It’s All About the One Thing – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

uh one of the things that we love to do

uh during several times of the year but

christmas

specifically is those who are in some

kind of financial crisis or whatever

and there seems to be more and more of

those in this particular season

we like to do what we can to make sure

that they have a special christmas and

and and i really do pray that for you i

wish that we were together

and soon i don’t know when but soon um

um we’ll be back together again but

specifically the lord is the one who

provides the lord is the one who

releases i’ll never forget

the sunday that we had i believe it was

father’s day and on father’s day i

usually we will do something to give

and to support single moms on father’s

day

and i i’ll never forget that one sunday

we had a

gal here who who had um she was down to

her last

i think it’s three or four dollars five

dollars something of that nature

she came on that sunday and and she came

early with her child and she was going

to

just do something special for herself

she was going to go to the hebrews

coffee shop and get a special coffee and

when she started to do it she just had

this kind of a turn in her heart she

thought you know what

i don’t need the coffee i’m just going

to give it away and so when the offering

time came

she just put the little that she had the

widow’s mite if you will

into the offering and just a few minutes

later

unknown to her of course i directed the

attention of the whole church to single

moms and we

blessed them prayed for them and then

people just randomly gave

and that particular week i mean this is

pretty extraordinary she

put in the offering plate you know like

four dollars five dollars

and by the time that service was over

she had been

given over four hundred dollars and so

you can imagine the kind of mark that

that makes in her heart

when you’re the one uh making the

decision and then you see the lord

return

so quickly um it’s so encouraging so

encouraging so we just

we celebrate those kinds of things and i

do pray that i just agree with amy in

the whole offering reading i do pray

that for you

open heavens we pray constantly for

all of you and the businesses the all

the things that

some have suffered some have not but

some have suffered during this time

all of us have opinions about everything

and i have i have discovered that the

spirit of offense is on discount

right now and uh you can get 12 of those

demons for the price of one if you want

them

um it’s the most common thing i have

seen in uh in the last

year has been uh that rampage of the

spirit of offense

and so i just may add to it i don’t know

i’m just going to make a couple comments

and

i’ll let you just kind of sort it out

and but

i want to talk about we’ve been closed

shut down in our corporate meetings

we’ve not been closed as a ministry

we’ve been

goodness gracious i’ve been as busy as

any season of my life

and at home especially because of so

little travel

and which i’m thankful for i’m so glad

to be able to have my time at home

but i want to make just a couple

comments these are not official comments

these are just

just the opinion of bill

we are not closed on my part

because we fear a disease

it is real and i don’t want to

create any disrespect towards that

because i have two friends that died

they had pre-existing conditions but

but uh but but it’s real it’s real i

have friends that have suffered horribly

i

i i don’t it’s like a hot stove i’m just

not gonna put my hand on it

but but it doesn’t mean i’m not gonna

have a stove if if that makes sense

so we’re not closed down because i don’t

i don’t fear that disease

uh at all just me personally i’m not

requiring that of anyone

we’re not shut down because of

government restrictions this one

may be the one that causes the offense i

i honor i love i pray for i serve

but they approve abortion they’re not

always right

they’re not always right they’re humans

and uh i

am going to obey the lord over

government restrictions

so we’re not we’re not closed down for

that we’re closed down because we love

our city

that’s why 100 that’s why we love our

city

and um to close down corporate

gatherings in a local church for nine

months is

is an unusual sacrifice but it is

because we’ve loved our city not because

we

have thought that meeting would hurt the

city but because

it’s interpreted by our city as a love

gift

and even those who would disagree with

us it makes no difference it’s not

public opinion that directs this

movement it is literally

it’s our offering to the city that we

love

period it’s been nine months

nine months of gestation

is about to come to an end i don’t know

how i don’t know when but when it does

there’ll be a birthing of something

fresh and something powerful

the lord is going to honor the most

unusual

offering some of you it’s been forced on

you

others of you have been wholeheartedly

supporting uh the

the corporate decision that we’ve made

as a leadership and and i get the mixed

feeling i’ve got mixed feelings goodness

asked me in the morning i may think

different than i did the night before

you know i’m i’m i’m like every every

everybody around here i have my thoughts

and opinions on

all of it but sitting you know your

opinion in mind they really don’t matter

the only thing that really matters is

what is god saying and that’s what we’re

working hard

to discover is the heartbeat of god to

honor him in everything we do

and uh one person one person eats me the

other person doesn’t eat meat

in their efforts to honor god so we have

to create a little bit of flexibility

uh in the way that we approach our honor

to the lord so

this is uh this is the stand we’ve taken

i do have a sense

i’m feeling the labor pains and we’re

about to

end the nine months that’s uh i am

prophesying but i’m not giving dates

i’m not i’m not doing dates mates you

know all that stuff all right

all right that’s that’s enough there i i

created just a big enough hole

to crawl out of all right here’s what i

want to do

i want to talk to you about one of my

most favorite parts of the christmas

story

this has actually been on my mind for a

couple weeks

and uh sometimes i don’t have that kind

of clarity in a direction

of very far in advance but this has

really been in my in my heart on my mind

for

four weeks and i’m going to talk to you

about a

part of the story it’s in the gospel of

luke we’re going to be reading out of

luke chapter 2

and i’m going to talk to you about anna

and simeon those are two

sometimes unsung heroes of this

incredible christmas story but there’s

something

about their story

that really rocks my world i i don’t

talk about it often but

you know how you you have we all have

history with god in the word

and there are certain things that i

they’re they’re kind of like

like on a compass we have due north

there are certain things that you

that the lord has shown you in your

stories and examples

teachings whatever that they are they’re

kind of like due north or a reference

point that you

use to measure your own response to your

life

and sometimes we sanitize the story

because they’re in scripture

and we we rob ourselves of the of the

wonder and the adventure of what it

would have been like to be

in their shoes and to be in the shoes of

anna and simeon

and we’ll go over their story in just a

moment but i i need to set the stage

i need to create a context and it’ll

sound a little strange to you to set it

in the way i’m going to

but hopefully by the time i’m through

it’ll make sense and if it doesn’t it’s

still the bible

and it’s good all right here’s what i

want to do i want to read

out of the gospel of matthew in the

sermon on the mount i want to read

out of the sixth chapter and this is a

verse that i

actually make reference to you know uh

probably

a couple times a year um and have for

quite a while

because it it rocked me so deeply when i

when i saw what the lord was saying

the context uh in the sermon on the

mount has to do with our

our uh uh our response to money let me

make

this this statement

fear worry anxiety that whole

theme of emotions

is released at our lives to distract us

from our purpose

and eventually reestablish our affection

on something that’s inferior

fear anxiety where all those things

are are the enemy’s attempt to distract

me

and then once i’m distracted to

re-engage my affection on something

that’s inferior

but so is greed lust it’s the other

side of the same problem jesus deals

with the whole thing of lust and greed

here in the sermon on the mount quite

heavily

and in this portion he talks about where

your heart is your tray

your where your where your treasure is

or will your heart be also

and he’s not talking against money he’s

talking about heart he’s talking about

the focus of our heart

so fear is as wrong as greed

greed is as wrong as fear and the reason

is because both of them

are attempts to distract or pull away

my focus my attention on the one thing

i’m called to

and if the enemy can’t get me to

to um to accept something

let’s just go raw immoral if he can’t

get me to accept

something to shift from being moral to

immoral

if he can’t do that then what he’ll at

least try to do is add to my moral

conviction

too many issues in life so that i spread

myself so thin i’m ineffective

and then his desire is to pull me to

defend my position

outside of the spirit of christ

abortion is wrong it’s wrong

it’s it’s as wrong as the

sacrificing of children to molech in the

old testament

it’s just simply wrong there’s nothing

about it that’s right

and the enemy cannot get me off that

bandwagon so to speak so what does he

try to do

he tries to get me to operate in soulish

flesh

carnality accusation bitterness all

those other things to defend my position

on abortion does that make sense to you

in other words he can’t get me to

compromise my value

so what he tries to do is to get me to

overextend my value

to where i operate outside of the spirit

of christ

these issues of distraction are huge and

right now we have more distractions than

we’ve ever had in our life

and i let me just tell you i’m in the

middle i feel the distraction

i’m not just talking about the obvious

things the political stuff the

the racial stuff the economic stuff you

know we can we can just add a big list

i’m talking about the nature of our

culture

in our country where

where we are inundated with the opinions

of other people

oh goodness i’m gonna i’m gonna dump and

jump into a deep hole that i can’t climb

out of and i do

i don’t want to do that and i i actually

like social media

i’m i do i like i like i like the fact i

can go on instagram i can look up fly

fishing pictures and find them

it’s like the magazines i used to buy

you know i can look up

deer hunting i can look up fountain pens

i can look at anything

hot sauce they’re all in in here i

i look at them i have a good time i say

oh that hot sauce looks good and i will

order it

and i can do it in just a heartbeat i

love that this is just

christian recreation in in my con but

here’s the problem

is we are often measured by likes

how many people like what are we

creating

creating a system where we look for

approval of other people to make our

decisions

it’s subtle but it’s there and we have a

generation that’s being

weaned on that value system so i i

i don’t want to go there anymore i’m

done with

social media talk for this morning

actually it could creep up again but

i’ll try not to all right let’s

let’s get to the scripture here because

i want to talk to you about this i’m

going to take

one verse and i just try to emphasize

the fact it’s in the context

of money all right the principle

oftentimes jesus will reveal a principle

that he applies to a subject

but the principle is applicable across

the board

it is what i just said was very

important and true all right verse 22

of matthew chapter 6 the lamp of the

body is the

eye if therefore your eye is good

your whole body will be full of light

the lamp of the body is the eye

if therefore your eye is good your whole

body will be full of light this

this deserves much more attention that

i’m going to give here

because i actually want to take you into

the christmas story and show you

something that

that i hope will encourage you i hope

we’ll we’ll add

fuel to what god’s called us to be and

to do

but look at this again one of the

translations says

if your eye is single another one says

if your eye is clean

the word there for good is actually two

words it’s the word alpha and then it’s

a word that means

voyage alpha would be uh alpha and omega

the beginning and the end the number one

and the eternal

eternal future that’s that’s the lord

so here’s here’s what i want you to look

at this is a very interesting word it

says

if your eye is good let’s break it down

in this way

two words number one is the word

single or one and the second word is

voyage

if your eye is set on one

voyage

the one thing your entire body will be

full of light this is important we don’t

have time for it now but i do think

there’s something in this verse

that is that will connect us to divine

health

i think being diversified outside of

where god has called us

actually affects us emotionally it

affects us

in in areas of greed and lust it affects

us in areas of fear

and anxiety and all those things war

the affections of the soul that are

supposed to be anchored in the lord

himself

all of these things war against our

focus and our devotion to the one thing

they are subtle but the end result

is a people who over time

diversify their affection from the lord

to the many other things

and it may even be in jesus name all

right if the body

if the lamp of the bod the lamp of the

body is the eye if therefore your eye is

set on one voyage

this one thing i have desired the

scripture says

this one thing to see him to be

in his temple forever to be one who

glorifies him this one thing i have

desired

the song of the redeemed is this one

thing i have desired

it’s critical to fuel that one fire

in my soul so much so that nothing

else matters everything else is attended

to

through that one theme

i don’t have a confusing life of serving

god and serving the city and

serving you and serving my family and

serving i have

one thing him and in

that affection and adoration

an absolute passion for him i become

more fully equipped as a osmond

more fully equipped as a dad as a

grandpa as a pastor whatever other label

we we share the point is it

is the one thing

one of my heroes in scripture is solomon

and uh i’m i’m moved by the fact we

studied this some years ago

but i’m moved by the fact that hero’s a

young man he becomes king

and he goes to bed at night and he

sleeps and he has this

dream now dreams are extremely

subjective

i’ve had people that were opposed to the

revival have a dream

i believe they had a dream but our

dreams are often shaped by our own

values

we sow into our dream life

we contribute to our dreams

what happened with solomon is he was so

overwhelmingly aware of his need for god

that that’s how he went to bed

this he says in song of saul he says he

says though i sleep yet my heart is

awake in other words

he would come into this place where he

would rest but it would be

before the lord and he had this ongoing

passion

i don’t know what i’m doing i’m reading

into the story but

i believe i have reason to i don’t know

what i’m doing

i need god’s input to be a successful

and godly king he goes to sleep god

appears to him in a dream

and has a dialogue now this this is

profound to me

god talks with solomon while solomon is

sleeping

and solomon responds so

much so that god trusts solomon to make

a decision he says

what’s what’s the one thing you want he

says more than anything i

i want to to have wisdom i want to be

able to lead your people well

and god says because he best for that

and not long life and fame and money and

all these other things you get at all

what’s the point the point is is that in

his

sleep his agendas were set aside

so much that he could trust the dream

that he had

and god could trust him to make a godly

decision

he made a decision to shape the course

of history

in his sleep in his sleep

that’s that’s being focused

not focused anxiously focused in

this is why i’m alive now

go to luke chapter 2.

luke chapter 2 in uh verse 25 is where

we’ll start we’re going to read quite a

few verses so

please have your bibles in front of you

and follow along verse 25

behold there was a man in jerusalem

whose name was simeon

and this man was just and devout waiting

for the consolation of israel and the

holy spirit was upon him

and it had been revealed to him by the

holy spirit that he would not

see death before he had seen the lord’s

christ

so he came by the spirit into the temple

and when the parents brought in the

child jesus

to do for him according to the custom of

the law

he took him up in his arms and he

blessed god and he said lord

now you are letting your servant depart

in peace

according to your word for my eyes have

seen your salvation

which you have prepared before the face

of all the peoples

a light to bring revelation to the

gentiles

this is an extraordinary prayer he’s

playing in the temple

because he’s prophesying in his prayer

that this

infant this child is what will bring

hope

rest restore israel and will bring light

and salvation to the gentiles

he said and the glory excuse me a light

to bring revelation

to the gentiles and the glory of your

people israel

and joseph and his mother marveled at

those things which were spoken of him

then simeon blessed them and he said to

his

to marry his mother bold this child is

destined for the fall and rising of many

in

israel and for a sign which will be

spoken against it’s not the first sign

to be spoken against

just because you experience a miracle

and people criticize you for it doesn’t

mean you’re not biblical you’re actually

right in the middle of scripture

sometimes you experience something that

god does and the critics

mount up against you welcome to the

family of god

let me read that again just in case you

missed it

and he’ll be for a sign which will be

spoken against

yes a sword will pierce through your own

soul that the thoughts of many hearts

would be revealed

and then there’s one more we’ll do uh

three three more verses

now there was one anna a prophetess the

daughter of

however you say that name the tribe of

asher who was of great age and had lived

with a husband seven years from her

virginity

and this woman was a widow of about 84

years

now some say she was 84 years at this

point others say this actually indicates

she was a widow for 84 years after

marriage which would make her over 100

years old

she did not depart from the temple but

she served god with fastings and prayer

night and day

and coming in that instant she gave

thanks to the lord and spoke of him

to all who look for the redemption of

israel all right here’s here’s the deal

i want to talk to you about

simeon and anna i i think

i mean i can’t prove this just an

opinion but i think

are two of the most honored people in

heaven

they lived in a time without the

prophets they lived in a time

without the thundering displays of god’s

power and yet they lived

for one thing anna

says she never left the temple i don’t

know if people brought food to her i

don’t know how that works but

the point is she was extremely devoted

to one thing which was what

that israel would have a redeemer that

israel

would have vindication and restoration

the salvation would come to her people

she lived for that one thing she got

married

she was married for seven years her

husband died she’s a widow she spends

the rest of her life

serving god at the temple with fastings

in prayer

simeon his entire life

it was a friend of god the bible says

the holy spirit was upon him

they weren’t born again yet so the holy

spirit didn’t live inside

but lived upon him rested upon him

he was a prophet in a sense that he

could see he heard the word of the lord

he had that he had that promise given to

him that he would see

the consolation of israel he would see

the redeemer

he would see the vindicator he would see

the deliverer

the point that i have in this message

today is really

it’s really only one

the more focused you are on why you’re

alive

the less it takes to encourage you

the more focused the more all-in for one

thing

the less it takes to encourage you

i read a story i i read a very

interesting article some years ago i’ve

not wanted to talk about it only because

i

i hate war so much but um

i read this very interesting article

about and

i believe it was by a sniper in the

military

and they are an unusual breed of people

i don’t know

how many of you have ever ever read

about them and if i can just

put aside the moral issues of war and

all i’m just glad i’m not a national

leader that has to make that decision

but i i admired so much

what this gentleman wrote picture this

a sniper have all this

sometimes plant life and everything

hooked to his body

there are times where they will actually

take several days

to crawl from here to there

because none of their movements can be

noticed

they do everything physically in their

clothing

they at times were on an ant hill

and they’re being bitten by these ants

and they are so focused on their

assignment

they show no pain and they make no

noticeable movement

and what the guy said he says in this

place

you are so focused that you notice when

a

blade of grass is different

there’s something about focus there’s

something about purpose there’s

something about refining

what is going to excite me refining

what i’m going to feed my soul on

refining

my understanding my conscious awareness

of

why i am on planet earth

i get to be a grandpa i get to be a dad

i love being a husband

all these things i get to be with you

guys i love this this part of life

but all of these are expressions of why

i’m alive i am alive

to represent jesus and to bring him

glory

i’m alive i live

i live for that

anything that doesn’t fit into that

assignment

it may be good it may be moral it may be

upright

but it’s there to divert attention

and eventually to draw away my affection

you see the anointing is actually

released

through affection when we diversify

all the things you know the getting

keeping

20 plates spinning on a stick you know

that picture of

of the complicated christian life i i

believe in being involved in a lot of

stuff

but it has to all fit under

one thing one thing how is it

you can be so focused as a man picture

yourself as a guy who

intercedes who prays for the nation of

israel who prays

for the nations of the world who prays

for the messiah to come

and one day in your prayer the lord

shows up and he says before you die

you will see this great deliverer before

you die

you will see the mighty one who comes to

save

why is he alive the one thing

and it says the spirit of the lord moved

him direct him to go to the temple

he went to the temple and he saw

an infant

he saw an infa he didn’t see a mighty

deliverer he didn’t see

a man with a sword he didn’t see a man

with an army he didn’t see

somebody with a great pedigree and great

wealth he saw

an infant a baby yes eternally god

but he saw in the baby

the deliverance of israel and salvation

of gentiles

he sought in the baby he saw it in the

child

see when you live for one thing

it doesn’t take a lot to encourage you

because you notice the movement of that

blade of grass you notice

the slight little indication oh that

neighbor i’ve been talking to

they warmed up just a little bit today

that i didn’t get the raise yet but i i

can tell something is happening because

there’s more business at work

it’s it’s just the little things it’s

the fact that it’s the fact that

we live for one thing and when you do

you’re constantly filled with

encouragement because god is doing

all kinds of bringing all kinds of

babies

seed of the thing you’ve been praying

for

the seed of what you’ve been praying for

and i look at this and anna and simeon

both and they they both moved me so much

because they

they recognized the king of glory was

there

in an infant that couldn’t do a thing

couldn’t do anything they they saw

see this is what we need right now

because we’re we’re in the middle of

swirling stuff

and we need people that just just dial

down

why am i alive why am i where i

am in this season why am i here

and we lean into the one thing and all

of a sudden we get this

little word of encouragement we see this

testimony over here

we see these things happen around us

that are just

indicators of a much bigger deliverance

a much

bigger thing that god is doing

and right now we need encouragement

in our lives maybe more than any other

season

of our life and it’s foolish

to live within reach of a feast of

encouragement

and not apprehended not take hold of it

it’s foolish to live this far away from

the ultimate

internal strength of faith a focus

of living with divine purpose it’s

foolish to be this far away from it

and not take hold of it

and i’d like to suggest

that the lord is releasing

an anna and simeon anointing

it’s it’s the it’s the matthew 6

anointing it’s the eye

the eye that has settled on one journey

the reason my whole body is full of

light the reason my entire life

is under the visible manifestation of

the glory of god is because i have

determined

i am alive for one thing i’m alive for

one reason

and that one reason

god has illuminated everything in my

life

i i think often of uh elijah

and his uh

his deal when he was praying for rain

it’s interesting because he prophesied

the drought

you know sometimes

you cause something by the hand of the

lord on you

that’s supposed to come to an end and he

knew it

but he also knew there was some sort of

intercessory role that he had he just

didn’t assume it’s just going to happen

it’s so it’s it’s irresponsible

to not take responsibility there are

just

moments where it’s it’s it’s upon

us to know god is about to do something

but i’m going to take my place before

him

you know if ever there was an example of

that

it would have to be with the coming of

the messiah

let’s be honest if there’s anything god

can pull off on his own without any of

our assistance or help

is the fact that jesus would come to

earth and yet it was the spirit of god

upon anna and simeon to stir them to

intercessory prayers

why he wanted them to be a part of the

process

what’s happening today see we

we scrub these stories so clean we lose

the wonder of the moment the mystery

of the moment we sanitize these things

and yet they’re they’re

they’re living day after day after day

hannah for

60 years cries prayers intercessions

fasting how long do i need to fast and

then one day

was the day and she saw the christ child

elijah prophesied though

the drought and it was time for the

drought to end and he

he knew it but he didn’t just

assume it would happen he prayed for it

to happen

and he said to his servant while he put

his head between his knees and he just

interceded he prayed sometimes

sometimes powerful prayer

is not pretty there’s nothing there’s

nothing appealing about

there’s nothing appealing about it

sometimes the groanings the

weepings the declarations

the snotty nose the it’s just not

it’s not pretty those things aren’t to

be flaunted as some sign they’re just

you know they just happen they happen

when you when you’re gripped in your

soul

for something that’s got to be birthed

into the earth that is not yet here it

must be it must be it must be

it’s not for show it’s not for anything

but

the friend of god is making history

with god and that was elijah he’s he’s

there he’s got his head between

his knees he’s praying he can’t he

doesn’t want to look

he tells the servant what’s the sky like

he’s praying for rain he said there’s no

clouds

all right keep spraying sometimes you

just don’t want to look at the absence

of an answer

it’ll it’ll affect your praying so too

many people

measure the lack of an answer the lack

of breakthrough i’ve prayed 100 times

for this this never happened stop it

stop it stop measuring stop measuring

your prayer life by what hasn’t happened

stop it

he wouldn’t even look himself

this is what’s it like now six times in

a row five the seven times well there’s

a cloud that’s the size of a man’s hand

elijah says let’s run it’s about to rain

and that’s the moment that we’re at

hears anna and simeon

saw the cloud the size of a man’s hand

they saw the seed of

god in a child that was about to shape

and change the course of world history

run it’s time to take cover

i’ve told you the story before i i think

when benny and i first came here this

part of the stage was nearest just

stairs

one of the first sunday nights we

invited everyone to the front so there’s

hundreds of people all along the front

and we had just gotten here

and benny and i were standing right

about third step or so right here

and we just talked to encourage

everybody for what we believe god was

doing and about to do and

we invited the holy spirit to come that

simple prayer

and the holy spirit came he came in

power he felt powerfully

on one person one person right in front

of us right here

i don’t know what everyone’s thinking it

may be they were amused

maybe they were being touched by god in

a

more subtle way i i don’t know i didn’t

ask but

all i know is the power fell on one

right there right there

and benny and i looked at each other and

we said

we’ve got it it is now unstoppable

it’s not unstoppable

see if you’re not all in you miss

the seeds you miss the subtle

signs of god’s working

because he doesn’t just always come and

just show himself bowling strongly

sometimes

it’s in an infant that everybody else in

the city

didn’t see except as a baby everyone

else

but these two they looked and they saw

the salvation of israel they sought in

seed form

because they’re all in

the best way to be encouraged is to be

all him

all in because then you’ll see you’ll

hear

the subtle subtle anointing of god

on the lyrics of a song as you walk into

a restaurant

the subtle the subtle story line

behind a tv show that you realize

there’s something prophetic in that

storyline

it’s just when you’re leaning when

you’re all in i don’t mean you you

interpret every

number and every thing that happens it

just means god speaks why

because he has a listener he has

somebody who’s all in

he’s got somebody who has one

reason for being alive the single voyage

therefore everything about them will be

under the influence of the light of god

i realize that might be a little

abstract

kind of a talk today for some of you but

my prayer is is that

is that in this unusual season it is

unusual

i’m going to quit criticizing 2020.

i saw meme the other day that says

before i agree to go to 2021 i want to

see the conditions and the terms you

know it’s like

i think one of the funniest ones i saw

was somebody said all right let’s be

honest five years ago

when we said what we thought we’d be

doing in five years none of us got it

right

none of us got it

the gestation period

is soon coming to an end a conclusion

and there will be a birthing of

something very powerful

and very new in the earth

but specifically in you and in me and i

believe the lord is wooing us into

the one thing simplify the one thing

god forgive me everywhere i’ve been

distracted i’ve allowed i’ve

voluntarily submitted myself to

distractions

that have wore ward over my heart

fought over my heart to redirect

affections

and values and attention heal us as a

people god

heal us as the people that come out of

this season

simplified refined focused

and madly in love asked that in jesus

name

i sense that there are some i felt it

earlier this morning that there are some

who have been suffering from covet

symptoms put your hand on your lungs

put your hand on your lungs i rebuke

right now the curse of the enemy to

steal and to take life from you i don’t

care if there’s precondition

preconditioned your preconditioning

situations

we stand against that and covet in the

name of jesus

i declare the healing word of your body

there’s

somebody who has issues in the actual

bones there’s some sort of a

bone disease and i rebuke that disease

and declare the

life of christ the light of god over

your whole body to restore what the

enemy has stolen

in the actual structure and health of

your bones the blood supply

i believe the lord is healing people

that have had various kinds of

infections and disease in the blood

so lord we just pray for the healing

grace of jesus to be released over every

single person

that watches this this celebration

i want to encourage you if you don’t

have a personal relationship with jesus

talk with somebody in the chat line if

you’re on bethel tv or youtube or one of

the other

who knows how many uh different ways to

to engage with us

uh talk with somebody on the chat line

if you need prayer for something talk

with somebody in the chat line and just

say listen

i need a miracle in my body he

identified something i have or maybe

he didn’t identify what i have but i

really still need a miracle and

uh and have somebody just pray with you

and we’ll just agree with you

massive massive breakthrough all right

and finally

merry christmas i pray that this would

be simply the most joyful season of your

life

see i think it was c.s lewis who wrote a

book called surprised by joy so i pray

that you are surprised by joy merry

christmas

love you love you love you so much