh black uh Pastor
visiting from Houston came out and uh he
lost he lost eyesight one eye um due to
small pox he was the son of a
slave and he was passionate
for U Pentecostal
experience um at various places around
the world there were simultaneous
outpourings of the spirit all happened
really close to the same period of time
it happened in Norway happened in Korea
happened around the United States
happened actually in 1900 or 1900 want I
forget right now in Topeka Kansas my
mom’s parents my uh my grandfather was
baptized in the Holy Spirit
19001 and my grandmother in
193 and uh this outpouring of the spirit
that started in isusa Street went on for
about nine years and became the largest
Evangelistic um movement to impact the
Harvest of Souls of any movement in
olive church history uh experts tell us
there’s about 600 million Pentecostal
Believers around the world today and it
started with really a small Handful in
Pasadena California and
isua uh so many years
ago after that explosion took place of
that outpouring of the spirit um by the
way they were heavily criticized by
church leaders of their day heavily
critized ized by uh the Los Angeles
Times uh they mock them pretty regularly
it’s it’s interesting that uh probably
most everybody in the room knows the
name John Wesley Jonathan Edwards Smith
Wigglesworth uh Amy simple mcferson
William Seymour all these Heroes of the
faith but they all were outnumbered in
critics but you probably couldn’t tell
me any of their names because history
doesn’t remember the names of the
opponents to Revival you have to
research to find
it and
um yeah that’s worth thinking about
right
there from that movement another
explosive outpouring started in 1948
many call it the healing Revival I had
the privilege of sharing a meal with
Judson Cornwall who was a personal hero
of mine back in the uh I guess it would
have been in the 70s
and uh he’s home with the Lord now but
uh I whenever I had a chance to meet
with some of these Heroes I I didn’t
have many questions but I had one good
one and it just basically had to do with
Revival talk to me about Revival talk to
me about Revival and uh Judson told me
that uh back in the 50s and the early
50s there were these gospel tents you
know where they’d have these Revival
meetings there was over 350 of them at
one time moving around the United States
and these great Gatherings would take
place and miracles such as the world had
never seen certainly since the time of
Jesus extraordinary things were taking
place massive Harvest of of converts
people coming to Christ and uh but you
know it just got soiled people began to
compete the Evangelist some of them
began to compromise in personal areas of
the life not all of them but some of
some of them did and the Lord just
literally just lifted the anointing off
of that movement because it was so
compromised the purpose for which they
were given the anointing and that was
the Harvest of Souls and transformation
of a country and uh that which started
to bring transformation failed to reach
that place of impact a revivals have to
touch those in Upper echelons of society
that shaped the thoughts and the value
system of a country to really experience
an Awakening and it failed to do that
and it did so because the Lord lifted
the anointing after compromise and sin
it was a great outpouring uh
extraordinary Ary Miracles took place
during that period of time following
that the Jesus people movement which was
an amazing it was a strangest season in
the world fact we have George and Winnie
Ben off here they’re going to be here
tonight it’s going to be a party again
so glad you guys are here uh converts of
that Jesus people movement uh Georgian
got saved because they fed him and
that’s that’s his testimony so he takes
food everywhere to feed people for they
fed him for two months and he got saved
you know it
was uh it was an amazing season because
you could almost walk up to someone and
say peanut butter and they would want to
get saved you know it was just there was
such an anointing in the air for
bringing people to Christ and uh but
then that of course uh soiled a bit as
well charismatic renewal was glorious
1994 the Toronto outpouring began and
the longest protracted meetings took
place there in Toronto in all of church
history the longest protracted meetings
for years took place it’s never been
duplicated no one’s ever come close to
it in history it’s interesting to me
that there can be Sparks of Revival but
it needs a place to happen isua street
is a great example because there was
Topeka Kansas there was very places
around the country where the spirit of
God would fall upon people but it needed
a house it needed a place where it could
be ho where the Holy Spirit could be
hosted they say that they could get off
the train station in in Pasadena and
they would have head towards the isua
street place the building and and they
could see the glory from a great
distance they would they would ask for
directions and somebody would say well
just you know just keep walking you’ll
see it you’ll know when you see it you
know there would be just this
manifestation of the presence of the
Lord and um some of the things that took
place in these revivals over the last
100 years were just beyond description
William Seymour the pastor that really
helped to ignite and host that by the
way began to preach the outpouring of
the spirit before he experienced it and
is actually what caused him some
problems he started in one Church in one
Sunday and they padlocked the doors so
he couldn’t get in the next week because
he was preaching something that he
hadn’t experienced yet but he just knew
it was true takes a bit of courage to
speak something that you haven’t
experienced yet but you know it’s true
and often times we’re with our preaching
we’re trying to we’re trying to strike
oil you know we’re trying to find
something that the Lord will highlight
for us and so um he prophesied in uh in
that era in that period of time that in
a hundred years there was going to be
another outpouring that would by far
Eclipse that outpouring and if you can
imagine 600 million Souls since then
saved what would possibly Eclipse that
well Bob Jones back in I think he got
this word back in the 80s I I don’t hold
me to the date but for a number of years
he was G bringing us words here from the
late 90s on about the becoming one
billion Soul Harvest of Youth not
counting adults a billion Soul Harvest
of
Youth um Paul Kain has had Paul kan’s a
a real uniquely gifted Prophet who uh
has this seing gift Chris has had this
experience a number of times that I get
really jealous for but we’ll leave that
to the side at the moment and that’s
where uh they actually see with their
natural eyes things that are in the
spirit as though they were in the in the
physical and Paul Cain has had over 100
of these experiences seeing the same
thing over and over again and uh I don’t
know if he labeled it or others have but
they it’s been called Stadium
Christianity and it’s where the stadiums
that are around the world are filled
with people 24 hours a day for multiple
days on end there’s no key speaker
there’s no key anything except that God
is there and the an will say another one
has been raised from the dead and they
will describe you know the Miracles that
are taking place in this Stadium because
it’s not an anointing that rests on an
individual it’s an anointing that rests
upon the people of God which is what the
Lord has been targeting for years and
Randy Clark is such a champion in that
message and model it for us again this
week and but this word has gone forth
about stadiums being filled in fact he’s
actually uh Paul Kan has seen uh in the
spirit has seen news Clips on TV uh
where the broadcasters would would get
on the air and say we don’t have any bad
news to share with you tonight and then
they would show clips from these
stadiums Lou Engel is a dear friend of
of ours here we have championed uh his
Prayer Ministry uh unparalleled really
uh in fact I I call uh Lou Engel and
Mike ble the two most important alive
people alive because of their Covenant
to pray and they of course have raised
up an army with the exact same Covenant
so it’s it’s spread through thousands
and probably Millions but um with Lou
engel’s Covenant to pray and Gathering
millions of Believers together around
the world to pray to fast and to pray
and to seek God for the healing of our
Nations it’s uh it’s an unprecedented
movement that Lou has headed up um this
last summer Lou was trying to track me
down and I we were trying to meet and
our schedules are so crazy we ended up
missing each other in Amsterdam by about
I think it’s about 6 hours or 4 hours or
something I was taking I was Landing as
he was taking off and uh and only Divine
Providence could arrange this we we
ended up in London like a week or two
later at the exact same time I happen to
have a a break in an afternoon which is
extremely rare uh on these trips and uh
and Lou found out I was there and he
rushed over to the hotel we sat down in
a coffee shop and he shared with me
something that the Lord had been speak
speaking to him through a number of
Dreams prophecies we don’t have time to
go into detail but I honestly I sat
there Arrested realizing that I and we
had just been summoned by God for a
specific task and that’s really what it
felt like and uh I was uh he told me
about an event that uh he felt that we
were supposed to do on April 9th 110th
anniversary uh rent out the coliseum in
Pasadena seats 110,000 people and he put
his house up on the market to to uh pay
for the thing and um he uh uh just with
this passion uh didn’t want to do it
unless we were involved as well and
because he because his heart was um is
that we were we were to seek for a
double portion of what happened in the
50s and that we were to contend for that
sort of a breakthrough in this Coliseum
that could quite possibly ignite the
stadium Christianity thing that Paul Kan
has been prophesying about for for
decades and uh so as L Engel talked with
me I I looked at my schedule on April
9th I was supposed to be in South Africa
I’m going to be in Nigeria a few days
previous and was going to fly down to
South Africa and I realized South Africa
sorry we’ll have to make it up later and
so I I rescheduled I said Lou I’m there
I’m there we’ll we’ll be there I shared
with Chris and of course Luke came we we
have missions trips every year for our
students and we send you know a couple
thousand 1800 2,000 of them to 70 80
different locations around the world
it’s an incredible undertaking and the
the Miracles that take place through
these teams that go to these various
places around the world really are book
of Acts type Miracles it’s extraordinary
what takes place you just it’s just
mindboggling when you hear of how many
blind and deaf and lame
are healed and even the dead have been
raised and just extraordinary
demonstrations of God’s love and power
and um so we were I talked to Chris I
said man I’d love for all the students
to be able to after the mission trip
join us in Pasadena so their team
started working on it trying to figure
out how to make that happen and finally
it just became obvious that like trying
to hammer a round peg into a square hole
it just it we were having to force it
and so Chris made a call that I did not
expect and didn’t ask for but I really
felt it was the word of the Lord after
he told me is that we’re cancelling all
the trips this year and we’re taking the
entire weight of the school and bethl
church and we are aiming towards this
one window of opportunity this one
thing and
uh let’s read and then I’ll get back to
it all right Daniel
9 UM again I’m going to have I will
explain after we’ve read it but I I just
want you to see it in the word verse two
in the first year of his Reign I Daniel
understood by the books the number of
years specified by the word of the Lord
through Jeremiah the prophet that he
would accomplished 70 years in the
desolations of Jerusalem then I set my
face toward the lord God to make
requests by prayer supplication with
fasting sackcloth and Ashes and I prayed
to the Lord my God and made confession
just stop there I want you to move over
to chapter
10 chapter 10
verse 2 in those days I Daniel was
mourning three full weeks and this is
that fast I ate no Pleasant
food no meat or wine Pleasant food must
be dessert it’s the
only it’s the only thing I can figure it
it couldn’t be
carrots no for all of you vegetarians
God bless you I have upped the vegetable
intake in my life significantly when I
got married I liked all vegetables if it
was
corn and now I eat all kinds of things a
couple are still off limits but uh I
have grown I’ve just
grown but all you vegetarians I need to
tell you my food eats your
[Applause]
food and you still come back week after
week even though I torment and torture
bless your hearts all right I’m I’m
sorry I’m trying to have fun but a very
serious subject so I have to laugh now
and then so I don’t cry whole bunch like
my brother you
know verse three I ate no Pleasant food
nor meat or wine came into my mouth nor
did I anoint myself at all till three
whole weeks were fulfilled now jump over
to verse 10 suddenly a hand touched me
which made me tremble on my knees and
the palms of my hands and he said to me
oh Daniel man greatly beloved understand
the words that I speak to you and stand
upright for I have now been sent to you
while he was speaking this word to me I
stood trembling then he said to Meo not
fear Daniel for from the first day that
you set your heart to understand to
humble yourself before God your words
were heard and I came I have come
because of those words but the prince of
the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21
days and behold Michael one of the Chief
princes came to help me for I had been
left alone there with the kings of
Persia let’s stop right there and let me
just kind of give you a brief Overlook
and then I want to get back into the
application here
today Daniel set himself to fast and
this particular case is what’s been
called a Daniel Fast a vegetable only
fast uh turning away from sweets and
wine and meat and those sort of things
and he set himself to Fast And Seek the
Lord because he had been reading in the
book of Jeremiah
and he read where God was going to where
Israel was going to be captive Jerusalem
was going to be held captive in the
Babylonian system for 70 years at the
end of 70 years it’ be released so
Daniel’s reading this and he goes 70
years and he starts adding it up and he
realizes he is in the 70th year he is
living in the moment when it’s supposed
to happen he doesn’t Retreat and say
well it’s going to happen we’ll just
kind of get ready and get happy he
realized that the people of God had not
yet deeply repented for what was the
reason for their captivity in the first
place they hadn’t take care of the issue
they hadn’t taken care of the issues of
the heart and so he began to cry out to
God and fast and pray I love this story
because he he didn’t become careless so
many people become careless regarding
promises just assuming that everything
is going to happen as the Lord said
without their involvement it is true
there are occasional words that the Lord
speaks and releases that he will manage
completely it’s like you couldn’t mess
it up if you wanted to this is a done
deal but at least for me in my life I
have noticed that the majority by far
the majority I would say at least 70 or
80% if not 90% of the words spoken over
my life actually involve actually
require my involvement for their
fulfillment Larry Randolph told us years
ago the Lord will fulfill every word he
said over you but he’s not obligated to
fulfill your
potential some of the words are
contingent Upon Us reaching touching our
potential that place of assignment that
God has opened to us and so here’s this
profound story where Daniel prays for
three weeks and then he gives us the
only place in Scripture that I can think
of where he gives us a detailed picture
of the Unseen World while he’s
praying the messenger Angel which I can
assume is Gabriel although it doesn’t
say he’s usually the angel that brings
the messages messages from the Lord
he is sent to Daniel on the day that he
started fasting and praying so in other
words God
answered Daniel’s prayer the first day
he
prayed but the messenger Angel was held
up in Conflict by the Prince of Persia
the term Prince here is used of
principalities and then uh the messenger
Angel says um then the prince uh excuse
me then Michael came and delivered me
from The Prince of Persia and so I was
able to bring you the
answer Michael is one of the three
archangels it was Michael Gabriel and
Lucifer Lucifer of course was kicked out
of heaven a thir of the angels with him
so there’s two remaining there’s Michael
and there’s Gabriel so assuming it’s
Gabriel Michael comes because he’s the
Waring Angel and he delivers Gabriel
from this
conflict sometimes we are Arms Reach
away from the bre that we’ve been
praying for but because we fail to
persist in prayer we don’t fuel the
heavenlies with a reinforcement that are
needed to bring the solution and answer
that was actually released to us the
moment we started praying and this
picture gives us uh insight into an
unseen realm that if you don’t see that
you can Tire you can become weary of
well-doing and miss out on the
Breakthrough that God actually promised
and intended for us in the first place
profound Story one thing I do want you
to see before I I wrap it up I’ve got
just a short video to show you is I want
you to look at verse uh three the one I
mocked
earlier of chapter 10 I ate no Pleasant
food which just seems to imply
everything other than
meat I’m sorry I I just can’t leave it
alone can I
night I was I was sitting in a
restaurant the pastor couple he was a
meat eater his wife was a vegetarian I
just couldn’t lay
off we’re in this beautiful Steakhouse
and you can just smell the steaks you
know these prime prime beef I said I
turned to her I said you don’t smell
vegetables and she still likes me it’s
amazing all
right I ate no Pleasant food no meat
wine came into my mouth stop right there
the word Pleasant there is is the word
desirable in Hebrews the word
Shuda look at
verse um
11 and he said to me oh Daniel man
greatly
Beloved the phrase for man greatly
beloved
is the word
Shuda Daniel denied his right to
desirable things
here and became desirable
there he already loves us there’s no
question but there’s something added to
the favor Realm by saying I know I have
a right to this but for this season I’m
going to say no I’m going to say no
because I’m going to push into something
that is
greater can you play that video for me
now uh Lou and I were just together we
were just together in Korea and he
shared that dream dream with me just a
couple weeks ago I was in Korea and
Japan and Thailand and Singapore and uh
he was there he shared the dream with me
so I asked him if I put it on video so I
could show you because any word that’s
given to me is given to you please
notice he said Beth he just didn’t say
bill so uh whenever I pledge money it’s
always our money not mine so just
understand that it’s
it’s I speak as one you
all
um the word uh is very specifically it’s
it’s a few things it’s prayer and
fasting there’s a small window of
opportunity we emphasize and I think
rightly so that God is the god of Second
Chances in fact all of us are alive
because of most of us anyway have second
third fourth fifth
chances um but in this there’s also this
reality in scripture it’s ATT tension
really this chyos moment Concept in
Scripture that some things you only get
one chance at and I I I believe that the
Lord is calling upon us as is a church
body a church family I know many of you
have moved here from all over the world
just to be a part of what’s Happening
here and we are so indebted to you for
your courage and Faith to come and I
feel like just standing in front of the
whole family say you know what right now
is the time where we just buy into this
thing and say you know what we will
settle for nothing short of a double
portion anointing of what God did so
many years ago in uh Southern California
and places all over the world through
that healing Revival and we have right
now have another opportunity we have
that opportunity for prayer for fasting
I think we have about 75 days or so
between now and April 9th 9th uh we are
taking the entire school down I I guess
there are hundreds 5 six 700 maybe 800
from the church family that are going
down they’re going to be going down sum
are going down days ahead of time just
to start having smaller meetings and
breakthrough meetings um I am aiming at
the event but to be honest with you the
event isn’t my concern it’s what happens
after the event it’s it’s what it will
spark and I feel like the Lord has
summoned us I feel like he’s called us
to uh to respond to an opportunity given
to us to see something so profound rest
upon this time not healing evangelists
that become the heroes but this time
upon the body of Christ that take this
thing into the houses the highways the
byways the shopping malls and various
places of Commerce around the earth that
this is a moment where we get to just
say yes Lord yes Lord and uh I just I
want to encourage you we’ll be talking
about it occasionally between here now
and and the 9th of April but I feel like
we just have this Divine moment to say
yes we’ll stop will not stop short of
anything but double portion anointing of
what happened once we want to see again
but this time not just through key
people but through in entire church
families why don’t you stand with
me I I
uh I I love prayer I don’t love
fasting it’s better for me just to go no
food at all than to just do
vegetables actually I
I I I I’ve got to stop
that I’ve done both but but I I feel
like the Lord is actually giving us a
gift a gift for prayer a gift for
fasting a Grace for a season to pursue
breakthrough and so I want to ask you
just put your hands in front of you and
pray real briefly we’ll have uh our Tom
come on up here and get ready to wrap it
up but I just want to pray over how many
of you can just say you’re in you’re in
you’re in all right let’s put your hands
in front of you father I ask that you
would uh once again release a gift of
Grace for this season you’d wake us in
the night with the dreams the encounters
the prophetic words the things that help
to fuel our hearts God we we trust in
the prophets and succeed we are so
thankful that you are so generous with
how you talk to us but I ask now that
you would impart something for this
season that we would in fact see a
breakthrough that would spread light
their greatest Wildfire of all time
through the cities and nations of this
nation the cities the nations of the
world we pray this for the honor of the
name Jesus everybody
said amen amen all right just hold your
places if you would except a Ministry
team if we could get you down to the
front that would help us out a lot but
just hold your places listen to Tom