Bill Johnson talks about how to maintain peace and avoid stress and anxiety in this busy world. As believers, peace is our inheritance. More than a feeling or vague sense, peace is actually a person; the Person of God. If you are not walking in peace, ask yourself “Where did I leave my peace?”. Bill teaches how to find and maintain a sense of peace, even in the midst of the busyness of life. Maintaining peace helps to guard your ability to hear God’s voice. 0:00 Introduction 0:22: A Lifestyle of Peace 12:03: Worry is Faith in the Inferior 20:34: Guarding Peace Protects Your Ability to Hear God’s Voice 27:36: Do Not Fear: Restoring Connection to God 33:58: Peace Is for Your Spirit, Soul and Body 40:37: Prayer to Break Off Hopelessness Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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in some ways the greatest enemy of our
heart is busyness and I don’t mean
busyness being full schedule I mean the
busyness of heart Jesus had probably as
full of schedule as anybody’s ever had
but he maintained that peace of heart
that enabled him to recognize his still
small
voice and it is possible to live free of
anxiety and stress Jesus illustrates it
he’s headed to the cross and he’s giving
thanks thanks we’ll look at that a
little bit more later but the point is
as both Paul and Jesus illustrate
something that’s almost scary profound
and how they modeled life going into the
most difficult situation possible but
they did it not just as survivors not
just to stay positive and you know stiff
upper lip that whole thing but as an
overcomer they went into a hellish
situation it came out absolutely
glorious because there was a way to
think I’m not talking about mind over
matter I’m not not talking about just
mental exercise I’m talking about a
perception that comes when we see what
Jesus sees we see the way he sees peace
is is a huge part of God’s economy for
us as a Believer um I’ve talked to you
even in recent weeks and months about
this issue for me whenever I you know I
I let’s just say let’s take a uh it’s 11
o’clock in the morning and I’m feeling
all anxious and stressful and I go man
what happened and I just I I I ask
myself question where did you leave your
piece cuz I had it it it it’s mine it’s
my possession so I just got to find out
where I dropped it so I I back up and I
go okay oh yeah I was feeling stressful
there there oh it was that phone call I
got this morning and it might not have
even been a bad one but my reaction to
information or to a situation was for me
to become anxious and I embraced a lie I
embraced inferior information over the
word of the Lord over my
life it wasn’t a conscious decision but
it happened nonetheless and so what I
have to do is I always have to repent my
way back to where I left my peace repent
confess my sin pick it up and just
realize it’s my permanent
possession peace in the kingdom is is
very very uh uh profound because peace
is not the absence of something it’s the
presence of
someone peace is actually a person it’s
the abiding presence of the spirit of
God in my
life I’m not saying I can drop it or
leave it in the sense that he abandons
me but my my the the felt awareness of
him gets laid
aside in the world peace is always the
absence of something it’s the absence of
noise or War or
conflict in the Kingdom you can be in
the middle of all those and have peace
because peace is a person so I Repent my
way back Embrace peace once again and
use that as my lifestyle we’re going to
look at why now um one more one more two
more comments before we open the
scripture although you already have it
open right Philippians 4 you’re so good
I in your life to teach you patience
that’s why I’m
here the other side of this issue that
we’ll read about in a moment
is the amazing
purpose in
prayer prayerlessness is
costly it’s probably would be worth a a
study sometime just to look at the cost
of press prayerlessness but let me give
you two things right
now in Scripture it says you have not
because you ask not so the implication
in that verse is prayerlessness creates
lack we often think in terms of lack
being God’s Sovereign will for our life
and it’s
not it’s just lack fills in where press
prayerlessness
exists amen bill it’s very good point
amen just keep it up stay
encouraged and the
second price that I will mention to you
about prayerlessness is Jesus taught he
said
pray so that you wouldn’t enter
Temptation pray make sure you maintain
prayer in your life so that you don’t
enter temptation
so the implication is if I am prayerless
I will face Temptation I have no Grace
for and it doesn’t mean I am prone to
sin I may resist the temptation but the
problem is prayerlessness created a
battle I didn’t need to
fight prayerlessness put me into a
conflict of a war of Wills of decision
and let’s just say I win I make it
through I don’t do what I was tempted to
do the problem is is because I was
prayerless I actually attracted the
situation into my life that was
completely
unnecessary if God designs for us to
face a battle it’s only because he’s
already given us the tools to win and he
wants to punish the powers of Darkness
it’s never so that we would fall or
falter if he allows the battle it’s it’s
only that we get to enforce his purposes
in the Earth but there’s many battles
that people face that were brought on by
prayerlessness I’m just here to
encourage Philippians 4 Philippians 4
let’s read some scripture
together we’ll start with verse four
rejoice in the lord always again I will
say rejoice I remind you Paul writes
this from
prison he’s giving us tried and tested
truths out of his own experience rejoice
in the lord
always I don’t know if you’ve ever
looked it up but that word always means
always again I will say rejoice let your
gentleness be known to all men the Lord
is at
hand be anxious for
nothing that’s one commandment I have
obeyed 100% of the time
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because everything I’ve ever been
anxious over came to
nothing maybe that’s not what he meant
all right be anxious for nothing but in
everything by prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving let your requests be
made known to God and the peace of God
which surpasses all understanding will
guard your heart and mind through Christ
Jesus be anxious for nothing but
everything with prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving let your requests be
made known to
God and the peace of God which surpasses
all understanding will guard your hearts
and Minds through Christ
Jesus there’s a picture painted for us
in this part of Philippians 4 of a
military
guard protecting a person’s heart and
mind heart the place where thoughts come
from the Mind
itself and that military guard is there
because of the previous verse pray over
everything with
thankfulness
if you look at the nature of
thankfulness it is I don’t think we
could overemphasize it I’m not sure that
it’s possible to exaggerate the power of
thankfulness
Jesus on the night in which he was
betrayed he took bread he broke it and
he gave
thanks he’s about to be betrayed by
Judas and he’s about to be forsaken by
all
11 disciples that he is now breaking
bread with
he’s about to experience the most
gruesome death anybody’s ever faced not
only because of the crucifixion the
scourging all that he went through but
because of the weight of sin itself that
came upon him you know what it is to sin
and feel guilty and shameful multiply
that by billions of people with millions
of sins on one particular IM
individual when the soldiers came to
kill the three on the cross they didn’t
have to kill Jesus Jesus cuz he was
already dead why because the weightiness
of sin it’s why he said God why did you
forsake me cuz in that moment he became
sin when was forsaken by the Father the
two thieves had to be killed because
theirs was just a
crucifixion I don’t mean to make light
of it I’m just saying the weightiness of
sin he became that which the father
despised which was
sin but he did that so that we could
become what the father delighted in and
that was the righteousness of of God it
was an
exchange so in that moment which was his
most difficult moment most difficult
moment in all of human history in that
moment he broke bread and he gave
thanks I’d like to suggest that these
difficult moments throughout scripture
are the moments where he sets an example
a model for us that can and must be
followed that thankfulness regardless of
circumstances to main maintain
thankfulness in those circumstances
Keeps Us U like attached to Life Source
in a sense and a very practical way
maintaining thankfulness Keeps Us sane
when things are not going right keeps us
connected to the to the right
thing so we’ve got this interesting
passage I want you to look at it again
67 and this time we’ll read eight be
anxious for nothing verse 6 but in
everything by prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving let your request be
made known to God now here’s the result
and the peace of God which surpasses all
understanding will guard your hearts in
Minds through Christ Jesus verse eight
finally Brethren whatever things are
true whatever things are noble whatever
things are just whatever things are pure
whatever things are lovely whatever
things are of good report if there’s any
virtue if there’s anything worthy uh
praiseworthy meditate on these things
what do we have here we’ve got we’ve we
got two um two
verses that give us instruction the
first one is pray over everything with
thankfulness verse 8 says think on these
things sandwiched those two verses
sandwich the promise and the promise is
his peace will protect you but it has
responsibility given to you and me on
both sides the first has to do with
prayer and the second has to do with
what we choose to think about
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whenever we worry and become anxious
we’re being drawn into a faith in the
inferior the enemy is trying to lessen
our awareness of significance again I’m
not talking about self worship or any of
that nonsense I’m just talking about you
know you get the knock on the door from
that lawyer
and you find out you now own this Great
Estate and you have $10 million in the
bank even though you have not yet eaten
a meal from your new newly discovered
resources you walk out of that apartment
with a different attitude you’re
conscious of something you had no
awareness of moments earlier and yet
it’s been in that account for you for
months they’ve been looking and looking
and looking for you you’ve had their
resources all this time but lived
completely unaware of it when you live
aware of the significance of the moment
you’re in the significance of the
investment of God putting the holy
spirit in you what did Jesus say you can
blaspheme the father you can blaspheme
the son but don’t blaspheme the Holy
Spirit what is he what is he doing he’s
describing to us the the tenderness The
Fragile nature I’m probably not saying
any of that right but you get the point
of the Holy Spirit and that’s the one
God TR trusts us with he so confident of
his work in us that he put the holy
spirit in
US you can tell how much somebody trusts
you by what they entrust to
you and so when the Holy Spirit is given
to us to make us into the image of this
one who is glorified at the right hand
of the father there is a purpose in the
assignment and it’s more than singing
songs on a Sunday night it’s more than
going to work tomorrow and just making a
wage and paying your rent and eating
it’s more than that it’s the it’s the
effect that your awareness of his
assignment over you it’s the effect that
has on how you carry
yourself it’s again it’s not a
self-serving it’s not trying to attract
people to somehow worship or glorify or
do that nonsense I don’t like that at
all but it does say arise and shine get
up in other words stop sitting there
waiting for something else to happen you
don’t need five more prophetic words to
act on what God’s already said get up
shine he didn’t say he didn’t say arise
and
reflect he said shine because light is
within you well I don’t know what that
means well then figure it
out figure it out don’t sit there
ignorant when he’s given us a resource
manual that instructs us on how to do
life I can tell you number one righteous
acts of the Saints is the righteous
clothing and it is the radiance of God
himself that shines into the lives of
humanity so it’s shifting from a
self-serving lifestyle into a
servanthood lifestyle where we live
aware we have all the resources needed
to be effective in our serving of
humanity of people around
us God’s the who takes the simple Act of
the cash that you give to the guy on the
outside of
Safeway who hasn’t
eaten he takes that act he takes the
visit that you do to your neighbor who’s
been
sick he takes those simple acts the
phone call of a friend that you haven’t
seen for years and they keep coming to
mind and you just step out of what’s
convenient and you make that call
friendship
we often times think in terms of having
unlimited Financial Resources in our
possession so that we can do great
things for
God when he’s the one who breathes on
the simple things that we’re capable of
doing and makes them supernaturally
effective fear anxiety and busyness
deadens our awareness to who he says we
are
I’m not opposed at all to a busy
lifestyle I live one but what I don’t
like is when I I
feel
um things robbing me of my
peace in fact Let me let me put it in
two different ways I’m going to call
this two sides of the same coin the
peace but also it’s my adoration for
him the Adoration my my adoration my
my times of really not saying a whole
lot in prayer but being in those moments
engaged in deep Adoration of
him that’s that’s the strength of my
prayer life that is the
anchor it
is I I believe in prayer I believe in
contending I believe in all all the
stuff and I do it and I love to spend
the time but you know the Adoration It’s
the affection for him that does more to
change my awareness of of of his
presence of his purpose of who he’s made
me to be everything shifts in that in
that tender place of adoration it’s that
deep place of affection for him and I
whenever I I seem to lose my peace it’s
because I’ve lost my
adoration I I’m I’m no longer
AED what happens in fear
we see a problem and we become
AED you can’t awe two Gods at the same
time only
one can be in the position to affect how
I think what I value how I
reason how I
anticipate my awareness of purpose all
those things are defined by where my
affection Is
Anchored in those moments where I lose
my
peace I have to find out where I left
it for me I I’ll I’ll stop and think man
I feel so anxious what what happened to
my piece where did I leave it because I
I left it somewhere
it is mine it’s my possession so it’s
like my phone I can lay it down if I
want
to said where did I leave it where is
that where’s that piece of
mine I go oh I remember it was when I
got that phone
call instead of moving into trust I
moved into fear and when I did I
received fear and I exchanged it for my
peace so so you don’t go and just pick
it up you actually repent your way back
to finding
it God I I actually feared something
above
you I wasn’t aware of it I just I just
got
stupid forgive me for becoming anxious
actually exalting a problem over my
awareness of your
promise and in those moments you become
re-engaged with peace the atmosphere of
Heaven
itself
in those moments the affection of your
heart becomes ignited for the one
who you will never be able to exhaust
the resource of adoration in your
soul because every
time every time you turn your heart
towards him he
just he just moves ever so slightly and
you see something brand new about him
and you’re locked into that place of
adoration the challenge with our
faith is not our inability to hear God’s
voice the challenge of our faith is our
willingness to hear other
voices there are so many opinions ideas
ideologies that are all competing for
for our attention and ultimately our
affection whenever the Lord does a
miracle a healing something
extraordinary in our lives he’s always
trying to Anchor our affections into a
world we cannot
see when you see cause and effect you
see someone’s ear that is deaf somebody
prays something unseen comes and opens
the ear they can now hear what’s
happening the Lord is Awakening our
affection for a world we cannot
see he’s teaching us he’s training us on
the superiority of the
Unseen Paul anchored into that when he
said what you can’t see is eternal what
you can see is
temporal so there’s a constant it
doesn’t have to be a conflict but we
live often times in a conflict between
those two realities when they’re
supposed to be joined together in
Partnership it’s not supposed to be the
natural is an evil commodity and the
Supernatural is great it’s supposed to
be functioning
together it’s supposed to be if I can
use Israel’s analogy as they went into
the promised land it’s supposed to be
Israel Works naturally plant crops God
breathes on them and they multiply in
the size of the Harvest the natural is
supposed to cooperate with the
Supernatural and you and I are the
agents that connect the
two
both hope and hopelessness are
contagious decide what kind of influence
you want to have on the world around
you because both are
contagious faith comes from hearing
God’s voice everybody in the room can
hear God’s voice you you wouldn’t be
safe saved
otherwise that conviction that draws us
to him where we confess we repent we
turn our lives to him it’s only because
it’s a response to hearing his
voice we unfortunately as a an
achievement sometimes centered people
especially in Western World We emphasize
our ability or in this case
inability and instead of emphasizing our
inability or our weakness in hearing
God’s voice it would be wiser for us to
emphasize his ability to be
heard if you’re talking to somebody who
has a difficult time hearing you you
raise your voice perhaps you wait till
they’re looking at you you do something
to help to make sure that you are heard
you take on responsibility to be heard
if you and I know how to do that as
people in this human race then certainly
God knows how to do that as our heavenly
father
he makes certain that he can be heard so
the issue is not ability as much as it
is
willingness in some ways the greatest
enemy of our heart is
busyness and I don’t mean busyness being
full schedule I mean the busyness of
heart Jesus had probably as full of
schedule as anybody’s ever had he had
people pressing about him con constantly
trying to get close trying to draw from
him questions following him anywhere
he’d go they’d follow him out into the
Wilderness where there was no food and
just stay there without food and just
lose concern for their own needs to eat
and to drink they just forget about it
they’re with him so if there’s anybody
who knew what it was to have demands put
on him it was Jesus but he maintained
that sense of personal peace if you will
he maintained that peace that that peace
of heart that enabled him to recognize
is a still Small
Voice the Lord is obviously able to
speak dramatically through circumstances
I’ve seen it circumstances unusual uh
coincidences there so many ways that he
talks and sometimes he uses
words but he speaks and often times it’s
that still small
voice and it doesn’t mean if it’s loud
around you you can’t hear the still
Small Voice it just can’t be loud inside
of you
maintaining protecting
peace one of my perhaps my greatest life
verse was given to me by a friend 45
years ago and it was out of Isaiah 4
excuse me out of Proverbs chapter 4
where he says watch over your heart with
all diligence because from it flow the
issues of Life watch over your
heart we use that as a model Benny and I
did in raising our children children
because we would actually bring
correction in response to attitude
instead of just
Behavior because if you can catch some
things in Attitude form you can actually
prevent the wrong
behavior and so the Lord’s inviting us
into that kind of self-examination in a
healthy way watch over your heart with
all diligence from it flow the issues of
life making sure that I maintain not
just right attitudes but I maintain I
protect that PE peace I protect the
peace that seems to welcome and respond
to the slightest nudge the slightest uh
movement of the Holy Spirit where he
speaks to
me our life depends on his
voice now I want to emphasize for those
who may not know us well enough his
voice will never contradict his
word but his voice is what makes this
come alive we need the voice of God
that’s where he activates what’s on the
page into becoming flesh in us we need
that activation of his
voice man should not live by bread alone
but by
every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of God the voice we live literally
by the voice of God everything is upheld
by his voice by his
word our need to hear from him is an
ongoing continual thing and protecting
that peace is what ensures that we will
always be a hearer of his
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voice what’s the number one command uh
in the Bible is to not fear so why would
that be the number one command because
not learning to not fear is what trips
us up in our capacity to
hear anxiety and fear dumbs us to
hearing and we speak of ourselves it’s
so hard for me to hear from God no no no
that’s not true you’re just listening to
too many other things yeah it’s it’s the
word that Ben read earli before the
offering be careful what you hear
because whatever standard you set it
will be measured to you so when I when I
entertain wrong things in my hearing
I’ve actually welcomed more wrong things
to
follow when I develop an ear for
whatever God is saying it actually
increases the flow of his voice in my
life but here’s the thing we have to
remember we were designed to hear from
God some people will say well I pray all
I sense is his peace that’s his
voice sometimes all you need to know is
he is present and he is
peace we don’t always need new Concepts
and new insights what we need is the
stability of a relationship that says
all is well on and in that heart-to-
heart connection we we discover the
heart and mind of God for a given
situation but number one we were
designed to hear from the Lord there’s
probably thousands of things we were
designed for but I want to address three
and mainly talk about the third so the
second
one is we were designed for a seamless
relationship with
God we were made in His image for the
purpose of relationship
everything he created he said it was
good but he said when he created people
he said it was very good why because
here is the opportunity for him to
fulfill his particular dream and desire
and that is to join with his Creation in
an intimate way that can’t be found in
any other part of his creation
yeah sin messed it up but Jesus came and
fixed the
mess fin sin through uh an obstacle into
that seamless connection but Jesus came
removed the obstacle and restored the
capacity for a seamless connection
that’s
right let me speak of marriage for just
a a quick moment in Genesis when God
formed Eve from the rib of Adam he made
this statement I will make helpmate for
him I don’t know how it happened it
would be interesting to see but I don’t
know how it happened through church
culture that helpmate has taken on like
a subservient role a second class
support CI
citizen instead of what the Bible
actually
says the word help
meet God uses to describe himself with
Israel at least 12 and I think I think
it might be 13 times God says he is
Israel’s
helpmate not second class subservient
role completely different than how we’ve
understood it the word helpmate
basically means one who is fully
qualified to stand face to face to make
up for anything lacking in the
other one who is fully qualified all the
women got happy on that one that’s what
I’ve been saying
that’s I knew
it fully qualified to stand face to face
making up for whatever might be
lacking god with
Israel the point is man
woman
became
one
illustrating in human terms the design
of seamless
function
yeah and Ephesians 5 uses some fairly
graphic language in its original
language to describe
this he says yeah it’s marriage but I’m
not talking about that I’m talking about
you and the Jesus in the church yeah
it’s his people
the point is is we were designed once
we’re born again we’re designed for a
seamless heart-to-heart connection with
God and the reason the Lord deals so
vigorously with fear and then all of its
relatives bitterness jealousy those
things is because those things throw the
monkey wrench into the seamless
connection it’s not a rejection on God’s
part part for us it’s the it’s the
um it’s like interferes with with design
interferes with capacity interferes with
the Air wave so to speak there’s it’s
it’s not seamless like it was supposed
to be and it’s repentance that
continually Keeps Us in that seamless
connection to sense to feel to live
aware of the heart of God it’s possible
to develop such a ious such an awareness
of the heart of God that you
instinctively
obey in fact I I personally think that’s
maturity it’s not that I don’t pray
anymore it’s that it’s that my my prayer
is the occasion to celebrate his
kindness and love for me the fact that
he welcomes me into his presence but
there’s this there’s this thing with
maturity where where we develop an
awareness of his voice in his
heart
and his introduction into the world came
with this decree glory to God on the
highest and on Earth peace and Good Will
towards men it’s always been designed
that the reality of that world would
affect this one it’s not just
occasionally it’s not just in a good
Revival meeting it’s not just in that
Act of Faith of prayer for a miracle but
it’s a lifestyle glory to God in the
highest that realm of of him being
exalted is to affect this realm that we
live in and on Earth peace and Good Will
towards men the word peace is one of the
most pregnant words in the Bible because
it deals with Spirit soul and body it’s
a word that doesn’t just talk about the
absence of noise the absence of conflict
the absence of difficulties it actually
is a word that describes the presence of
someone it’s positive positive it’s a
person it’s the permeating presence of
the Prince of Peace who loves to crush
the powers of Darkness under our feet so
peace resting on us is the Assurance the
guarantee that we will trample on Powers
of Darkness this is the privilege for
believers the god of the Breakthrough is
here and one of the worst lies that the
enemy has worked into culture and
Society is that there are actually
situations that are hopeless
if there’s ever been a time that I’ve
seen culture itself from having to do
with elections having to do with the
ecology having to do with the economy it
doesn’t matter where you slice it there
seems to be prevailing voices that are
filled with hopelessness and I want to
announce to you in many many of those
situations that hopelessness is actually
a demonic spirit it’s a power that has
attached itself to the thought processes
of people that that for whatever reason
their thinking is void of the God who
brings breakthrough the Bale parison the
god of the
Breakthrough and one of the great worst
uh greatest uh worst me go the opposite
worst things that could exist in the
heart of a Believer and every one of us
have have dealt with from time to time
is that sense of hopelessness that we
look at situations and we just don’t
have that anticipation that it’s going
to turn out it’s going to change and
we’re going to study some scripture in a
little bit but before we even study this
subject before we even look to what the
Bible has to say I feel that we’re
supposed to pray together I realize that
folks are watching online on tv and I’ll
just have to trust that you’ll do the
same thing in your home your small group
wherever you happen to be gathered
because this God of the Breakthrough is
here to not only bring hope to hopeless
situations but to change the patterns of
life that have been filled with hopeless
some of you it’s like no matter what
happens in your life as soon as there’s
a breakthrough there’s this nagging
voice there’s this nagging influence
some of you it has followed you your
entire life and I’m here to announce to
you that’s not normal and it’s going to
break today it’s not normal it’s not
your assignment it is not your lot in
life sometimes in the name of
perseverance we actually entertain the
Demonic some times in the name of
endurance we actually entertain things
that lead us into
unbelief we had a guest here a number of
years ago that made a statement that
really stuck with me and I think stuck
with a number of us he said what you
tolerate will
dominate what you tolerate will
dominate and sometimes we get accustomed
to the small foxes that ruin the
vineyard we we get accustomed to the
small voices that are just nagging
voices and and uh and seem to plunder
the hope and the courage that we were
designed to carry and I believe that
today there’s going to be for many
people there’s going to be a cycle of
returning hopelessness that will be
forever broken I believe there’s an
anointing here today to break that cycle
and that this God of the Breakthrough
this God who when Jesus was baptized in
water literally an act of violence to
save Humanity was to rip open the
heavens allow Jesus to go to the
crucifixion release the power of the
spirit of God so that there could be and
should be hope in any given situation
we’ll look at biblical uh basis
precedent for that in a few minutes but
first I feel like we’re just supposed to
pray we’re supposed to pray together I I
think that there are some of you you can
see it you can see it in the countenance
of your parents you can see it in the
countenance of your grandparents that
for some reason this thing is haunted
your family line like as long as you can
remember and you would be willing to to
say Bill I want this thing to end today
I want this cycle of hopelessness to end
today hope in in biblical hope is
completely different than cultural hope
we had a a humorous conversation with
Paul and Sue manwaring earlier there if
you don’t know them there are some of
our friends that are on staff here from
from the UK and uh he was telling us
only recently did he discover something
in our language that if if I and it’s
the word quite if I say that’s quite a
nice car quite for us is something
that’s big that’s like that’s really a
nice car in the UK when they say that’s
quite a nice car they’re they’re saying
boy that’s a real bad car you got there
and in in fact he jokely said here if
you say I’m I’m I’m quite in love with
you will you marry me uh if you say that
here that’s very positive and the woman
would want to marry you in the UK If you
say I’m quiet in love you you she look
at you and and want want you out of her
life because that was such a small thing
well we have that kind of a contrast in
terminology with this word hope the word
hope culturally is a wish it is not
solid it is not secure it’s like may
maybe if we play our cards right maybe
if everything lines up correctly it’ll
work out for our favor that’s what we
hope for but that is not the Biblical
word hope the Biblical word hope is
absolutely concrete it is so concrete
that you’re allowed to get happy before
it happens because you know it’s going
to happen it’s it’s the joyful
anticipation of good it’s completely
different so when we talk about hope I
feel like I feel like the Lord wants to
breathe if if I could if you could
imagine this room just becoming filled
with smoke and that smoke being the
atmosphere of Heaven that is the
atmosphere of hope that’s what I feel he
wants us just to inhale the hope of
another world because because that’s
where hope comes from the Hope comes
actually from the resurrection of Christ
if I could put it this way our hope is
based on the Resurrection The
Resurrection is our initial Taste of
Eternity if you’ve been born again the
spirit of the resurrected Christ has
taken up residence in you and you have
already begun to taste of
Eternity Hope Is Anchored in eternity
and it works back to affect every other
part of life when you try to get hope
for problems that you’re facing you’re
facing an up feel battle you try to get
psychologically over over the edge on
this problem over this issue over that
challenge but when you realize that our
hope is in eternity the worst thing that
could happen to me is I spend eternity
in
Heaven All right so it doesn’t work out
I die guess what I’m forever with God
when you start working from that place
back towards the situations that we face
in life suddenly everything takes on
perspective people would have more hope
hope if they were more convinced of
Eternity people would have more
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hope we would have more hope if we were
convinced of Eternity and part of what I
believe is going to happen today is the
Lord is going to start not start he’s he
started this long time ago but he’s
going to continue to unveil the reality
of Eternity that the fact that we have
citizenship in heaven now and that now
he is working back from that reality of
Heaven to in fact from Heaven towards
Earth all the areas of life that just
seem to be out of order Mis Mis uh
misdiagnosed bad
design uh failure
collapse if that seems to fit you and
you have you just carry this thing of
hopelessness it may be over a situation
it may that reoccurring lifestyle if
that’s you stand cuz we’re going to
pray if that’s you just stand
up be bold cuz this is the time to
change your family Lin’s
history I I’m just curious for how many
of you you can see that it’s just
followed you a good part of your life
put your hands up all right for how many
of you you wouldn’t say that you just
say it’s more of a recent thing that’s
that’s happened for you all right it’s
it’s maybe three quarters followed one
quarter
recent it doesn’t matter to me how long
it’s been there what matters to me is
how much longer it
stays and it’s to end
today please don’t stand for prayer if
you don’t want it
gone because you will be horribly
disappointed in what is about to
happen this is the largest Sozo we’ve
ever
done I do sincerely believe that God is
going to heal
situations let me talk to you for a
minute before we
pray we are about to
pray to the god we’ve been given
privileged to call Father ABA
father we’re going to pray to the one
who has never lied and he’s never
deceived and he’s never been
wrong and when he thought of this moment
he offered his son Jesus to make sure
that you and I would be qualified for
Hope Jesus qualified me for Hope amen he
qualified me for a life of hope so good
he qualified
you the Bible says his arm is not short
in other words he can is he can reach
Where You
Are he can reach into your
situation and it doesn’t matter to me if
it’s economic if it’s relational if it’s
Health if it’s all the above or none of
the
above for some of you you can’t even pin
down what you feel hopeless
about the horrible thing about that
presence of hopelessness is that
everything could go right and it still
doesn’t look
right that is going to be
broken that’s going to be broken the
Servants of the Lord are are going to
join with you right now in partnership
with heaven to see this
broken those of you that are sitting
down I’m assuming you’re filled with
hope if
not get your act together and get
prayer because we’re going to break this
thing all right I want you to stand I
want you to find someone to pray for I
see that there are some Pockets where
there’s a whole bunch of you together
you may actually need to pray together
for each other we’re coming again
against a power that has planted a lie
and we’re going to break that place of
identity with that lie lay hands on them
and rebuke the power of hopelessness
those of you that are receiving prayer I
want you to renounce
hopelessness it is a presence that is no
longer allowed to follow you
around those who are watching on TV we
break that power of
hopelessness we break break that power
that presence that is haunted and
tormented we just say that is illegal it
is an illegal
assignment Revelations of Eternity
Revelations of Heaven Let It burst forth
in the soul
God those of you that are receiving
prayer it’s very important that you
yield to the power of this prayer and
actually renounce
hopelessness close the door I I like to
declare it I renounce hopelessness I
close the door to that power and that
presence it is closed now in jesus’ name
we pray for this thing to be broken off
of Family
Lines this thing that has just hovered
in the background for multiple
Generations we just declare it ends
today it never was legal we end it now
in the name of the Lord Jesus it never
was a legal
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thing
wonderful now just pray for that release
of Hope Supernatural hope that comes in
the form of presence the presence of
someone the presence of the spirit of
God