Did you know that prophecies are to be used as weapons of warfare? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches from 1 Timothy 1: 18 on Paul’s instruction to Timothy to use his prophecies as weapons. God has equipped us for victory in every battle and challenge we may face, and has given us specific promises and prophetic words that will anchor us to His plans and purposes and bring us into victory. May we use our prophecies as weapons and hold onto His promises no matter what we face.

and we take that which god has spoken

and we put it into word form and make

decree

some things just have to be spoken

well good morning nice to see you

how many of you had graduations to go to

this week anybody else said i have a

couple of them

yeah that’s good had

my oldest grandson graduated from eighth

grade

and judah right here

to bethel christian school that was fun

and then my oldest granddaughter

graduated from high school this week

i’m from foothill

and uh and i when i walked up to the

stadium i noticed it’s called bill

johnson memorial stadium

i thought man i bet that was a lot of

work to get that prepared for me to come

to

see my granddaughter graduate

and then i thought memorial

what do they know that i don’t know

[Laughter]

are they prophesying what is that

it was so it was so fun i

i uh

i was

the stadium is here the football field

and all is here so every every all the

parents all the family friends are here

waiting for the kids to come around here

and march down to graduate well i’m

standing up against the railing and i

noticed they’re walking in from behind

so i’ve got my

my iphone ready and i thought i’m going

to get the coolest video that no one

else in our family is going to have and

i’ll be able to airdrop it to them so

i’m taking the video and got the video

and i’m thinking this is cool so i get

over to show benny

the masterpiece

i don’t know what i did

i actually do videos quite well

i think the devil took over my camera

i think something i’ve got to blame

somebody besides me

i i got the railing and then i got my

hand it was like i put my hand right

over the lens the whole time

so here i am following kennedy

not knowing it

i’m watching her smiling big going this

is awesome never looking at the screen

to realize she’s not on there

oh well we got some other good photos

but it was very very fun night and i

it’s interesting

uh when she graduated from eighth grade

eric came to me

oh probably in may so that what this is

june right yeah

she graduated in june

of uh

four years ago

and eric came to me and may says dad

you’re scheduled to be out of town on

her eighth grade graduation

i went oh no

when is the graduation so he gives me

the date and i’m in europe i’ve got two

conferences going on

and so we made the necessary phone calls

and

one conference let me leave a day early

and the next conference let me come a

day late

and so i flew home from switzerland

to reading went to eighth grade

graduation then flew back for the rest

of the conference it was awesome i made

it i made it i felt so good

that i actually was able to get there

for the the big event

so that was fun that was fun i have a

blonde joke for you i apologize ahead of

time

i apologize but my wife is blonde so

i don’t know what to say i don’t know

what to say bob walked into a sports bar

around 5 58 p.m

sat down next to a beautiful blonde at

the bar stared up at the tv

6 p.m news was coming on the news crew

was covering a story of a man at the top

of a 10-story building preparing to jump

the police were trying to talk him down

fire crews were below setting up nets to

catch him

the blonde looked at bob and said do you

think he’ll jump

bob said you know i reckon he’ll jump

the blunt said i bet he won’t

bob placed 20 on the bar and said you’re

wrong

the blonde placed her money on the bar

they kept watching the scene unfold

suddenly the man stepped to the edge of

the building did a swan dive off the

building falling into the fire crew nets

below

the blonde was very upset but she

willingly handed over the twenty dollars

to bob fair is fair she said here’s your

money

bob replied now i can’t take your money

i saw this earlier on the 5 pm news

so i knew he would jump

so he said i saw it earlier too but i

didn’t think he’d do it again

[Applause]

probably blonde jokes shouldn’t be

allowed in church but until they’re

outlawed i’m going to keep doing them

[Laughter]

so funny open your bibles if you would

the first timothy chapter one

i i mentioned the graduations this week

because one of the privileges that i had

this week was to actually speak at the

eighth grade graduation

and uh and i i shared the verse i’m

going to share with you it’s uh

this concept has been on my heart for a

while just for me personally

because i believe that the world is

trying to stretch me

in ways that i’ve not been stretched

before

so we’ve got

first timothy

chapter one

we’re going to start with verse 18.

excuse me

this charge i commit to you son timothy

according to the prophecies previously

made concerning you

that by them

you may wage the good warfare

having faith and a good conscience which

some have rejected concerning the faith

and have suffered shipwreck

of whom are hymenus and alexander whom i

deliver to satan that they may learn not

to blaspheme

i want you to look at me with verse 18

in the first phrase

of verse 19 again

this charge i commit to you son timothy

according to the prophecies previously

made concerning you

that by them

you wage the good warfare having faith

and a good conscience

it’s uh interesting to note that

a clean conscience is actually connected

to strong faith

a defiled conscience actually undermines

and weakens faith

because

because we know

we know we know that there’s been

um

compromise

and compromise is like

it’s like putting dirt into cement it

just weakens the whole process it won’t

settle it won’t be a strong foundation

to build on and so it’s not that

answered prayers come because of our

righteousness that would never be the

case

but there is something to be said about

treasuring and protecting a clean

conscience

and what’s important in this passage is

to see that strong faith works a

parallel road to a clean conscience that

feeds from a clean conscience

i want to read the same passage to you

out of the passion translation

so timothy my son i’m entrusting you

with this responsibility

in keeping with the very first

prophecies that were spoken over your

life and are now

in the process of fulfillment in this

great work of ministry

in keeping with the prophecy spoken over

you

with this encouragement use your

prophecies as weapons

as you wage spiritual warfare

by faith

with a clean conscience listen to this

last

verse or this last sentence again

with this encouragement use your

prophecies as weapons

as you wage spiritual warfare by faith

and with a clean conscience

i i love that now i’ll tell you what

what has really been hitting me of late

has been this whole idea prophecy first

of all is god coming to you with a word

of promise about your future about about

destiny about where he’s taking you

but here’s the sobering part of this

this analogy to me

is that he’s saying

that’s where i want you to go

but you won’t get there unless you use

the tools they give you

that’s fascinating that god would

actually give us a word

that has to be implemented correctly to

step fully into our destiny

larry randolph put it the best he really

gave me language for the citizens helped

me a lot he said

god will always keep all of his promises

but he’s not obligated to keep our

potential

god will always keep all of his promises

but he’s not obligated to keep our

potential so think about the

implications of that

there is something that is in god’s

heart it is actually he’s given us the

tools and the weapons whatever it is

that we need to get from here to there

he’s put in our hands

but unless there is the good fight of

faith where faith is expressing the tool

the good fight of faith

we do not automatically step into what

god has promised

it’s critical to realize that

i

i’ve been in a season lately where i’ve

been doing a lot of

uh waiting and resting for god to

fulfill words which is an important part

because here’s the deal there’s two

basic ways that we make advancement in

this kingdom

one is the mark chapter 10 passage where

jesus said unless you receive the

kingdom as a child

you will by no means enter it

so you can only enter you can only walk

into what you’ve received so that’s come

has to come first as a gift it’s

something that he does on my behalf he

provides for me

it’s like receiving an inheritance

if you sit in a lawyer’s office and he

reads off

what you’ve inherited you’ve not worked

for it it’s not wages it’s simply a gift

it’s the result of somebody else’s labor

and you’re receiving a gift that’s what

this

uh mark 10 passage is all about is that

we receive as a child child is what

inheritance identity

in my place i know that i’m a child i’m

a son of god

we’re sons and daughters of god we

receive what he’s given to us freely as

a gift

but there’s the mark 11 passage that

gives us the other side of the same coin

and that is where he says the kingdom of

heaven suffers violence and the violent

take it by force

so here’s this this contrast of

receiving as a child and taking by force

both are essential

but if you try them both at the same

time you’ll hurt yourself

you get a whiplash or something i’m not

sure what’ll happen but it’ll be painful

you can’t you can’t rest and receive and

fight for something at the same time

it’s those are two different seasons two

different moments

moments in life

so here we’ve got

we’ve got this concept of

possibility of promise

that which god has arranged for us

designed for us equipped us for

and yet it won’t be experienced

unless i

responsibly steward

what god has put in my life specifically

his word over me

the word of the lord will get me

to where the will of the lord is for my

life

it’s not automatic

it’s

it’s the fact that god has

is willingly taking me into a conflict

here’s something interesting i don’t

forgive me i don’t have chapter and

verse i forgot to

to to get this uh for you today but

there’s this part of the story with

israel israel is being taken

out of egypt into the promised land

excuse me into the wilderness into the

promised land so early in their journey

i it was within i think the first year

out of the land of out of egypt

there is an enemy right here and the and

the lord says if i if i take them into

this conflict

they will want to go back to egypt

they don’t have the

strength as warriors yet to fight

through that battle so the lord said so

i’m going to take them around

which is interesting because if he

doesn’t take us around the conflict it’s

because he’s equipped us to win the

conflict

that’s that’s the implication

is that he cares for us more than we

care for us

but he’s trying to build something in us

and there are certain things that can

only be built in a fight

some things can only be built in rest

knowing when to just simply observe

stand by and see the salvation of the

lord which he will accomplish for you

today some things can only be absorbed

in the posture of rest knowing that god

is working on our behalf and yet there’s

this whole other realm

that requires conflict

so god only takes me into a conflict i’m

equipped to win

but the next thing about conflict

is conflict builds strength it’s i guess

the

proverbial example would be the chick

that’s in the egg

that’s trying to hatch out of the egg if

i crack the shell for it it will end up

dying

because it was the fight out of that

shell that gave that baby chick

circulation to its limbs where it would

actually survive

hatching it was the fight out of the

shell if you crack this shell for them

and get them out they will actually just

lay there and die because there was no

fight to strengthen them for their own

survival what is this

this conflict

that’s right this conflict

is actually

to strengthen us in character and in

resolve so that once we enter our

quote-unquote promised land we have the

integrity to stay there

see if israel

is supposedly 11-day journey from egypt

to the promised land

if god would have taken them 11 days

straight into the promised land they

didn’t have the integrity to stay there

they would have wandered out

there’s things you learn in the battle

that you need to stay in in the land

there’s things you learn in the fight

that build that strength of heart that

strength of character

that enables us to live with maturity

and steward well that which god has

promised to us

paying attention to

what god has said and is saying

i

i really love i i love the prophetic i

love promises i

i learned to read the bible for me

i i i just i read it for me i didn’t

read it for you

i still don’t read it for you i read it

just for me

because it’s all about me it’s all about

so when i read i am reading so that i

can eat

i’m honestly i am feeding my soul

i am not looking for sermon material

anybody can regurgitate what somebody

else has said i want to know what he’s

saying to me

and as it gets filtered through my

experience my thinking my personality

gifts whatever

then it becomes material i can pass on

but it’s gotta hit me first

and i love i love reading the word for

for just seeing what god is saying about

my life and what he’s doing in the earth

today and all that stuff my phone i

mentioned i think a month or so ago but

my phone and my car get along very well

they’re very close very very intimate

friends

because of bluetooth bluetooth brought

them together in just a marvelous way

and when i get into my car when i drive

home this afternoon

i’ll just put my phone in there it’s

already set up they’ve already got an

ongoing relationship

even though they are separate right now

by a hundred yards when i get back into

that car they will reconnect

and when they do it’ll be beautiful

and what my car does is it randomly

picks things off my phone to play for me

now i could program it to play just you

know this album or this music or this

prophetic word or whatever but i like

the randomness of my drive home because

i don’t know if i’m going to hear the

beatles sing a hard day’s night

if i’m going to hear uh jimi hendrix

version of the star spangled banner

or if i’m going to hear brian singing

you can have it all lord it’s it’s all

in there

but like this week twice i heard bobby

connor prophesying to me

from 2013 because it’s in here it just

randomly brings it up and i just love

that i just makes me want to go around

the block to see who else is going to

prophesy to me because you never know i

miss this stuff i’ve been driving down

the road and cindy jacobs gets on there

and starts prophesying about our new

building and this is like 10 years ago

it starts props i’m going i just need to

keep driving

i need to think of somewhere else to go

because this is this is good

but i love the prophetic i love

entertaining in a sense of

welcoming admiring and giving place to

as a host would entertain someone in

their home

i want to entertain the prophetic word

over my life

you see

the battleground initially

for us is the mind the battleground is

here it’s right right between the ears

paul talked about this in second

corinthians

10 in such graphic ways

that it’s almost frightening

a sobering sobering is a much better

word

he described the strongholds of thought

in our mind stronghold so think of

stronghold as we would in the medieval

days or something you’ve got you’ve got

an army a

battalion of soldiers and they’re in

that castle right there and there’s this

huge wall that surrounds this castle and

they are safely in there and at night

they send out troops to fight and to do

exploits but they’re safe in that

environment in that castle

the bible actually describes

a stronghold a castle like that

exists in the thoughts of people

so if i think wrong consistently each

thought is a block in the wall that

eventually gives the enemy a place to

hide

it’s a place of habitation a place from

which he kills steals and destroys

so repentance

starts with a sorrow but the sorrow

provokes us to a change of thought a

change of thinking

it is dismantling the wall that i have

built that the enemy has hidden behind

and now he is exposed and is easy to

deal with

but when you create a castle for him to

live in

you’ve given him permission

does that make sense

so if i’m constantly believing a lie

then what i’ve done is i’m actually

making agreement

with the accusation the deception the

manipulation all the tools that the

enemy uses i’ve made agreement with that

which means my authority i am i have now

lended to him

because jesus said when after he rose

from the dead he said

i have all authority in heaven and on

earth

which means there’s somebody out there

who has no authority

right he says i have all authority which

means the devil has none so here’s the

deal he passes on authority to you and

me to implement his purposes in the

earth but when i listen to the deceiver

and i make agreement with his words

he then is able to function out of my

delegated authority at least in measure

i empower when you believe the lie you

empower the liar

so the battleground then is first of all

first and foremost in the mind

you remember ephesians 6 talks about the

armor of god which is a

basically saying god is your armor

put on christ takes care of the whole

package

put on christ takes care of the whole

package

i heard somewhere recently

so here’s this picture of the armor of

god and he says the helmet of salvation

breastplate of righteousness girded with

truth

feet ready to share preach the gospel

shield of faith sword of the spirit

helmet of salvation

you have to think saved

my thoughts must be consistent

to the saving work of grace

in my life

when they violate that i give place i’m

not talking about

you know being demonized and also i’m

just talking about there’s a weakening

there’s a weakening of our posture of

our position there’s a weakening of our

position to enter more fully into the

promises of god over our life when we

give ourselves to these lies

i’m about 10 minutes away from fear and

discouragement

any day of my life all i have to do is

think on the wrong stuff

i mean it takes me 10 minutes to get

there in a week to get out i mean it’s

just not worth the effort it’s way too

much work you know you fall down that

hold and you’re just fighting to climb

out for a whole week you know it’s just

not worth it

i’ve decided

it’s not worth

so instead of entertaining the lie if if

you want an interesting study read

read nehemiah four and six those two

chapters and you’ll see the tools that

the enemy uses they’re they’re outlined

very clearly especially in chapter six

but he use the enemy uses things like uh

accusation

um

distraction see if the enemy can’t get

me to

sin you can’t get me to

morally sin steal money

abuse people if you can’t give me to do

that what does he want want to do he

wants to distract me from my purpose he

wants to get me out of my lane because

if he can’t get me to fall at least he

can get me to lose impact

when you step out of your lane i step

out of my assignment i take on somebody

else’s responsibility what happens i’m

not capable i’m not able to do my task

and theirs

does that make sense so the whole issue

of distraction so look through look

through those two chapters and you’ll

see just a list of accusation

manipulation all those kinds of tools

that the enemy uses for every one of us

they’re repeated in our lives constantly

the key then is to be so anchored in

what god has said

that nothing else is appealing the only

time the devil’s words are appealing is

when i’ve lost sight of what god has

said

the only time the lie looks reasonable

is when i’ve lost sight of what god has

said

think saved

think save

having the value system to maintain a

clean conscience is just huge because it

it it it keeps the heart in a place that

is so free to grow

you understand faith comes from the

heart right it doesn’t come from the

mind

but a divided mind will defile the heart

valuing a clean conscience puts me

in a place to

to experience ever-growing faith

i love when god gives us a word and i

i’ve got several uh just in my life

right now that i’m i’m

i’m reviewing because

i have come to realize in the last

oh just short time last two months

especially maybe the last even couple

weeks

even more profoundly that the lord is

i’ve been waiting for him to do

something when he’s been waiting for me

to do something

i’ve been waiting for him to do

something when he’s been waiting for me

you remember the whole story when

the disciples woke jesus up in the boat

he calmed the storm

and then he turned to them and he says

he says why are you so afraid

how come you don’t have faith

and i’m thinking

wait a minute i have faith i knew who to

come to

i came to you

and asked you to call the storm and you

did a good job thank you

i give you praise i give you thanks i

give you honor and the lord was looking

for something else

there are times where he does not want

to do something for me he wants to do

something through me

and discerning those moments of seasons

that’s to me is the fragile part of life

because there are times where i want to

rest and he wants me to act and there’s

times i’m fighting and swinging and he

said man you need to chill you know sit

down sit down and rest if you get this

victory you’re going to think you did it

you know and there’s just times where we

have those moments that just shift

i had a pretty funny experience i wasn’t

going to share in this service because

it’s televised but

you’ll understand why in a moment i’m

i’m not that transparent of a person

chris would tell you anything but

[Laughter]

i’m a lot more personal and private than

he is

not necessarily a strength of mine but

it’s reality

i

about 35 years this is a little

embarrassing i i don’t share this ever

as in

ever

public i shared with some doctors once

because they would understand

actually twice with a group of

medical

i

i had this

problem

an abscess

in the rectum

don’t picture it

it’s just gross

this kind doesn’t come out with prayer

and fasting it has to be cut out

i didn’t i just didn’t tell anyone

that’s why

i’m at home dick mills calls dick mills

our dear friend the prophet he would

call everyone so i said hey bill i got a

good word for you and he would he would

just call and encourage me he’s just

such a father of encouragement and he

calls him one day he says he says i got

a good word for i said yeah what is i

didn’t tell him what’s going on with me

i’d rather know what i’d rather i didn’t

know what was happening

i’d rather i go in for a dental

procedure and i come out fine that’s all

so he calls he said i got a good word

for he said yeah what is it what is it

he says i’ve got this scripture for it

the glory of the lord will be your rear

guard

[Applause]

i’m not sure what to do with that but i

receive it

amen

some people think god doesn’t have a

sense of humor

[Applause]

i have

never forgotten that one

god will always speak to your needs and

leave it

there

although at twin view i just i

remembered after i said that that moses

wanted to see god’s glory and god just

let him see his hindu parts

i’m not sure if there’s a correlation

there or not i’ll probably stop right

there unless this thing bottoms out

entirely

[Laughter]

all right

[Laughter]

oh man and this is televised too hello

in weaverville the church of assembly

got church and certain mail programs

would abbreviate

assembly

[Laughter]

i’ll just leave that’s it right there

i’m i’m

i’m pulling out of that that

fateful direction all right

so the battleground is here

but once victory is obtained in how you

think

you have to do something with what was

said

see many people in this room you’re just

one proclamation short of a victory

one proclamation because the word

is not supposed to be is harbored i

believe in that a lot i mary is my hero

the mother of jesus how she handled what

was spoken over her was

was just stunning because it’s

she’s got the shepherds coming she’s got

the wise men coming anna simeone they’re

all coming with these words about her

son about jesus the eternal son of god

that she gave birth to

and it says two things about what she

did she treasured

these words in her heart and she

pondered them in her heart these two

things treasured pondered treasure

treasure to me implies that this

that has been spoken

is not for common use this is not like

you know i’ve got benny and i came back

from being with some friends in asia and

they sent us home with

two of these most magnificent

goblets glasses

made out of this finest they’re like

600

each and these people sent it home with

us you know you don’t let the kids use

that in their lemonade stand out in

front of the house

you understand what i’m saying why it’s

too valuable

right you what do you do you treasure it

you put it in a safe place to be brought

out at appropriate times the appropriate

time is when you want to ponder what god

has said it says she pondered these

things the word things there’s the word

rhema she pondered these freshly spoken

words of god she would bring them out

they’re treasured she’d get along she’d

bring them out she’d dwell she’d think

about that yes he’s the son is the

savior of the nations and uh and anna

and simeon said behold the christ child

you know they can now die because their

lives have been fulfilled and so she’s

pondering these words and considering

about her son jesus about the destiny

the purpose of his life

i owe

it to him to treasure and ponder

treasure

it’s it’s not up for vote

this this isn’t facebook material

this this is about destiny

and i’ll share it with whoever i’m

supposed to share it with but until it’s

to be brought out of the treasury

i’ve got to keep it there to protect it

and then when i bring it out it’s to

ponder consider let the full effect of

what god has said infect me inside and

out so it changes how i think how i see

how i interpret present situations

because if i’m facing a battle it’s only

because there’s an enemy of the lord is

allowed there because he has equipped me

to win and the tool that i’m supposed to

use is this that god said

use the prophecies over you

to get to where you’re supposed to go so

here we have you’ve got a family member

that’s just not walking with the lord

and it’s not just oh you know i just

thank you that all is well it’s take the

word of the lord ask for me in my house

we will serve the lord and you begin to

make proclamation confessing the name of

the individual and you proclaim this is

the will of god and it shall be done in

my household every single family member

will serve the lord and they will serve

the lord with purity and with great joy

it will be with great delight they will

serve the lord and we take that which

god has spoken and we put it into word

form and make decree

some things just have to be spoken

psalms 103 or 104 i forget which one on

the left side of the page

right there

says the angels

give attention to his word and the voice

of his word

interesting isn’t it to his word

and the voice of his word this is how i

understand it

there are times where god declares the

matter

he just declares over a situation and

the angels know their assignment

whenever they hear his voice they know

that that is what they are supposed to

enforce they are to enforce the word of

the lord but there are times god doesn’t

make the decree he’s the still small

voice in your heart and mind and the

angels don’t get their assignment until

they hear our proclamation

there’s a lot of unemployed angels

because there’s a lot of believers who

won’t speak.

they don’t know the assignment until

they hear the word of the lord

you say well we don’t boss angels i’m

with you we don’t you can yell

some great idea you have all day long

it’s just going to exhaust you nothing

will happen

but they can tell when a word originated

in the heart of god they can tell when

that that i just declared came from the

throne room itself it carries the

fragrance of god’s own breath on that

word and they know that’s their

assignment

so here we are we’re in battle we’ve got

the shield of faith all the armor on and

we’ve got a sword and that sword is what

we use to bring about victory it’s

taking seriously that which god has said

it’s very easy to want yet another

prophetic word

another promise i i’m i’m there count me

in

if there’s good words being handed out

just i’ll get in line i i will get in

line benny and i were just with

about 20 of our 10 year olds and it took

like 45 minutes just to prophesy over us

it was just gorgeous it was great so

cool

amen

if there’s a good word being spoken

count me in i want it

but the good words often times are not

decrees of what he will do

without us

they are decrees of what he will do with

us

oftentimes he’s revealing this is my

will through you

not just for you

the terminology that paul uses here

specifically refers to be summoned

being summoned

into the lifestyle of a soldier now just

think with me for a moment and we’ll

wrap this up

a person who’s in

battle

and a number of you have served our

nation or the nation that you are from

you’ve served in battle in war

and

on the front lines of battle you just

don’t have very many concerns

i mean you have concerns

but you could care less what’s on tv

you know

the

the amount your water bill has risen at

home doesn’t really matter i mean all

you care about is keeping your head down

having enough ammunition knowing where

your friends are

i mean that’s it it’s just it’s just all

that’s in life somehow it gets reduced

to staying alive and making advancement

it’s wisdom for us to know the

difference between the season of rest

where we

watch him do

things for us

and the season of war where we take what

he has declared

and we refine our focus so that very

little matters besides victory itself

my cry today and we’re going to pray for

us in just a moment

is is my my cry is that the lord would

give a fresh

word of promise to every single person

in the room a fresh word

this time not a word

that you get to rest in

you have those

but words

that you can fight with

you get alone with god you’re driving

down the street

and you just begin to make the decree

this is what god has said

i’d encourage you if you don’t already

know how to do it

obtain the liberty to remind god of what

he said

it’s a it’s a unusual exercise in

scripture you see what daniel

god you said after 70 years would be

released from bondage you see this the

reminding of god god doesn’t forget he

doesn’t need reminding but i need to

know

that i am working in conjunction with

what he has declared and i’m using my

right as one to pray appropriately and

there is no more accurate way to pray

than to pray what god has said

it’s for our sake entirely

this

fight

that i am in for this breakthrough

changes me

if i could handle the breakthrough

without any more change he would bring

it to me

but because i need to change

in order to occupy that which god has

promised he wants me to fight my way in

so put your hands out in front of you

just as a posture of receiving and i

want to i want to pray both for the

release of promise and for the grace

to handle well what god has said so

father i i come to you in the name of

jesus and i

i ask for us as a church family those

are family members that are watching

on tv i just pray for all of us together

everyone in the building

or children’s workers everyone

that today the next 24 hours would be

a day

where you release a fresh word

a fresh word of promise a fresh word of

hope something that we can declare we

can confess we can sing

we can pray

we can implement what you have designed

for us

wholeheartedly

all of our emotion all of our thought

our mental exercise everything engaged

so to see you perform what you’ve

declared

i ask for that gift and for the grace

the divine enablement to carry this out

i pray for this in jesus name

the greatest miracle that could happen

today

is the salvation

of a soul it’s the forgiveness of sin

there is not

a greater miracle i’ve seen so many

crazy things happen through the years

where god has healed people were blind

eyes and deaf ears and i remember i was

with heidi you know we prayed for ronald

and heidi earlier i was with heidi and

mozambique and these two blind men came

into the

into the

kind of a tent uh sanctuary they have

their open air

and they came in on a saturday and they

wanted to see and they were both blind

and it was crazy one of them his eyes

were just solid white

there was there was no pupil there’s

nothing it’s just solid white

and uh and heidi prayed for a moment and

she said come back tomorrow and you will

see

and they came back the next day we

prayed over them we got to watch as

these eyes literally just formed and god

opened their eyes and they

they went from there we all walked

across the highway to the sea where they

got baptized in the water so tonight’s

baptism be here all right

that just came on me as divine

inspiration i’m sure it was

i’ve seen amazing things happen but

there’s nothing that equals

the salvation of a soul that you can

take a person who has no hope in life

and give them hope a new nature and

forgive of their past

that is available for everybody in this

room

and i want to just

throw out the net so to speak if if

you’re one of those that are here today

you say bill i don’t want to leave the

building till i know i’m at peace with

god

then i want to pray with you

right now for you to be what the bible

calls born again change from the inside

out if that’s you just quickly put a

hand up

just real quick because i want to i want

to pray with you if that’s

if that is your your your place real

quick right here yep beautiful wonderful

wonderful

beautiful

nothing like it

anyone else real quick got one got

another hand right here a second hand

anyone else

that’s so cool

i want to have all of you stand if you

would

and i’m going to ask this we’ve got a

team down here we call them the freedom

team

and for these two that i saw and if

there’s any others

please

please please please

make your way down to this team they

just want to bless you and pray for your

love on you a bit and and talk to you

about this that jesus is doing in your

life anyone wants to join them please do

this is your invitation to come and know

jesus so come step out of your seat i

want to have the ministry team come very

quickly to the front as well

because we want to be we want you to be

ready to pray and for people in this

room to receive their miracle chris come

on up here yeah come on down right over

here to my left

right over here bless you bless you

bless you

thank you lord well father we just pray

for a real spirit of breakthrough to

rest on the house today and for miracles

and people’s bodies

that uh that it would just multiply

multiply multiply in jesus name

thank you so much lord

okay amen hang on for a moment chris

will give you some instructions