From Glory to Glory to Glory – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

The enemy wants to divert our attention to defile our affection for God. Bill Johnson encourages us to focus on God’s Presence. It is always God’s intent to take us from glory to glory!

see all of you by faith

i i trust you’re there

how’s that i trust you there um

what an amazing opportunity to see the

goodness of the lord

i i’ve had a i’ve had an interesting a

couple of weeks just personally

experiencely with the lord and

and um so let me just get to it i really

don’t have a teaching i have

uh an exhortation an invitation

a something i don’t even know what to

call it

uh probably ten days ago i i

joined a school of ministry out here

under the tent

and uh we had a it was a wonderful time

of worship but something

started to happen um that maybe it

started previous to that but i became

uh unusually aware aware of

of the glory of the lord that began to

fill

that tent i could feel it tangibly i’ve

had these

experiences throughout throughout my own

personal journey

i remember when i pastored in weberville

i would i would take time

often just to walk through the sanctuary

back and forth when nobody was there i

would

just just just a worship just to pray

i remember there was a little piano

there and i would sit and play a bit and

just

just do whatever i could to give him the

best offering i could give him

i remember times where the presence of

the lord became so overwhelming

to me that i i’m embarrassed to say it

now but i quickly thought of something

else to do

i i quickly thought of things that

doesn’t mean when things come to mind

it’s necessarily the enemy sometimes the

lord brings things to mind that we need

to take care of but it wasn’t that

it was the the intensity of presence was

so

was so strong that i found myself just

getting nervous

just getting a little bit anxious

and uh and i didn’t recognize it

immediately it was it was later

i i started to see that there’s there’s

a measure of presence where

where all of us that all of us delight

in and measure presence that takes us

into great great discomfort

which is fine because he’s the comforter

so my opinion is

uh he makes you uncomfortable so that

you need the comfort

and uh and he’s pretty good at that

there was a story with moses where he

um he could go no further until he had

done what the lord

commanded him to do in in that cases to

circumcise his kids his sons

um he had gone to this distance and then

suddenly

what was a normal journey became life

and death and i

i i don’t mean to suggest life-and-death

decisions although i do think they exist

for us

um instead i i want to emphasize that

we’re on this relational journey and

they’re just come

they’re come there comes to us points in

time

where he has an agenda and mine won’t do

i mean you can have you know if you’ve

been in this a while

probably for all of us or you know 95

of the people that would be watching

every agenda you have

every agenda you have has been shaped by

scripture

it’s it’s not like it’s not like wanting

revival

is an evil desire it’s not it’s just

in the glory all my agendas all my

ambitions all my dreams as lofty as they

are

they all have to take place

another place outside of this glory

because in this glory

there’s only one thing that matters and

that’s the face to face with this one

i i’m not there as a pastor i’m not

there

as a speaker or a writer or whatever

else you’ve blank you’d feel and i’m not

there is that all

those hats are left outside the door

there’s only one hands they had of a son

it’s the only one that works

in there and

i’ve had this sense for quite a while

but it’s becoming more

uh tangible in the last especially the

last 10 days

where in in that

in that tent in that

time with students i started to

to rediscover something that

hadn’t been lost that would be wrong but

there was a there’s always a freshness

to his presence that makes

it almost makes you feel like you’ve

never had it before it’s so fresh you

know

there’s always something so new with

what he’s saying and doing it almost

feels like it’s the first time you’ve

ever heard him speak

and yet outside of that experience you

can see the history that brought you

here but in that moment it’s like

it’s like

it’s like hearing

hearing for the first time i

it reminded me of something oh goodness

it’d be

2010 2011 somewhere near eric

my son was was leading the second year

school of ministry

and there was a there was about a five

month period i don’t remember the year

but there was about a five-month period

they met over our twin view campus or

our second campus

and they were the the school uh the

second year school was there and i don’t

remember how many students there were

i would guess 300 maybe but anyway

that room was you know packed and eric

was

leading and and as one of the pastors i

have a

time slot where i i’d go over there and

and speak and it’s always an incredible

privilege to

to do so i remember

i would walk in there was this there was

this five-month period of time

where i’d walk in it was like walking

into a cloud

i mean it was it was it was

like walking into a cloud that’s alive

it wasn’t it wasn’t fog it was

walking into this to life itself

on a level that was

so wonderful and so overwhelming

i remember i would come in and back i

would i would come sit down

sometimes i’d make it to the run i’d

come and i’d sit down and

eric would be there and listen this

wasn’t led by

you know a great worship time those were

there and that’s

important we just had a wonderful time

now and

that kind of uh uh instrument that the

lord uses is very significant and

important but

but this was different it was it was

almost like

the holy spirit the choir director of

heaven

entered the room and he was he was

conducting something

wow

i remember sitting down next to eric and

he would look up at me

what do you want to do i said i’m not

touching this

i i have absolutely

nothing to say

there are times in the glory where

that’s what you do there’s a word

there’s a word of the lord it’s the

ultimate

moment i mean you want those moments i i

don’t want to suggest at all that

somehow when that

that manifest presence of jesus comes in

that measure

that we that we don’t speak and somehow

teaching goes out the window

i don’t believe that and and i’ve seen

the opposite happen

i’ve seen those moments that are so

overwhelmingly pregnant and filled with

god himself

in the room and then there’s a word and

and i i believe that but this wasn’t

this wasn’t that season it was it was

five months of coming

into a room where

where it just didn’t matter

strange strange to say you could have

this burden or this

vision or this desire or whatever to

preach this or to pray for this or to do

whatever but somehow

somehow in this in this

living cloud of presence

oh goodness it

it just doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter

and i

i remember during that period of time i

don’t even know how many times i

actually spoke

i did a few times but it wasn’t very

often it wasn’t very often but i

sure encountered jesus a lot i sure

encountered the love of god even through

people there was

such an unusual interaction in those

times you know you don’t

jesus said i gave them my glory that

they may be one there’s something

there’s something about the glory that

just makes everybody fit together

perfectly

it’s not through striving it’s not

through effort it’s not through

determination

it’s in the glory it fits and the reason

is

is that’s what we were designed for i

was designed

everything about me everything about me

that’s of him

was was designed to fit seamlessly

in the glory seamlessly

i’m actually wired in oh you are too

every born-again believer we’re actually

we’re actually wired to recognize him

and to respond to him and part of that

response is obedient so obedience is the

most natural thing in the world

in the presence you know if you can

imagine isaiah 6 where isaiah says i see

the lord he’s high

lifted up train fills the temple this

overwhelming

this overwhelming baptism of presence

where he sees the throne of god

and then he hears god say not to him

but in conversation in heaven who will i

send

see there’s something about in the glory

the glory is is not just to

absorb and walk away blessed it’s to be

impacted by so that we impact everything

around us

and and the lord asked this question he

said who will i send and i it says

i’ll go i can always tell when people

are truly in the glory because they want

to serve

now you can want to serve without being

in the glory but when you do

the heart of god is what launches you

it’s not it’s not my ministry goals that

matter it’s it’s not

you know it’s not me fighting to see my

gift expressed or appreciated or

whatever

all that stuff just dies it just dies

it’s so

unimportant in that moment it’s

embarrassing to discuss

because in that moment all you know is i

hear a heartbeat

and that heartbeat has become my

heartbeat

and something has shifted and changed at

least in this moment

how i see life and i remember

i remember that that five month period

of time

as there was yesterday because

it has become yesterday

ten days or so ago in the tent with the

students last sunday night

was the same kind of a same kind of a

moment

in the tent i don’t know maybe we’re

just built for tents

maybe maybe i don’t know maybe we should

just do the big old revival tent and get

it over with you know

there’s i don’t know there’s some i

don’t know what it is i i don’t

understand it at all but i know that

last sunday night i experienced it again

it was he he was there and that’s all

you know that’s what the glory is is to

manifest the presence of jesus

he was just there you say well he’s here

he’s with me now that’s true i i get

that

but there are so many dimensions of his

presence that

that no matter what you’re experiencing

there’s more

and the key to more is stewarding what

you’ve been given

it doesn’t matter if it’s money

anointing gifting doesn’t french

friends doesn’t matter what it is the

key to increase is always stewarding

what you have well

and there are there have been times in

my life where

as i stated earlier that that presence

that glory would come

so strong in that little sanctuary up up

in the mountains that

i would just become nervous and find

something else to do and so

i don’t say this in shame embarrassment

i’m just saying this is reality there’s

no increase in that moment i found my

limit

and so somehow coming into that place of

presence again

and again and again

with whatever in me needs to yield

so that there can be more

i can’t describe it but that’s the

journey

you see he’s got us on one track

there’s he has one ambition base you

know i mean

a lot of dreams for us i don’t want to

make it overly simple but

there’s this statement in haggai

chapter two i i will never forget when i

first

read this as a pastor in weaverville it

just

lapped at me it’s it’s haggai chapter 2

which is

one of the small little guys he’s kind

of hard to find him

if you get to matthew just turn left if

you get to daniel turn right he’s in

there

but he he says several things here that

i think would be

worth noting and then i want to talk to

you a bit about where we’re headed

where where where we’re headed according

to him

verse 5 according to the word that i

covenanted with you when you came out of

egypt

so my spirit remains among you

do not fear the presence of the lord

makes fear

illegal the presence of the lord

is a partnership with a foreign spirit

for thus says the lord verse 6 once more

it is a little while i will shake heaven

and earth the seed the dry land i will

shake all the nations

and they shall come to the desire of all

nations

my translation highlights this phrase in

this way desire referring to jesus as

the desire of the nations

and i i will fill this temple

with glory says the lord of hosts

the silver is mine the gold is mine says

the lord of hosts

and here’s our phrase the glory of this

latter temple shall be greater

than the former if god is in charge

there’s always an increase of glory

if we are we just build monuments to

what has happened in the past

we build them in our theology we build

them in our experience we build them in

our

routines our disciplines they all

shout to the past but there’s something

that is always expanding in the presence

it’s this

it’s this intangible thing called the

the glory of god that is always

deepening and always i don’t know

i don’t think we ever arrived to be

honest with you i

i’ve got a feeling that heaven is uh is

going to be one continuous journey

deeper into the glory and there is no

limit there’s not an end it’s not like

okay father says that’s all there is

sorry we’ll have to exist the next

hundred billion years just with what you

got

there it’s just this unending journey

into the presence into the glory

ephesians 2 talks about the riches of

his grace which is one of the

expressions of glory

and in that phrase in ephesians 2 he

says that in the ages to come

we would discover the surpassing riches

of his grace ages to come

the billions of years ahead of time off

in eternity in those

ages there would be the continuous

unveiling of yet a deeper level of this

mystery called grace

and that mystery of grace always

introduces us

to glory

we find different stories in scripture

that

um

that they they rock me uh i’m assuming

they do

you as well ii chronicles chapter five

is one of them

it’s this amazing moment in the

dedication

of the temple solomon had

well let me back up david his dad

had discerned that there was a shift

actually there was a shift in worship

but more specifically

david perceived a reality that existed

in heaven that was not discovered in the

law

it was not revealed in the law

and david started to realize in his

relationship with the lord that the lord

wasn’t interested in the blood of bulls

and goats it doesn’t mean it didn’t

count it was

important for that season but it had its

it had its limits it had its

its measure of impact it wasn’t the

it wasn’t where god’s people were going

to land was on the

sacrifice of animals that’s not the

landing point that was

the illustration that got them ready for

the real lamb of god that once and for

all settled the issue

but david somehow discovered this in his

journey with the lord and

the prophets nathan and gad confirmed

what he was picking up it says in

chronicles later

he picked up this shift in in worship

and and that the lord was actually

looking for the sacrifice of the heart

the contrite heart the yieldedness the

fruit of the lips that gives thanks or

praise to his name the lord is actually

looking for

for people to put themself on the altar

as an offering to him

and it’s not because he’s an egotist

that needs our affirmation he’s quite

secure

he’s he’s he doesn’t need anything i

hear people say well he

he he needs our like he doesn’t need our

love he doesn’t need anything he’s

he’s very self-sufficient while the son

holy spirit they make a real good team

they don’t need anything but they desire

many things

they desire many things they desire my

heart they desire

but it adds something to them that

nothing else and everything that they

have made

could add and he desires yours and it’s

that

wonderful that beautiful expression of

just turning our

our attention our affection towards him

see the war that’s been going on over

this last

year with the pandemic and all the other

stuff is it’s a war for attention

because the enemy wants to dilute your

affection it’s always

to divert attention to defile affection

and there’s something about this this

reconnection with presence

that is is home

it’s just home it’s it’s home it’s like

everything else is where i’m visiting

this is actually home

i’m set out from home i get to do all

this stuff but this is home

this seamless connection with this

manifest presence of jesus the seamless

connection between

my surrendered heart and his heart for

me is just the most

beautiful thing

and so when solomon becomes king he

builds a temple we

many are familiar with the story so it’s

a truly truly wonderful

story but he built it with the materials

that david

set aside for him you know solomon’s

given the credit for this extravagant

building but it was david’s wealth that

built it

he set the stuff aside as this

father-son thing it was like the only

time i could find in history

um where if i can call this revival what

david was experiencing

where a revival increased in the next

generation for solomon

now solomon didn’t sustain it tragically

or everything would be different but he

didn’t but for for a brief season

there was an acceleration and

where they learned the value the beauty

of

ministering directly to the lord not

just for the lord and

and you know they had to still do the

blood sacrifice

because there had to be that point of

obedience that they

never lost sight of that sin is only

dealt with through blood

it had to be established in their

thinking and yet here’s the rub

the blood of bulls and goats can’t deal

with it it only postpones the penalty

for one more year

and so there’s this constant reminder

they need the

lamb of god they need that the law was

given as a tutor a teacher

an instructor that that would lead them

to christ and so all of this is a part

of that journey

but throughout this journey they got to

taste

moments of grace

grace was not just introduced in the new

in the new testament

grace is seen all through the old

testament there’s just moments

there’s just moments where there’s no

other explanation but god just has mercy

on

abraham and considers him righteous

because he believed that’s grace

that’s great he said actually that story

became a new testament model it became

the prototype

for every new testament believer it

happened in the old testament happened

before the law it’s extraordinary what

takes place through

all these moments where there’s just

this like just little windows that open

to

let us see what grace looks like another

one i i’m thinking of is when

when there was this in nehemiah’s day

where he uh

in in nehemiah eight they they found the

scriptures again they had had it for

a generation or more and so they’re

they’re standing in the open square and

everybody’s there i mean everybody kids

babies infants

everybody is there and they’re all

standing at attention as the word is

read

and this there’s this there’s this

overwhelming conviction that comes on

the people because

they see god’s standard is here as the

word is read that they’ve not heard

probably in their entire lifetime

god’s standard is here and their

lifestyles down here and they begin to

weep

and to mourn because they didn’t qualify

and the priest ran among the people said

stop mourning this day is holy

i don’t know how you grew up but i grew

up thinking morning and holy were

synonymous

you know the more you wept the more you

were able to illustrate how holy the

moment was and

and it was it was it was actually the

tears of mourning

in that moment defiled the holiness of

god

and so the priest ran among the people

and they said stop it

stop it send portions

to those who have nothing grab your food

grab the meat grab the wine grab

all these things that you have in a

family feast get them together

and start rejoicing because you

understood the words

that’s stunning god’s standards here my

my lifestyle is here and god says the

time to rejoice

is when you understand it changes

everything

you actually rejoice your way into

maturity

sounds like a child most of us need to

grow down

instead of grow up

so here we are in this moment fast

forward to solomon’s day he builds this

temple and it’s time to dedicate this

i’m going to assume the most extravagant

building that’s ever existed

man i would love to see it

and so here’s this moment where the

priests have come together

and i remind you uh exodus 19

verse 6 and isaiah 61 verse 7

announce to the people of god you shall

be

priests under the lord second peter 2

verse 9 says you are

priests under the lord old testament

pointed to the future said it’s help

it’s going to happen

peter and the book of revelation chapter

1 i think it’s verse 5

announce it’s not coming it is now

you have the right and responsibility to

minister

directly to him so everything we see of

that

nature of that of that uh that function

in in the old testament is is to seed

the cloud just to give us insight and

so here we have um we have all these

priests gathered together

and we have verse 12 let’s just start

there says

the levites who were singing all those

of asaph and haman

and jeduthen with their sons with their

brethren stood at the east end of the

altar

clothed in white linen they had to wear

linen they couldn’t wear wool because if

they wore wool they would sweat

and there was nothing you could do on

your own works sweat

in the presence of god everything was to

be by grace

so here’s another glimpse you’re never

there by your works

and that was that was the insistence of

the lord they had

symbols stringed instruments harps and

with them 120 priests sounding trumpets

man that had to be something

i mean there were entire family lines

their whole job was just to play

trumpets

and you think about it almost seemed

silly a whole nother family line

they were singers a whole nother group

they were just symbol players the whole

point was they had to become excellent

what they were doing

and they were to carry on that mantle

throughout their family line

120 priests sounding trumpets verse 13.

it came to pass

when the trumpeters the singers were as

one

to make one sound

yeah but i want to stand out no you

don’t

no no you don’t you’re privileged to be

a part of the whole

it’s not about you it’s not about me

whenever as one to make one sound to be

heard in praising

and thanking the lord when they lifted

up their voice with the trumpets

and symbols and instruments of music and

praised the lord saying for he is good

for his mercy endures forever that the

house

the house of the lord was filled with a

cloud

so that the priest could not continue

ministering because the cloud for the

glory of the lord had filled the house

what did we read in haggai the glory of

the latter house will be filled

will be greater than the former it’s

always his intent to take us from glory

to glory

anything less is man’s influence

it’s always his intent to take us from

glory to glory

doesn’t come because it’s my goal

it comes because i surrender to his

so here in this moment we find i don’t

know how many are there there’s at least

120 there

that are playing trumpets then you’ve

got probably the same amount or more

that are singers you’ve got the symbols

you’ve got stringers you’ve got all this

stuff so you get this

massive massive crowd and they’re all

playing not for the nation of israel

they are playing

for the audience of one we are playing

to him directly

to him every strum

every clanging symbol every

every syllable that is lifted up in song

everything

is for the one and when that happened

and it became

a united sound when they sang as one

with horns

that’s a miracle right there when all of

that comes together

as one sound

the cloud the cloud came

and so filled the temple nobody had to

stand up and say i think it’d be

appropriate if we went to our knees

right now just to honor the lord

i i believe those moments are fine i’ve

done it and probably will do it again

who knows

day’s not over but it wasn’t that kind

of a moment it was an involuntary

i’ve got to hide my face from the one

who just entered the room

here’s the deal this all happened under

an inferior covenant and inferior

covenants

do not release superior blessings

if what happens in this context

happened in the old testament when they

were just

learning what it was to sing to the lord

and to honor him and

to give offerings of thanksgiving and

praise if

if it would happen in that environment

then how much more has he not

designed it to happen here with us

i remember a prophetic song we had in

weberville

prophetic songs were as the song of the

lord with the lord himself

is is singing i mean i didn’t hear his

voice but we

we heard through another voice i

remember the word he said did i not

fill the tabernacle of moses with my

glory

did i not fill the temple of solomon

with my glory

how much more should i fill the place

that i build with my own hands

my beloved i’m building you

no matter what we throw into the mix our

ambitions for

our families our countries our cities or

whatever just

put it all in the pile

it is all

profoundly impacted

the glory

where is this thing headed i

i can’t shake the fact that his goal

is for the whole earth to be filled with

his glory

now he’s god he can make that happen now

but it would be a military invasion it

wouldn’t be through partnership

see his longing is always to accomplish

the significant

things through co-laboring through the

yieldness of his people

those who’ve been made in his image

created in his image would respond with

likeness with the same heart as he has

to model to illustrate to release to

activate his will in the earth

and that’s the heart of god that’s the

heart of god that’s the privilege that

we have in this hour

we we know his heart i may be confused

by a thousand things but the one thing

that’s not confusing not if i read this

the one thing is not confusing is he has

got me on a track

it’s not a road where i can take

directions i want it’s a railroad track

you don’t turn the direction has been

set

you can stop you can go backwards but

you can’t change the assigned direction

the direction

is from glory to glory

from glory to glory

so i remember

i’ve been uh sentimentally stirred up in

the last

week or so just in my own private little

world

remembering i’ll never forget the sunday

sitting

right down there where brian my son

happened to be leading a worship that

sunday

he may have played two chords i’ve

always said it was one but it might have

he might have gone to a second chord but

something happened on that second

chord where he

filled the room

and we didn’t get to our first song for

40 minutes

and no one was keeping track it was

after a fact you look back

why because some something happens when

he comes in

everything that was important to you you

can’t even remember

it’s not like ah i’ll bring it up later

no you can’t remember it

in in the manifest presence of the king

of glory

suddenly there’s only one thing on your

mind it’s what i was born for

i i was born for this seamless

interaction

between the king of glory who has made

me qualified because i could never

qualify myself

he’s qualified me to be here in this

moment

and it’s in those moments we hear him

say

who shall i send and without even

thinking the hand goes up

people who tell me i love to worship the

lord i don’t like to

i don’t like to leave that place

i’m not sure they saw him yet

i’m not sure they actually saw him

because i’m not sure you can see his

heart

and not want to go i i don’t know if

it’s possible

to sit in that moment where where you

see him or

where there’s overwhelming sense of who

he is and what he’s like and

then he says who shall i ascend and you

find your hand going up said i’ll

i’ll do it you name it i’ll do it i’m

there

i don’t know what i’m doing but i trust

you go with me

i’ll go i i’m not sure that

anybody who wants to just sit there and

and do nothing has actually seen

what they claim to have seen

there’s there’s something about

who shall i send i’ll go there’s

something about that moment of going

where that glory never leaves you it’s

not like i’m departing the glory

it’s like i’m i’m going to now enter

into a greater realm of glory

because i will now be an instrument in

his hand

and perhaps that is how the whole earth

becomes filled with this glory as people

in the presence

carry the presence to bring change

i believe you know i i teach a lot

unfulfilled dreams and

you know the desires that we have i

believe they’re meaningful to god

i i do all that i haven’t changed my

tune at all

but i

i have been strangely apprehended again

for something that’s way bigger than us

i love us but this one’s bigger than us

this one’s bigger than us

i remember that one sunday morning where

brian hit i think it was the second cord

and and he just

i don’t know how to describe it you know

it’s afterwards in the moment you don’t

know what to do

you know afterwards you look back and go

man he just walked into the room

and that was that kind of a moment i’ll

never forget that we’ve only had that

happen on that level

one time in 25 years

but i remember a sunday night where the

worship team was playing and they’re

another one of those moments where the

glory just came in

and everybody up here just stopped

and everybody out here just stopped

and it was almost like we were suspended

in time

you know you know how people get nervous

when nothing’s happening you know like

somebody especially in

pentecostal circles somebody need to

pray in tongues or prophesy or

laugh or get out and dance or do

something you know it’s like we get

nervous with blank spaces there was no

nervousness with that blank space

because he filled the blank space

he he just came into the blank space and

all of a sudden

you didn’t have to tell people turn your

affection to him it’s just there was

just

silence i don’t remember ever hearing

silence

for that long in a in a crowd that likes

to make noise

it was like the ultimate offering was

just to shut up

but yet nobody said or suggested it was

just

it’s what you do when he enters the room

you find everything that you could think

of to say is completely meaningless

and i’m hungry for that again

i’ve had tastes in the last

10 days or so at levels

measures that i’ve not had

for a while and it tells me

that we’re being set up

and it’s going to be good

but it won’t be about you and it won’t

be about me

he has set something in motion

and he wants us to see that he was

absolutely

serious when he said it the glory of the

latter house

would be greater than the former the

context was there were people that

saw the temple before it was destroyed

and then rebuilt and they remember

both and the first one solomon was just

incredibly glorious and the second one

wasn’t near as beautiful

and so you had you had two groups of

people there some were laughing for joy

because look the temple’s built and

others were weeping man it’s nothing

like it used to be

and so that prophecy was very very

specific

in in other words this thing that you

see over here that’s not it

i’m going to do something in the earth

that is going to be way more glorious

than even solomon’s temple

which silenced and stunned the leaders

of nations god will do it again in this

house that’s you

and that’s me

i feel like there’s an invitation i i

wasn’t sure how to

how to label this talk this conversation

with you today but

to me i i can’t talk about it without

feeling invited

without feeling compelled

now dissatisfaction

is a holy holy gift

see sometimes our satisfaction

in the absence of revival is what

prohibits revival

as that i’m actually okay without it

sometimes the absence of the manifest

presence of the king of glory

sometimes my satisfaction in those

moments may be the very thing

that propels

that glory so here’s

here’s an invitation i’d like for

everybody watching

to join me in this very very simple

prayer

god i can’t make myself suitable

but i can surrender

and there are people right now watching

you don’t even have a personal

relationship with

with the lord jesus christ and this is

the most

unusual message ever to invite you into

the family but i’m going to do it anyway

in this moment you have this sense some

of you in your homes

there’s going to be this sense of

presence you’ve never seen before you’ve

never felt before you’ve never realized

before

but it’s happening now i had that sense

early this morning that there would be

this

encounters with the lord himself in your

home i love the corporate gathering but

there’s see it was in my one-on-one

stuff that helped me to realize the

corporate stuff

so wherever you’re at some of you have

never surrendered to jesus i want you

just to simply pray this prayer and in

in the online chat room tell somebody

what you’ve done

but it’s just praying this prayer of god

i give you my entire life

that you would be glorified do in me

whatever pleases you that your name

would be exalted

do in my family in my home

that which delights your heart

see the scripture says the lord speaks

at one point he says for i’m not ashamed

to be called their god

i would like everybody watching this to

have the lord shout

over your actual home the physical home

that you live in

i would love to see the lord of glory

stand over your household and shout to

everything that exists i am

not ashamed to be called their god

there’s something about to be released

in the earth

and it’s through surrendered people so

father we pray right now i ask that you

would use

this overwhelming sense of presence and

that you disciple us

this way you teach us this way that we

would never be

satisfied with anything less than you

again like moses we want to say if

you’re not taking us we don’t want to go

up from here we don’t want to go just

blessed we don’t want to go just with

favor and open doors

if you’re not going if your presence

isn’t that which makes us different than

everyone else and we don’t want to go

anywhere

so i’m praying that i’m praying that for

us us this tribe this family

the bethel family all over the world

mark us with the glory

god i invite you interrupt our dream

time

teach us what you like teach us open up

new

pathways of discernment and perception

in our

physical body our hearts our minds that

we just expand our ability to recognize

you the glorious one

and that somehow that would be the

contagious factor

not a pandemic not a virus but a

contagious factor called

the glory of god the glory of god has

become

known in the earth that’s what we want

so i invite you to do that with us as a

family and i

give you things amen

if if you invited jesus

into your life please tell someone on

the

in the chat room if you’re a believer

that has just really really really

find yourself fighting with what god is

saying and doing

you know pray with somebody on the in

the chat room as well

we just want everyone to have this

ongoing encounter with king jesus

amen god bless you thanks for joining us

love you much