Waiting on God – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

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thanks thanks by the way this tuesday

how many of you are

american citizens yes

tuesday vote vote

don’t be stupid vote

don’t be stupid by not voting because

that’s voting

it’s a wrong vote and then don’t be

stupid by voting stupid

in 2014 california’s governor was

elected with 4.4 million votes

31 of california citizens voted that

year

31 and there’s an estimated 15 million

christians in california

silence is a vote and so we want to

uh we want to

be good we wanna smote

vote as you say vote smart but somehow

it came

to smoting that

that would be a very bad tweet

bill to encourage people to smote

all right how many international guests

do we have today put your hands up

welcome to all of you we love you glad

that you’re here

all always thrilled with our guests all

of them from even down the road we’re

just glad you showed up

we had such a great conference this week

i’m assuming the question was already

asked how many of you were part of the

conference

this week we had a leaders conference

had such a great time but this is in

honor of our international guest

bethel this will be familiar to you

this is for those for those of you who

watch what you eat

here’s the final word on nutrition and

health

it’s a relief to know the truth after

all those conflicting nutritional

studies

number one the japanese eat very little

fat

and suffer fewer heart attacks than the

english

number two the mexicans eat a lot of fat

and suffer fewer heart attacks than the

english

number three the chinese drink very

little red wine

and suffer fewer heart attacks than the

english

number four the italians drink a lot of

red wine

and suffer fewer heart attacks than the

english

number five the germans drink a lot of

beer

eat a lot of sausages and fats and

suffer fewer heart attacks than the

english

conclusion you didn’t drink what you

like

speaking english is apparently what

kills you

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[Laughter]

my humorous stories work better if you

have a third grade sense of humor so

just work on that and you’ll appreciate

it more

i have a brand new book out it just came

out friday of this week

it’s officially not released till

december uh

but it’s one that uh benny and i’ve

wanted to do like forever

um it’s been on our hearts so much but

we i don’t know however it works

we finally get a place to where you

write a book this is on raising children

and the title is called raising giant

killers

raising giant killers and it has to do

with raising

children with their divine destiny in

mind and it’s

there’s a kind of a prophetic role that

that the lord is

mantle it’s god’s put on every parent

for this purpose

and anyway this is uh available

wherever books are stole no over here

stole

yeah wherever they’re stole i want to

give one of the three away to an

international person who came like you

back over here do you have children at

home like you just take it to an

international

help me out chris just take it back and

and where they

are waving their head oh look at that he

that’s fine that’s fine

he’s a friend of mine you can give it to

him absolutely

and then these two go to reading people

and

uh right here we have uh uh

you you you are holding a child right

there you qualify right here

and then let’s go i gotta go wait all

right i need to go

take it into the back wait take it away

in the back theresa there

just somebody who looks pitiful like

they need help apparently

i

there we go okay thanks

thanks teresa i’m trying to learn how to

give away books the way chris does

and uh he’ll have a book on spiritual

warfare and he’ll ask anyone who’s

demon-possessed here this book is for

you

or his book on empowering women

he’ll ask how many of you abuse your

wife or of women

you’re abused by your husbands raise

your hand so i’m trying to learn that

that anointing

actually i’m trying not to that’s that’s

that’s one i’d like to avoid but uh but

it is funny it is funny

all right open your bibles if you would

please second chronicles chapter 20.

it will take me a few minutes to get

there but it would be great if you were

ready to go in this wonderful wonderful

subject that we have for this morning

i i notice that the lord often

at least with me and i think with us

deals with us in themes there’ll be

uh how many of you recognize there are

times where it seems like every book you

come across

has a similar subject every conversation

is a reminder of a particular theme or

particular word

uh sermons or podcasts or whatever

the lord just seems to repeat himself

over and over and over again

uh for us and one of the things that has

been a reoccurring theme for me is the

subject of waiting on god

now i i had a chance to meet with our

our uh our students

here um chris would you do me a favor

take you know just take one of those

three books just take one

and give it to this couple right here on

the front row right here right there

right there yep right there

those those those guys

merry christmas all right um

the reoccurring themes and there’s been

this theme on waiting on god in uh

two weeks i think it’s two weeks ago i

got a chance to talk with our third year

students

and i a part of what i talked about

small part of that was this theme that

i’m going to

talk to you about a little bit today

because waiting on god

is completely different than i thought

it was

i thought it was kind of sitting on a

recliner waiting gut for god to act

you’re just kind of waiting for him to

show up and do something

and i’ve been finding out uh in my

experience as i look back over the

history of my life the times i’ve had

breakthrough the times i

i haven’t there’s been these seasons

where

if i were if i were not forgive me for

the implication here but just follow me

if i were not to read the scripture at

all and i would just to look at my

history

i would come to the conclusion that god

is often

not wanting to do something for me he’s

wanting to do something through me

he’s looking for me to act so that he

joins his activity with mine

as i read the scripture i find it’s

actually a central theme

in the subject of waiting on god and i i

didn’t know that and i don’t know why

but i

i just i i didn’t know it i didn’t know

it experientially

so here’s here are the these two words

that are found in psalms 37 i’m not even

going to take you there you can read it

on your own

but there’s two words there’s one in

verse 9 that talks about waiting on god

and it’s a word that’s very similar to

the biblical word hope

i don’t know that they’re actually

related but the definition is very

similar

and let me give it to you in verse nine

it talks about waiting on god and the

word there

is it’s a word that describes

great anticipation great expectation

it would be um let’s say that you’re in

a room with people and there’s a lot of

conversation going on

and there’s somebody that you really

want to hear from that’s on the other

side of the room and

and you just tried the best you can to

shut down every other voice

and you you may lean you may move seats

you may cup

put your hand cupped over your ear and

lean because

there’s this anticipation that they’re

going to say

something that you want to hear that’s

important for you

waiting on god is that it’s is that

leaning into something

that would normally be thought as just

another mundane activity this

conversation going on in the room but

somehow there’s this refined focus

and what i’m finding is that the words

that i find in the scripture for waiting

on god

actually have as much to do with

refining our focus

as anything the word that i really want

to talk to you about is in verse 7

where it says waiting on god in and some

words in the bible

you know when they’re translated you go

back to the original language and

you know like face uh the word presence

for example

is uh literally is the word face and so

they

they’re very similar and yet they’re

unique but some words are so diverse

that um you wonder how in the world can

they translate this one word

in so many different ways in this word

waiting in verse 7

is one of those words for example the

intellects that are experts in hebrew

language

will look at this word and in a certain

setting they actually translate the word

to whirl in the dance now that’s not

what i think of when i think about

waiting on god

waiting on god is anything in my

thinking

but whirling in the dance and yet that

is actually

a a an interesting translation of this

very

wonderful and beautiful word whirling in

the dance now you won’t be seeing me

world in the dance i i stopped whirling

quite a few years ago in fear that i

would lose body parts so i

i just try to keep everything intact and

my dance is a jump you know i may

i’m eternal to the side on the side

that’s that’s that’s pretty much it

and uh what you just what i just showed

you right there is as much as you’re

ever going to get from me

i believe in the dance and actually my

first time i danced before the lord was

a whirl in the day i didn’t know what to

do i just saw it in the bible

and uh and i was embarrassed i was i was

the only one home and i was embarrassed

um i i literally made sure the curtains

were

drawn and the light it’s nighttime and i

turned the lights out

because i i don’t even want to see me i

i’m i’m embarrassed for me

and uh and i but i saw it in the bible

and i knew it was appropriate thing to

do so i

i uh i i just i jumped in here and i

twisted and turned in the air and i

landed and i did it again and did it

again and

the point was the the whirling i’ve done

and one of the things that i noticed

is that when you are in the air and you

are turning

you have one basic concern and that’s

where you’re going to land

you know you don’t want to land on the

dog you don’t want to land on the shoes

that you forgot to put away you don’t

want to land on the coffee table you

want to land somewhere

safe and so there’s this there’s this uh

focus that you have in the world of the

dance that

i believe is implied in this word to

wait on god

if there ever could be another end of

the spectrum that was extreme and

diverse it would be another

way this word is translated it’s

actually translated

to give birth

waiting on god to give birth

strange i was uh

privileged and blessed to be in the room

when all three of my children were born

and the third one leah when she was born

we had like 20 people in the room

i mean during the delivery you know just

think hippie

take hippies that’s what hippies do it’s

just it takes

it takes a commune to deliver a child

you know

and uh so we there was oh goodness at

least 20 people in the room

my wife’s parents were there and my mom

got there right at the last minute

my sister was there and we had family my

boys are there

and uh so we got we got like 20 people

in the room

and this doctor his office was actually

a home

and the delivery room was actually this

large bedroom so if you could imagine

about

maybe a third or half the size this

stage that was the bedroom

and so benny is in a a bed and i’m next

to her

and i i like chris’s story

um you know women giving delivery have

to

need to have a focal point and chris put

a snickers bar up there

and and it was the focal point and then

he ate the focal point

you know that’s that’s not good you

don’t you don’t eat the focal point

you know there’s this intense focus

and it’s a snickers bar and then the

next contraction there’s no snickers bar

there so that’s

that’s that’s uh chris’s story so but i

remember

extending this to benny and their kids

are here and i’m ha i have a

conversation going with somebody

and all of a sudden i feel this death

grip on my left arm literally she

grabbed my wife grabs my

arm with such intensity i’m wondering if

i’m ever going to be able to use it

again

i mean she grabbed that arm why because

she was having a contraction

now writing a book is as close as i’ll

ever get to giving birth

i can only imagine that in giving birth

to a child you don’t care who the

president

is you don’t care about

the next payment uh car payment

you don’t care about the angry neighbor

none of those things matter you got

one thing on your mind i mean if there

were ever

an illustration of intense focus it

would be

giving birth and she grabbed my arm and

i ceased

all conversation i didn’t even end the

conversation i had well

i just was here giving salute to the one

i was not worthy to be married to

i mean every time my my wife would have

a child i’m i’m

in my heart of hearts quietly would

never say out loud but

just thankful it was her and not me i

just uh

she was she was more than a man that i

was so anyway

that that doesn’t work does it anyway

all right you get the point

whirling in the dance you’ve got a land

right

giving birth there’s just this intense

focus

and somehow that word is used to

describe waiting on god

it is not inactivity

it is not involving myself with a

hundred other things hoping that god

will somehow intervene

obviously he’s god he can do whatever he

wants he can intervene any time he wants

but what i’ve noticed

is that he looks for my participation so

that my

feeble efforts are things that he can

breathe upon making them supernaturally

effective

the verse that i use over and over and

over again is that passage out of

proverbs

where it says the horse is prepared for

the day of battle but the victory

belongs to the lord

i’ve got to do everything i know how to

do to feed the horse well to train the

horse

to do everything to make sure that the

stage is set for victory

but when it comes it was only because

god breathed on my efforts

making them super naturally effective

and that i believe

is is a key to this next season that

we’re coming into

is learning how to surrender natural

effort

and focus for him to breathe on to bring

about the breakthroughs that we’ve ached

for and longed for

one of my favorite individuals in church

history is a man by the name of george

mueller

and i love reading about him he’s he ran

an orphanage in uh

in the uk and it was such an

extraordinary man of faith uh

prayer life was just bizarre unusual

and uh he one day he was praying and the

lord just gave him this

either it was a word or vision i forget

which now about building a new

building on his on the grounds and so he

leaves his time of prayer he’s walking

across the playground

and a child comes up to him and gives

him a penny

and says this is for the new building

here’s the deal when you’re waiting on

god

the pen is a million dollars because

you’re not

intimidated by its size or lack of size

it’s the he took the penny he literally

and he lifted it before the lord

and he said thank you for the

confirmation thank you

i prefer i prefer confirmations a

hundred thousand dollars or you know

those kinds

but took the penny and said thank you

for the confirmation here’s the deal

when i’m biblically waiting on god

the size of the confirmation does not

matter

because i’m leaning into expecting him

to do something

and the penny is enough

the pen is enough

two of my favorite characters in the old

testament are elijah and elisha

elisha was the understudy he was just

say hello to jesus for me yes

elisha is the understudy to elijah

and elijah one day just ask eliza what

can i do for you and he says i want

a double portion of what you have and

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elijah said man that’s hard that’s a

rough one

and you have to imagine you can’t give

twice of what you have

you can’t give you know somebody says i

want two hundred dollars you say well i

only have a hundred i can’t give you two

hundred dollars

you can’t get what you don’t have so

here the question is being asked of the

request is being asked of

of elijah about this

this desire for double portion anointing

and he said man that’s a hard one

and he and he finally comes to the

conclusion he says if you

see me when i’m taken if you see me when

i’m taken

then you can have it so here’s this

challenge your our biggest tests

are when we don’t know we’re being

tested

because the lord is looking for heart

response to a given situation there’s

not time to think

there’s not time to pray there’s not

time to do anything there’s a reaction

and either the the reaction is a correct

one or it’s not

it’s not a test for judgment it’s a test

to see

what can he carry what’s the weightiness

of what this man this woman can

carry of the things of god into the

earth and so the lord is constantly

examining and testing us to see what we

can carry

you remember the king that was told by

the prophet strike the ground with the

arrows and so he hit the ground three

times

and the prophet got mad at him said man

if you would have hit the ground five or

six times you would have annihilated the

enemy

but now you’re only going to have three

temporary victories

how many understand the king probably

wanted to take the test over he didn’t

know he’s being tested

and our our greatest tests are when

heart

when the lord is looking to see what’s

in the heart and we don’t know what’s in

there until it comes out

so this was the test for elisha elijah

said if you see me when i’m taken

and so elijah elisha wouldn’t

let elijah out of his sight he literally

wouldn’t let him go to the bathroom by

himself

the guy’s got a guy you know you got

somebody watching you all the time

which is weird

and so this goes on for a while and then

suddenly

there is a chariot a fire if you can

imagine

horses on fire a chariot on fire comes

down

out of heaven and comes in between

elisha and elijah

remember elijah’s elijah’s assignment

is to see elijah when he’s taken

and so he’s got one responsibility what

is

you know you may some of you maybe have

heard the old hymn that talks about

elijah going up in the chariot of fire

he didn’t go up in a chariot of fire

he went up in a whirlwind so here’s a

chariot of fire that comes and it’s

in between elisha and elijah and he’s

got one responsibility

now remember he’s asking for a double

portion double portion

anointing is extremely demanding

and there’s very little wiggle room for

error

why do i say that the farther you go in

god the more casualties you cause by

your failure

it’s it’s that’s life

and so he’s he’s trying to he’s trying

to measure

the the metal if you will the heart of

this man elijah

so here comes this chariot of fire that

comes in between the two

and elisha goes my father speaking to

elijah my father my father the chariots

of

israel in their horsemen what is he

doing he’s acknowledging something

supernatural is happening

but he has this amazing ability to keep

his

eyes on his assignment which was elijah

so here’s the chariots of israel and

horsemen elisha has his eyes on elijah

and then a whirlwind comes and takes

them up

interestingly the whirlwind takes them

up

and after it takes them up a ways the

mantle that represents anointing

was dropped by elijah

fell to the ground and elisha picked it

up

elijah couldn’t give him a double

portion anointing but god could

when god took the mantle for a moment

when he released it again

it had twice of what he needed and so in

this moment he goes to the water he

strikes the river he says where’s the

god of elijah the river parts the point

the point is what elisha illustrates

waiting on god it was not inactivity

it was intensely focused on the mandate

of god

it was intensely focused on the

assignment

this theme is is reoccurs throughout

scripture

this is one i mentioned last week where

jesus said if your eye is single your

body will be full of light

the word single there is two words it’s

the number one and it’s the word voyage

if you’re

if your heart the eyes of your heart are

set on one reason for being alive

you’re on one journey that yes

will actually release the light of god

to shine on every aspect and part of

your life

everything about you will be enlightened

by the presence and the glory of god

focus refine focus here we have a story

it’s a great story

it would be worthy of a much deeper uh

study than we’re going to do

today i’m just going to read a couple

highlight verses so if you’d go

to second chronicles chapter 20 and look

at verse one we’ll read

we’ll skim around a little bit and come

to a conclusion here

it’s verse one says it happened after

this that the people of moab with the

people of

ammon and others with them besides the

ammonites came to battle

against jehoshaphat

then some came and told jehoshaphat

saying a great multitude is coming

against you

from beyond the sea verse 3.

then jehoshaphat feared and set himself

to seek the lord and proclaim a fast

throughout all judah

stopped there for just uh just a moment

my wife and i

recently bought another home and we’re

remodeling it so it’s

it’s it’s gutted but we’re just having

so much fun just in the

in the in the process of of building

something that’s been in our heart but

dream

and we’ve got this really nice deck

sometimes i don’t know if this happens

for you sometimes my favorite room in

the house is the deck outside

and just i just love to be able to sit

outside we love to eat outside

all food tastes better outside usually

unless it’s snowing than

than it does not

but we have this real nice deck and and

and benny bought this umbrella

and it’s it’s one of those 11 foot wide

umbrellas

and it’s it’s got it’s on a stand and

then it

has this arm that lingers on the whole

so it’s this massive device and

and we found that the little puny stand

that came with it

you breathe on it and the whole thing

falls over you know just it wouldn’t do

so we bought this

we bought this this massive stand that

you fill with water

i i actually wanted to fill it with lead

just to you know

so that it would not move until jesus

comes it’s basically where it is

and it’s going to stay there but we

filled it with water and man nothing’s

rough to move i couldn’t move it i

i didn’t have the umbrella where i

wanted it you know what i filled it with

water

so eric came over and together we moved

it actually by himself he could have but

i i wanted to be involved in the journey

so i got my hands down there too and

and moved this this massive base you

know for this umbrella

so the wind could blow and it just you

know wouldn’t wouldn’t fall over

well it’s if you can picture this the

table’s here

but the umbrella is hanging here and

and but you want it over the table when

you have guests we had guests yesterday

so

you go down you unscrew the things that

tighten it lock it at its place

and then you lift this pole up out of

the other pole

and you turn it because it’s got two

metal like bolts or studs sticking out

and you turn it until it falls into

preset grooves and those grooves the

reason i needed eric’s help

was to get the base moved so that when

the umbrella was in those grooves

it would be over the table right where

we wanted it you follow him

amen it’s the end of the meeting go home

so

so um so we lift it up we put it and

it’s

set in a particular place when you were

born again

you were given the nature of christ

that is set on the face of the father

it is set so when we set our face

to seek god we are actually saying yes

to

the divine nature that jesus gave us at

our conversion

we are locking into the one reason i’m

alive it’s

once again it’s the reinforced focus on

the one thing

so johashvet is surrounded who knows i

don’t even remember the numbers now

a hundred to one or something crazy his

his armies are so far out nobody’s

scared to death

but he sets himself to seek the lord and

i love this so much about the lord

it doesn’t matter if i’m afraid if i’m

anxious if i’m stressful

if i’m angry you know it doesn’t matter

what condition i’m in

um just pray prayer is always a good

thing

and and what i found is that when you

when you

pray if i encounter the lord

and i lift up my voice and i leave the

same way i came before him then i wasn’t

praying i was complaining

but when you come and truly engage with

the lord there’s always

a transformation of heart and mind that

takes place so let’s move on into the

story

jump down to verse 7.

it’s just i love this verse are you not

our god

who drove out the inhabitants of this

land before your people israel

and gave it to the descendants of

abraham your friend forever

here’s the only thing i want to point

out here i would encourage you

to repeat bible history or your own

personal history

in your prayers more often

it may sound like religious routine i

don’t think it is i think it’s

vital that nehemiah did this he stood

before the lord says god he says

i don’t take the governor’s allowance

it’s given to me but i don’t take it

he said and all the workers on this

project he says i feed them out of my

own

salary did god not know that no of

course he knew it

but it was important for for nehemiah

to recount it it’s important

it’s important to step into divine

protocol

where you rehearse in your mind what is

that it is loving god with your mind

it’s using your mind to recall facts

to bring up situations in the past or in

this case

to bring a biblical context and

situation so here

here is uh joshua praying says god

you brought us out of egypt you you were

the one who did all this

and you did it you did this stuff for

your friend

abraham he’s reminding god not because

god forgets

but because we need to be in his economy

of recalling the events of history

because they set

a prophetic prototype of what’s to

happen in our day

it’s important for us to use our minds

i i this is a bit off subject but not i

remember

years ago many years ago in fact i was

thinking this last week of trying this

again

years ago i was in a prayer meeting in

in weaverville

and uh and i i told everybody in the

room i said just pick one characteristic

of god’s nature

like his his liberty or his power or his

beauty or his holiness or his judgment

or whatever you just pick something his

love his goodness

and so everybody pick something i said

now let’s do this let’s just

let’s give god praise i want you to

praise him with the understanding

and i want you to use in praise

everything you can think of about that

subject

everything so now this is a mental

exercise now so god i

uh i thank you that your your goodness

your your goodness is

so much better than i thought you

forgive people who don’t deserve it i

didn’t deserve it yet

that’s just how you are you’re just this

forgiver and so what we do is we just

recall to mind god i remember in

scripture when you were so kind to

to manessa when he deserved your

judgment and yet he turned his heart

towards you and

you forgave him and your goodness and so

we just start

we start recounting these things and

what happened in this room let’s just

say it’s this front row here

at the end of this time we took i don’t

remember now i would guess maybe

15 20 minutes and i asked each person

and each person had the exact same

experience

which which stunned me

every single person exhausted everything

they knew about the subject they could

no longer think of

anything else and then fresh

understanding came

every single person why they were a

steward of what they had it’s like money

they were a steward of what they had

insight about the nature of god

they used it in praise and when they

exhausted what they had

he unlifted the veil and let them see

even a deeper

perception of that aspect of his nature

wow wow

it’s the intentional exercise using the

mind

with which to love god

this is not a small little side point

it’s we’ve been called by uh by god in

scripture

to love god with all of our heart our

soul our mind

our strength we’re to use our

intellectual capacity

to draw things back to the surface that

we can use

in giving an offering yes bill amen very

good point

let’s move on how are we doing yeah

we’ve got

10 minutes

verse 13 i love says old judah with

their little ones their wives their

children stood before the lord some

things just have to be done in family

units

you don’t do it you know well i’m bored

well who cares if you’re bored i didn’t

ask if you’re

bored or you’re excited this is what

we’re gonna do

i don’t live for your excitement i live

for your destiny

stop letting the tail wag the dog

i happen to have a book out there a

raise of

raising giant killers

that was an unintentional promotion of a

book

but i just felt the anointing on it i

don’t know what to say all right let’s

let’s move on i’m sorry

i actually i’m not sorry but let’s move

on verse 14

then the spirit of the lord came upon

jehaziel the son of zechariah the son of

bania

the son of son of son of verse 15

listen all you of judah and your

inhabitants of jerusalem

and you king jehoshaphat thus says the

lord to you

do not be afraid nor be dismayed because

of this great multitude

the battle is not yours it’s god say

that with me

the battle is not yours it’s god let’s

personalize it

the battle is not mine it’s god say it

again

the battle is not mine it’s god’s

do you know that that’s true even if

you’ve been called to fight in the

battle

that does not give permission for

inactivity and that’s the whole point

i got one point today and i’m going to

get to it eventually

is refined focus is

the activity of waiting on god so let’s

uh move on

a couple more verses it says uh tomorrow

verse uh verse 16. tomorrow go down

against them

they will come up by the incentives is

verse 17

you don’t need to fight in this battle

position yourself stand still

see the salvation of the lord who is

with you o judah and jerusalem

to not fear or be dismayed tomorrow go

out against them for the lord is with

you

here’s the thing that you can’t miss it

all came down to this one phrase

stand still tomorrow go

stand still

may seem like the permanent posture of

someone who wants to see god

unfold his will it’s not stand still

adjust your perception on your situation

jesus tried this with his disciples in

john 4.

in john 4 we have what i think is the

greatest revelation in the bible on

worship

and that’s that you worship god in

spirit

and in truth but what he did is he

followed

that word on worship

with the greatest revelation on

evangelism

the fields are all white under harvest

it’s not an accident that those two

things work together in tandem

worship revelation evangelism revelation

because evangelism in its purest form is

an overflow of worship

so here’s this statement on evangelism

and jesus says

lift up your eyes and look on the fields

lift up your eyes look up before you

look down

gain divine perception so that when you

look at the harvest

you see it through the through divine

perception

so there’s this is this cause and effect

thing so he’s got

lift up your eyes look on the fields in

this passage

it’s stand still go

regroup obtain divine focus

because then your activity will be the

activity of anticipation

it won’t be just wrote uh uh

in busyness christian activity it’ll be

it’ll be divine

activity based on what you anticipate

god doing

that’s waiting on god

that’s waiting on god that’s the leap in

the air

making sure i land safely that’s the

giving birth

keeping all my attention on the only

thing that matters that’s waiting on god

and i have said all of this because i i

have felt

i have felt that we’re entering into a

90-day period of time

where we have the the possibility

of seeing some promises fulfilled

this that some of us have carried for

years and years and years and years and

years

i we could say that any day of the week

any day of the year in a year of our

lifetime

it would be true but there it

is also true that there are moments in

god that are not repeatable

where he is breathing on a thought on an

idea

on a activity i’ve had

two prophets minister to me

of late and they both used they both

described the same thing but they used

two completely different analogies

one of them said i see the heavens

containing these

blessings these these breakthrough areas

he said but the heavens are

frozen and then he described the thaw

another prophet said i see these

semi-trucks

with loaded with the breakthroughs the

resource of heaven

and they’re as far as the eye can see

but they’re in a traffic jam so

in both prophets identified this

something has

has obstructed the flow of what god’s

intended

now i don’t get demon focus but what i

do is i want to become

extremely focused on divine purpose on

his

on his what he has said for my life i

don’t want to come to the end

and find out that i waited and did

nothing

when he was anticipating me weight with

divine focus

does that make sense to you because that

really is the entire lesson it is

waiting on god

is that expectation it is that refined

focus

that says i am all in and i have no plan

b

when god is number one there is no

number two

there is not another option this is it

and i believe that the lord is

positioning us for for some

extraordinary things

in the next uh i’m just

personally thinking into the first of

february

that we have this we have this season of

breakthrough that i personally just want

to be all in on

and and what happens when you’re all in

the penny prophesies

how many of you have been believing

something for years

how many of you let’s be honest now how

many of you have found it hard to get

encouraged about what you’ve been

believing in for years

when you’re waiting a penny prophesies

when you’re when you’re waiting

biblically waiting anticipating leaning

leaning into just to hear that voice

that person is speaking that

anticipating when i’m leaning

everything has meaning it’s crazy does

that make sense to you

i remember there just there’d be these

seasons these moments where

you know i checked into a hotel and i’d

get room 308 and

the next hotel 308 i’d wake up at 3 00

in the morning go go what are you trying

to

it’s like everything had meaning

everything you know everything

was prophetic and i and i understand you

can abuse it but

the biggest abuse we have is to ignore

it

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god is often talking when we’re

expecting him to do something else

so amen

amen the greatest miracle of all

without question is the actual

conversion

of a person’s soul

i have to wait till the movement stops

please no more moving around the room

please

you don’t want to distract somebody who

needs to get right with god

because you need to get to lunch

the most important thing that could

happen today among the

100 000 things we could do that is

wonderful and glorious the most

important

is the fact that there would be somebody

here

maybe got brought by a friend maybe you

wandered in maybe you’ve been here for

years

but there’s never been that personal

commitment

to receiving and following the lord

jesus christ he is

lord of all there’s not many ways to god

if there were many ways to god then god

was cruel to require jesus to die

he solved the issue over humanity the

curse of

humanity and that was the curse of sin

he dealt with the issue

and i just want to encourage anybody

that would be in this room and say bill

i don’t want to leave the building until

i know that i have peace with god that i

know what it is to be forgiven

i know what it is to start my life

of following jesus if that’s anybody

here then i want

just just acknowledge by saying bill

that’s me i don’t want to leave the

building until i know

i’m i’m right with god right here’s one

we bless you for that

anybody else put your hand right here’s

another one yep

beautiful anybody else

we also have we also have people

watching week after week after week

online we speak the same word to you on

betheltv

this is just a day a time to come to

jesus

there’s just no time to waste and so is

there anyone else just real quickly i

want to give opportunity for anybody

else who would say

i want to follow jesus i want to give my

life to follow him

anyone else okay i want you to all stand

if you would

and what i’m going to ask is we had at

least two that i

saw that put your hand up to receive

jesus so i’m going to ask this i want

ministry team

i’m going to ask you to come to the

front right now and those two that

raised your hand do me and yourself a

favor by coming to these friends of ours

to my left i want them simply to talk

and pray with you

it’s not about bethel it’s not about any

of those things it’s about a personal

relationship with jesus

and we have these people to help you so

come right over here if you would

just yeah leave your seat come on down

and i want to pray over the rest of you

just real quickly

just to pray concerning this thing of

waiting on the lord why don’t you put

your hands in front of you

are you ready to wait

that’s five five is all i need i’m very

encouraged with five people saying yes

all right

uh father i do pray for a great great

grace that would rest upon

us as a church family especially in

light of these next 90 days the

breakthroughs would happen

that are beyond anything we’ve known to

expect before

and i ask that this breakthrough would

come in

our waiting in our anticipation our

refined focus

let it be in a way that exalts and

glorifies you

everybody said amen amen tom come and

explain what to do here

so good so good if you could just hold

your places for just a second

our ministry team continues to to come

up

how many of you guys are like i’m in on

the next 90 days

i’m sitting here thinking in my mind

about family coming to christ

that i’ve been waiting on for years how

many guys are with me on that one

come on lord we just declare over the

next 90 days

prodigals coming home to the lord in

jesus name

prophetic dreams would awaken them in

the night to your goodness to your kind

pursuit of their hearts in the name of

the lord

amen amen come on 90 days

90 days let’s go after this let’s grab

it just prophetic

act grab it just say yes god i’m in

come on so good

yeah hey every week we have this this

team comes up man they are just ready to

pray for people to believe

with you for god to just move in your

life for just miracles and so

stuff happens up here every week so if

you need healing in your body you need

minister to it all

feel free to come on up and we’re gonna

have pastors at the front of the aisles

here just kind of helping

direct traffic so god bless you guys

have a wonderful day