Drawing Near to God - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

[Applause] where are you from canada all right where else where czech republic taiwan sweden england [Applause] wales china china taiwan netherlands germany [Applause] denmark welcome australia come on albe romania romania beautiful israel israel come on all right well we're glad all of you here all of our international guests stand and uh the rest of you i want you to lay hands on them i want you to pray for them and i want you to pray that they get so whacked that they impact their entire nation honestly pray that they would go home with more than they thought possible pray great prayers of faith that god would impart to them he would work out circumstances in their favor there would be a spirit of breakthrough resting upon them they would carry presence and power a whole new dimension if you can't reach somebody at least extend your faith extend your hands and just pray pray that the lord would so honor and bless these that have come so far yeah just declare the word of the lord over them as you pray dude just declare just declare the word of the lord over them as you pray take just a moment longer i know we've got guests from around the world that are watching and we honor and bless you and we pray the same thing for you that it would be as though you were here in the house receiving from from our family as they pray for you thank you lord thank you lord okay i want you to do this i want you to pray for the church they're a part of that there would be a mighty outpouring of the spirit if they're not a part of one that god would lead them to a place that would become home that their local church would truly be a revival center in their city we declare that jesus mighty name thank you lord amen all right you did good give him a hug do something nice and be seated eric's been reading testimonies of late it's been really fascinating to watch as he's been reading testimonies of asperger's autism dyspraxia different brain disorders dysfunctions that have been healed and he reads testimonies and every time he does we'll have people in the room who have a relative or a friend with that condition stand and pray and and then we do give you permission in that moment to use your phone and text that family member or friend and just let them know that we prayed specifically for them and then to let you know within 24 hours or so if there was any change and we have seen so many many dramatic changes absolute miracles um in the area of autism i've only seen one that was instantly healed generally it's over a period of at least a few hours if not even a couple days but absolute complete miraculous turnaround and we celebrate every one of those the stories it's just getting longer and longer every time he does this anyplace in the world there is incredible reports of miracles well two weeks ago yesterday i was at an event called the send which is one of the most how many of you were at that put your hands up high yes come on it was how many of you watched on bethel tv we had like we had i guess over 200 000 people watch on bethel tv which is is extraordinary and um towards the end of the evening i was backstage and one of the gentlemen involved with the circuit writers ministry which is andy byrd and his entire team asked if i pray for one of their staff members who has had lyme's disease 38 years of affliction the last 10 years has been mostly in bed and just horribly horribly afflicted and asked if i would pray for us so a group of us gathered around us we began to pray prayed i don't know maybe 10 minutes or so we just prayed for and we just watched the holy spirit literally just flush it out of her system and in about 10 minutes or whatever she was completely completely healed yeah yeah glory to god for that they uh they even sent a video of her running around her pool and counting it was five days after the miracle and just if you can imagine their adult children are there uh they were able to witness the miracle themselves and if if you can imagine being you know in your late 20s early 30s never having seen your mom ever healthy in her life and all of a sudden all of that changes and now gives you permission as a family to live in a way you've never lived before and so we just been beside yourself with joy for them and after uh i don't remember now it was either last sunday or the sunday before no it had to be last sunday so i wouldn't hear the sunday before i mentioned that lyme's disease was healed and we prayed i don't remember if we prayed for people in the room i think we did and um and a friend of mine from nashville was here rebecca williams and she sent me this text after she got home she writes me she says my friend just texted me this morning she was watching bethel tv last sunday night when you got the word about god healing lyme disease that's what it was i gave the testimony and the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy anytime you hear a testimony there is a covenant from god to duplicate the miracle and it's important for us to adjust our thinking to step in line with what god is doing and so when i got the word about healing lyme's disease she was in the rebecca was in the room she text her friend and said she would stand in for her and who and her two girls both her daughters age 8 and 11 of debilitating lyme's disease she herself has almost died from the disease her girls have been bedridden for days could not move she was watching on tv when rebecca stood up in proxy for them i recorded the prayers of everyone around me for her and her two daughters she said her 11 year old daughter started bawling because she said she felt god saw her when she heard the prayers she started to move her hands and said it hurt less and less every time she moved by the end of the service the pain in both little girls was completely gone yeah the next the next morning uh they were doing jumping jacks with their mother and uh they uh this gal sarah text rebecca that morning and announced that her girls are fully recovered they're going to send us a video clip of of their healing so i read this to you because it's good news but also there's somebody watching online on bethel tv that needs this miracle we're just going to open up the floodgates right now if you have lyme's disease or you have a relative or close friend with that disease stand right now because we're going to pray over you i believe the lord is going to release the power of the testimony literally two young girls eight and 11 were healed simply because the testimony was declared and they stood in line of that decree and so what i'm going to ask you to do is we're going to pray over you but as soon as we're done i want to give you a moment i want you to text them now how many of you have the disease in the room let me see because i want to make sure we okay those who have their hands up i want you you that are around them please notice that these need uh specific attention themselves all right somebody way in the back as well all right and then the rest of these are standing for friends uh family members and we're going to pray i believe we're going to see this spirit of infirmity broken off of people's lives it is an illegal assault on government property it is it is vandalism it is no trespassing and they are trespassing and so we're going to pray how many of you are ready to join your faith with things that are standing that a miracle be released we have seen now just people standing in proxy this is a new on a new level for us in the last i would say year of god releasing that miracle anointing through somebody standing in proxy we're going to do that right now so all of you who are standing if you're sitting by somebody please stand and uh and just maybe get the name of the person and then i want you just to join with him join your faith i want you to rebuke those of you that are praying for those with lyme's disease in the room i want you to pray that the presence of god flushes that out of their system completely entirely flashes out of their system who is standing in proxy for someone and nobody is standing with you wave your hand because i want to make sure we get somebody to you everybody has somebody okay church pray up a storm come on let's go after this thing break it off psalms 107 verse 20 says he sent his word and healed them those of you that are standing in proxy i want you right now declare the word of the lord that heals that person you're standing in for just declare their name gracie is delivered and released from lyme's disease in the name of jesus make that decree roger freed and delivered from that affliction that tormenting spirit we declare an end to lyme's disease in these people's bodies right now in jesus mighty name those of you that are praying for those that have the lyme disease in a room specifically i want you to pray holy spirit come in mighty presence and flush it out of their system really i it's like a flood would just flood it and carry the floodwaters would carry it out it's it's a strange picture but i believe it's it's a god picture thank you lord yep thank you thank you lord all right just give a moment of thanks for the testimonies we are about to hear lord we give you thanks leoni that your word is true your word is true amen go ahead and find your places uh those of you that stood in for someone else uh grab your phone send them a text and uh just let them know that we specifically prayed we've had four people healed in the last 15 days of lyme's disease we had another one yesterday another one yesterday somebody who came in great distance and uh found out we were having our in-house family time together and uh some of our healing team attacked him and after an hour or so all all symptoms everything was gone so thank you lord jesus yeah we thank you we thank you the key for everything that jesus did was that he he did what he saw his father do living aware of a heavenly plan a heavenly presence heavenly voice jesus said when he heard his father say did what he saw his father do the point was is he chose to live as a man surrendered to god even though he's the eternal son of god never stopped being god he didn't live from that that place scripture says he didn't count equality with god a thing to be grasped he didn't he didn't grab hold of what was available for him he chose to live instead as a man surrendered and we see examples through his life that have never been repeated or rarely repeated throughout any time in history where there was such well let's be honest everyone he prayed for was healed that's unique right there everyone he ministered to was always left in a place where they could make a decision that would affect eternity it was that significant he knew how much to say to one person for example somebody would come and say what is truth and they say what is it to you it was a great time to preach his great sermon but he chose not to because he knew when to speak and when not to a person says what is truth jesus says what is it to you he quotes a few commands jesus says do that and you'll be fine what was he doing turning his attention back to what he already knew but wasn't living he didn't need new information he needed to return to what he knew and jesus discerned that by knowing the voice of the father every one of us in this room were are designed by god to recognize the presence of god and the voice of god i consider them two different manifestations of the same thing the voice and the presence i hear people say i don't hear what god is saying but i feel his peace that's what he's saying because his pr he is the word so his presence speaks but he doesn't always speak here he speaks here what we have to learn to do is adjust and accommodate that presence that comes to bring peace because it's in that presence that we find the heart for what we need the courage to do i i've told you before i i get jealous of jesus when i see what he did is his tenderness towards the father the the fact that he could know in a situation a woman comes to him and says uh would you heal my daughter and she's a sorrowfinished woman he was sent by the father to the jew first not the gentile he already instructed his disciples you know our assignments to the jew first there's a long biblical reason for that i'm not going to go into it now it wasn't jesus rejecting the gentile it was timing and the this syrophenician woman is before jesus and she says would you please heal my daughter and he says i can't give the children's bread to dogs i mean churches have split over less than that i mean that was that was you know to refer to you are a dog is not the most kind thing ever spoken but please don't be offended by that because jesus will often put a barrier of offense between you and the miracle you want because the strength needed to overcome the offense is the strength necessary to maintain the miracle the strength needed to overcome the offense is the actual strength that is needed to hold on to the miracle and not lose it in the mercy of god it's not because he hates despises or punishes none of that is true but he knows what's needed and he's willing to take that position and offend my mind as paul kane i think was the one who quoted god will offend your mind to reveal your heart and he's done that to probably most of us i know he's done it to me more times than i care to talk about so he says to the woman i can't give the children's bread to dogs and the woman says but even the dogs eat the crumbs from the table that the children drop and jesus saw faith in her now she can't get faith anywhere but from the father so how does he know what the father is doing he saw faith in her you need to see this because sometimes we're waiting for an external voice an external impression instead of seeing something on the countenance of the person you're talking to i just read a story either this morning or last night i forget which by dr about dr charles price he was an extraordinary man he uh he was actually a pastor down in lodi california and he was a great orator um he was uh he would he he wanted to he he would preach against miracles and all the stuff that was going on he would preach against amy simple mcpherson and uh and he snuck into one of her meetings once because he wanted to get more information to expose her as a fraud and somebody recognized him i don't know if he had one of the big rubber noses and mustaches and glasses but he was trying to hide in the back you know and somebody recognized him came and told her and she stood up she says we are so honored today i understand that dr charles price is in the room now here's here's this guy who preaches against her she just wants to celebrate the guy you know and and he's just embarrassed to tears and somebody spots him they lead him up put him up on the platform he ends up getting whacked by god he's laid out as i understand under the piano forever and he gets up this mighty man of faith perhaps the great if you can find the book it's an old classic called the real faith i think the new one uh they retitled it but that's the original name the real faith it's probably the greatest book about faith you'll you'll ever read and but anyway dr charles price was uh i read this little note about him he was doing a healing crusade and the miracles that would happen were just absolutely extraordinary astounding and if you've ever been in these meetings you you you pour out your life and then you end up praying for a couple hours and there's just there's an exhaustion that if you've not done it you don't comprehend and he's at that point when a woman comes up to him and says i forget who it was a relative or friend was dying in the hospital could he come and pray for her well typically that's not something you can do just to be honest with you just can't do this not a slot in the day because the days are usually filled with everything for this crusader conference or whatever and the this story says he stopped for a moment and he said yes i'll come and when he came he told them she will be healed we're not going just to pray we're going because she will be healed and then he said why so i've come to recognize when i stopped for a moment the spirit of god his presence his power came upon me and i knew that was the witness he's done that before and that was the witness to me i am being sent because she will be healed and she was the point was is you have to know how he manifests to you you have to know william branham had a certain thing that would happen to him oral roberts i forget what hand it was i think it was his right hand demonized people wouldn't come to the right side of his body because if they touch the right hand the demons would manifest why i don't know you just work with him he he's the mysterious one you know you don't you don't try to control him you cooperate and that just happens to be the way that god used him so the point really is that everybody in this room you were designed by god to recognize his voice you are designed by god to recognize his presence everything about you sometimes i can feel physically when he's come upon me but there are other times where i can recognize his presence because of inspired thought i was in a meeting a couple weeks ago where during the worship i was getting so much download i haven't been in that zone if you will of revelation uh knowledge at that level in a long time and it happened during the worship i i had to i was i was stunned i was overwhelmed by his presence but it was because of inspired thought i'm just trying to mention a few of the kinds of ways that he shows up to let us know that he is present that he's about to do something for a number of years i would have um i would have this this like a fire this is feeling strange now i'm starting to feel a little self-conscious so i i have something else i'm gonna i was gonna teach right now i don't know what i'm gonna do except just feel self-conscious and just tell you some of my personal journey so i think that'll have to be good enough for tonight um i would have this thing happen where i would feel this fire it's like a fire rest on my right shoulder and i would i wouldn't tell anybody about it that's not true i told my personal staff i had three or four people that worked for me and and i would be sitting there in a car i'd say put your hand right here and they would and it would just be hot this could be and and uh because this presence in fact is coming there right now this presence would come and just rest there and i thought well this is weird in fact i was in a i was in a banquet once and i'm sitting up at a front table and i kept moving my face into the fire because i was trying to i'm i'm sorry i was just trying to figure this out you know because my right ear is burning my shoulders burning so i put my face into it then i put back after the banquet was over somebody at the table behind me said do you have problems with your neck we're happy to pray for you i started laughing though no i'm sorry this one's rough to explain but then it helped me so much bob jones explained to me what that is he said that's the dove that remains if you remember in jesus baptism it says when that when he begins to manifest in that way it's because he's positioned you with confidence in your authority to do something so what do you do when you hear a veteran talk to you in that way you make a mental note i'm not going to try to imagine it because i don't want to try to make something up but i do want to cooperate if he speaks in a certain way he speaks in riddles often i've had i've had great fun trying to trying to decipher interpret the riddles of god i i have it's been it's been just fascinating to me how he speaks sometimes it's very clear i've had twice he's woken me up with his voice there was a season where i was praying a lot about writing i didn't have the education to write didn't have the training but i had a desire in my heart and i and at that time i didn't have the confidence to even try uh unless he told me it was he was in it and uh i would approach it differently today but at that time that's that was my understanding and i remember praying for an extended period of time i just if god do you want me to write it's in my heart to write and one night middle of the night he spoke and he woke me up with his voice and i'll tell you exactly what he said he said isaiah 30 verse 8. that was it i woke up and i thought that was clear and i waited and nothing else came so when i opened my bible to isaiah 30 verse 8 it says now go and write [Laughter] all right no more excuses no more excuses but he speaks that way and i had written my first book i got buried into conference life and what's going on here thrilled to pieces with what god's doing but just a crazy schedule i got up to where i was traveling 185 days a year and plus pastoring and the school and all the stuff we do and uh and i checked into a i took a team from here to texas you're all right with just rambling right all right because because this is weird so i check into a hotel room in texas i've got maybe 15 20 students with me and i check into the hotel room and the gal behind the counter says oh you've got a room your room is 308 and i thought that's a good caliber of a rifle my most accurate rifle is a 308 for those of you that are into this 90 of you won't even know the language i'm talking but the ten percent of you will about to be blessed that gun will shoot under quarter inch groups at a hundred yards three shots center to center under a quarter inch that is accurate glory to jesus so when when uh when she gave me room 308 i thought yep it's a good caliber of a rifle and i just laughed it off went to my room went to the next city 308 i went this is confirmation i need to go hunting you know and then that morning i woke up at 308 and i went all right uh what's what's up i've had these things happen before and i just simply ask him a question and he speaks but this time he was silent he was silent several days later i'm home i'm in my office and i remember i asked him if i should write and he said isaiah 30 verse 8 and i have just filled my calendar and there is no time to write why does he speak in mystery because then you'll linger longer in his presence why does he speak in mystery because he's wanting you to engage in dialogue what did you mean by this what do you want with me because of this he's wanting the exchange he's wanting the sense of purpose embracing journey we are not robots commanded to fulfill a commission we are people in a relational journey and it requires exchange it requires dialogue some things he's made clear to me other things they just remain mystery but they've lingered we had a situation how many of you have heard the story of the road runner put your hands up how many have never heard the story of the roadrunner uh my story of the roadrunner i'm not talking about the cartoon how many of you have never okay all right all right i'm going to i'm going to this is very strange for me i want you to know just watch me squirm and enjoy it as much as you can i uh back at the beginning of the outpouring here we back where the dining room is here that's where our prayer room was we didn't have this wing over here at all and we'd go in there the dining area we'd pray before services and i remember one sunday night i i would like to get their starts at uh prayer meeting starts at five but i like to get there a little early i got to i think about 20 to five or something and wanted to pray so i was walking through praying and it has glass doors and glass windows kind of a wall of glass windows and a road runner came up to the window with a big old lizard in its mouth and would just dance up against the glass it hit the glass and come back hit the glass and i'm standing like this far away i've never seen a road run in my life now those of you that are from parts of the country that's normal you know i've seen them since since i've been in arizona and phoenix uh some of these places uh down in texas in dallas i saw some but i'm standing this far away he's jumping towards the glass he's got a lizard in his mouth and i'm thinking this is too weird to not be prophetic this is so strange i humped i spend a lot of time outdoors i hunt i fish i'm in this country i've never seen one i've never heard of one seen one and there's a roadrunner in redding and it's not a cartoon and i look at him eventually he goes away and then other people start coming to the prayer meeting so we're walking around praying and and uh i'm walking around and don mayer uh walks in and goes oh the roadrunner's back and i look over and there he is again i said what do you mean back he said he was here last week i went he came to the prayer meeting yeah he was here at the prayer meeting last week you're kidding he he came last sunday now he comes tonight yep came to the prayer meeting all right so i could hardly wait till the next week next prayer meeting same thing he showed up again he didn't come to any of my sermons but he came to prayer meetings and he would come to the permit and he would almost always have a big lizard in his mouth or a big night crawler or something and he would dance at the window trying to get in so i would call all my prophetic friends saying you know i don't want to spread this you know i don't want any people already think we're weird they accused me of all kinds of things talking to the dad who knows what else which i don't do we've got this road runner that's been coming to our prayer meetings and they would give me you know some stories about road runners and stuff but nothing ever clicked and finally i found that roadrunners are one of the only animals that will kill a rattlesnake and i thought all right you're now my best friend because i'm not a real fan of snakes especially the kind that can kill you i we don't get along and uh and so a road runner will actually dance around the snake will strike it'll move out of the way use its peck to hit the back his pecker hit the back of his head and and then kill it and then eat it he'll walk around for days with this long snake out of it out of its mouth until they just slowly digest the snake i thought well it's weird but it works for me so i thought well snake is devil you know roadrunner you know is is good and then i found he's related to the eagle who knew that we started having our interceptions start praying into it and doing research for me so they would quietly send me emails with information because this went on for months and banning came to be one one uh one day he said he said bill last night wednesday night the youth pre-service prayer the roadrunner came so he would come to their prayer he added their prayer meeting to his schedule as well i thought this is so strange i kept asking god what are you trying to say because they had always tried again he's all tried again he could never get in what are you trying to say and i had all kinds of interpretations but none of them satisfied to be honest with you after this went on for a long time we started building the prayer house over here and if you've ever seen out of one of the windows looking east there's a rock that that if you look at it from a certain angle it almost looks like a the beak of an eagle and while they were building the roadrunner would go over there and watch them build the prayer house i'm just reporting i'm not making this stuff up i'm not embellishing he would say he would just stand there and watch them build the prayer house so this went on for quite a while and and he's almost become like a mascot you know and one day one of our janitors came to me crying just really broken and he said bill i said what's up he said i killed the roadrunner i said what and he said this is what happens i was upstairs the roadrunner got in he was in the building and he was up up cleaning the upstairs room up there and uh he said the roadrunner is there and and uh so i turn on worship music go sit in the middle of the floor the roadrunner would come right in front of him and they they would worship together uh i don't know i'm not saying i'm not saying he took his wings and i'm not saying that [Applause] is this story weird it is don't repeat this because you won't be accurate just don't but yeah no he i'm not saying he did that but he would honestly come right in front of the guy and in worship for a while then he'd start feeling bad about not working so he'd get up and vacuum some more and then he would just be curious i wonder if he'd do it again he'd turn the music on sit in the middle of the floor of the roadrunner come sit right in front of them and worship some more strange and he said i needed to clean the rest of the building so i went down the hallway and the roadrunner followed came down the stairs roadrunner came down the stairs came down this hallway out here this wide hallway was walking along and somebody was in a classroom and opened the classroom door behind them it spooked the roadrunner he flew to the end of the hallway into the plate glass window and died that's just that that can't be the will of god that's what i figured so he told me i said where did you put him he says i'll show you he's out back i said well you know let's go raise him from the deck because we this this this can't possibly be the will of god right there's no dead road runners in heaven it was it was a weird experience i know what anointing and presence is and i would have all this confidence as we had walked towards and i actually experimented i would get about eight feet away and it would lift it was on me that would lift i prayed anyway because i don't i don't want to just reduce things to what i discern because i know that i see in part so i put my two fingers on his head spoke life the best i knew how and nothing happened i went to my office i went you've been trying to talk to us for months and i still don't get it what's what's up with this and he spoke to me he said what i am bringing into the house has to have a way of being released from the house or it will die in the house what i am bringing into the house that which god is pouring out upon us has to be taken out of the house to people or it will be inbred and die in the house he talks in strange ways but he had my attention for six months because it was a bird that would show up and it just confused me but he enjoyed the dialogue he doesn't mind confusing you if you'll come to him with questions see the scripture says in psalm proverbs 25 verse 2 it's the glory of god to conceal a matter but it's the glory of kings to search out a matter do you understand that you are according to both peter and the book of revelation you are a royal priesthood you are royalty our royalty is never more clearly seen than when we know we have permission to ask for the mysteries to ask for the secrets to ask for the hidden things he has hidden them for us not from us so everything i was going to talk about just got dumped and i'm just going to invite you to be a hearer of god in new ways he talks uniquely he talks sometimes i see this happen a lot now uh unusual coincidences there are times where i'll call out a disease and i'll see three or four of them sitting right together that tells me they're going to be healed because it's an unusual coincidence learn to recognize the unique things that he speaks through he speaks through riddles unusual coincidences strange experiences a burning bush he turned aside then he heard and got clarity the lord puts these things all through our life it doesn't mean every leaf on the ground has a prophetic message but if you see the same unique thing happening over and over again just ask the question are you trying to talk to me i'll mention one more thing and then we're gonna we'll pray together once we'll end this we've we've been here for three or four days already so some people who think everything is prophetic they make me nervous because they just get weird i mean somebody's holding a broom and it's prophetic you know somebody's somebody drives a chevy and it's prophetic and it's just it just it hurts my brain i don't want to think that much just leave me alone i want to drive to the store without interpreting the road i'm on you know and and so i'm i am about to step into their world that's my disclaimer there are times where the lord just put something in front of me over and over and over again and i tend to be a little bit on the slow side and i just had one of those situations in october of 2003 i have it written in one of my journals this will sound rather simple to you but i for an extended period of time had constantly run into the number 555 it'd be an address it'd be a license plate it would be you know i don't know maybe a room number of a hotel it's just always something it's just for a period of time it was day after day after day and finally i'm at this international healing conference in minneapolis and i go to bed well i always go to bed late in those things and hopefully get a chance to sleep a little longer in the morning and i wake up and i look at the clock and it's 5 5 5. thankfully benny stayed home on that trip so i could be out loud and and not wake her so i woke up i looked at the clock it's 5 5 5 and i said out loud what are you trying to tell me i want the explanation but that's what he wanted from me he wanted dialogue he wants me to draw near he wants me to to enter conversation he wants me to put on my royalty hat and ask for ask for explanation of mysteries the things that were hidden for me because they weren't hidden from me and i said what are you trying to tell me it's a hard experience to explain but it was though i was instantly asleep and he spoke audible i don't know how that works i just know what happened he said the anointing for the day of the cancellation of debt is upon you and then i woke up the anointing for the is as clear as my voice the anointing for the day of the cancellation of death is upon you i know that whenever anyone talks about strange things like this different ways of hearing from god it gives the weirdest people among us permission to get weirder i have to take that risk because it also gives some people that would never stop and ask the question what does this mean i'll take the risk because you may have him speak audible you may have him open an opportunity you may have him give you a faith for something there are times where i know what i'm supposed to do because i'm looking at three options and i look at one of the options and out of nowhere i believe god i have a faith for this faith is a gift from god it's the product of his hand i'm convinced there were times where jesus knew what the father was doing because he he had a faith for something and he looked at the sorrowfinished woman and he saw an unusual dimension of faith that he's never seen even among all the jews and when he sought he knew that was his assignment that's what the father is doing i want to be good enough in my perception that i can see faith in somebody else's eyes i don't mean what they say because we know enough to say the right thing a lady came up to me years ago she said tonight's my night she's hooked up to some kind of a pump pumps directly into her heart i forget now it's been so long but i think it was she could go seven minutes without medication and then she would die it literally kept her alive and she walked up to me and she said i believe that tonight's by night and i i did i've never done this before in my before or since but she's standing right here she said i believe that tonight's my night i could feel faith on her so strong that it was visible i actually did this i was a little embarrassed afterwards i stepped back and i looked at her head to toe and toed ahead the reason is i wanted every cell of my being to never forget what i was now seeing because i was seeing something i had never witnessed before and that was faith on her was tangible and i stood back and i looked and i wanted to take a moment to let literally every part of me to become awake of what was on her because i never wanted to forget it i walked up and prayed for her she went on the ground she was there for 20 minutes or so when she got up i talked to her i said what's happening she said there's a something to do with with her heart and lungs she said there's this heat in my in my chest or in the lungs and as she walked away i said your faith got you that one she came back the next night every morning at seven o'clock she would change the bag of medication it was had electrical pump that would pump into her heart and change the bag and she went to change it and the lord spoke to her and said you don't need that anymore i'm you know you got just a few minutes to find out if you heard from god i'm i mean it's it's either it's either i'm healed or oops i'm here i'm here a little early you know so she came that sunday night and she's there i said howard she said she said i took off the bag of medication i haven't had it all day i'm i'm totally i brought her up had her give testimony everyone it was you learn to see and to feel and to perceive and i don't consider myself a very good seer at all i hear better than i see but i'm learning i'm facing the right direction right i mean i may need the remedial reading kind of vision but i'm good just do whatever you need to do to help me to see but that's the journey we're on and i want to invite you into another level of hearing and seeing because he's invited us to do what the father is doing and to say what the father is saying why don't you stand that was weird but it was it was good that was fun i love hearing the stories of people who hear from god differently like the story i told you about charles price he felt the holy spirit coming across his shoulders i read i took a photo of the story on my my ipad put it in my file because i i want to come back to that because i want to i want to recognize how others perceive him so fire across the shoulders i'm ready thundering voice is easy now go and write there's not much follow-up conversation you're just going right but when he says there's another roadrunner he's got something in his mouth i'm bringing a harvest into the house that you have to be ready to release to impact the city in the nation or whatever you gather will die he spoke once it took six months of exchange to find out what he was saying how many are ready for that let's put your hands out let's pray the bottom line father is we just love your voice we love your will everything about your will is just it is overwhelmingly wonderful overwhelmingly wonderful you've declared of yourself you only do wondrous things it's all you've ever done is wonderous things we're so deeply impacted by the wondrous things and we want to be more connected to what you're saying and what you're doing i ask that you'd open the eyes of our heart to see in ways we've never seen open our ears to hear in ways we've never heard that we would perceive more of your heartbeat in every situation around us help us to be more courageous in hearing from you than we are fearful of being wrong help us to be more courageous in responding to you than we are afraid of being wrong help us to demonstrate your kindness your wonder your beauty your peace your joy your love your spirit of breakthrough to person after person around us i ask for all of this that jesus would be exalted now here's what i want you to do i want you to take just maybe two minutes i want you to pray for yourself for the next 30 day period if you know you're going to a city you're going to be with family you're going to be at work whatever it might be recall it to mine bring it before the lord and just say god i want you to speak to me here i want you to prepare me for this i'll be at work this week i would like to be a fountain of life to people around me i'm going to be with relatives that are difficult to get along with lord i'd like to come to them with compassion i've never had before just put it on your lips pray it out loud you don't have to be loud but pray it'll have the courage to pray out loud and uh and then we will open you up up the front here in our own homes lord in our own homes expand our capacity expand our capacity in fact put your hand on your head again i know we already did it once but god release the dreams teach us with the dreams you know why he gives us strange dreams and so we'll stop and have dialogue he wants us just to draw near with our stuff so lord i pray for that i pray that you would you would you would speak to us in the night in the night in the night so that we can draw near yet again to find your heart and that that you've spoken to us i ask all of this in the name of jesus amen amen amen

Channel: Bill Johnson Teaching (Official)

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Length: 54min 1sec (3241 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 22 2021