Presence Night - Eric Johnson, Re-Stream (13 November 2020)

ah loving father thank you for every hungry heart that has gathered together tonight lord we gather around your presence and we celebrate your presence but we ask you to come in increasing glory and transforming power tonight we just acknowledge that we have a deep and eternal need for you to come and be among us and so father come and have your way just surrender your heart to him say here i am or come i give it all to you right now in the mighty name of jesus yeah lean over give somebody a hug say you're glad to see them you're glad they came and let's worship the lord shall we all right go ahead jonathan [Music] father we [Music] we glorify your name we glorify your name we glorify your name [Music] oh [Music] and jesus [Music] [Music] we glorify your name [Music] me did i be lifted [Music] [Applause] [Music] we love you we love you [Music] if one voice will lift you higher [Music] [Music] glorified [Music] we [Music] if [Music] higher [Music] thank you jesus father we love you we were [Music] be glorified [Music] glorify your name glorify [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] yes [Music] me [Music] come lift him up [Music] [Applause] [Music] we'll be [Music] will be lifted come on be this [Music] lift him up we're here to worship you let it give you praise can it give you praise [Music] you've come to me with you tonight come to me with you here [Music] you stood outside my grave with tears still on your face i heard you say my name my night i was that you were [Music] [Music] i [Music] my heart is [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] oh i knew [Music] [Applause] we sing cause you're good and you're faithful and you're here with us you are a miracle-working guy you are a new co-working guy you are a miracle-working god you are a new co-working guy you are [Applause] [Music] god you are a miracle working [Music] [Music] my heart is [Music] [Applause] my heart is [Music] oh and tonight we know you're here with us of your people tonight we know you're here with and us pouring out your joy you pull it out you are a miracle-working guy you are a miracle-working god we believe we believe you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] god my heart is i knew that you were my heart is i knew that you could oh we know that you're coming and we know that you're here breathing amongst breathing upon us and some of you have come in dry and some of you've come in hungry for more so together together we're gonna press in tonight together together we're gonna receive [Music] we know that he's among us tonight his presence is he [Music] his presence is with us [Music] his presence is with us yeah so just begin to tell him what you love about him begin to cry out for what you need [Music] with you [Music] we wanna see [Music] [Music] let the fragrance arise before [Music] [Music] bye [Music] you are good [Music] [Music] you are good [Applause] nice to clarify [Applause] [Music] oh yes [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] you [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] you are a miracle-working god you are a miracle-working guy you are a milk-working guy [Music] you are working god [Music] i [Music] as we meet you our hearts are coming to life oh there is newness and there's refreshing in your presence [Music] [Music] whatever you breathe on is coming alive god you restore us the glory before us whatever you love is [Music] and everything comes alive [Music] of coming alive [Music] forever [Music] you [Music] [Music] you make us new [Music] you're making us wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up glorify is everything comes alive [Music] everything comes in here [Music] [Music] holy pouring out your [Music] you life us new you make us [Music] you make [Music] you us us new it's our testimonies [Music] you make us new you make us new you make us new so wake up wake up oh heart of mine wake up wake up and glorify wake up wake up what am i wake up wake up and glorified do what you're made to do [Music] wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up and glorify wake up wake up go heart of mine wake up wake up and glorify wake up wake up and glorify wake up wake up and glorify you made me everything comes [Music] you make use everything comes in [Music] jesus [Music] fear [Music] you make us near you make us you make us new [Music] we are found in you jesus found it [Music] we are founded we all found it we are founded [Music] jesus [Music] in [Music] jesus [Music] we're coming [Music] we [Music] we're coming alive with you [Music] we are found in you [Music] we are founded [Music] we're coming alive [Music] [Applause] we are founded [Music] jesus coming [Applause] coming alone let's go [Music] [Applause] i speak we are founded we [Music] to wake every heart [Music] to give thanks to honor to magnify your name because you are worthy jesus [Music] worthy lord [Music] so [Music] my hope is built on nothing less than jesus blood and righteousness and i dare not trust the sweetest frame [Music] but holy trust in jesus [Music] his love through the storms [Music] is unchanging [Music] [Music] my ankle holds it in the veil [Music] seems to hide his face i rest on his unchanging face [Music] my oh dog [Music] is the lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] and when he shall come with trumpet sound oh may i then be found just in his right justice to stand before the throne when he shall come when he shall calm the trumpy sound oh may i be found interesting is [Music] so in christ cause we know [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] he is [Music] he is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] he's lord of war [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] is glorified [Music] is [Music] [Music] foreign she gives her [Music] [Music] do [Music] savior [Music] [Music] upon [Music] the son of god [Music] the power of the [Applause] [Music] his perfect love [Music] has [Applause] is [Music] [Music] say [Music] the ground begin [Music] the ground began to is foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] we sing hallelujah we sing hallelujah we sing hallelujah for the lamb is overcome we sing hallelujah we sing hallelujah we [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] let's lift her up church lift up a shadow praise come on [Applause] [Music] we celebrate your victory lord jesus you are alive forevermore ah death could not hold you [Applause] ooh see it one more time john he's alive come on celebrate it with us everybody [Applause] we sing hallelujah [Music] forever [Music] is there is no king like you there is no savior like you not even close lord [Music] you came you lived you died you took our sin and shame and opened the way forever for us to be reunited with the father of love oh lift your hands and thank him people jesus we thank you lord may we never forget love you lord ah we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you lord ah there is no king like you [Music] it's your jesus come wow let your resurrected life descend upon us in this place lord lord we give this whole week to you be glorified in our midst yes lord have your mighty way bring your fiery love and burn it deep within us thank you lord cause us to be even more like you in your mighty name we pray wow carol i know it's good it's fantastic you turn and smile at somebody and tell them it's going to be okay because jesus is alive i mean that changes everything doesn't it oh goodness sakes john i just felt when we were worshiping like it's just amazing because the his glory and his presence was so here right from the beginning like this is the first night of the conference and usually you ramp up but it's just like we've come into another level already we've stepped up ah so all of you pastors and leaders and and that are here um i just want you to just stand up just for a minute wow can you just stand ah wow you've been all busy you've been all traveling you've been all coming ah but i just felt the lord say just step one little step back into his arms and just leave all the cares wow just let them go ah say lord i'll leave them at your cross tonight but lord this week i'm going to focus my eyes on you because we are in another season in another level wow and so lord i just lift off everything that everyone has come in with all the excess baggage that's not of you lord we just lift it off right now ah and just take a big deep breath of him wow again wow yeah whoa that should be feeling better well because it's getting thick up here whoa ah okay bless you can sit down ah but if you're getting heavy again wait a minute before you before you sit down before you sit down stretch your hands up up towards us here and say fire on you carol [Applause] [Music] she caught it dunk she did oh come on do it again [Music] [Applause] yeah put some on duncan as well while you're at it [Applause] [Music] oh yay please don't forget to have fun will you you know it's it's not just all serious stuff where we have to meditate on you know the heavy wonderful truths of the bible but the joy of the lord is our strength can you remember that remember the fruit of the holy spirit is love joy peace and a whole bunch of other things but get the love joy peace part for sure and you keep going all the way down to self-control and uh you know self-control is a wonderful wonderful gift did you know that that that's a gift for you to control yourself that's never meant for you to control the holy spirit just say it you know because he may want to do some stuff with you in you to you through you that is completely outside of the box and over the top for you but it'd be a good thing if he's the one doing it right so why don't you tell him holy spirit whatever you want to do with me this week is okay with me ah wow smile at somebody please and uh you know let's just smile at somebody don't and uh i want you to to just feel really welcome here in our house tonight how many have never been here before just give me away never been here eric you've never been here before well welcome friends you know it's amazing how it's uh it's held consistently true for about 23 years this is actually our 23rd anniversary of revival coming up and [Applause] just just every time i ask that question there's about one third of the people who've never been here before and so that's good it just keeps fresh wood coming in for the fire you know and so look out there's a lot of burning embers and coals and everything all around you and the one thing we love about the holy spirit is he's so contagious so tell your friend you're gonna get it this week i'm gonna get it well i just got back from uh a wonderful trip to kenya it was there two weeks we did a leader school in in a city called burra toward the south moore to the tanzanian border then we went back up to a place called kakamega where stu and khloe have their mission and uh that's where our one of our main garden trainers lives and we had just a wonderful time up there with hungry hungry people how many have been to kenya let's see numbers have you had and what i love about it is a shocking reality and that is everybody you talk to is a believer in jesus i'm sure not every single one but everyone you talk to at least that i talk to believes in the lord jesus it's amazing totally amazing and i'm trying to imagine what canada would be like if if everyone you talk to the airline hostesses the policemen that are coming to the meeting to protect you from terrorists and stuff so i guess there's some terrorists there that probably aren't saved but uh but that kind of stuff it was just everywhere and uh angel down here somewhere where are you where are you angel when we were in mexico a month ago she told me about these sd cards that you could get that have uh all kinds of information on them in the language of the people and so she arranged with some friends for me to get 500 of these sd cards and it had the jesus film in swahili and a swahili bible and then the audio bible where it will read to you and some other stuff and i'm telling you what i hate those things where they absolutely loved them and they just stick that in their little phones and had all that right available and the the resourcing that goes on for the for the price of a little sd card i mean they gave them to me i think maybe i'm supposed to pay for them i don't know they're about four dollars each anyway they loved them and what a way to evangelize you don't have to smuggle bibles anymore you just take a bag full of sd cards and and go around the world give the gospel away but they love it in their own language and so we we had an absolute wonderful time in kenya with charlie and elaine passi and has anybody here from testifier halifax maritimers here i know daniel's here from uh monk to new brunswick so they they know who i'm talking about but anyway it was fantastic except carol wasn't with me to see the elephants and the lions and all the stuff you know uh yeah anyway is it ever good to be home my goodness canada is such a wonderful country did you know that you get free medical care here just in case your prayer doesn't work you know stuff like that but just special thanks to all our world changers that enable carol and i and many many others to to go to a lot of countries that absolutely couldn't afford to have us come but we're able to go because of people like you and we're really really thankful for that so hey we've got quite a lineup of speakers for you eric johnson is here just stand up give us a wave eric we'll be introducing him in a moment and uh duncan smith you've met already he's up here with carol he'll be speaking steve long's going to be speaking to us heidi's on her way and i'm not sure who else is speaking in msync are they speaking stu and khloe are speaking stand up guys in fact why don't you run up here and tell us what's going on in london and uh they have an amazing mission in kenya as well with uh children's children's homes and villages they're doing and all kinds of stuff but you know what the world is being one to christ are you aware of that they're just christians taking over everything it's fantastic isn't it and we want it here as well and england too hello hello it's a little giggle hello it's so amazing to be back it's only like what four months since we're here but it's just so incredible to be back with family and we're having a wild time in london it's just things seem to be kind of exploding you know the feeling when you just think ah you're out of control and we're having so much fun we've had recently just on sunday evening we had five salvations a hindu and a muslim came to the meeting one of our friends two of their friends came and they felt the power of the holy spirit and they're like oh this is a little bit freaky and then just submitted and said you know what this is jesus gave their lives to jesus and sunday we had another five one outside the church after church and so god's doing something and when the moment we declared god we just need evangelists raised up we're committing to see the the lost loved back to you and the prodigals return we're going to get outside of the church and all of a sudden all these evangelists have started popping up inside of catcher fire london and are just going for it with healing on the streets and going into the government and helping with the government and so we're really pumped and excited so you know what if you don't have evangelists in your church just start calling them in just pray for sons and daughters to raise up and actually be just you know solid grounded lovers of jesus that want to win the loss so we're really pumped for what's happening and um yeah you're going to add some stuff about kenya yes yes i was just going to say the other that we've we we literally spoke out a couple of things last year and there's a lot of work that's gone in behind this but when the leadership spoke out a few things doors started to really open um one was with evangelism one was with our local community and some of the work that's going on there now has just been absolutely incredible we had 100 people out on the streets um just doing litter picking and befriending and i t help and baking cakes and we had the three local councillors joining us in serving the local community so i just really want to recommend that you just speak stuff out um we spoke out about open doors into government that god really wants us to start to have an influence within the government of the uk and some of the open doors there have been absolutely incredible um just partnering with other organizations and people who are doing stuff but just seeing random invitations chloe and i got invited to downey street last year and um it's just amazing watching the power of the tongue actually happen um when you when you choose to agree with what god has said and speak it out um and yeah in kenya we've just come well we're just in the process we've done 19 acres we're completing another two acres and we're building a village and all the stuff's been bought for the first building um and so we'll be building that literally it should start tomorrow the building because all the stuff's now been built and so we're building a village for vulnerable children in western kenya and yeah things are just too many opportunities um not enough hands but it is absolutely amazing and we just heard from our missionaries in kenya that the total last year was 700 widows gave their lives to jesus and so we're like what you know god's on the move and we're really excited we've got a mission trip coming up on the 20th of march so if you want to come to kenya for 10 days and then i think catch the fire canada toronto mission trip is coming up in october so it's going to be an exciting year that would be amazing how many would like to go with them have some fun over there steve you're going aren't you oh you're in october is that what it is all right kenya in october anybody are you going to do a safari how many want to go on the safari oh we got a bunch more now all right three days fantastic yeah we went on a safari too for one day saw all kinds of lions i've never seen a lion eating a fresh kill before so that was interesting we were close enough to hear all these bones crunching and all kinds of stuff and you missed it i mean it incredible but actually the when we went up to the north where i think it's north of the west part at least where uh where these guys are not far from lake victoria is is where we have a high concentration of our harvest gardens and and it was so thrilling for me to see how they have impacted the communities that are actually working them because it gave them hope you know that they're able to grow enough food and have a bit of profit left over and and work in these very very nutritious gardens and of their health and just a whole lot of benefit that comes comes along with it i think we've got like 100 of them or something now in africa these are quarter acre gardens that that feed lots and lots of people good nutritious food but what got me was how it changed the the heart and and the and the mindset of of the people there that just gave them hope and they're all getting entrepreneurial one kid's raising rabbits that pays his way through his school another guy was raising pigeons and he'd sell the pigeons to pay for his school and all that because hope was just engendered in their heart you know hope is a wonderful thing friends just tell somebody you know be filled with hope faith hope love you remember and uh it's not just love it's faith and hope and when you get hope in you that is giving you faith to go forward in the future we just watched the impact of that on on so so many people and and the the one garden in particular had about 12 like 12 widows that were um you know working in these things and giving them a bit of an income giving them some hope and all of that and they were just doing well they want to do do some of these beds at their home where they live and everything else and it amazed me i came away thinking i really want to help these widows these women get on with it and and develop it even more and get this two of the widows were widowed because their husband died the one the one man was married to the two women and it's not uncommon over there to have more than one wife unfortunately you know but and it's just like a what kind of culture like but but that that's the reality and and so here the where the two the two widows from the same man working in the same community garden so i thought god you're amazing you really really are amazing wow well let's see um i was going to ask this lady from france i think your name is chantel where where are you my dear can you come on up just for a minute and um uh terry terry uh caron where where are you terry terry caron where are you run up here too i may need your your help to translate yeah but let's have terry come give david a rest yeah she was just telling me that we were in brittany france uh the end of november 1st of december we had a wonderful school with you right oh you were at the october one not the later one okay the first it was in october and after it was at the end of november okay so you came to both of those events that we did in brittany and just tell us about your healing real quick can you okay the first tell us in french and terry can translate [Laughter] what did she say david i'm part of a community called the bu responded get up rise up and shine all right go ahead and when i i was i wasted my husband and i am ill [Laughter] [Music] stick oh my god david come on take terry's mic [Laughter] [Music] see that that's what happens you get up on this platform you go all fuzzy you know like the french guy can't understand french up here you know all right what did she say david maybe you better go to back to english come on chantelle the lyme disease she had lyme disease all right and i come to see after um because uh john say everybody who wants i could pray for you so a lot of people go so i stay in my chair and my side go no in my second time go so i go and annoys you and you you pray on my head and i realize that and every people go in the other side and i i stay and do nothing and after in my heart to me like that you know and i do that and he put his hand more more okay during a long time and after i i wrote my share it's like you know what happens what happens and after a long time i want to coming back but you know just besides say oh thank you and one moment you see me so i can move and um the day after that was better [Laughter] so if you caught that it was going back and forth english french but we put hands on her head and then she felt the fur which is fire and uh then the day after you felt much better how long did you have lyme's disease it was a long period because i have to see a lot of doctors be before one doctors see what is it because my my first doctor a second doctor doesn't know what what happens because i have a lot of so the doctors didn't know what it was how long were you sick one year and one and a half years one moment i can't write myself it's my husband who watch me you know so i could wash my body you could not no you were so weak you could not even wash wow i know i am a bee and i i want to be sure that i am okay so um we live in the country and we have a fields and a man comes to cut the trees okay and after um you know it's like that and we lost both our translators already and we have to cut so one morning i say to my husband i want to know if i am okay if i am okay i could make the same job than you so he said wow yes if i am not ill okay i couldn't do that so we take the um everything is necessary to go in the field and he put you know more so a piece of wood and inside to me how to do i say put more put more after put more you know like that yes if god is with me i could the first time not but the second time yes and after i turned and i could say everything you know this is god this is not me how many how many understand what she's saying yeah i think you got the idea she's healed but her husband was cutting firewood cutting a tree down and splitting the wood and she said if i'm healed i should be able to split it as well and so she's got all this strength to split the wood and everything so it was a mighty healing anybody here suffer from lyme's disease anyone what's that well if you're online you have lyme z somebody's got their hand up over there had it have it i'm not sure what you're saying another one very very good well lord if you have it run up here and ministry team come and gather around them we're just going to pray for you that what happened to this lady will happen to you so quickly come on run run run yeah maybe you can't run i don't know uh come on ministry team front road uh trevor kate sandra um stu chloe steves trish patricia is there only one that's good there's only one with lyme disease that's good stretch your hand up here towards chantel and say plus [Laughter] ah shabba in the name of jesus lord come and fill this precious french lady with your fiery love and your glory that rests mightily upon us in the name of jesus amen my dear thank you so much give her a big hand right there she uh she's a a part of a wonderful charismatic catholic community over there in france not too far from you guys phil right there in brittany you could have taken a one-hour ferry ride and joined us for all of that yeah no fairies going he says but anyway um it was just a blessing to see how god just came and and and filled all those people there's hunger all over the place isn't there why don't you lean over to your friend and say fire on you go on just take a good big drink of the holy spirit carol are you helping me with this or or what all right let me make a couple of announcements quick um tomorrow the doors will open at 9. the the lobby will open at 8 30. so come on in at 8 30 get a cup of coffee in the coffee shop and the doors will open at nine o'clock um [Music] no saving of seats overnight all right anything you leave on chairs will be placed in the lost and found so that's at the end of the night that happens and all the info that you need is in the conference booklet or go ahead and ask the front desk if you have any questions let me find out where everybody's from how many are here from somewhere in europe wave at me wave wave wave stand up and wave come on all you europeans god bless you guys and uh you know just just curious but does that include the uk still at the moment well done for brexit by the way you know come on that's that globalism is not the kingdom not the same thing at all but uh how many are here from the uk somewhere stand up and give us a proper wave yeah come on there you go all right we have at least one lady from france are there any others from france how about germany how about anywhere else in europe that i didn't mention like scandinavia or iceland i see maria as here from iceland in france are you from iceland also where [Music] norway great wonderful where switzerland very very good how about south america anybody here from south america yes what country my dear good and loud relay it up to me i can't hear colombia fantastic uh how about uh the far east china japan uh great korea yes all right very very good these guys from korea and uh that young june there from korea his entire family has come over here to take our leader's school over the years he also has taken it he came back to take it again i just think that's amazing how was it the second time the second time through better than ever four times is that what you're saying you're holding up four what does that mean you've taken the school leader school four times every time gets better did you know that gordon and kathy the five-month school wait a minute he's taking the five-month school after this well hey you can't get enough of a good thing i guess i was going to make some comment about well some people need a little more time you know but i said no no it's it's all good stuff uh if you're from somewhere else in the world that i didn't call you out just wave at me and we'll oh yeah i missed half of you united states is there anybody here for me [Applause] congratulations on your new president by the way am i allowed to say that without getting stoned or you know how about from canada very good all right well bless your hearts i i want you to know that to the best of our ability we want this to be a safe place for you not only to have good teaching but to encounter the presence of god in a life-changing way how many have had their lives revolutionized in this place wave excitedly if you're excited i mean you know wow that's so good and i just said to carol you know ben we've been doing this for 23 years and she's like yeah and and so it seems like forever and yet we've only just begun and god is in the business of changing lives through the word and the spirit and supernatural encounters by the holy spirit that get right down to the root of the problem is really where we want to go and that's why we want to pray for people every opportunity we get so before you go home tonight even though you've been traveling and it's late and everything how many are a bit jet-lagged besides me you know i think kenya is like nine hours different than here and uh yeah so your body doesn't know what day it is never mind what time it is but but don't leave before you get prayer tonight right just dust yourself off from all the cares of life and all the busyness and all the stuff that we think is so important that actually is not all that important compared to the things of the kingdom amen so take a minute pray for your friend and say hey i just lift all that off you all that busyness all that cares and all that all the grunge and all the yuck and all that that and all the everything we just get it off and you watching at home we take it all off of you as well all the heaviness all the burdens all the cares of this life we lift it off and we remind you that jesus is alive and everything comes alive in him so it's so good well listen let's stand to your feet and let's welcome eric johnson as he comes and shares the word with us tonight come on young man this is his first time here his dad's been here many many times his brother's been here this is our first time so welcome welcome welcome eric god bless you over to you i'll get this out of the way all right all right i'm not sure if i'm wait for a sound guy okay sound guys give me a heads up what do you want from me check one anyways hello we are having some technical difficulties at the moment so do you want me to switch no talk to your neighbor for a moment tell them how beautiful they look right now okay i'm here hello everyone all right go toronto huh well it is an absolute honor to be here this is as john said this is my first time not to canada but to toronto and uh it is a tremendous honor to be up on this stage to be honest with you this place impacted our world our family our church and me personally for the last 23 years and when the holy spirit broke out here on father's day i was actually just graduated high school and so i was in a new season of life and so we got the good old vhs tapes anybody remember the vhs tapes did anybody still have those some oh my goodness you might want to hang on to those those are um very valuable and um so we were deeply deeply impacted by what the lord was doing i'm here all those years and still continue to this day we admire you guys from afar we love we just love what god done with this house and what he continues to do as it's spreading all over the planet and so um ben asked me at lunch today what happened when you got the invitation i said i was honored i mean i've never been here let alone to become the speak in the house that has such a rich history that ultimately changed the world and continues to change the world so i'm humbled i'm honored to be up here in front of you because i know this room has a lot of people that could stand up here and preach and teach and give what god's given them so again i am really honored to be here so johnny carl thank you and uh love we love you guys every time you come our way you mess us up real good and uh we love it we love it we had carol speak on a sunday morning and um i don't think she enjoyed the fact that we had to end the service you know you know carol i mean carol's like we have three services and our sanctuary is really small and we've got you know we've got people coming parking lot and i don't think she enjoyed the fact that we had to end it you didn't huh no i knew i it was hard we're like oh so sorry we're totally quenching something i know that so anyway we still love you and we want you to come back and release more of what you got so pray for us because we're actually in the early stages actually a couple years into it a building project i was sharing with duncan earlier on a building project hopefully we won't have to have time constraint on our sunday morning services and honestly that that what we're hoping for and many people don't realize our facility our campus right now we have multiple campuses but our largest meeting room it's about 900 people and we have about 8 000 people that call bethel their home church so do the math it's insane how much i mean it's just it's a lot of church and a lot of we got to end this one because the parking lot we have one road coming in and that's it so i mean you if we go over if i go over on sunday morning by one or two minutes it creates a 10 to 15 minute additional traffic jam because it's just mayhem so carol experienced that pressure from uh plead i know you want to keep going but we've got to let everybody go so anyway carol we love you we love you so all right it um i'm excited to be here um i've been preparing for tonight and tomorrow um not wrestling with if anything to say at all it's more of what to bring what what should i bring in the next couple days for you guys and so i'm looking forward to sharing my heart with you and what the lord is doing in our world and where he's leading us where he's taking us but before i get into any of that i want to introduce my family i have a lovely family and i have to send them pictures in this is uh this is this is very recent so this is the latest um this capture this captured us so obviously the guy is me hopefully he's figured that out by now um the young lady that i'm holding hands with that's my youngest daughter her name is sayla mari johnson and she is 15. she is a sophomore in high school and she is on the ski team and she just had her first race yesterday and i happened to miss it but it's okay i have many more races to come and she is a lot like her mother my my wife on the far left she's a lot like her kind of know kind of got a big drive in life sayla got into freshman year in high school and she pretty much had done all the research on colleges met with the counselor unbeknownst to us she come home and funny enough within the next few months my wife started getting all these phone calls from colleges and she was like i didn't give anyone my number well sayla put my her my wife's phone number in all the submissions so they're all calling so we're calling about your daughter sayla and she's like what what's going on here so she's done all this research she'd already got her college picked out she knew what major she wanted to do i mean she just got it all sorted out and she wanted to do business and marketing which is not a surprise to us when she was five years old she came to us and said i want to make a lot of money i said i believe you should too because you're my retirement plan i'm going to give you everything i have and i want my retirement taken care of by you i didn't say that out loud i thought it but celeb she was five and we caught her in the middle of a and a funny moment we actually i was able to pull my phone out um or my i don't remember we have cameras or phones and i pulled some type of camera device out and recorded this rant from a five-year-old so it's a little bit of a ranting and she was very frustrated that all of her toys were made in thailand or china and she was really upset about she's five and she's really upset she was like every toy she grabbed it and she was just showing it's made in china it's made in thailand or thailand that's what she called it thailand and she's really upset about the fact that all of her stuff was not made in redding california she was i mean she's five years old she's like i'm gonna put redding on the map i'm gonna make stuff and i'm gonna find famous people and i'm gonna have them have it because when people she's five and she said because when somebody sees a famous person that has something that i made they're all going to want to buy it and she's got it all figured out i'm all business and marketing that seems to make sense to her so that's my youngest daughter sayla she is stunning she's creative smart and witty she is she's way wittier than me so i'm losing all the battles of sarcasm to her so the next one over that's my oldest daughter kennedy kennedy kate she is 17 and she's driving of course and she is a junior in high school and she um is into sports she's super into sport been playing high school obviously school sports she's on traveling teams and clubs and she's just really into sports so we have a couple more years of schooling with her and then we'll see what's next for her she loves kids and loves sports i'm sure there's going to be a mixture of those two and then the next wonderful lady is my best no not i'm sorry i'm gonna talk about my wife before we go to the picture thank you my wife she's my best friend she's my lover she's my companion and partner in life we just celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary a few months ago we got we got number 20 coming up and we've been talking about 20 years since we got together we're going to do something big on our 20 years and when we started dating in college we and we knew that we're going to spend the rest of our life together one of our things where we want to grow old together we want to eat gray hair together and we want to get old together so you will hear my wife and i talk about how much you like getting older because we actually we actually think you get better with age three people agree with that well duncan do you know that we get better with age we do anything that has value is worth a lot because it got older nobody nobody by spending lots of money and raisins but people spend a lot of money in wine why could it get better with age and so we really believe that the bible's very clear about that and so we live in a culture we live in a day and age that emphasize that you need to be younger you need to be younger and i'm sure there's a place for it but really it's uh it's actually i believe it's a it's somewhat of a i don't know i don't want to give the devil too much credit but i do think it's a plan of the enemy to not to get people to not value getting older and so if i have anything to add to that conversation i don't know if i'll have gray hair by the time i get that age i hope i have hair that's really what i'm praying for so we'll see we'll see when that time comes so anyway that's my lovely family the next photo is just a funny one this is who we are when no one's watching we love to have fun that's a few years old but that's my lovely family and uh anyway i wanted you to meet them at least with the picture so thanks guys for that you know i want to i brought some book i want to get this done tonight don't have to deal with it tonight or tomorrow i don't remember how long ago but my dad and i co-wrote a book a few years back called momentum it's been out again i forget how many years probably five or six years maybe seven years and dad wrote four chapters and i wrote seven when um the publisher came to meet with me there were um about a couple ideas around the book my dad was in the meeting and we were talking about spiritual inheritance we were talking about inheritance in general biologically spiritually and just inheritance in general and that was something that um just to give you a little bit of a background i'm sixth generation pastor so you can imagine on my dad's side on my mom's side i'm fourth generation christian so you can imagine my upbringing is i had five options growing up apostle prophet pastor teacher evangelist i mean that's that's actually a joke but no one ever said that maybe they bought it at least they didn't say it so you can imagine my upbringing was very much in the uh momentum if you will of a real strong spiritual christian heritage and i there's not a day that goes by that i'm unaware of that i'm fully aware of it even at the young boy and actually what probably until junior high high school that i realized that i'm in a very unique situation because i didn't really realize that a lot of my friends did not have that kind of background at all actually quite the opposite and so when i became aware of that it became a very grateful and you know bible talks about much is given much is required and so that is definitely something at the forefront of my mind in the forefront of my heart of everything we do so i'm aware of a very unique opportunity and a unique position that i'm in to have such a strong christian heritage and so i wanted to write this book for um as we were sitting there talking about this the idea i forget who brought it up but someone said why don't you and your dad both do the book together and i said that'd be brilliant i mean coming from two different perspectives in regards to inheritance but i want to talk about something because sometimes when i when i share that some people think well i don't have a dad or a mom or i'm first generation christian and this book is is really doesn't just address that biological inheritance it's actually my my ultimate dream with this book that it would make all of us aware of the spiritual momentum that had been building ever since god started everything and it's important to realize that because in the old testament who your biological father was was really a big deal i mean that was your identity your dad was your identity but everything changed when jesus died on the cross it didn't it didn't demote that it didn't weaken it jesus just added a whole another dimension to it and and what matters what is he your daddy if he's your daddy that's the greatest inheritance of all the greatest momentum of all and every i'm not going to teach on it here at all because i don't need you it's in here but every time i've taught on spiritual inheritance and momentum without fail anywhere in the world without fail i have at least bless you i'll have at least one person come up to me and say well i don't have a family like yours i'm first generation and i say that's perfect and i look them in the eye and say do you realize you have an opportunity that i will never have you're actually in a position you have an opportunity you have to do something that i would never able to do that's not my assignment my assignment is to inherit and to increase it your assignment is to start something it's to actually start something and to shift your entire inheritance in a different direction and say can you imagine right now i do this to every person that tells me i don't have a family like yours i go through this whole spiel i said can you imagine right now that person six generations ago my dad's side four generations ago my mom's side they're in heaven right now saying oh my goodness that decision i made to follow jesus look what it's doing right now on the earth their their bank account is just getting flooded with more riches than they could ever imagine so i want to challenge you if you didn't if you are first generation christian you are you have a unique beautiful opportunity to start something and i just want to encourage you with that so this book really deals a lot with spiritual inheritance and why we tend to look at revival with an end in mind it's amazing how many it's amazing how many believers actually look at a move of god and they're already planning for when it to end it's really that it's not it's an un-non-kingdom mindset anyway that this book is full of that did someone stand up a second ago yeah i want to give it to you could you stood up no one else stood up so i was waiting so congratulations uh last one um this one i do want to give this to the person that traveled the farthest so somehow we're going to find that out all right so i'll and it can't be john um this one is christ in you this one i wrote a couple years ago now is why god trusts you more than you trust yourself and uh my heart with this book is one of the most most common well-known verses in scripture christ in you the hope of glory and it's amazing how much of the church looks at that verse as their ticket to heaven it is but it's also much more than that and my heart was to explore what does it actually mean to have christ live in you and we often don't realize how much god actually trusts us he actually trusted way more than you trust yourself how do you know that well why would he put jesus in you if he didn't trust you anyway that's there's a lot more going on in this verse and i want it in uh in verse verse this is not a verse this is the book um so who traveled the farthest everybody's pointing right here where from where new zealand yeah that is a bit of weight away did anybody beat new zealand where who's farther i don't i don't know compare notes new zealand wind come on come up here i love new zealand you go all right [Applause] let me share some testimony to what what god's been doing in our world the last literally the last i think five weeks maybe six weeks we've had something really special obviously a lot of miracles and healing but this one's really is um is special i have we have a man in our church you've been here for been in our church for a little while and um 35 years ago a little over 35 years ago he slept with his girlfriend and she got pregnant they weren't saved at all this was pre-jesus and um something happened where the girlfriend and him decided to part ways and go the other direction and if i remember the story correctly it wasn't something he wanted he felt indebted like i need to take care of her and my future child and she pretty much wanted nothing to do with them so she they they split and they never saw each other again and he was he heard stories and rumors about that they get she gave birth to a daughter his daughter but never seen her and in 35 years ago this took place and some random thing happened um i know it was in the last six months somebody got a hold of somebody and thank god for facebook you know facebook has a very it has a very interesting side but there's some really beautiful things about facebook how is reconnecting people that haven't haven't found each other and this man got a facebook message from a girl and basically long story short long story short that are you this person i think you might be my dad 35 years he had never seen his own daughter in 35 years always wondered where she was who she was where she was out i mean can you imagine any fathers knew i could not even fathom that and come to find out that the daughter thought and was told that the dad wanted nothing to do with her for her entire life when he on the other side had no opportunity to communicate i want to take care of you so two different narratives happening here well she would somebody a guy in a church and my daughter retold me 35 years i've never seen her never met her before we've been talking on the phone for hours on the end well she flew out about two months ago and stayed for a couple weeks and she's working on getting out to a 35 year a father and a daughter reunited with another situation very cool we had another situation where i'm a family a family in our church we're down in southern california on i forget why they went but they're down there and they're driving on a um a city bus through the streets of l.a and um the the brother i'll tell you why his brother and a man the brothers in the bus happen to look outside the bus and they pass the you know they're going down the street and he looks out and he said that's my brother and the bus is going the brother ran away from home 16 years ago and no one knew where he was and he's in la looks out his window and said that's my brother so they got off the bus went back and said are you so and so so they've seen each other in 16 years another situation so they were reunited another situation 15 years another man in our church because of a previous relationship had a son the son is 15 or 16 somewhere around there and hasn't been allowed to have a relationship with his son and it's been 15 years the circumstances have completely changed that now the son is relocating because he's still a teenager relocating to reading to live with his dad so we've had three very interesting circumstances happening obviously it's god in the midst of it in the last five or six weeks these families have been reunited and there's actually some other ones that have not that long but 35 years 16 years and 15 years so what i want to do right now i i wonder if there's anyone in this room you've been estranged or disconnected from family members for any length of time i want to i thought the lord's going to break through for people i feel like the lord's going to restore families and reconcile families tonight and so if that makes sense to anyone i want you to stand up if you have family family members you can go it could be a eighth cousin for all i care honestly if that's you i want you to stand up we're going to pray over you and we're going to declare that in the next 24 48 hours that you get text messages facebook somehow you run into family members so if you're standing and you're sitting by someone that's standing get your hands on them and if you're not by someone go for it go go attack somebody if you are standing because of this i want you to put your hand up we want to make sure we see you we have a couple right in the middle here make sure and come thank you jesus father we are so grateful for the testimonies of 35 years 16 years and 15 years and we just released that testimony over each of the ones that are standing right now that each of the ones that are standing right now we declare breakthrough we declare reconciliation whatever the pain the hurt the longevity the discouragement the hopelessness just all of the stuff that's surrounding this situation tonight it will be lifted off in jesus name it will be lifted off there will be faith hope and love would be released into each person that's standing and we just declare in the next 24 48 hours that text messages phone calls facebook messages random reconnection would take place in 24 48 hours we declare that now we call to the north to the south to the east and to the west come home it's time to come home say that with me come home for those you that are standing up you need to yell this with me come home one more time come home shall we release that now in jesus name and we thank you jesus ahead of time for what's about to take place amen amen [Applause] amen is thomas maria where are you guys at thomas maria these are my dear friends from iceland these iceland we need to pray for iceland right now we need would iceland need jesus would you guys stand up this is thomas maria if you don't know them make sure you hug them i'm dear friend of ours is catherine here catherine good to see you i want you to stand up too i want to pray for all three of you this is the same family came to our church on school of ministry and planted a church back in iceland and so let's extend a hand to these three and they live in one of the most atheistic countries in the world and i think at the divine setup it is a divine setup for god to show up because we know for some people they have to go to the absolute end of their road before they find jesus or before jesus finds them so i pray for iceland right now god we know that you've called that nation to be your nation we know that you are their god and you are their savior and i pray right now for iceland we cover that nation and we say wake up we say wake up we say iceland come home we speak over that nation come home and i pray for this family right here will continue to be a a pivotal catalyst for that nation to come to jesus and i pray for signs and wonder to increase pray for signs and wonders and miracles to increase amongst their midst as they're walking down the street and the stores in the malls and that people would have encounters with you and everybody said amen amen i love you guys good to see you [Applause] if you have your bible get it open to philippians chapter 3. philippians chapter 3. anybody hungry 10 of you okay that's all i need all i need is 10. the rest of you i hope you're i hope you're hungry too philippians chapter three just have your finger there i wanna i wanna talk obviously a little bit tonight and then i'll actually want to kind of lead into tomorrow night at least at this point that's my plan if something changes something changes but i i do have a goal i do have a place i want to get to by the end of tomorrow night that's my last time my last session speaking and i want to i want to talk a little bit about i know i'm we're in a room right now with many pastors and leaders from within the church outside the church and so i want to talk to leaders i want to talk to leaders tonight and tomorrow and i want to challenge you i want to provoke you i want to i want to get you to um potentially think outside the box um if at minimum i'd love to make you aware of something that i believe is really important and essential for where we are and where we are going at the body of christ whether it's this movement it doesn't matter what movement it is i just we're the lord taking the church right now i believe we live in the greatest time in history i believe that wholeheartedly that is not a prophetic i hope statement it is an actual true reality statement we live in one of the most unique times in human history and i believe it's one of the most beautiful times in human history even in the midst of the confusion the crisis tragedies all the stuff that we hear about even in the midst of that now this is one of the greatest times in human history more people are getting saved in a day's time than any other time in human history people say that people are getting saved faster than the rate of people being born and so we live in a very unique time in human history so i want to i whatever your current situation is wherever your current status is as a leader what you're experiencing my challenge to you is for the next few days is to rise above your situation and get a view get a bigger view of what god is doing and so i want to encourage you if you came in here tired discouraged exhausted not sure what to do just just turn that off for right now however best you can and i want to on my heart i know for every leader i know for the leadership here is to get us to come up and get a bigger perspective of what the lord is doing because right now is the greatest time in human history and i'm so excited to just even say that comment because not everybody can say that before and so we just live in a beautiful time in human history so i want to lay a little bit of a foundation tonight and if not by any means only to set up tomorrow night they both they both will have its own point but i do have a goal i want to get to tomorrow night and i realize we're talking to pastors and leaders i want to propel you on a movie forward so let's talk let's read a couple verses to kind of set kind of the the heart of what i want to go after tonight and tomorrow to philippians chapter 3 verse 12 not that i have already attained or am already perfected but i press on say that with me but i press on that i may lay a hold of that for which christ jesus has also laid a hold of me brethren i do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing i do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead i press toward the goal for the pride of the upward call of god in christ jesus therefore let us as many as are mature have this mind and if anything you think otherwise god will reveal even this to you nevertheless to the degree that we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us be of the same mind that passage obviously sits in a in a larger context of a letter paul is writing to um philippians is actually i say this about every book in the bible but it's one of my favorite books and um it really is i know it's kind of funny to say the reason why i like philippians apart from the rest of paul books is this is the book you can tell paul's relationship with this church is is very deep it's very um it's very genuine not that his relationship with the other churches were not the other churches that he wrote letters to would more of instruction correction encouragement edifying but what's different about philippians there's actually not a lot of flow and there's not a lot of direction within the letter have you ever noticed you can tell you're really good friends with someone that you can have a 10 minute conversation with them and there's no structure or point to the conversation you can talk for 10 minutes and you can talk about 20 things and you didn't even finish thoughts you didn't even finish phrases and at the end of the 10 minutes you're like that was the best conversation i've ever had how many know what i'm talking about why because there's a deep connection it's real you pick up where you left off it's spontaneous it doesn't need structure it doesn't need any formality hi my name is eric what's your name where are you from it doesn't need that you don't do that with close friends it's your pick up where you left off it's spontaneous in nature and you're just you're just the happiest thing around why could that that that is a symptom of a deep relationship and the book of philippians had that nature about it had that feel about it it's just random and kind of all over the map not in a distracting way but it is in a very you could tell paul had a genuine deep relationship with this church because he it's different than in other letters and so within that context he put something in there he's he's almost telling them this thing i press on towards the goal i am laying a hold of tonight what i want to talk about is new territories new territories movement is really important movement is is is more essential than we realize there's actually three things i'm going to try to go through tonight if you're note takers i'm going to help you out early on you can this will help for those of you the light things in order first one to jesus is movement second one is movement is essential and the third one is movement is new territories i'll read it again jesus is movement movement is essential and movement is new territories those are three things i want to try to cover tonight jesus is movement how many realize that when you said yes to jesus you haven't stopped moving since then i mean it it is not like you entered a safe realm you entered into a little bit of an insane psychotic reality of like i didn't realize what i was signing up for everything i had planned in life did not turn out the way i had planned but yet none of us were traded in for anything else you see saying yes to jesus is movement itself this is why paul talked about with unveiled faith we are being transformed from glory to glory what we know that as the believer there is only one direction for the believer it's from glory to glory there is no other direction when you say yes to jesus you don't go backwards you don't go sideways you only go from glory to glory now you're like you don't know my life no i'm telling you right now you're just in between the glory and glory you're in what bishop gardens said the hallway hell is in the hallway but the point is you're still moving you might not like the movement but it's you're still moving the only i didn't know the right language but the only requirement isn't even the right word but let me just give me grace when i say that because i know that we're not we can't earn anything i understand that but there is only one requirement for moving from glory to glory is when you say yes to jesus that's it there is nothing else what's the point there's nothing else we have to do to say yes to moving from glory to glory the moment you said yes to him you signed up for movement from glory to glory there is no other option it doesn't happen to the believer you might feel like you're going backward but somehow in the end you'll realize oh that's from glory to glory how many realize god is not a linear god he's not linear some of you wish he was you wish god was a little bit more systematic and methodical about how he plans out and does your life and some of us we don't know how to grasp god myself included we don't know how to grasp them because we think in linear context a b c d in order to get to z it has to look like this we have to understand now can god be linear can he operate in a linear context of a straight line or at least a general might be wavy here and there but at least we we can see it where we're going of course god can and has he yes he has i think we can all look at our life say oh yeah this abc that was totally god i'm so thankful because i i actually knew b was coming i knew c was around the corner and i knew d was coming but let's be really honest god is not a linear god he is multi-dimensional we don't even have language in any language ever known a man to accurately depict and describe how multidimensional god is paul worked hard in the bible to try to you know manifold wisdom that's all he could come up with which means multifaceted intelligence of god what's the point god is multi-dimensional did you notice that when your mom and dad got together and had some action and you were formed you were created when things began to take place how many notice and we know this now because technology shows us that it wasn't like a toe appeared in your mommy's womb and it wasn't like a toe formed into a foot and then it wasn't like the ankle showed up oh there's another foot floating around in the room oh the legs are forming and then no no we don't we don't even get formed linearly but yet we try to we try to flatten a multi-dimensional god no you formed and once the heart is formed they say the heart is the first fully functioning organ in the womb once the heart is formed then everything grows in every direction from that point on what's my point is you might not think you're going in the glory to glory but you are why because you said yes to him okay some of you really need to hear this could you like my life has not been a glory to glory progression it has been anti-glory to anti-glory to even more unl i mean we've got all these the beliefs and thought i'm telling you it is a lie the moment you say yes to jesus it's movement from glory to glory this is how he works now the only thing i can find in scripture is when we blatantly refuse god then then your movement changes you're not necessarily going from glory to glory but i have a feeling you didn't come all the way here because you blatantly refused god i mean if you did wow that's impressive i'm really impressed maybe i don't know i didn't mean to be sarcastic but that would be impressive what's my point jesus is movement when you say yes to jesus you're moving you're never going to stop it is going to continue and when we get comfortable guess what jesus said time to pack up we're moving on and you're like i don't want to move on well too bad you need to move on and often i'm going to get here i'm going to i might dabble in tomorrow night already so just it's just going to be one big conversation new territory is the nature of jesus it it is the nature of the kingdom to conquer more territory now in the old covenant it was about fighting it was about war it's about conquering and we don't do that anymore but we still need to conquer territory whether it's personal or whether it's over culture over nation there's still a scent of new territories so we have to understand we say yes to jesus there is movement it if you're not moving it's not healthy so movement is essential it's so essential we have a family friend this is about oh i don't know four or five years ago uh ended up in the hospital and she is elderly and something was going on in her body that she was in extreme pain and parts of her body was shutting down it was actually quite scary and death was not that far away to be honest with you it wasn't right here but it was like if something doesn't change death is going to meet her and it was it was just what a scary situation and so they called us all in we're all engaged and and the family's getting in there and so they do what all doctors do at least in this situation because her pain level was so high they actually injected her with tons of pain medication to help her to you know be comfortable on some level and this woman in particular she is a feisty woman she is she um she has no filter like what she thinks she tells you and if i were to repeat some other stuff today it would offend you and so i'm saying she but but she's one of the most godly women i've ever met in my life and she's no filter she's raw she's blunt she's honest and she comes from a rich line of christian heritage and here she is i we know her she's very feisty and when so when something bothers her she doesn't have that i'm just gonna keep that to myself she has this compulsion to tell everyone i don't like that and she'll bluntly tell you i don't like your haircut you shouldn't have gotten a haircut i mean it it just it blunt that's just who she is and so here she is in a hospital bed we all know her on that level and here she is in a hospital bed literally in tremendous pain but know that her fight was gone her feistiness was numbed i mean her her tenacity audacity to fight was just not there why because she's under the influence of pain medication to help her be at comfort so several days go by and we begin to realize her will to fight was gone and when your will to fight is gone especially at her age her body was beginning to shut down and so the family got together and said listen this isn't good we've gotta this is not going in the way we want it to go and so the family got together and said we want the doctors to reduce the pain medication like take i forget how much they said can you at least take this much off and the doctor talked back and forth and the reasoning was because she had no will to fight it was all suppressed under the medication and so they said let's reduce our pain medication and then let's see what happened so they reduced their pain medication and guess who showed up the woman we all knew the woman that we knew would not be happy but what happened her will to fight her feistiness came back and she was basically if i can paraphrase it her will to defeat what was going on in her body was right there and so her fight came back medication was reduced and now her body is they would they would test doing all kinds of testing and they're trying to figure out what was going on but guess what happened i forget within i think within a week she's out of the hospital and that was like four or five years ago but here's the crazy part is because she hadn't moved literally i think it was a week or a week and a half my timeline's a little off but she hadn't moved at all she completely in bed was starting to get bed sores and when we reduced the medication she now had some i she wanted to move but she couldn't why because her muscles had atrophied and so i remember my friend who worked in a third level of the hospital he works specifically he's a physical therapist that works with people that are dying that are have extreme illnesses that are at the end of their life and he's able sometimes they re propone that death so i called him he's a friend of mine said listen i've got this situation and i told him everything i just told you and he said i'll check her out by the end of the day and this is when they reduced the pain meds her fight came back and so i called him up he said i'll check her out by the end of the day and i'll give you a call so i think that night or the next morning i get a phone call from him and he says hey i went and saw so and so and i uh he he said basically man that woman's feisty that's why that's what we want we want that right there and she said eric i had to spend an hour and a half just to get her out of bed i took an hour and a half just to get her sit up rotate to the edge of her bed and to get on her feet because her muscles and her body had atrophied to the point that she couldn't move anymore she had the will but physically was not able to and so she then even more pain because the pain measure we do but now her body is atrophied i had to basically force her to walk down the hallway i had to force her to move and that's what he said and she had some very select words for me in those moments because she's feisty and i said but i got her to walk down i think it was like 20 feet something i mean something very short i got her to walk 20 feet and then got her back in bed he said i'm going to be going back every day and i'm going to be making her get out of bed now at four or five years ago what's the point if you don't keep moving you begin to atrophy and sometimes is leader whether it's discouragement or not unfulfilled expectations we actually just kind of sit still and we no longer move forward we no longer have a desire to conquer new territory we no longer wake up in the morning with a reason to wake up we just kind of hit cruise control and it's one of the most dangerous things as leaders is to do that right there because the moment you stop actually having a reason to get up in the morning you begin to if you allow me to spiritually atrophy and then it becomes even harder to climb out of the hole movement is so essential why do you think god kept the nation of israel wandering around the same mountain for 40 years in the wilderness have you ever thought about that why didn't they just camp out in one spot for 40 years and wait they would have died it wouldn't have worked god kept them moving in their worst season because he knows you have to keep moving movement is essential this is what nation of israel i did the math on it and if i remember my math correctly it is the longest slowest walk in human history it should have taken maybe two weeks to get from egypt to the promised land and that's like a conservative pace instead it took 40 years and if i did my math correctly they averaged about 100 to 150 feet per day i don't know how many meters that is 40 meters a day that's what they averaged for 40 years imagine that that's not very fun now i understand they didn't move 40 meters every day but the point is that distance shouldn't have taken 40 years now we know the reason why they weren't allowed to go in the promised land but my point is this god kept them moving he kept them getting up and packing up and moving on weren't we just here three years ago yep we were yep i went yep that's where that happened i've seen that bush man that bush is bigger i mean those are the conversations i've been here before how many have ever felt that in life i've been here before you should actually be encouraged on some level i mean you don't want that to be the rest of your life but you should be somewhat incurred why because you're moving you're actually doing something it may feel unproductive it may feel pointless but you have to keep moving i don't feel like reading my bible today do it anyways this is where this is where you just kind of hunkered down that i'm doing it no matter what movement is essential you have to keep moving they say elite athletes we're talking about elite athletes they say if they stop working out and training within two to three weeks they lose a decent percentage of their muscle mass isn't that interesting though it was a fun really funny comment up front if you did not hear isn't that interesting that you can be at the top of your game and you stop for a few weeks and you've already lost a lot they say they actually lose more muscle mass than someone that doesn't actually do much physically so this is i think if i can elaborate just just because i think it's worth mentioning this is why i think some of our top leaders when they have a situation come out and they stop moving forward sometimes the fall is so great why because they're elite if i can use that language without sounding arrogant king david top of his game i mean the top of his game and one day he decides i'm not going to go to work today and that began one of the greatest falls what's the point you have to keep moving i don't feel like moving i know you will you're going to regret it later if you don't that's something like i feel like i'm in a hamster in a wheel i'm just like running well at least you're moving some of you don't want to hear this i know you're like i am enjoying that's why it's like oh i'm enjoying doing nothing right now that's the problem right there so you see that that's the problem right there and if i can be honest with you i think all of us have been at that point at least once in our life by now like i don't feel like doing anything right now i've lost vision i've lost hope i don't even know why i get up in the morning except for the alarm clock woke me up whatever but here's the deal you have to keep moving movement is essential it's actually you actually will die if you don't when the church stops moving forward the past becomes our destination you say that again when the church stopped moving forward all we try to do is recreate what we used to have this is one of the challenges for the church right now all of us no one excused from this one sometimes when we we camp out for too long and we don't actually go okay where are we going now you might be someone in this room that that's like i'm not actually i don't actually see down the road and i don't think everyone has the ability to and i and i wouldn't expect everyone to have the ability to just make sure you're in a community that has the ability to i mean i got people my staff they're my people i work closely with they say eric i do not have the ability to see five ten years on the road but once you paint the picture i'm all in and i love it because they very honestly recognize i i can't see that far i can't even see you know i can't see down the road but they're in a group of people in a community of people that can and that's what's healthy so if you don't have the ability this isn't a shortfall this isn't a this isn't a disability it had nothing to do with it some people have the ability to see father and some people are really good at the moment it's a beautiful thing god set it up perfectly so we actually need all of us together to figure this one out and so sometimes in churches as community believers if we're not actually pressing forward then if we don't if we don't press forward then what we end up trying to do is trying to recreate the past well it used to be this way so let's just try to recreate that it's an interesting dynamic and i understand that being a leader in a church and i understand these dynamics you know you're leaning forward and let's say years go by are we actually going anywhere all the time i want to just let's just kind of do what we used to have let's just kind of recreate it let's here's the formula and here's the the manual here's the here's the the teaching here's the tapes here's the vhs i mean we we i'm not being sarcastic i'm just being real with you we begin to go and listen it's one it's one of the temptations of the leader to just try to recreate where we've been and not actually try to lean into where god's taking us i want to challenge you as leaders there's new territories there's a culture out there that has more gaps in culture today than ever before and yet we're trying to recreate the past and yet there's people out there that have never heard the name jesus there's culture out there right now they had no concept of a god and yet we're trying to recreate the past telling you there's plenty of territory there's plenty of territory right now that it's unchartered there's culture right now that is uncharted you know we have a saying back home and i'm going to steal this from one of my close friends who's the senior pastor of another church in reading and he said eric our goal isn't to gather everyone under one roof our goal is to gather everyone under one father [Applause] there's new territories and you are designed and positioned to conquer that new territory and some of you tonight this is just a message of hey listen you've got to make some things right and you've got to get back into that spot of why you have why are you waking up in the morning you guys still alive okay all right i'm gonna i might i might lose some of you on this part so just bear with me you know when you pull up netflix or hulu or amazon prime or i don't know what you got to have netflix up here i found out last night praise god i'm in the middle of a show right now i was like oh good it's available in canada i was in the uk last summer i was like dang it they don't have my show it's horrible i couldn't live four days without my show but anyway so you have netflix now on netflix you can find a genre of a movie there's a genre that's not available on netflix hulu or any it's called stupid movies there should be one to be honest with you and we should have the abilities that yeah that one belongs in that genre well there we all know there's a lot of stupid movies out there and we all know that there they won their 99.99 of all stupid movies remain stupid but they're often a movie that like jumps out of that genre and become probably one of the best movies you've ever seen some of you are thinking right now oh yeah i know what one they're talking about well the movie i want to make reference to tonight is nacho libre the other one that i actually really want to talk about is napoleon dynamite now i apologize if that movie bothers you if you find it offensive that i would even say that publicly i actually don't do this very often because i can get in a lot of trouble but i stand today to say napoleon dynamite was the stupidest movie ever made until the second time i watched it and by the 10th time it is just the best movie you've ever seen now don't go watch it and then judge me okay just don't do that so in the movie napoleon dynamite there's this character this character hasn't quite moved on in life he he's stuck in a certain era he's stuck in this era in his life the whole movie is actually but that one character did i lose some of you on this you guys okay he's stuck in this this season of his life and he hasn't moved on like he keep referencing like what it used to be like if this would have happened i mean that the character throughout the movie and this character name is uncle rico now uncle rico is an uncle of napoleon dynamite and uncle rico there's a moment in the movie where he's sitting on the front porch with napoleon and i get who else and they're sitting there and it's stupid it's such a dumb movie i'm like anyway it's just dumb i shared this at bethel and that afternoon after church i had people got together in house parties and watched the movie and sent me pictures i'm like oh no this is not good but in the there's a scene where uncle rico says something like this man if the coach would have put me in the game and he's 30 something and he's talking about when he was 18. man if the coach would have put me in the game we would have won state championship and i'd be an nfl quarterback and i'd be a millionaire and he's just talking like that so in my house my wife and i have this joke we have this thing whenever we talk about what it used to be like we look at each other and say don't be like uncle rico and so i want to tell you right now as leaders whether you've seen the movie or not don't be like uncle rico don't talk about man if this would have happened my life will be like this right now we are designed to conquer new territories it is in our blood it is in our dna this is why jesus was constantly on the move jesus would constantly awaken hey guys we got to go over here hey guys we need to go over here jesus we're exhausted okay let's go on vacation on the way to their vacation they get interrupted by multitudes there's constant movement around jesus anything i'm exhausted what jesus was able to do it and thrive and he actually lived inside of us then there's a way to keep moving and not be worn out burned out etc there's actually a way to do it and i want to challenge you some of you are actually here tonight because you're burnt out you've burned every candle you can think of where the lord wants to refresh you the next few days he actually wants to encounter you whack you rock you and all the other words that we use and he wants to give you vision some of you had dreamed that are not fulfilled those are the new territories those are the territories that you need to bring back and put it in front and say god you promised me this and that's why i'm getting up in the morning because of this new territory okay third area i've already kind of championed it but i'll just phrase it movement is new territory written in our code when we met jesus this is who we are if you were to take i believe there are there might be more and this is than meant to be doctrinal by any means or theological by any means it's just more of a a generalized statement that helps me to kind of have a framework when i mention when we meet jesus there seem to be three major emphasises apart from the fact that you're saved by grace and all and all that not at only but something happened as a result of meeting jesus the first thing is you long for something you've never longed for before you have this longing for the father you're like one moment you didn't even know he existed and you said yes to him and all of a sudden the deep called unto deep you have a longing for the father this is why all the father daddy all the we have all these words they're like god i want more of you this is why a majority of our worship songs are like god i want more of you that is a normal not humanistic response it is a normal spiritual response to when you find out he's real you're like i want more of that it's normal it's a longing for the father the second area is you have this incredible desire to serve humanity it's like you walk up and go i know i am alive i'm actually opposed to help i'm actually supposed to contribute to society i'm supposed to contribute and bring the kingdom into every situation i'm to bring light into darkness so this desire to serve humanity just goes up a whole nother level and the third area is there's this intriguing and this is biblical but this intriguing one is you have a desire to rebuild cities most of the old testament is actually designed around rebuilding cities a lot of it is which is interesting if you take another conversation you have power and wisdom in scripture new testament new covenant is a massive demonstration of power jesus would he demonstrated power signs and wonders and miracles crazy crazy stuff but if you study the old old testament the old covenant if you will is there power there of course look at elijah enough said but there's something else a massive strand throughout the old testament and it has to do with the word wisdom now the issue with wisdom for us right now is most people's definition understanding concept of wisdom is good advice wisdom is good advice it is but it's much more than that proverb talks about it exodus talks about it genesis even i mean it's loaded where windom said i was there when he created the heavens and the earth when he said let there be light i was there i formed the deep unto the deep i formed the water i made sure it actually worked so with them if not just good advice with them had the ability to take something that meant nothing or is nothing and make it of value and i don't have time to get into that but my point is simply this when you i feel like what the lord doing in the body of christ right now he's taking if i can use a spectrum you have people that emphasize power and you say the other end of the spectrum emphasize wisdom i've got the lord merging those two in the same body of believers versus that church represents power and that church represents wisdom one of my visions for bethel that we be a house will be a body of believers a community of believers that walk in power and in wisdom some of you need to hear this right now she either demonstrated both could certain situations call for power and other situations call for wisdom so here we are movement in new territories somewhere in the um tomorrow we'll talk a little bit about different eras in human history and i'll go there but i want to do a little bit tonight culture church and culture whenever we talk about church and culture it's intriguing it's intriguing because whenever church and culture get in the same room a fight usually breaks out you know it's like you know you know you know they're just there's just tension it reveals something that's tragic it reveals something that how do we get here what it reveals to me is that we actually have lost our place within cultures now we're just trying to find out how to get re-engaged with culture you see there is a time in human history especially in the early church you see the early church actually defined culture there's actually periodic periods of time within human history that the church was actually creating the culture that the world lived in and so here we are you know you back up to you know you back up to early 1900 a rough time frame you have something that happened which is called suburbia suburbans and people got exhausted of urban centers got exhausted of inner city they got exhausted at the quick expansion the industrial revolution all these things began to kick into play and and people got worn out living in cities now we all know that today that the city's urban centers much like toronto it actually they are responsible to shape culture much of culture across the nation is actually defined within a dense population of people which we would call metropolises or large cities urban centers those urban centers actually define and create culture whether good or bad is not the point right now but actually responsible this is why this is why in california i figured who asked me said you know california there's people in california that want to split they want to split the state in two with modafano but that's another conversation then why do they want to split the state in two because san francisco and l.a are determining the way of life for people out for the rest of the state why because they create culture they politically spiritually religiously and all these things and they create culture and so as a result of that in the early 1900s what you had is you had believers actually left urban centers and they left the cities and they left the centers of culture in other words they lost their place in culture they forgot how to engage and they lost their place and so we begin to set up and this is not this the statement i'm about to make makes no reference to a specific denomination or a specific church so just understand that but we begin to build community churches it's basically let's just leave that and create our own little worlds and in doing that we lost our place and culture we lost our place of influence we lost our place to be engaged with real issues that face humanity today so this is why it feels very much like we're on the outside trying to find a way back in and if i to be honest with you we are making up for lost time now what's happened in the last five years alone especially the last 10 years dramatic steps forward where the church is actually getting back into the center of these culture centers and actually having a voice to bring to the conversation so that we're we're in the midst of one i believe one of the greatest awakenings that we are we're actually seeing it as we speak it just looks different than what we're used to and so we have these community churches that are formed like let's just let's just segregate let's just let's just go and let's just create our own little worlds now in doing that now i i'm sure that i wasn't alive then so i can't tell you what it was like and not much of us were as well but it would probably be like just exhaustion i'm done i just want to get out i want a safe place for my family safe place for my kids et cetera et cetera very good reasons but something else begin to shift that we became a customer-driven church instead of a jesus christ-driven church you see jesus never retreated and hid out he never he went to a safe place but he always left that place to re-engage with culture and jesus and paul i believe are some of the premier examples of people that knew how to engage their culture have you noticed jesus you don't know anything between the age of 12 and the age of 30. all we know the young boy and we leave off a scholarship around 12 years old like all right 12 years old he grew in favor with god and with man and that's pretty much all we hear about jesus until he re-emerges around roughly the age of 30. have you ever wondered what happened between the age 12 and 30 i have and i can't wait to ask jesus himself i want to see every blu-ray dvd hd whatever format it's in of what your life was like between the age of 12 and 30. i'm just fascinated by that but i don't think it too risky to say that he just lived a life and he he grew up in a culture this is why jesus by the time he became 30 he was able to speak into culture with such precision because he understood it he actually understood the thought the framework the mindset the cultural momentum that people were caught up in he said oh yeah well what about this this is why the pharisees were dumbfounded they tried to trap him in the corner with some theological question and jesus would unravel it before their eyes why had you understood culture paul paul was brilliant at this paul would walk around the city for a few days and go oh i know what this city is all about and then he stand up and paul a little differently stand up on us in the synagogue and start preaching and he would unraveling their culture and how how false it was and how ignorant it was this is why paul was so good at this is because he understood culture he understood how people thought how cities fought he understood how major cities in the ancient days how they functioned are you guys following me if i could do anything is to inspire you to not be scared of the society and culture that we are in right now and we have too many people that are still scared like they just need to come into my building and then i'll help them no no they're begging for you to come to them we're going to unpack some more tomorrow night but i just want to inspire you something happened when the church became a community driven customer service driven so instead of coming to church to get parodied to move we became now i want you to satisfy me and we became a customer driven church we became a place where we got upset if we didn't get a parking spot someone's sitting in my seat that doesn't happen here either i know it never happens here never never happened to bethel either one sunday i'm like all right everybody get up find another seat i can't wait to do that i'm waiting for the perfect moment why don't i move no move you need to move that's for another time so we became customer service we walked something happens amazing how much we forget the sermon on the mount from the parking lot to in the church building and out back out of the parking lot it's amazing we forget the sermon on the mount we forget how to actually it's actually not about me and we've changed from a theology to a meology we have we we've made the gospel a meology we made it about me i saw a great quote the other day said you didn't give your life to jesus he gave his life to you like that's a great point that's a really good point and so for some of us i'm myself included we were we at some ways we're out it's not our fault because we just kind of came on the occasion but i want to challenge you our theology has now become a neology so our worship song to more about me than about the creator our teachings more about what can i get out of it instead of what can i give and so we have people this is this is the big deal we have a meal we have a myology where jesus died for me yes he did and we also have a meology around holiness we think holiness is for me it never is about you holiness is actually means unto another it's about jesus it got quiet in here and so we've got this progression we've got to like stop this momentum in place and say all right we've got to change the game my wife and i we have made it our life's goal to raise our children to not be scared of culture there's some risk in that because what you do you you let them be exposed to what's going on i'm going to be careful here so i wanna i probably should i've gone late do i need to end i'm okay okay i grew up in a christian school my parents sent me a christian school and i wouldn't trade it for the world loved it it instilled in me some beautiful things it it was awesome and this is not a commentary i just want to get you to think just a little okay if i can do anything i love going to a christian school in fact i put my children in christian school for a few years but we didn't keep them there the entire time and it's not because of anything against a christian school at all had nothing to do with that it was like i need my children to be exposed to unsafe places now am i putting them in situations where they fail no it just requires more parenting if i can just say be honest with you it just requires me to do my job a whole lot better now am i throwing my children out to the wolves and hey hope you make it no i'm not it's not that ignorant i just want to get you to think a little bit we've got to actually change some of the processes and stuff that we do because when you are unprotected when you are so segregated from what's going on in the world and you're thrown into it it's a really tough transition and so we've we've had to explore this as parents and it's not been easy to be honest with you if you ask me how to go and say that it's going and my kids are great they're they're they're they're doing well but there were moments of my oh my gosh what are what have we done i'm just being honest with you and thankfully there's no massive moral fault i mean there's none of that thank god but it's a little freaky but i have we have such this conviction that we've got to raise our children to not be scared of culture they've actually got to learn to be within it and and know who they are and to be able to be in the midst of it and be a part of the conversations but why jesus was invited to all the parties isn't that interesting jesus the guy repents of your sins and the very people he's preaching she said hey i got a party in my house you want to come isn't that interesting so i think it's safe to ask the question are we being invited to the parties i think it's a really good indication potentially that if you're in culture people want you around they actually want your presence they want you to be around you may not condone the activity of the party but they want you to be there and we know some of the party jesus went to weren't probably christian parties i don't know we don't know that for sure but i'm just gonna propose they probably weren't bible studies are you following me so jesus will you come to our party what's my point i really want to inspire you to not be so segregated from culture it's time for the church to actually look for ways creatively to re-engage with culture to be in the conversation this is why we're dumbfounded when all these major world issues come up we've not been a part of any of the conversations now thankfully there are daniels out there that kind of you know daniel don't fit into any church model daniels wouldn't fit in any church model daniel served three evil kings in some cases they say they're the worst kings in the bible and yet daniel served them isn't that interesting that god would give daniel all the ability to interpret all dreams and visions to serve a man that hated god that didn't make sense let me let me walk that three for a minute here let's say let's say john which he does he's the most loving man in this room so that's why i'm gonna pick on him for a second let's say john didn't like me in fact he hated me which isn't even possible no one hates me no because john doesn't know jonathan had no ability to but just for example john let's say john hates me he he despises me he's actually setting everything up to even make that hate grow and duncan here duncan loves me and i'm like duncan i'm going to give you all the skill sets i'm going to give you a supernatural gift not just the ability to interpret some dreams in some vision i'm asking you to give the ability to interpret dreams that you didn't even know they had i'm going to give that to you so you can serve that man who hates me nobody in this room would do that who in their right mind would enable someone to help someone that hates you so that alone daniel do not fit into the box they don't fit into the common box now thankfully what's happening and i believe in the next five or ten years will be some of the most fruitful years in this conversation so i'm just doing my part to contribute to it we're going to see in the next five or ten years i believe i believe the churches our church is ready for daniel to emerge for the joseph to emerge we actually are getting set up to re-engage with culture and i want to challenge you as leaders as pastored as leaders in your own right whatever you do pray that the lord gives you a new operating system a new paradigm of what it looks like to conquer new territory because there's a lot of territory out there that have yet to see or hear or experience the goodness of god and we all know one encounter of god changes everything okay i'm gonna try to wrap up just give me give me just a second here to reacquaint myself all right last comment and then i'm gonna i'm just gonna pray are you guys getting this tonight okay [Applause] most of our attention as believers should be on the dividing culture the gap between people and god not so much on the divide within the church we are at our best when we serve people we we are brilliant when we serve people i mean there is no other entity if i can use that word that kills it when they serve people jesus was constantly demonstrating the ability to serve and you and i are at our best and the moment we stop serving culture humanity is not a great moment for us so i want to pray that our conviction our attention will be drawn to the gap between people and god the divide the chasm more than any other gap there's a gap in our church the lord will deal with that but right now there's a world out there that has not heard the name jesus yet they've not experienced the goodness of god they have a very skewed view of a good god i'm going to ask please don't stand and there's no shame if you don't stand at all but i i want to pray for people that have a sense of conviction this is resonating in you and you're at different places maybe some of you like wow i've i've actually been segregating for so long or you haven't and you're just like man i want to get more momentum in this conversation wherever you fit in that spectrum i want you to stand this is your way of saying god i'm all in and again if you if you don't want to stand no pressure at all i just simply want to pray for you because i feel like the lord is raising up another army he's raising up people that know how to actually engage in culture that are going to get really good at not flinching they're going to get really good at being known for how much they love people and not so much about what's wrong and what's right one thing my grandfather my dad did he taught us something and i didn't realize it because i was a young boy for most of his life obviously and i when i wrote christ in your book i realized something grandpa am earl johnson the patriarch of our house he taught us how to love people beyond our desire to protect our own reputations and that's my prayer tonight father i pray tonight every person that's standing we are standing right now myself included we want to be agents of change we want to be people that conquer new territories we know that when we said yes to you there's movement that will never end and i pray tonight no matter where anybody's at on the spectrum if we are the person that you know what i've actually been hiding i've been segregating for so many years that i forgot their actual world out there i pray tonight such compassion and love would fall on them that when they leave this place tonight they look at humanity with a completely different lens they actually fall in love with humanity that a moment ago they were scared of avoided or couldn't stand that actually be so overwhelmed with love for humanity that they actually began to thrive outside of safe contexts and i pray for everyone else no matter how far in that spectrum all the way up to people that are super engaged in culture right now i pray for supernatural wisdom and power to fall upon everyone standing right now everyone standing and i pray that you there will be i pray i honestly pray god that you released an operating system to be a download of a new operating system of what this looked like in the days to come we know that the operating system that we've had that you gave us worked beautiful it produced so much fruit to this moment but we know where we're going this new territory there's another operating system there's another way of doing things and i pray that you give us a grace and a strength and courage from deep deep courage to charter this new territory and i pray for an awakening to happen in the hearts and minds of people in this room tonight and i pray for clarity holy spirit i ask that you would make anything clear that wasn't clear and i pray that you breathe life onto every seed that was planted and i pray for leaders of all ages no matter if we've lost our fire our passion tonight we get it all back we get it all back times 10. we aren't done yet we're not we're not done yet we've still got a lot of ground to go after because god we know that you are in the midst of what's happening on a global scale so i pray for an impartation of wisdom tonight to function and operate in culture like never before put your hand on your neighbor for a moment if i have everyone stand for this one holy spirit come increase yourself increase yourself pray that you had messed that person up next to us really good there be refreshing recalibration that there really would be a revival that would take place in them right now more more more more increased increase increase increase increase increase just take another moment just give and receive you can you can do it all at once just give and receive increase increase increase increase increase increase let there be an awakening in our heart tonight let there be another awakening [Music] take us farther take it deeper than you god you promised in the bible that no eye has seen or heard so we have tonight take us to those places so more more more more increased increase increase that's right more and more more just take another moment more more more more that's right increase increase that's right thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] just stay in this mode right now but i want to ask is there a husband a wife in this part of the room and the wife has something wrong physically with you you need a miracle i know that's very general is there a husband and wife somewhere over here there's something wrong with the wife physically wave at me if that's you does it happen to be on the left side of your body by chance no but there's something okay i want to make sure i see this picture is that over here wrong side of the room then okay so the husband and wife if there's something wrong with the left side of your body who is that is that you okay all right well holy spirit we say healing in jesus name in jesus name i don't know what the situation is but we command that part of the body to be completely healed in jesus name i feel like the lord's going to give back to you everything that was taken with interest anything that's been taken from you on a physical level on an emotional level and a spiritual level i feel the lord's returning that back to you with interest everything the enemy took from you giving it back to you and more i also see honestly i feel like tonight when you go to sleep in the next couple of days there's going to be a fresh vision going to be given to you might even have a dream about tonight but i actually see your eyes right now specifically on the wife i see your eyes right now you're going to begin to see things you've never seen before and it's going to become your vision for the rest of your life because there's something about new territories on you you're either going to begin to see stuff that you've never seen before so we bless you in jesus name we bless you in the name of jesus did anybody have a problem with your left knee who is that the left knee okay who else right here okay right over here anybody a wave higher a couple more okay put your hand on your left knee and say no more no more all right test it out take a moment and just test it out right now somebody has a problem with your left ankle and i think it was some type of sporting accident who is that left ankle sporting accident right here okay did it did it roll really bad is that right okay all right i want whoever's sitting next to the i see two people there's someone out okay over here too grab the people next to you have them put your hand directly on that ankle and take a moment and command healing in jesus name somebody got in a car accident i think it was at least five years ago at least five years ago maybe seven and the injuries haven't fully recovered there's still some um after effects well who is that car accident somewhere around five or seven years ago did that make sense to anybody maybe someone you is that you is that your ankle oh okay you had a car accident did your ankle get injured in that do you have other injuries as a result of that car accident or your neck okay all right so we command healing to your neck and your head in jesus name in jesus name from head to toe restore everything from head to toe that's right [Music] okay there anybody that we pray for that something's changed is the left side of your body i don't is anything changed on that something's happening the man in front of you is that your knee how is it is that right no more pain praise god anybody else with the knee anybody else with him just give me a few more minutes and i'm going to we're going to the ministry team up here i know i've gone a little long but just give me another moment is there anything changed with the left side of your body can you say it louder okay all right 100 anybody else anybody how about over here with a car accident how's your neck she's still getting whacked i'll let her finish that out okay is there anybody else that got done something in your ankle your knee would you how's your knee it's better is it is it 100 what what would hurt what would normally hurt it was sore now when you squat and bend there's out the soreness what's that a little bit okay all right 100 percent is there anybody else before we close this out okay praise god praise god if we got the ministry team if you could come up to the front and we're going to transition into just more ministry time up front here and um if you need a miracle in your body you want a fresh touch you're just hungry for more then this team up front here would love to pray for you they want to lay one thing i know about toronto is you love to lay hands on people you're not shy about that and we love that do i need to hand the mic to somebody to carol all right i'll have carol take over yeah if you want prayer for ministry if you want more of being just filled with god just find yourself a green line and this at the back and fueling under the flags and uh we're going to the worship team come back up and just have some worship time and soaking in his presence because you want to be really filled so we also need catchers because it's just safer that way can i have somebody volunteer to come to each ministry team person put your hands up ministry team that need a catcher and just come along and say yes i'll catch for you because you know what the catchers get a double portion i hate to tell you that but that's true okay so when you have i mean uh her then put your hand down okay we're gonna catch for okay we need some more catchers just link up with one of the ministry team come on we need some more catchers anybody that's got their hand up go go link up with them okay ministry team spread out at the front and then go to the back and when you have your when you have your uh uh catcher okay and one line at the front on the toes on the on the green line one line only if the the front is full then go to the back or off to the side back there there's room and back under the flags there's room so lord let your presence come lord come and fill each and every one lord with your incredible fire yo thank you lord come on whoa fire on them lord fill these pastors and leaders out lord ah wow thank you holy spirit [Music] you shut come on i need a couple of guys more lord fill them to overflowing fill them to overflowing wow war on them lord increase your presence and your fire on the lord every bit of discouragement lifting off lord is your incredible anointing comes on the lord fire on the lord pour it in pour it in pour it in pour it in [Music] anybody that still needs prayer you've got to have your toes on the line and there can't be anybody behind you it's too dangerous there's somebody behind you go back to the lines along the side under the flags where you go you don't want to land on somebody wow okay over here [Music] come on catchers whoa just line up along here and we'll pray for you thank you lord let your wonderful glory fall [Music] thank you lord show anybody that wants prayer green line [Music] jesus i thank you to come and fill this precious one up wow with your glory oh thank you lord fill them up if your presence [Music] dancing [Music] [Music] by your presence fire on earth [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh you

Channel: Catch The Fire Toronto

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Length: 195min 40sec (11740 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020