How to Turn Your Adversity Into Advantage - Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

the moment that seems in my natural estimation to be the most dangerous cluttered distracting abusive whatever it might be is actually my finest moment because he prepared the table the table of nourishment the table of Fellowship the table of intimacy the table of tenderness he put the table and he makes the devil watch please uh be seated good evening glad you showed up glad you're here how many folks are still here from the uh leaders conference this week actually we we had uh we had so many events this week we had other schools and conferences and stuff going on she I I almost got confused trying to figure out what's going on around here so anyway good to good to see you um who is it that has uh an issue with clogged arteries clogged arteries I believe Jesus is healing is opening up clogged arteries there's also somebody who has irregular heartbeat that the Lord is healing um so when I call your stuff out stand up um is there anyone here that has metal in the right ankle metal in the right yeah if you're able to stand uh stand when believe God especially do you have any pain or restricted movement anything of that nature yeah okay a little bit so we just pray for absolute Liberty for you and uh yeah well just pretend I'm a dyslexic W knowledge guy and get it for the left ankle yeah um there's a missing cartilage and there's torn cartilage in knees um who stand up if that's you missing and or torn cartilage damage in the in the knees who is it that has U some sort of an injury to the collar bone I believe it's on the right side there's some sort of a uh an injury right here on the right who is it put your hand up so I can tell who you are is that is that you over here okay oh here another one all right right I yeah the Lord's healing that these there restoring broken bones there are people here uh quite a few people here who have broken bones uh sometime in the past could be 50 years ago but broken bones and things just did not heal correctly and uh and you'd love for the Lord to restore that if that's you just stand up right now stand up right now um there's also someone here who has uh damage to the Achilles tendon on the right leg obviously if you have the left stand up anyway but there's some sort of a uh an injury there I don't know if it was torn and there was surgery but there are ongoing issues with that Achilles uh tendon on the right leg specifically yeah uh there's nerve damage on uh the right side of the body specifically the right leg this area here but I think it may be I think it may be more than than just leg is is that you yeah there's H there's this issue of nerve damage I can actually feel it feels almost like um it feels almost like it's weak it's a result of some sort of a nerve nerve thing it's it's weak it's um like it would maybe be hot or warm or or numb or it's a it's a weird combination of feelings but I believe Jesus is restoring that tonight tonight yeah amen all right there's uh let's see and you guys have anything else here Brian you got anything going there what y do we have do we have a do we have a a somebody help me take it to Brian here and if you guys have anything uh the lord gave me the number 12 I think it's like a family size and I saw like a whole bunch of girls set 12 is there a family here of 12 with a bunch of girls yeah yeah right that's that is true that is you guys there's a whole tribe back there yeah is there there and there's a bunch of girls yes there's a bunch of girls yeah what do you have for him I you know I was asking the Lord so what am I supposed to say to him and he just um that he hasn't taken his eye off you and um just supposed to speak life and health and vitality over you yep beautiful and then uh just stand up cuz you get you get prayed for people will there we go yeah and and they're missing some too there's four missing so yeah I just feel like the Lord just wanted to highlight you tonight beautiful um good and then um something about like uh organs or uh like premature aging um like you've been organs in the body PR yeah they're like like it's been a diagn is like does that make sense to anyone you're aging I mean we're all aging but like just something prematurely it's not right and just the Lord wants to does that make sense back here that's that's yeah so that stops right now yeah that's completely over all right and actually I really feel like the Lord wants to turn the clock back on your life and uh and the way he's going to do it is you're going to find yourself getting caught up into the the realm of the spirit and you're going to lose track of time beautiful yeah and that's the Lord just turning back the clock and just taking giving back everything that's been taken from you all right good thank you bran there's also somebody uh uh there is a a tear or something in the left Achilles uh is that you it's it's it's a uh yeah it's a tear in the alpilles tendon right now so tonight you get it on either side and it's all free all right here's what I'm going to ask you to do excuse me all of you any of you guys have anything Dave did you have something yep sorry just I got real a last minute or so real warmth in my left hip I believe God's healing uh hip so stand up if if that's you but specifically your left but yeah I can really feel like he's even as I'm speaking I can just feel this this warm this warm presence in my left hip and then it's fingers just like uh I don't it could be any fingers I'm not that specific but the finger I have on my right hand I I saw a ring or something going wrong and injury uh and damage a broken finger uh so just take it for for fingers fingers being restored crooked fingers s to anyone yep beautiful all right go ahead all right yeah I saw like a muscle in the left calf that actually hadn't healed correctly there was something in in the left calf right here great and then um issues with gallbladders I feel like you've gone in and they've sent you home but it's a continuing issue in the gallbladder um and then there there's something I I I don't even know but this I'm going to say left side um I that's what I got left side a chronic um uncurable issue right here in the left side I'm I'm going to leave it kind of openend on that do make sense to anyone stand up okay that's you all right great beautiful now if uh all of you that are standing put a hand up now those of you that are sitting down you just got drafted you are now the team that's going to price so here's what I'm going to ask you to do listen carefully I want you to go to somebody have them pull their hand down so I know they're being covered but don't pray yet wait till I give you instruction okay so go to somebody whose hand is up if you can't reach them at least stand and and uh extend your faith uh toward someone who has their hand up all right okay look around keep your hand up until someone comes to you okay front row we've got a couple still here on the front row yeah yeah yeah okay sh did we miss anyone wave your hand at me if we did oh wow that was amazingly fast good job all right I realize most of you know what to do but just to make sure we're all on the same page number one you've got to find out what the problem is I don't like General shotgun prayers I like rifle prayers I like very targeted specific prayers don't don't shoot anybody it's just an analogy all right um very specific prayers so you got to find out what's wrong SEC sh I'll tell you when secondly those of you that are receiving the prayer don't give them a big story just give them a Target honestly keep it simple when you depress the people who are praying that's not a good deal keep it simple thirdly there are many ways to pray for the sick one of the most common is laying on of hand so I'm going to ask you to put your hand on the problem if it's an appropriate place to place your hand if not put your hand on your shoulder or something and then finally as you pray speak to the condition if there's arthritis if there is uh you know there's missing for example missing cartilage doesn't need a healing it needs to be created so be specific if if there's something that's torn it can be mended if it's missing it needs to be created so when I pray for something that's missing I will pray specifically Lord recreate right now we just declare all things be made new let that cartilage be formed fact I think it just happened in somebody's knee as I was just modeling a prayer so go ahead and turn and uh and minister to these folks find out what's happening and then pray your best prayer the Lord is just wholesale healing those knees right now even though you're receiving prayer just start checking them out right now there's a there's a creative Miracle happening with these knes okay the conversation should be over you should be praying by now holy spirit we ask that you'd come now in power and glorify the name of Jesus Through Miracles through signs through wonders glorify the name of Jesus Through miracles signs wonders there are people being healed of arthritis even though it wasn't called out we just rebuke arthritis now in the name of Jesus the Affliction on the joints and the tissue of the body we declare this ends tonight in Jesus mighty name let cartilage be formed now in the knees Let There Be restoration we declare healing to the gallbladder ongoing Affliction in that gallbladder be healed now in Jesus name kidneys the Lord is healing kidneys even though you're praying for someone else if you've had an issue with kidneys just lay your hand literally on your own kidney just put your hand on it as you're praying for someone else the Lord will honor that simple Act of Faith I know the people uh watching a bethl TV often times get Miracles and I just want to declare to you this is your portion as well those of you who are watching at home or small groups we just declare that healing Grace of Jesus okay about 30 more seconds thank you Lord [Applause] okay go ahead and end your prayer but stay with the person just stay with them okay don't no hit and run stay with them all right SH now just give me your attention stay with the person you prayed for though everyone give me your attention please stop praying there we go you can actually pray past the miracle you can all right everyone that received prayer this next moment I consider to be as important as was the prayer that's where we put faith into an action into an activity I don't want anyone you don't have no one has to prove anything but you need to discover only half the people we see healed feel it happen which means another half just receive prayer and they're clueless that they're actually better until they examine themselves so some of you you could discover through a motion a movement of some sort whatever it would take for you to do right now I want you to try to do that Lord is also healing there are people in the room that have issues with the gut uh you have digestive issues there's something not right in your digestive is system and the Lord is healing that right now and the phrase that goes through my mind is all foods are to be enjoyed all foods so we declare that work all foods are to be enjoyed all right now everyone that just received prayer examine yourself right now do it quickly examine yourself quickly everyone that is at least 80% better wave both hands like this over your head wave both hands like this over your head okay look around the room thank you Lord all right sh okay stand please stand with me don't don't let your face sit down yet if you let your faith sit down we have to quit this and so stand with me if you're able to everyone that just got healed wave your hands at me like this I want to see who you are all right wonderful beautiful now I want you to turn and Pray Again turn and pray again if they're 100% don't pray for them again cuz you might mess them up leave them alone but if if they're 80% 90% Pray Again all right go ahead it's me the last time then we'll find out what happened all right just about 30 more seconds speak to the condition we declare healing Grace now in Jesus name thank you Lord thank you thank you Lord all right you did good go ahead and end your prayer now you know what to do everybody examine yourself again even if it seems silly to you do it anyway just some kind of movement something to see what the Lord Has Done Now who was healed the second time we prayed wave your hands over your head cuz I want to see who you are the second time we prayed right down here there's another one there's another one there another one here another one over here thank you Lord beautiful wonderful all right hug them do something nice bless them good and be seated now it okay so we had five people healed in the Overflow as well that's awesome okay now I want everyone that got healed tonight we say 80% because there there are times where a healing will actually start and it takes 20 minutes 30 minutes we like to acknowledge what God is doing and uh you have to create some kind of a uh a line so we choose 80% uh as kind of a mark of what the Lord is doing so if you're at least 80% better on something it was prayed for I just want you to stand because I I want us to see who you are and if you got healed of more than one thing put a hand up all right thank you Lord beautiful wonderful now how many of you got healed of more than one thing wave wave your hand at me look at this yeah is that great I love this y thank you go and be seated I want to hear from at least three or four people something significant happened in your body every miracle I don't care if you had a headache and it's gone you know we celebrate everything that he does and I and I don't like categorizing but I do ask that tonight you're able you able to test yourself and prove that Jesus did something pretty significant in your body tonight I would like to hear from at least three people right now just put your hand up right over here is one all right yeah um it was my left hip um I had a injury to it a number of years ago I fell off a ladder and the ladder fell on top of me anyway I've been going to the chiropractor every week for probably I think like at least the last year or so and he has to reset it because it's it's turned and um so it's painful off and on varying degree and um I have no pain at all and I can move and twist waist I can just feel freedom where it was restricted before thank you Lord beautiful wonderful wonderful somebody else I need to hear from at least at least three people somebody else right down here just stand up tell us what happens okay I had a I had a ripped my calf muscle right by the bottom of the calf in the Achilles in a basketball accident and um like I had this big knot uh for almost 20 years is gone so aw I can jump again man that's beautiful the not is not yes let's let's have at least one more just give testimony we have one right over here in fact you know what we if uh we could have one or two more come on up here just come on down if you have uh something to share I saw yeah come on down what did Jesus do for you goe and tell us um uh couple years ago I broke my ankle and it never healed right and there's I think there's still metal in it but in the last two or 3 days and including tonight I've gotten all kinds of more range of emot of emotion in it and it's gotten stronger that's beautiful thank you Lord for that wonderful okay go guys go ahead and stand up um how many let me ask the question how many of you you had a a broken bone bone sometime in your in your life it never healed correctly and tonight Jesus healed you put put your hand up I want to see we've got one here who who else way back over here's another one anyone else right over here there's another two more right there this actually used to be the most common Miracle we had and probably still would be if I kept calling it out but uh uh it's just I actually quit counting at um goodness what was the number I think it was like 2600 people had been healed of of injuries of that nature and this is about 10 years ago I quit counting so uh it's just what Jesus is doing so you might as well get in on it all right let's find out what happened he'll hold it for but go ahead and face everybody you called out an Achilles tendon and I had surgery on it years ago but it never healed right and it did and tonight the the pain is gone from that and I can feel I felt a release in my achilles tendon uh also two weeks ago I had a heart attack and uh I came in with I've had a lot of episodes in the last two weeks and came today really by faith uh but I the pain is uh being relieved in my left side right now in my heart that's wonderful and so thank you Lord for that wonderful wonderful Pastor I love you we lived here 5 years ago and we came back after 5 years well it's about time yes come on you need to be here my husband's been bssm a US stand up [Applause] baby over here come on I wanted to crack you up because he said gut problem right yeah I teach at Anderson Elementary I was out of school this week for my first graders I was on the the stool got eight times with gut problem y y and then you just called out healing of the gut and you said you can eat whatever you want right I'm standing outside you guys at the chip Ma I got healed right there at the chip machine so so so thank God I was experiencing pain today yeah on my right side in my gut and I was like oh no I don't receive this and right there at the chip machine I felt that pain just go away [Applause] right it does say you could eat or drink any deadly thing and it will not harm you so that's good what did he do for you um so I am had some pain in my hip which I've had for years and just kind of put up with because you know you just do and um when I was walking in this morning this this evening it was just really B and just painful and um actually during worship I had to sit down I was like you know bummer cuz it come so far and I really want to enjoy this moment and um and then you know you you did this stand up if you've got it and I was like okay well darn that's me um I stood up and um I've never had an experience myself of instant healing cuz you know I just haven't and when when people were praying it was you know I could just feel this sort of great feeling but um the second time they prayed it was like someone was massaging in the inside of my hip and I was like Wow and my and my leg started doing this I was like you guys that's not me that's not me and then um you as I were praying you called out um people with gut problems and I have IBS and before I came here flew out here I supposed to go and see the nutritionist because I'm not I'm not supposed to eat really a small amount of food um and I come from New Zealand we have a lot of dairy I can't eat dairy and so when you said I was like yes that's me and I'm going to eat deiry after this because I believe it I believe so I'm excited thank you wonder wonderful wonderful bless you thank you Lord well the the doctor said I had nerve damage all down my side from a acute appendicitis it it was real nasty but uh so the pain went away when they were praying and they asked if something I was I I could if there's something I could do to prove it you know there's nothing really I can do but then I remember I used to be able to roll my [Laughter] stomach so I I can do it again that works yeah that works what did he do for you so about 10 years ago I had a really bad joint problem that caused my knees my kneecaps to just roam around because the ligaments were too long and it wore down the groove that holds the kneecap in place so when you called out missing cartilage in the knees I actually suddenly started feeling this grinding and popping and tightness happening wow wow and my kneecap Groove grew back on both legs wow on wonderful wonderful let give just a shot of thanks to the Lord we give you thanks give you thanks wonderful wonderful Lord beautiful beautiful you know uh years ago we had uh we had in our school it when it was quite a bit smaller we had maybe I'm guessing 100 100 people in the school or 100 maybe per class and uh one of the older gals in the school was actually in this moment where she saw the spare parts room in heaven body parts I I I have met several people that have seen that room I can't give you chapter and verse I just nod my head while they're talking and uh and she was uh I believe she traveled with Chris toward in the Bay Area and somebody came up and needed a a miracle in their leg and then they made the comment I don't even have a kneecap wow wow and she said oh I'll get one for you she did she said I'll get one for you and she reached up like this brought her hand down and began to pray and within 15 minutes she had a kneecap created isn't that amazing I said she had a kneecap created wow all right let's um I I was going to do something much more extensive but not now it's we've had a a long full wonderful evening so let me let me just kind of ramble for a few minutes and see if we can make sense out of a few things uh I'm going to read a verse for you out of Psalms 23 if you want to open that' be great 23rd psalm what I'm finding is that is that I hardly know anything I don't know why after all these years it hasn't changed seriously I I I keep I keep learning and catching glimpses of the fact that he thinks entirely different than I do entirely different and I'm the one that has to change and that's what the renewing of the mind is is it's it's accommodating to his mind and seeing through his eyes thinking his thoughts cuz he just he just thinks different I met with uh about 40 40 plus uh leaders this week in a private setting before our big conference and I shared a story there that uh came back to mind tonight uh in wanting to talk with you there was a a pilot friend of mine told me of this incident a number of years ago where there was a commercial jet a 747 the big big jet was flying I believe it was over Canada if I remember the story right flying over Canada and all the Ines failed and the pilot was able to recognized The Thermals recognized the air current he was able to ride on those thermals wow and find a place to land and landed safely wowow the airline who who owned that plane ran tests and they had all of their pilots in this uh airline company all of their pilots get in a flight simulator to see if they would be able to land that plane because they found out that this pilot that landed the plane was actually also a trained guider uh glider pilot wow and so he knew how to read thermals and he knew what to do in that situation so they put all of their other pilots in this company through that flight simulator and every one of them in the exact same conditions crashed this guy knew how to ride the thermals right outside here we have a prayer house and I was over uh actually this side of the prayer housee one day and I was I I just uh there was this Hawk over the top of the prayer house it just caught my eye and I just watched this Hawk he didn't he didn't flap his wings at all all he did was go in a circle above the prayer house he got higher and higher and higher until he was almost out of sight and then he just folded his wings and he Dove it's just the coolest thing I wish I would have had a a video you know cuz he just he rode the currents was able to recognize see there's a lot of times we Face adverse winds and we don't realize it's those winds that give us access to going higher we misinterpret the moment when you mis interpret the moment you won't talk right and the condition of your heart won't won't be right the analogy that I usually use in this context is a sailboat a sailboat can with the adjusting the sail and the rudder can actually Advance it's called tacking Advance against can actually sail Against the Wind it's extraordinary the sail is your heart attitude the rudder your tongue it's your speech and by managing attitude well and our confession well we actually make advancement against adverse winds adverse winds are actually in the Kingdom their invitations for breakthrough but we tend to see them differently than he does if if I'm not positioned well in my heart my heart attitude if I'm not positioned well in what I'm willing to speak and confess and declare over my life then I can actually partner in thought and in conversation with the enemy's reason for sending the adverse winds and I actually Empower what the enemy meant for evil suddenly has effect of dest ruction evil but the enemy has no authority over you he can only get Authority from those who have it that would be you and me and so back to this analogy of writing The Thermals something I've tried to practice for years I remember Bob Jones what a what a wonderful man and a dear friend of this house he was a great great prophet of the Lord personal I miss him he's home in heaven and and but I I miss him actually he's probably here but I don't know he he he was able to function outside of normal reality so but I I remember he talked he he talked once about eagles eagles have this uh this special uh like something that covers the eye lens where they can actually when they if there is a predator flying chasing them they will actually fly toward the Sun and and the other bird that wants to do damage to them cannot handle looking into the Sun but the eagle can and so I've made it a practice for a lot of years they'll be I'll just be driving down the road or maybe uh just in conversation or just walking out and this horrible thought or idea comes or accusation whatever it might be and I've tried to make it just almost like a you know a reaction uh uh where you get something so ingrained in you that you react before you think and what I've tried to do through the years is anytime something like that comes I lift my head up I I lift my head up the scripture says lift up your heads oh your Gates he's the glory and the lifter of our head I I don't know if he meant actual physical posture or not but I'm going for it and so if I'm in that situation I I just I I consciously will go that thought came that is not mine I'm I'm going towards the sun where the enemy cannot follow I'm going towards the sun this whole thing of riding The Thermals the the adverse winds that the enemy sends our way it could it could come in just personal issues you know just discouragement or fatigue sometimes uh if if the enemy can't get me to do wrong things he'll get me to overextend myself in the right things because there's a fatigue that actually gives birth to unbelief because it it gives us kind of a jaded resistant heart we we become accustomed to activity in the place of relationship and it doesn't happen in a moment it's it's a very slow change where we learn just to live in the routine and we we allow a distance to be formed in that tenderness that intimacy with the Lord and uh and so what happens is we become uh if it happened overnight it would be easy to spot but it's such a gradual turning with that busyness just just you know I just become more callous and jaded and and eventually resistant towards the very thing that I been crying out for so here's this this opportunity that the Lord gives us and I want you to look at this verse in Psalms 23 and I'll just use this kind of as a symbolic verse for the few minutes more that I want to talk to [Music] Psalms 23:1 the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he makes me to lie down in Green Pastures he leads me beside Still Waters he restores my soul he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake you know when I was sick a few years AG go I was really having a battle in my health and I just would read this day after day after day just meditate on individual words on phrases on statements till it came alive you want you want to let see this is eternal this is the Eternal Word of God you want to give occasion time effort for him to just truly uh allow roots to go down into your soul where what God has said actually begins to affect your personality he he restores my soul verse three he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake yeah even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil you are with me your rod and your staff that comfort me here's the verse I want you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup runs over surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever say this with me goodness and mercy goodness and mercy shall follow me shall follow me all the days of my life all the days of my life that is absolutely true now here's the verse I want you to look at for just a moment you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies it is fairly common when somebody wants prayer to come request prayer now I'm not criticizing anyone who does this I I'm just trying to illustrate something somebody will come and say I'm just I'm being so harassed by the enemy right now and of course I'll pray for them counsel whatever whatever is needed in that moment but because we don't see situations as they are we see the enemy's attack we hear his voice we see the tension of the moment what we often don't realize is that it was in that atmosphere Jesus set up a banqueting table he set up a place to feast in the presence of the enemy that's good man so I'm sitting here with Jesus but I don't realize I'm sitting here with Jesus because I hear the harassment coming I see this tension coming here I'm feeling all this stuff and I'm going I rebuke and I bind and I do all this stuff and what what's happening is I'm Shadow Boxing I'm filled with Christian activity but I'm exhausting myself because the nourishment is supposed to come from the meal that's in front of me the strength the nourishment the reinforcement of who he made me to be God intentionally threw the banquet where the enemy could see now when the Lord says you're hidden you're not hidden out of view you're hidden Out Of Reach oh when he said you're hidden come on you're not hidden out of view you're hidden Out Of [Applause] Reach come [Music] on because sometimes the moment that we think is actually the darkest is actually the brightest but it's only dark because of whose eyes we're looking into wow wow come on when you look into the eyes of the Father of Lies when you are entertained by the voice of accusation or whatever it might be of the one who is the father of Lies there is really the constructing of that reality all around my life but a simple turning of my attention towards what the scripture says there's a table there's a table it's a table of feasting it's a table of goodness it's a table of encounter it's a table of delight it's a table where by I am strengthened I am nourished Jesus made this statement that has really rocked my life he said my food is to do the will of him who sent me there's something nourishing about just being in the Cent of what God is saying and doing so here you are in the middle of this what you think is a hellish moment that actually by God's design is a Heavenly moment but it doesn't become Heavenly until I remove my focus on what's working against me and I turn my focus to who's working for me and listen it's the exact same moment wow it's the exact same moment and all that took place was a shift in perspective it's not pretending it's not you know denial doesn't help any of us pretending something isn't you know I've got this maybe a health scare or a financial crisis or a relational thing whatever it might be this pretending it's not there doesn't help but not letting it rule my heart does help the way I like to State it is that real faith doesn't deny a problem's existence it just denies the problem a place of influence so you take the moment that you're in I intentionally will lift my head it may seem silly I I don't know but I I walk my my property I lift my head because I'm I'm celebrated by A Perfect father who gave me Grace it was a gift I couldn't earn I couldn't qualify for it on my own but Jesus qualified me he qualified me he took the exam for me and I passed come on I wish I would have known that in school I could have done a lot better he took the exam for me and he passed on my behalf and he gave me the Great it's called Grace and because of that the moment that seems in my natural estimation to be the most dangerous cluttered distracting abusive whatever it might be is actually my finest moment because he prepared the table the table of nourishment the table of Fellowship the table of intimacy the table of tenderness the table of genuine friendship he put the table and he makes the devil [Applause] watch and the enemy can do nothing about it you can do nothing about it so I want you to stand that's all [Applause] the picture that I see in my in my heart in my mind is like this chalkboard you know that's got all kinds of writing on it and the teacher comes along and he just she just cleans it and it's just a clean clean slate and some of you you carry the markings of this failure and this crisis and this difficulty and this problem and this temptation and this whatever and he's he's just coming and he's just hosing down the board he said let's let's let's do clean slate stuff tonight let's do clean slate let's let's you say well I've tried this I've tried this very thing so many times before and that I always keep falling back into fear I always keep falling back into anxiety I always keep falling back into something yeah but that was that was then today is a different day today is a day when when you are actually set up to be the one yes great just set your eyes the god-given eyes with a lens that protects you from the fiery Eyes Of God but not the enemy who would try to follow you and we just ride The Thermals if you will of the challenges that we face into that glorious presence I I've got to feeling some of you will actually for the first time in your life actually honestly be able to give thanks for a problem because it was it provided The Thermals that just took you higher does that make sense so put your hands in front of you just I want to pray over you father I ask that a gift of Grace first of all the Clean Slate thing how many of you you just you you you need a clean you need to start this thing over and I'm I'm not talking about your walk with Christ I'm just talking about this this part of our life where we become so anxious and fearful I me just say I want to I want to start this one over all right so Lord I pray right now that by the Holy Spirit literally a tidal wave of presence that you'd go through this place and that tonight would begin a clean slate that we would just wake up tomorrow different thinking different living different literally rising in the midst of difficulty riding The Thermals towards your glorious presence your glorious face I pray this in Jesus name give a courage to us tonight I pray a courage and that uh and that we would never again fall for that notion that because we can hear his voice that he has any authority over us the enemy has no Authority I pray for that right now turn put a hand on somebody next to you just pray for them God give them this Grace let let there be great great grace given to them right now in Jesus name right now in Jesus Wonderful Name a great grace to ride above to ride above these uh these challenges these difficulties these accusations Temptations whatever they might be in fact pray for their heart attitude God help them to be tender in heart help them to be courageous with their confession courageous with their decree we pray this in Jesus wonderful name now put your hand on your own heart pray this famous prayer help me Jesus Jus I really mean it this time I this time help me Jesus Jesus amen amen amen

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Length: 49min 35sec (2975 seconds)

Published: Mon May 27 2024