Bill Johnson talks about knowing the God of breakthrough. Voices of hopelessness have been raised up in every area of society; politically, economically, ecologically, but there is no hopeless situation in God’s eyes. God wants to reveal Himself to you today as Baal-perazim, the God of the breakthrough, just as He did to King David. Whatever you are facing, God has an answer and is ready to breakthrough. When your hope is anchored in eternity and in God’s goodness, you cannot help but have hope! Bill Johnson takes time to pray for those who need hope during the sermon. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: 2 Samuel 5 Isaiah 59: 1 Isaiah 51: 12 Romans 6-8 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on October 5, 2014. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #Breakthrough #Hope
the circumstances that are going on
politically economically ecologically
anywhere you slice it the enemy has
succeeded at raising up the voices that
best represent hopelessness it has
become politically correct to be
hopeless but it’s not right it’s not
Kingdom Glory to God in the highest and
on Earth that’s the will of God and on
Earth peace and Good Will towards
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men it’s good to see
you the Lord revealed
himself to
David King
David in a way that was unique he would
throughout history he would unveil one
of his names and he would show his
nature through one of his names as he
did with Abraham or Abram at the time
revealed himself as Jehovah gyro the God
who
provides but in this situation with
David he needed an an extraordinary
breakthrough and the Lord revealed
himself as Bale
perazim and that means the god of the
Breakthrough the God who breaks
through on the day that Jesus was
baptized in water the Bible
describes the Unseen World and what
actually happened at his water
baptism it says that the heavens parted
but the word used there is actually a
violent term that is also used used to
describe the rocks that split open at
the death of Christ and the veil of the
temple that was torn from top to bottom
so in the Bible says the heavens opened
it’s actually referring to something
happened on Heaven’s side that
completely tore open and obliterated the
powers of Darkness that had shielded
Humanity from their purpose from their
Destiny and that when Jesus came up out
of the water the spirit of God was
released through that which had been
torn
open on that day there was an even
greater realization what had been
declared at the beginning of Jesus’s
life and
Ministry and it’s important for us to
take these comments that sometimes are
only acknowledged at Christmas time and
to realize that they really describe the
normal life of a follower or disciple of
Jesus 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 Ed 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 it’s a
person it’s the permeating presence of
the Prince of Peace who love 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 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 bism the god
of the
Breakthrough and one of the great worst
uh greatest uh worst let 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
hopelessness 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 sometimes 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
crucifixtion 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 has haunted
your family line like as long as you can
remember and you would be willing 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 Su man wearing earlier there if
you don’t know them there are some of
our friends that are on staff here from
from the UK and 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 jokingly 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
terms ology 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 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
uphill battle you try to get
psychologically over over the edge on
this problem over this issue over over
that a 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
if they were more convinced of
Eternity so good
people would have more
[Applause]
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’s started this a long time ago but
he’s going to continue to unveil the
reality of Eternity the the fact that we
have citizenship in heaven now and that
now he is working 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 maybe over a situation
it may be that reoccurring lifestyle if
that’s you stand because we’re going to
pray if that’s you just stand up
be bold because this is the time to
change your family Line’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
3/4s 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
privilege 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 going to join
with you right now in partnership with
heaven to see this
broken those 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 if you would put your hand up if
you stood I should have had you do that
this at to beginning if you stood for a
prayer put a hand up and if no one has
gotten to you keep it up if somebody’s
ready to pray for you put it
down okay Church look around you we
still have people that’s right crawl
down the the the rows do whatever you
need to do there’s still a gentleman
over to my right I need someone to pray
for him right here about four or five
rows back there’s still about four five
six in this section right here this SE
first section to my left I need some of
you to crawl in there and start praying
we’re coming against a power that has
planted a lie and we’re going to break
that place of identity with that
lie way in the back by the TV Camera way
to my left in the back there’s three or
four more
people yeah I need some of you to get
back there even if you have two hands
take on two
there’s still someone right down the
center here I need someone to go right
here thank
you thank you thank
you there’s still one more back over
here I need one more right back here
about 10 rows back and this uh section
to my right your left thank you so much
thanks 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 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
for
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
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
wonderful old hymn let’s sing it
together All to
Jesus I
surrender all to hear my
freely give
I will
ever
love and trust him in his
presence
daily
live I
surrender
all
I
surrender
all all to thee my
blessed
savior I
surrender
all amen amen amen
amen amen goe and be seated
[Applause]
beautiful how many of you give up your
right to
hopelessness give it
up give it up is one of the strangest
verses to me in the Bible it’s out of
Isaiah 51 let me read it to you it says
I even I am he who comforts you who are
you that you should be
afraid here let me read that again some
of you it just you just missed it it’s
so good
God starts with himself I even I am he
who comforts you who are you that you
should be
[Applause]
afraid who do you think you
are that only makes sense in
understanding the overwhelming presence
of God that covers absolutely every
detail of our life turn in your Bibles
to Romans chapter 8 we’ve we got a
little bit of time left do the best we
can to make a
mess Romans chapter
8 by the way I want to strongly
encourage you to be baptized in water if
you haven’t been don’t put it off
there’s not a good
reason just do
it
Romans 6 gives us a beautiful picture of
water baptism as portraying the life of
the new believer buried in water coming
up in resurrection
power and the revelation of Revelation
excuse me of Romans chapter
6 is that we have been born of the
spirit of God and
sin no longer has any right or influence
in our life it has been severed and
broken you were not gradually raised
from the dead you’re either alive or
you’re
dead and that resurrection power filled
and saturated your being making you a
child of God chapter 7 is the wrestling
match Paul says what I want to do I
don’t do what I don’t want to do I end
up doing that is not the confession of a
Believer struggling with walking with
the Lord if that were true that would
contradict every other thing the Apostle
Paul taught about the power and the
reality ity of our conversion that is
the confession of his own life as one
who sought God as a young man that could
never fully walk in what he was had in
his heart to do for the Lord it wasn’t
until Grace came and he was he was
filled with the spirit that raised Jesus
from the dead could he actually fulfill
the purpose for his life chapter 8 is
the announcement that there’s no longer
any condemnation and we now have the
privilege to enter into this
relationship with the Holy Spirit to
learn what a Victorious life is all
about the lessons are very profound and
completely all through this chapter what
I’m going to do is we’re going to read a
little bit longer portion than I would
normally I’m going to stop from time to
time make um a comment or two or three
or a dozen and let’s just see how we do
all right Romans chapter 8 we begin with
Verse
18 for I consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory that shall be
revealed in
US attention please the sufferings of
this present time that is not sickness
and
disease there’s no
points for sickness and
disease Jesus didn’t plan for our
sickness any more than he planned for us
to continue to live in sin
he thoroughly thought through this and
made ample provision for breakthrough
now we are learning how to appropriate
and to take hold of that
breakthrough how many of you have been
healed you have experienced a miracle of
healing in your body before put your
hand
up all
right I say I rest my
case we have wonderful friends from
Norway over here whose young man was
literally dying two years ago wasn’t it
two yeah two years ago and he was healed
we’ve seen the testimony on video so
good to have you guys here I can hardly
wait to hug your necks it’s just uh why
don’t you who were healed wave your hand
stand up and wave at us so everybody can
just get Happy by seeing this this young
man wow wow wow
wow came came to us in a wheelchair a
couple years ago could not eat God did a
miracle that is still one of the most
glorious things ever you know I could to
stop right there we could just party for
the rest of the day this is good news
this is good news I I get happy every
time I think in fact I was recently on
Sid Roth and he asked for the uh he
wanted to know of a great miracle that I
had seen and this particular Miracle is
one of the greatest that I’ve seen from
Death to life is pretty tough to
beat for I consider that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to
be compared to the glory that shall be
revealed in
us if you’re in a present time suffering
opposition
persecution difficulty pressure then
just say to yourself this is small
compared to the glory that’s about to
break loose it’s not worthy of
comparison now you didn’t hear
me it is not worthy to be compared it’s
not worthy it doesn’t fit in the same
class it doesn’t mirror in darkness what
Glory mirrors in light it’s not even
worthy of that
comparison verse 24 for we were saved in
this hope but hope that is seen is not
hope for why does one still hope for
what he sees but if we hope for what we
do not see we eagerly wait for it with
perseverance important word there
perseverance likewise the spirit also
helps in our weaknesses for we do not
know what we should pray for as we ought
but the spirit himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be
uttered groanings that cannot be
uttered the holy spirit is the great
intercessor and he intercedes for you by
name all prayer is legal you can
complain it’s
legal only because he’s
patient all prayer is legal but the most
effective prayer is when we pray with
the holy
spirit that includes praying in tongues
in the spirit but it also includes
praying with the
understanding there’s praying by the
spirit with the understanding that is
revelatory in nature I personally
consider a anointed prayer to be a
prophecy when someone is praying for
something to happen and I can tell the
spirit of God is on that prayer to me
it’s the exact same as a prophecy they
are announcing what is about to
happen if you haven’t if you’re not
aware of prophetic words spoken over
your life start paying attention to the
anointed
prayers but there’s a third kind of
praying in the spirit here it’s the
groanings it’s that which goes beyond
words it’s that time in the presence
where the weight or the burden of
something you can’t even find or think
of words to pray for tongues doesn’t
even seem to qualify to meet that
particular need and there’s the groaning
of heart the travail of heart that is an
anointed Holy Spirit prayer he
translates that groaning of the heart
into spiritual
breakthrough verse 27 he who searches
the hearts knows what the mind of the
spirit is because he makes intercession
for the Saints according to the will of
God I love that according to the will of
God that means I can pray oh
God I want a
Lamborghini and the Holy Spirit is
travailing through me saying oh God he
wants a
[Laughter]
Chevy that’s a loose
translation verse
28 and we know that all things work
together for good to those who love God
to those who are called according to his
purpose why is that verse in the Bible
look at it we know that all things work
together for good to those who love God
to those who are called according to
purpose because sometimes there is a
waiting time between the promise and the
Fulfillment what do you do in the
waiting time I think it was wasn’t it
Bishop Garlington that said it’s like
the rooms of a house it’s from glory to
glory but it’s hell in the
[Laughter]
hallway this verse is because God is not
a vending machine where you put
something in pull a button and get your
answer he is a Rel
father that we walk through to discover
Kingdom breakthroughs in every aspect of
our life I am so thankful some of them
come so quickly almost before I think
them or pray them they happen but there
are others that take years why I don’t
know but I don’t need to know all I need
to know is that I remain faithful to the
one who has promised and make sure that
I protect my heart of Hope where it is
always anticipating good I refuse to
have one issue in my life that I hold go
God Hostage to I refuse to have one
thing say well if God really is a god of
Miracles then this thing will be this
thing will be answered or solved because
I don’t know his process I know his
heart this cancer is supposed to be gone
I know his heart this family is supposed
to be restored I know his heart this
business is to succeed I know that I
have no problem I don’t question his
heart for that situation but when I hold
him Hostage to the answer that I expect
what I do is I I restrict myself from
entering into Realms of breakthrough
over the many other areas of life that
I’m actually facing and sometimes the
Lord wants to create a momentum for this
thing that I hold so dear he wants to
create a momentum of breakthrough
through other circumstances so that I
have the courage and the faith and the
wherewithal to persevere in this one
thing that I would typically hold him
Hostage
to that made
sense
this verse is in here for the Hell in
the
hallway it’s in here for the breaks in
between the seasons in between
breakthroughs it’s in there because
there has to be something that you and I
can sink our teeth into that we can feed
from in between
breakthroughs
verse
29 for whom he
fornew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image
of his son say this with me I have been
predestined I have been predestined to
be like Jesus Jes there are no other
options option there’s no plan B there’s
no you know choose between these three
curtains now you’ve been predestined
you’re going to be like Jesus how long
it takes is up to
you been predestined to be like his son
that he might be the firstborn among the
Brethren this is an important thought
here all of our hope is based on the
resurrection of Jesus Paul actually
teaches
elsewhere excuse
me okay I feel better it came
out Paul actually teaches elsewhere that
if there’s no Resurrection we have no
hope picture this the spirit that raised
Jesus from the dead took up residence in
you in me when we were born again when
we plac faith in Christ we became born
again because the exact spirit that
raised Jesus from the dead took up
residence in him what does that do
there’s several things number one is it
connects me to Eternity and our hope is
anchored in eternity is it is anchored
in the Eternal future of absolute
perfect peace with God for forever
that’s what it’s anchored into and that
deposit of the spirit of God is actually
the down payment for my ultimate
inheritance to live without hope is to
deny eternity with God
yeah it’s very vital important for us to
guard our hearts that we always do
whatever we need to do to maintain a
heart of Hope why because that’s what
keeps us aware of the Eternal promise
I I’m I’m forgetting the I’m going to
give you an example and I don’t have the
names I’m sure somebody will give it to
me later it just slipped my mind but
there was two armies coming against each
other one was holed up in a city Army
came against them announced to them that
they wanted to take their City captive
and they said no way and the two kings
or the two heads of the army armies met
and the one that was attacking turned to
a soldier and he said jump and that
Soldier jumped off a cliff to his death
and when the king that was in the city
saw that his enemy had no fear of dying
he gave
up it’s a true story he actually gave up
there’s something about having no fear
of death Bob Perry one of our elders
says you can’t threaten me with
heaven and listen it may sound morbid to
you but listen I I don’t mean Heaven as
an escape place I mean Heaven as my
present tense home I am living from
there towards Earth now and that
realization keeps me not just
emotionally hyped because that seems to
be a counterfeit of the real but it
keeps me in a place where My Soul Is
Anchored in the joyful anticipation of
what is good we need an increased
revelation of Eternity because it is
that reality that keeps us Anchored In
Hope regardless of what goes right or
what goes
wrong verse 30 moreover whom he
predestined these he also called whom he
called these he justified how many of
you are
Justified justified by faith if you’re
born again you’re Justified and whom he
justified these he
glorified that’s past
tense
can you imagine the resurrected Jesus
being intimidated by any
problem can you imagine him looking at a
situation in your life going oh I didn’t
see that
coming it’s it’s it’s silly but it but
we can’t imagine it why he’s
God you’re in Christ and according to
scripture you’ve been glorified
all
right John the
Beloved one of the 12 disciples at the
Last Supper has his head on Jesus’s
chest he finds out that one of them is
going to portray he’s the one that has
this very tender close relationship with
Jesus he saw him as he was being tray
betrayed he saw him as he was being
crucified that John saw him sometime
later and wrote about it in Revelation 1
when he wrote about it he said his hair
is white like wool his eyes are flaming
fire his feet are burnished bronze he
described something that is completely
different from the Jesus he saw at the
Last
Supper he saw a glor resurrected
ascended glorified Son of God
and then he wrote these
words as he is so are we in this
world the hope is not in Who I Am The
Hope is in who he is in
me verse 33 who shall bring a charge
against God’s elect excuse ex me I
didn’t read
32 or
31
wow What then shall we say to these
things if God before us who can be
against us I just like the sound of that
if God is for you there’s no one who
matters that is against
you and anyone who is against you they
don’t get to
vote
verse 32 he who did not spare his own
son but delivered him up for us all how
how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things let me read it again
he who did not spare his own son but
delivered him up for us all how shall he
not with him also freely give us all
things here’s here’s how you look at it
you got a problem yeah we all do put it
in front of you and then you compare the
problem with the extreme length to which
God made sure you’d be okay the extreme
length is he gave his
son this fall whatever problem you have
I don’t care how big it is it falls
deeply under the shadow of his
extreme
expression of Interest desire and
passion for every single detail of our
life we have two extremes here we have
the spirit of the resurrected Christ who
marks us to Eternity and we have the
extreme of the offering of the father of
his own son so you and I would have life
over any area every any area of life
everything falls under the influence of
that one offering and it say though we
embrace the hope of
Eternity and that begins to affect every
other area of our life for which we
would normally become hopeless
God wants to infect time with
eternity he wants to infect it he wants
to infect this
moment with the reality of his world
it’s not a pipe dream it’s a reality
every time somebody gets healed every
time somebody gets saved that reality
becomes tastable
experienceable verse
34 excuse me verse
33
verse 33 who who shall bring a charge
against God’s elect it is God who
justifies that just seems funny to me
you can just see the devil going yeah
but God goes yeah shut
up now they cover they in me who shall
bring a charge against God’s elect it is
God who justifies who is he who condemns
here’s our last verse it is Christ who
died and furthermore is also risen who
is even at the right hand of God who
also makes intercession for us I don’t
know if you’re getting this but we have
Jesus in verse
34 interceding for us what does
intercede means it means he stands in my
shoes pleading my cause before the
father that I might have her
breakthrough and then back in verse was
was it 26 the holy spirit intercedes for
me for you he stands in our shoes
pleading our cause before the heavenly
father not as though the father needed
to be persuaded but because of the chain
of events there needs to be a prayer
that causes a Tipping Point and the Holy
Spirit and the Son of God together
intercede for you and for me no wonder
we have verse 28 all things work
together for good why cuz we’ve got
2third of the godhead are interceding on
our beh the father excuse me the Son and
the Holy Spirit are pleading your case
before the
father all things all things all things
in the middle of the mystery in the
middle of the confusion all delayed
answers are merely gaining
interest it’s true they’re gaining
interest they’re gaining presence they
are gaining power they’re great gaining
a meaning and fulfillment
Faith brings answers but enduring Faith
brings answers with
character those things combined is what
he’s forming in us why because he
already told us I have predestined you
to be my like like my son Jesus Jesus
Illustrated what perseverance looked
like he Illustrated what it looked like
to hold course no matter how many
applauded or how many opposed he
Illustrated what it was to live a life
of both suffering and Triumph
so that’s the normal Christian
Life there is not one part of our
life that is worthy of
hopelessness like he said I’m the God
who comforts who Do You Think You Are
Tonight not believe who who do you think
you are to be
afraid I gave you my son your tasting of
Eternity who do you think you are to
live without
hope you know let’s be honest look
around you you don’t don’t look long
because you get depressed but look
around
you at the circumstances that are going
on politically economically ecologically
any area that you list any anywhere
slice it the enemy has succeeded at
raising up the voices that best
represent
hopelessness it is hard to find a voice
of hope I’m not saying they’re not there
I’m just saying it’s easy to find
hopelessness it has become politically
correct to be
hopeless it’s called discernment it’s
called so many things but it’s not right
am it’s not Kingdom Glory to God in the
highest and on Earth that’s that’s the
will of God and on Earth peace and Good
Will towards men peace that prevailing
substance of the atmosphere of Heaven
peace that which touches Spirit soul and
body peace that which which
absolutely engulfs an individual’s life
where it tames every bit of opposition
that surrounds them it’s the prince of
piece that crushes the of Darkness under
our feet why because we become permeated
with peace peace isn’t the absence of
something it’s not the absence of noise
or conflict or War it’s the presence of
someone I’m not here to announce the
enemy’s Victory I’m here to announce his
defeat because he’s been defeated
already we do not we do not approach the
Lord as though he’s operating on a
Russian Roulette concept that maybe you
might get a breakthrough occasionally if
you spin things just
right everybody in this room knows that
if there were a you know this week we’re
going to have a great time with Steve
Thompson James Maloney Dr James Maloney
is having some of the most extraordinary
Miracles I know of in this
Century I mean I I mean things that you
might not even believe if I told you
things that are just happening we’re
going to see that and we know that
somebody comes into the building into
the room into our situation with that
kind of an anointing that kind of faith
we know there’s an answer available what
I want you to know is that anointing is
with
you I mean I’m thankful that God sends
us these generals from his army but that
same spirit that raised Jesus from the
dead dwells in you and the very thing
that keeps us sometimes from the
Breakthrough is our marriage to
hopelessness and it ends today it just
ends
today it ends
today I want you to go ahead and stand
up if you
would I don’t know how this works I used
to have
I had a problem in high school in U I
was involved in a lot of sports and and
I would I would get
uh my my knee would get dislocated in
fact it got dislocated once and Chris
was somewhere around and he helped I had
to teach him how to put it back in place
and it’s kind of gross twice was it
twice and you never sent me a doctor’s
bill that’s
awesome it’s
gross
yeah it’s strange when something goes
gets
dislocated it it almost feels like
there’s a path for it to get dislocated
again easily so it’s I think that’s why
it swells I I don’t know the human body
enough to know why but I’m telling you
the absolute
truth I think it’s probably why it
swells just to hold things tight to keep
things safe because it’s so easy for it
to go back
out and I feel like today there’s a lot
of hearts that have been and put back
into place and I want to encourage you
take extra effort to guard to guard that
heart to guard that
heart when I was when I moved to
Weaverville I took a plant with
me this little plant that was in my
office here in
reading and it was just one of those
plants just stuck straight up in the air
it had a few leaves and I liked it it
was added to my office added a certain
sense of
life I had have no green thumbs I don’t
have green
anything but this plant liked me and I
was praying my office one day and the
Lord spoke very clearly to me he said do
you see that plant I looked at the plant
and he says that’s you and within I
think it was 2 weeks all the leaves had
fallen
off I’m serious all the leaves had
fallen off and there was this stick it
just a stem just stuck right up out of
the ground I didn’t want to throw it
away cuz that’s
me
I’m serious I thought oh no what’s
happened to me and here was a season
honestly where I was just being stripped
and I’ll try to make this quick cuz I’m
at my at my limit but I I thought oh no
this is me and pretty soon that little
green stem that lost its leaves turned
brown and
died and then right next to it another
stem came up out and I I thought oh I’m
alive
this but but this this is a plant that
just is straight you know it’s just one
of those straight things and leaves like
this that’s just the way it is
this stem that grew up out of the ground
grew up Twisted went down over the side
it was so distorted I thought that’s
me that’s how come why is that me but it
was alive it was alive so I was I was
happy I was alive
and I watched this plant grow for so
many years I had it for 18 years
actually I had it for 18 years I watched
this plant it would just go through
different seasons then it got another
Sprout and a whole another branch and
finally it became a real nice plant so
before coming to reading I thought I
should transplant that thing so I cuz it
had been in the same pot for 18 years
might be rootbound I don’t
know I lifted out of its pot to put it
in another one and it rre of
coffee because that’s all I ever watered
it with was
coffee I I didn’t I didn’t water with
with like water water I only watered it
with coffee if my coffee got cold I’d
pour it in the
plant if I was gone for four or five
days it never got watered when I came
back if I ran out of coffee you know it
got cold too many times during the day
it got a lot it just learned to live on
coffee when I transplate my office a
smell of years of of this plant
marinating in
coffee as soon as I transplanted it to
this new pot to come to reading it grew
flowers some of you are root bound to a
way of
thinking and the life of Hope is about
to flourish as he gives you a different
context from which to
think there are things in you that you
never thought were there I had no clue
that this plant could grow flowers I was
shocked I went that’s me
too I I endured the stick now I get
flowers awesome I don’t know what it
means but it’s better than a
stick so father I do pray for that there
real sense of revelation of Hope
revelation of Hope revelation of
Eternity the Revelation it says if you
gave us your son how much more would you
not fully cover every other issue of
life and so out of thankfulness we
acknowledge the payment has been made in
full and we give you thanks and praise
in Jesus name