This message is part 3 of the Bethel Church’s series, God of Transformation. Bill Johnson teaches about the renewed mind and its role in transformation. A transformed mind transforms a person and a transformed person transforms a city.
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um
i do have something important to read
yesterday my husband thought he saw a
cockroach in the kitchen
he sprayed everything down cleaned it
thoroughly today i’m putting the
cockroach in the bathroom
[Laughter]
all right yeah for whatever it’s worth
there we are all right
we have this series that we’re doing
the transformation series
if there’s anything that we have taught
or done practiced
pursued through the years that
should cause a real burning conviction
in the heart of this church family
i would think it would be this subject
because
revival when it has its full effect
brings transformation
it was never intended that revival would
be reduced to a week of meetings or a
month of meetings or two years of
meetings
it was always intended that that fire
of the move of god would work its way
the illustration was given to me years
ago was a fire
always starts at at the bottom so
revival always begins with a poor and if
it’s not economically poor it’s at least
always the poor in spirit
and it burns up up that wall if you will
if you can imagine just bricks in a wall
layer after layer of culture in society
until it reaches the upper echelons of
society
and the part that was incomplete in that
illustration is when it touches the
upper parts of society
then it influences the mind molders
those who shape culture
and the move of god is supposed to
work its way all through culture and
society so
thoroughly and so completely with such
great impact that those who establish
culture
create culture are affected by the move
of god
the the bible calls us salt
and light but then it says the kingdom
is leaven
it doesn’t say we’re eleven it says the
kingdom is leaven
we are salt we are light
salt imparts
influence light attracts to safety
it’s a city set on a hill the city set
on a hill that’s all lit up doesn’t do
you any good unless you go to the city
it’s uh the city set on a hill is
actually an invitation
it’s an invitation for safety for refuge
nourishment shelter it’s it’s an
invitation
so when the lord says this defines us in
these terms
he’s actually describing the nature
our nature in christ and how it is to
affect the world around us
whether it’s the word used or not makes
little difference the influence
is under transformation
you can have many people saved and not
transform
a city you can have many people
attend church and not transform a city
the nature of salt is it needs to be
sprinkled evenly over the whole meal
it’s not complicated jesus said you’re
the salt of the earth if the salt has
lost its flavor
it’s good for nothing needs to be thrown
out so salt adds
flavor salt actually enhances the flavor
of a meal
we would never take the salt shaker take
the lid off and pour the entire contents
in the corner of the plate
but that’s what we do it’s called church
we make sure that we huddle together and
stay together
because we don’t trust we don’t trust
the righteousness of christ in us enough
to allow ourselves to be sprinkled
throughout society
now that’s changing so that’s that
statement is not entirely true because
we’ve been
we’ve been working on that but that’s
our history our history has been
we’re afraid of being contaminated and
so here we are in the corner of the
plate
and yet the influence that we’re
supposed to bring the contribution we’re
supposed to make which is fascinating to
me
that the lord actually values secular
culture
i don’t mean he values sin carnality any
of that stuff but he has actually
invested things in that part of the
world just
just the way jesus used language
um the the the way he he called
his 12 apostles as you know because
we’ve been through this for years
but that’s a secular term which tells me
then he had
value for what i believe was a
god-inspired idea
in the roman and greek culture that he
would later use
he wasn’t afraid of it being
contaminated he knew that that part of
the world would actually
steward a concept that he didn’t want
his own people
israel to steward
he he values he values the artistic
expression
i remember so many years ago hearing
somebody ask this question he said how
can an
ungodly immoral antichrist type person
write a beautiful song
not because they’re demonically inspired
i’ve never thought that through before
not because they’re possessed by demons
but because they’re made in the image of
god
and so the lord actually hides his
graces
in the lives of people that sometimes
are not yet born again
but there’s a grace a touch of god on
their life
it doesn’t mean it qualifies them for
salvation you understand
we’re not talking about that but we’re
talking about the the fact that god
actually
values stuff that we don’t always value
thankfully that’s changing and we’re
learning
we’re learning that he thinks different
than we do
a couple weeks ago i talked to you about
this uh this concept of ecclesia
uh something that the ed zavos and
others have really championed for quite
a while
and i really do believe it’s it’s uh
getting that
down in our our christian culture
has the potential of truly transforming
our nation the united states but the
nations of the world represented here
the ecclesia the concept of two or three
gathered in his name
and that’s where he marks his presence
and what this pandemic has done
is it’s forced us it’s put us into a
position
forced us to learn what the real
strength of the church is
i love the thousands that gather i just
i love it so much and i miss
i miss it really big i love together but
there’s a prophetic
direction set in the corporate gathering
but the strength of the church is the
two or three
the strength of the church is in the two
or three because that’s where he
marks that’s where he begins to mark a
group with presence
now you might say well he’s already in
me the holy spirit is in me my body is
his temple and that’s true
so two or three gathered together what’s
the point he’s already with me by myself
that’s true but every time we gather in
his name now just picture this
i gather with a friend of mine we both
have
purposed to co-labor with the lord to
see his purposes accomplished in the
earth we make that agreement
together he said he had come into the
midst so together
we have this covenant we will live in
and abide in this presence of god and we
will learn to pray from the abiding
presence
to see his purposes accomplished in the
earth we’re not talking about just
a casual gathering recall we’re talking
about
the intentional gathering of people that
say you know what
he said he’d be here so i’m going to
look for him and i’m going to look for
his heart
and i’m going to pray consistent with
his heartbeat
because i want to see his purposes
accomplished in the earth
you were designed to have every prayer
you ever pray answered
but the key to that is that abiding
presence
it’s tapping to that heartbeat of god
it’s having that sense of
oh i can feel the the burden i can feel
the weightiness of the lord on this
subject
i may have 10 things that i want to pray
for that are on my list
but when he says seek first the kingdom
i find out what’s on his list
it doesn’t mean mine don’t matter it’s
just when i prioritize them
i lose them
it’s it’s i got 10 things on my list if
those are the only things i pray about
they are not met with the measure of
presence and power
that they deserve why because i i came
at them incorrectly i i don’t want to
make this a
a bad formula it’s just this is the
bible
it’s actually in the book seek first the
kingdom of god
and his righteousness all these things
will be added to you so when i come to
the lord constantly about my ten things
on my list
and i never looked him for what’s on his
list
then i don’t ever approach my ten things
with his strength
i approach it simply as a servant
begging
the almighty god to invade
there’s a difference between praying as
a servant praying as a son
the abiding presence is that which
i don’t know if i will say qualifies
somehow
it engages me into the heart of god to
pray
his prayer over my situation but i begin
by praying with what’s on his mind
he may bring up something you know of a
friend that is really struggling and i
may
spend 20 minutes praying for that one
friend and ignoring everything that’s on
my list
because i got caught up praying for this
friend what happens
he knows my list he said all these
things
these things are added as we engage with
them all right
that’s too long of an introduction on
that i
i took a detour but you get the point
anyway is that
uh is that we are designed to pray
we are designed for answers to prayer we
are not designed to not get answers for
prayer
it’s the reason that chris gore i think
told us years ago
said jesus never taught us on how to
deal with answers
to unanswered prayers because he never
had any it’s a great point he didn’t
have any
so here we are transformation is a
target so where’s
where we’re going to start is in romans
chapter of 12.
if you would go there um even though
it’s a passage that many of you could
quote
i want you to see it on your on your in
your bibles
anyway
romans 12 we’ll start with verse one
we’ll read verses 1 and 2. i beseech you
therefore brethren by the mercies of god
that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice wholly acceptable to god
which is your reasonable service in
other words it’s the intellectual thing
to do
verse 2
and do not be conformed to this world
but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind that you
may prove
what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of god
let’s read verse 2 again do not be
conformed to this world but be
transformed
by the renewing of your mind that you
may
prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of god
if the mind wasn’t important if the mind
wasn’t valuable
it wouldn’t be worth renewing
he focuses his energy
if you will his purposes his workings in
our life
every moment of every day to teach us to
think like he does
when i embrace worry i intentionally war
against the mind of christ
when i entertain thoughts and ideas that
are in conflict with god i’m actually
feeding that which wars against the mind
of christ
the mind of christ is completely
different if i could illustrate
the mind of christ is not just hopeful
facing a problem in other words when
jesus
feeds the multitude with loaves and
fishes a children’s
a child’s lunch it’s not because he can
imagine the possibility of a miracle
it’s because he lives aware of resources
that are greater than the problem that
he’s facing there’s an awareness there’s
a consciousness
there’s a consciousness of living from a
realm of unlimited resource towards a
problem
faith sees faith dwells in a place
where nothing is impossible and for that
to be
the um the shape or the molder of how we
think
is is huge but it begins with our
salvation
it begins with our salvation in this
little word called
repent repent for the kingdom of heaven
is at hand
repent i grew up
in a world where repentance was coming
to an altar
weeping before the lord confessing sin
it’s a
it’s wonderful and i never want to take
away from that because it’s so vital
i began to see in scripture
that the word repent actually means to
change the way you think but here’s the
big mistake
repentance is not an intellectual
exercise
repentance is not an intellectual
exercise it’s not saying i just got to
think different about this problem it’s
not that at all the bible says godly
sorrow produces repentance
godly sorrow is what influences a shift
in perspective
godly sorrow it’s seeing
the the lost condition
that we were in before we met christ and
the fact that he saved us when we could
not save ourselves
when we were dead so how many good
choices can dead people make
you you can’t you can’t find god
being dead he has to find you
and wake you up to the possibility of
salvation so
the weightiness of our salvation so we
see the the absolute lost
condition of humanity we see that he
called us by name something happened in
us and we said yes
seeing that simple thing carried out to
its logical conclusion is
i have a change in my perspective of
reality
i was dead i’m alive i was lost
i’m found
that is the inspiration for the renewed
mind that’s the beginning place that’s
where it starts
don’t be conformed to this world be
transformed
by the renewing of your mind
the renewing of the mind here this
particular word be transformed
is the same basic word that’s used in
the gospels to describe
jesus on the mount of transfiguration
so if you can imagine jesus takes peter
james and john with them they go up on a
mountain
and he stands on this mountain all of a
sudden it says
he becomes other is actually the
language is used he becomes
other he he he suddenly takes on a
different
image and shape if you will he his his
clothing and i think it’s luke’s gospel
his clothing is
lightening flashes it’s not you know
it says the whiter than any launderer
can
make it yeah times a billion
it’s lightning we’re not talking about a
good
washing we’re talking about lightning
lightning
is his clothing and he stands there and
the disciples
were sleeping they’re now completely
awake
as they behold this one and
the voice of the father comes this is my
beloved son hear him
so it’s a divine moment here’s what i
want you to see
in the natural jesus is clothed with
lightning
that is transformation
the renewed mind in the spirit realm
is what that is in the natural realm
the mind of christ
the mind of christ is the beginning of
transformation
the mind of christ is the beginning
place
transformed mind transforms
a person a transformed person
transforms a city i like the strategies
for
serving in politics and business and all
those things
and and the lord is blessing and the
opportunity of churches all over the
country
all over the world that are doing that
serving their communities it’s a
beautiful thing
but apart from the mind of christ
there’s not lasting transformation
because we are actually discipling a
world
on the reality of god who has conquered
every enemy of mankind
discipling a world to think and to draw
from possibilities that they never
thought were even
even available before the renewed mind
makes hope possible let’s just take a
look at this for just a moment longer i
i know we’ve been over this before but
but i have the mic so
said be transformed by the renewing of
your mind that you may prove
what is that good acceptable and perfect
will of god i’ve heard people say
there’s the good will of god the
acceptable will of god and then there’s
the perfect will of god
that’s stupid that’s just dumb there’s
the will of god
it’s good acceptable and perfect it’s
the will of god is all three things
you don’t get away with while there’s an
acceptable no no no no no
don’t do me stupid don’t don’t try to
make it in by the skin of your teeth
give yourself completely to the good
acceptable perfect will of god
those things flow from the transformed
mind
what is the will of god
the best definition i can find in the
bible
is your will be done on earth
as it is in heaven just think this
through with me
your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven
clearest definition i can find is on
earth
as it is in heaven what is god’s will
for a given situation in your life in
your life
on earth as it is in heaven what ushers
that in
transformed mind
do not be conformed to this world be
transformed
by the renewing of your mind that you
may prove
i believe miracles take place by
anointing miracles take place by great
faith but miracles also take place
through the flow of the renewed mind
ushers in the reality of god’s will on
earth
the renewed mind doesn’t yield to the
opposing
thoughts the opposing uh things the war
that
goes on in the hearts and minds of
people the battleground is the mind
the renewed mind lives from a different
place
and the transformation that we hope to
bring to our cities
has to happen in here first it has
has to happen here jesus in confronting
his disciples on this
this whole issue they were they they
would be involved in a miracle and then
the next day
they would question not the miracle
but the reality of the kingdom they were
supposed to see they they would deny it
jesus talks to them they’re afraid of
not having enough food for lunch
the day after they multiplied food
so he asked them a question why do you
reason
that you have no bread why do you reason
why does your reasoning start with what
you don’t have
why do you start as you find
foundational thought
why do you build upon a foundation
that’s that weak
you have no bread you’ve started with
what you don’t have and you build logic
from that place
it’s an improper foundation and it’ll
have to be removed
anything you build on that the longer
you dwell on what you don’t have the
higher the building you’re going to
build that has to come down
and that’s what repentance does
repentance goes to the very root thought
the very emotional attachment to a way
of thinking the self-talk that is so
destructive jesus wants to go to the
root of that not
in punishment but in deliverance see in
the kingdom of god
freedom is not just from something it’s
unto something
when we are set free and in the natural
you can have a prisoner that’s released
from
prison and yet he’s still homeless and
has no job unemployed
is he free yeah yeah in part but that
wasn’t then
that in the kingdom it’s not like that
it’s freedom from something
unto something and when the lord
sets us free from this from the life of
sin and serving self
to him he actually engages us with this
ability to broker the reality of his
will
in the earth we are by nature
transformational people
and the the tragedy occurs when we have
a greater confidence in the return of
christ than we do the power of the
gospel
the challenge is is around the world
there is great anticipation for the
return of christ is that
wrong absolutely not it’s going to be
more glorious than any of us could ever
imagine but that’s not my assignment
my assignment is to live in and display
the power of the gospel
and if i have more confidence in the
return of christ than i do the power of
the gospel i disqualify myself
as a transformer because the power of
the gospel is for here and now the
return of christ is for the church
the power of the gospel is for the world
we we know that a drug addict can
come forward receive prayer be set free
from
drugs i remember one sunday night right
down here we prayed for about 10 people
that were addicted to drugs and stuff
and two of them which i didn’t know at
the moment two of them were
over 20 years uh addicted to heroin
and we prayed a group prayer we didn’t
pray over them individually a group
prayer
and one of the guys came to me six
months later he said do you remember
when you had us come forward
yeah he said me and my buddy we’ve been
addicted to heroin for over 20 years and
we were set free have not had
desired drugs at all since that moment
so we
know that the lord can do that for an
individual we
have seen where he does that for a
family
that’s supposed to reveal the nature of
god to believe for a city in a nation
that’s what it’s supposed to do
it’s supposed to be that seed god’s
nature doesn’t change when we’re now
talking about a neighborhood
that nature of god to redeem and to
restore doesn’t change when we’re
talking about an entire city
it’s the exact same gospel if you will
it’s the cloud the size of a man’s hand
if we anticipate what is possible
because what we’ve seen him do with that
one individual or that one household
then the renewed mind says we need to
run for cover because it’s about to rain
and are you getting the analogy there
it’s elijah sees this cloud the size of
a man’s hand he’s been praying for rain
and as soon as he sees the cloud the
size of a man’s hand he runs and he says
it’s about to
is this about about to be a downpour
the way we treat our small moments
is what qualifies to be entrusted with
big moments
we pray for massive downpour
you know outpouring of the spirit
what did you do during the song when
there was that special
wave of presence that went through the
room it’s those little moments the tiny
moments
are what god gives us to see to measure
us for what we can carry
i can respond to the power of god
touching me and making me you know
incapacitated for three hours
it’s not hard to respond to that
but that moment of inspiration when i
don’t have my bible
open i’m actually driving home and
there’s that moment where he touches my
heart regarding something what do i do
with those moments
see we are we have been we have been
bought with a price with a purpose a
purpose in mind
and it is the transformation of a life a
family a
a a legacy our household
and cities and nations it’s the intent
of the lord
you know we we read in scripture about
the evils of wealth and all this stuff
do you know it also says that there’s a
day coming when the wealth
all the wealthy of the earth will bow
before him in worship
it’s in the book it’s in psalms
it’s on the left page up towards the top
it’s in the 20s
so here the scripture says we are salt
and we are
light and then it says the kingdom is
leaven now
let’s let’s take a look at just this
thought for a moment it says the kingdom
of heaven is
like leaven it doesn’t say i’m leaven
it says i’m salt and light the kingdom
of heaven is like
leaven in the measure
i seek first the reality of his dominion
for my city in that measure the kingdom
becomes leaven
in my city
in the measure i make the reality of
god’s lordship
and dominion his sovereignty in the
measure i pursue that
in the practical application of where it
fits
into my city through my place of
influence in the measure that i
seek first the kingdom of god the
dominion of god
being released into my city and the
measure i pursue that as top priority is
the measure in which leaven actually is
worked into the kingdom
and has its effect think about this once
you’ve put leaven in the dough you can’t
pull it out
you can look at it and say well it’s not
working it will
it will there’s heat coming
fire activates whatever leaven is in the
dough
fire activates it you find out you find
out what you’ve been
sowing into your own self-talk when a
problem comes
what leaven has been planted in the
dough of my heart it comes to the
surface when a difficulty comes
is there hope is there anticipation of
great faith is there a sense of
breakthrough that this is all in the
sovereign plan of god to bring us into
increase in breakthrough or
has the self-talk flooded my soul to
where a problem causes
the leven of unbelief to rise to the
surface
you get the point i’m trying to make
the seed of transformation for all
society is already in the heart
and mind of every born-again believer
it’s already there
jesus turns to his disciples
and one of my favorite stories fact i
just i just caught uh
um a verse when i was opening my bible
this morning
where the disciples are looking at a
multitude to feed and
jesus says you feed them
you feed them
and you know the story they get the
loves fishes there’s the multiplication
of food
when they didn’t know what to do he
didn’t withdraw the command
when they didn’t know how to do it he
didn’t withdraw the command
everything all of his interaction with
his disciples
after the initial commission you feed
them everything he said after that point
was to equip them to do what they
couldn’t do
he said what do you have so we just have
a boy’s lunch all right step one
put them in groups of fifty and a
hundred step two
let’s divide this up into twelve baskets
so each have one step three
go hand it out step four what
he did was he he gave them baby steps to
complete an
impossible assignment but the miracle
came
from them
he didn’t take the loaves and fish his
throat and year ago shall sam create a
big pile of food
would have been a disaster with a hungry
crowd
instead it multiplied as it was handed
out
the point is you already have the seed
of the the kingdom display the miracle
is already in you because it was
commanded you it was commanded to me
it was in the command
go into all the world preach the gospel
disciple nations i remember talking to a
greek
scholar guy a bunch of years ago and he
said the
the action verb in that verse is
actually not go
it’s disciple it’s basically as you’re
going
life’s going to take you all over the
place so as you go do this
you have the seed within you to bring
transformation to an individual life a
family line
to an entire city keep that in mind you
are here for a reason for a purpose
in chapter 15 of romans
there’s another passage i’d like for you
to look at and then
i want to try to bring some sort of a
conclusion to this
this message chapter 15 verse 13 says
now may the god of hope
fill you with all joy and peace in
believing
that you may abound in hope by the power
of the holy spirit
now i i love this verse and i i’ll be
honest with you
it it’s not one that has made a lot of
sense to me although i believe it
because it’s in the word it’s true
but what has stood out to me says may
the god of hope fill you with all joy
and peace in believing
that you may abound in hope how
by the power of god
failing to interact with power is
failing to live in the fullness of hope
there is a connection between the life
of power
and supernatural hope now there are
people who have hope
it’s just the power of positive thinking
they just believe things will turn out
for the good i get that
i’m not talking about that kind of hope
i’m talking about the kind of hope
that is anchored in the nature of god
and the commission of man
it’s a hope that says i am here for
divine purpose
and because of that i must display
the confrontation of the impossible
when jesus says you feed them he
once again is famous for commanding us
to do stuff that’s impossible
it’s no different than when he said heal
the sick or raise the dead it’s the same
thing
as he brings us the command the
commission i’m
i’m i’m introducing you
to what you can’t do now do it
somehow in the surrender to the
impossible command
is the capacity to do what he said we
can’t what we can’t
naturally do he says you feed them
and in this verse we have this beautiful
description
that we would abound in hope it’s not
just a hope of positive thinking
it’s a hope that sees the beginning from
the end
living with the realization there is not
a problem on the planet that he doesn’t
have an
answer for and while i may not have it
in mind i do have it in my relationship
i may not know what it’s supposed to
look like
but i have inherited the mind of christ
and i will pursue the specifics of that
of that insight of that application so
this is what he says
that you may abound and hope by the
power of god jump down to verse 18
for i will not dare speak of those
things which christ has not accomplished
through me in word indeed
to make the gentiles obedient in mighty
signs and wonders
by the power of the spirit of god so
that from jerusalem
roundabout to illyrium i have fully
preached the gospel of christ
let’s condense verse 19 in mighty signs
and wonders
by the power of the spirit of god i have
fully preached the gospel
i owe it to my own soul to be exposed to
miracles
because my soul is not healthy apart
from the regular
exposure to that which i cannot control
that which i cannot explain
that which did not originate with me
if there is anything that
that is prevalent outside
of a fiery move of god
it’s the it’s the absence of awe
it’s the absence of all
there’s something about a people that
don’t know what’s happening but know
it’s good
there’s something about people don’t
know where we’re going but i’m following
the cloud i i’ll never forget
uh teaching that jack hafer did and and
his church
uh in van nuys california church on the
way is one of my
most favorite places i’ve ever been to
and i love him so much and
that ministry but i remember he he he
was teaching once and he said you know
people ask
he they went from you know 14 people i
think on their first service all up to i
don’t know 14 000 or something crazy and
seven services a day it was it was just
nuts
and so people would ask him how did you
get from there to here he says
if i tell you it will look like we knew
what we were doing
because it’s it’s so strategic
if i tell you i’ll give you the
impression we actually knew what we were
doing
we didn’t we just followed the cloud
and now looking back i can give the
outline of what we did
that looks like we had great wisdom and
insight
does that make sense that’s where we are
the life of power is
that i don’t know what to do next but i
am so
filled with all i’ll follow a cloud i’ll
follow the cloud
i have such hope why because i’ve seen
god work in me
and through me i know this cloud is
worth following i’m going to pursue this
one why
because i have an assignment i don’t
know how it’s going to work but i know
the impact of my life
as salt and light and every
demonstration of the presence and power
of god reveals the kingdom
god you are working the kingdom as
leaven into the culture of this city
of this of this life it’s my yes that is
a part
of the influence of kingdom in a city
it’s my yes
to live on the edge where miracles
become
normal fully preach the gospel how
it’s in miracles signs and wonders it’s
in the power of the holy spirit
that’s old material
for you and for me but i
i’ll be really honest with you i need
and want a fresh baptism
in this that i have said yes to a
hundred times a thousand times
a fresh baptism because i feel like in
this
strange season that we call
to you know time flies except when
you’re in a pandemic
[Laughter]
the longest 20 years of my life has been
2020.
[Laughter]
the lord has so positioned us
in in spite of the season
the way it looks on the outside for many
power says
this is the time to abound in hope
because god is known for addressing
impossible situations and he saves the
day when people run out of solutions
when there’s no more answers
i want you to stand we’re going to pray
and those of you that are at home if
you’re in the car don’t stand
unless you pull over some i want us to
i want us to pray together and
i i guess what i what i want to i
probably could have shared
what i shared today in five minutes
because all i really have to say is
hope comes from power and power keeps us
in awe
and it’s that approach to the renewed
mind
that enables us to be transformational
there’s something about wisdom there’s
something about power
there’s something about hope all these
things
are what release kingdom into culture
and that’s what transforms
but it’s got to start with me it’s going
to start with me i can’t
i can’t give away what i don’t have
chris mentioned it earlier the whole
thing jesus sleeping in a storm
you know you can’t impart a piece
that doesn’t enable you to rest in the
middle of a storm
you know we have authority over any
storm we can sleep in the whole concept
is
that place of personal peace qualifies
me
to exercise authority over chaos
peace is actually the antithesis
of chaos it’s not just discomfort it’s
not just worry and fear
it is actually the absolute opposite
of chaos in disorder
peace is that which orders my heart a
right
and it’s uh
you know you you see
you see people in you know gurus and
people and cults and stuff they
illustrate a life of peace but they
only have peace in a world they control
they don’t have peace when they’re in
the middle of chaos
they only have peace in the atmosphere
where they control
are their constituents then they can
model peace
but they do not have the peace in the
middle of a storm
because that’s a person that’s a person
and the lord has put us in the middle of
craziness for a whole bunch of reasons
but one is for us to discover for
ourself what it looks like to live in
peace
and i you know what i’m praying for us
for me for
all of us is i i want i want
the dimension of awe
i i it sounds almost like a correction
and i don’t feel that because i feel
like
we live with the sense of all but i feel
like the lord’s about to upgrade the awe
can i say shock and awe shock and awe
he’s about to upgrade he’s about to
upgrade the awe
because the all is what produces
the purest oil from our life is that
place of
awe so father
we say yes and amen to the assignment
for transformation
we do we just say yes we say amen
amen restore in every one of us
all the viewers restore the all of god
in a way that we’ve never known before
a whole new level introduce us give us
an
increased appetite for the impossible we
hear you
saying to us you feed them you feed them
you feed them
lord i pray for that to echo through our
hearts
until we rise to that place of
incredible hope according to power
that you would flow in us and through us
in a way that changes the world around
us i pray this in jesus name
i also know that there are people
watching i i when others speak i
i’ll get on youtube and and or bethel tv
and watch the comments there’s so many
people that watch these
services these gatherings that aren’t
born again they don’t know what it is to
have a personal relationship with jesus
oh my goodness i i would just say
surrender surrender jesus is the only
one
qualified to run our life and that he
invites us
to come into our relationship with him
to be forgiven of sin and he actually
gives us a new nature
so i’m going to exhort and encourage you
right online with the people you’re with
just
tell whoever in the chat room on bethel
tv or
youtube just just tell them i want to
know jesus
i want to surrender my life to jesus and
do that right now
amen let me close with this comment
this is my third and final conclusion
fear always attracts the information
needed
to legitimize its existence
fear always attracts the information
needed to legitimize its existence
and we say no we will not be governed by
fear
we will demonstrate the king and his
kingdom in jesus name amen all right
blessings bless you guys