Bill Johnson warns of the battle for your memories. The devil works hard to remind you of the things that didn’t work out and what God didn’t do, but Scripture urges you to “forget not His benefits”. Remembering the testimonies of what God has done is more than just bringing them to mind. Remembering what God has done is supposed to affect your perspective and how you see. If you experience a financial miracle and then face another financial challenge, that miracle is supposed to affect how you face the next challenge and establish your hope in the One who provides. Fight to protect the memories of what God has done for you – let them shape how you think and see, and live with steadfast hope that comes from your confidence in God. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: Psalm 103 Psalm 119: 111 Revelation 12: 11 Psalm 78 Mark 8 Lamentations 3 Psalm 22 John 1 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on March 10, 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
we as a church family Embrace The Beauty
And The Wonder of Divine Healing and the
deliverance and all the other things
still have to fight to return
to he heals all I can’t forget it or
I’ll live out of an inferior
understanding of the the things that
didn’t happen correctly I’ll let those
shape my vision my perspective instead
of drawing from the one who said don’t
forget
[Applause]
thanks good
morning good morning good
morning you guys have your missions card
yet or do you have to get them later you
don’t I just want to make note that
there’s one guy on here with a
bow which means he’s a
hunter we especially want to pray for
that
tribe let’s pray for all
12
I have
uh some things I need to read to
you you know when you buy a bag of salad
gets all brown and Soggy cookies don’t
do
that it’s been six months since I joined
the gym still no progress so I’m going
there in person tomorrow to see what the
problem is
[Applause]
a scammer called my grandma and said he
had all her passwords she got a pen and
paper and said thank God for that what
are
they this re recipe calls for leftover
bacon it might as well require Dragon
loin or unicorn Shanks there isn’t a
such thing left over bacon B bacon all
is always consumed in its
entirety then the last one this isn’t a
joke this should be a
prophecy I’m I’m just wanting somebody
elected official to get this
Revelation how many of you overslept
today because of the hour shift anybody
you you missed
it there is absolutely no reason that
spring forward shouldn’t happen on
Monday at 4
p.m. is that
any anybody else sense the wisdom of
that particular decree right there can
you imagine being at work going it’s
four o00 nope it’s 5 time to go home I I
think someone needs to run with that one
we need to we need to find someone I’m
going to talk to you today about
um I’m going to talk to you about
testimony so it’s that’s a really
familiar subject but I want to take a
little different angle today and and in
part it’s because of um this week we had
a wonderful leaders gather leaders
conference and we sang a number of times
a particular song and it’s a song out of
Psalms 103 says forgetting out all his
benefits and then it goes through a a
series of things that are promised so
we’re going to read that in a few
minutes but while I was singing
it I had this
realization first of all it says forget
not so it’s a command if you can imagine
a tenderhearted gentle but firm father
looking at you eye to eye and saying do
not forget the benefits the benefits are
not it’s not the bonus realm it’s not
the it’s not what you get if you’re
really
extra good it’s the heart and soul of of
what is provided for every believer in
order to reveal the nature of the father
wow so when he talks about healing
healing all our diseases forgiving all
our
iniquities it’s something that is to be
kept so present in mind that it shapes
how we see present
problems all of us have history with God
some of you have walked with the Lord
for a couple weeks others for decades
all of us have different kinds of
history with God we have so many
different Miracles I sometimes walk
through the sanctuary I come here uh
when there’s nobody in the room
sometimes early Sunday morning
and I’ll just walk through and I just I
just remember I remember the day colon
cancer was healed right here from a a
gang member from another city actually a
leader of a gang from another city God
touched him I remember a missionary
being healed of Ms over there I remember
a woman out of a wheelchair that was
paralyzed from a stroke for 53 years she
gets up out of the wheelchair and begin
to walk I I can take you all through the
sanctuary for where I I recall different
things that we’ we’ve seen happen and uh
back over here uh an Olympic athlete
that had severely broken their ankle
actually had had it was only hanging by
the Achilles tendon it was that severe
of of a break they had to sew it back on
and some of our team surrounded him and
began to pray for him and it was
attached everything functioned but there
was great pain restricted movement all
that stuff I think there were metal
parts and everything and I remember they
prayed for him he said he said It felt
it turned cold it turned cool and then
he heard a pop and it was just
completely healed so I can take you
around the sanctuary I I have a good
enough memory to recall these things to
mind the problem is is that the memories
of what God has done is not to be a
reference point that you bring up when
you need it it’s supposed to shape how
we actually see reality come on it’s
supposed to shape how we think and if if
my memory of what God has has done
doesn’t change how I see a present
problem then biblically I have forgotten
that heals all
diseases here’s what happens for many of
us we have these it pretend like we’re
uh life is just this long journey and we
have these almost like Road markers or
property boundaries or something that
stakes in the ground and each of these
are moments where we’ve seen God
intervene in something each of these uh
we hear a testimony of heroin addiction
broken and somebody’s delivered in a
heartbeat and a four stage cancer is
healed and a gang member is born again
and leads his entire family to Christ
and we we have these that we experience
personally and then we have these that
we hear from others they’re all our
possession it doesn’t have to be your
own experience to be what you
own Psalms 119 I think it’s verse 111
says the testimony of the Lord is our
inheritance
forever so I I actually inherit the full
record of all the activities of God
among Humanity it’s all my personal
possession on and according to scripture
uh they overcame by the blood of the
lamb and the word of their testimony so
my testimony has been expanded from my
personal experience to the complete
experience of humanity with God Through
the
Ages should be enough
weapons so each of these things this is
our history these are our moments
they’re supposed to shape our perception
of real that’s supposed to position us
for a great hope for future situations
but the problem is is we also have other
Memories We have memories where the
person didn’t get healed we have
memories where uh this didn’t happen
this how did this happen this tragic car
accident so we’ve got all these These
Memories that are much less than
glamorous and much less than great
testimonies of God’s promise and
Covenant promise and what the enemy does
is he works to parade these before us so
that we begin to discount or disqualify
how God God has revealed himself to us
in the past through his wondrous Works
God’s nature and Covenant are revealed
whenever there’s a
miracle and these the enemy works hard
to dislodge us or much like maybe a a
dislocated shoulder or something
dislodge us we’re still alive but we’re
not as intimately
connected to our purpose and function as
we were designed to be and how does he
do that he does it by bombarding us with
memory
and his version of a story never has God
at the
center his version of a story never has
God at the center never when he parades
a memory of a situation from your past
does God get Glory because when you see
things from God’s perspective you’ll
always see him at the center and you’ll
always give him thanks that he was still
in charge in spite of how this thing
turned out different than what you
thought amen if memories are not
restored to us us in a Divine biblical
perspective then we will always have a
certain amount of things that we just
rather not talk
about or we want to talk about them and
they just completely separate us from an
awareness and a consciousness of God’s
heart and promise for
us the the battle over memories I think
may be one of the strongest battles that
a Believer
faces the battle over memories not only
just what you remember but how you
remember
it so
good my heart this morning is that the
Lord would enable every person in this
all all of us have things that didn’t
turn out the way we
hoped and if we don’t get God’s
perspective on it to see where he was in
the
situation
then we’ll always have things that we
just kind of sweep under the carpet or
we
invite to reshape how we view
God and we can’t afford either of
them Psalm 78 is is that we’re not going
to study I don’t have time today so I’m
going to make reference to it but Psalm
78 is one of the most profound sections
of scripture it’s a pretty long Psalm
it’s one of the most profound sections
of scripture
having to do with our memory of what God
has done and I’ll just make reference
you can write them down make reference
to two sections in this Psalm the first
part I think is about 8 n and 10 of
Psalm 78 and basically says this it says
the sons of Ephraim this is one of the
halft tribes of
Israel the sons of Ephraim were armed
and carrying bows in other words they’re
trained and ready to go to war they are
armed and trained for battle but they
turn back in the day of battle because
they forgot the works of the
Lord you’ve got to see the implication
of this of this statement this entire
Psalm is is
charging it’s charging the people of God
to diligently discipline with discipline
remember what God has said and remember
what God has done you’re where
responsible to remember it’s not a
luxury
item it is actually the heart and soul
that helps to create an awareness of
momentum in our journey with the Lord if
I forget these markings then I don’t
know where I’m
going and this Psalm says this in this
first part verse 89 10 somewhere in
there that without
remembering what God has
done you will be become cowardly when it
comes to facing your personal assignment
and reason for
being and you will lower your
expectation lower your personal
confidence in God’s call on your life
you will lower it to something that
feels much more
comfortable and it all comes from not
remembering remembering is not about us
remembering is entirely about him it’s
re-engaging with the god of the
miraculous re engaging with a God who
knows no
impossibilities and as you go through
this Psalm there’s layer after layer
after layer and you finally get to
somewhere around verse 48 somewhere in
that area
4548 and it says this it says they
tempted the
Lord first of all you don’t want to
tempt
God nobody wants to make themsel an
enemy to try to entice God to do
evil that’s not the position you want to
take
it says they tempted God but you look
through the sequence of thought and it
comes to this conclusion what’ they do
wrong they
forgot they forgot his Works they forgot
his wonders something entered into their
heart because they lost that point of
reference the Lord was kind enough to
set mild markers all along their Journey
with him this relational journey and
somehow they allowed things to come up
to rise up in their thinking rise up in
their hearts that blurred the memories
of what God had done for them and so
they were clueless in moments of
decision and they actually probably
unknowingly carelessly moved into a
position where they are now tempting
God and it all goes back to the fact
they forgot they forgot they just forgot
who he was forgot what he was like I’m
sure they along with everybody in this
room could recite the scripture could
recite the story could remind us well
we’ve seen this happen happen I’ve seen
colon cancer healed right right there
sometimes I think I told you see
different things happen around this room
and I I will sometimes walk around and
just Ponder and recall these
things because I can’t forget them I
can’t forget them because I’ve prayed
for cancer since then that wasn’t
healed and the story of scripture that
that
so so uh confronts me is the story of of
uh Jesus healing the man lay at the pool
of Bethesda it’s actually I I love going
to Israel um but my favorite place in
all of Israel is the pool of Bethesda
there’s no crowds there but very very
few people but I it’s it’s not a great
tourist site but it’s a wonderful place
for me to go because I I’ve met the Lord
there you know I’ve met the Lord there
it’s just a lot of debris some water
people walking around taking a look at
stuff and but I I I love to go there
because of the prophetic history the
significance of that location and
historic friends tell us there could be
as many as 800 900 a th000 people that
would surround this pool all needing a
miracle and the angel of the Lord would
come and stir the waters and the first
person into the water was healed and and
obviously if you don’t have an injury
with your legs you are much more likely
to get into the get into the pool before
the guy who’s been lame for 38 years and
so Jesus walks up to a guy who’s been
there
forever and heals him and it’s
extraordinary miracle
what does the Bible talk to us about
talks to us about the guy that was
healed if that were to happen today if
that same Miracle were to happen
today
pastors
theologians newspaper
reporters TV
interviewers would be interviewing the
900 people left around the pool that
Jesus didn’t
heal and it would be the question how
did it feel to have Jesus walk past you
to heal someone else how long have you
been
here so much of our theology today is
based on what didn’t happen because it
creates an excuse for
unbelief this particular story was not
to reveal what God could
do if it’s to reveal what God would
could do everybody around the pool would
be
healed
you might remember the raising of a dead
army so dead all the flesh was gone off
their bones and was a valley filled with
dry
bones besides the resurrection of Jesus
who was never to die again I think this
is the greatest miracle in the Bible
where God raises an entire Army puts
Flesh on them blood in them breathes
life into them and they are raised up
that’s a dead raising right there that’s
what God can do he can raise
everyone but the story of Jesus at the
pool was not to reveal what God could do
that’s already been revealed it was to
reveal what one man can do who is
rightly related to
God I understand he’s the son of God but
he functioned as the son of
man he functioned with limitation and
the Revelation was very clear when
you’re walking in the spirit with the
father this is what can happen it was
the invitation
so much is built around what didn’t
happen in your experience in mind it’s
it’s it’s not it’s not a willful thing
usually it’s not you know it just is a
part of life I’ve I’ve experienc this
tragedy and this crisis and that problem
and this
problem and it’s just easy to build a
case that actually if you were in court
you could defend your right to unbelief
the problem isn’t the strength of the
weakness of our faith the problem is the
strength of our
unbelief unbelief is actually
partnership with a spirit
realm I want you to open your Bibles to
Psalms 103 and I’ll just see how much uh
how much I can I can cover today Psalms
103 and then I’ll I’ll probably just
make reference to another Passage SC too
we’ll
see Psalms
103 here’s that uh ssal that as somebody
thankfully wrote into a
song but verse one says bless the Lord
oh my soul all that is within me bless
His holy name bless the Lord oh my soul
and forget not all his benefits okay
stop right there this is a
command this command should it be
followed will
ensure a life of Greater breakthrough
than any of us could possibly imagine
and we never once in our life probably
would have attributed to selective
memories to discipline memories to
Sanctified
memories many tragedies that have
happened in our Liv just need a
Sanctified revelation of where God was
and what he’s doing because once you see
God’s hand in a situation we suddenly
give thanks for the things we never
thought we could ever give thanks
for his ability to use broken
things actually enables us to give him
thanks for broken
things amen bill that was actually
better than their response be encouraged
all
right just teasing verse three who
forgives all your iniquities who heals
all your diseases who redeems your life
from destruction crowns you with loving
kindness Tender Mercies satisfies your
mouth with good things so that your
youth is renewed like the
eagles don’t forget the benefits and
here’s a list he heals some of your
diseases
no yeah so what does that mean then he
heals all our diseases that means that
whenever in my thinking I consider the
possibility that this that I’m praying
for will not happen it means I
forgot I know that’s a hard
one
who heals all your disease who
forgives
all our
iniquities who crowns
us he puts his Mark of sunship of
daughter ship of favor on our lives the
mark of royalty of Eternal Eternal
purpose he renews us so that there’s no
such thing as just a
declining accepting things because you
get older things just get worse and
worse but he constantly renews he
constantly restores refreshes constantly
brings us back to renewed strength
that’s actually the normal Christian
life
amen don’t forget because if you forget
you’ll look at your present problem
through a different
lens the story that has marked me the
most in this
regard is out of Mark chapter 8 and um I
I will have you turn there Mark chapter
8 I’ve Tau from this goodness so many
times that I’m almost not quite almost
embarrassed for having you turn to it
again but turn to it anyway Mark chapter
8 what hit me this week I was trying to
explain when they were leading a song is
I realize I’ve got certain things that
I’m facing in my life
that I
have I am looking at as a challenge and
as a
problem but not through the lens of my
history have you ever had miraculous
provision amen after the provision did
you have another Financial
challenge yes were you as nervous the
second time as you were the first time
right the the whole point is is is we
know what that’s like we know we know
what it’s like to pray get a
breakthrough we give thanks so
encouraged and we have another problem
I’m not sure why it is but I almost
always start over
again not thinking that I am worthy of
continuous
Supply not shifting perspective of
actually having a right to some things
simply because he calls me son not
because I have earned
anything and often times the foundation
of prayer and seeking him for
breakthrough often times I have to start
close to the beginning because I didn’t
learn enough from the last
time here’s a story where the disciples
have just had their second experience
with Jesus multiplying food so they
they’ve been theyve just seen at their
own hands as they distribute the food it
it increases in their basket so they’ve
come out of the second time first time
was 5,000 men with women and children
second time 4,000 men with women and
children so thousands of people they
just came out of that experience so
they’re just it’s they’re they’re just
they’re still smelling fresh bread as
they come out of that experience and
they follow Jesus and Jesus says get
into the boat verse 13 and he left them
which is the crowds and getting into the
boat again departed to the other side
the disciples had forgotten to take
bread they did not have more than one
loaf with them in the boat then he
charged them saying take heed Beware of
the leaven of the Pharisees and the
leaven of Herod and they reasoned among
themselves saying it’s because we have
no
bread I you know why I like this story
because I see me in it I see me being
stupid again that’s what I see I see
every time I read this I go oh I’m I’m
right I’m in that verse right right
there over and over and over
again they’re they they’re imagine Jesus
gives us profound Insight Beware of the
leav of the Pharisees that’s the
religious spirit God’s at the center of
everything but he’s impersonal and
Powerless and Beware of the L of Herod
that’s the humanistic Spirit man is at
the center of anything doesn’t mind to
belief in God just don’t bring him into
the
decisions political Spirit religious
spirit
Jesus warns them and they’re together
going did you bring
lunch oh it wasn’t me I thought you were
doing it we had
leftovers they completely missed what
Jesus was addressing and it’s like Jesus
said all right I wasn’t talking about
lunch but let’s pretend I
was why do you reason that you have no
bread look at it verse 13 why excuse me
17 why do you reason because you have no
bread do you not yet perceive nor
understand is your heart still hardened
so that implies that if I don’t see my
heart’s
hard if my experience with God hasn’t
enabled me to see clearly unseen
promises unseen realities then there’s a
resistance in
me I can bring out more jokes I do have
more I I if that would
help do it yes some please
hurry he says why do you reason so
here’s the deal once I’ve experienced
the supernatural supply of God I have
lost the right to start any thought
process with what I don’t
have it doesn’t mean pretending
pretending it doesn’t mean living in
denial is the answer it just means why
start a thought process
with what you don’t have instead of with
what God has already revealed he has the
nature of his Covenant his promise with
us why not start there and then work our
way into a prayer
expression why do you reason because you
have no bread do you not yet perceive or
understand is your heart so hard and
here’s the verse that we’ll end with on
this story having eyes do you not see
having earss do you not
hear and do you not
remember having eyes do you not see I
you know they’re in a boat there’s no
food so he’s asking them to
see realities in the Unseen
World does that make sense to you he’s
not he’s not asking them to visualize
loaves of bread in a boat that has no
bread he’s asking them to be conscious
of a kingdom that has ample supply for
every need
yeah can’t you see there’s no answer
says can you hear now for me I hear
better than I
see but in this moment I’m sure the
disciples are answering nope I don’t see
I don’t hear either and he says can you
remember ouch he got
me because I tend to think of seeing in
hearing as spiritual gifts connected to
maturity remembering is a choice
remembering is a choice is the
deliberate attempt to preserve my
history by giving attention to what God
has said and to what God has done until
it has gained its rightful place in
shaping my perception of
reality can’t you
see can’t you hear don’t you understand
is your heart still
hard and he takes it all the way
back so can’t you
remember it was just yesterday so good
good I don’t know what you sense about
this uh little talk but I I’ve lived
with some actually under a conviction
for the last few days realizing that
that uh I’ve got I got things going on
that I I can I can remember my way into
Faith but it’s not the
default it’s not the first thing that
pops up you know you have the physical
problem the first thing that doesn’t pop
up he heals all diseases yeah what
eventually pops up is he still heals
today but that’s not the way he put
it he said don’t forget yeah and here’s
how it works he heals
all your diseases which is crazy because
most of us would never confess sin to
him thinking he might forgive or he’ll
forgive some of
them we don’t have that kind of an
approach that I don’t know if if it’s a
good day he’ll forgive I’m not sure if
my faith is strong enough I’m not sure
if I have the right people Pray For Me
Maybe I’ll be forgiven no we don’t go
through that we don’t jump those hurdles
when it comes to forgiveness cuz we know
we know we burned with a conviction that
he forgives all of our iniquities but
somehow that same level and measure of
Truth has not yet permeated even though
we as a church family Embrace The Beauty
And The Wonder of Divine Healing and the
deliverance and all the other things
that that we’ve seen the Lord do still
still I have to fight to to return
to he heals
all I have to start there I have to
start there or I have
forgotten wow wow I have to start there
I have to start looking
at at getting older he renews youth wow
my
strength as a young Eagle I have to look
at this situation that seems to be so
troubling and so dishonoring no he
crowns me with the love and kindness I
can’t forget it or I’ll live out of an
inferior understanding I’ll live out of
an inferior Covenant I’ll live out of
out of the the things that didn’t happen
correctly I’ll let those shape my vision
my perspective my hope my faith instead
of drawing from the one who said don’t
forget
wow don’t forget he forgives all
iniquities that means I can never look
at somebody lost
again and think they couldn’t be
saved I don’t care how
horrible I don’t care how many people
they oh I don’t want to go into this
stuff but we’ve got it all around us
we’ve got people that are in such a
mess and the world is wanting them
executed and half the
church and yet he forgives all of our
iniquities he heals all of our diseases
he crowns our life with loving kindness
he renews our strength like the eagles
there is this reality of Heaven that is
so to permeate how I live and how I
think that I actually live from Heaven
towards Earth I actually live
from from the reality of his world
towards this
one so he asked the question why do you
reason because you have no bread don’t
you yet understand your heart’s still
hard having eyes do you not see having
ears do you not hear and do you not
remember do you not
remember I’m going to read this one
promise to you that is one of the most
EXT
extreme prophecies or promises or
scriptures in the entire Bible and I’m
sure you’ll agree with me when I read it
I’m going to give you the reference
after I’m
done all the ends of the Earth all the
ends of the world shall
remember and turn to the
Lord come
on all the end
of the world shall
remember and turn to the
Lord remembering clearly is what keeps
us tender in our
relationship remembering clearly is what
keeps me tender to the one who still
speaks the one who still
moves all the ends of the world shall
remember and turn to the Lord all the
families of the Nations shall worship
before you for the kingdom is the Lord
he rules over the Nations all the
prosperous of the Earth shall eat and
worship most people would put that into
the Millennium because it’s too good for
now because we like to put things
outside the realm of our
responsibility when God gives a promise
he’s trying to hook hearts hearts for
people that will ache for something that
just might be possible in our lifetime
this that brings Nations before him was
triggered by they will
remember you say well not everybody’s
heard the gospel I get that it’s true
it’s one of the things we’re targeting
in missions but let me tell you one
thing that you may not be conscious of
John chapter 1 says Jesus is the light
that enlightens every person that comes
into the world every person has some
glimpse of the reality of a savior
because he enlightened their hearts at
their birth wow could it be that is what
they
remember we must preach we must go we
must we’ covered
that oh Psalms 22 by the
way I’ll end with this verse and then
we’ll
close Lamentations chapter 3
three says this phrase this I recall to
my
mind this I recall to my mind therefore
have I
hope the diligent disciplined focused
effort of intentionally bringing to mind
and then
meditating on that that God has done
did I mention already Miracles uh
testimonies have no shelf
life no I I I was asking sincerely
because I’ve had two other meetings so
all right so so I am I so that wasn’t my
last
verse I’m allowed three endings before
it’s a lie so give me a break
here testimonies The Works of the Lord
actually live there I I don’t know I I
don’t want to get weird on you but
that’s too late for
that
testimonies uh works of the Lord are
actually living entities that
continuously give praise to God I don’t
I don’t understand that but I know
there’s no shelf life to a
miracle there’s there’s a shelf life to
your degree that you worked hard to get
in college the same Joy is not there
although you’re thankful
the new car that you bought there’s a
shelf life to it probably need to get
another one
soon the house all the other
accomplishments that we get in life they
have a shelf life but the Miracles of
the Lord are as alive in this moment as
they were yesterday when they happened
10 years ago when they happened or 2,000
years ago when they happened they they
actually
are I I realize this will raise some a
little bit of skeptic ISM but this will
be my first time to ever do
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that so I just wanted to experiment
see I uh I went to uh Massachusetts to
speak at my brother-in-law’s uh
sister-in-law’s Church in uh perol
Massachusetts so I landed in Boston get
in the car and Daryl my brother and L
are talking and he said hey he says
Rodney I was there like a couple days
early I’m not sure why because that is
rarely what I do but he said Rodney
Howard Brown he said he’s up in Maine
and I said well how far is that it’s
like five hours from where we’re going
to go and I said let’s just go there so
we drove up and got there a little bit
late but he knew the pastor they got us
I think in the second row and we we were
listening to Rodney Howard Brown do but
only rodne Rodney can do you know it was
it was just wonderful and then he got
out to start to pray for us and he
prayed for me and you know I’ve had this
happen a couple times in my life this is
this is probably the first it was like
like he put a 12 gauge shotgun to my gut
pulled the trigger and said God bless
you it was it was it was I mean I went I
went flying back it was a silent
explosion that went off that knocked me
to the ground and in a in a millisecond
Ling on the ground he came and put a
hand on my belly and the moment he
touched me I could see something and I’m
not going to go into what I saw but I
could see I could see a a plan of the
enemy and what he was going to use to
try to get us to fall but I could yall
he failed but I could see it visibly I
could see the actual an actual structure
I actually saw it and then it was it was
there and then it’s
gone and I I I was I was it was like
being branded with something in your
mind I can still see it so uh we we
leave that meeting go back to
Massachusetts do our several days of
meetings then I fly home I went I have a
little uh uh study office in the back of
my office I went back in there after I
got home and I just got on my knees and
was just praying and I was pondering
what I had seen and when I gave time to
ponder what I had seen it was like the
second half of the movie got turned on
and I saw the
ending it’s hard to describe it was like
there was this picture and I went back
and I just began to meditate think about
oh what was what was happening here and
then it was like it turned into live
action and it completed I’m not given to
seeing stuff I I wish I was I I I get
jealous of people see all the time I I
just
don’t I
try all of my sweat has produced nothing
but but weird imaginations you know
so but in this moment it was involuntary
there and then it was gone I went in my
office I was just praying about it not
thinking anything would happen just I
was I was so touched by what God showed
me and I went to prayer and it was like
it was like he turned the movie back on
and I got to see the rest of
it meditation is where you fill your
mind not empty it biblical meditation
Eastern religion you empty your mind you
don’t want to empty it because there’s a
lot of Critters that are looking for
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homes
literally literally yes
so you fill your mind and what what do
you do is you saw God heal a time I was
with Randy we’re in Argentina he gave
this word of knowledge about an extra
bone growing across the top of
somebody’s of each foot it was about the
size of my little finger just grew
across the top of the foot this kid
comes forward and sure enough the word
of knowledge was so accurate so ry’s
assistant took one foot I took the other
I put my thumb on it we commanded it to
dissolve and just waited and it just
went like a balloon that deflated W and
I I find myself sitting there
going was there really a bone there was
was was there was there really did I
really see it correctly I did I really
feel it with my thumb like I’m pretty
sure you you you you become baffled and
you meditate not so that you get
understanding so you can teach it you
meditate on it to restore the
awe you meditate on it to restore the
wonder how in the world did something
become
nothing you amaze me and suddenly it
begins to be the lenses through which we
see our present challenges please
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stand
I I’ll tell you I I have a conviction
for you today because I I really want
this to be communicated
well but more than normal I have a
conviction for me come on I have a a
conviction because I’ve been seeing too
many
situations that I can stop and go
okay yeah I’ve seen God heal that before
yes I’ve seen God provide that before
yes I’ve seen God restore
that but it’s not my
default uh it’s not my default it’s not
the first thing that comes to mind the
first thing that comes to mind is oh no
not another
one I don’t think Jesus ever thought
that way and he’s the only example worth
following wow come on
I’m not sure that any oh no another
crowd without food what are we going to
do all right we’ll just believe God
wasn’t that at all he lived awareness
that he he carried a kingdom there was
no limit to the
resource and to live conscious of that
he could ask his disciples in a boat
without
lunch can’t you
see can’t you
see so
father restore our memories restore our
memories restore the capacity to see The
Good the Bad the Ugly all the stuff with
Through Your Eyes through your
perspective so that nothing ever
frightens us again about our past
nothing ever terrifies us or makes us
insecure again but instead we go from
glory to glory really we go from the
place of confidence and increased faith
and and uh assurance that you are The
God Who heals all disease you forgive
all sin you restore our youth you Crown
us with loving kindness you are the one
help us please help us to never again
forget the
benefits they reveal
you I want to ask the question quickly
before we do anything else if there’s
anybody in the room that you don’t have
a personal relationship with Jesus you
don’t know what it is to be forgiven to
be born again as the Bible would
describe
it and you would say Bill I don’t want
to leave the building till I know that I
found peace with God till I know what it
is to be a part of his family if that’s
you I want you just to raise a hand well
I’m just going to make agreement with
you right where you’re standing put a
hand up real quickly saying I don’t want
to leave this building till I know what
it is good catch yeah you don’t want to
fall you got to get right with God don’t
fall
over yeah all right okay put your hand
up if you if you’re surrendering your
life to
Jesus all
right wait when oh wonderful that’s
awesome come on
child I love
that it was it was a child mom holding a
child and the
child saying it’s my turn all right
never disqualify that’s right a child’s
in experience with
God I want to ask the ministry team to
come forward who’s who’s helping me oh
you are come on up ministry team come
forward I want the one bring the child
up if you want to talk to people about
coming to know Christ there’s a banner
here we have a Ministry team I encourage
you if you hold your places for just a
moment it will help us transition a
little better Ministry team come quickly
to the front