Faith does not come from striving but is the product of surrender. Bill Johnson teaches us that we were created to have great faith and see the impossible happen!

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lava thank you thank you thank you thank

you thank you thank you

thanks thanks wonderful wonderful

wonderful

good to see you glad you showed up

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any wedding anniversary today

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the uh new victory album uh just came

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all right let’s see

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take this way back though for me

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bless you she’s visiting from brazil

bless you with daddy all right i was

gonna

wing it and then we probably would have

had to raise the

debt or something when i was through so

maybe wisdom kicked in or something i’m

not sure

a preacher stood waist deep in the water

at a river baptism talking to a group of

people on the bank

when an overwhelmingly drunk man

wandered down into the crowd

preacher spotted him pointed him out and

said sir would you like to find jesus

the drunk shook his head yes they

wandered down into the water

preacher grabbed him spun him around put

him under the water

pulled him up pulled the front of his

coat and yelled did you find

jesus the drunk said no

so the preacher repeated the baptism and

extended his time

under for 10 seconds then he pulled him

up again

and asked did you find jesus no cried

the drunk

so that process was repeated a third

time except the preacher held him under

for 30 seconds

he then pulled him up and the drunk said

you almost drowned me and the preacher

yelled yes but did you find jesus

the drunk wiped the water from his face

and asked are you sure this is the last

place you saw him go under

i’m just reporting the news that’s all

i’m doing

when i listen to the voice of a problem

more than i listen to the word of the

lord

faith will always be an uphill battle if

i receive my counsel from the

difficulties of life

my heart will be shaped by inferior

things

oftentimes we receive our counsel our

input

our values our sense of urgency all

those things are often shaped by

problems without the breath of god

showing us his heart his mind

god has a solution for every challenge

every problem every difficulty

and learning to not only read the word

but to meditate on the word to meditate

means

it’s a word that actually is best

illustrated

by a cow chewing its cud it brings it up

and chews on it over and over and over

again to extract

all the nutrients possible from that

item of food and meditation on the word

is different than uh eastern meditation

the other meditations that are are

promoted by various religions

all of those want you to become empty

god wants you to become full

their ideal is nothingness

his ideal is kingdom

word voice fellowship

and he tries to bring us into a place

where

through biblical meditation we literally

extract

the very things that god is thinking

not just saying it brings us into

connection

with the one whose heart is perfect

brings us in face-to-face reality with

the one who

actually paid a sufficient price

to settle every broken issue that exists

on planet earth there’s not one

situation

that is outside of his reach or outside

of his compassion

it is all settled the difficulty for us

is we are bombarded with information

almost 24 7.

and it’s inferior information some of it

is overtly evil

corrupt some of it is just a distraction

and learning to live from heaven towards

earth

learning to live from the word of the

lord the heart the mind of god

toward situation is our lifelong journey

it’s what you said yes to

people come and they say i’m so confused

of the situation

that i’m facing of course you’re

confused

you listen to the problem more than you

listen to god

you can’t expect any other outcome

if listening to the difficulties of life

has actually shaped my perception

then of course faith is going to be an

uphill battle

doesn’t mean i can’t get there it just

means i have to return to what god is

saying

i have to return to his nature i have to

return to his covenant

the big challenge for us is living

conscious

of the heart of god living conscious of

the spirit of god

living conscious of the will of god what

is his will in this situation

we often times settle for things that

are inferior

they’re not what jesus would have done

where he’s standing in these shoes

it’s difficult for me to steal the voice

of the inferior if i’m not replacing it

with an affectionate response

of the voice that changes everything

this is jesus imprint

our times of worship are times in

presence

are times of worship or times in

can i say the new wine of the holy

spirit

gideon had a challenge he was grinding

wheat in a wine press

many people have done that with revival

they get into a move of god and they try

to get bread out of it

the bread of the word of god

doesn’t come out of a winepress

it’s not either or you just move in the

season he put you in

god i want fresh revelation he says what

you need

is a fresh touch of the holy spirit

oh god i want to be zapped again what

you need is to understand my heart

you need to understand the word find the

season you’re in

is it time for bread is it time for wine

stay in the season he has for you

god i want to be electrocuted by your

presence

it’s a good dream he doesn’t give you a

menu however

you don’t get to order from a menu

you get to move with what he’s saying

what he’s doing

god i want revelation it’s a good dream

pray it

but then drink what he’s given

that’s a amen point amen

amen that is the truth right there

the lord is healing people’s brains

right now right now learning disorders

being healed uh head trauma

uh people who have had injuries there’s

someone here has had multiple

concussions

i don’t know if it’s like through

football or a sporting event or if it’s

maybe just freakish falls or whatever

but

multiple concussions and you suffer as a

result of it who is that

i believe jesus is healing is that you

you know multiple concussions

we we break that cycle where the enemy

has sought to steal

he fears your creative expression

through freedom of thought

and we just declare over you that that

cycle ends tonight

and we declare of you the healing the

injury

to your brain there’s somebody else here

there’s someone else back here multiple

concussions

we’re gonna pray in a moment together um

multiple concussions

there’s someone else here who you’ve had

um i think it’s several surgeries at

least it was one

where the anesthesia still has

you have not been quite the same since

that surgery may have been a week ago it

may have been 20 years ago it doesn’t

matter what it was

but there’s almost like a medical fog

and the lord is healing you from that

tonight who is that i’m confident there

are many

who are watching online is that you all

right the lord

is going to clear up that fog that has

been there

and is going to it really is going to

just

his breath is going to blow away fog he

said he’s going to breathe

on your thought life he’s going to

breathe some of you will actually

have unusual sensations on your head

and and it’s going to be some of you

need it and he’s going to give it to you

others of you it’s just going to be

clarity of thought that will be returned

to you

bipolar epilepsy

issues of the brain jesus is healing

tonight

if you have any issue with the brain

and you need a miracle stand

um

many of you just want to be smarter yeah

don’t stand don’t stand

that’s between you and god

i don’t have the faith for that one

though

just a bad joke ill-timed bad joke all

right

i’m gonna have uh those of you that are

seated around these people

i’m gonna have you stand in just a

moment i want you to pray i want you to

take maybe a minute or two minutes just

to pray

pray the power of god upon them

specifically i want you to pray for the

peace

the shalom of another world to permeate

every cell

in their brain i want you to pray for

that and then i’m going to ask someone

in the group after we pray for a minute

or so

to lift as though you could visibly see

a steel band around their head

i want you to lift the steel band off

and i want you to make the proclamation

this ends tonight this

ends tonight all of you who are standing

put a hand up

those of you that are seated sitting

go to someone who’s standing as soon as

someone comes to you put your hand down

now look around make sure that everyone

with a hand up has somebody praying for

them

as soon as somebody comes to you put

your hand down

if you’re about to pray for someone that

still has their hand up pull their hand

down for them

there’s one right here beautiful there’s

somebody with a hand up right here

do they have yeah have them pull their

hand down so

i can tell all right we still have

somebody here

oh no he’s extending their hands all

right worshipping churches are rough to

you know people always have their hands

up all right

i want you to begin to pray listen to me

carefully

the bible says today is the day of

salvation it does not say

a week from friday salvation literally

means forgiveness

healing and deliverance so what do we

know about the will of god for these

people

today is the day of their salvation the

healing

of their brains today is the day say

that with me

today is the day say with me now is the

time

now is the time i want you to take just

two minutes we’ll just time it literally

and then i’ll tell you when i want you

to lift the band off i want you to take

two minutes to intercede for them

do it right now just begin to pray lay

hands on them

pray those who are watching on bethel tv

we declare this exact same word over you

specifically there are many

who are watching that have that cloud

from uh

a past surgery and jesus

is healing your brain clearing up the

fog

the confusion and bringing great great

strength where there’s been great great

weakness

and the scripture says he sent his word

and healed them

we declare that over each person right

now the word of the lord over you

has come the word of the lord that

declares now is the time

has come

thank you lord god just keep praying

don’t stop just intercede for them

we pray spirit soul and body every part

of their being

to be refreshed renewed in this miracle

all right now together i want you just

lift that still bound off their head

and begin to prophesy this ends tonight

this ends tonight in the mighty name of

jesus

this ends tonight

all right take just a moment just to

turn your affection towards the lord

every person just turn your affection

towards the lord

beautiful all right god we give you

thanks we do we give you praise

we give you thanks we honor your

wonderful name

now this is a very

difficult one to instantly measure

but many of you that have that receive

prayer right now

just felt like almost like a refreshing

or uh a freshness come upon your mind

a shift in in seeing thinking

we’ve had people as soon as they’re

prayed for colors are brighter

their their ability to process

information changes

instantly we’ve had complete amnesia

partial amnesia

we’ve actually had hearing eyesight

restored from damage to the brain

so there’s a number of different ways

you can

measure and tell what god has done but i

want you that receive prayer right now

just in some way examine yourself if you

had a learning disorder let’s say

dyslexia

and it was very difficult to read a

sense grab somebody’s bible grab your

bible

and right now just try to read it

challenge yourself please

chances don’t don’t sit idle right now

put faith into an activity do something

right now

those of you that pray for them help

them to discover what the lord’s done

all right give me your attention how

many of you that receive prayer

can already notice a difference wave

your hands like this

wave your hands like this look around

you can already tell a difference

it’s amazing glory to god

glory to god all right all of you that

were praying

i want you to pray again and i want you

it’s two-part epoxy

i want you to add the second part right

now seal the deal

make declaration over them this will

never return to them

this will never return to them

yeah take just another another minute

thank you lord

okay you did good now just remain

standing if you would

all of you that received prayer i want

you to wave your hands again

if you can tell there is already a

difference maybe you grabbed a bible you

can read where you couldn’t

maybe there’s a freshness whatever it

might be the fog is gone

wave your hands to testify of what the

lord has done

that’s beautiful wow wow wow wow

that’s wonderful now

how many of you how many of you can

actually say you can tell the problem is

is all gone it’s actually gone gone gone

it’s not going it’s actually gone wave

your hands because i want to see who you

are

wave your hands all right right here

look look look yup

beautiful it’s gone it’s gone it’s gone

yeah

bless the lord all right go ahead and be

seated

go ahead and be seated i want to

i want to find out what jesus just did

it’s it’s really important some of you

just got healed of something

that was so extraordinary first of all

everything god

does is extraordinary so i never want to

downplay or classify

levels of healing or miracles having

said that

some of you just experienced something

that is very unusual and it it changes

your life beginning tonight

i want to know who you are i want to

know what jesus did tom take that mic

just put put your hand up and tom is

going to come to you

all right yeah come right back here

yeah yeah stand up tell us your name

what did jesus do for you

hi my name is bonnie um i have been

injured several times in my head my

daughter’s here but she doesn’t even

know because i

don’t give the enemy any place with it

but i’ve been struck in my head many

times

and i get headaches and a lot of times

if something

touches my head like just slightly i’ll

feel something like running like

fluid sounds feels like it’s running in

my head and

i get pains across the front but when

they prayed for me it just got really

it just you felt like a clearing it just

it cleared up everything just felt

like it just lifted and it cleared up

okay beautiful

thank you lord i love that

somebody else real quick what what did

jesus do right down here

yeah go ahead yeah you’re in the blue

right there what did jesus do if you

give us your name and

tell us what jesus did for you

my name’s victoria i was in a car

accident about five months ago and i was

having some really bad headaches and i

was prayed for and they’re gone

they’re gone come on

amazing bless the lord never again this

end tonight

yeah there are others that still suffer

from migraines not from head injuries

it’s just been something that’s happened

in your life if that’s you put a hand up

just right where you are those of you

sitting next to them put your hand on

their head

just put your hands on their head and

just rebuke migraines

rebuke them jesus bore the curse

that these folks would not have to bear

the curse

we cancel that cycle some is chemical

some is related to

uh uh times of the month for women often

we’ll have that

we just declare this is an illegal

assault on your body

be released from it now we we accept no

ownership of these afflictions they end

now in jesus name

amen amen

all right somebody else what did jesus

do i want to hear this one way in the

back over there

way in the back how many of you had a

migraine when you came in and it’s now

gone just wave your hand at me

just wave your hand right over here

another one over here

yeah beautiful all right

now go ahead and stand up tell us your

name tell us what jesus did

um my name is uh in english ron and but

in hebrew it’s reuben my hebrew name

i can’t i can’t crank it up i’m sorry

um i’ve been having problems with my

memory

bad and i’ve been having problems

learning my

math scores have gone down to eighth

grade level from college

and i’ve been losing keys wallets i

don’t remember

faces and

one day i’m cloudy and the next day i’m

clear and then that evening i’m cloudy

and it’s been going on for 19 months and

i felt the band come off my head

my head became perfectly clear

and now it’s going to stay it’s not

going to go back and forth

oh my god set free i know i did

beautiful

stand up let’s give a shout out thanks

to the lord

we bless your great name god bless your

great name jesus

wonderful god wonderful god

wonderful god wonderful lord

beautiful now turn to the person next to

you find out where they need a miracle

do it quickly find out where because

you’re gonna lay hands on them and pray

find out where they need a miracle

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okay now go ahead and pray just pray for

each other

okay you should be praying by now

wonderful

the lord’s healing the sciatica on the

right side of the body

if that’s you you have that issue put

your hand on it right now

put your hand on it right now injury to

the sciatica right side

this cycle of pain affliction ends

tonight

in the mighty mighty name of jesus it

ends tonight

chronic sinus infections

put your hands on your on your forehead

right now

we just declare that ends tonight now in

the name of the lord jesus

okay check yourself out everyone

check yourself out just try to do

something you couldn’t do it’s difficult

to do

in some way examine yourself

as soon as you discover you’re at least

80 percent better

wave both hands over your head like this

wave your hands over your head like this

give

testimony

keep doing it keep doing it look around

the room

yeah look around the room

beautiful all right thank them for

praying find your places

go and be seated

to open your bibles to john chapter 20

please

you ever shoot rubber bands as a kid

it’s a very powerful rubber band you

just caught it’ll change your life

john chapter 20.

verse 21

jesus said to them again peace to you

as the father has sent me i also send

you

when he had said this he breathed on

them

and said to them receive the holy spirit

let’s read those two verses again

jesus said to them again peace to you

as the father has sent me i send you

and when he had said this he breathed on

them

and said to them receive the holy spirit

it’s interesting to take a look at the

four gospels and to see how the

disciples were commissioned

each one we the one we are most familiar

with would be matthew 28 19

go into all the world preach the gospel

lewis

gospel has a little different not in

conflict but just

adding something a little bit unique

in luke’s gospel he talks about going

into all the world

preaching the gospel and then he says

stay

in jerusalem until you’re clothed with

power

from on high so it’s an interesting

commission

because he says go but before you go

stay

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go but not yet stay

because in your staying you’re going to

get something

that will make your going work

as we look through the scripture

we know that in acts chapter 1

120 people are gathered together

they’re in one accord they pray

jesus ascended to the father

father 40 days

after his resurrection he had been

appearing for a 40-day period

pentecost means 50. so

jesus appeared and reappeared for 40 of

those 50 days

but there was 10 days of nothing they

had 10 days to pray

before heaven ever invaded earth earth

invaded heaven for 10 days

they prayed and they cried out to god

they were divided people wonderful

people devoted to jesus

but a lot of strife a lot of conflict

they were normal human beings

the disciples would argue as to who was

the greatest and there were those kinds

of issues

i’d like to suggest that when they came

together to pray

for those 10 days they didn’t know what

was going to happen

they didn’t know when it was going to

happen they just knew

that before they could go they had to

stay and they would know when it was

time to go

because something would be given to them

and so they stayed

scripture doesn’t record what happened

but it does say they were in one accord

so they were people that were broken and

divided and when the spirit of god came

upon them they were in one

accord they all had unique instruments

in the orchestra if you will

but they were all tuned to the same

master tuning

note tuning for they all played

harmoniously in this work that god was

doing

when the holy spirit was released upon

them

they were clothed with power

this baptism in fire this baptism in the

holy spirit

does a lot of things in a person’s life

one of the things that it does is it

introduces you

to a what we would tell our children

when they were small

it gives them their secret language

tongues each of our children

received their secret language when they

were four

and i believe so much that this is

one of the parts of the outpouring of

the spirit

upon our lives when you see the 120

they are immersed in the fire in the

presence of god

and you see them responding to the lord

praying in tongues is generally one of

two things it is either intercession

or it is praise the bible teaches about

the prayer in tongues

and then it also talks about praise in

acts chapter 2 verse 11

we have people from the surrounding

nations visiting jerusalem

at that time of outpouring and they are

stunned and mystified

by what’s coming out of this group of

120 from the upper room

and they’re conversing with each other

because they know this group of 120

people don’t know their language

that they from the country they came

from but they are discussing with

each other in verse 11 says are they not

all

speaking of the mighty deeds of god so

here they are speaking in a language

they didn’t know

but they are declaring the secrets the

mysteries the wonders

of god himself they were doing it in a

language they didn’t understand

it’s because their spirit grabbed hold

of that language and began to declare

i heard of someone this last week that

when they would pray in the spirit

in fact it was uh one of my friends

heard them and said

man it sounds like they’re speaking

japanese and they we know they don’t

know japanese

and so they brought some japanese

friends over to hear him pray in tongues

and first a while he would pray in high

japanese with royalty the wealthy the

elite would speak

and then he went to the middle class

japanese and then he eventually went to

the street language of the japanese

and each time was saying the basic same

things declaring

the wonders and the greatness the

significance of god

the stories of this nature are

are unusual unusually great

we’ve had our own teams in israel

one of our i think was a young lady was

used

over and over and over again to pray in

the spirit but she was praying in hebrew

and we actually had somebody interpret

for him i i have it on tape somewhere

i i’ll have to try to find it someday

but um

uh speaking in hebrew

the prayer language that god gives us

is because sometimes our thoughts aren’t

clear in fact the bible says we don’t

know how to pray as we should

the holy spirit in us does it’s always

best to start with his prayer

and then pick up his heart his mood his

faith his perception

and then add your prayer to his it’s

much more powerful

much stronger and the baptism holy

spirit was to for that

in part for that reason but when he says

in luke 24

don’t leave jerusalem until you have

received

this gift from the father which was this

outpouring of the spirit

he defines it as being clothed with

power

the real evidence of the baptism the

holy spirit’s power

many people are satisfied with good

theology and they stopped short of a

divine encounter

the revelation of scriptures to take us

into an encounter with a person that

transforms us

power has two basic functions one the

most obvious to us

miracles miracles

impossibilities yield to people who walk

in power

but the second purpose of power is

endurance

many people waver in difficult times

because they’ve not been

baptized in fire

the friends that i know who have gone

through the greatest trials

the greatest difficulties from

imprisonment

to beatings to all the horrible things

that you

read about in scripture and that you

hear about in church news

my friends who have endured those things

first

had a great great baptism of fire and

there was something

in that encounter with god that so

deeply transformed them

that they could hold the course in the

midst of circumstances

that seemed to deny the promise

what the lord is looking for i don’t

believe he creates any of those

conflicts for us

but what he’s looking for is a people

that will hold fast to what he has said

regardless of circumstances it’s not

mental strength that enables us to do

that

it’s the spirit of god upon us that

enables us to do that

it’s not our self-imposed discipline

it’s not our vows

it’s not our promises that we’ve made oh

god i’m all true

look at peter he was in the middle of

three and a half years of interaction

with the miraculous

and the miracle worker and he said i

will never deny you

his determination was the strongest of

all of them

but determinate determination itself

cannot get us to where we need to go

it’s the grace of god it’s the

empowering presence of god

it is that fiery work of the spirit of

god

upon a person’s life that enables us to

bring the miracle and endure till it

comes

we’ve been summoned unto the lord for

this lifestyle

what i just read to you in john chapter

20 is a little bit different though

because this is before the day of

pentecost so just think with me what

this means

this is before the day of pentecost

jesus has raised from the dead

but this is during the 40-day period of

time where he is still

visiting his disciples giving them words

about the kingdom

giving them direction about what he’s

going to do giving them promises

teaching them about this assignment that

they’ve been given

so for a period of 40 days he appears

instructs them

this is during that time this is not day

of pentecost

what did he do he breathed on them

and told them to receive the holy spirit

so we have to ask the question was this

symbolic

of something that was going to be

released on them on the day of pentecost

because the group that he just breathed

on

was also in the 120.

this may not be significant to you it is

for me

so i’m going to take you on my journey

i’ve heard my whole life the church was

birthed on the day of pentecost

okay it may be true

but when were they born again

when were they born again when were

these eleven born again

it’s in the receiving of the holy spirit

so even though they were born again

and the spirit of god lived in them

they still needed this baptism of fire

and this baptism of fire is not a

one-time experience

been there done that anyone who has that

attitude

has lost the flame entirely

it may be smoldering you may have the

testimony of a past event

but when you’re on fire you’re

contagious

fire creates an appetite for the

impossible

if the appetite for the impossible is

not there

then i suggest you get a fresh baptism

do you remember when jesus hung on the

cross

and they took the spear and they put it

in his side

does anybody read their bible here yeah

you remember that

what came out blood and water

blood and water

sin cannot only be dealt with by blood

refreshing is dealt with

with water

in the old testament when they came into

the outer court

the first thing that they walked into

was the brazen altar where they would

sacrifice

their lamb to the lord the shedding of

blood

for the remission of sin the blood of

bulls and goats did not

wipe out sin

it just postponed the penalty for one

more year

it was the blood of the spotless lamb

that once and for

all dealt with sin and it’s for that

reason we’d never have to sacrifice

sheep again why

because this spoke of something greater

that was coming

now that the greater has come we never

go back

to this in coming into the presence the

first thing

is the blood because the blood deals

with sin

but then on the other side of that piece

is a labor

it was made out of the mirrors of women

and this laver contained water

and the priests although they had been

the blood of the lamb dealt with the sin

in their life they still had to wash

with water before they came into the

presence of the lord

why because in this outer court

they’re dealing with people and there’s

always contamination

when you deal with people

no sin that was dealt with there

but you heard a story that could depress

you if you allowed it

but you ministered to that person you

still need to go

to the water and wash

you you heard a conflict a problem

you’re walking with somebody

through great difficulty you still need

the refreshing

of the water and the scripture talks

about this water

and it uses this phrase in ephesians the

washing of the water by the word of god

so the blood of jesus deals with my sin

but i still need to bathe frequently

in water i still need to bathe

frequently i need to be refreshed

i need to be encouraged i need to be

cleansed i need my conscience clean

you see what dealt with that with the

blood that’s true

the power of sin was defeated by the

blood of jesus but it’s the

continual washing of my mind that makes

me god conscious and not sin conscious

the heart of god conscious and not the

heart of defiled man conscious

this is what connects me to the passion

to the heart the purposes of god it’s

the word of god

jesus in print washing

i want you just to listen to this verse

i’ll give you the reference after i read

it just listen

in that day a fountain shall be opened

for the house of david

and for the inhabitants of jerusalem for

sin

and uncleanness

in that day a fountain shall be opened

for the house of david

for the inhabitants of jerusalem for sin

and uncleanness

in that day

a fountain

will be opened blood and water

for sin and uncleanness

where

did adam’s bride come from

where did the last adam’s bride come

from

it was made possible by blood

and water

born again continually cleansed

by the word of god

oh we need our brains washed

need to be brainwashed

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turn to the person next to you look him

in the eye and say you need to be

brainwashed

so

ephesians 5

says don’t be drunk with wine

be filled with the holy spirit

listen to the words we are commanded

to be full

not merely one of several doors you can

walk through

should you choose that direction

it is a command put upon our life

be full of the spirit jesus put it this

way with the eleven

go but stay

and stay till you can go

there’s a difference between the fire

of god that these heroes of the faith

walked in

after the day of pentecost

and what many of us have experienced and

i don’t want to downgrade

anybody in this room any of our

experiences i’m thankful for everything

that god has done for me

i just live aware there’s more for me

the healthiest posture of my life

is thankfulness and hunger those two

things together

for me are two sides of the same coin

i don’t ever want to divorce the two if

i get hungry without thankfulness

i will live frustrated if i’m thankful

without hunger

i will become complacent

but these who had

the baptism of fire of acts 2

said of themselves we cannot help but

speak of the things we have seen and

heard

we cannot help but speak volcanically

these things erupt from our soul and we

find ourselves declaring

the things that we have tasted of the

things that we have seen

the things that we have heard

somehow 120 people isolated

in a room spill out under the streets

and change the atmosphere of an entire

city in a drunken condition

drunk wasn’t the goal it was a byproduct

if you make the main thing the main

thing you get all the parts

don’t be drunk with wine but be filled

with the holy spirit

contrasting experiences

and toxic intoxication naturally

intoxication spiritually

the crazy thing about being

intoxicated by the holy spirit

is you will never think clearer in your

life

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it has a different effect than

drunkenness with wine

it has a different effect

if you’ve been around drunk people in

the natural or the spiritual

one thing you’ll learn quickly is they

really don’t care what you think

they don’t stagger either through the

church or

down the alley through a natural line

they don’t stagger around wondering

what people are going to say about them

social media

has exaggerated the value of public

opinion

if you study the new testament you’ll

find that both the pharisees

and herod and the political world they

both were governed by the fear of man

jesus warned his disciples he said be

where be aware of the leaven of herod

the political world

and the leaven of the pharisees the

religious world

they both made decisions jesus would ask

the pharisees a question

and they would discuss with themselves

if we say this the people won’t think

this

if we say this the people will think

this and they’d give him no answer

and jesus said and neither am i going to

answer you

if you don’t have the courage to defeat

the man the fear of man in your life

you’re not ready for the revelation

knowledge i would speak over you

that was jesus that wasn’t me i was

i’m teasing

i hate dust on my lens then you look

dusty

big globs of dust on you yes

there is a fresh fresh

baptism of the spirit available for

every single person in this room

every single person

for some it’s a very difficult subject

and there’s so much anxiety in your life

over the subject

that the lord actually has to minister

to you while you’re sleeping

because your anxiety has kept him at bay

sometimes there’s so much work to have

an experience

that he has to wait until we’re through

working

otherwise we’ll actually think that that

he gave us

was the result of our labor

once again faith is not the product of

striving

it is not the result of determination it

is not something

you choose in the sense of self-will

faith is the product of surrender

you were born for great faith you were

designed for it

everything about you is designed and

wired

to recognize god and to hear god

everything about you

all of your senses

your entire creation what god made you

he could do no better

when he made adam and eve it was the

high point

of his creation he could not improve

upon his creation

and everything about us our emotional

life

intellectual life our senses sight sound

smell taste touch

all these senses were actually given to

us

to be tools that we used to discover him

hebrews 5 says having our senses

trained to discern good and evil

trained that means it doesn’t just come

suddenly with full knowledge it means

there actually has to be

training periods of time where you learn

to recognize presence you learn

having your senses trained to discern

good and evil

if you work for a bank

and you’re the one responsible to make

sure that the currency

you have in that bank is actual currency

in that counterfeit you go through

training

and i know that most of you know this

already

but the training you go through never do

you study

counterfeit money you only study the

real

you become so absorbed

with the authentic hundred dollar bill

that when you’re handed

a phony one even though it may look

exactly the same

there’s something about it that you may

not recognize at first

but there’s something that is not right

having your senses trained to discern

good

and evil

we are trained to recognize presence

we’re trained to recognize voice

countenance mood the heart of god

these are all things that we are capable

of recognizing through our senses

in hebrews 5 that is actually the mark

of a mature believer

how many of you have some growing to do

having senses my wife and i were driving

from

weaverville to redding this is back when

we were pastoring there

uh years ago because leah wasn’t even

born yet it was just our two boys

in the car we had this little uh toyota

corolla

hatchback blue five-speed

cast set stereo in there uh-huh

air conditioning we were at the pinnacle

of wealth at the high point

and we’re driving from weaverville to

reading

and we just began to sing in the spirit

and our

our boys became so calm and quiet it was

like

a miracle equal to the parting of the

red sea

these boys were extremely high energy

and putting them together was just

inviting a problem

because they’re brothers and they

wrestle

and they do stuff

one time i was driving and brian was

the only other passenger with me and he

was just a little guy

and he said i want water and i said son

i’m sorry we don’t have any water when

we get to reading i’ll get you some

water

and they said i want water i said son

i don’t have any water i want water

right there’s no water

i don’t have any water in the car we’re

going down buckhorn summit there’s no

water

i want water all right so i pushed him

the little cigarette lighter

you know you push that in i pushed it in

i put a pretend cup under it

i held it when i was through i handed it

to him

he took the pretend cup and threw it

down he would have nothing to do

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he’s sitting there sitting in the back

seat and benny and i are just

singing in the spirit just worshiping

and uh and they’re

and they’re just complete we recognize

later they are just completely

in the right sense almost drugged

and um

suddenly right about if you know where

the turn is

to lewiston off of 299 right about that

area there

i started smelling like flowers or

something i started smelling

and i’d smell and i’d look outside see

if there’s flower

and then i realized this is winter

there’s no flowers anywhere

so i just kept driving i didn’t say

anything to benny because i didn’t want

to jinx it you know

and what i would do is i would smell

it reminded me of a fragrance i had

smelled before

and then i i could taste it i i it’s

strange but i could taste

the smell and it was like granules of

sugar on my tongue it’s very

very very sweet to the taste so i would

worship well

i’d stop i’d taste that smell

we’d continue worshiping a minute or two

later

i’d stop and taste smell

continuously did almost the entire way

to reading

and then it finally lifted and i said

honey

did you smell and she was yeah did you

smell that so

we were having a shared experience here

of the fragrance of the lord that

brought such a

a peace over our car

and gave us this i don’t know what to

call it just a heavenly encounter

actually tasting of another world

because everything in heaven has

light and has sound has color

and has flavor

every flower has a sound to their color

yeah i was leaving just just just leave

it right there

everything is alive on steroids

everything is alive abundantly alive

living

you walk across

a meadow of flowers none of them die

when you step on them

they just come right back

fragrance and light flavor everything is

released

from everything he made everything

testifies of him

everything is alive because of him

everything is alive because he

continuously breathes

life into them and you and i are people

who have dual citizenship but our

primary citizenship

is there our temporary citizenship is

here

as dual citizens we live in two worlds

jesus put it this way

he said no one has ascended to heaven

except for he who descended from heaven

who descended from heaven

it’s not a trick question who descended

from heaven

reminds me of the sunday school teacher

who asked the children

what’s gray and has a long bushy tail

stands about that tall and the kids are

completely quiet

she said come on you guys know it’s

great it’s about this tall climbs trees

long bushy tail they’re quiet

this kid you know the answer to this

this tall eats nuts

long bushy tail gray and one kid says

i know the answer is supposed to be

jesus but it sure sounds like a squirrel

to me

jesus tells his disciples early in their

journey together

no one has ascended to heaven except for

the one who first descended what does

that tell us

he’s been ascending

while he is in his earthly body he is

ascending in the sense

he has learned to live from a place of

abiding

in the father

why did everyone jesus pray for get

healed

that’s why

it’s in john 3 13 no one has ascended to

heaven but he who came down from heaven

and my translation adds this last phrase

that is the son

of man who is in heaven

so it’s like jesus talking to us saying

no one’s

a sin no one’s gone into heaven except

for me i came down but i’ve been going

up too

and actually i’m there right now

when we hear the mysterious

examples of scripture they are to wow us

but they are to make us hungry god can

easily impress us

with his understanding his wisdom his

inside his power all those things

but none of them are done merely to

impress us

they are all to create in us an

affection for a world that we cannot see

to anchor our affection our values for

things that we cannot see

it’s to make us hungry so

i want you to stand

what i’m going to pray for tonight ask

for tonight

if a fresh baptism of the holy spirit is

not something you

want it’s too late

you never should have come tonight is

all i can tell you

because you just got drafted into a

momentum that is god created

god has orchestrated your steps

he won’t force anything on you but he’s

very persuasive

israel is standing at the red sea

moses opens the red sea there’s two

walls of

water but they’re still not moving

so the lord releases the egyptians

to persuade them to walk between the

walls of water

he won’t force you but he will persuade

you

this is a year for a fresh baptism of

fire

i can tell you what happened to me i’ve

already talked too long

i don’t want to go into the story but

something was deposited in me

in february of 1995

that possessed my soul

it started light but it increased its

grip on my heart

and it was a hunger for the more of god

i prayed it day and night i see some

people get touched

the moment they cry lift up their voice

others it’s a while

it’s not mine to judge it’s mine to

pursue

it’s not mine to understand it’s mine to

give place to

for me it was eight months eight months

of continuously praying and there was a

baptism of fire

that came into my room in october

1995 at three o’clock in the morning

and it continued for three nights

and that’s what i’m praying for you

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i don’t care if it’s three in the

morning or three in the afternoon

at the 8 a.m service on sunday morning

or while you’re going through the car

wash

that’s a rather frightening thought let

me take that one back

but i want you to lift your hands your

face your voices

and i want you to put in your own words

your words out loud you don’t need to

scream them

but your words out loud about your

hunger for more

some of you aren’t hungry so you can do

this

you can you can hunger for hunger

god i really know i need this but i

don’t have the passion for it

make me hungry lift your voices together

let’s pray

a fresh baptism of fire your lord god

a fresh touch of the spirit of god

on every person

keep praying don’t stop keep praying

don’t stop don’t change the subject

a fresh baptism of fire a fresh baptism

in the spirit

awaken in us an awareness of why we are

alive

why we are alive the assignment that is

yet

untouched the assignment that is yet

unfulfilled

awaken in us our reason for being

we just invite you god touch our souls

in a way that is undeniable a baptism of

fire

that which is contagious

possess our souls god

continue praying don’t stop please and i

ask you do pray out loud

you don’t need to yell but do have the

courage to pray out loud

fresh fire fresh outpouring

fresh outpouring

fresh outpouring

fresh outpouring

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don’t stop not yet not yet

don’t stop not yet

god give us the gift of dissatisfaction

in the in uh dissatisfaction never

satisfied

with the inferior that is never

satisfied

with less than your desire

yes

so

put a hand on the person next to you

pray for a fresh outpouring

of the spirit of god upon them pray for

him

fresh out pouring fresh outborn fresh

outpouring

never the same again fresh out point

fresh out for it never the same again

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uh

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fashion

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take it take it

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take it take it

take it

take it

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now

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ah

holy spirit come we invite you to come

now in power

to come fresh baptism of fire

fresh baptism of the spirit every single

person

marcus marcus marcus

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wow

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ministry team i want you to start

walking through the room

laying hands on people praying for them

right now

just if god is touching you in an

unusual way just stay put

but other than that i want you to be a

carrier walk through this

room through this building lay hands on

people

there’s to be a release of power a

release of power release of anointing

of our people right now a fresh fresh

baptism of fire

we just declare god mark us as a people

of presence

mark us for this that you have designed

for us

fresh out porn fresh alcorn

fresh out porn

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mighty god mighty god

mighty god

mighty mighty god

when god starts to touch you just stop

praying

and just receive literally just respond

to him

sometimes we pray past the miracle

increase this lord increase increase

increase this lord god

more more

more we just say lord increase this

increase increase those who are watching

bethel tv

more to you in the name of jesus let the

present the

fire of heaven fall upon households

entire church that gather

churches that gather right now we

declare that in jesus mighty name

let 2019 be the year of fresh baptism

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hey

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thank you lord

thank you lord god

god

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in this place

holy spirit

in this past an

impotent father

of mercy and grace

you are welcome

in this place

holy spirit you are

well come in

this place holy

spirit you are well

come in this place

our nepotent father

of mercy and grace

you are well come

in this place

just sing it with me holy spirit

you are well come in

this place holy spirit

will come in

this place a new

potent father of mercy

and grace you are well

come in this place

one last time but sing it holy spirit

you are well come in

this place holy spirit

you are well come in

this place omnipotent

father of mercy

and grace you are well

come in this

place

yeah just take another drink just do so

right now

and best you know how just receive what

he’s releasing over you

wonderful wonderful jesus

wonderful wonderful jesus

wonderful wonderful jesus

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hmm

oh

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oh

foreign

have some more joe have some more have

some more

when i see someone powerfully touched by

god i say

i’ll take some of that i’ll take some of

that

i’ll receive that for myself amen

amen

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say this with me 2000 2019

is for this purpose the baptism of the

holy spirit

the baptism of fire

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2019 is for this purpose

the baptism of the holy spirit

the baptism of fire 2019

is for this purpose the baptism in the

holy spirit

the baptism in fire

amen amen

yes god yes god

if we come out of this year with nothing

more than that

we have had the greatest year of our

life we’ve had the most significant year

of our life

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i i want to ask the ministry team come

to the front

just just come quickly we’re going to

have a fire tunnel but it’s going to be

a little bit different

it’s going to be a new wine tunnel

don’t don’t come through it unless you

want fresh joy

let’s get the ministry team up here

we got to move these these rows yep

thank you move them up

if you need to leave you’ve certainly

been free to go all night

thanks thanks

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yes

okay

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just just give me your attention here

for a moment

if you’re a guest with us we come down

the center aisle we have two

two tunnels to go through so make sure

there’s two lines

you are allowed to go through a second

time

you can double dip

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i want you to say this with me i am

hungry

for fresh joy

unreasonable joy

perfect joy complete joy

fullness of joy from the presence of god

in his presence his fullness of joy

yes yes yes god

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now those of you that are doing the

praying you have one

assignment drink and pour out

drink and pour out give away joy

all right find some good music put it on

and come on down come on through

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lance you’re gonna pastor this go ahead

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oh

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you