It's Harvest Time - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

will you guys please welcome the most wonderful father of our house bill johnson with me oh my thank you thanks thank you oh sorry yeah i don't transition quickly with anything in life so just excuse me while i figure out why i'm up here let me get rid of my gum that's probably step number one if you guys just didn't have so many babies we could do this quicker you know um part two of our discipleship series starts next sunday and it's gonna kick off of the subject of prayer and my wife is going to be doing four out of the five morning services she'll be doing that here and i'm i'm glad for a lot of reasons i'm glad because of the word she'll bring it's gonna be sealed good and i'm glad that she's gonna preach four times next sunday and not me and that way she'll feel sorry for me next time i have to and the pity level of my household will just skyrocket just that's just joking just joking um yeah that's gonna be so wonderful we're uh this discipleship series we've been having such good feedback and and uh i'm i'm just quite thankful i have some things that should be read if you ever hear me order decaf coffee i've been kidnapped and i'm trying to signal you i just saw a guy today at starbucks he had no smartphone tablet or laptop he just sat there drinking coffee like a psychopath i saw what it was it was an old lady she says i want my final words to be i hid a million dollars in the i think that's funny i just saw it says i just saw some idiot leave a water bottle in the pringles holder on the treadmill at the gym [Laughter] instead of three wise men if it would have been three wise women they would have asked for directions arrived on time help deliver the baby clean the stable made a casserole and there would be peace on earth i don't know if that's true that's probably enough but i have more believe me if the message doesn't go bad i've always got something to to go to here or one more i will do one more it's an old one though you guys have heard it before but we have new people with us so this is good it's good it's here right here so there it is pastor had dinner at a home of a couple in his church after he left the wife said to the husband i think he stole our spoon this bothered her for a whole year a year later the couple had the passover for dinner again unable to resist the wife asked did you steal our spoon last year the pastor replied no i put it inside your bible [Applause] wow i love that one that's maybe my favorite of all time if i can't get people to read the word out of their hunger i'll scare them into it i don't care just tease it all right open your bibles matthew chapter 9 gospel of matthew chapter 9. take me a few minutes to get there [Music] we had such an amazing week this week um with our uh kingdom culture conference and i think in some ways it may have been the best one we've ever had at least at least it felt that way for me i i was just so appreciative of our team we have so many gifted people that served so well and minister the word and healing and all the stuff so good i was just i just had here a week the meeting after meeting just beyond pleased with what was happening and of course we're so thrilled to have guests with us as a result i don't remember the year it was somewhere back in the 70s my parents my mom is here wave your hand well my my parents pastored here at bethel 1968 till i think 1982 and um during that time i was on staff for five of those years 73-78 and i think it was somewhere around 1974 somewhere in that area my dad began to teach out of the book of ezekiel and he talked about all believers being priests under the lord and uh of course many of us when we think of priests we think of you know the the white little caller and it's not that kind of a priest it's a priest priesthood of the believer that has three basic areas of ministry and this is this is christianity 101 for us this goes way back into our roots but it'll set the stage for what i want to do today he began to talk to us about the three areas of ministry that every believer has we have first of all our ministry to the lord himself he is not an egotist in need of our encouragement no he's not an egotist in need of our flattery he's the almighty god and we become transformed as we worship we always become like the one we worship and so this ministry to the lord is first and most important and second to that is our love for the people of god for the church not organizations but for people and third is our ministry to the world it's a right and true list of priorities but if we're not careful it would cause us to misdiagnose or miss the conviction of the lord regarding our third ministry it's not that it's least and important in fact let's look at it this way in worship i will worship god throughout eternity i will be with you for all eternity and i will love you well throughout eternity but the only thing that is urgent in pressing in time is evangelism because that's only now and so while the other two are are superior in the sense of their order of priority they actually enhance and set the stage for us to be more effective in our heart for evangelism it can be said that evangelism in its purest form is an overflow of worship there are those who have this notion that if they really get locked into worship they'll not want to do anything else and that's not that's not what the scripture teaches in isaiah 6 you see isaiah before the lord and he says i see the lord and here's this stunning moment where he sees and he is before almighty god and then he hears father son holy spirit converse together and they say there's this particular assignment they said who shall we send and isaiah says send me so in other words anyone who truly worships to her they see the heart of the father they don't want to stay there they want to take their out to the people they want to take that moment to many others it's it's it's causing people to taste and see the goodness of the lord and that's the great privilege so worship is this great privilege and so my dad would teach on this out of uh ezekiel i think 47 if i remember right and talked about the ministry of the inner court that's in with the actual presence of god and the outer court that's where you're with people and i remember after i i think it was the first meeting there was a syria it was a series but i remember uh the old bethel church was over on pacelli lane and there was the sanctuary was long this way and there were two sections like this and then there was a balcony up way in the back and i remember i was sitting over here probably three four five rows back right on the outside edge and i remember when he was through with uh with that message it wasn't it wasn't a response time there was no altar call there was there was nothing of that nature but i i just remember when we came to the end of the message i remember sitting right over here i remember just bowing my head and i prayed this prayer i said god i give you the rest of my life to teach me this one thing i knew i had just heard the word that was to define the rest of my life since that day the lord has has been instilling in us his heart for worship again he actually doesn't even look for worship he looks for worshippers because worshipers are transformed people and that's that's what he longs to draw us into this the scripture says he looks for worship with those those who were worshiping spirit and truth so since that day uh that has become a standard for this church family and today things are very normal for us that in that day were fought for worked after very very hard to teach line upon line and to restructure the priority system of the church but if we're not careful there is a misunderstanding on this sense of urgency for evangelism and uh and and get this list all messed up if you will in uh in isaiah of 60 for example it says it says your walls will be called salvation your gates pray so it's describing the church it's describing the people of god as a city as a community so that's the metaphor that's the illustration and he basically says the salvation of god is what protects you it's the walls around the city that's what keeps you safe and then he says your gates are praised and so he's actually describing this place through which god enters to engage and to mingle with his people and it's called praise and so we know biblically that we enter his his gates with thanksgiving in our heart we enter his courts with praise so there's this progression into the presence into the glory and it should be the the ambition of every believer we have service after service they typically are called worship services in the bulletins all over the nations and and very seldom does worship actually happen because worship is this very tender intimate place of interaction with god i don't say that for the purpose of shame i'm just saying it's it's uh it's it's so deep and so long into this thing called divine encounter so here's this picture i'm trying to draw for he says um he says your walls are salvation and your gates the place for which there's this entrance in the presence is praise and it's something like 15 verses later he says it's now in isaiah 62. he says go through go through the gates clear the way for the people are in the context what are gates praise so now he's exhorting go through go through the gates clear the way for the people you've got to catch a picture of this something happens when the people of god become a worshiping people there's something that happens with an atmospheric shift over cities over regions of the of the nation because there are worship worshiping people in that environment you just becoming a worshiper one who just stands before the lord to worship in your home i i don't know how to explain it i don't i don't understand it but i know this is a reality you stand on a regular basis just to exalt the name of the lord jesus you have neighbors around you that facing a problem a year ago never would have considered god as a possible solution but because you're a worshiper something has changed in what they get to draw on because of the influence of your life in that environment worship worshiping god is is central to who we are so i like to break it down this way i don't care for formulas in the presence but it helps me to to kind of put a handle on things there's thanksgiving there's praise and there's worship thanksgiving is our response to the acts of god i don't know if he shared testimony this morning i know chris chris gore shared with us the other night about this great miracle of healing candace shared a great great story uh earlier of somebody with four stage cancers being completely healed we hear these stories and and we just celebrate the goodness the kindness of god and uh and there's this thankfulness and we express it we we cheer we raise our voices we we become we become amazed at this father who is so kind and so good to us but thanksgiving is our response to what he's done whereas praise is our response to who he is and there's this it's almost like an indictment on the nation of israel in the days of moses it says and israel was acquainted with the acts of god but moses was acquainted with his ways in other words they took the action and they followed it until they discovered his nature they followed this that he had done they weren't just satisfied with water out of a rock so to speak they weren't just satisfied with provision or or protection or deliverance they wanted to find this one who authored that very action that very uh deliverance or protection provision whatever it might have been so we've got thanksgiving is our response to the acts of god praise our response to his ways worship i i always think in terms of worship is my response to his presence it doesn't mean just emotionally discerned because sometimes worship comes at a very very low point so it's not it's not this overwhelming sense always of of a presence but it's it's worship by nature the word worship actually means one of the words for worship actually means it's the word to kiss that by implication it's this tenderness it's this it's this uh it's this profound interaction between you and the one you worship something powerful happens to a group of people that that live in that kind of atmosphere their authority their awareness of the heart of god increases so dramatically that when they get into an evangelistic environment or into an environment to serve and help people they're much more clear much more precise much much greater confidence in the heart of god for a given situation so here's what i want to do i want you to read with we're going to read out of matthew chapter 9 we're going to read several verses there and uh and then we'll we'll talk for a little bit all right matthew chapter 9 verse 35. then jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom healing every sickness every disease among the people but when he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd then he said to his disciples the harvest truly is plentiful but the laborers are few therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest verse 37 the harvest truly is plentiful but the laborers are few therefore pray the lord of his harvest of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest i i've i've always been fascinated by this this verse for this reason he didn't say pray for the harvest i think there are other scriptures that that would lend itself to that and so i think it's a legitimate thing to do i know just driving out of my driveway this morning certain people that i've become friends with through the last number of years who don't yet know the lord i i just i bring them up before the lord just on a on a regular basis and just pray god let them know the goodness of god let them taste of the kindness of god and and i think praying for people to come to crisis is is a no-brainer that's obviously legitimate but when jesus wanted to give instruction that was about to affect the course of history he didn't say pray for the harvest he said pray for harvesters pray for the harvesters so i have to ask the question is it possible that the size of the harvest is actually determined by the amount of laborers in other words the harvest is there but there has to be harvesters there are people and it's it's a deeper theological conversation that we can have in this environment but there are a lot of people that uh say over and over again that uh you know god god is in control and whatever he wants is going to happen well he's god anything he wants to pull off he can pull off period there's find no argument from me but there's a number of things that he has put in front of us that without response without embracing responsibility there's actually unfulfilled potential this unfulfilled promise in other words it requires our involvement the nation of israel is a great example they were they were spoken to about this promised land and god says it is yours i give it to you now it's all yours and uh and he gives them this incredible promise of the promised land but that generation didn't enter into it god promised them but they didn't enter into it but it wasn't god's fault it was they they failed to co-labor with him his way to bring about his purposes and so now we have we have commandments like this we have directions in prayer that are supposed to be taken seriously because it actually has an effect on the outcome of things how many understand jesus doesn't give us spiritual assignments to keep us busy you know he he doesn't say here dig this hole as soon as you get it done he says now fill it back in he's not trying to keep us active in christian you know christian busyness quite the opposite he's trying to lead us into fruitfulness into effectiveness and so he gives this assignment and he gives the assignment because there's something in his heart that has to be touched by somebody made in his image that will bring that case or that need before him there's something he longs to do but he's actually looking for agreement before it can be done because it will not be forced on the will of humanity it must come out of the will of humanity so he says here's my heart the harvest field is rich with harvest but you've got to ask the lord of the harvest to send out laborers now that word to send out laborers here in what was in verse 38 to send out is a word that actually means to forcefully thrust it's the word used in the very next chapter when jesus talks about casting out demons he casts his demons there's this demon in this afflicted individual and jesus comes and he thrusts he throws that thing out that's what he that's the same word to throw out harvesters in other words it's a military term almost of like of like forcefully throwing us into the middle of this incredible rich harvest field where we're in over our heads and we can't help but do anything but bring the harvest in for the king bring the harvest into the king the moravians had this statement i don't i don't have it dom perfect but it's basically to win for the lamb the reward of his suffering to win for the lamb the reward of his suffering there was this there was this thing that they would pray and and quote and they may have even sung it but it was this it was this this whole thing we've got to win for the lamb the reward of his suffering and so we've got this passage look at verse 37 again says the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest what was he doing when he came into this moment of burden he he if if you can imagine uh jesus standing on the edge of his promised land and that's this massive harvest and he catches a glimpse of something what was he doing when he saw that he was healing the sick he was casting out devils he was preaching declaring the gospel of the kingdom so he he was in that context when he was moved with compassion and he then turned to the twelve and he said listen you've gotta pray you've gotta you've gotta pray and contend for the father to throw out harvards to cast forth harvesters into his harvest field but look at verse 1 because there's no chapter breaks in the original manuscript of scripture verse 1 of chapter 10 and when he called his twelve disciples to him he gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out to heal all kinds of sickness all kinds of disease verse seven as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand heal the sick cleanse lepers raise the dead cast out demons freely you receive freely give this entire 10th chapter is to equip these 12 disciples if you will to become the very harvesters jesus told them to pray into i have a pastor friend of mine years ago he he put flags of the nations all around the sanctuary and then would be the name of the missionaries the people that that they that were part of their church that were in these various countries and then if they didn't have a missionary in that country where they would normally have names they would put a mirror and they would say go pray go pray for laborers and he would stand before that flag of that nation with a mirror with a question am i the one am i the one to be the harvest am i the one to go forth in jesus name i was reading this passage today earlier today out of the passion translation says jesus walked throughout the region with a joyful message of god's kingdom realm he taught in their meeting houses and wherever he went he demonstrated god's power by healing every kind of disease and illness when he saw the vast crowds of people jesus's heart was deeply moved with compassion because they seemed weary and helpless like wandering sheep without a shepherd he turned to his disciples and he said the harvest is huge and ripe but there are not enough harvesters to bring it all in as you go plead with the owner of the harvest to thrust out many more reapers and to harvest his grain plea pray with the lord of the harvest to send out that's that's you and that's me so we have this we have this mandate to minister to god is the most important thing but there's something that happens in that environment as worshipers where actually it sets the stage for evangelism this is 62 passes forgive me for just making reference to it and hit and run but uh but i need to do that today you can look at it on your own it says this go through the gates clear the way for the people remove the stones remove the dusty rubble what is it describing it's describing worshipers who in their worship caught up in the presence the glory of god completely infatuated with him expressing their love devotion to him not realizing that what they are doing is they're removing all the obstacles that have been raised up in culture and society removing the obstacles spiritual bulldozers that just create fact then it says to throw up a highway before god what is a highway it's a place of quick easy access it's the removing the obstacles what how much of the devil are we focused on in those moments zero we're focused on god but we're ministering to him but it has this effect i've watched this for years it has an effect on the evangelistic anointing of a group of people the second part of that story or this assignment is to minister to believers and and mistakenly there are there are many who are caught up to just care for people around them but never take it outside of that group and i'd like to i'd like to say this jesus said in john 13 35 he says they'll know you're my disciples because of your love for one another in other words they will see how you compassionately walk through conflict they will watch you as you respond to the person who's in crisis need they will watch you care for them they will see how you practice community how you learn together to reign in life it's not competition with each other but it's a true communal community uh pursuit of glorifying god by reigning in life together they will see that and they will come to the conclusion you are my disciples let me put it in this language they will see your love for each other and they will be convinced that jesus is raised from the dead he is present in the midst of his people evangelism i uh quite a few years ago there was a one one of the one of you uh families in the church uh picked up a homeless man and brought him to church on a particular sunday sitting right back in there and um and there wasn't very many people in the sanctuary at the time and i was walking around just talking with people welcoming them and i i saw them so i i made a beeline for him and and i saw he had a cast on his arm and uh and he was obviously in pain and discomfort and really protecting protecting that arm and uh so i went back and and just was talking to him and talking to the family that brought him and see how they're doing you know just just being social and wanting them to feel welcome and um and so i i asked the guy with a broken arm the homeless guy said so what happened and he said oh he says i fell off a bridge i think it was like 35 feet or something crazy fell onto fell onto this wrist and and completely shattered that uh in the injury and it had just been done so he was very tender very uh very very much uh watching over and caring for this broken arm and so i asked him i said is you mind if we if i pray for that and he and he looked at the the people that brought him you know this is like is this normal for you guys and uh and they were good with it so i i just tenderly just prayed for him and prayed for the lord to to heal his arm and he began to he began to move it and it was i wish i had a video of this because his eyes went like this his jaw dropped and he looked at the people who brought him because now he has absolutely no pain and he's got full movement in the use of this arm well it's a wonderful wonderful thing to see happen we've we've seen that happen just countless numbers of times through the years soon after that prayer i came up and the people began to come in we started the service we worship the lord as we love to do we pray for each other we do the stuff we like to do we open the word when i was through i invited people to come to know jesus guess who was first the guy who had just tasted of the kindness of the lord see we want people to buy into a whole meal but we don't give them samples [Applause] it says taste and see that the lord is good the bible says it's the kindness of the lord to lead to repentance it is in conflict with the goodness of god to think we can come to god without repentance there is this notion that well jesus is the door to the father but anyone who is sincere no no heaven is real hell is real eternity is a long time it's a long time and it helps nobody for us to dilute and in ruin this simple gospel message that out of the kindness of the father he laid down his own son as an offering to pay for to atone to cover the one issue that was destroying all of humanity and that sin only one possible solution there are not many roads to god if that were true then he was unusually cruel to his son jesus to require that death it was done because it was the only possible solution that is the message but because of that extravagance of a father to love people it means that broken arm is in his target zone and he would love to restore that it means the cancer that we heard about this morning fourth stage people dying setting up ready to die are prayed for and god completely heals and delivers them i spent some time yesterday with a friend who's actually in a coma but uh things haven't been going real good for for him life hasn't not not not doing real good and organs shutting down heart liver and uh had a wonderful chance to go in to be with him with his wife and hold his hand and just talk to him as though he were sitting up in bed i remember ray larson who pastored here before i did wonderful man of god wonderful friend he had such an unusual gift in evangelism i i brought him back after i pastored here i told him to preach on a sunday and he did and i said man make sure you give an altar call man he had so many people get saved that they just you know how many remember the jesus people movement you could you could just about sneeze and people would get snakes saved you know it was it's just one of those moments in history where people just where the fish were jumping into the boat you know and uh so i i was i was there next to his bed and talking to him ray larson story i was going to mention to he there was a young lady that was in a car automobile accident here in reading and he went down to the hospital to pray that she was in a coma near death and he just talked with her as though she were awake because the spirit man was awake i remember that when you go into a hospital room and he shared the gospel with her and then he prayed with her to receive christ and when he was through he looked up there was a tear coming down the side of her face and then a short time later she died see i i want to make it hard to get to hell from reading i oh we make it hard we we've done this in times past where we've we've prayed especially for the emergency room workers for the the people who are with the dying hospitals with the convalescent care places the ambulance drivers the policemen the firemen all these different folks who are more likely to be with somebody when they're dying i want them to be people that are mindful of god that are not timid in that moment because i i i stood on the edge on the edge of eternity with my friend on the edge of eternity begin to remind him of his purpose in life i believe the lord is going to raise him up but but but apart from that on the edge of eternity reminding him why he's alive what he was bought for what his assignment is affirming that that place in christ that he is to give all for his wife was there she told me that she knows he heard because while i was praying for him he opened his eyes and looked at me the whole point is is eternity is a long time and it's not a parent position that's paranoid it's not fear-based it's it's my goodness we we love people we love people we love people it's it's it's the it's the lepers that that went into the enemy's camp if you remember the store in the old testament and the enemy god had driven the enemy away and there's all these riches there's all this food and they've been starving to death and the people the city they were from is literally starving to death and they're eating all this food and they said wait a minute this isn't right we can't enjoy this all for ourselves we have to go back and let the city know what we found and so they run back as old testament evangelists and they tell them that there is a meal waiting for them and they can go and have as much as they want and that's the gospel that's what we do we take this this incredibly good news this joyful news of a king and a kingdom where there's true forgiveness of sin fresh start in empowerment to live entirely for him this living offering where we get the privilege of worshiping god and loving people and and and making a difference and and increasing the size of the harvest it's not about membership at bethel it's it's not even about you and me being able to put another notch on the back of our bible it has nothing to do with that it has to do with he is worthy of a sizable harvest that moravian phrase to win for the lamb the reward of his suffering this is why we're alive if it wasn't for that one thing jesus easily could have just caused us to breathe our last the moment we received christ take us to heaven for our eternal reward he is looking to see the glory his own glory manifest on the earth with a harvest that is appropriate to him one last uh illustration how many of you remember where you were when you heard the iron curtain fell in the in the soviet union i was actually now i was actually in redding but i was pastoring weaverville we were down here with a group of men we were doing a men's retreat staying at one of the local hotels and i remember going into into my my bedroom at the hotel and seeing on tv these people pouring by the thousands pouring through this place in the iron curtain in the the that wall but that divided east and west germany there's a section of the wall that was taken down and they were pouring through by the hundreds and and actually by thousands uh threw that through that gap in the wall and they were they were singing they were all singing this song this is the day that the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it they begin to sing this song these hundreds of people are pouring through this gate and they're singing they're singing this incredible song this is the day that the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad i come to find out sometime later that at that very place where that section of the wall was removed the the symbol of division between us east and west germany when that that was removed the night before there had actually been a very significant and powerful prayer meeting at that place that actual place in the wall there was a gathering of believers the night before and that's when it broke loose man you never know when your next prayer is going to be the prayer that brings breakthrough that's so these people who had probably gathered for who knows how many years but they prayed again and it was it was liberty came during that that period of time i remember myself i i ministered a bit in in europe but i remember going through different parts of europe and i even remember making the announcement i believe the iron curtain is going to fall you know no ism can stand against christ and whether it's communism or socialism or any ism that people come up with nothing can stand against the power of the gospel and you know it's the kind of thing you say that's absolutely true and it gets a lot of amends but it doesn't always give preparation here's what happened this iron curtain fell and right previously a couple years before this removal of the iron curtain prophets prophetic communities had been announcing that the iron curtain is going to fall and that's the kind of thing everybody would say a man to but nobody was preparing for there was not money set aside there were not laborers ready to go in the moment the iron curtain fell it was none of that stuff it was it was all in concept yes we agree amen but but no one was ready to go as a result when it fell all the missions organizations began to put their reserves together their finances together started training people and of course flooded as much of the country as they could meet quickly with with the ministers of the gospel and it was wonderful it's beautiful but the problem was they had been reduced from prophetic timing be alert and ready to natural timing when the iron current fell so what's the result they prepared themselves and got ready so did the mafia so did various cults they all got reduced to natural timing and not till the prophetic time do you understand what i mean what i'm saying by that that they weren't ready to go in the moment it fell they got ready the moment it fell which means so did every other lie every other cult every other group and the lord gave the advantage the insight to the to the church to be ready for this invasion of the gospel we have heard for 20 years 20 years ago it was first brought to us that there would be a 1 billion soul harvest and it's the kind of thing we say amen to it's kind of thing we're excited for us the kind of thing we go boy that's right that's what's going to happen but the point i want to make is i don't want to make the same mistake as was made all those years ago for the soviet union when the word of the lord comes forth it means i must position myself for what god just said i must be about the father's business i must be in the harvest and pray for the harvesters what's happening right now in various places around the world i've never seen anything like it's it's been common in christian circles especially the or organizations that i work with around the world various ministries of streams of churches and missions organizations europe has has all but been given up by many of them is the dark continent now and yet something is exploding there that is so amazing they said it couldn't happen and it's happening just a couple of weeks ago ben fitzgerald one of our own and and but we're in austria and thousands of believers are on the streets sharing the gospel people are getting saved people run in this large to run from the back all the way to the front just to meet this jesus and to come to christ there there is this thing they said it couldn't happen not in places like that in germany a few years ago nuremberg they they they chose that place because that's the place where hitler announced his his thing and they wanted to go right back to the root of that movement and and see a redemptive turnaround where a generation be raised up not to promote nazism but the the gospel of jesus and if something has happened in germany since that event something's happened and it's rippled through various parts of europe and it's what's happening right now is absolutely stunning it's the beginning of the billion soldiers charlie it's already started but let me tell you there's not enough room in all the churches in the nation to contain what god wants to do we've got to we've got to think different we've got to position ourselves better it's not just sending them to a discipleship class as much as i believe in those it's you the believer caring for the new believer discipling teaching them everything you've learned this is the privilege of the gospel and the billion soul harvest has started and i don't want to stand in heaven looking at what could have been possible so many years ago wrote a song it was actually i think a part of a chapter in a book or a poem or something then somebody else put a song to it but it basically came down to this said some people want to live within the sound of chapel bells but i want to run a mission a yard from the gate of hell yep right on the edge time eternity right there right there it's worth it pray this with me father god let's pray this together father god i receive the privilege i receive the opportunity i receive the assignment to be a harvester and to pray for harvesters give me your heart your eyes your touch to redemptively see the most broken situations in life turned around for the glory of god we say yes to the billion soul harvest increase our capacity to be in the middle of what you're doing that the lamb of god would receive the reward of his suffering amen amen amen before i we i dismiss you i know just by sure odds the number of people in the room there's a good chance that there are people here that don't have a personal relationship with jesus i've actually been talking about you as as one who could come to know what it is to be forgiven to know what it is to to live as a follower a disciple of jesus to know what it is to be born again that's changed from the inside and if there's anybody in this room that is in that position you say bill i don't want to leave until i know i'm right with god then i want you just to put a hand up where you are we're just going to make just a a moment of celebration to honor your wonderful anybody else anyone else in just a moment anybody else put your hand up on i i don't want to miss way in the back over here is that why your hands are all right yep anyone else anybody else okay all right i'm gonna ask you to stand stand with me if you will and i want to ask our ministry team to come to the front and the two that raised their hand that i saw plus anyone else who would just say i've walked with the lord but i've been going east he's been going west and i want to get things restored anyone in that place i want you to come right now at the same time right up here to my friends up here at this banner on my left come to them they will talk they will pray with you let's have minister team come quickly and help us by getting ready to pray for yet again more miracles leslie help us out thank you father for your heart amen well if you need prayer in any way if you wanna healing in your body i'm sorry i'm just so rocked by that message how many here you feel let's just take a minute and just oh thank you god we say yes just put your hands up right now i say yes god yes god yes god we say yes god we say yes to what you're doing on the earth we will be a part of your harvest god we say yes thank you god thank you god amen amen all right god bless you church if you need healing in your body if you need a miracle today we would love to pray for you so come on and join us up front god bless you church as you go into the harvest amen bless you [Music]

Channel: Bill Johnson Ministries

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Length: 47min 28sec (2848 seconds)

Published: Fri May 14 2021