Healing 101 - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

Wow good morning good morning that album by the way is an instrumental album the Tibetan music just just was another great video the album is amazing I just bought it this week I bought Kanye got his out oh yeah quote closed on Sunday that's me right there it was done something you have to listen to to know what I'm talking about that's good I really enjoyed actually I just saw Kanye's at Lakewood with Joel Olsteen this morning so that's it's wonderful anyway that's a good album they give them to me but I like buying them so I just buy them anyway I've got a story to read I haven't read in years that's a good one it's actually supposed to be a true story kind of like that great quote from Abraham Lincoln like Abraham Lincoln said don't believe everything you read on the Internet all right in Mount Vernon Texas Drummond's Barre began construction on expansion of their building to increase their business in response to the local Baptist Church started the campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground after the bar burnt to the ground by the lightning strike the church smoked spokes church folks Church smokes yeah Church church folks were rather smug in their outlook bragging about the power of prayer that is until the bar owners sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building either through direct or indirect actions or means in reply to the court the church denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise the judge read through the plaintiffs complaint and the defendants reply and that the opening hearing he commented I don't know how I'm going to decide this but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer and an entire church congregation that now does not that's just too funny to not be true all right open your Bibles to the book of Acts Acts chapter 10 in Acts chapter 10 I think it's already been and now excuse me here I am so sorry all right I'm gagging and I'm gonna talk to you about healing was it just which is such a privilege yes I think you've already been told we're on this part of our discipleship series this is week two and we're looking at Acts chapter 10 verse 38 my personal conviction is that acts 10:38 is an apostolic review of Matthew Mark Luke and John putting in one verse the impact how Jesus impacted the world the way he did verse 38 let's take a look at it God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him let's look at it again how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him this particular verse is is so important to me personally that I've actually developed now a routine or a reaction anytime I see 10:38 on the clock if Benny and I are in the car together and I just happen to look down in this 1038 I quote the scripture and then pray God do it again do it again where we are anointed by the Holy Spirit and power healing all who were oppressed of the devil because God is with us and I'm just make that a prayer if I'm sometimes I'm in the middle of a conversation I just paused in my heart and just acknowledge the work that Jesus did that is to be carried on again he actually prophesied over this generation in over every following generation that we do greater works than he did and you can't do greater till you've done the same so we are we are in that journey right now to see the same breakthroughs that Jesus demonstrated so let's go back to the verse let's walk through it God anointed Jesus of Nazareth number one his humanity is emphasized here I get in a little bit of trouble on in this area because sometimes I'll emphasize the humanity of Jesus and people make the assumption that I don't believe he's eternally God the Son of God listen Jesus isn't God let's go home we're wasting our time I'll go fishing I'll just find something else to do there's really I have no desire to belong to a Christian club of some sort we all have better things to do with our life if Jesus wasn't God then there's no purpose in his life except just another inspirational human being he's the eternal son of God the Lamb of God who who alone qualified was qualified to make a payment sufficient to cancel the power and the debt of sin over every one of our lives eternally son of God never stopped being God did I make that clear he eternal is oh I'll try to not spit and yell too much eat eternally son of God however entirely here's the great mystery of the gospel entirely God became entirely man and in this passage Luke the writer emphasizes his human part Jesus of Nazareth anointed by the Holy Spirit and power I'd like to suggest that God didn't need to be anointed any more than he already was it was his humanity that needed the anointing of the Holy Spirit power like to also draw your attention of fact that when it says the Holy Spirit and power power is not an addition to the Holy Spirit it's an emphasis and let me illustrate it this way in Matthew 6:33 there's a verse most of us many of us can quote seek first the kingdom of God what's the next phrase and His righteousness it sounds like seek the kingdom and while you're seeking the kingdom seek His righteousness - that's not what he's doing he's adding emphasis to a part of the kingdom the righteousness of God illustrated in how we do life is to be a primary focus in our pursuit of the kingdom that makes sense let me give you chapter and verse Romans 14 verse 17 says the kingdom of God is not meat or drink it's not in the natural realm but it is righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit the kingdom of God is righteousness so when he says seek first the kingdom and his righteousness do you get the point I'm trying to make he's adding a focused effort on the issue of righteousness it is the same here Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power in other words that expression specifically of the person of the Holy Spirit the Dunamis of heaven himself Jesus was anointed that word anointed means to smear it would be like putting sunscreen on you you wipe it everywhere Jesus was completely smeared with the Holy Spirit and power everything about him glistened with the presence of the Spirit of God why is this important because the way Jesus entered into the miracle realm is an example for us to follow so let me walk you through this thought process if Jesus did his miracles as God were all still impressed but were spectators we stand back say Oh God it'd be awesome if you did it again but when I find out they did he did his miracles as a man yielded to God then suddenly I'm no longer satisfied to stay where I'm at I have to pursue the example that's been given to me the example summons me the example provokes me so Jesus in his humanity did the impossible ha he did it because he was anointed by the Holy Spirit for power what did the Holy Spirit do John 16 reveals to us the Holy Spirit would reveal what the father was doing are you following me here alright well I'll try to calm down in a moment so Jesus says in Matthew excuse me in John 5 and John 8 he says I only do what I see the father do I only say what I hear the father say I only do what I see the father do I don't say what I hear the father say how did he know what the father was doing it was the Spirit of God upon him that made him know what the father was saying and doing alright it says that jesus healed all who were oppressed of the devil everyone that jeez that the father sent him to was healed 100% and everyone who came to him was healed but not everyone who was sick on the planet was healed right in acts 3 we had Peter and John walking to the gate beautiful and they see a lame man who's been there for years the implication is he was there when Jesus walk there but for whatever reason he didn't cry out or the father didn't lead Jesus to him we don't know how we don't know why we just know that he was alive in the same city as Jesus when Jesus was healing people many believers make what I think is a huge mistake in creating theology around what didn't happen jesus never taught on end unanswered prayers because he never had in he didn't teach us how to navigate when people aren't healed because he didn't have that happen you can only impart what you have he was summoning us inviting us compelling us to enter into a stream of life a thought of ministry where we do what he did and that is were all are healed now I may never be good at this I may stink out of my whole life I just don't have the luxury of changing my assignment to what I well most people look at their gifts their skills their talents and they they come to a conclusion what their ministry is by their gifts and talents in other words I'll define my ministry by what I'm good at Jesus defines our ministry ministry by what we can't do in Matthew 10 he says heal the sick raise the dead cast out devils cleanse lepers he didn't say pray for the sick it didn't say pray that they'd be raised from the dead he didn't say that he said raise them now no we're not healers we we pray for people that's how they're healed I get it it's just not what he said he said raise the dead I don't know if you've noticed this yet but the father doesn't seem to have a problem making us uncomfortable my comfort is not high on his priority list he I think he gives me commands that make me uncomfortable so I'll need the comforter is that it's that combination here I'm gonna I'm gonna put you in a way over your head you'll have to learn how to pray now I'm gonna put I'm gonna give you an assignment that if you really believe and understand what this assignment is you'll know it's impossible that way you'll really learn to pray it's the Lord who puts us in these situations that are actually impossible to do how could you heal somebody how could I how can I raise anybody from the dead and yet that is the Express command why because in the command is the automatic implication you can only succeed through intimate tender relationship with God I believe our talents and gifts are to be used by the Lord in ministry but I'd hate for anybody in this room to ever come to a complete definition of what your life is about by what you're good at part of what we're assigned to is what we can't do I may never do it well but I don't have the luxury of changing my job description it says Jesus went about doing good healing all who were oppressed of the devil for God was with him I years ago I did a study where I tried to find every place in the Bible where God said and certainly I will be with you I will be with I will be with it and what I found was every time that's mentioned right before or right after he had given his people or an individual an impossible assignment so in other words the presence of God comes with an impossible assignment so when it says for God was with him this is Jesus who is himself God but again he chose to live with limitations of a human being so that he could be a model for us to follow so now it says he went about doing good healing all who were oppressed of the devil for God was with him that statement would be unnecessary if he didn't live and depend on living out of his humanity with vectors of so Moses given an impossible assignment lead Israel out of Egypt God says I'll be with Gideon given an assignment to win a battle against thousands of soldiers with 300 guys with pictures and torches God says I'll be with and then he assigns a last stage generation to make disciples of nations themselves Matthew 12 20 28 19 the Great Commission and he ends up by saying and I will be with you what God has given us to do is impossible except that he do it through us I want you to look at a passage out of Malachi Malachi chapter 4 I love this verses it's a it's it's a little bit humorous only because of the the language prophetic language is funny you know promises you're going to get fat and stuff like that which some do that better than others verse two Malachi 4 Malachi last book in the Old Testament if you get to the Gospels turn left to get to Isaiah turn right alright verse 2 but to you who fear my name the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings you will go out and grow fat like stall fed calves you will trample the wicked there will be ashes under your soles of your feet on that day that I do this says the Lord here's what here's a decree the Sun of righteousness shall arise he's talking about a sunrise the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings his race healing raise that word wings there can actually have looked it up a number of times can actually be translated hem of a garment so you remember Jesus was healed when the woman touched the edge of his garment so I says the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings here's the point that I the most important point from that verse and I want to make healing is a display of his righteousness way back before the fall of man there was no sin there was no disease who was Joe of Arafah before there was anything to heal he was righteous the expression of healing comes out of his righteousness is absolute beauty and perfection righteousness and holiness has to be restored in our thinking to its rightful place all of Beauty stems out of the concept of holiness and righteousness everything that's beautiful everything that's right so when you see something that is diseased or sick righteousness comes upon and perfects and and restores it I believe that in our lifetime I pray in our lifetime the subject of holiness and righteousness gets restored to its rightful place of absolute affection and adoration the righteousness of God so here we have this concept what sickness is to my body sin is to my soul what sin is to my soul sickness is to my bottom hundreds of years ago there was a division in theological camps in in the church and I'm not going to go in to why I understand a little bit of what happened and why but I don't want to take the time I'll just say this the several hundred years ago there was a division in a serious point of theology in the church it was this the word salvation actually refers to when I'm saved I'm forgiven of sin but also in the nature of the word means I'm delivered from torment and I'm healed of disease it's in the word we use the word Sozo so so ministry that's the word for salvation somewhere back several hundred years ago they made a division a distinction that you can be forgiven of sin but healing and deliverance that's all additional stuff and so it kind of got formed in the thinking of the church that salvation forgiveness of sin is the main thing and then you know forgive me but if there's time let's get to the rest when essentially the word salvation included in its meaning included in its definition was when you're saved you immediately are in the place to be delivered and to be healed of affliction because the salvation is what John G Lake would call a triune salvation spirit soul and body it was never meant to be separated from the gospel of salvation it was always meant to be here welcome you've received Christ now let's get rid of that disease you've received Christ you can't sleep at night let's break off that torment now it was always supposed to be a part of that same package but the church has just dissected it so much that we've actually robbed stolen a life out of this wonderful wonderful subject in Isaiah 53 we have this series of verses that say fact I should just read it to him sorry I didn't read it last two sessions but I'll just this one says surely he has borne our griefs and he's carried our sorrows he was smitten by God and afflicted wounded for our transgressions bruised for our iniquities stop right there let me just tell you what's happening here says he has borne our griefs that word griefs there literally is sicknesses it is just bear my sorrow he bore my disease and it says and he carried my sorrow the word sorrow there's actually the word pain in the crucifixion of Christ is the picture of Jesus making payments for your health for my health my healing he was making payments now if I was the bill gates of this city bring it on Jesus and I came to you today and I said hey I have bought a brand-new Chevy Tahoe brand has every luxury item you can imagine on it push down at the dealership I have actually paid for your next five years of insurance everything's covered just take this car down to the manager I've already arranged it with him just take this to him and you can pick up your car how many of you after you get to the law would apply for a loan no you wouldn't apply for a loan because it's already paid for and the miracle that you and I are in need of has already been paid for as we jump there's so many different spiritual hoops to try to repay for something that's already been bought it's it's religious calisthenics it's it's shadowboxing it's it's dealing with things as though we need to fight to obtain something that's actually already in our account I may not know how to make their withdrawal out of my account but Jesus doesn't need to do anything new as Randy Clarke taught us years ago he said for us to beg for healing is for us to assume we have more mercy than he does see he takes these things personal we pray for the sick because we want him to get what he paid for when Saul persecuted the church jesus said to Saul why are you persecuting me he takes it personal he says you give a cup of cold water to someone in my name it takes it personal he thanks you for giving him a cup of cold water he takes it personal we pray for the sick because we want him to get what he paid for it's a relational journey where we learn how to better and better represent him it has to always be for his glory the moment I start taking the glory the moment I've chosen a level place a place to level off in my own maturity and development because he will not allow me to run with what belongs to him and yet he has summoned every one of us into this lifestyle Benny and I moved to Redding with our kids here in 1976 that 96 used me 76 was it quite that long ago 1970 1996 come on bill 96 huh 23 and a half years ago and well after we were here a while we started feeling that burning in a heart to start a school of ministry it's been my art Libreville finally it became clear it was time I met with Chris we went on a particular trip together where I was speaking he accompanied me and I asked to pray and to think about joining us here in reading and helping us to start the school of ministry he and Kathy of course did that they prayed and the Lord really confirmed when he came here and I think at that time he had like seven businesses and he closed in down he just closed him down to join us but that meant he had a lot of debt when he closed the business is done I knew but was never announced to the church I knew he had a lot of debt that he was working on paying and one day I was at the back door I like to go back there and just meet people talk to people as as you leave and one of the gals in a church here came up to me and she had a piece of paper folded in half and she said is Chris here I said no he's I forget where now I said he's preaching somewhere else this morning but he'll be here tonight and she handed me this what I saw to be a check she said would you give this to Christina I said sure and I and I took the check now because it was not in a sealed envelope [Laughter] you're flowing with me because it wasn't in a sealed envelope I I felt as though it was the will of God for me to know what was on this cheque so I didn't want to open it while she was standing there because that would be rude you know I'm a very sensitive person so I see what out the lobby and around the corner as soon as she did I flipped it open like that no one $30,000 $30,000 and I looked and it was his name I want to make sure that part just in case you know we got something mixed up here it was his name and I thought that's amazing so I put it in my Bible and that evening came for a pre-service prayer back in teach me in the dining room I was in there when Chris came in so I say hey Christopher so he walked over and I said somebody gave this to me this morning to give to you and he looked I said does that say $3,000 I said $30,000 Chris ruined the prayer meeting he walked around that firm meeting waving this cheque showing everybody who had eyes to see that he had just been given $30,000 it was there was no more praying in that meeting there just the anointing for prayer we lift it right at that moment you know he never thanked me for all that money cuz I didn't write the check I just delivered the cheque and when you pray for this sick you're delivering a cheque that somebody else wrote [Applause] faith is is an important part of healing I I grew up in Pentecostal church Assemblies of God very thankful for my upbringing we I grew up with believing in healing as a central part of the gospel nobody ever told me this but somehow I came to the conclusion that if you were a very special person then you could be entrusted with an anointing for praying for the sick seeing them get healed because in my in my upbringing I ran perhaps my mom's dad was baptized in the Holy Spirit 1901 is his wife my grandma was baptized in the spirit in 1903 this is before Azusa Street they sat in to wigglesworth's ministry a Malka was the solos for Aimee Semple McPherson so I grew up hearing these stories my grandfather but tell me he said it called me Billy Billy says not everybody liked Wigglesworth because he was so bold in his faith he said not everybody loves like wheels because we love him now because he's dead Israel loved all their prophets that were dead too as though the ones that were alive were the ones that gave him problems bold faith is offensive to the stationary [Music] but he would talk to me and so I grew up with that my parents took me to see Kathryn Kuhlman a number of times and that was a rich highlight we used to have Mario not used to we still do Mario Marella would come here and preach back in the early 70s 71 72 73 in that era so many great miracles would take place so I had this thing in my mind that you had to be one of those special persons called by God unusual experience unusual touch from God on your life and that qualifies you to be one of those unique ones and I knew I didn't qualify it's a little bit weird now because some people think I'm in that position no let me just say there's a lot of things in ministry that I do very naturally I've been doing it for 40 some years naturally healing is one of them healing is one of those things I have to push into every single time every single time it does not flow naturally it flows as a decision a choice this is essential to support the authenticity of the gospel and so I will choose to pursue it again faith for miracles is a huge thing but the beautiful thing one of the beautiful things and the way Jesus dealt with the subject of faith is he never punished people who were low in faith he didn't punish them by withholding America he would he would address the smallness of faith the smallest measure of faith I can find in the Bible hardly moves the needle on the Richter scale is the guy who comes to Jesus in mark 9 and he says if you're able that's not the boldest confession of faith there God if you could handle this size of a request please help my son so he comes with that that faith that's lacking oxygen it comes to Jesus and Jesus turns a tables he says if you're able to believe and this is the famous statement help me in my unbelief I believe but help me in my great state what does Jesus do he doesn't look at him and say your faith is too small to warrant a miracle what did he do he adjust the smallness of faith so that when the guy experienced a miracle his faith his faith could grow his trust in God's promised nature and commitment to him as a person with accelerate the miracles are supposed to accelerate their faith Jesus didn't withhold a miracle because of small faith he would address the issue but then provide the miracle as a place of access to greater faith I remember I remember so many years ago I was in a meeting I was actually in Nashville with wonderful friends there that had gone too many times and and gal GAO came up to me and and she said she told me her condition and she said I believe it tonight is my night I believe God's going to give me to me now you have to understand I have heard that phrase God is going to heal me tonight more times than you can imagine and I don't mean that in a put-down way I mean I'm glad when I hear that because I know people are active in agreeing with God's Word but in this particular instance when she walked up to me and she said I believe God's going to heal me tonight it stunned me because I could feel the presence of faith this know no exaggeration this is what I did she said I believe God's going to heal me tonight I stepped back I stepped back I could physically feel the atmosphere of faith now it sounds weird now but I step back I just stared at her and I examined her head to toe tone ahead what was they doing honestly I wanted every cell in my body to recognize the presence of faith I stood I wanted everything about what was on this woman to impact me every spirit soul and body I wanted everything about me to be connected to this thing I had never seen that doubt level before ever and I stepped back laid hands on her she was out for maybe went down she's out for maybe 20 minutes when she got up and said what's happening she said there's a it had to do of the heart and her lungs and she said my chest is burning and I said she walked away he said your faith got you that one she had a medical device a pump and it it pumped medication directly into her heart 24/7 every morning at 7 o'clock she would change that bag of medication so she's got this wire this single and right into her heart pumping the medication she comes back the next night so now 24 hours later I said how you doing and she said well this morning at 7 o'clock the Lord told me I didn't need the medication anymore now doctors had told her she could live I think it was four minutes it may have been as many as six minutes without medication so she unplugged it you got four minutes to find out whether you're hearing from God oops I'm here early sorry Ivy it was sobering to hear her talk about so here she is it's now 7:00 in the morning she she undid it so this is 9 o'clock at night she's giving testimony everybody in the room this morning I took the thing off and the Lord come and completely healed her faith yeah for energy faith is a glorious thing a wonderful thing that everybody in this room should be cultivating the scripture says without faith it's impossible to please him it's that vital without faith it also says anything that's not done in faith is sin so faith is central to our behavior our conversation or our speech our thoughts ideas plans all the stuff faith has to be a decision so here we have this issue of faith faith faith doesn't grow as an expression of our will I can't determine to have faith it pictured this way a river next to me it's already flowing I can step into what art exists faith is when I actually participate and how God thinks about an impossibility faith faith grows not through striving but through surrender it's coming to the place of abandonment to him it's coming to the place I mean I may never do this thing well I just don't have the luxury of reducing the assignment to what I do well I've been assigned to this lifestyle whereas there's this continuously flowing river called the will of God Jesus modeled it by healing all who were oppressed of the devil that came to him what we tend to do if you're anything like me if somebody will come to you with the need and you immediately try to think of somebody else in the room that has a greater anointing in that area that they that they can pray for that person instead of realizing the sovereign God arranged for you to meet with that person and pray I saw no miracles then I already talked to you about my vineyard trip I'm sorry I've done this twice today so I'm not delirious but I'm in the neighborhood I as a as a pastor in Weaverville I would pray for the second often I never saw anybody healed I some died so I figure I had the gift of eternity [Laughter] I'd go back to the you know the owner's manual and and get inspired again try it again you know then they wouldn't be healed or whatever so I it actually went something like this I would I would pray for people for maybe three months and then I get so discouraged because nothing happened I'd quit for six months and you know but it never leaves the pages of Scripture these signs shall follow those that believe so I wrestled myself back to a place of faith maybe and read a book but wiglesworth read a book by John G lake or something and stir my faith try it again 1987 I think it's February 4 87 I took several of the guys the leaders in in Weaverville went down to John Wimber the vineyard church in and I'm I'm forever grateful to that movement in that ministry we went to this conference i sat there the only time this has happened in my life every teaching that I was in that week I had already taught before verbatim what was weird as some of the illustrations they use I had used but it was confirming but it wasn't all that encouraging because they had fruit for what they believed I just had to in theology many people stopped short when you become satisfied with knowledge you often stop stopped short of a divine encounter revelation knowledge is supposed to introduce us to the person that completes the experience if that makes sense it's the person of Jesus being the healer that rounds out the experience so that I can care for so anyway I attended all week and realized the one thing I came out with is that to put a demand on what I believe and I came home just both frustrated and challenged that next week the miracles started immediately there's no explanation because they didn't line us separately hands almost like today today we would have impartation times we we believe in very strongly the power of God can be imparted to people to walk in Greater Noida thing there was no corporate prayer over the group there was no time holding hands we just prayed that everybody in this room would walk from this day forth with the unknown aid for miracles none of that happen it was just we were there we listened we observed and went home and it started the next week I have no explanation except I think we underestimate the value of the presence in a corporate setting we caught something we caught it it actually started that we caught something in in that week of meetings like a virus except a good one like being exposed to radiation you know all kinds of things go wrong in your body well the radiation of heaven is good it gives you something to distribute to other people I went home and went into a friend of mine his store and when I walked in the store there's a bunch of people there and I walked in eSAB belly since I'm gonna have to retire the arthritis and my my arms my hands so I can't use the tools anymore so I can't I can't work via I can't reach on the shelf to take the boxes off the shelves he says I'm gonna have to retire it's probably in his 40s doesn't yet know the Lord but I felt us to pray for him but but I didn't have the courage to pray for him in front of this crowd that was there I'm so glad jesus lud loves chickens [Laughter] Nicodemus visited Jesus at night you know Gideon God told him to tear down the altar that your dad built in his backyard and he was too nervous to do it by day because everybody would see him so he did it at night so I mean that number and so I came back three days later nobody's in in the room I was gonna bring up the conversation they came with that you know kind of sweatin but I came with that purpose and he brought it up he says I'm gonna have to retire it brought off all statement again they said why I I feel like God wants to heal you and I said he said okay and so he said now and I have since found people who don't know the Lord are often much more eager to receive prayer I think Christians Christians have to sort out whether or not it's God's will for them to be sick if it's God's will is this the hour for the meal there's all kinds of Hoops to jump through this guy just thinks if there's a God certainly he's capable of healing maybe we should return to an unbelievers faith [Laughter] so I put my hand on his elbow on his hand and spoke to the condition as Jesus mobs in Scripture rebuked the arthritis laid hands on minute two minutes of prayer when I stirred began to move his hands as arms around and and it was it was he was astonished I think I was more astonished but he was this time he said it is it's all gone says I am healed and he is moving his arms his hands everything around like that and he goes on he says bill he says he said you are a healer you are here no don't don't correct an unbeliever for their bad theology we have enough issues so I just let him going because what is he doing let's be honest he's trying to compliment me trying to encourage me he's a friend he's trying to encourage me he's shunned say it's amazing bill you've got a gift on your life and go on and on so I just let him talk and when he was through I said I I'm so thankful for that thank you for for your encouragement that is so amazing what God just did I said but let me explain something to you whenever we come together as a people on Sunday and the church Jesus shows up and he just he sup and down the rows he'll come to this person that needs encouragement and he just he just strengthens them and comes to this person over here who needs it needs clarity for a decision to be made at work tomorrow and he just gives clarity phone into this person over here they've been suffering in the migraine all week and right during worship he just lifts it off and he goes around and he just gives these gifts to people up and down the rows and then he thinks to himself it is so much fun giving gifts I think I'll give this person a gift in healing but it's not for him it's when he prays for this guy over here after the service I'll just make sure I get those two together and this person I'm gonna give an insight to a scripture during worship that this person over here needs to hear so I just make sure that as they're walking to the car today that they run into each other and they have that conversation he loves giving gift so much he wants us to enjoy what it's like and I said all that happened to you and I told him call him by name and said all that happened to you is you were visited by Jesus your this was one of those moments he gave me a gift that was my privilege to give to you I got to deliver a check again that I didn't write even the next time the next the next time I went to see him I had gone to Spain that next week when I got home I wanted to go by and see how he's doing when I walked in the off and the in his in his storefront when I walked into the store II saw me said Bill euro and he stopped and he said I was visited by Jesus why don't you see [Applause] Jesus went about doing good healing all who were oppressed of the devil because God was with him is the Spirit of God with you see as soon as the spirit that raised Jesus from the dead took up residence and everyone in this room that confess Christ as soon as that happened all of heaven positioned itself to see what you and I would concur in his name we've been given the privilege to confront things that are impossible knowing that that is our assignment it's the nature of the Christian life it may be that there are people in this room that don't have that personal relationship with Jesus you don't know what it is to be forgiven to have clean conscience to have a clean slate you don't know what it is to actually be adopted by God who is the ultimate father who brings us into his family in his circle you may never have known what that is like and yet you would say today bill I don't want to leave the building until I know what it is to be forgiven until I know what it is to be a peace with God so I know what it is to have Jesus as my absolute Lord master Savior if there's anyone here that would say that though I don't want to leave the building till I know I'm at peace with God then I want you just to put your hand up right now right back over here is one right over here anybody else whatever here's another lay down here's another everybody else put your hand down here's another another right here yep bless the Lord yep yep yep I see that when there's at least five five or six to put your hands up right here's another one yep yeah yep another one right here yeah it's the most wonderful thing in the world I'm gonna ask those that raise their hands or six or seven of you that I could see and anyone who in addition but say I want that to be me I want you to make your way over here to my left is a trusted friends that we have and I want to have a ministry team come at the same time it'll help them just come on down bless you right over here I want you to come down yeah blessing good if you raise your hand come right over here to my left yeah come out over here these folks with their hands raised are there just to pray for you yeah yeah and I need to make sure that we get everyone who came down maybe um that come right over here to my left there we have some more that are coming my goodness Church give thanks to the Lord for this yeah walk them all the way over yeah yeah yeah here's another one is it more yeah it's more like eight or nine P bus wonderful Jesus this is just harvest time this is harvest time and Jesus is bringing people in and I pray that today they would get the salvation of forgiveness and healing and deliverance because that's what Jesus provided I want to pray for you then I'm gonna let you go father I thank you so much for the privilege of being together like this and the reminders that you give us of what the gospel looks like the gospel of power gospel of transformation spirit soul and body and I asked it out of this gathering you had to raise up an army an army who would contend for the breakthroughs that Jesus alone saw on the earth that we would once again glorify you through our absolute surrender to your purposes we pray this in Jesus name Amen now if you would hold your places please for just just a moment we're gonna invite people to come forward to receive ministry but come on up then I'm gonna get to the bed and such a good word but if if you need a miracle in your body we want to encourage you just to come up front to receive prayer to receive healing specifically I felt like anyone that has migraine headaches in the back their head a problem with the tailbone also achy knees just feels like your knees almost want to give away if you walk too long sore feet also problems with sense of smell any condition it doesn't have to be those but specifically I felt like the lord of highlighting those things if you need healing your body please come up our ministry team would love to pray for you but bless you all thank you so much for coming and hopefully we'll see you next week god bless you guys

Channel: Bill Johnson Teaching (Official)

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Id: U6TDE41wdEc

Length: 49min 48sec (2988 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020