Do you need courage? Bill Johnson exhorts us to press in for a baptism of courage in this season. Courage is vital as we co-labor with God through prayer, and walk with wisdom and understanding in these times.
thank you
thanks thanks nice to see you
that that camera bar back there i
thought it was a tennis net and i
thought man we got tennis in here that’s
awesome
that would make some people very happy
all right
nice to see i i get here right now in
this season about every other week so
i’m sure you weren’t here last week but
it’s nice you showed up when i was here
so
it’s good to have you
and bless our online community we’re so
thrilled to be able to have friends and
family really around the world so we
honor and bless you as well
well well well i do have some funny
things to read and
that seems to be actually
in the first service today i just kind
of wanted to do that the entire time for
about 30 minutes
and sometimes it’s just that kind of a
day and
i’m not guaranteeing anything today i
just want you to know
and and they’re all old
so just pretend they’re new
actually i have one new one
a man and his wife his mother-in-law
went on a vacation to the holy land
while they were there the mother-in-law
passed away
the undertaker told him you can have her
shipped from home for five thousand
dollars or you can bury her here in the
holy land for a hundred and fifty
dollars
the man thought about it and told him
he’d just soon have her shipped home
the undertaker asked why would you spend
five thousand dollars to ship
your mother-in-law home when you it
would be wonderful to have her buried
here and spent only 150 dollars
the man replied a man died here 2 000
years ago he was buried here
three days later he rose from the dead
i just can’t take that chance
[Applause]
i’ll give you another chance
a baptist minister
a baptist preacher went to see a member
of the community invited him to come to
church on sunday morning the man was a
producer of fine peach brandy and he
told the preacher he’d love to attend
his church if the pastor would drink
some of his brandy and admit it in front
of the congregation
in kindness the preacher agreed had a
small glass sunday morning came and the
man came to church
the preacher recognized him from the
pulpit and said i see mr jones is here
with us this morning i want to thank him
publicly for his hospitality this week
and especially for the peaches he gave
me and the spirit in which they were
given
[Applause]
my friends up all right
three friends from the local
congregation were asked when you’re in
your casket
and your friends and congregation
members are mourning over you
what would you like for them to say
daniel said i would like them to say i
was a wonderful husband a fine spiritual
leader and a great family man roger
commented i’d like them to say i was a
wonderful teacher and a servant of god
who made a huge difference in people’s
life
frank said i’d like for them to say look
he’s moving
[Applause]
no
i’m gonna do one more i’ve never i’ve
never done this one before
this this is this is yeah
yeah and and uh this is yeah
socialism
you have two cows
the state takes one gives it to your
neighbor who doesn’t have a field to put
it in
[Applause]
communism you have two cows the state
takes both gives you some milk then the
cows die due to neglect
fascism you have two cows the state
takes both sells you some milk the cows
die in the war
nazism you have two cows the state takes
both and shoots you
this this one is to offend everybody
within
reach then the cows are killed in the
war
traditional capitalism you have two cows
you sell one by a bull the herd
multiplies the economy grows you sell
them and retire on the income
i have the whole front row is
interceding for me right
in the nuremberg trials
one of the
men on trial was asked
the question how did
how did you get the people of germany to
buy into your your deal was i’m
paraphrasing
and they said it was easy it has nothing
to do with nazism
it has to do with
fear can control people if you can get
them to be afraid
and
the tool that the enemy has been using
ever since i mean way back
to the garden i mean it goes out far
back but there’s been an intensity level
that has increased dramatically in the
last 18 months
and the effort to control the values and
thoughts the conduct of people through
fear
is extraordinary
um
i’m not a fan of socialism
i have friends who are but i’m not one
of them
socialism
is communism in diapers
it wins and i’m i’m not looking for any
applause or any
you know support i’m i just want to make
some statements and knowing that it’ll
sit well of some and it won’t sit so
well with others but just at least we
can maybe think
socialism um
has an over emphasis on government
at the expense of human responsibility
humanism is the religion of socialism
socialism worships at the shrine of
human rights over response human
responsibility
and human rights are valuable but they
never can exceed human responsibility or
you end up in a moral decline
and it’s vital that you and i
understand what’s
at hand and to
we battle not against flesh and blood
the
goal is not to
incite some
sort of activist movement where we
you know
launch verbal
abuses towards people who disagree
that’s nonsense because that’s playing
on the devil’s field
when you play on the devil’s field
you can’t win
we can only win on his field
and it’s the beauty the wonder of the
gospel the gospel has answers and
solutions for every single human dilemma
there are people in their heart of
hearts who want to succeed but don’t
know how
and so out of fear they buy into a
system that promises them bread tomorrow
here’s the
i’m going to talk just a few minutes on
this and then we’ll actually open the
bible and talk about something else
so i’ll give you a chance to get
cleansed by the word
and all of you that are hurt by my words
you’ll recover i promise
if
if somebody’s in need over here if i
take your car and i give it to somebody
who doesn’t have a car
me as government calls that compassion
but it’s not compassion until i give my
car
there’s many things that slide under an
illusion of compassion and justice and
they’re actually the opposite
and
my burden for this hour for this day is
that as a people
we could be discerning and understanding
what’s actually happening if you take
the last 40 years
and you look at history in the united
states and in the nations around the
world you’ll see a slow steady march
towards a one world government
i’m not saying we’re close to it i’m
just saying we’re closer than we’ve ever
been
here let me just if i haven’t offended
everyone yet give me a moment
give me a moment
i’m i’m trying i’m trying
yeah all right so
with the mark of the beast
you can’t buy
or sell
or do business
and without a vaccine
they want you to not be able to buy
or sell
or do business
now i’m not opposing vaccines
i’m just saying this is an interesting
dress rehearsal
for a bigger issue in the future
and we’ve just got to be careful what we
buy into
not everything you buy into today that
will bless you
let me rephrase it some of the things
you buy into today will cost you
tomorrow
wisdom
the lord said the bible says the lord
prospers his servant he adds no sorrow
to it so when the lord does it there’s
no balloon payment
does that make sense there’s not like oh
no when is something bad going to happen
he doesn’t work that way
when he imparts the blessing to somebody
it comes with sustainability
in its in its system
socialism is funded by entitlement
and there are many of us in this room
that would be 100
opposed to socialism but have married
the spirit of entitlement
and what you have going on on the inside
is actually what creates the room for
socialism on the outside
and it’s walking with that kind of
wisdom that resolve to honor the lord
with everything you are everything you
have
in a way that is responsible
the lord is so interested in increase
that when the guy who had the talent in
scripture you remember the five talents
of two the one
he says you could have at least put it
in a bank and gained interest everything
was about increase
it’s not about what you were given it’s
about what you produce
and i realize that that can be taken to
an extreme where we create a works
uh oriented environment and i i’m not
interested in that but it’s still true
it’s still true that god rewards
according to productivity
as we’ve stated a number of times i know
i’ve heard chris do it i’ve done it a
few times as well that
the promised land is an interesting
place
because it wasn’t where they went and
sat on a beach sipped iced tea
and waited for jesus to return they
actually had to go in
in the wilderness they picked up the man
off the ground they followed a cloud not
much else to do in the promised land
they had to plant crops they had to
harvest they had to work with herds they
had to do all that stuff
the point is
is we are never more fully alive than
what than when we are walking in our
divine assignment producing things for
his glory that is what we are wired for
now it’s the privilege of a of a culture
to care for those who are disabled
especially war veterans who cannot
hold down a normal job anymore it is our
responsibility to care for them those
who are mentally disabled cannot
function it is the privilege i’m not poo
pooing all uh government stuff
but i’m just saying
socialism is like fire i think i already
said it it’s like the fire of proverbs
it never says enough
it never says enough there is no end to
its increase of power and this is where
as a people first of all we pray
secondly
i’ve heard christians say forgive me
because this is probably something most
all of us have said but i’ve heard
people say well there’s no no political
leader is my savior
well i don’t know one christian that
ever thought of any political leader as
ever being able to save them
but unfortunately that statement is
usually not always but usually made by
somebody who doesn’t want to vote or
they just don’t want to take godly
counsel for how they vote
[Applause]
all right
i need a drink before i finish this
so we have responsibility
to understand to articulate
now listen carefully
righteously resist
learn how to intercede and pray
to understand what the challenges are to
make sure that it’s fixed in here first
i uh
i have
uh the highest status
you can get with
the airline that i fly with
they don’t even tell you how you can get
it
there are statuses that you get by many
miles but there’s one status they don’t
even tell you about
you have to be invited
i’ve been invited
i’ve been in there for years i’m i’m
thankful
and uh sometimes what happens is i will
land late somewhere and there’s a short
time between
where i landed and where i’ve got to get
and they will meet me right off the
plane with a sign they said you’re mr
johnson yes come with me they’ll take me
down onto the tarmac they put me in a
mercedes they drive me to the next gate
it’s wonderful
[Applause]
until
i’m really late
on a flight i’ve got a short time and
they’re not there
is anybody catching the picture here all
of a sudden a gift they gave gave me
is one that i expect
i’ve been i’ve been treated rudely on a
plane once and i thought i just need to
pull out my status card to show them
what they do who they just talk to
one guy oh goodness
i won’t tell you what happened he just
he just was extremely rude
and he said
you’re no different than any other
pastor
and i said
we’ll see
[Laughter]
[Applause]
then i think he looked on his chart to
see who i was
and my status
and that guy could not do enough for me
the rest of the fight to take care
you know
you you get into these places of favor
and blessing and increase
and it creates an appetite
that if you’re not careful
you can actually think you earned it
now i could say i’ll i have that status
because we spent this amount of dollars
and uh and that’s how the airline takes
care of those who spend that much money
because of all the flying that i do
there’s a lot of arguments you can make
in your head for why you deserve
something
and it’s that entitlement that has
actually created the spirit of socialism
in the land
and if we can deal with it here
we’ll be positioned correctly to deal
with it out here
does that make any sense all right
all right that’s all i’m
[Applause]
doing i love my bible yes i do i love my
bible
um
our friends love their
socialist government
as long as
they’re being blessed
but as soon as they say you can’t leave
your house for two weeks
it’s not as fun
and there’s there’s something about
control
that we’ve got to be careful we don’t
succumb to
and um
yeah i’m i’m just i’m just deeply
concerned it’s what i talk to the lord
about it’s what i pray about and i pray
that uh i was i did an interview on
a tv program here a week or so ago and
the guy that was doing the interview
said if you could speak to the leaders
of our nation it was a different country
if you could speak to the leaders of our
nation what would you
what would you say to them
and i said get a backbone
get them back home
go to the back
[Applause]
applause of any kind i’m looking for
for
thinking and responsibility
um
it
amen
um
it’s it’s important that we know how
we know how to recognize the root of
something
that’s in the political system without
picking up a political spirit
and as soon as you do that you will get
labeled you’ll be called all kinds of
names
but people give labels so they can
disqualify your voice
and it’s just going to take courage i
feel like what the lord’s wanting from
us in this season is a baptism of
courage
to really pray in a new season so that’s
why don’t you stand we’re going to pray
on that i let you get all cleansed and
cleaned up from what i just said and
then we’ll get into the word
see what happens here all right
so uh lord i do pray for a true baptism
of courage that you’d help us to live
with wisdom and understanding to know
the times the seasons that we are in
and and what your response is to a given
problem not just
what we arrive at emotionally through
our own frustration but true kingdom
response that we can be builders and not
just destroyers that we can be restorers
and not just confronters i pray for this
in jesus name amen amen all right go
ahead and uh turn to somebody and tell
them you really needed that
all right
[Applause]
all right open your bibles if you would
first samuel
chapter 1 for samuel 1.
now there are many who would say
that um
jesus didn’t train his disciples
in these kinds of things instead he
taught them how to
survive in existing governmental
settings and that is that is absolutely
true
he taught how the
employees should respond and the
soldiers should respond and the slaves
should respond and all that he taught
them how to do kingdom in the
environment they’re in
but i also remind you that he told them
the kingdom of heaven is like 11. it is
not 11 as a philosophy it is leaven as
that which helps to redefine the
environment that you’re in he also said
that we are light and that we are um
salt and it’s all all three of these
elements affect their surroundings and
so what the lord is wanting for us is to
not raise up a political movement but
instead to raise up a servant-hearted
movement where we get into the systems
and love people well and allow kingdom
to truly bring about change i’m just
trying to identify some of the things
that i feel like that the enemy has
he he has um
he uses justice and compassion
as false fronts
for the for the real trojan horse that
brings in
this onslaught of demonic chaos and loss
and
so i i said i was done apparently i
wasn’t now i am
all right
[Applause]
all right
i may talk about this again i won’t
announce it ahead of time because i want
to make sure you show up
so
it’ll just be a surprise that’s what
it’ll be
i do believe
that the the lord is
giving us the opportunity
the invitation if you will
to give birth to a new season
i believe i believe it’s of the lord but
i do believe it will take courage in
prayer
now we’ve talked about prayer more in
the last year
than probably any five years that i’ve
been here i know that i’ve done it over
and over again many of the team our
sunday night meetings have been focused
on prayer and it’s not an accident it’s
uh tragic in some ways i wish i could
erase everything everybody knew about
prayer and start over because we’ve
we’ve got it so confined to our
religious activity
that we’ve lost the fact that it’s
actually like breath
it’s breathing
when he said pray without ceasing he’s
basically saying it’s the same as
breathing just do it all the time
just make it the normal expression of
who you are where you’re in life all
moments are good moments to pray
and it’s not special words it’s not it’s
not that sort of thing it’s it’s not
this professional sounding uh petition
it is a communion with god that
sometimes has words
but i believe that the lord i feel like
we’re on the edge of it and it keeps
standing over these edges
i have intercedes praying for me just
because i stand over the edge yes
we’re on the edge of
a significant breakthrough
in culture
in the manifestations of revival
in a way we’ve never seen before and i
feel like i feel on the edge
not quite in the place of transition
women where you push but close to that
point where we’re about to get delivery
to something that we’ve not yet seen
before
and it is it will require
courageous kind of praying
that is
that for many is going to be foreign to
you
and so that’s what i want to talk about
not not in any kind of a you lack here
or something just an invitation
there’s a story with hannah
hannah is uh this woman
um who’s married
uh who has no children
and she wants
children really bad
and so let’s just pick up the story in
chapter one we’ll just start with verse
two i’m going to read quite a few verses
so just follow follow along if you would
please
um and he had two wives the name of one
was hannah the name of the other was
panina
and penang or penina however had no
children but excuse me had children but
hannah had no children
um verse five but to hannah he would
give a double portion for he loved
hannah although the lord had closed her
womb
and her rival
also provoked her severely to make her
miserable
because the lord had closed her womb
and so it was year by year
she went up to the house of the lord
she provoked her therefore she wept and
did not eat
verse eight then elkanah her husband
said to her hannah why do you weep why
do you not eat
why is your heart grieved am i not
better to you than 10 sons
a question she never answered
smart woman right there
and hannah arose after they had finished
eating and drinking in shiloh eli the
priest was sitting on the seat by the
doorpost of the tabernacle of the lord
and she being hannah
was in bitterness of soul
and prayed to the lord and wept in
anguish then
she made a vow
and said to the lord of hosts if you
will indeed look on the affliction of
your made servant and remember me
and not forget your maidservant but will
give your maidservant a male child then
i will give him to the lord all the days
of his life
and no razor shall come upon his head
that’s a nazarite vow
and it happened as she continued praying
before the lord that eli watched her
mouth now hannah spoke in her heart but
her only her lips moved but her voice
was not heard
therefore eli thought she was drunk
eli said to her how long will you be
drunk put your wine away from you
hannah answered and said no my lord i am
a woman of sorrowful spirit i have drunk
neither wine nor intoxicating drink but
i poured out my soul before the lord do
not consider your maidservant a wicked
woman for out of the abundance of my
complaint in grief i have spoken until
now
last verse then eli answered and said go
in peace for the god of israel grant
your position a petition which you have
asked of him
this is um
this is an extraordinary story
and it
underlines emphasizes to me the purpose
behind persistent prayer because we have
biblically
i want to do this in a future date we
biblically have
mandates to pray once and don’t ask
again
and we have mandates to pray and
continue asking and both
actually the one chapter
apart jesus taught them both there’s a
purpose for each
what i don’t want to get into
into the differences i do want to
highlight this one here the purpose for
persistent prayer
in my thinking is one of two things
there are demonic powers involved and
that persistence helps to break that
down the second is
i need to be changed into the person
that can handle and steward the answer
well
a lot of the things that we pray for if
they were given to us immediately
we would not manage them well
we would not manage them well at all
much of what we taste of the will of god
in our life much of what we inherit or
taste or actually experience is
determined by what we’ve become
much of what we experience
in our walk with the lord the
breakthroughs the answers to prayer the
extraordinary events that take place in
our life much of what we experience is
determined by what we’ve become
and that becoming
takes place often in that kind of
praying
it’s the kind of praying
that you’re embarrassed about
but you just don’t care enough anymore
normally you’d be embarrassed it’s the
it’s the kind of anguish of soul
that it no longer matters
how you appear to somebody else
it’s it’s not
it’s not making a scene
to get attention
it’s not that at all it’s that
i am so absorbed in that which god has
put in my heart i’ve got to have
breakthrough or i think i’ll die
you see that kind of praying throughout
history if you’ve done any reading
on some of the great revivals in history
oftentimes people would come to that
kind of
moment in prayer they no longer care
cared about anything at all they they
didn’t care if they ever ate again they
never they didn’t care they just didn’t
care about all these things that two
days ago maybe really consumed their
attention but at this moment in time the
only thing that matters is that thing
for which god has laid hold of my life
and i will not settle for anything else
and we have that kind of a moment here
hannah doesn’t know
when her breakthrough will come
we know that it’s been years
i would assume
because of the way she’s responding here
that she has prayed the prayer
to have children
for many many years
we know her competitor
the other wife has had many so that we
know it’s it’s years
of barrenness
i don’t know how long i don’t know what
kind of prayer she prayed but
it would be it would stand to reason
that she’s prayed this prayer before
but something happened
in this praying
it was the old-timers would talk about
this kind of prayers is i i was on the
stretch
in the picture is i was all laid out
reaching for that which god has promised
and there are many people uh
those who know better than you would
tell you you don’t need to do that
because it’s already all yours
and it’s true
i have been blessed with every spiritual
blessing in heavenly places in christ it
is all mine it is absolutely true
ephesians 1 declares it john 16 declares
it it is all mine the problem is it’s in
my account and not my possession
and oftentimes what is withdrawn from my
account that he has laid aside for me is
not released to me until i actually
become what is necessary for me to
become to not blow it with that blessing
that god has given me
we’ve seen it throughout history look at
the kings in scripture how many times
did we see a king inherit the throne and
then drive it into the ground within a
few years of his of his reign what
happened he wasn’t he wasn’t equal in
character to the weightiness of his
assignment
and it is sure destruction when that
takes place
all of us have things in our heart that
we’ve ate for i doubt there’s a person
in the room that has not prayed a big
prayer a great thing that would happen
in your lifetime that you would see in
your lifetime that we would experience
together and those are god-born prayers
but great things don’t generally come
out of prayers of convenience
there’s something about
costly
praying i don’t mean i don’t mean
drawing attention i don’t mean that
i don’t mean i’m on my next day of
fasting and i know i’m going to get i
don’t mean that
i mean the kind
that were it’s
it’s you and the lord there’s something
about difficulty that helps you come
face to face with the reality i really
am in this to know him i’m not just in
this to be a blessed person
and difficulty
separates those two groups of people
some they’re gone as soon as the
blessings stop the glitter stops falling
from the ceiling the
you know the
whatever it is the next thing that
they’re looking for to happen they’re on
their way to find another blessing
but those who follow jesus
when difficulty comes
it’s the time that we intensify the cry
god
you said
you said and here she is praying things
she can’t even utter there was no
words for
she was just in anger her lips are
moving but her heart is in deep deep
anguish and she is she’s late
athletes will say i left it all on the
field which means i gave 110 there’s
nothing else i could have done to help
us win that game it’s all out on the
field and it’s that kind of a praying
we don’t know if there was a crowd there
we don’t know if eli was even there the
whole time he may have walked in after
she was there for a while we don’t know
all we know is she put her all on the
line and it was that kind of praying
that positioned her for his kind of
solution
because here’s the deal
as mario marilla told us years ago
she wanted a son
god wanted a prophet
and when though when she was willing to
align with god’s heart
she got the breakthrough
and that’s what the anguish of soul does
it puts you in a position like hannah
hannah
is now going to give back to god the
very thing he gave to her at the age of
five she takes samuel the son who came
from this to the temple
to be the prophet of the lord for israel
extraordinary story yeah
that’s what abraham did
he had to put isaac on the altar
sometimes you have to take the very
thing you ache for
and realize
i just want to be a part of what you’re
doing if i have to give it back i’ll
give it back i just want to be in the
center of the work of god on the planet
and i will put back into your hands the
very thing you give to me
it’s it’s the process of living
abandoned
to him it’s the process of living
on the stretch again in that place where
sometimes it’s not even words sometimes
it’s just the anguish the pain of the
heart
it doesn’t mean we live in that place of
of continued discouragement or whatever
it’s i’m not inviting people that i’m
just saying
pick your moments
and when god has put that thing in your
heart get before him
and pour it all out on the field let it
all be out there and lay hold of that
which that which god has promised
every one of us need
those kinds of moments i don’t think i
don’t think that’s an everyday kind of
praying i don’t i i wouldn’t
i wouldn’t count i wouldn’t put that on
you
but i would say
everybody needs
that season in their life
at some time
where nothing
else will do
nothing nothing will satisfy
nothing else will do
oh
my cry
for you and for me
is for
baptism
in courage
is that is that backbone
it’s that backbone to stand when others
don’t stand
it’s the backbone that just says you
know what
i don’t look like much of a winner right
now
but i’ve come too far to quit
i must hold to what god has said
and if i come to the end of my life
and my cry was unfulfilled
then i pray my children
will pick it up and see it to
fulfillment
we all have a purpose for breakthrough
in the earth
the lord described us as salt and light
and the kingdom is leaven to have impact
and effect on surroundings
it’s not through political anger and
that stuff it’s
it’s by loving people well
but moving intelligently and
intentionally to bring about change
all right that’s probably enough
you survived congratulations
you all get the
ice cream cone at the door
chris will provide it for you
[Music]
all right let’s stand together we’re
gonna pray
what’s that
giving giving your orders what kind of
ice cream you want yeah sorry chris
sorry
oh lord
let’s pray together for just let me hear
you pray let’s pray together for
a a baptism in courage
a courage a courage to be released over
us as a people that affects our praying
lift your voices
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yes lord
great courage
great baptism and courage god
great baptism and courage god
great baptism and courage father
father i pray that you’d give us a fresh
outpouring in the area of courage
that as a people we could stand with the
backbone that’s not obnoxious but firm
in in the kingdom principles you’ve
revealed to us i pray that that they
would be contagious
and that you’d give us understanding to
articulate well give us that issachar
sons of israel our anointing that
understand the day that they live in the
seasons the times that we live in and i
do pray that there would be
in the prayer life of this church
truly the birthing of a new season the
turning of a page the turning of a page
the turning of a page a new season
begins i pray this for the honor of the
name jesus
i want to ask one question before
we transition
is there anyone here that has never made
a personal
commitment
to the lord jesus christ
it’s what the bible calls
to be born again
it’s actually to become a disciple is to
turn away from the way you’ve done life
to the way he would have you do life is
to follow him to come to know him to
love him
there’s a lot of movement i’d really
appreciate if during these moments you
would not move around
because i don’t want anyone who would
respond to this to be distracted by your
movement
it’s the most important moment of this
day is this one right here
i want to ask the question is there
anyone here that would say
bill i don’t want to leave the building
until i know that i have found peace
with god
that i truly have become a disciple of
the lord jesus christ
if that’s you just put a hand up real
quickly where you are
because we’re just going to take a
moment to pray i don’t want to miss you
so way in the back thank you wonderful
wonderful
anybody else
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
anybody else real quick
i know we have some online we’ve had so
many people come to christ online it’s
been one of the most amazing things
sometimes when we were uh forced to not
be together i would sit here and watch
if chris was preaching for example and
i’d be on the youtube channel or bethel
tv and watch the people that would come
to christ extraordinary and we know
that’s that’s true is there another one
here back over here is another one
wonderful yes
there’s another one over here
thank you wonderful
[Applause]
beautiful
another one right here
[Music]
wonderful
so he was
[Music]
the last one was blessing somebody so i
i just took the high five he’s getting
saved too all right that’s fine that’s
good this is wonderful i bless all of
you i’m gonna ask
those there’s at least three if not four
that put your hand up that i saw i’m
going to ask you to come up to the front
right over here to my left and they’re
people that we know and trust that i
just want to bless you that’s all i want
them to do and if you brought this
person put their hand up you can walk
with them down here church why don’t you
bless them as they come
[Applause]
come right over here