In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches on the importance of recognizing divine favor on each other’s lives and keeping our hearts from bitterness and jealousy. How do we respond when someone receives breakthrough and favor in the very thing we’ve been praying for? Managing our hearts well in these moments is what will set us up to be good stewards of the favor on our own lives.
good catch
um
chris and kathy have been such a huge
part of our life that’s just the
understatement of this of the century we
actually lived together for a season in
weaverville while their home was being
built and it was just such a privilege
when benny and i moved to weaverville
um chris uh kathy they were not in the
leadership at all of the church chris
was recovering from a nervous breakdown
there were a bunch of other leaders the
dairy berries
who are here why don’t you
wave your hand there bill and judy
i
chris probably wouldn’t be alive without
these two
they really had such profound impact on
all of us but i know especially chris
they they weren’t a part of a leadership
team by any means but chris just had
this passion to learn
and a passion to serve he would stop by
the house
constantly on the way home from work
asking if there was something he could
do i finally just decided i have to make
stuff up i have to i have to just i have
to look for some odd job to give this
guy to do because he he pesters me in a
right way you know in a godly way just
to serve and uh and that hunger to learn
and to serve
has just marked their lives to this day
and i’m i’m so i’m so thankful i just i
can’t imagine life without these two
they’ve had such impact on me and my
kids i
at work in weaverville if if i was
having a rough time i would just
schedule lunch with chris
because
it was almost guaranteed he was having a
rougher time
[Laughter]
and we we would we would sit down to
lunch at the mustard seed
we’d sit down for lunch and he’d tell me
what was going on in the in the gas
station that day or the auto shop or
something and we would laugh at
i’d go back to the office thinking man
i’ve got it good i just i’ve got it good
uh and this would happen over i mean
this is 17 years of this stuff you know
i remember one day coming uh having
lunch with him
and thought i just heard the ultimate if
you can imagine
he owns a gas station and there’s a car
parked
against the wall it’s been there for
several days waiting for the time for it
to be repaired and it had been dropped
off and i don’t know how long two or
three days it had been there and it’s
been there
for all that time with no problem
well he happens to have a customer who
has his car there to be worked on who
doesn’t really like chris but chris is
the best at what he does nobody else in
the area could fix it so he brought the
car to chris so they’re standing there
talking about the job that needs to be
done
and they look over and this car that’s
been there for like three days it just
starts backing out of the stall
and they look at and the customer says
to chris i don’t think there’s anyone
driving that and chris of course it’s
not going to spin it for days so one of
his guys is moving it and they look and
he says i don’t think anybody’s in that
car and they watch the car back down the
driveway
nobody in it it’s been there for days
back down the driveway and then turn
left
and go up the highway
no nobody’s in it and then turn left
again
and come back up the driveway and run
into this customer’s car
and the customer said i i had i not seen
it for myself i never would have
believed you
so i would go have lunch just to get
laughter relief
because certainly he had experienced
something worse than i did and uh and it
was it was fun we are just really
indebted and we wanted to say thanks all
week long to you and honor you guys and
thank you so much 20 years it’s
wonderful bless him again would you
thank you
yeah
so thankful for you
um i’ve got about an hour-long message
that we’re going to do in 36 minutes
so listen fast
because i can’t go an hour but grab your
bibles open to
the book of matthew the 20th chapter
and i’m going to abbreviate some things
honestly i i uh
i talked a couple weeks ago about the
subject of bitterness nice christmas
message
uh
[Laughter]
merry christmas by the way i’ll i’ll
i’ll reinterject that phrase now and
then just to remind you that i know what
season it is all right
um i i spoke on the subject of
bitterness a couple weeks ago
as um
the defiling factor
in hebrews there’s this warning about
bitterness and there’s this jesus taught
and said
basically this you are forgiven as you
forgive
so you set the standard for how you are
forgiven in your life and so the issue
of bitterness is so
uh destructive in a person’s life
and i have i’ve been wrestling with this
uh as a theme for a season and have felt
that this would be the the right time
even though it’s awkward because the
holidays so just warn all your friends
don’t come back during christmas yeah
i’m kidding
um i want to do the second half of that
today and talk to you a bit about
jealousy jealousy in many ways is the
mother of of bitterness
and learning to deal with these issues
of the heart
is is paramount now
bitterness is uh is so destructive it’s
somebody once said bitterness is like
drinking poison hoping it will have an
effect on the other person and it’s the
opposite it destroys the internal world
of an individual
and what i’ve noticed through pastoral
care
for the last 45 years
is that there are three areas that seem
to invite
and accelerate
demonic activity in a person’s life
and those three areas are sexual
perversion
any repeated activity i mean
do you understand that
sins start as sin of the flesh and then
they move into a sin that is spiritual
where they become demonically
inspired and
regulated
it’s true even witchcraft is mentioned
as a sin of the flesh
in galatians 5. witchcraft do you think
that would start off absolutely demonic
it doesn’t because which witchcraft by
nature is manipulation and control
and many parents use manipulation and
control
to raise kids not knowing they’re
actually partnering with the spirit of
witchcraft
politicians do it all the time
and so do pastors and leaders
the issue of manipulation and control
is the is the seed bed for the spirit of
witchcraft that eventually becomes this
demonically controlling and empowered uh
activity in a person’s life all right
same thing with sexual sin sexual
perversion i’ve watched through the
years as people have come under this
demonic activity in their life through
repeated
sexual sin the second one would be drug
abuse but especially there’s something
about hallucinogenics that open a person
up to the spirit world where they become
a pawn in to to the demonic realm and
the third is bitterness
the two most
scary people i’ve ever known and as a
pastor you work with a lot of people
sometimes off the streets especially
weaverville we were right on on on the
main uh main street people would just
literally would just pass by and knock
on the door and ask for help
the two scariest people i ever met
their issue was actually bitterness they
had other issues going on in their life
but they were so
possessed and tormented by the spirit of
bitterness that uh it was it was
frightening uh and and they both
actually ended up in there in prison for
life for murder
because bitterness is murder in diapers
it is undeveloped murder and that’s what
it is and the enemy’s attempt is always
to get you to destroy somebody else and
destroy yourself in the process so merry
christmas by the way just
interject that now and then to let you
know i know what season it is all right
now let’s move on
what i’m going to do with this story i i
really want to come back to this when i
can take a good period of time it might
be like a sunday night where i can take
an actual full hour
but i’m going to take a story in matthew
20 and i’m just going to abbreviate it
for you and read the conclusion
this is the story it’s about
a landowner and servants and he hires
people
from the city square he would go down to
the city square and he would find people
that needed jobs and he needed help on
his ranch on his farm so he’d go down to
the city square he’d get some people and
he would hire them and it was a 12 day
12 12-hour work day
and so he would hire these folks for
daenerys they would come to work for him
he went back down i forget now after i
think
the third hour of the day so there’s
nine hours left of the work day and he
found some more people that needed work
went back to the ranch he went back
after six hours etc and finally the 11th
hour of the day there’s only one more
hour to work he goes back down to the
city square and he finds people that
still are needing work and he needs help
on the ranch so he gets them takes them
back to the ranch and at the end of the
day he pays them and so they’re lining
up for pay and uh if you remember the
verse
the last shall be verse the first should
be last this is actually one of the
contexts in which that phrase was used
so what he did is he brought those who
had who were hired at the end of the day
he had actually only worked an hour
and he paid them a denarius where
everybody else in line thought well this
is awesome the landowner the boss is
being generous he’s giving them one
dinner so let’s just call it a hundred
dollars gives them a hundred dollars for
their work that day and everyone else is
thinking oh this is awesome because now
we’re going to get more and when he gets
down the line and he pays the people
that had worked for 12 hours he gives
them a hundred dollars the same as
everyone else and they’re angry about it
they’re upset and angry because they
were paid
the same as the guy who only worked an
hour and
listen to this concluding verse it’s in
verse 15 of matthew 20.
uh let’s let’s uh let’s go back to verse
14. take what is yours and go your way i
wish to give to this last man the same
as you is it not lawful for me to do
what i wish with my own things or is
your eye evil because i’m good catch
that last phrase
is your eye evil because i am
good here’s the bottom line
every one of us are in this story
either as the favored one
or as the friend of the favored one
and the role will change
there will be moments where the
spotlight is on you and you get what you
know you do not deserve
you will be honored and blessed in a way
that you never could have worked for
it’s called grace
there will be other times where your
friend gets the very thing you prayed
for the very thing you fasted for i
don’t know why it works this way
but it seems that the person who has
three cars is always the one that drives
into the grocery store is the one
millionth customer and they win a fourth
car and the person who needs the car
doesn’t have a car and is not the 1
millionth customer don’t make me explain
that because i don’t understand it but i
just know resource attracts resource
favor attracts favor
and there are moments in our lives where
we are the ones that are cho are
selected chosen and we’re the one given
the hundred dollars for one hour work
instead of twelve everybody in this room
has those moments it’s called grace it’s
the way the kingdom works but the
kingdom also works this way where the
guy next to you gets the very thing you
prayed for
and here’s the question is your eye evil
because he is good
let’s put it another way
because of the corruption in your own
heart do you see the goodness of god
displayed on another person in a wrong
way
has it distorted your perception of
divine favor somewhere else
the real lesson the real invitation of
the lord is for us to learn to celebrate
the breakthroughs the favor that is
shown to another person
proverbs says
if i don’t know to handle another
person’s possession
i cannot be entrusted with my own so
let’s just take this as the possession
of favor
if i cannot celebrate the favor that is
put upon dan if i can’t rejoice in that
grace that just rests on him where he is
this uh amazing highly favored by
everybody i know
if i can’t celebrate that that rests on
his life then i am not qualified
i don’t know if qualifies the right word
but i’ll use it i am not qualified to
have the same measure of favor on my
life why because i’ll pervert and
distort it if i cannot use somebody
else’s possession well i can’t be
entrusted with my own
in the practical sense it’s the car you
rent
people rent cars treat them much much
worse than if that car were their own
personal car
and what it does is in the unseen realm
it restricts the measure and level of
personal promotion
because we have chosen to abuse what is
not ours
therefore restricting ourselves from
future promotion
and so another person’s favor is to be
celebrated and there are times where the
lord will actually plant somebody in
your life and they will receive the
thing you’ve ached for you maybe have
fasted and prayed for it you’ve had
prophecies all about it you’ve
cried out to god you’ve done all this
stuff for maybe for years and then they
come in you know
you’ve been praying for 20 years for
this they come in and six months later
they got it
and there is a it’s called a test
and the test is is to see how can i
manage my heart when somebody else
receives easily what i’ve labored for
and that’s the story here is your eye
evil
because he is good
because this is what happens is when
things are not right here
i will distort the circumstances of
another person’s life
and i will twist it for my favor for my
uh
to where i’m the winner in the argument
i’m the winner and what jealousy does is
jealousy
uh jealousy moves to read other people’s
motives
to bring accusation in the heart maybe
never out loud
but jealousy
let me put it this way both jealousy
and bitterness are reasonable
there are reasons
right you talk of some i remember
wanting to pray for somebody i i could
sense something on them i said do you
need to forgive anyone and her response
was you don’t realize what they did for
me in other words i have a reason
my reasoning says this is a legitimate
response to what was done to me
that reasoning
is carnal reasoning
it is unrenewed mind reasoning it is not
biblical reasoning
biblical reasoning works from the cross
towards a situation
biblical reasoning works from the
redemptive work of jesus towards any
broken situation that you and i are
involved in
jealousy causes uh
enables a person perverts a perspective
in a person’s heart to where they read
motives wrong motives into another
another person’s heart the way that you
walk in forgiveness is stay away
from thinking you ever know somebody
else’s motives
it is forbidden territory it’s it’s no
trespassing
i do not have a right to go and say well
they did this because of i don’t have
the right to ever do that
because the bible says i can’t even know
my own heart
what’s scary to me is there are people
who are confessing christ that don’t
read this word
this is a knife that cuts and it cuts to
expose this thought is from god this
thought is not
how does a person live with ample
discernment to recognize when we are
going into something that is forbidden
and no trespassing
and trying to figure out the motives of
another person so the scripture says i
don’t even know my own heart how can i
know yours
well the lord showed me no he didn’t
show you because he’s a better steward
than that
he’s not going to reveal the heart to
another person
that’s going to make them bitter
there is someone who will show you their
heart
but it’s not our lord
look at this passage in james
in james chapter 3
there’s this
a very sobering uh portion of scripture
by the way merry christmas to all of you
glad you’re here
our bethel tv audience around the world
we’re glad you’re watching merry
christmas
i have not forgotten
james chapter 3
verse
13 who is wise and understanding among
you
let him show by good conduct that his
works are done in the meekness of wisdom
but if you have bitter envy
and self-seeking in your heart that’s
self-promotion in your hearts do not
boast and lie against the truth
this wisdom does not descend from above
but is earthly sensual and demonic
here’s what you’ve got to see
bitterness
and jealousy is wisdom
that’s what it says
this wisdom
is not from above
why those who are steeped in bitterness
and jealousy
consider themselves to be right
discerning
accurate
bitterness and jealousy masquerades as
the need for justice
it masquerades under the need for
justice
and for that reason it’s biblically
called wisdom it’s just wisdom that
comes from the demonic realm
the battleground for every one of us
the biggest battleground we face is the
mind it is our it’s our thought world
and uh perhaps perhaps a day i don’t
know maybe in the next year sometime we
can take two or three weeks just to work
on this one theme this one idea
if if you could imagine
uh
second corinthians 10 talks about the
pulling down strongholds
and strongholds exist in thought
patterns
it’s a real abstract a picture an idea
but the concept is very real and very
biblical so imagine this a an old in the
old days the big castles those castles
were places where where the king and his
family could hide out if there was an
assault the soldiers could could regroup
there and
and recover their strength and replenish
themselves it was a place of safety a
strong hold
so imagine now this castle is built out
of these large stones and these stones
are the
illegitimate thoughts and concepts that
the enemy raises up
to us against other people or against
our identity our destiny whatever they
are every one of these stones and
whenever i embrace an illegal thought
let’s say it’s against an individual
let’s just stick with the theme of
bitterness resentment if i entertain a
thought that accuses somebody that’s in
my life what i’ve done is i’ve put a
stone there
now that stone is not a hiding place for
the demonic
but if i keep building on it pretty soon
i have a castle in my thinking a way of
wrong thinking in which the demonic
hides
and you say well christians can’t be
that influenced by demons that’s just
not true
it’s not true it’s why paul had such a
strong warning in ephesians 4 don’t give
place to the devil
in other words
you could
don’t
don’t do it those kinds of that way of
thinking so when you when you find that
you’ve been you’ve been under delusion
about bitterness or resentment uh
jealousy those kinds of things it means
that repentance is needed it means very
specific
confession of sin it’s not oh god
forgive me i had a bad attitude
or god i just haven’t liked this person
forgive me
deal with the lies and the best antidote
for lies is truth
find what god says about a person this
is kind of an awkward story and i i i
don’t know if it
it it might make sense to you it it uh
it happened to me several years ago i
was i was going through one of the
christian magazines and
and
and it was conference after conference
and and i i
what i’ve learned to do is i’ve learned
to uh if if i know something about
somebody or i question the integrity of
somebody that is very famous i i don’t
sit there and become bitter and accused
i just turn the page quick
it’s just how i avoid the issue i just
yeah i i don’t need to have an opinion
about this person it’s my that’s my but
what i saw was is i saw that i i was
actually
i was i was succeeding in resisting the
spirit of accusation
but i was not succeeding in feeling
god’s heart for them
the opposite of love is not hate it’s
indifference
and i was choosing indifference
as the solution
for
whatever i would question about this
individual
all right
and so i went when i saw what was
happening i went back through them
i literally went through the magazine i
turned page after page let’s see this
conference
and i would stare at the pictures of the
people
until i could feel god’s heart for them
and then i’d turn the page again and i
look at the picture
oh god this person’s so highly favored
for a reason
i know they paid a price that i’ll never
know about but you favored them because
of that and i turned the page and
something began to become activated in
me what you don’t want to do is you you
don’t want to embrace
um
that whole nonsense of knowing somebody
else’s heart
and it’s a huge trap once you once
you’ve succeeded there we have to move
into a place
where we become
we become we give people the benefit of
the doubt
it’s it’s a really big part of life for
me
is i i see this happen i hear this
happen you know the more we travel the
more we rub shoulders with
amazing people all over the planet but
occasionally we run into a rascal or two
i know it’s hard to believe but it
actually happens there’s actually at
least two rascals out there the the
chris knows one i know the other that’s
that’s weird
and
and to give people the benefit of the
doubt
my dad had this saying that’s honestly
one of the most important phrases i have
ever heard in my life
he would tell us
if you wash another person’s feet
you’ll find out why they walk the way
they do
i spent time with some folks that are
real rascals
and then i get in i wash their feet
and i find out what kind of life they’ve
had
i find out that they’ve never had
anybody stand with them
i find out all this stuff by just
spiritually if you get figuratively get
the the metaphor of just serving that
person washing their feet so to speak
all of a sudden i find out oh this is
why they limp
this is why they only i if i had that in
my past i would limp too of course i’d
want to be healed i’d want to be
delivered but at least i understand it
does that does that make sense to you
there’s something about
stepping in into a place of serving and
loving people that you question
the third thing that i would say
is uh is so uh
is so critical
is is put
the heart of forgiveness
put the favor that you’re trying to
extend to that individual as much as is
possible put it into an action
behavior has to be measurable through
action
again a passage quote i quote often if i
say i love god whom i can’t see and i
hate my brother who i can see
i’m a liar
why
because i don’t have the right to claim
an invisible reality that cannot be
demonstrated in my behavior in the
natural
it has to be verifiable on how i treat
the people around me
so here we’ve got this we’ve got this
issue of jealousy we’ve got this this
thing that really becomes the seedbed
the atmosphere for bitterness to
actually take over a person’s life so
this issue of jealousy is called
according to scripture
jealousy this bitter envy is actually
reasonable
from the demonic realm so if it makes
sense to you guess where you’re thinking
from
you’re seeing through the situation
through the enemy’s eyes it’s the only
reason it is reasonable
that’s where this has to matter we come
before god we drop tyrannies we say god
i see this i i’m convinced i’m right and
i know i’m not because it’s contrary to
your word and we come clean with the
lord and we we stay there and it may be
a repeated situation i remember a
situation i had years ago where my
goodness i must have forgiven the person
a hundred times a day literally
a hundred times a day
it was i was just being bombarded in my
mind
and i would i would it was such a fight
at work i would stop i i i wasn’t able
to function normally i was being so
bombarded my mind my thinking my
emotions
but i i stuck with it i make the
declaration i say no i have forgiven
this person i refuse to think evil of
that person i will not accuse so-and-so
before the lord they are servants of the
lord they are not my servant i bless
them and then just work to serve that
individual put put the forgiveness into
some sort of an action
so you didn’t win the car you needed
your friend who has three cars now has
four
buy them a tank of gas
do something put it into a practical
action because we all need fruit that
gives evidence for what’s happening in
the unseen
inside of us we need fruit we need yes
of course you can fake it but fake it
until you get it
fake until it’s real do the right thing
until it becomes your nature to do the
right thing
jealousy kills people
and i’m saying this to you today because
i have sensed
that we are in another wave
another season and under the wave of
promotions
and promotions are wonderful but they
never happen to everybody at once
one of you is going to be the guy that
worked for an hour and you get the wages
for 12 hours
and you’re going to have to deal with
the fact that everybody around you
if they operate in ungodly wisdom
are trying to discern what you did
to have that kind of favor how did you
manipulate the situation
you never have to apologize or explain
the lord’s blessing
when you have favor
live with a favor
don’t be apologetic
i’ve i’ve gotten in a car of a friend of
mine before and he had uh
it’s a beautiful car he picked me up the
hotel we’re going to a meeting and as
soon as i sat down he began to apologize
for having such a nice car and i know
how awkward he felt
i’ve i have felt the same i
you know people say well you don’t
deserve that now it’s true i but i i
don’t i also don’t deserve a lesser car
yeah actually i don’t deserve one at all
i don’t deserve a bicycle
if i got what i deserved i’d be walking
everywhere i went you know that’s that’s
the bottom line so everything you do
have is by grace so the point is is he
felt this need to apologize and explain
well the church took an offering they
bought me this car it was wonderful i
was thankful for him but i felt bad for
him at the same time that he was walking
through the motions of what i had walked
through before
you never have to apologize for the
blessing of the lord
so in this season of promotion some of
you are going to be the one with the
wages of a day’s work for one hour and
others of you
it’s going to be your friend
and you’re going to be the one that
works so hard
for minimum
and it will be your assignment
to learn how to move into a place where
jealousy has no voice in your heart
no voice in your head no voice
truth is what dismantles these blocks
that creates strongholds that the enemy
functions and operates out of
it’s revelation truth
there are times where you know
philippians 4 talks about thinking on
these things thinking things that are
knowable and right and truthful and and
faithful and all these all these things
are in this list in in philippians 4
verse 8 he says think on these things
and i have i have had times when my mind
is being bombarded about a certain
individual that has done me wrong or
whatever
and and i
i go to that verse and i say all right
whatever is true god what is there that
is absolutely true about that person
that i am obviously missing to dwell on
this
and i will look for things i’ll ask god
i will pray for things god show me what
it is that you’ve done say the same
thing looking at the favor you know uh
feel looking to feel the favor of god on
that individual on the page i remember
several years back i was in a i was in a
conference big conference and i was on
the front row i was one of the speakers
and and there was this gal right on the
other side of the barrier
that was just making all kinds of noise
and doing all kinds of unusual things
and
but i
thankfully i’ve gone through this about
a thousand other times so i knew not to
be accusing in my mind
you need to rejoice with me i did not
sin
i just i just want you to know i
succeeded i did not have a bad attitude
but it sure was annoying
and then heidi comes over she stands
heidi baker’s there she stands next to
me she’s isn’t this wonderful
and i
yeah
it is
and then she mentioned yeah i said she
uh
was a prostitute for 30 some years and
now she’s afraid
all of a sudden all that noise
this seems so awkward seems so
reasonable
yeah she’s free
that’s right you can have the microphone
you know
demonstrate what liberty looks like to
the rest of us
now just become too accustomed to
freedom
[Applause]
the christmas verse
merry christmas by the way
the christmas verse
that’s been on my mind
since a week or so last week or so
has been in romans
where it says all creation groans and
travails for the revealing
of the sons and daughters of god
why would they be interceding for that
because they’ve already seen it once
they were here when the son of god
was manifest
creation itself cooperated to point to
this messiah jesus
the star in the sky
revealed the nature and the source of
this one who was sent from heaven
but now today
creation itself groans
prays for if you will
the revelation of the children of god
the context is freedom
and there’s no freedom where there’s
jealousy
there’s no freedom where there’s
bitterness
there’s no freedom see
do you know what
free
bitterness
jealousy
and regret
all are addicted to the past
they all have a similar effect on the
soul
of a person
have a similar effect on the emotional
condition the mental condition
and i’ll tell you what the enemy
fears and and i don’t think i can say
this strong enough
he fears your freedom
because in our freedom there is such a
creative expression
of what god is wanting to do in the
earth
that we reveal him through our liberty
through our freedom through our creative
expression
this very strong biblical basis for this
this concept of freedom
that the artisans were the the ones that
god raised up in the last days with
creative expression to war against the
four
beasts that the horns that ward against
the saints the whole point was god’s
solution
for
restriction bondage resentment
bitterness all this stuff was a people
that were free and the result of their
freedom was that they creatively
represented him in the earth to where
all of creation itself steps into a
liberty because the people of god are
free and the people of god are free when
we deal with the issues of jealousy and
bitterness regret all these things that
link us to things that are already under
the blood
we’ve been invited we’ve been commanded
to step into this liberty because
creation itself longs for the accurate
representation of who he is through our
freedom
the greatest
freedom that anybody could ever
experience
is the freedom that a person receives
when they surrender their life
to the only one
who has the right to run my life
and that’s jesus the christ the king the
lord the master
he has the right to run it
and that he chooses to co-labor with us
he forgives us
and he becomes the loving expression of
a father he becomes the one who tutors
and mentors and cares for and brings us
into layer after layer of liberty and
freedom
and that liberty and freedom is
available for everyone who’s watching on
bethel tv everybody who’s in this room
anyone in any overflow room
that freedom is
available and i want to do just one
thing i want to just ask the question
is there anyone here today that would
just say bill i don’t want to leave the
building
until i know that i’ve been forgiven by
god himself that i’ve been brought into
his family that i can finally be a true
disciple a follower of jesus
if there’s anybody in the room in that
condition you’d say bill i don’t want to
leave until i know that’s settled i want
you just to put a hand up in the air
right over here yep anybody else put
your hand up high
yep there’s another one over here
wonderful welcome welcome welcome it’s
beautiful
beautiful anybody else
just wave it if i don’t see it sometimes
sometimes it’s hard to see
all right this is wonderful and we
celebrate this
it’s the greatest miracle of all that a
person can be changed
in a moment forgiven of sin
given the actual nature of christ
filled with the holy spirit that raised
jesus from the dead that’s about to
happen in these people’s lives i want to
ask you to stand and i want to ask
ministry team people to quickly come to
the front and we’re going to pray
together i want to ask these two to
raise your hands if you do yourself and
me a favor
come right over here to the people in
front of this banner right here
right over here to my left right here
just come down
and uh and they will serve you they will
minister to you they will pray with you
now
i want you just to hold your hands in
front of you i want to just this kind of
just represents our we’re holding on to
our life here so hold it before the lord
i want to pray father i ask that you
would give such an unusual anointing and
grace
to this church family
to not be bound by yesterday
to be free from every trace
of jealousy
every trace of resentment every trace of
regret
that true liberty would be demonstrated
in the life of this family
i ask this in jesus name
in jesus mighty name
amen now some of you need prayer for
miracle in your body some of you have
issues you just need someone to stand
with you in prayer maybe from what i
talked about today we’ve got a team down
here today that would love to talk with
you tonight
you must be back here tonight you just
must be david hogan is here
wow
wow
it’s going to be awesome could we give
pastor bill a big hand isn’t that
amazing
i thought that was an appropriate
christmas message because he’s helping
us all get healthy as we step into
family at another level amen hey god
bless you guys have a great day if you
need prayer for anything come on up
front
and uh we’re going to see miracles
happen and just god’s going to move it’s
going to be great have a wonderful day