Bill Johnson finishes his series, The Beauty of Wisdom, by sharing keys to influence through walking in both divine wisdom and supernatural power. The Holy Spirit desires to work through us to reach others both overtly and covertly; through outward signs and wonders, and through working us into society and culture like yeast into dough. As seen in King Solomon’s life, his wisdom drew kings from many nations to come and sit at his feet. As we surrender to the Lord’s plans and purposes for our lives, we will be filled with the Holy Spirit’s power and divine wisdom, influencing many for His glory. It is not about us having the all answers, but about loving and serving people with excellence and care, and introducing them to the One who loves them most. “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14,16 NKJV This is the ninth sermon in Bill Johnson’s series, The Beauty of Wisdom. Watch the full series here: 
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when the people of God realize that what
he has done is sufficient to change our
capacity to shape the course of history
suddenly Kings come to our light and
Nations to the brightness of our Rising
what’s happening the Solomon effect is
taking place I don’t mean that people
come to you and me because we know
everything is that people see such favor
on your life they see that there’s a God
element on you that has changed how you
live
thank you
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as we approach the subject
this subject I want to put it into a
context
of Revelation
when the Lord gives us new revelation
and that phrases offensive to some
because they they think we mean in
addition to scripture No it’s that he
opens up what we’ve been reading all the
time how many had that happen you’ve
read something 100 times you read it
again and suddenly you see it in a new
light and and um and that’s that’s what
I’m referring to whenever the Lord gives
us fresh understanding of his word of
his purposes of what he intends to say
and do never does he reveal it so that
we can abolish
what he showed us previous
when the Lord gives new revelation he
always puts it in the context of the
prior or previous revelation
an example of this would be what I’ve
quoted to often when this subject comes
up and that is I no longer call you
servants
I call you friends
it’s as though the previous Revelation
becomes the setting for a diamond the
diamond to be the new revelation so we
have I no longer call you servants
I call you friends and that servitude
actually becomes the context for the
ongoing learning of what intimacy and
friendship with God looks like
never was
a servant to it abolished in fact the
Apostle Paul identified himself
proudly if I can say that in a righteous
sense
as a servant a bond servant of the Lord
so when we come to this subject of
wisdom there is an ongoing Revelation in
scripture about this issue of wisdom for
example
in Solomon’s day
when the lord gave him this gift the son
uses your gift of wisdom the scripture
says every King from every nation
left their post if you will and traveled
whatever distance it was to come to
Jerusalem simply to sit at his feet and
to receive from his wisdom
that tells me a number of things about
the work of God I believe very strongly
in the go of the Gospel we go into all
the world in fact we’re going to be
sending our students out a couple
thousand people to I don’t know how many
locations around the world but there’s
going to be really because we believe in
that go of the Gospel we have uh Michael
and channel lead our missions Ministry
hitting the Nations day after day year
after year after year is something we’re
intensely committed to but there’s
another part of the Gospel that is
equally important and that is that the
Lord
in wisdom in experience with him
friendship and intimacy with him we
learn how to do life
and learning how to do life we create
successful communities by successful I I
don’t mean just uh prosperous businesses
although it includes that it’s families
work well it’s the husbands and wives
know how to do life it’s the children
get raised into their purpose their
Destiny it’s the is that business ideas
Thrive there’s not there’s not this uh
you know this Crash and Burn uh thing
that happens over and over again to
people but but there’s really a the
blessing the favor of the Lord that
rests on their life and we just learn
how to do life it really is the meaning
of the word proverb in a sense the word
proverb of course means riddle uh saying
uh things of that nature but it comes
from a word that means to rule or to
Reign and so if you think about it then
these these wise sayings these
statements of profound Revelation they
are to equip us to rule not rule over
people but to reign in life reign in
life so that Affliction that once used
to chase you all over the planet you now
Reign Over that and that thing gets
broken in Jesus name the poverty that
has reigned in your family for three or
four generations gets broken because we
learn how to reign in life no longer
does indebtedness debt rule us but we
instead rule resources and so the Lord
has summoned us to experience what
success looks like in following the Lord
I I think I think some of us have some
real changes that need to go on between
the ears on what the Lord wants to do
with us so many people have set
themselves up
uh let me put it this way sometimes we
have attributed evil things happening in
our life the church has attributed so
much to the dealings of the Lord that
we’ve lost the ability to discern when
we’re under assault
sometimes
I don’t know if you’ve heard this before
but sometimes the church lives in this
place where difficulties come and the
church has been so accustomed to
attributing difficulty to the discipline
of the Lord that we’ve lost the ability
to discern the Demonic assault that
takes place in our life
I could say it again but I won’t
so the Lord then
is positioning us
to reign in life
but anytime you and I get a victory
let’s say it’s in marriage let’s say
that things are tough and you learn how
to you learn how to do life together you
learn how to thrive in your relationship
with your spouse
every breakthrough you get gives you
authority to pass that on to someone
else it was never intended that you just
sit in your world and enjoy breakthrough
it was always intended that whatever
breakthrough you get you give to someone
else you impart you Mentor you pray you
do something to bring people into
increased breakthrough so here we’ve got
this issue where the Lord is raising up
a Covenant Community that become the
city on the hill the people come to for
Refuge the people come in the same way
that they sought out the wisdom of
Solomon the intention of the Lord is
that you and I would ex would would live
in in that realm if you will in that
zone of reigning in life where things
happen to us that are challenging and
difficult but because we know how to do
life we know how to resolve conflict we
know how to pay our bills we know how to
to to do the things that we need to do
to get breakthrough because we learn how
to in life and we carry that Divine
favor of God what happens is you and I
become positioned
to attract people in a sense into our
lives
I I don’t know another way to say it I
I’ve taught on it before in this series
so forgive me for the repeat but I I
need the context today to wrap this
series up
because I think it’s so vital I think
it’s so important that the Lord is
raising up
Covenant communities families of
believers
that become the city set on a hill that
someone who’s lost can find their way
and seek Refuge
the intention of the Lord
is to create something that people can
belong to this whole notion of personal
relationship with God while it is true
it is over emphasized dramatically in
the Western World we have a very
self-centered lifestyle very arrogant
self-centered approach to life and we
have to forth force ourselves to think
many many have to force ourselves to
think in terms of family or community
a statement that was made some weeks ago
that I I heard elsewhere just really has
wrought my life and I’m still processing
is this statement that the disciples
belonged before they believed
that’s
Ah that’s amazing they belonged they
were actually brought into the tribe if
you will and they were there before they
knew what was going on
it wasn’t until later in the journey
they came to your place where they said
well Jesus you’re the son of God
you’re the Messiah you’re the most high
that was after a while so they actually
belonged they were brought into
relationship into a process of doing
life together and it was in that that
they learned who Jesus was
I I’ve got a feeling that the Lord is
going to not dumb down or stall or take
away from the sending into all the world
because it’s so vital
but I feel like he wants to add an
element of presence and power to How We
Do Life at home
the people can actually be brought into
a community setting a family setting
where we learn to do life together and
in the process they’re actually being
decept discipled and mentored in the
things of the Lord I don’t know if you
realize this but it’s already happening
in our community one of the bizarre
things that’s happening is we will have
uh business uh people who want to hire
uh higher employees for their work and
and they will say something to this
effect they’ll say we want to hire
someone from from Bethel because they
change the atmosphere in our business
all right now I’m not expecting uh
someone who doesn’t walk with the Lord
to know
what it is they’re wanting they’re
wanting the presence of God
we know that all they know is there’s a
good vibe on that person
all they know is they smile a lot and we
need that in this business you know
however they put but what’s happening by
you being in their life and bringing
this presence into their environment you
know what you’re doing you’re actually
discipling them on adopting the Supreme
value for the presence of God they don’t
have the theology yet because you don’t
have to have the theology to start with
the disciples did this is this is almost
scary the disciples didn’t have the
Theology and they still got people
healed and delivered
they got it’s like when my my brother
Bob once years ago on the Streets of San
Francisco was taking groups uh there
were young people there that he had been
training he was sending them to
different parts of the Street Ministry
and uh to you know you guys go over here
preach you guys go hand off food and he
was just giving them assignments what he
didn’t realize is that he grabbed
somebody who was just walking by
who was a law student
and was just walking by the Bob’s six
foot six you tend to listen to him when
he says hey you come over here go over
there so so this this this law student
gets drafted gets put in this group that
is sent over here to preach and he just
goes he goes with him
this is this is a bizarre story he goes
with them
and God uses him I know it doesn’t fit
our theology but God uses them people
get healed people get set free because
Bob told him what to do
and the end result was people got healed
saved delivered
and it was so powerful so did he he came
back and gave his life to Jesus so he
belonged
I mean it just it upsets the whole apple
cart I mean the whole thing gets ruined
on how you get people safe in the
disciple them
this thing of belonging what happened
here
is the Lord is into cities
communities
family
our father not my father
we have the mind of Christ not I have
the mind of Christ There’s Something
About This overlapping Grace that we
carry when we’re together that means
nothing can slip by because we have a we
have Grace we have anointing we have
faith we have people that are
functioning in their gift and together
we are incredibly strong
and the Lord is raising up a company of
people that actually know how to reign
in life that everything in life
is anybody else tired of circumstances
dictating how you think and how you feel
and all that that’s that’s what he’s
dealing with here is a wisdom and it’s
supernatural wisdom by the way is
prophetic in nature
I I hope that you I should let me take a
little detour just for a moment wisdom
is prophetic in nature you look at that
wall over there all you see is Sheetrock
you see paint
wisdom knows what holds the wall up
wisdom sees the wood behind it the steel
beams whatever is there wisdom sees
beyond the obvious into internal
structures that hold things in place so
when we’re talking about Divine wisdom
we’re talking about the ability to
perceive with God’s eyes and be involved
in Divine reasoning to not only what
exists but what the solution and answer
is for that particular challenge or
dilemma so when the Lord summons us into
wisdom he is actually summoning us into
a lifestyle where Life Works
all right that was a long introduction
and I still have more
so just bear with me so what happens
here with
the Kings
that come to Solomon for wisdom
that tells me
that if
the mind of God
is
accessible
all the leaders of the world
have an inbuilt Grace and gift to pursue
it
you understand the king of a nation that
travels a great distance to sit at
Solomon’s feet they didn’t do it because
somebody commanded them to
they did it because they had an appetite
where they get the appetite the appetite
came with a position
think about the ramifications when
somebody comes into position as CEO of a
corporation
they run a major uh part of Industry
life a government a mayor governor
president whatever it might be these
these people who lead areas of of
entertainment and sports and these these
Realms of influence the the the doctors
that that that run hospitals and and uh
they all have this thing in them that
came with the position
it’s called a Grace that hungers for
wisdom
and I’d like to suggest that the Cry of
the heart
has been unanswered for a long time
because the church has had this idea
that it’s us over here who are spiritual
and it’s them over there that are doing
quote unquote secular work
thankfully in recent years that lion is
being erased
and we are being becoming awakened to
the fact they have a god-given hunger
for something you have access to
all right
all right see what else
okay I think that’s probably enough to
get going all right open your Bibles to
the Book of Exodus 31
and let’s see if we can
nope I still have some more but just
open anyway open into it so I’ve tried
to set the stage so that
so that I don’t know
so I can talk I guess I’m talking so
that I can talk
like
Like Larry Randolph used to say I’m
going to keep talking until I say
something so that’s that’s what I’m
working on here
the concept of new revelation being like
the diamond put into the previous
Revelation which would be the setting
what I’m going to do right now is I’m
it’s going to look like I’m changing
gears but I’m actually not I want to
talk to you about being full of the Holy
Spirit
in the New Testament
we know what that means we know that
Jesus told his disciples don’t leave
Jerusalem until you are clothed with
power from on high and there was this
baptism immersion in the spirit there is
this fullness of the Holy Spirit you
know a bottle a glass is not full not
really full until it overflows so
fullness of the spirit is always
measured in overflow it’s not measured
in what’s contained
we are not containers
we are vessels that he flows through so
fullness is measured in overflow so when
we look at the subject of the fullness
of the spirit in the New Testament which
would be the new revelation would be the
diamond
it is the spirit of the Lord God is upon
me to bring release to captives the
spirit of the Lord comes upon us so that
uh disease is destroyed that people get
healed people get delivered I just got a
testimony this last week I was just in
Atlanta a week ago at our church uh
Church Plant there and uh gal came up to
me and she said six years ago you prayed
for me I had bladder cancer and Jesus
completely healed her and she’s uh this
particular kind of cancer is the kind
that comes back frequently uh just
reoccurs and she has gone back for six
years and there’s just no not the
slightest subtle slowest tune so the
spirit of the Lord comes upon us to
destroy that threat against that
individual’s life to break off the
torment that keeps people in fear and
anxiety and all the stuff and so the
spirit of the Lord comes upon us for
this so the fullness of the spirit is
for power that’s the diamond but I want
you to see this setting the setting is
here in Exodus 31 verse we’ll read one
through three actually we’re past that
five uh then the Lord spoke to Moses
saying see I have called by name basilal
the son of your eye the son of her of
the tribe of Judah and I have filled him
with the spirit of God in wisdom
in understanding in knowledge and in all
manner of workmanship to design artistic
Works to work in gold in silver in
Bronze in cutting Jewels for setting in
carving wood and to work in all manner
of workmanship
I absolutely love this passage and this
goes on it has to do with the building
of the Tabernacle of Moses but what you
need to catch this is the first time
anyone was filled with the spirit
is the first time
so the the point I’m trying to make is
the initial revelation of the fullness
of the spirit is this it’s wisdom it’s
understanding
it’s the creative expression of work
the testimony of divine nature through
artistic labor work things that
everybody in this room in some way
contributes to the well-being of your
community
every one of us are alive and assigned
to do work to do labor to live for the
well-being of people around us
every leader that is worth anything
makes life better for everyone they
influence
it’s the it’s the purpose of leadership
the purpose of leadership is not to draw
to ourselves the purpose of leadership
is always to make life better for anyone
who is under the influence of our
leadership
so this original revelation of the
fullness of the spirit has to do with
wisdom
I
I don’t think this is a stretch
do you remember when the Apostle Paul
in Acts 19
he insisted on the privilege of doing
work for his own Ministry and he had a
tent making Ministry
so here he is in his tent making
Ministry
walking in uh
that responsible work as a laborer and
people would notice that his ministry
time was so powerful they would come to
him and they would take headbands sweat
bands off his head that he used while
building tents they would take aprons
off of his body things that he would use
while making tents they would take work
elements
to the sick and the tormented and those
people would get delivered
the point I’m trying to make is they
weren’t prayer claws that were prayed
over
they were
fabric material that was used while he
was working
it’s the merging of the wisdom creative
element the responsibility element with
the power element these two together
caused even work clothes
to be supernaturally powerful for
casting out demons and bringing healing
to people’s bodies I’m just telling you
the Lord has this intention on merging
these two worlds the first revelation of
the fullness of the spirit is wisdom
understanding creative workmanship the
second Revelation the diamond put in
that setting is power and then you have
Paul working on tents and people getting
healed from his clothing I think the
Lord wants to merge the two
I think he wants to create a company
people that know how to live in both
worlds know how to live in the business
world not to live in the economic world
in the marketplace World know how to
live in the educational system medical
system but still know how to live in
power to work in power
thank you
I I I I I feel like yeah
I mean this is not this is not new for
us we’ve been harping in this for a long
time I I understand that but I at the
same time I feel like every time we
declare this there’s like this Fresh
Fire
there’s this fresh anointing it’s like
the Lord is taking mindsets that have
existed in in many of us as Believers
those mindsets and it’s just it’s like a
big cruise ship you just don’t get that
thing to pull a U-turn in a few minutes
you just gotta it takes a while to get
that thing just turned around that’s
what he’s doing with our thinking
there’s so many people that that
interpret the day that we live in as as
tragic and hellish and horrible etc etc
and feel powerless to do anything about
it and the opposite is true because the
enemy works hard to keep us conscious of
his success so that we lose sight of our
assignment and call
he doesn’t mind in fact he likes being
chased by us
Maria Morello told us years ago he says
the devil will enter bar of soap if
you’ll worship it
all he wants is attention
all right now let me uh open your Bibles
to Isaiah 60 and this is a portion uh
I’ve already took a little bit of time
to study with you in this series
but I I need to do this again today I
just need to be able to close this thing
up I’ll feel better if we look at Isaiah
16.
I’ve shared with you before I hadn’t
I’ve had two what I consider major
encounters with the Lord in my life
many many encounters but two two that
changed everything
and one of them was was very very
physical very violent in a sense not
violent in a sense he was
going to kill me but it sometimes felt
like it was being electrocuted
and I’ll just let you wonder about that
one the first one actually came in a
revelation
It came it touched mind and heart
which wisdom unites the spirit of a
person with the intellect of a person
and he spoke he began to speak to me it
was on a Thursday in May of 1979 he
began to speak to me out of Isaiah
chapter 60. and it changed my life every
single day of my life since that
Thursday in May of 1979 every single day
of my life since then has been different
because of what happened in that moment
I want to show you a few things that
what I’m going to do is I’m going to
almost out of context read a few verses
in 60 61 and 62 and then I want to talk
to you and see if we can tie it together
you ready to go on a little journey
we’re in a helicopter flying over the
city all right
verse 1 arise Shine for your light has
come the glory of the Lord is risen upon
you for behold Darkness shall cover the
Earth deep Darkness the people but the
Lord will arise over you and His glory
will be seen upon you
Gentiles will come to your light in
Kings to the brightness of your Rising
when do we remember Kings coming
to anyone in the Kingdom previous to
this it was Solomon and it was the issue
of wisdom I would like to suggest that
Jesus Christ
in First Corinthians 1 I think it’s
verse 30 or 31 Jesus Christ is our
wisdom the person of Jesus maybe a
second Corinthians is the second I
fogged out here it’s in one of those two
places just keep reading you’ll find it
Jesus is our wisdom I’d like to suggest
you that the light of God that Jesus who
is our wisdom Rises upon us and once
again Kings come to our light Kings come
to the brightness of horizon
lift up your eyes all around and see
they gather together they come to you
your sons come from afar your daughters
can’t be nursed at your side jump to 61.
Isaiah 61 verse 1. the spirit of the
Lord God is upon me because he has
anointed me to preach Good Tidings to
the poor sent me to heal the
brokenhearted Proclaim Liberty to
captives opening a prison to those who
are bound jump to verse 4. they shall
rebuild the old ruins they will raise up
former desolations they will repair the
ruined cities the desolations of many
generations 62 verse
six I have set Watchmen on your walls o
Jerusalem they shall never hold their
peace day or night you who make mention
of the Lord do not keep silent and give
him no rest until he establishes and
makes Jerusalem a praise in the Earth
all right I just read randomly a series
of verses now let me walk you through
them
Isaiah 60 gives this commissioning call
arise and shine what does it mean
because the light of God has come upon
you you have the capacity to shine you
and I do not reflect the light of God we
shine with the light of God the way
things work in the kingdom when light
touches you and you yield to it you
become light
I don’t mean you are the light Jesus
Christ of course is the light of the
world but Jesus himself said tag you’re
it actually he said a little differently
he said you’re the light of the world
same thing
so whenever God touches us in a
particular way it changes our nature and
our capacity to live so I’m sitting here
in total darkness Jesus comes I see that
he is the light of the world now what
happens not only do I reflect him but he
has taken our presidents in me and I now
shine so he says get up why because
don’t expect another light to come I’m
the light
shine and then he goes on and he says
deep Darkness covers the world
but my light appears on you my glory
Rises on you
now this is vital because in the very
next scene when the people of God
realize that what he has done is
sufficient to change our capacity to
shape the course of history when we
realized it was enough and it was
sufficient we get up Suddenly Kings come
to our light and Nations to the
brightness of our Rising what’s
happening the Solomon effect is taking
place I don’t mean the Solomon effect in
that people come to you and me because
we know everything we answer we it’s not
that it’s that people see such favor on
your life they see that things just work
for you they see that there’s there’s a
God element on you that has changed how
you live and they’re hoping to get some
they’re hoping to stand under the shadow
of your safety of your protection
Jesus instructed us in this he said let
your light shine before men in such a
way that they see your good works but
glorify your father which is heaven in
heaven
that’s what Isaiah 62 said all right let
me walk you through it again I’m sorry
Isaiah 60 get up and shine you’ll
attract the kings of the Earth all right
61.
the baptism of power the spirit of the
Lord God is upon me to bring release to
captives the next scene the broken
people are now the Builders of the city
so what was the target from the
beginning
get up and shine use what you have
you’re going to shape history they’re
going to come to you for answers the
spirit of God is going to come upon you
the people that you heal and get uh that
they get set free the broken get
restored they’re going to be the
Builders of the city what was the
intention communities being restored
Redemptive communities restored to God’s
design and purpose then what happens is
we take no rest for ourselves and we
give him no rest until those communities
of the redeemed are used by God to stir
up the praise in the nations of the
Earth for the goodness of God
taking a rest for yourself give him no
rest until he makes Jerusalem a praise
in the earth what does that mean it
means the community of the redeem would
live in such a way that everybody
observing them just stands in awe and
glorifies God it’s not a time for
applauding you applauding me it’s it’s I
see that God has worked on your behalf
and life works for you and because of
that I’m going to give glory to the one
who has inspired you and empowered you
and changed your life there’s this cycle
where the wisdom of God gets married to
the power of God and those two together
create a Ministry tension tension in a
positive sense over an overlap that
makes us qualified and capable to
minister in any situation it’s overt in
covert Ministry is what it is overt is
the Bold preaching of the Gospel covert
is subtly being worked into the system
and whatever you’re strongest at reveals
what you’re in greatest need of
we have we have many in our culture that
are very good at boldly preaching and
I’m their biggest fans because I I love
the Bold preaching of the Gospel
but what happens then and that company
of people in that school of thought we
have to teach another part of this
Gospel of the Kingdom
be willing
to get sprinkled into a system to be to
bring transformation from the inside out
and for those who are married to the
long-term 20 30 40-year concept of
infiltrating a system and transforming a
culture in society Amen to that because
I love that stuff but I want to
introduce you to the god of power
because you get to confront devils
you
get to break off the stuff that’s been
tormenting people’s lives
[Applause]
I
I don’t think this is a random journey I
I skipped over a lot of stuff I’ll let
you read it on your own
but the issue of the light of God coming
to you qualifying you to be one who
stands
is profound
and then having you as one who stands
becoming a light the city on a hill the
people seek refuge in that’s profound
and then you add the New Testament
element of power to that wisdom suddenly
the most broken people in the city
become the builders
and we will only be successful in the
restoration of cities of the Earth
in the degree we value the most broken
Among Us
and so now we’ve got these who have
found the Lord have risen up with wisdom
people come to them to seek counsel and
now we’ve got the power element we have
the most broken among us become the
builders what happens now we start
praying globally we’re saying God
we’re going to take no rest for
ourselves and we’re not going to give
you any rest
until you make the community of the
redeemed a praise in the Earth
I don’t know if you’ve thought about
this but it is
possible
and actually an assignment
that your life
would release others to give God praise
that’s not just it’s not just words to a
song
it’s not a it’s not just a cute little
chorus
it’s not just an inspired thing you put
on a card
this is a mandate from heaven
to live in such a way
the people are released
into the glory
because they are so delighted in what
they see in your life
let your light shine before men in such
a way that they see
your good works and glorify your father
I’m wondering
in this last day’s Revival in this
billion Soul Harvest
that we’ve been summoned to
I’m wondering how many of them
will actually be saved
because they were drawn
to the spirit of God on another
believer’s life
they saw that they reign
in life
they don’t
they don’t know they should long for the
presence all they know is your
countenance makes a difference in their
work
and you’re uh without them knowing it
you’re discipling them
and values
there’s this interesting verse I found
recently it’s in in the passion
translation the passion translation it
translates it so powerful he’s talking
about this giving of a gift and he says
when you when you when you give this
gift to this person listen to the phrase
you awaken their conscience
this is amazing
I’m sitting at the table I’m at lunch
I’m I’m eating at such and such a
restaurant and I just said I’m just
going to go overboard today I want to
really bless this waitress so I’m I’m
going to give a gift that is not typical
it’s going to it’s going to violate
standards and expectations what have I
done I have just initiated a process in
somebody’s life that awakens a
conscience
wow
wow
awakens the conscience awaken what does
that mean awakens people
to Divine values
let your light shine before men in such
a way they see
your good works but glorify your father
in heaven
I wonder how many people
are going to find themselves standing
giving honor to God
because of you
and find
that they just stepped into faith for
their own salvation
see what I’m
been dealing with for these weeks
is the intentional lifestyle that says
yes I want to confront disease yes I
want to confront torment
yes I want to bring people into the
kingdom
but I also
want to be sprinkled into a city into a
community
where everybody gets to belong before
they believe
and in that process
I’m in this one
for the rest of my life
20 30 40 years whatever it is
because I want to see a transformation
from it from within from the inside out
I feel like that’s the two edges if you
got if you will of the Gospel the the go
and the abide in a sense that attracts
and both elements
are necessary for what God’s about to
release into the Earth so why don’t you
go ahead and stand
and let’s let’s just pray pray pray
you know I was thinking this last week
a couple weeks ago I said about when
Jesus
told the uh a few disciples are fishing
and he told them cast you down on the
other side
I’ve just always thought of that as a as
a very very cool story
uh you know God just showing his
kindness once again I I never thought of
it in this light
these guys that are fishing are
fishermen that’s their business
he was giving them business advice
now how many know if you’re the guy
that throws the net on the other side
and your net starts breaking and
everyone else who is
been at Sea with you and all the other
boats caught nothing
you may attract attention
you may have people that come to you
that say
I want what you have
and then you just tell them you just
cast your net where I cast it
the Lord knows how to do life he knows
where the fish are and if there’s no
fish there when he tells you to cast
there he’s going to create the fish
it’s like the guy said I crawled out on
a limb I cut off the wrong side
and God made the tree fall over
however it works I’m happy
but I want you to pray right now I’m
going to pray for you and I want to pray
for this wisdom things we wrap up this
particular
part of our our series together father
I’m asking for Grace to be released over
this household over this family of
believers
where where we just think more
consistently with how you think
just with a refusal to ever be impressed
with the Devil
even to the point of intimidation never
being intimidated I pray for that Grace
I ask as well
Lord for that wisdom for life
and that everybody in this room would
get to Mentor someone
and where you’ve given each one
Authority we want our city to be blessed
and we want them to be blessed because
of you
we want them to be blessed because you
just told us where to cast the Nets
you’re the one who said the fish are
over here you were the one that said the
breakthroughs here and I pray for this
grace to come upon this body right now
in Jesus wonderful name
I ask Lord that our lives would ignite
in the hearts of people a passion for
God that’s our bottom line