Bill Johnson continues his message series on testimony. How can you know God’s heart and who He is? Testimonies reveal the nature of God, and stewarding testimonies by bringing to mind the things that God has done establish in your heart and mind who God is. Scripture teaches on the importance of passing on the testimonies from generation to generation. Why? “So that they might put their hope in God”. Scripture warns of the danger of forgetting the testimonies of God’s goodness: without the hope that comes from testimonies, you will lack the confidence to face the battles that God has already ordained for you to win. If you don’t face the war we were born for, you’ll face situations you have no grace for. Future generations will be affected by how you steward the testimonies of God’s goodness in your life. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: John 12 Psalm 24 Matthew 11 Psalm 119 Psalm 78 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on March 24, 2024. 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 #Testimony #GodIsGood
a generation without hope is a
generation without testimonies it’s not
a light matter it’s not like oh let’s
tell another story as you know Story
Time Around a fireplace these are
weighty Revelations of the nature of God
that carry with it a compelling
invitation we must know God in this way
and he says multiple Generations are
actually affected in their Eternal
Destiny by the influence of testimony in
their thinking in their
lives
[Applause]
wow a lot of shouts in here
today yeah Sunday that’s right come come
to church and lose your
voice what a way to
go well happy Palm Sunday my goodness um
you know one of the most fun weeks I’ve
had uh in I’ve been here 28 years one of
the most fun weeks I have ever ever had
was the week of fasting that we had in
January where we met in the mornings for
prayer it so rocked me my goodness and I
can hardly wait till tomorrow because
we’re doing the same thing again and uh
meeting at 7:30 7:30 in the morning for
those of you that are able to join us oh
my just it just messed me up in a really
good way and uh and then we’re going to
also uh have times of worship at night 8
to 9:00 so if you’re able to join for
that that would be be wonderful and then
Good Friday is going to be a good
Friday it’s going to be a good
one when I say I want a Biblical wife
what I’m what people think I mean is I
want a wife who is passive and
subservient what I really mean is I want
a wife who is totally willing to drive a
tent pig into the tyrant’s heads should
the opportunity
arise if you’re familiar with the Old
Testament story that helps that’s a
that’s a great definition of a Biblical
wife and and I tell you most of the
people in the body of Christ who scare
me are women I’m just telling you they
just absolutely scare me and I know some
I think they carry a tent peg in their
back pocket you know they’re just
ready amen amen amen I had oh
here in a Kindergarten class A teacher
offers the kids $5 if they can name the
most famous person who ever lived little
sha O Sullivan said St Patrick teacher
says no I’m sorry Sean that’s not
correct Little Johnny Williams says
Abraham Lincoln she says no Johnny I’m
afraid that’s not the answer Little
David Goldberg said Jesus Christ the
teacher says that’s right David you get
$5 he comes up to collect the money and
the teacher says you know David being
Jewish I’m surprised you said Jesus
David replies in my heart I know it’s
Moses but business is
business is that legal to do that one is
yeah yeah
yeah well I’m sure I’ll get some emails
all right thank you
Lord um Palm Sunday wow I’ve never given
a message on Palm Sunday about Palm
Sunday
so I’m not going today today either
except except we’re going to read some
scripture I’ll talk a few minutes and
we’re going to go into the subject that
I have for
today that’s that’s kind of sad isn’t it
turn with me in your Bibles to John
chapter 12 I want I want to look at uh
this particular part of the story and
then uh we’re going to move into
U kind of an extension of the last time
I talked I talked a couple weeks ago
about
remembering the Lord says don’t forget
my benefits so I want to just spin off
from that but John chapter 12 um John’s
account of the triumphal entry of Jesus
says the next day a great multitude
verse 12 uh next day a great multitude
that had come to the feast when they
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem
took branches of palm trees went out to
meet him they cried out hosana blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord
the king of
Israel then Jesus when they found a
young donkey when he found a young dogy
he sat on it as it is written fear not
oh Daughter of Zion behold your king
King is Coming sitting on a donkey’s
Colt his disciples did not understand
these things at first but when Jesus was
glorified then they remembered that
these things were written about
him and that he had done these things to
them one of the most consistent things
this is a little off subject a lot off
subject actually but one of the most
consistent things that you’ll find about
the prophetic in scripture is it’s not
understood until after it’s
fulfilled it’s it’s rarely I don’t know
that it’s ever given so that we can
create charts of what’s about to happen
I think it’s supposed to be lodged in
our heart so that as things unfold we
realize oh he’s in
charge amen Bill good point verse
17 thanks I’ll pay you later verse 17
therefore the people who were with him
when he called Lazarus out of his tomb
and raised him from the dead bore
witness for this reason people also met
him because they heard he had done this
sign the Pharisees therefore said among
themselves you see that you are
accomplishing one another they’re
pointing at each other it’s so funny
they’re turning on each other they said
among themselves you are doing nothing
look the whole world is gone after him
such a lovely
verse um palm branches were were a sign
of victory in
battle and so when they laid palm
branches out for Jesus to come into the
the city they were walking welcoming him
as a Victorious
King Kings when they normally would
enter a city however would ride on a
warhorse I don’t know how many of you
have ever studied war horses it’s
fascinating it’s in the Minor Prophets
they talk about them and war horses were
unusual creatures in that they actually
could smell and hear war and they would
run to battle they were a attracted to
war they actually could stand for
example if the if the owner was in this
uh place of conflict and they were
standing next to a burning
building that burning building could
actually burn some of the Flesh on that
horse and he would hold his position
they were so resolved and so focused in
discipline incredible incredible
animals Jesus came not just not on a war
horse came on a donkey but not just a
donkey came on a
CT because this triumphant King came as
the Prince of
Peace the battle never was between God
and the devil that’s not a
contest the enemy has
worked ever since people were
created to tarnish what was made in His
image he sees the father’s Delight in
people and he wants to do anything to
tarnish that Joy through marking
Humanity with sin and
distraction Jesus comes into this city
and they lay down palm branches to
welcome a Victorious King and he’s not
yet
died it’s I I don’t know what all it
means except we know that he was
triumphant in his lifestyle over
sickness over disease we know over sin
he was tempted in all manners we are yet
without sin so he was Victorious even
before he died but when he died his
victory was made available to all those
Made In His Image that would put their
faith in
him his victory became our
Victory his victory was as the son of
man because God needed no victory over
the devil it was as the son of man the
Bible calls him our elder brother so he
went ahead obtained an inheritance for
us so that everyone who would believe in
him would step into the triumph in the
victory of that triumphal
injury Psalms 24 says lift up your heads
oh your Gates that the king of glory
might come in in some ways that
prophetic picture of the Old Testament
was realized in this triumphal entry
because the people began to sing praises
hosana they began to exalt him as the
King of Kings as the Lord over all and
In This Moment God inhabits praise and
then this triumphant Jesus was about to
put an end to the voice of the enemy and
to sin and disease to put an end to that
voice by his own
suffering it’s extraordinary what was
accomplished in those days and he did it
with you and mine with me and
mine John the Baptist is one of the
great Heroes of scripture for me I I
read of his life fre well I I go through
the whole Bible all the time but I I
like to take time to look at John the
Baptist because of what Jesus had to say
about him so I want you to go to U
Matthew chapter 11 and we’re going to
take just a moment there before we
actually turn back to the portion of
scripture I want and it’s in the Psalms
it’s under
19 but just go with me to Psalm excuse
me to Matthew uh chapter
11 and I want you to see a a problem
first of all Jesus later in Matthew 11
describes uh uh John John the Baptist as
the greatest of all Old Testament
prophets John Was An Old Testament
Prophet all of Jesus’s Miracles were
also in the Old
Testament the New Testament doesn’t
start till the blood of Jesus is shed
the blood of the New Covenant so
everything he did was to close out the
Old Testament and initiate the nature of
the new
the momentum the focus the priority of
the
new so he announces John the Baptist as
the greatest of all Old Testament
prophets but he did that after this
particular experience where John takes a
couple of his disciples and sends them
to Jesus John’s got a problem John’s in
prison and he’s about to die and he
knows
it he prepared the way for the
Messiah Jesus’s own job
description in Isaiah 61 that Jesus
prophesied over his own life in Luke
chapter 4 was to release from prison and
John was facing the reality that he
prepared the one way for the one who
releases from prison prison but he’s not
being
released you can imagine the questions
did I get it right I had one assignment
to prepare the way for the Messiah and
he’s got this one overwhelming question
did I get it
right Matthew 11 verse one came to pass
when Jesus finished commanding his 12
disciples he departed from there to
teach and to preach in their cities when
John had heard in prison about the works
of Christ he sent two of his disciples
and he said to him are you the coming
one or do we look for
another now John has already prophesied
that Jesus was the
Messiah at Jesus’s own baptism before
Jesus came to him he pointed to Jesus
and he said behold look the Lamb of God
who takes away the sins of the world
he’s already made the proclamation he
already knows with every cell every
fiber of his being this is him but now
he’s in
prison how many of you ever ever had
circumstances that made you wonder about
the Bold confession he once made
previous so he says are you the coming
one or do we look for another Jesus
answered and said to them two disciples
said to them go tell John the things
which you hear and see the blind see the
lame walk the lepers are cleansed the
deaf hear the dead are raised up the
poor have the gospel preached to
them what did Dr Jesus write out as his
prescription
testimonies the profound nature of
testimon of a
testimony I’m discovering my own Journey
we’ve been we’ve been talking this
subject for
decades but the profound nature of
testimon of a testimony is that it
reveals the nature of God it reveals the
Covenant of God with his people and it
gives us a personal invitation to
encounter and know him in that
way it’s a it’s a living invitation to
an
encounter these stories of scripture
when you when you read through Israel’s
history you find the times in fact I I
talked about this some a couple weeks
ago you find the times where Israel
literally crashed and burned and when
you trace back what started it is they
forgot they forgot what God had
done the testimony is not is not a bunch
of trivial stories that make us feel
warm and fuzzy that help us just feel
good for the moment they are Revelations
of the nature and Covenant of God they
carry with it such compelling
um evidence to the resurrection of
Christ that it filters out all
unimportant
information John is facing his final
days Jesus wants him to end well and he
gives him a
prescription
here the blind
sea John you made this
possible the deaf here yeah the lame
walk the dead are
raised the poor have the the gospel
preached to
him it’s almost
like eyes are wandering all over the
place and Jesus says no Focus right back
here you got to end well
John you got to end
well the testimony reveals the nature of
God and it
actually I’ll show you some verses in a
minute but it actually
enhances I don’t know how this works let
me just ramble and hopefully I’ll say
something it it actually enhances the
intellectual capacity of an individual
because it starts with the nature of God
and all truth starts with the nature of
God Beauty exists because he’s beautiful
power exists because he’s powerful love
exists because he is love right all
these things exist because of his own
nature everything comes forth from him
everything the enemy has done is to
distort and pervert what God has
made it’s not a war against God he can’t
win that one he just wants to
embarrass by blemishing his creation
that was made in His
image so testimonies reveal what he’s
like I don’t know how to do this yet I
is a huge part of my life but I I don’t
think I have it down yet so I’m I’m I’m
I’m fighting for words
here I I feel like there’s something
more deliberate I can do we can do to
record and
to meditate on our history with
God I was just at James River great
great church uh in uh Springfield
Missouri bethl was an Assembly of God
Church proudly so we I love the
assemblies some of the finest people
I’ve ever met in my alive for assemblies
my mom is here today yay my
mom 95 years young yes she is
you um so I’m very thankful for that
Heritage and I I had the privilege again
I’ve been going back now fairly often to
this great great church little little
tiny home group of about 12,000 people
actually it’s up to 13,000 they’ve been
growing and uh but have such a wonderful
time and they they are
hosting a tremendous move of God and
they Steward the testimony brilliantly
I’m I I’m I get so encouraged so we had
this week I was there for three nights
power a week of power and we had
hundreds of of people healed wonderful
but the the one that just rocked me in
some ways the most was a 14y old kid
that stood up give testimony is a they
have four campuses so we got the the
their place is packed on a Wednesday
night for a prayer meeting 30 35 3600
people you know people all over the yeah
it’s amazing so the 14-year-old kid
stands up and he gives a testimony how
he felt electricity go through his brain
and he is now no longer
autistic no God
heal and just a pile of others for have
videos going to play but it’s 12 minutes
long and so I’ll wait for a Sunday night
we can do the the 12 minute version so
but it’s just so so wonderful so last
night I was at one of our local
restaurants and U uh sitting there
eating and and this young lady comes up
to me uh ask are you Bill Johnson I said
yes I am she said I knew that but then
she she she starts crying she says I was
at your healing rooms today and then she
pulls out of her pocket hearing
aids because she couldn’t she couldn’t
hear and now she can hear perfectly
she’s she’s standing at the
table I was about six or eight of them
in their group they all ended up coming
over to the table and giving them hugs
and and cheering them on and honoring
them for making the journey that they
did
because that’s what he’s
like that’s what he’s like I’ll never
forget the day I laid hands on little
girl about 5 years
old uh born deaf
and uh I prayed for nothing happened
then I remembered I’d ministered to the
mother earlier in the day and she had
some uh spiritual
issues and uh so I thought well maybe
maybe it got passed on so I just prayed
simply over her and broke that thing and
then prayed again for her ears I’ll
never forget the look this little girl
has never heard anything and all of a
sudden she
goes she starts looking all around
because this room is filled with sound
as sound begins to Cascade into this
little
life cuz that’s that’s what he’s like I
remember here on a Sunday night uh
somebody came up to me and said a woman
just got healed uh of deafness and I I
said where is she she was in the back
over here so I came running over to her
and and talked wanted to talk to her to
find out what it happened not realizing
she’s never heard a word before she
doesn’t know what words are never heard
a sound no sound no sound no sound
ever and I
realized she doesn’t know what I’m
doing and a family member was there
began to sign began to explain the story
how her ears opened up right back over
here and she kept pointing to speakers
that were up in the
ceiling wow and the family began to work
with her to learn to speak CU she had
never heard words or speak words that
week she began to speak can speak in
full sentences but the first word out of
her mouth was Jesus which is a real good
start so she learned who did it and uh
right right back over there it reminds
me of one of our young men was down at
the mall and saw this man with a very
serious limp and walked up and asked if
he could pray and family members with
him and he didn’t respond but the family
members said yes so I prayed for him
come to find out he had a gunshot wound
of all things and uh and was prayed for
and was completely healed so he’s
walking around and then he our young man
noticed this guy didn’t say anything so
he asked the family said can this man
not speak and they said no he’s never
spoken a word in his life he said well
can I pray for that the family of course
you know you’re on a roll let’s go for
it you know and so he prays for that and
the first word out of his mouth was
Jesus his tongue was loosed and he began
to begin to
speak all of these are story that reveal
his
nature and maybe the one that rocks me
the most was a 14-year-old girl from
here went on an Outreach with some of
our teams down to San
Francisco and uh there was an elderly
gentleman sitting on a on a curb on a
street corner and she just sat down next
to him and began to share the love of
Jesus with this very elderly
man and he opened up to the
gospel and was born again
such a wonderful display of God’s mercy
and power Came Upon This guy’s life as
he’s literally just overwhelmed by the
goodness of God as he meets Jesus she
gets up she’s praying talking to other
people after a while half hour hour
later she hears Sirens she follows the
sirens and this man had passed away the
minut that she just led to the lord it’s
just like him to do that it’s just like
him that’s what he’s like that’s what
he’s like to take a 14-year-old girl out
of a small town of reading take down to
San Francisco sit next to this guy who’s
right at the end of his journey and
introduce him to Jesus that’s what he’s
like see these stories reveal his nature
and John’s assignment was to prepare the
way for the Messiah which he did so
profoundly so beautifully but Jesus
wanted him to end well and he said the
blind
see the lame
walk the deaf
hear the dead are
raised this week I was I sat uh with a
pastor and family at at a evening meal
after our service and in walked a couple
and the uh pastor’s wife Debbie said
this is the woman that Uncle Willie her
uncle was my grandfather will Helm Moran
and she referred to him as Uncle Willie
this is the woman that Uncle Willie
raised when she was a year old she
drowned and my grandfather took her and
prayed over her and she was raised from
the
dead that’s what he’s like now
she’s a lot
older and in a place of celebrating the
kindness and the goodness of the Lord
that’s what he’s like every story
reveals
him and potentially our life our
journey I want you to look at some
passages with me out of uh we got to do
this quickly so uh out of Psalms
1119 and then I’m going to take you to
Psalm 78 and I’ll see if we can do this
quickly Psalms
119 don’t worry we’re not going to read
the whole
thing
it is the longest in the
Bible I have a little sauna and I like
getting into my sauna and I have a I put
on my phone a Bible app that reads the
Bible to me and it’s a it takes about a
whole SAA session to get through Psalms
119 so I learn just P play and sit there
it’s got a speaker system in there
and sweat for Jesus all right Psalms
1119 My grandmother used to quote this
scripture to me uh verse
uh verse 11 Psalms 119 your word I have
hidden in my heart that I might not sin
against you uh verse nine how can a
young man keep his way pure and clean by
taking heed according to the word she us
quote those scriptures to me now I
understand why verse uh 14 I have
rejoiced in the way of your testimonies
as much as in all riches think about
this how is it that a testimony can
compare to a million-dollar
check a testimony has the potential of
marking your Eternal Destiny because it
intr you introduces us to God and to the
nature that can and must be explored our
faith will only explore where we have
understanding of his goodness and the
testimony Reveals His goodness yes
verse 31 I cling to your testimonies oh
Lord do not put me to shame I will run
the course of your Commandments for you
shall enlarge my
heart I don’t know if you’ve ever prayed
this prayer it’s in the scripture a few
times enlarge my heart one of the places
enlarge my heart that I might fear your
name the heart is is the place that
faith comes from the heart is the place
where relationship with God is developed
I want a big heart because I want to
experience more of a big God I want
large Faith to flow in and through me so
I need the enlarging of my heart and
he’s declaring here that testimonies
have an effect on the size of our hearts
yes okay let me put it this way you’re
making me work real hard today it’s okay
all three services have been the same so
far
so
um
I never fault a person for the size of
their
brain but the size of their heart is
their
responsibility okay I meant well I meant
well I really did verse 36 incline my
heart to your testimonies and not to
covetousness now the Bible often makes
comparisons between uh this this concept
this idea and this concept whenever
there’s a comparison because they’re
interrelated even though they often
times especially in Proverbs don’t seem
to be connected at all here he says
incline my ear make me receptive to the
good news of your testimonies and not to
covetousness what is he saying
testimonies help to refine values to our
were inspired to healthy desires and
wrong desires are killed testimonies
help to reveal to us the nature of God
that gives us permission to dream but it
also shows what dreams are IL legal
good this
[Applause]
testimony verse 46 I will speak your
testimony also before Kings and will not
be ashamed I will speak your testimonies
before Kings and not be
ashamed I don’t know how this works but
somehow being mindful of the
supernatural activities of God raises
your place of in influence where you
speak to people that are outside your
normal circle of friends why because God
can trust you with influence because
you’re speaking of his nature you’re
speaking of his history with
Humanity verse um 79 let those who fear
you turn to me those who know your
testimonies those who fear you turn to
me those who know your
testimonies somehow
testimonies increase favor with
man
yep yep it is
true I’ll give you one more and then
we’ll go to Psalm
78 verse 99 I have more understanding
than all my teachers for your
testimonies are my meditation I
understand more more than the Ancients
because I keep your precepts think just
think with me here I have more
understanding than my
teachers David’s making this
Proclamation I’ve got more understanding
I he’s not being arrogant he’s saying
look at the effect the testimony has had
on my
mind my capacity to perceive reality my
capacity to be be able to use Insight in
constructive positive ways has been
dramatically increased because and he
traces it back to the
testimony whatever is true is true
because it’s found in the nature of
God all right Psalm 78 we’ll do the
quickly I
promise you guys all
right verse 5 says uh it establish a
testimony in Jacob they are to make them
known to their children the generation
to come might know them the children who
would be born that they would arise and
declare them to their children so what
do we have we have a picture of three
generations tell the testimony to this
generation to tell it to this generation
to tell it to this generation all right
that they may set their hope in God what
does that
say a generation without hope is a
generation without
testimonies
wow it’s not a light matter it’s not
like oh let’s tell another story as you
know Story Time Around a fireplace and
we just forget about it later these are
weighty Revelations of the nature of God
that carry with it a compelling
invitation we must know God in this way
and he says multiple Generations are
actually affected in their Eternal
Destiny by the measure of testimony the
influence of testimony in their thinking
in their
lives verse 9 says the children of
Ephraim being armed carrying bows turned
back in the day of battle they did not
keep the Covenant of God they refused to
walk in his law they forgot his works
and the Wonders which he had uh shown
them when they forgot the works the
testimonies when they forgot the
testimonies they became cowardly and
were not able to face the war they were
born
for you remember David it says on a t at
a time when kings went out to war he was
on his
rooftop not in war and fell into
horrible
sin when we don’t face the war we were
born for we Face situations we have no
Grace
for and now we have the children of
Ephraim they’re trained for battle
they’re assigned for battle they’re
gifted in battle and again Old Testament
concept of war was concerning spiritual
war in the New Testament so we’re not
Waring against people it’s about
spiritual powers of Darkness so here’s
this picture says they are they are
equipped for Triumph trained for victory
but they turned back and the reason they
turned back is they
forgot they did not hold seriously as
the great treasure of their heart the
testimony of
God one more is uh verse 40 says how
often they provoked him in the
wilderness they grieved him in the
desert yet again and again they tempted
God limited the Holy One of Israel they
didn’t remember his power the day when
he redeemed them from the enemy when he
worked his signs in Egypt in his wonders
in the field of his own what is what is
he saying when they forgot the testimony
they no longer had boundaries for their
relationship with God and they actually
moved into a place where they wanted to
compel God to do evil on their
behalf they lost their bearings they
lost their sense of clarity they lost
their sense of of absolutes this is how
we approach God this is what he values
and when they lost sight of the boundary
set by testimony they wandered
carelessly and they actually provoked
God when they were designed to have a
relationship where they would co- labor
and see his work expressed in the earth
to reveal his nature to all Humanity but
they forfeited their opportunity because
they
forgot I’m pretty much
done
yeah I uh I I may just talk about this
all summer long I don’t know I’m right
right now I don’t feel like changing the
subject I’m I’m basically talking to
me because I I honestly I feel like
there’s 2.0 testimony 2.0
coming that the Lord is going to give us
this prophetic Clarity think about this
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
Prophecy there is such a prophetic
mental release through the simple
stories of God’s Redemptive
work I want to keep going to restaurants
and having people come up to me with
hearing aids in their
hands or crutches or wheelchairs or
something you
[Applause]
know I remember one of the folks that
visited us some time ago they they uh
they said goodbye to all their relatives
they were from another country they got
in a wheelchair doctors didn’t think
they could make the trip but they they
made it checked into one of the
hotels and and um as they’re leaving the
lobby that
morning the clerk behind the counter
said where are you guys off to today
they said well we’re going to
church and they said well where where
you going he said Beth he said oh the
place where people go to get
healed and they were curious they said
they knew that because they were going
to the healing rooms or Sunday service
something and they said uh what do you
mean CU they wanted to get the story and
and the g said well let last
week last week somebody left here in a
wheelchair they came home pushing the
wheelchair so that those are the stories
you want to
hear these
Miracles testify of his
grace they do not testify of our
significance this is the normal
Christian Life it is not for either
either it’s not for any special person
or we’re all special and we qualify how
however you want to work that in I don’t
care but it it is not the testimony of
sign our significance it is it is the
hour of the revelation of the nature of
God and it happens through stories and
Psalms 119 verse 111 that I didn’t read
said uh his testimonies are our
inheritance forever so the full record
of anything God has ever done in in the
lives of people is your personal
possession possession it’s not just what
I’ve experienced it’s not just what
you’ve experienced but the whole gamut
of God’s interactions with people we
inherit the stories yes it’s
important it equips our
thinking it it it it sets our mind in a
way to receive the impressions of the
lord of the miracle he now wants to
perform the things that are happening
around the world with our teams we send
them to places that we you know we don’t
tell them we send them to a hard place
we we don’t let them know we we you know
we get told all the time is oh this
place is the graveyard of missionaries
nobody makes it here oh we don’t tell
our teams
that as far as they know it’s heaven on
Earth
there and so we don’t let them know it
it’s hard till they get
back and then it’s too late they already
know honestly we’ve just we’ve just seen
you know people come out of Strokes
resurrections all kinds of stuff and
it’s and it’s it’s it’s not just the
obvious physical healings it’s the
restoration of broken hearts it’s the
healing of marriages it’s it’s the
fractured Minds that get healed God just
restores people’s
thinking it’s what salvation
means there’s a good chance there could
be somebody here this morning morning
you don’t have a personal relationship
with
Jesus and it would be horrible for you
to be sit here all morning long with
this crowd of crazy
people and not come to know personally
what it’s like to be forgiven of
sin what it’s like to be adopted brought
into God’s
family what it’s like for the Holy
Spirit the wonderful comforter of Heaven
to come and to dwell in you
if there’s anybody in this room that
would just say Bill I don’t want to
leave the building till I know I have
peace with God that I know what it is to
receive Christ as a master as a lord as
a savior if that’s you I just want you
to put a hand up by doing that you’re
just saying bill I don’t want to leave
till I know till I know this that you’ve
spoken of put your hands up high because
I’m going to take just a moment make
sure everybody has opportunity to
surrender to this wonderful
Jesus all right I’m going to assume
you’re all in
um but we’ve got a banner up here we
have a team down here ready to pray for
anyone who wants prayer I’m going to ask
you to stand then I’ll pray for
you you still alive yeah good that’s
it’s better when you’re
alive we attract what we
value we attract what we value for for
example if you value
gossip you will attract gossip at work I
heard I saw a wonderful meme the other
day said he said if you’re fasting and
still gossiping go ahead and
eat it’s
awesome
oh yeah don’t bother skipping meals is
not working
yeah but if you value testimony you’ll
attract them
there are certain people that like
off-color jokes they attract
them at any workplace you’ll see they
attract what they value so I’m praying
right now that a standard gets set in
every one of our hearts to hear the
stories of God’s Redemptive work that we
would become filled and impregnated with
the revelation of God’s nature through
stories we welcome that the Holy Spirit
ask that you would come even now and
established deep in our hearts testimony
2.0 for us as a church family I ask this
in Jesus name amen amen amen hold your
places if you would Tom will come and
wrap it
up