In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill shares how one of the greatest victories for the church in the past ten years has been the fact that the body of Christ has embraced the idea that everyone can live a supernatural lifestyle.
hey everybody welcome to revival chats
it’s my privilege again to be hosting
and my name is dan fairley i’m part of
the team at bethel church
i’m here with bill johnson senior leader
of bethel church and um
it’s going to be fun day we just have
kind of random questions not like super
random questions
but a you should say a variety of
questions
that folks have sent in and so glad
you’re here with us today yeah me too
i always enjoy this time so i do too the
first one somebody asked was what do you
think
one of the greatest victories the church
has experienced in the past 10 years
i think uh i think it’s the fact that
the
body of christ at least the streams were
where we
travel and are exposed to have embraced
the idea that everyone can live a
supernatural lifestyle
yeah you know i remember a couple years
ago i asked
maybe three years or so ago i asked a
question at one of the leaders advances
we have like
800 liters or so in the room i asked i
asked a series
of questions that i hadn’t planned on
asking just came i said how many of you
saw miracles
on a consistent weekly basis 10 years
ago three people raised their hand out
of 800. yeah
i said how many five years ago and it
was like 11.
wow i said how many in the last year and
almost everybody raised their hand so
there’s been such a dramatic shift
that people have have stopped thinking
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that you have to be special it’s either
you don’t have to be special or
everybody special it’s one of the two
and i’ll
let the theaters the hot hands are kind
of uh yeah the man of the hot hands is
beyond that where everybody has the hot
hands or can have the audience yeah
exactly
i do believe that there are those that
are you know generals in that area
and they impart they set direction they
help to release
you know both anointing and and kind of
an understanding of where we’re headed
but everybody gets to do it and that’s
been the most encouraging there’s
probably a
pretty big list i could give but that’s
yeah that’s what rocks means let’s go to
number two or number three since you uh
you said it’s a pretty big list what
else would you
there’s a realization uh which is
more important than the first one is the
discovery of his presence
and it’s not new but it is because he’s
coming in such a
a manifest way people for a long time
were were content and satisfied with the
faith that the spirit of god lived in
them yes which is essential absolutely
essential
but faith is to lead to experience and
so what’s happening
now is that people are are actually
discovering the presence of god the
encounters that we were seeing 10 15
years ago
had purpose and that purpose is really
raising up a people that live conscious
of god
live conscious of the presence of god on
them i can’t think of anything
better than that yeah than to have the
the awareness of the people of god shift
from living a good christian life to
feeding from the presence of god and how
that inspires and
yeah ignites for everything that’s right
it just
fuels us absolutely that’s my favorite
but
yeah which i was just having a staff
training we’re going through some of the
tools or skills you can use when you’re
pastoring people but
it’s interesting you know the difference
between giving that training
uh 15 years ago had been this is these
are our best tools you know these are
the only ones we have you know
listening or helping them you know
delaying a solution the problem that
sort of deal but
but the enjoying the presence of the
lord looking for the presence of the
lord
yeah um expecting yeah you know the
presence of the lord to come in
as a solution or as a peace and and uh
yeah that wasn’t on the
on the list as much you know i don’t
know why wasn’t it yeah it wasn’t in the
toolbox
yeah so it’s fun to actually have that
those the skill sets but also you know
primarily just to be
what’s holy spirit doing exactly what
are you after what are you up to and
you know when it’s time to lay those
tools aside and go hey this isn’t
i’m not following the manual right now
we’re exactly following the presence of
the lord
yeah and the cool thing about living
that way
is that you’re still okay when you are
clueless as to what’s going on
because you always have that one tool if
we can cause it is just
call it it’s just to turn to the actual
presence of the lord
while i may not feel gifted enough i may
not feel i have enough faith i may not
feel i have enough courage
it doesn’t matter because he has all of
it and by becoming aware of him
something happens to me
that makes me a whole lot more capable
of facing whatever
decision i have to face so i may not
have the wisdom to make that kind of
decision it may be above my pay grade
but it’s not above his
yeah and that that really makes it
comforting for
all of us if you’re more equipped in
every situation well i have the presence
no that’s it that’s it