The People God Chooses to Fulfill His Plans – Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

Bill Johnson talks about the people God chooses to fulfill His plans in the earth. While we look at the most qualified to achieve a purpose, God often chooses the least qualified. Teaching from Isaiah 61, Bill Johnson shares God’s strategy for restoration and reformation in the earth. It’s God’s plan to take the most broken and have them be the ones to build His Kingdom. Our willingness to say yes to God and our dependency on Him is what qualifies us. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube

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Scripture References: Isaiah 61 Hebrews 11: 10 Psalm 107: 20 Luke 2: 14 John 4 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on September 7, 2014.

the least qualified person was qualified

by grace and in a moment she went from

the immoral woman with a horrible

reputation to an evangelist that brought

an entire city to faith in

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Christ nice to see

you wow wow wow how many of you were at

Holy Ghost that’s

night if you were not there it is still

available streaming online at bethl TV

so go there W just trust me just watch

it watch it watch it

Darren thanks Darren Wilson Janelle’s

wonderful wife and the whole the whole

team why all of you that are here for

the uh premiere of Holy Ghost why don’t

you stand and uh let family why don’t

you bless them welcome them

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beautiful beautiful Let It Go

thanks

beautiful we we’re so so thankful for uh

how God is using um the films that

Darren produced how many of you have

seen Finger of God yeah almost everyone

Furious

Love Father of

Lights Holy

Ghost hands just keep going up I love it

so fun and thanks so much and Todd White

good to have you here Brian great to

have you here it’s just fun and the

whole team thanks for showing up so we

had such a fun time yesterday it’s a

real honor that they give us to host

this kind of an event here in reading

and uh a whole bunch of you thought the

same and showed up and it was wonderful

and uh so anyway thank you thanks thanks

for making films that make us think and

oh in fact i’ just like to sit down and

show the whole film right now that’s

really what I’d like to do but but we

don’t have time so uh but I do want to

encourage you on that one that’s uh

that’s a real really powerful powerful

film um we’ve got a testimony where’s

the mic where’s where’s the why don’t

you give it to me why don’t you come on

up here we’ve got a wonderful testimony

I was in Denver goodness how long ago

how long ago about a year and a half

year and a half or so ago yeah Randy

Clark is a healing school and uh we

we’re going to pray for some folks with

issues here in just a heartbeat but I

wanted you to hear a real really cool

testimony first on how God healed this

tiny

[Laughter]

person I I I want you to know in heaven

I I will impress you with my

size former NFL player had injury tell

us what Jesus did yes I I played several

years in the NFL and I was a middle

linebacker so basically my head was used

as a weapon uh regularly and often and

uh after retiring from

football after retiring from football uh

I was at times and regularly plagued

with depression suicidal thinking uh

pastor of Church in Denver and and even

as a as a leader uh the shame that came

with at times was getting hit by

overwhelming uh anxiety depression and

suicidal thinking uh when Bill was there

and the team was there you were you were

praying and did an altar call and I as I

was sitting there my head felt like it

was on fire I felt like I needed to go

run and put it in a bucket of water

somewhere and it was like shards of

glass almost being pulled out of my my

very head and uh I got I got instantly

healed I Know It And from that point on

um

yeah and we’ve seen a a shift in our

region in some of those Dimensions as

well but but personally uh just being

able to wake up free from that weight

and that fear and that heaviness and now

he’s uh as as we know when you get

delivered now we pray for people with

head trauma brain injuries learning

disabilities and we’ve seen God do some

just amazing Miracles so thank you so

much for your faithfulness in Jes we

just thank him so much what you

described the pain there in Denver I

remember when I first got the testimony

you described the pain that you lived

with what was it like just describe what

you felt on a daily basis on a daily

basis definitely a weekly basis I would

just get hit with uh shame

discouragement and really suicidal

thinking in such a way that it would uh

I knew how to fight but there comes that

point when you get wore down and you get

beat down enough that you kind of

Retreat and then the effects upon your

family and I got an unbelievable wife

and I’m just so grateful that that that

has lifted off the entire family and uh

that weight and that heaviness and that

depression comes at at strategic times

and to see that lifted has been just a

miracle of in the grace of God thank you

Lord Jesus wonderful than thank you for

doing that thank you beautiful

wow wow wow wow anyone in pain you know

what let’s just go wholesale anyone in

pain stand up anyone in pain let’s bring

an end to it now we’re going to pray and

go to the root cause of it doesn’t

matter what it is if it’s an old injury

if you played in the NFL and you used

your head as a weapon doesn’t matter

what it is if uh you are qualified

because of the grace of God for a

miracle not someday but right now right

now the Lord is going to release a

creative miracle for some of you in the

spine there’s damage in the spine where

there’s degenerative conditions in spine

in joints hip joints Etc where there is

a Decay uh there’s debilitating uh pain

as a result the Lord is uh healing you

even even right now so uh uh there’s

also someone here that has had uh an

ongoing uh a popping I guess in the left

ear just an ongoing issue with the left

ear if that makes sense to you stand up

because this is your moment as well all

right this is your day all right Church

you guys know what to do these folks

need a Miracle you have the authority to

give it to him so stand next to him find

out where it hurts the cause and let’s

go after it right

now you don’t need a long

interview just real

brief the authority of the name Jesus we

declare this

ends

today this ends today the cycle of

torment and pain ends

today shame is connected to some of

these folks that are

standing and in light of the testimony

we just had break off shame the

depression the things that come because

of sustained uh issues in the body we

just break that off in Jesus name

if it’s any kind of head trauma I want

you to lift it off their head as though

it was something you could see is so

something you could grab hold of just

lift it off declare over them

prophetically it ends today in Jesus

name if you can’t reach someone just

extend your hand be a part of the

miracle just be a part of the miracle

just be praying for someone at a

distance thank you Lord we invite you

Holy Spirit to exaggerate the healing

presence and power of God just to

increase for breakthrough now for the

glory of the name

Jesus inside of the left knee pain is

dissolving in Jesus

name cartilage damage in the right knee

Bend right now bend it now watch What

the Lord Has

Done we declare healing over that in

Jesus

name all

right all right

everyone that just receive prayer check

yourself out really really

good really

good anyone who just got healed all the

pain is gone symptoms are gone wave both

hands over your head for about 10

seconds

Church look around you let’s give thanks

to the Lord over here there there there

back over here some more here and there

all

right how many of you couldn’t say the

pain is gone but there’s Improvement put

your hands up wave your hands yep bless

the Lord for

that we thank you Lord we just pray

right now for a completion of what

you’ve started we just declare that in

the mighty might name of Jesus a

completion of what’s been

started thanks Lord amen go ahead and

sit

down I want you to open your Bibles

Isaiah

61 Isaiah chapter

61

I think I could honestly say the three

most important chapters in my life in

the last 40 some years have been Isaiah

6061 and

62 they’ve shaped my thinking my value

system I had an encounter with the Lord

in May of 1979 Thursday afternoon

um over the 60th chapter of Isaiah we’ll

not get into that now it’s not important

I’ve done it before it’s not necessary

today but Isaiah 61 starts with a

portion of scripture that Jesus

quoted at literally the beginning of of

his ministry now think about this before

Jesus has multiplied food healed the

sick raised the dead done anything he

stands in front of Israel in front of a

group of people and he makes a

pronouncement he says the spirit of the

Lord God is upon me and then he tells

why he makes a confession of faith of

what the father was going to do in and

through him because the spirit of God

was on him now the holy spirit is what

qualifies us for the

impossible one person and the Holy

Spirit equals no

impossibilities the holy spirit is what

qualifies us not only qualifies us but

in a sense urges us or commissions us

into the realm of the impossible Jesus

models this for us he is eternally God

never stopped being God but he took a

season of time on planet Earth where he

lived as a man dependent on God to work

through him as a human being and this

announcement we’re going to read Isaiah

61:1 the spirit of the Lord God is upon

me because the Lord has anointed me to

preach good tidings to the poor he has

sent me to heal the brokenhearted to

Proclaim Liberty to captives the opening

of the prison to those who are bound to

proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord

the day of Vengeance of our God to

comfort all who mourn to console those

who mourn in Zion to give them Beauty

for Ashes the oil of joy for mourning

the Garment of Praise for the spirit of

heaviness that they may be called Trees

of Righteousness the planting of the

Lord that he may be glorified all right

we’re going to read on but just hold

hold on for a moment Jesus makes this

announcement about his Target his Target

is to broken people it’s to shattered

Minds it’s to broken people that are

depressed overwhelmed by life people

that are diseased Afflicted you name it

any kind of Brokenness is his Target at

one point in his ministry he was talking

to a crowd in the crowd was a group of

Pharisees and he announced to them that

only the sick need a physician what he

was doing was saying I am here as the

physician but unless you realize your

need for healing I have no value to you

there’s nothing in other words the the

Pharisees were the most diseased people

in the crowd but their unwillingness to

recognize their need disqualified them

for the

miracle

when Jesus came to John the Baptist to

be baptized in water John knew he was

not qualified to baptize the Son of God

he wasn’t qualified to untie his

shoes but somehow realizing he wasn’t

qualified is what qualified

him listen listen to the the the

patterns of thought for the kingdom the

Lamb of God will be seated on the throne

for eternity why because we can never

forget the

cross there’ll never be a moment in a

100 billion years from now where we lose

the gratefulness for the offering of the

Lamb of God and if it is

that that reality exists in eternity

then how much more are we to maintain

that sense of gratefulness for what he

has done because what happens is we

develop an artificial

maturity and that artificial maturity

becomes big in Concepts big in thoughts

low in experience and low in

gratefulness and when there’s no

gratefulness there’s no

dependency and so the Lord is raising up

a group of people that never lose touch

with the reality of the

Cross what happens in this passage Jesus

prophesies his intent and in this intent

he says the broken are going to be

healed the shattered minds are going to

be restored I love the statement Beauty

for Ashes God is the god who invented

Beauty and not only did he invent

Beauty Holiness is

beautiful and as the Lord restores our

understanding on what Holiness is we

will be infat uated with the beauty of

Holiness and pursue it with every breath

every part of our

being in this little outline of ministry

that he gives he says I’m going to give

Beauty for Ashes recovery of sight to

the blind I’m going to uh the

Brokenhearted I’m going to heal I’m

going to me what he comes to this

conclusion he says all these broken

people are going to become

Trees of Righteousness in other words

the instable the unstable are going to

be stable the insecure are going to be

secure the shattered are going to be

restored some translations actually say

not just Trees of Righteousness but Oaks

of

righteousness uh in

Weaverville uh we our only our only

source of heat was wood heat and we

would often Drive the roads of the

mountains up there and what they would

do is they would go in and they would

clear Timber out of an area they would

cut these roads into the hillsides and

and if it was 20 30 years ago then uh

trees would grow in the in the roadway

and and whenever we were going looking

for wood or for those animals that have

horns on their

head I of course I was on a photo

Safari that’s not

true I was building

memories I was was allowing these

animals to sustain

Revival by fueling the

revivalists somebody gave me a t-shirt

here two weeks three three weeks ago

they

said if God didn’t want us to hunt he

would have made broccoli or didn’t want

us to hunt animals he would have made

broccoli more fun to shoot at

yeah that seems prophetic to me anyway

so we’re driving on these mountain roads

and whenever we saw a pine tree this

like this big round we literally just

drive over it cuz the pine tree would

just bend we’d get past we’d go get the

wood that we needed or them animals and

then we’d come back out and there was no

damage to the tree it just bent but

whenever we saw an oak tree like that

that’ll hurt your car those things are

so strong and so so St I remember the

first time coming up it it won’t it

didn’t do what the last tree did you

know and here the Lord is saying the

most broken among you are going to be

not trees that are stable but they are

going to be Trees of Righteousness in

other words the very thing they were

weakest in they will become the

strongest

in Grace moves you from

great weakness and failure to great

strength and great sustainable success

for the Long

Haul and that is good news now we’re

going to read on because this is only

the beginning of the story verse four it

says and they will rebuild old

ruins they will raise up the former

desolations they will repair ruined

cities desolations of many generations

who is

they they In this passage are the

broken now how many of you before Jesus

changed your life for one of the broken

ones all right that’s that’s us all

right

this tells us the purpose for every

redeemed life every person in this room

every person that has experienced that

healing touch the Forgiveness of God the

restorative Grace that impartation of

presence and the adoption into the

family of God has a purpose you have

been drafted into an army that is to

rebuild

cities

now rebuild cities we’re not talking you

remember Abraham says was looking for a

city whose Builder and maker was God I I

don’t believe he’s looking for a city

with lots of houses and buildings and

stores he’s looking for something that

is culturized by Heaven itself is

actually influenced and shaped by a

value system of another world that

becomes superimposed over this one until

this city actually mirrors the design of

God for heaven

itself when when Jesus came there was an

announcement I want you to think about

this there was an Ann announcement that

said glory to God in the

highest and on

Earth peace and Good Will towards

men

when can you imagine him

saying here’s the Messiah glory to God

in the highest and on Earth peace Good

Will towards men but don’t get your

hopes up several thousand years

away just just wanted you to know what

we’re going to do

eventually so this this really isn’t

even for you don’t know why I’m telling

you it’s going to be for your

descendants your descendant no it was

given because it became possible when it

was

declared the power is always in the

declared word and he sent his word and

healed them that’s where the power is is

in the in the word of God that’s where

the nature the DNA of God himself is in

the very word he

speaks glory to God in the highest and

on Earth there’s parallel worlds this

world affected by what’s going on in

that world in other words on

Earth as it is in

heaven this is I think a profound

chapter we covered this a while back uh

when we I I did this series here for

nine weeks on wisdom and the the nature

of Solomon’s wisdom for transformational

impact on society all right and talked

about this then but here’s here’s the

deal that I I want to I want to bring to

our attention to this

morning the

key to restored

cities is found in how we value broken

people

the poorest of the

poor are to become the richest in the

things of God to lead the restructuring

and rebuilding of cities the lord gave

me a word years ago that he was going to

take the ones rejected by the elite and

give them such an anointing and

breakthrough that the elite would

actually feed from the rejected to get

personally restored

this word is so profound because Jesus

says this anointing qualifies me to do

this to you and this to you is

restoration of the most broken

impossible situations imaginable but it

doesn’t end there those folks become the

builders I was I was thinking this

morning actually

about sometimes the way uh new Believers

or somebody with a problem or issue as a

new believer sometimes how they’re

valued or how they’re treated in life um

I i’ I’ve seen it in various places to

be honest I don’t I don’t see it here

but I I uh I I chuckle

sometimes the way instant maturity is

expected what would happen if we had a

little 9-month child 9-month-old who

stood up and and he’s standing and he

wants to walk as bad as can

be and he fell

what happens if Church

leadership treated that

child the way many new Believers are

treated well I I don’t I really don’t

think he has a heart to walk I don’t I

don’t know I I don’t think I really

don’t think it’s his desire I don’t

think it’s in him I think there’s some

flaws and uh I don’t know another guy

says I I just I think he needs to study

the word more I think if he if he just

studied the word I mean we can do all

things through Christ who strengthens us

it’s obvious he doesn’t believe that he

just needs to get he doesn’t know his

Bible if he knew his Bible he’d be

walking another guy says I think the

issue is Faith I mean it says we walk by

faith not by sight if if if he really

knew what was going on here he would he

would be walking for sure and someone

else says I don’t know I’m I’m

Discerning a generational issue

here I’ll bet his parents fell in fact

I’ll bet you his grandparents fell I

think there’s I think there’s cycle here

we need to break this thing because I’ll

tell you if we don’t break this thing

this kid is this kid’s got he’s going to

live with a lifetime of issues and

someone else says I I think it’s a demon

in fact yep it’s

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a

it’s it’s definitely a

demon you know it’s it’s silly when you

when you put it in that

context the the kid that that has this

insatiable desire to learn to grow to

advance models childlikeness for the

entire

church and we would never treat a baby

that way a young child that way instead

what does the child need to walk he

needs he needs the parent that grabs the

hands and say all right walk walk and

then we let go and we say all right

follow follow dead come come to Daddy

and we back up the entire time there and

when they fall we we never curse the

fall we always

we celebrate the steps we we celebrate

the the progress we we count the steps

it was five steps today Grandma it’s

five steps today and that’s and that’s

the way it is and and it’s a different

kind of a kingdom because these people

that were so shattered that couldn’t

function socially the ones that have

been so tormented through abusive past

or it doesn’t matter what it is are so

beat up by religion it doesn’t matter if

it’s the goody goody sin or the

dark horrible sin doesn’t matter

everyone needs Jesus and that

restorative process doesn’t always

happen in a day and we need

some moms and dads that will take the

fingers and hands and say all right two

more steps two more steps you you never

write in the

journal he to took three steps and

fell you’re right he took three steps

because the fall is insignificant I’m

not talking moral failure I’m talking

about just the process of Life Learning

to carry this thing that God has given

us why because there’s a destiny that

kid that took two steps today is a

Rebuilder of Ruin

cities and you we we see we think we

pray we live with this Burning

conviction I’m raising a world changer

and it’s not just the children in my

home and my grandchildren it’s the

people that I run into it’s the people

that I do life with World Changers city

builders City

restorers I want you to look at the

passage of scripture in John chapter 4

it’s a wonderful wonderful story at the

the woman at the

well and the greatest Revelation in just

my opinion but the greatest Revelation

in the Bible on the worship is in this

chapter and right after this incredible

Revelation on worship is the what I

consider to be the greatest Revelation

on

evangelism lift up your eyes round about

and

seea the Harvest is white Under Harvest

uh they’re all harvestable now and this

is great Revelation on the Harvest being

prepared right now and it followed the

greatest Revelation on worship and I

just don’t think it’s an accident

because evangelism in its greatest form

purest form is an overflow of worship

and here the Lord has this conversation

with the lady I want to set the stage

for you Jesus has told his disciples to

not minister to the Samaritans it’s not

because he doesn’t love Samaritans it

was because he was given a period of

time in which he was to minister to the

Jews and in their re their rejection he

would be crucified after the crucifixion

the gospel is for everyone so this is

before the crucifixion this is before

the rejection he tells us his disciples

do not minister to the Samaritans to the

Gentiles so Jesus is sitting at a well

and he sees a woman sitting there and he

begins dialoguing with her begins to

talk with her in fact he says you know

if you knew who was who was sitting here

next to you you’d be asking me for a

drink and opens this the disciples walk

up and see him talking they’re they’re

stunned because number one he’s talking

to a woman and a great religious leader

like this shouldn’t be number two he’s

talking to a a

Samaritan he’s got this interaction

going on because he

felt the pleasure of the Lord over this

woman now listen when we try to live by

principle we try to always do what’s

best for people but when you live by the

presence you discover the pleasure of

the Lord for people and you Delight in

their experience or in what God is

working and doing in

them the pleasure of the Lord is

different you feel the pleasure of the

Lord over people and it it takes care of

all all the things that you and I would

be deficient in in Ministry to people

because you never have to

be burdened enough qualified enough

gifted enough because you’re not

partnering with the one who is all those

things and

more living from the presence is the

solution to every Ministry

situation all

right all right now let’s read this

story verse

22 excuse me verse 23 the hour is coming

and now is when true worshippers will

worship the father in spirit and in

truth for the father is seeking such to

worship him God is Spirit those who

worship Him must Worship in spirit and

in truth all right just stop right there

for a

moment God looks for worship

no he looks for worshippers why because

God as love always chooses the best and

we always become like whatever we

worship and so God could want nothing

better for you and me than for us to be

worshippers why because we become like

the one we worship and so out of love he

looks for us to step into our place in

position of

worship all right so those who worship

must worship in spirit and in truth in

spirit number one directed led by the

Holy Spirit In Truth means nothing

hidden it means our life is an open book

in worship good bad ugly everything as

we involve everything as an offering to

the Lord the good days the bad days does

not matter because it’s never determined

by how I feel it’s determined by who he

is worth worship is our response to his

worth all right so here is this word

that he gives to the woman at the well

all right he says um in verse uh excuse

me we’ll jump all the way down to verse

39 many of the Samaritans if I can just

tell you what happened she goes back to

her town and tells everybody what Jesus

said all right verse 39 many of the

Samaritans of that City believed in him

because of the word of the woman who

testified he told me all that I ever did

so when the Samaritans had come to him

they urged him to stay with them and he

stayed there two days and many more

believed because of his own word what’s

happening here these hungry Samaritans

that are not qualified for what Jesus is

speaking Jesus is speaking at a moment

that his Old Testament they are supposed

to wait till the New

Covenant but their hunger change the

season hunger enables people to pull

into their day what was actually

reserved for another day we see this

countless times through the scripture so

here is a season shift and Jesus stays

there two days even though he told his

disciples don’t do

this why because in God’s sovereignty he

wrote you and me into the equation so

that we actually have influence by our

life our offering our cries our hunger

our thirst these things actually have

effect on the unfolding of Divine

Events all right verse 41 again and many

more believed because of his own word

verse 42 our last verse then they said

to the woman now we believe not because

of what you said for we ourselves have

heard him and we know that this is

indeed the Christ the savior of the

world all right what happened

here this woman has

issues she’s had many

husbands she’s living with a man now she

is an immoral woman up to this moment

that God speaks to her and Jesus speaks

to this most unqualified woman given her

the greatest Revelation on worship and

evangelism in the Bible gives it to this

unqualified

person you would think he would would

give this Revelation to

Paul or

someone but instead he gives it to the

least

qualified because that’s often the

person that is going to be the most

grateful we too often think it’s human

Talent training years of experience I’ve

been praying for 20 years those things

that qualifies for the things of God in

intentionally have a spirit of

entitlement that comes to our life as

Believers and entitlement gives the

spirit of poverty at

home entitlement is what

creates a thankless environment for

believers entitlement is what gives

place to

self-promotion self-promotion comes

where there’s entitlement why because

self-promotion says I’m I’m going to

make sure that I get what’s coming to me

no one else will do it I’ll make sure it

comes to me the problem with

self-promotion is it’s like a tire that

you have to keep

inflated and it’s got a leak and you

have to constantly Pump It Up to keep it

alive when it’s God’s promotion he

sustains it when it’s your promotion you

have to sustain it and it’s

exhausting amen amen that was that was a

good point

that’s was a good

point what happened here the least

qualified

person was qualified by

grace and in a moment she went from the

immoral woman with a horrible reputation

to an evangelist that brought an entire

city to faith in

Christ the beginning stages of a builder

a builder a builder of cities a builder

of ruined

places I remember years ago I remember

facing this as a as a a pastor just uh

probably two or three years into it and

I remember being challenged with a

thought that when I ministered to people

that were that were born again this is

going to sound silly maybe but when I

ministered to

Believers that I needed to approach them

believing they were

saved now what does that mean translate

that means if a person is truly born

again they are born again from the

inside out their heart of hearts has

been changed and they have a god birth

desire for the will of God anyone who’s

truly been born again at their core the

center of their being has a desire to

serve and to please God that’s what

being born again means is it changes us

from the inside

out and so at our at our early early in

in Pastor Ministry I began to when I

when I’d have a couple that were having

uh marital problems or whatever issue

was going on I would always speak to

people believing in their

conversion and speaking to their

Devotion to please God with everything

they are when you don’t believe that if

as a leader if I don’t believe that then

what I’m going to do is I’m going to

treat you with control and with judgment

to keep you motivated to serve

God I’m going to use Scare Tactics I’m

going to limit your your Liberties your

freedoms to to uh discover the will of

God and to present him as you are gifted

and called to do I’m going to do all

kinds of things that narrow down your

capacity to function according to what I

think is God’s will for your life and

that control is frequently justified by

people who don’t believe that in the

Heart of Heart somebody wants to do the

will of

God Jesus just treated people

different and we we know that I guess

it’s easy to say but he just did he just

he just took 12 extremely unqualified

guys and sent them out to preach the

gospel I mean he didn’t wait till he was

like through after three and a half

years he didn’t wait till he put him

through his discipleship training class

he just put him to work immediately just

say it’s time to get to work I I

remember one of our young men prophesied

at Barnes & Noble prophesied over a

couple witches and and and they got

saved and um and delivered all in Barnes

& Noble which is a great you know if you

can’t have Revival there we you going to

have

it he he brought Deliverance to him and

it it was just marvelous they got set

free from the torment and all the stuff

and he’s sitting there at the table the

having coffee U ministering to these two

witches and ex- witches now as as of

several

minutes and then he he he’s he’s

surprised he would have surprised all of

us he said all right now you give me a

word

see a lot of Christians are afraid to

get

contaminated because you know how

powerful the devil

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is I have yet to see Darkness swallow

light so he turned to these two and he

said he said all right you know I I

don’t know how he worded it you know

you’ve been saved five minutes he said

now prophesy to me and they looked at

him and they thought well this is all

they know of the Christian Life this is

what you

do they have 5 minutes experiencing the

things of God the life has been changed

they were saved baptized in the Holy

Spirit delivered of the torment on their

life all within few minutes and they’re

sitting at the table and they began to

prophesy to him here’s the deal they

begin to quote scriptures they had never

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read sometimes our inability to enable

people to serve

him is governed

by our misconception of how big he is

on he said the broken will be beautiful

and they’ll restore cities

the mournful will

repa and they’ll restore

cities the tormented will be restored

they’ll rebuild cities every one of them

he had a destiny

everyone and here it comes to someone

out of time unqualified in many levels a

person not ready for a commission they

needed some training

and Jesus brought her a word that set

her free from the inside out she

believed and he brought she brought a

city into faith in

Christ I’m looking for every new

believer in this

room to take baby

steps I told you a couple months ago my

wife I’ve been trying to get her to

drink coffee for 41 years

she has resisted me completely she’s a

Godly woman but she just had this one

problem and about two months ago she

discovered she liked this certain kind

of decaf coffee and I figure baby

steps baby

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steps I want every new believer in the

family to realize you have permission to

step step and sit down step step and sit

down because what we celebrate are the

steps we celebrate why because you’re

marching towards the privileged position

of rebuilding cities and I want everyone

else in a room to be the mom and the dad

that say all right two more steps you

took five today that’s awesome right

Grandma took five steps to be the person

that says come on you you can do more

you can do

more because we’ve we don’t have time to

play games to see who’s

qualified we we we are in in a season a

very measured time and it’s important

that we Empower we stay loyal we value

this tree of righteousness this holy

lifestyle but in that process we just

give people permission let’s just change

the world as long as we’re here all

right I just

understand

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all

right Eric’s going to be ministering

tonight it’s going to be

good always is

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good do you realize what would happen in

this city and now we got churches good

churches all over this town and I I feel

like we’re some of the richest people in

the planet because you almost can’t make

a mistake where you choose to go I mean

there’s just great pastors great leaders

great people with for a heart for God

all over our city all over this

region but if this were the only

church it isn’t if it was do you realize

what would happen in five years if all

you did was reproduce yourself once a

year it’s not about just how many people

attend church in a city that tells me

it’s

built the Rebuilders will rebuil a

different standard they’ve discovered

through God’s restorative process what

it takes to heal the culture of a city

until that culture mirrors the values

and the atmosphere of Heaven

and I believe God’s raising that up and

I believe God’s giving us an

opportunity to cheer on one another as

we involve ourselves in seeing a city

completely completely healed so father

that’s the cry I pray for that I pray

for that in the for the honor of the

name Jesus that there would actually be

peace on Earth and Good Will towards men

it would actually happen like in our

lifetime where you’ve given us place to

set down roots and have long lasting

influence I I pray for that I pray as

well for every new believer every person

never felt they had the chance to take

three steps and sit down never had the

chance to really learn how to do this

walk thing God that you you would bring

healing to those who got stung with

ignorant accusations on what caused them

to sit out God we just we celebrate

progress and I pray for every person in

this room to be engulfed in the

privilege of transformation I pray for

this in Jesus name amen amen