Stewarding Revelation - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

yesterday yeah yeah why don't you express your thanks how many are visiting here for our graduation this week stand up if you're visiting for graduation it's like about a third of the room stay standing the rest of you have the great privilege of blessing these folks and i want you to pray for them which hands on and pray that they go home with more than they ever thought was possible beyond their wildest imagination so just surround them lay hands on them pray for them and bless them extra extra good pray good i want to hear you praying pray some powerful prayers thank you lord thank you lord pray for them that when they return home they would return home to blessings and increase that they literally returned home to the favor of the lord in new areas new ways new parts of life we declare that over you all of our bethel family that's uh watching on tv we bless you as well pray for great great impartation great blessing in jesus name everybody said amen amen bless them good hug them or do something nice and then take your seats um we're going to do a little a prayer focus here before we move on to some other things there's a lot of military type conflict going on in israel right now so i want you just to grab a hand of the person next year if you don't know you've been there all night you should know them by now i don't know what to say i was going to make up something but it didn't sound right so just adjust hold hands with a stranger and i want you to pray let's take a couple minutes i want you just to pray for the peace of jerusalem the peace of israel just pray for them that whole part of the world that there would be this supernatural peace that would come just pray for that pray for that pray for that declare that confess them the peace of the lord or the nation of israel the peace of the lord of the whole the middle east where there's such tension and conflict such misunderstanding god we pray for healing and for peace there we declare that you are the reconciler you are the one who restores and heals we pray for that we pray for political leaders there on both sides of the issues that they would come into the mind of christ the mind of christ for our own nation we pray for our leaders we pray for the mind of christ we ask this in jesus name amen all right you can let go of their hands unless you really like them then you can i'm not going to do what chris does i i can't handle the pressure can't handle we just had a uh another lyme's disease testimony can you just give a brief brief report is here can you do it just wrote just real quick real quick yeah you don't have to preach or anything just tell them tell them what you told me my friend in socal has had lyme disease for years and bill called out lyme's disease numerous times over the past couple of uh weeks i guess and she just notified me um via text that her lyme's disease is healed uh did did you stand in proxy for her or did she just yeah yeah yeah yep yeah we've we've been having this thing happen uh well it's been the last couple years but it seems to be increasing where somebody will stand in place of another i've always believed in it but we've not had high percentage of breakthrough to be honest with you and uh in the last two years since eric's been doing his thing with uh all um no autism uh dyspraxia um that whole thing the brain stuff since he's been doing that people have stood in proxy of other people and then sent a text and miracles have come every time we've done it i mean it's it's just mind-boggling and uh he just came back probably shared if you were here this morning of another one where the the psychiatrist who had uh somebody with autism on heavy meds i guess has completely taken them off of medication and uh and they're they're just restored to normal and uh it's it's just this most amazing thing so we're gonna pray for us i feel like we're supposed to go after uh alzheimer's and dementia i i i feel like we're supposed to develop an attitude an attitude towards because because people in their their spiritual prime are getting robbed of influence because of the assault on the brain it's not the lord it is not the lord and uh i we're going to go after this more in the future because because i need to ponder this for a bit but let me just tell you at the get go here uh several years ago i was flying home from new zealand and i on the plane i was contemplating i was thinking about i just spent time with dear friend one of my heroes of the faith winky pratny and he had had a stroke where a part of his brain blew up and he literally i mean it was it was just just destroyed and he he had to relearn everything and he did and he was like oh i don't know 95 maybe 100 completely restored of something that was impossible to restore and he's he's one of the most brilliant men i've ever met and just this man that is so completely devoted to jesus been a real hero of mine for 40 plus years so anyway i was thinking about him and then i was remembering i just spent time with roland baker roland and heidi and roland had they have x-rays of his brain where his brain was dying and he was he would be awake for like an hour a day they would clothe him they would feed him he could do nothing on his own they called the family members together to say goodbye and long story short they put him in this place where he received a lot of care and ministry and jesus healed him and just and just i mean it's impossible it's impossible for it to happen so winky pratny and ron baker probably the two smartest people i know and so i was sitting on a plane thinking about how god healed them and it hit me he's restoring he's restoring brains so when i when i got home i called out anyone who had had had a head trauma and that's when we started to have a wave of miracles through people that had had uh maybe automobile accident we had some uh we had one we've had cases of amnesia uh previous to this we had a case in oregon up in the portland area of complete total amnesia that god healed uh so many things to do with the brain and so i feel like there's just this increasing wave now it's hitting uh autism and uh and uh some of these other areas bipolar we've had oh we quit counting at 65 i think it was uh cases and that was several years ago so the point is is anything to do with the brain epilepsy we had a gal healed in in cleveland that had 30 plus seizures a day on medication on medication and she came into the meeting we prayed for but when i talked to her later she said actually when i came into the meeting i felt it lift she came into the atmosphere of divine health and that thing that had been plaguing her for her entire lifetime was just literally lifted off and last i heard she was in university studying the science of the brain because she wants to help people in that area really brilliant actually uh she was a fashion model in new york and she's now giving herself to this let's study the brain it's amazing how jesus works so the point i'm trying to make is guess what the brain gets healed it's in the heart of god to heal the brain we've seen people uh with uh tremendous damage on the brain through drug abuse that sort of thing a friend of mine uh in weaverville his brain was literally fried on drugs and couldn't concentrate on a single item at any time he was it was anything of that nature was just absolutely impossible for him and he ended up getting saved but he still had the issue with the brain with his mind and and the lord spoke to him and said if he would give attention to memorizing the scriptures now is there anything more difficult when you can't concentrate on one simple thing but he gave himself to try to memorize a scripture and he did it and then another and then another and literally through the memorization of scripture god healed his mind so i i now we're just supposed to go for this so i i'm not sure how if if you have uh any kind of head trauma could be from uh you know multiple concussions uh sports it could be automobile accident um it could be um epilepsy we've seen as many as 16 people healed of of uh what dyslexia in one night and they all got up tested proved it in front of a crowd of about a thousand people and uh so any of those kinds of things if you have that and you want to be healed stand we're going to take it in layers here so yeah we'll do proxy thing in a moment i want to see how many in the room actually need it for themselves tonight all right now anyone who wants to stand in proxy for a dear friend or a relative i want you to stand now oh my goodness all right i want us to throw in now um alzheimer's and dementia if you either have that or the the beginning stages of that and or you have a relative or a close friend with that i want you to stand in for them this is awesome look around the room i'm serious it's not awesome that there's so many people standing but it's awesome this is the day of salvation this is the day of divine health this is the day of healing of these kinds of things so there's probably as many people standing as there are sitting so i want if you're sitting stand up put a hand on someone next to you and if you're just a bunch of people standing and there's nobody there to lay hands on you then lay hands on each other and i just i want you to pray very simply lord let this be the day of the healing of the brain restore what has been stolen i want you to rebuke the spirit of infirmity rebuke the spirit of infirmity rebuke the spirit of infirmity we pray for this friend if you're standing in proxy i want you to mention the name of the person you're standing for bring the name of that person before the lord i pray for johnny in jesus mighty name that you would restore his mind restore his brain that bipolar would be gone from his life from this point on forever take just a moment longer those who are uh watching bethel tv join with us do the same if you have family or friends bring their name before the lord this is just an hour where he just seems to be multiplying the release of anointing for healing in these areas so we declare that divine health over the mind we rebuke alzheimer's dementia all those afflictions of the mind where the memory is compromised we declare divine health divine health over the mind in jesus name those of you that are receiving the prayer for yourself i want you just to make a confession i receive this gift of healing for my own body for my own mind i want you to mention that if you're praying for somebody else you're standing in proxy that i want you just to declare we declare the healing word of jesus over and then mention their name i declare the healing word of jesus over johnny right now in jesus mighty name i declare the healing word of jesus amen amen all right you did you did good you did good all right go ahead and sit down if you stood in proxy for someone you are now given permission to use your phone to send a text but when you're done put it away you have permission to send a text said we pray for you we believe god for your healing for your miracle and you can do that right now my favorite story in this regard i know many of you have heard it before uh when randy clark was here a couple years ago one of our students randy gave a word of knowledge about a specific condition a broken ankle metal screws plates that sort of thing describe in detail what god was healing and one of our students recognized the description of the injury was actually his aunt who was in another city another state and so he wrote his aunt a text saying randy called out your condition tonight and we're praying for your healing and so long story short randy actually met this gal some months or maybe a year or so later this this scout head is in a very horrible accident a major surgery on her ankle screws plates all this stuff she was in bed sleeping so she didn't get the text and she actually had her phone off so she didn't get the text and she got up in the morning and forgot she needed crutches she had to have crutches to to move she literally she forgot she needed crutches she got out of bed walked to the restroom and when she got to the restroom realized i'm healed now this is so bizarre she got to the rest and realized i'm healed and she had no pain she had all movement everything and this was just weird she got back told her husband i'm healed and so they decided to go out to breakfast and celebrate so they went up breakfast is a good way to celebrate bacon eggs crispy hash browns come on bring it on strong coffee orange juice freshly squeezed oh i know what i'm going to do tomorrow morning i'm already planning all right so they went out to breakfast she took her phone and realized her phone was off so at breakfast she turned her phone on and then she got the text so much for the power of suggestion then she got the text and found out they had prayed for her the night before is that amazing story amazing story so the lord is amping up he's accelerating the rate at which people get healed it's almost as though he's leaning on the edge of his seat looking for opportunities so let's give him the opportunities let's pray often let's pray much and give him opportunities you had a interesting dream i want you to share that and we're going to pray for uh back conditions in a moment but but just share briefly yeah so i on friday night i had a dream and um in the dream i was on an airplane and there was uh two women one in front of me one to the right of me and they both had like um debilitating back pain and it was interesting the woman next to me um i don't know how i knew this but in the dream you just know things and i knew she was maybe in her 30s but the back pain which was causing her to not be able to move it was like paralyzing her in that seat it caused her to look maybe 30 or 40 years older than she actually was and it was like this spirit of affliction on her and she just looked so tired and so worn by this uh by this pain and so normally you know when i find out somebody needs healing i'll just say hey i'd love to pray for you i'll and i'll pray for them to be healed but what was unique about that moment is i knew in my heart i was supposed to i got both of their attention and i told them hey when when uh when we invite the presence of god to come we become whole so i explained that and then i did it in the dream and i love that you can experience the lord in your dreams i remember feeling the presence of god so wonderfully and both of them were healed and when i looked at the woman to my to my right she was standing up in the aisle of the plane and and the life had come back in her skin uh the this affliction had left and she looked her age and so i felt in my heart that the lord was um he was just setting us free from a spirit of affliction and actually yesterday i was in out in our one of our neighborhoods just sharing the gospel with some people and there was a woman who had dislocated her shoulder and she couldn't sleep because of the pain and so i told her that dream and i said that's what i'm going to do i'm going to invite the presence of god and because when we invite the presence of god we become whole and so i explained that to her and then did it and she was completely healed uh in that moment and so just excited for and i believe it's that that pain that can make us tired and there's a there's uh you know sometimes injuries and things can make us feel tired and worn and exhausted and so i believe the lord's lifting that off tonight it's exciting that's right if that makes sense to you stand up it makes sense to you just pain that just drains you of life just makes you feel older than you are i wonder what jesus wants to do [Applause] is there anyone that is sitting down that has strong conviction of what jesus is actually about to do right now if your hand is up you have an assignment find someone who's standing pray for them if if you're standing and nobody comes to you grab someone who's sitting down and tell them i'm your assignment once again those on bethel tv this makes sense for you invite we invite you holy spirit to come with power and invade invade in vain glorify the name of jesus through miracles through signs through wonders right now we declare a breaking of that spirit of infirmity on the back that has just brought pain and exhaustion into people's lives i want you to confess this over them this ends tonight this ends tonight now just pray just release presents release peace the shalom of heaven over them right now jesus wonderful wonderful name [Applause] come on it's happening right now folks it's happening right now those of you that are receiving prayer as they pray start moving around as they pray keep praying don't stop but as they pray start testing testing yourself check it out start moving around okay end your prayer but stay with them end your prayer but stay with them everyone that receive prayer right now we need you to to find out what you can do that you couldn't do if pain has decreased if it is gone if movement is restored check yourself out right now move in ways that you couldn't move in some way examine yourself keep doing it keep checking yourself out if you're at least 80 percent better i want you to wave both hands over your head like this yep wave your hands over your head like this all right just cut a few raisins in their hands all right church turn to pray again one last time turn and pray again so thank you lord we just invite you flood our bodies with your presence in such a way that no affliction can remain thank you lord okay good end your prayer everyone who received prayer examine yourself again check yourself out real good check yourself out real good as soon as you discover you're at least 80 better wave your hands don't sit down wave your hands yep look look look at how many more are able to raise their hands beautiful thank you lord wonderful wonderful lord beautiful go and be seated go ahead and be seated wow wow thank you lord jesus [Applause] how many of you just got healed from something you've had for at least five years put a hand up look at look at that wow wow beautiful how many of you just got healed of something you've had at least 10 years put a hand up wow 10 years or more stand up that's beautiful is there i'd love to hear one or two testimonies help me out it's off i'd like to hear one or two testimonies of something that the lord just did tonight something right back over there there's right just yeah just go back there yeah just meet him in the aisle though because he's going to hold the mic okay i was in a bad car accident hit an 18-wheeler head on at 55 miles an hour oh two years ago okay i was bedridden for five and a half months i haven't been able to walk since i came up here this morning and i went into the firefighters room and um i can walk and i have no pain bless the lord and you couldn't do that before all right there was one more over here yeah there we go i'm coming for from waller texas by the way okay exactly five years ago god put in my hands a business a tax business and i started working on it and very diligent but sitting down for so long was being hard on my back like nothing and i i was about to ride down in the card i need prayer for my and i just say my when you say it about the back i felt the pain coming down from my back like this all the way i couldn't do this like i can't i'm not doing that and i have a therapist in my office for the last four weeks giving me therapists every like three or three times a week i'm lying thank you now let me ask you a question did you say you felt the pain like calming down went down okay here and then it just drained out yes completely i like that that's good all right we'll do one more right here that's good news right there so i was uh i had an injury in the military 35 years ago right ankle fracture and uh i just want to say when i came here today we went family went walking pain was in my ankle i couldn't jump up in praise i wanted to jump up and just start praising i couldn't do it after the prayer i'd say still 80 percent but i tell you what i can jump up right now i believe thank you yeah check it now check it now is it any better than eighty percent [Applause] is there any pain left no pain no sir no come on awesome that's just good news right there thank you jesus [Applause] migraines jesus is delivering from migraines right now there's somebody right over here who's that is that you yeah the lord jesus heals you stand up the lord jesus heals you somebody somebody just lifted off of her head just stand next to it just lift it off just let take it like this just lift it off we release it in jesus name amen okay just stand there for a moment because the holy spirit's touching it just stand there for a moment slim touch we're not gonna do anything else just i just want you to sense his presence he's literally flooding out he's going to the root of that affliction and he's flooding up the reason why we declare an end to that tonight jesus name we're going to do one more thing that i've never done before ever in my life that i can remember i want the entire worship team and community to stand i i looked over here while we were praying earlier and i just was just moved a deep deep compassion i guess is the right word but not a pity compassion a compassion that says we're to pray over you for a spirit of wisdom and revelation to come upon you that the lord would give you understanding in the scripture that would actually be released in song i don't mean just biblical lyrics that's a no-brainer there's something else you're going to carry and release musically an anointing for wisdom and revelation and that as you as you play there will be there's something interesting happened with the musicians in david's day they would play their instruments and they would pray play prophetically i personally don't think i think it's in first chronicles 25 i personally don't think there was instruments with a prophecy it was the instruments themselves were prophesied because prophetic ministry encourages and exhorts strengthens and there's something in the instrument something even in vocals in sounds that's going to release uh prophetic anointing and wisdom so i want you all to extend your hand towards these folks and we're just we just declare this over you we pray right now the spirit of wisdom and revelation to come upon you the whole bethel music community these folks travel all over the world serve the body of christ constantly i want you to take a moment to pray intercede for them and then i'll lead in prayer but i want you to intercede i want to hear you praying for them they give themselves for the strength of the body of christ continuously pray for them right now i want to hear you praying i want to hear you praying pray with the understanding pray in the spirit we declare refreshing strength spirit of wisdom spirit of revelation to come upon the bethel music community well over a hundred people on the team we declare this over you in jesus name that there would be dreams in the night visions in the day dreams in the night visions in the day visions in the night dreams in the day where god would open the spirit of wisdom open the spirit of revelation in the knowledge of him the scriptures would open a teaching gift would come upon you not only in word but in your actions in playing instruments that there would be the release of prophetic anointing through what you play through what you sing let's pray for one more thing miracles to be released through sounds miracles through sound pray it pray it pray it i want to hear you praying miracles through sound miracles through sound miracles through sound the sounds of healing would be released the sounds of healing would be released the sounds of healing would be released press into this a little bit more church the lord has hidden melodies and harmonies has hidden them for this season i want you to pray that the lord would open their ears to hear things that have only been heard in heaven that they would hear things that have never been heard before that they were to release the sounds of heaven on earth that would restore the mind of people restore the hearts of people the people would come to faith literally because of the sound released through bethel music through this team wow didn't expect all of that we bless you in jesus name that was good bless and good wonderful wow wow wow sounds of healing there are there are things that have been locked up do you understand that the lord can hide a beautiful melody that that no computer program could discover no musical genius could discover he can lock it for a season and then when the people of god begin to hear where we minister to him but then we have him minister to us we begin to pick up things we begin to see and to think and to hear in this case melodies i believe that the lord is releasing things that have been locked up for years centuries for this hour and specifically i believe there are melodies that have never been hurt they've never been heard anywhere but heaven itself and the lord is unlocking some of these things for those who are willing to listen those who are willing to draw near and not only give to him but respond to him let him minister back and and i just i sense that there are there are things about to be released specifically i'm targeting the whole belt of music community but this is for everyone there are doctors in the room that there are solutions to medical problems that no one has been able to figure out but the solution has been locked up in heaven listen to me carefully luke 12 says it is his pleasure to give you the mysteries of the kingdom matthew 13 it is his pleasure to give you the secrets the mysteries of the kingdom so lord i pray right now that the spirit of revelation rests more increasingly upon us as your people that in every interest every field of responsibility represented in this room that we there are those of you in education there are forms and ways of education that have never been discovered that educators that are born again are going to learn god's going to drop ideas into your heart and mind and you're going to find ways of training problem children in ways their problems are going to be unraveled in a sense that they've been given a gift and you've got to find out how to tap into that gift and they will learn at a higher rate and lord we just pray that you would unlock open the secrets the mysteries of your kingdom for everybody in this room anybody have interest in this yeah i do i do help us to grow quickly and to serve our communities around us with insights with revelation knowledge we pray this in jesus name wow i'm i'm telling you the lord is on this thing i don't know if you believe me or not but i believe me i believe me i can feel this when we started praying for you guys something is released oh man goodness gracious it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom say this with me it has been given to me to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god it has been given to me to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god then jesus shares a secret about this he says to ever whoever has more will be given when the lord gives you something you know what let's just go for this this is it tonight all right this is it we're just going to go for this this is it to ever have whoever has more will be given besides have you ever seen somebody that constantly gets prophesied over they're the one that gets called out in a meeting i mean there could be a thousand people in the room or ten thousand and they're going to be the one called out didn't that just take you off the same people all the time do you know why because whoever has they attract more see when you're given something from god that you treasure you attract more of the same if you value what he values do you like insight revelation that is treasured attracts revelation when i get in certain atmospheres i have to have a pen with me always have my bible with paper and the reason is when i'm in certain atmospheres the downloads if i'm standing next to lance wall now and randy clark there is this hurricane whirlwind of revelation happening above my head and and if i value what he says i will be ready to treasure it i write it down i write it down i pray it i think it i meditate on it and what i have found is that when you treasure one thing he gives you that one thing calls friends calls its brothers and sisters to come it calls more of the same it attracts the same whenever we value what he gives us mario i have my phone my car likes my phone they get along well they talk they fellowship together it's it's it's an apple product and so it tends to like range rovers and other things that have been made with quality just just tolerate me this is an apostolic ministry in case you didn't know in one of our remind me to get back to the story here in a moment in one of our classes one of our guys was teaching in the gospel john if i remember right and his phone off put off to the side and while he's teaching siri speaks up out of nowhere and says to the class in my realm anyone can do anything [Applause] the prophetess siri spoke what can i say i have my my phone connected to my car so whenever i get in it looks for my phone and i push random on playback so it just goes through my phone and picks randomly things to play which is really fun because you may get yellow submarine by the beatles one day and bob jones prophesying for one hour the next and so literally for yesterday and today i've just left it on this 56 minute long conversation with bob jones and in this 56 minute conversation that benny and i had with bob and bonnie in 2009 it says when it comes out the screen bob jones 2009 july and he just is talking to us about some of the words that he's given us oh it's just i just feel like like god ordained saturday and today all my time in the car 56 minutes worth of wherever i was driving it would pick up where i left off and just hear bob jones talk to us and give us prophetic counsel on what he was doing and what was happening in the earth if you treasure what he says you will attract more it's simple it's simple but it's absolutely true to him who has more will be given beside when did jesus make that statement this is matthew 13 and it followed the statement it has been given to me to know the mysteries stewarding mystery attracts revelation on more mystery that may do nothing for you but i'm so excited on the inside of me right now i can hardly stand it stewarding mystery it's really time for the church to serve the community with creative expression solving mystery bringing definition highlighting purpose for our cities stand just one more time until you have it have you do it again just stand up put your hands in front of you as though you were going to receive a gift this is all spillover from your prayers for our worship team and ministry our musicians singers i feel like the lord is wanting to release the same thing in great measure to everybody in this room but it'll be tailor-made for your place of responsibility so father i ask you in the wonderful name of jesus let there be a wave a wave go through this place [Music] now that unlocks mysteries release insight answers solutions creative ideas revelation of mystery the mystery of our walk with you the mystery of the challenges that we face in society unlock the mysteries in and through your people we pray for the glory of the name jesus now let's conclude this with this statement it has been given to me to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god i say it one last time altogether it has been given to me to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god amen amen all right good to be seated yeah you know what i think it'd be good if you gave god praise thank you bless the lord bless the lord some of my favorite people on the planet are here that's all of you but we have some kind of visitors uh robbie and angie dawkins are here they're heroes heroes of the faith for me and uh robbie i want if you both want to come up or if it's just you i want you to come on up and uh and i i want to get a report from you guys this this yeah bless them would you as they come these guys are amazing now first of all i want to start by asking you a question go and be seated when somebody is murdered at a certain location when you were in chicago and now when a believer is martyred in some nation of the world you have a personal policy what is it explain it to us okay this is how we respond it's good we call this taking a toll and so what happens is that uh when we were pastoring in chicago and uh and in the uh the city of aurora was the second largest city in illinois we just got sick and tired of all these gang killings murders all this you know it was one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the nation and and it's not you know that big you know it was less than 200 000 people but we uh the lord began to speak to me and i began to say god what do we what do we do how do we respond to this what do we do and so the lord began to speak to me to study the gaddites and the tribe of god and to see how they responded and one of the things is i began to look in scripture when israel was blessing god is he said to god he said your enemy in in in it may have been the particular translation i was reading it he says your enemy will grab you by the heel but you will turn and grab him by the throat and basically he was saying how that god would respond with death blows and so we i began to pray and i was like how does how does that translate you know because i grew up i grew up pretty much seeing scripture sort of through the pollyanna version and so much of what sunday school teachers and other people saw but i love those parts of the bible because that's where it's a little more rambo you know and and so i'm like yes as a man so anyway we began to pray and and and and i went to the gang members that had that we had led to christ in our church and i said how did you respond when somebody would come and do a hit in your territory or somebody like how how did what was your strategy of respond they said well whatever you did to us we did three times that to you if you killed one of our guys we killed three of yours you raped one of ours we raped three years you stole ten thousand dollars we're still on thirty thousand years and i was like that's our strategy that's what we're doing and they were like we're gonna kill people i love this church no that's not what we're going to do but what we did is so we every time there was a murder every time we would go to the very to the very uh block of where it happened and i i took my boys with me isaiah our son had been a part of this we would go to the very block where this had happened and we would pray for as many people as possible we wouldn't stop until we led at least three people to christ in that very block and so we were telling the enemy we are going to make it too expensive for you to take out people in our city it's going to cost you too much it's going to cost you more than it's costing us and so we kept doing that we finally ended up getting i got a call from our chief of police and he he called and he goes are you guys he goes what are you guys doing he goes we're seeing like after it comes out in the paper of where these things had happened we're seeing your guys out there and i said and i explained to him what we were doing and he goes you're just praying for people what else are you doing i'm like no you don't understand how powerful that is you don't understand what's happening because i mean truly think about it just for a second it's talking about i learned this of course from this man talk about shifting the atmosphere you think you go into a grocery store and pray for one person and they get to heal 50 they get to go down to five and you think oh that's all that happens no no you shifted the atmosphere you changed let me tell you there is more happening in i'll stop preaching sorry there's more happening in that area than you realize you think well just a little bit happened no it didn't a lot happened so the chief call he says he thought we were doing our own investigations and let me tell you why because he said every time we're seeing you guys in the area crime is dropping he said normally it shoots up afterwards but we're seeing crime drop in that area where we're seeing you guys afterwards and we're seeing it at plummet and so he said whatever you're doing keep doing it the the thing of it is it's jumping way far ahead it ended up completely transforming our city wow i mean completely transforming our city and they even they named a day after our church in the this is the second largest city in illinois named a day off the church that was awarded to us by the mayor uh they gave all this stuff because of the contribution to changing that because what happened is is that crime dropped so dramatically they ended up laying off a third of the police staff in in one of the top 10 most dangerous cities in the nation wow just because of stepping out and doing that it's just so so that's that is a very short answer to that question yeah but it was good i like it keep the mic yes sir when a believer is martyred yes sorry yeah that's right so i'll give you another chance yes when we were it's just it's a great movie it's a great show so like when when we were we would use this as a part of training and and we even do at first we were thinking do you have to do it on the grounds like when i was in afghanistan if you saw finger of god two that's where we were at and we would i was teaching the guys there because just uh two weeks before we got there they killed a believer uh in this one day and i told them i said the enemy's got to pay for that we gotta the enemy has to pay for that because they are that is that is an attack against the kingdom of god and we're not just going to let them slide with that and i said we're going to that very block and they're like that's in the heart of kabul that's like the most date i said no we are going there and we are going to do it there and so and and and of course that's where the military showed up in that but when we were done we saw if you saw it you you didn't get to see the whole thing of what happened but let me tell you when we get in those circumstances if i could just say this when we get into circumstances we sort of think we have to get crafty to get ourselves out can i just tell you give god room to work god will get you that that song joshua's saying i called and you answered he answers if we just don't try to come up with a plan to get ourselves out but give him space to get i'm sure shadrach meshach and figure you know and evangelion figured that out going into the fiery fur you know let's just get we just got there's nothing else we could do he's just got to work or we're dead and that's all there is to it but what happened is we saw that dramat we saw breakthrough happen in that area and i thought man the afghans are not going to want to go out after this and afterwards they were like we don't stop we haven't gotten through after the the military releases they're like we got to go after three we got to go after three we shed three and we're going after three and they didn't stop and so we came back and we were like okay every time now that there is an attack so sri lanka what happened in sri lanka i was in sri lanka about 10 11 years ago essentially and let me tell you so we were like we are putting it out 330 plus i think we're killed we're going after a thousand bringing a thousand to christ because we gotta tell we gotta tell the enemy these nations no longer belong to you they now belong to jesus they now belong they are not your nations to wreak havoc and to murder believers anymore it is they belong to jesus amen that's good that's good i'm enjoying it so where have you been lately yes you you tell us something come on this this lady here is scary very she scared your that story still i do you mind telling it again i mean tell the story i mean really tell the story give us the story you need to know how powerful this lady's finger is [Laughter] go ahead go ahead yeah so um yeah we were in aurora we were ministering to just a lot of people from a lot of different backgrounds and we had a young couple in our church and they were just young little kids um had just come and um so we were just kind of walking them through some things and there was a particular weekend where robbie was out of town and um so they lived in some public housing downtown and i had just decided i wanted to take my kids down have some fun and um i thought you know i'm going to go uh and see what she's doing because her look she had two little ones the same ages as mine and i thought you know i'm just going to go and spend some time with her and just kind of you know just be the love of jesus with her so i went uh and uh knocked up on knocked on her door um had my son with me and when she came to the door she was crying and had her little baby she was very pregnant and had a one-year-old in her arm and she was like i don't know uh where he went you know he he just beat me up and left and i don't know what to do and so i just kind of instinctively i said you know what let me come in let's get get the kids ready you know we're going to go have a good time and um you just don't worry you don't worry about it she said well she goes he's he's out there somewhere i know you know because you know he i know he's out there and i'm just you know i just if you if we see him don't don't talk to him you know just let him cool off and i said well you don't worry about it i said we're just gonna go and um we're gonna have a good time we're gonna take these kids so we went downstairs and um when we came outside sure enough she saw him across the street and she started crying again and so i don't know something just rose up in me when i saw her crying and and you know i just i wanted to i wanted to partner with what i felt like that god was doing and the identity that he had and that i i just wanted to to you know so i just felt it in me and i just i said well you know what hugo my van was right down there and i had my older boys and i said you just go take the kids there uh let me i'll deal with this and so so i i had her son with me and i walked across the street and i just saw him and he was on on somebody's phone he didn't even have a phone he was on somebody else's phone she had been upset about that and so i i kind of came up to him and you know tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around and and he started laughing and um and so something in me you know just rose up and i just said you know i i just picked picked up sonya and i'm going to take them i'm taking them with me and if you know what's good for you you will leave her alone and i i did put my finger up in his face and i just i said you know you're gonna leave leave her alone if you know what's good for you and um i will deal with you later and so and he just was like ah like that and i i actually did hit the phone out of his hand i did do that minor details yeah and uh and so then i went back across the street and um we actually did go to the downtown event and uh then i took her home with uh her kids and took them into our house for a few months and we actually discipled her and and um told told uh yeah yes so uh i actually um called robbie later that night and i explained what had happened and i said you know don't be alarmed if you come home and she's here and her and her kids they're they're coming to stay with us for a few months and so and so um so that was friday night sunday morning we went to church and were in his office and this young man showed up to church and um and i was not in the office at the time i was working somewhere else in the church but he uh had come up to the office and his eyes were bloodshot and he was in really bad shape this is three days later and so um apparently he hadn't been able to sleep and he uh yeah maybe you should tell this part this is like this is like a miracle her telling the story right now like talking in front of you is like a miracle but he can't yes yeah she she wasn't in the room when this part happened so she goes when he come our worship pastor was like dude he's really like jacked up you know you should come in and i don't know what's wrong with him and he jumped off the couch and he always wore shades and he pulls his shades off and i could see his eyes were swollen and red and he goes he goes the first thing he says out of his mouth when he gets right up to me he goes is angie here and i was like yeah she's downstairs and he pushes the door behind me closed and he goes i've been shot at i've been stabbed he said he goes i have never been so scared in my entire life and when she shook that finger in my face and just let me tell you if he was here telling the story she was a lot louder and a lot more authoritative than what she just demonstrated to you of how she was when it actually happened and he was like every time i close my eyes he can i can't eat i can't sleep he goes i i got a hit of meth he goes it didn't work it doesn't work and he goes and every time i try to close my eyes asleep he goes i see her finger and her bent brow in my face and he goes i'm and he holds his hands up and his hands were just i mean this guy is probably one of the most dangerous dudes we have ever had in our church you know and he goes i can't eat i can't sleep i said dude she put the fear of god on you and he goes i've heard people say i'll put the fear of god i said no no no no you don't understand she put the holy terror of almighty god on your body and he goes well get it off and i said she put it on she's got the she has to take it off and he goes does she have to be in the room he was he was going after the proxy thing that bill was using and so i said yes and so i came downstairs and i'm like sweetheart you need to i told her what happened she goes well i'll think about it and i'm like sweetie i mean he can't eat he can't sleep he's a wreck and she goes he beats her and i was like i get it and she goes i will not have a man beat a woman and i'm like i'm with you i'm on yours i agree i told you so she comes in the office as soon as she walks in the office he jumps to his feet and he grabs his hat and he puts it over his heart like he's pledging to the flag as she walks in the door and she walks over and she goes you listen to me and he goes oh god no no shaking the finger in his face again and she goes take those glasses off and he threw the glass up she goes sit down he pops down and he folds his hands in the middle and she goes now this is what's going to happen and she laid everything out and right there man she prayed for a release for him he literally passes out on the couch in my office sleeps through the entire first service and we had to go have to have one of the guys go up and wake him up to bring him down into the second service because his first time he had sleep in like three days but uh it was so awesome because we did their baptism and their wedding on the same day he was incredible incredible incredible incredible wow that is awesome still one of my favorite stories ever come on put the fear of god on him anything else you guys want to share yeah let me let me let me say something because this you know just something that he said today uh we sort of doubled depth we went over in her building we ran over here and heard eric and it's just like you know like drinking from two fire hydrants in one day but something that he said when he said uh about uh nineveh being one of the greatest revivals jonah with nineveh and it's it i've never heard anybody else say that but it's it's it's always been mine and part of it was because where we were pastoring because jonah is explaining to god over and over how jacked up nineveh is and how messed up and no you gotta strike it you gotta you gotta do this i don't care if they're repenting you gotta come after him and the whole time god keeps calling nineveh the great city it's one of the most violent horrific cities and do you you know where nineveh is today mosul iraq it's mosul iraq that's why we're starting a a school of supernatural ministry in that area in that part of northern iraq because i believe we're going to recapture that revival for that entire area come on but i share that with you because there's something significant you know for that because again being in these situations and i'm seeing this more and more we were we were just in pakistan i could tell you so many stories it's not even funny but this part of the world one of the reasons why we do this thing with taking the toll with the believers who've been martyred and all that is for this reason because so many of them you know they they they don't necessarily send have a sense of solidarity you know from from us they don't feel like that we in the west understand or anything like that but one of the things when we went to in when we went to like afghanistan and like even even going to pakistan you know um we were hearing the entire time and it was it was spectacular i mean you know marilyn hickey life hetlan has done incredible stuff there but but one of the things that i've i have this thing is that when we were going to afghanistan uh i would i get called by the cia and they're like they're like you cannot go because i was gonna i went in the middle of ramadan and i was determined that if we're gonna talk about faith is spelled risk i gotta demonstrate it now let me say this and this is not saying anything about anybody else who does it a different way please don't hear this as a comparison in any other way okay i really really mean that you do what the lord tells you to do but we were being bombarded with messages of people saying you know you have better had a clear word from the lord before you go to some place like afghani you had better and i was like yeah i've actually had five clear words matthew mark lou john and the book of acts he said go into all the world and i i just so happen to believe that that literally means i can go anywhere and i got a clear where to go you know what i'm saying i don't have to have a clear word to pray for somebody in the grocery store why do i have to have you know that's just me so anyway just saying just saying but all of a sudden we were we were going and people were writing my wife my kids your father's worse than an infidel because he's taking these crazy risks and one of the things that we don't do is we don't do it with any security now i thank god for these people that are here because you have to have crowd control i mean that's just smart when you have large groups of people and stuff like that but one of the things that when we were in pakistan i was telling them and then also afghanistan and this this guy this guy from cia he's just please tell me you've hired private security and i said no way i'm like because if i and again this isn't saying anything against anybody else this is because i can't imagine i'm just not imagining the apostle paul rolling into town with a 50 millimeter strapped on the top of a humvee as he rolls into town that's just my perspective okay it could somebody else could have a different perspective but if if if to see that and and don't give me that's nothing like against guns because i have a lot of them and they're fun and i love them so that's not anti any of that because i'm not that guy hey man but yeah but that but when we go in you know again the greatest weapon we have we have the same spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead living inside of us really we think we think a big gun is going to change something when we have the spirit of almighty god the most powerful force in the entire universe dwells inside of us okay so and this is you know what i teach to them we go there and so you know we stepped like we had this cool thing we stepped up and we were in we had 35 000 people at these evening hits now i know that sounds really cool i'm not excited about those as much as i am about the trainings we were doing with the indigenous leaders during the day and charlie knows what i'm talking about because he's doing it in huntsville with the prison uh there and i'm i mean incredible man of god right there love him but there is when you when when you stop and we we really see this that we we shut we expect god to show up and they were like they had these guys in the arena with all these weapons and and i was like man listen you gotta i'm not stepping out of this van until all the guys with guns are cleared out of the arena and they are like what and i said no i told you before i came that i'm not happy because i'm not going to demonstrate i'm not going to demonstrate to the indigenous believers a different lifestyle of what i'm preaching i'm just it's that i'm just talking about me i'm not looking for anybody else and so i said until you clear everybody out now now keep security there for crowd control because again that's smart i said but but we're not having anybody go in there you know with that and so they the guy was mad they had to wait for 20 minutes until they had all the guys you know come out the guys with guns and we walked in and so the first thing i get up my talk for a little bit and then i said now we are going to demonstrate to you that jesus is here and it's more than just the greatest of all the prophets because prophets could do signs and wonders you know and of course i'm thinking from their perspective from you know because there's only one and a half percent that are christians in pakistan uh there's even less in afghanistan but they have a perspective of course thinking that muhammad and jesus that muhammad was higher than than jesus as a as a prophet and he said here's a demonstration we're going to demonstrate to you that jesus was the greatest of all the prophets and even beyond being a prophet because his miraculous power still works today in his followers and we're going to demonstrate that that's active and real today because we aren't saying that we are prophets like him but we carry him inside of us and so we brought up i said if you're a muslim and you're here and you have severe back injury i said i want you to come i said i need 10 or 12 to come up to the stage we had about 10 or 11 come up to the stage one guy is has a severe back injury because he's paralyzed and they bring it they lift him up put him in a chair because he has he's been paralyzed for 10 years if you want to see the video of this stuff you can see it on like instagram and stuff because it's on it's on our stuff there but all of a sudden we pray or we rather what i did is i said now let me show you then show you the demonstration of how powerful jesus really is and that he is god and i said i need 10 or 11 little christian girls to come up here to the stage right now now if you know anything about this culture if you know anything what what is happening here now our host is really nervous like unbelievably now i had told him i'd set it up i told him i said listen you got to trust me and i and we're actually paying for these meetings so i don't work for you you work for me this is if i'm paying you you work for me that's just how it rolls so we go up and we have these little girls put their hands and i said now repeat after me and they repeat a prayer commanding backs to be healed so that everyone would know that jesus is real and that his power is still working and that he is the greatest not only of all the prophets but he is the son of god and is god and that for them to be healed half of them get instantly healed including an imam now then the other half they were the rest of them were at like uh you know they only had 20 left so they went from 10 to 2. and so we prayed again had them pray again the rest of them get completely healed totally healed you see the videos you see the guy get up out of the chair he's totally i mean he couldn't even move his feet couldn't do any of that and he's trotting across the stage his back he's been completely healed completely restored and then i looked at him and i said now how many people did i just pray for that experience healing and you know of course it's a crowd of 35 000 people to start shouting out these numbers and i said all of them were numbered i said wrong i said zero i didn't pray for anybody i said these little girls prayed and of course you have to realize in in the in islamic society they are the lowest of value because they haven't reached childbearing age yet and i said they just they showed you they put jesus on display and showed you that jesus is real he is and i said now i said how many of you want to give your light i said to these guys i said how many of you want to give your life to jesus because you've just seen that he is real he is god and he has come here and he's inviting you to your relationship all of them raised their hands and then i turned to the crowd and i said if you're a muslim stand to your feet right now half of the crowd stands up and i said now you have just seen this demonstration if you don't want a relationship with the jesus to just prove to he is sit down only about 2 000 sat down so over 15 000 are still standing to accept christ we pray now that our our the guy who is hosting he's he storms off he's like you're gonna get us all killed and i was like we're gonna see this nation change you know and so anyway they accepted christ the next night we had 50 000 and the end doubled in the training for the for the uh for the other people we were at one location because i wanted to go as close to where uh because i you know i ministered to the taliban and some of the taliban leaders in afghanistan so we wanted to get as close to you know that particular area as possible we were heavy matter of fact we were right across the street from where we were meeting and this one there were there were isis flags over the building so there was like isis leaders that were there in the building and there we saw a guy uh aaron my my pa who was a second year student here uh he and i looked and he'd been working hard i said there's a dude over there in a coma and a bed they brought a dude in a bed i said you've been working hard and you haven't had a chat i said go get him and he runs over and he prays for the guy and the guy leaps out of bed wakes up leaps out of bed and everybody just began to stream guys let me tell you something and it was it was incredible because we were doing it out on the streets that that scared them more than doing it in the arenas is doing it out on the streets because they were afraid of a mob never had one any nothing came against us nothing i mean you got to realize that the second trip that same year that when i went to afghanistan i was arrested twice once by the military and then by the police the second trip this was after filming the the movie and god mirac i mean we were like canceling the meetings we were going man you know like the host was like we gotta cancel these meetings we gotta we can't we can't do these because it's gonna you know it's gonna put all the people all the indigenous people in danger and i looked at him i said we're not cancelling the thing i said this is where god shows up and he works a miracle because that's what god does and he shows up and he works miracles and they're telling us the military let us go miraculously i mean they interrogated us for three and a half hours and then the millet the the commander who was supposed to put come and put a bullet in my head he comes up to me and he's holding my passport which i was like that's a good sign and he comes up to me and he goes we had no i now i told the guys don't call me robbie because if they google robbie dawkins we're dead i mean they're going to kill us and he comes up and he go he looks at me and he goes we had no idea who you were and he said so we're going to let you go and i'm sorry and i'm like in my head going who do you think i am but how i responded was like that's right i don't want to see this happen again he gave us he said but the police are going to come arrest you tomorrow we can't do anything but they came and arrested us at the hotel the next day took us in same thing interrogation i mean i got i sent bill a picture in the cell that i was you know right and they they they uh they took us in and then he said at the uh they were like we are gonna watch you we are stationing a guard outside your hotel door we are watching everything you do we know what you're here to do we're you're not gonna do it it's not gonna happen and he said we we are going to watch every move we prayed and said god first of all we don't have a strategy other than cancellation and we spent way too much money to get there and to make that and bring people from all over the country to train them i was like we are not cancelling this so lord we're relying on you we're relying on i mean you're the god that does the splits the red sea you know that needs to happen now so we prayed the next morning of course i'm making this really short it doesn't sound like it but i promise the next morning the guard was gone from our hotel room we looked outside there was a guy with an ak-47 outside our room every you know for two mornings we look he's gone and the newspaper is laying on our right outside of our door and it says this it says donald uh president donald trump this is the kabul times announces the move of the u.s embassy from jerusalem to tel aviv now a we're television television television sorry i got that television jerusalem we're excited about this news we are stoked about this news i mean we're celebrating this news the timing could not be worse it's the worst timing like this is not riots break out on the street burning the american flag death to the great satan all this stuff never saw the police or the military again never saw him again first time in afghanistan history where there were riots like that in the street without one reported injury or won fatality first time in history that that had ever happened but it created a perfect diversion to where we were we were ministering freely in the streets never saw the police never told the military again never saw them again and we made the enemy pay for that attack for those riots by getting it taking as many as possible even though there were none killed not bad not bad all right how many of you think that maybe there's a good anointing of courage on these folks if you want some of that stand why don't you pray over us just pray randy clark every time he introduces me he says this is the most fearless man i know and i tell them this last time we were in san antonio i said randy please stop introducing me like that because it's not true i said i'm not fearless i said i feel fear like everybody else just like everybody else i just refuse to obey it because i've decided fear's a liar fear is a liar and i'm not going to obey fear because it's not kingdom fear is a liar so as the lord spoke to joshua hear this is the word of the lord for yourself and i'm going to pray as the lord spoke to joshua he said now joshua take courage and be courageous he did not say he would give it to him he said take it and be it be very courageous make courageous your new identity because it's who you really are take courage and be courageous so by the authority of christ we pray against this this we pray a tearing of the veil to expose this lie of fear that we have yielded to and say it's a fiery dart and it we are turning it back on the head that it came from because it doesn't belong to us we are more than conquerors by the authority of christ and fear you're a liar you're a fiery dart from the spirit of fear and it's a manifestation of that spirit of fear and we expose that spirit of fear now and say we will not bow to you anymore we won't give you credence anymore because you're a liar in the name of jesus break that but in acts 4 they cried out you hear their threats against us now give your servants great boldness to never stop and father i pray that you shake this place as you did with that church shake this place with great boldness to never spot to never stop despite the threats despite the accusations despite the terror that the enemy choices in to never ever ever stop amen in the name of jesus be filled with that now be filled with that now be filled with that now be filled with that righteous boldness now jesus mighty name that's awesome thanks thank you thank you thank you thank you bless him with you you're so good well if you didn't want to be bold or courageous you came the wrong night because there's a seed of something that got planted i think in the hearts of everybody in this room so thankful for you guys i really am you you just rocked me every time i'm with you and i love i i especially love the finger i can't sleep every time i close my eyes i see that lady may that anointing come upon every mother in this room amen all right we've we've had a great night already we're not going to do any more except tiny little fire tunnel just a chance to pray for everyone and uh so we're gonna do that in a moment we could have ministry team up here who's heading this part of your come help me out if you would um let me just pray over everyone although we've had 400 prayers already tonight let me just kind of finish with one last prayer and then we're going to turn you loose and we will receive instructions on what to do i would like ministry team to come on up to the front and help us out here but let me just pray very simply father i ask that the uh the peace of christ will rest in a military fashion upon us as your people you said that that the prince of peace would crush satan under our feet so i pray right now that that overwhelming sense of presence would would um add a military impact of our lives on our communities we pray this in jesus wonderful man amen amen all right now pay good attention here because you'll need to know these instructions if you need to go obviously you've been afraid to go all night go ahead help us guys let's give bill a hand thanks so much for sharing all right so ministry team come on forward we're gonna form two fire tunnels we're gonna have two fire tunnels one to the right one to the left so ministry team come on forward begin to form those tunnels the line starts right here at the center aisle you guys can filter around and come forward in just a minute guys i i feel like there's going to be an impartation of boldness tonight as you go through that tunnel i heard somebody say one of the most clever ways to avoid following someone is to put them on a pedestal and i want to encourage you to open your heart to receive that impartation as you go through the tunnel say i can do that too and take it by faith we're gonna have two lines just right here two lines down the center so go ahead and separate into two lines in this center aisle you're either gonna pick one side to the right or to the left you

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