Healing 101 – Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church

Wow good morning good morning that album

by the way is an instrumental album the

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bought it this week I bought Kanye got

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that’s me right there it was done

something you have to listen to to know

what I’m talking about

that’s good I really enjoyed actually I

just saw Kanye’s at Lakewood with Joel

Olsteen this morning so that’s it’s

wonderful anyway that’s a good album

they give them to me but I like buying

them so I just buy them anyway I’ve got

a story to read I haven’t read in years

that’s a good one it’s actually supposed

to be a true story kind of like that

great quote from Abraham Lincoln like

Abraham Lincoln said don’t believe

everything you read on the Internet all

right in Mount Vernon Texas Drummond’s

Barre began construction on expansion of

their building to increase their

business in response to the local

Baptist Church started the campaign to

block the bar from expanding with

petitions and prayers work progressed

right up until the week before the grand

reopening when lightning struck the bar

and it burned to the ground after the

bar burnt to the ground by the lightning

strike the church smoked spokes church

folks Church smokes yeah

Church church folks were rather smug in

their outlook bragging about the power

of prayer

that is until the bar owners sued the

church on the grounds that the church

was ultimately responsible for the

demise of his building either through

direct or indirect actions or means in

reply to the court the church denied all

responsibility or any connection to the

building’s demise the judge read through

the plaintiffs complaint

and the defendants reply and that the

opening hearing he commented I don’t

know how I’m going to decide this but it

appears from the paperwork that we have

a bar owner who believes in the power of

prayer and an entire church congregation

that now does not that’s just too funny

to not be true all right open your

Bibles to the book of Acts Acts chapter

10 in Acts chapter 10 I think it’s

already been and now excuse me here

I am so sorry all right I’m gagging and

I’m gonna talk to you about healing was

it just which is such a privilege yes I

think you’ve already been told we’re on

this part of our discipleship series

this is week two and we’re looking at

Acts chapter 10 verse 38 my personal

conviction is that acts 10:38 is an

apostolic review of Matthew Mark Luke

and John

putting in one verse the impact how

Jesus impacted the world the way he did

verse 38 let’s take a look at it God

anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

Spirit and with power who went about

doing good healing all who were

oppressed by the devil for God was with

him

let’s look at it again how God anointed

Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit

and with power who went about doing good

and healing all who were oppressed by

the devil for God was with him this

particular verse is is so important to

me personally

that I’ve actually developed now a

routine or a reaction anytime I see

10:38 on the clock if Benny and I are in

the car together and I just happen to

look down in this 1038 I quote the

scripture and then pray God do it again

do it again where we are anointed by the

Holy Spirit and power

healing all who were oppressed of the

devil because God is with us and I’m

just make that a prayer if I’m sometimes

I’m in the middle of a conversation I

just paused in my heart and just

acknowledge the work that Jesus did that

is to be carried on again he actually

prophesied over this generation in over

every following generation that we do

greater works than he did and you can’t

do greater till you’ve done the same so

we are we are in that journey right now

to see the same breakthroughs that Jesus

demonstrated so let’s go back to the

verse let’s walk through it

God anointed Jesus of Nazareth number

one his humanity is emphasized here I

get in a little bit of trouble on in

this area because sometimes I’ll

emphasize the humanity of Jesus and

people make the assumption that I don’t

believe he’s eternally God the Son of

God listen Jesus isn’t God let’s go home

we’re wasting our time

I’ll go fishing I’ll just find something

else to do there’s really I have no

desire to belong to a Christian club of

some sort we all have better things to

do with our life if Jesus wasn’t God

then there’s no purpose in his life

except just another inspirational human

being he’s the eternal son of God the

Lamb of God who who alone qualified was

qualified to make a payment sufficient

to cancel the power and the debt of sin

over every one of our lives eternally

son of God never stopped being God did I

make that clear he eternal is oh I’ll

try to not spit and yell too much eat

eternally son of God however entirely

here’s the great mystery of the gospel

entirely God became entirely man and in

this passage Luke the writer emphasizes

his human part Jesus of Nazareth

anointed by the Holy Spirit and power

I’d like to suggest that God didn’t need

to be anointed any more than he already

was it was his humanity that needed the

anointing of the Holy Spirit power like

to also draw your attention of

fact that when it says the Holy Spirit

and power power is not an addition to

the Holy Spirit

it’s an emphasis and let me illustrate

it this way in Matthew 6:33 there’s a

verse most of us many of us can quote

seek first the kingdom of God what’s the

next phrase and His righteousness

it sounds like seek the kingdom and

while you’re seeking the kingdom seek

His righteousness – that’s not what he’s

doing he’s adding emphasis to a part of

the kingdom the righteousness of God

illustrated in how we do life is to be a

primary focus in our pursuit of the

kingdom that makes sense let me give you

chapter and verse Romans 14 verse 17

says the kingdom of God is not meat or

drink it’s not in the natural realm but

it is righteousness peace and joy in the

holy spirit the kingdom of God is

righteousness so when he says seek first

the kingdom and his righteousness do you

get the point I’m trying to make he’s

adding a focused effort on the issue of

righteousness it is the same here Jesus

was anointed with the Holy Spirit and

with power in other words that

expression specifically of the person of

the Holy Spirit the Dunamis of heaven

himself Jesus was anointed that word

anointed means to smear it would be like

putting sunscreen on you you wipe it

everywhere

Jesus was completely smeared with the

Holy Spirit and power everything about

him glistened with the presence of the

Spirit of God why is this important

because the way Jesus entered into the

miracle realm is an example for us to

follow so let me walk you through this

thought process if Jesus did his

miracles as God were all still impressed

but were spectators we stand back say Oh

God it’d be awesome if you did it again

but when I find out they did he did his

miracles as a man yielded to God then

suddenly I’m no longer satisfied to stay

where I’m at I have to pursue the

example that’s been given to me the

example summons me the example provokes

me

so Jesus in his humanity did the

impossible

ha he did it because he was anointed by

the Holy Spirit for power what did the

Holy Spirit do John 16 reveals to us the

Holy Spirit would reveal what the father

was doing are you following me here

alright well I’ll try to calm down in a

moment so Jesus says in Matthew excuse

me in John 5 and John 8 he says I only

do what I see the father do I only say

what I hear the father say I only do

what I see the father do I don’t say

what I hear the father say how did he

know what the father was doing it was

the Spirit of God upon him that made him

know what the father was saying and

doing alright it says that jesus healed

all who were oppressed of the devil

everyone that jeez that the father sent

him to was healed 100% and everyone who

came to him was healed but not everyone

who was sick on the planet was healed

right in acts 3 we had Peter and John

walking to the gate beautiful and they

see a lame man who’s been there for

years the implication is he was there

when Jesus walk there but for whatever

reason he didn’t cry out or the father

didn’t lead Jesus to him we don’t know

how we don’t know why we just know that

he was alive in the same city as Jesus

when Jesus was healing people many

believers make what I think is a huge

mistake in creating theology around what

didn’t happen jesus never taught on end

unanswered prayers because he never had

in he didn’t teach us how to navigate

when people aren’t healed because he

didn’t have that happen you can only

impart what you have

he was summoning us inviting us

compelling us to enter into a stream of

life a thought of ministry where we do

what he did and that is were all are

healed now I may never be good at this I

may stink out of my whole life I just

don’t have the luxury of changing my

assignment to what I

well most people look at their gifts

their skills their talents and they they

come to a conclusion what their ministry

is by their gifts and talents in other

words I’ll define my ministry by what

I’m good at Jesus defines our ministry

ministry by what we can’t do in Matthew

10 he says heal the sick raise the dead

cast out devils cleanse lepers he didn’t

say pray for the sick

it didn’t say pray that they’d be raised

from the dead he didn’t say that he said

raise them now no we’re not healers we

we pray for people that’s how they’re

healed I get it it’s just not what he

said he said raise the dead I don’t know

if you’ve noticed this yet but the

father doesn’t seem to have a problem

making us uncomfortable

my comfort is not high on his priority

list he I think he gives me commands

that make me uncomfortable so I’ll need

the comforter is that it’s that

combination here I’m gonna I’m gonna put

you in a way over your head you’ll have

to learn how to pray now I’m gonna put

I’m gonna give you an assignment that if

you really believe and understand what

this assignment is you’ll know it’s

impossible that way you’ll really learn

to pray it’s the Lord who puts us in

these situations that are actually

impossible to do how could you heal

somebody how could I how can I raise

anybody from the dead and yet that is

the Express command why because in the

command is the automatic implication you

can only succeed through intimate tender

relationship with God I believe our

talents and gifts are to be used by the

Lord in ministry but I’d hate for

anybody in this room to ever come to a

complete definition of what your life is

about by what you’re good at part of

what we’re assigned to is what we can’t

do

I may never do it well but I don’t have

the luxury of changing my job

description it says Jesus went about

doing good healing all who were

oppressed of the devil for God was with

him I years ago I did a study where I

tried to find every place in the Bible

where God said and certainly I will be

with you I will be with I will be with

it and what I found was every time

that’s mentioned right before or right

after he had given his people or an

individual an impossible assignment so

in other words the presence of God comes

with an impossible assignment so when it

says for God was with him

this is Jesus who is himself God but

again he chose to live with limitations

of a human being so that he could be a

model for us to follow so now it says he

went about doing good healing all who

were oppressed of the devil for God was

with him that statement would be

unnecessary if he didn’t live and depend

on living out of his humanity with

vectors of so Moses given an impossible

assignment lead Israel out of Egypt God

says I’ll be with Gideon given an

assignment to win a battle against

thousands of soldiers with 300 guys with

pictures and torches God says I’ll be

with and then he assigns a last stage

generation to make disciples of nations

themselves Matthew 12 20 28 19 the Great

Commission and he ends up by saying and

I will be with you what God has given us

to do is impossible except that he do it

through us I want you to look at a

passage out of Malachi Malachi chapter 4

I love this verses it’s a it’s it’s a

little bit humorous only because of the

the language prophetic language is funny

you know promises you’re going to get

fat and stuff like that

which some do that better than others

verse two Malachi 4 Malachi last book in

the Old Testament if you get to the

Gospels turn left to get to Isaiah turn

right alright verse 2 but to you who

fear my name the Sun of righteousness

shall arise with healing in his wings

you will go out and grow fat like stall

fed calves you will trample the wicked

there will be ashes under your soles of

your feet on that day that I do this

says the Lord here’s what here’s a

decree the Sun of righteousness shall

arise he’s talking about a sunrise the

Sun of righteousness will arise with

healing in his wings his race healing

raise that word wings there can actually

have looked it up a number of times can

actually be translated hem of a garment

so you remember Jesus was healed when

the woman touched the edge of his

garment so I says the Sun of

righteousness will arise with healing in

his wings here’s the point that I the

most important point from that verse and

I want to make healing is a display of

his righteousness way back before the

fall of man there was no sin there was

no disease who was Joe of Arafah before

there was anything to heal he was

righteous the expression of healing

comes out of his righteousness is

absolute beauty and perfection

righteousness and holiness has to be

restored in our thinking to its rightful

place all of Beauty stems out of the

concept of holiness and righteousness

everything that’s beautiful

everything that’s right so when you see

something that is diseased or sick

righteousness comes upon and perfects

and and restores it I believe that in

our lifetime I pray in our lifetime the

subject of holiness and righteousness

gets restored to its rightful place of

absolute affection and adoration the

righteousness of God so here

we have this concept what sickness is to

my body sin is to my soul what sin is to

my soul sickness is to my bottom

hundreds of years ago there was a

division in theological camps in in the

church and I’m not going to go in to why

I understand a little bit of what

happened and why but I don’t want to

take the time I’ll just say this the

several hundred years ago there was a

division in a serious point of theology

in the church it was this the word

salvation actually refers to when I’m

saved I’m forgiven of sin but also in

the nature of the word means

I’m delivered from torment and I’m

healed of disease it’s in the word we

use the word Sozo so so ministry that’s

the word for salvation somewhere back

several hundred years ago they made a

division a distinction that you can be

forgiven of sin but healing and

deliverance that’s all additional stuff

and so it kind of got formed in the

thinking of the church that salvation

forgiveness of sin is the main thing and

then you know forgive me but if there’s

time let’s get to the rest when

essentially the word salvation included

in its meaning included in its

definition was when you’re saved you

immediately are in the place to be

delivered and to be healed of affliction

because the salvation is what John G

Lake would call a triune salvation

spirit soul and body it was never meant

to be separated from the gospel of

salvation it was always meant to be

here welcome you’ve received Christ now

let’s get rid of that disease you’ve

received Christ you can’t sleep at night

let’s break off that torment now it was

always supposed to be a part of that

same package but the church has just

dissected it so much that we’ve actually

robbed stolen a life out of this

wonderful wonderful subject

in Isaiah 53 we have this series of

verses that say fact I should just read

it to him sorry I didn’t read it last

two sessions but I’ll just this one says

surely he has borne our griefs and he’s

carried our sorrows he was smitten by

God and afflicted wounded for our

transgressions bruised for our

iniquities

stop right there let me just tell you

what’s happening here says he has borne

our griefs that word griefs there

literally is sicknesses it is just bear

my sorrow he bore my disease and it says

and he carried my sorrow the word sorrow

there’s actually the word pain in the

crucifixion of Christ is the picture of

Jesus making payments for your health

for my health my healing he was making

payments now if I was the bill gates of

this city

bring it on Jesus and I came to you

today and I said hey I have bought a

brand-new Chevy Tahoe brand has every

luxury item you can imagine on it

push down at the dealership I have

actually paid for your next five years

of insurance everything’s covered just

take this car down to the manager I’ve

already arranged it with him just take

this to him and you can pick up your car

how many of you after you get to the law

would apply for a loan

no you wouldn’t apply for a loan because

it’s already paid for and the miracle

that you and I are in need of has

already been paid for

as we jump there’s so many different

spiritual hoops to try to repay for

something that’s already been bought

it’s it’s religious calisthenics it’s

it’s shadowboxing it’s it’s dealing with

things as though we need to fight to

obtain something that’s actually already

in our account I may not know how to

make their withdrawal out of my account

but Jesus doesn’t need to do anything

new as Randy Clarke taught us years ago

he said for us to beg for healing is for

us to assume we have more mercy than he

does see he takes these things personal

we pray for the sick because we want him

to get what he paid for when Saul

persecuted the church jesus said to Saul

why are you persecuting me

he takes it personal he says you give a

cup of cold water to someone in my name

it takes it personal

he thanks you for giving him a cup of

cold water he takes it personal we pray

for the sick because we want him to get

what he paid for it’s a relational

journey where we learn how to better and

better represent him it has to always be

for his glory the moment I start taking

the glory the moment I’ve chosen a level

place a place to level off in my own

maturity and development because he will

not allow me to run with what belongs to

him and yet he has summoned every one of

us into this lifestyle Benny and I moved

to Redding with our kids here in 1976

that 96 used me 76 was it quite that

long ago 1970 1996

come on bill

96 huh

23 and a half years ago and well after

we were here a while we started feeling

that burning in a heart to start a

school of ministry it’s been my art

Libreville finally it became clear it

was time I met with Chris we went on a

particular trip together where I was

speaking he accompanied me and I asked

to pray and to think about joining us

here in reading and helping us to start

the school of ministry he and Kathy of

course did that they prayed and the Lord

really confirmed when he came here and I

think at that time he had like seven

businesses and he closed in down

he just closed him down to join us but

that meant he had a lot of debt when he

closed the business is done

I knew but was never announced to the

church I knew he had a lot of debt that

he was working on paying and one day I

was at the back door I like to go back

there and just meet people talk to

people as as you leave and one of the

gals in a church here came up to me and

she had a piece of paper folded in half

and she said is Chris here I said no

he’s I forget where now I said he’s

preaching somewhere else this morning

but he’ll be here tonight

and she handed me this what I saw to be

a check she said would you give this to

Christina I said sure and I and I took

the check now because it was not in a

sealed envelope

[Laughter]

you’re flowing with me because it wasn’t

in a sealed envelope I I felt as though

it was the will of God for me to know

what was on this cheque so I didn’t want

to open it while she was standing there

because that would be rude you know I’m

a very sensitive person so I see what

out the lobby and around the corner as

soon as she did I flipped it open like

that no one $30,000 $30,000 and I looked

and it was his name I want to make sure

that part just in case you know we got

something mixed up here

it was his name and I thought that’s

amazing

so I put it in my Bible and that evening

came for a pre-service prayer back in

teach me in the dining room I was in

there when Chris came in so I say hey

Christopher so he walked over and I said

somebody gave this to me this morning to

give to you

and he looked I said does that say

$3,000 I said $30,000 Chris ruined the

prayer meeting he walked around that

firm meeting waving this cheque showing

everybody who had eyes to see that he

had just been given $30,000 it was there

was no more praying in that meeting

there just the anointing for prayer we

lift it right at that moment you know he

never thanked me for all that money cuz

I didn’t write the check I just

delivered the cheque and when you pray

for this sick you’re delivering a cheque

that somebody else wrote

[Applause]

faith is is an important part of healing

I I grew up in Pentecostal church

Assemblies of God

very thankful for my upbringing we I

grew up with believing in healing as a

central part of the gospel nobody ever

told me this but somehow I came to the

conclusion that if you were a very

special person then you could be

entrusted with an anointing for praying

for the sick seeing them get healed

because in my in my upbringing

I ran perhaps my mom’s dad was baptized

in the Holy Spirit 1901 is his wife my

grandma was baptized in the spirit in

1903 this is before Azusa Street they

sat in to wigglesworth’s ministry a

Malka was the solos for Aimee Semple

McPherson so I grew up hearing these

stories my grandfather but tell me he

said it called me Billy Billy says not

everybody liked Wigglesworth because he

was so bold in his faith he said not

everybody loves like wheels because we

love him now because he’s dead Israel

loved all their prophets that were dead

too

as though the ones that were alive were

the ones that gave him problems bold

faith is offensive to the stationary

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but he would talk to me and so I grew up

with that my parents took me to see

Kathryn Kuhlman a number of times and

that was a rich highlight we used to

have Mario not used to we still do Mario

Marella would come here and preach back

in the early 70s 71 72 73 in that era so

many great miracles would take place so

I had this thing in my mind that you had

to be one of those special persons

called by God unusual experience unusual

touch from God on your life and that

qualifies you to be one of those unique

ones and I knew I didn’t qualify it’s a

little bit weird now because some people

think I’m in that position no let me

just say there’s a lot of things in

ministry that I do very naturally I’ve

been doing it for 40 some years

naturally healing is one of them healing

is one of those things I have to push

into every single time every single time

it does not flow naturally it flows as a

decision a choice this is essential to

support the authenticity of the gospel

and so I will choose to pursue it again

faith for miracles is a huge thing but

the beautiful thing one of the beautiful

things and the way Jesus dealt with the

subject of faith is he never punished

people who were low in faith he didn’t

punish them by withholding America he

would he would address the smallness of

faith the smallest measure of faith I

can find in the Bible hardly moves the

needle on the Richter scale is the guy

who comes to Jesus in mark 9 and he says

if you’re able that’s not the boldest

confession of faith there God if you

could handle this size of a request

please help my son so he comes with that

that faith that’s lacking oxygen it

comes to Jesus and Jesus turns a tables

he says if you’re able to believe and

this is the famous statement help me in

my unbelief I believe but help me in my

great state

what does Jesus do he doesn’t look at

him and say your faith is too small to

warrant a miracle what did he do he

adjust the smallness of faith so that

when the guy experienced a miracle his

faith his faith could grow his trust in

God’s promised nature and commitment to

him as a person with accelerate the

miracles are supposed to accelerate

their faith Jesus didn’t withhold a

miracle because of small faith he would

address the issue but then provide the

miracle as a place of access to greater

faith I remember I remember so many

years ago I was in a meeting I was

actually in Nashville with wonderful

friends there that had gone too many

times and and gal GAO came up to me and

and she said she told me her condition

and she said I believe it tonight is my

night I believe God’s going to give me

to me now you have to understand I have

heard that phrase God is going to heal

me tonight more times than you can

imagine

and I don’t mean that in a put-down way

I mean I’m glad when I hear that because

I know people are active in agreeing

with God’s Word but in this particular

instance when she walked up to me and

she said I believe God’s going to heal

me tonight it stunned me because I could

feel the presence of faith this know no

exaggeration this is what I did she said

I believe God’s going to heal me tonight

I stepped back

I stepped back I could physically feel

the atmosphere of faith now it sounds

weird now but I step back I just stared

at her and I examined her head to toe

tone ahead what was they doing honestly

I wanted every cell in my body to

recognize the presence of faith I stood

I wanted everything about what was on

this woman to impact me every spirit

soul and body I wanted everything about

me to be connected to this thing I had

never seen that doubt level before ever

and I stepped back laid hands on her she

was out for maybe went down she’s out

for maybe 20 minutes when she got up and

said what’s happening she

said there’s a it had to do of the heart

and her lungs and she said my chest is

burning and I said she walked away he

said your faith got you that one she had

a medical device a pump and it it pumped

medication directly into her heart 24/7

every morning at 7 o’clock she would

change that bag of medication so she’s

got this wire this single and right into

her heart pumping the medication she

comes back the next night so now 24

hours later I said how you doing and she

said well this morning at 7 o’clock the

Lord told me I didn’t need the

medication anymore now doctors had told

her she could live I think it was four

minutes it may have been as many as six

minutes without medication

so she unplugged it you got four minutes

to find out whether you’re hearing from

God oops I’m here early sorry Ivy it was

sobering to hear her talk about so here

she is it’s now 7:00 in the morning she

she undid it so this is 9 o’clock at

night she’s giving testimony everybody

in the room this morning I took the

thing off and the Lord come and

completely healed her faith yeah for

energy faith is a glorious thing a

wonderful thing that everybody in this

room should be cultivating the scripture

says without faith it’s impossible to

please him

it’s that vital without faith it also

says anything that’s not done in faith

is sin so faith is central to our

behavior our conversation or our speech

our thoughts ideas plans all the stuff

faith has to be a decision so here we

have this issue of faith faith

faith doesn’t grow as an expression of

our will I can’t determine to have faith

it pictured this way a river next to me

it’s already flowing I can step into

what art exists faith is when I actually

participate and how God thinks about an

impossibility

faith faith grows not through striving

but through surrender it’s coming to the

place of abandonment to him it’s coming

to the place I mean I may never do this

thing well I just don’t have the luxury

of reducing the assignment to what I do

well I’ve been assigned to this

lifestyle whereas there’s this

continuously flowing river called the

will of God Jesus modeled it by healing

all who were oppressed of the devil that

came to him what we tend to do if you’re

anything like me if somebody will come

to you with the need and you immediately

try to think of somebody else in the

room that has a greater anointing in

that area that they that they can pray

for that person instead of realizing the

sovereign God arranged for you to meet

with that person and pray I saw no

miracles then I already talked to you

about my vineyard trip I’m sorry I’ve

done this twice today so I’m not

delirious but I’m in the neighborhood I

as a as a pastor in Weaverville I would

pray for the second often I never saw

anybody healed I some died so I figure I

had the gift of eternity

[Laughter]

I’d go back to the you know the owner’s

manual and and get inspired again try it

again you know then they wouldn’t be

healed or whatever so I it actually went

something like this I would I would pray

for people for maybe three months and

then I get so discouraged because

nothing happened I’d quit for six months

and you know but it never leaves the

pages of Scripture these signs shall

follow those that believe so I wrestled

myself back to a place of faith maybe

and read a book but wiglesworth read a

book by John G lake or something and

stir my faith try it again 1987 I think

it’s February 4 87 I took several of the

guys the leaders in in Weaverville

went down to John Wimber the vineyard

church in and I’m I’m forever grateful

to that movement in that ministry we

went to this conference i sat there the

only time this has happened in my life

every teaching that I was in that week I

had already taught before verbatim what

was weird as some of the illustrations

they use I had used but it was

confirming but it wasn’t all that

encouraging because they had fruit for

what they believed I just had to in

theology many people stopped short when

you become satisfied with knowledge you

often stop stopped short of a divine

encounter revelation knowledge is

supposed to introduce us to the person

that completes the experience if that

makes sense it’s the person of Jesus

being the healer that rounds out the

experience so that I can care for so

anyway I attended all week and realized

the one thing I came out with is that to

put a demand on what I believe and I

came home just both frustrated and

challenged that next week the miracles

started immediately there’s no

explanation because they didn’t line us

separately hands almost like today today

we would have impartation times we we

believe in very strongly the power of

God can be imparted to people to walk in

Greater Noida thing

there was no corporate prayer over the

group there was no time holding hands we

just prayed that everybody in this room

would walk from this day forth with the

unknown aid for miracles

none of that happen it was just we were

there we listened we observed and went

home and it started the next week I have

no explanation except I think we

underestimate the value of the presence

in a corporate setting we caught

something we caught it it actually

started that we caught something in in

that week of meetings like a virus

except a good one like being exposed to

radiation you know all kinds of things

go wrong in your body

well the radiation of heaven is good it

gives you something to distribute to

other people I went home and went into a

friend of mine his store and when I

walked in the store there’s a bunch of

people there and I walked in eSAB belly

since I’m gonna have to retire the

arthritis and my my arms my hands so I

can’t use the tools anymore so I can’t I

can’t work via I can’t reach on the

shelf to take the boxes off the shelves

he says I’m gonna have to retire it’s

probably in his 40s doesn’t yet know the

Lord but I felt us to pray for him but

but I didn’t have the courage to pray

for him in front of this crowd that was

there

I’m so glad jesus lud loves chickens

[Laughter]

Nicodemus visited Jesus at night you

know Gideon God told him to tear down

the altar that your dad built in his

backyard and he was too nervous to do it

by day because everybody would see him

so he did it at night so I mean that

number and so I came back three days

later nobody’s in in the room I was

gonna bring up the conversation they

came with that you know kind of sweatin

but I came with that purpose and he

brought it up he says I’m gonna have to

retire it brought off all statement

again they said why I I feel like God

wants to heal you and I said he said

okay and so he said now and I have since

found people who don’t know the Lord are

often much more eager to receive prayer

I think Christians Christians have to

sort out whether or not it’s God’s will

for them to be sick if it’s God’s will

is this the hour for the meal there’s

all kinds of Hoops to jump through this

guy just thinks if there’s a God

certainly he’s capable of healing maybe

we should return to an unbelievers faith

[Laughter]

so I put my hand on his elbow on his

hand and spoke to the condition as Jesus

mobs in Scripture rebuked the arthritis

laid hands on minute two minutes of

prayer when I stirred began to move his

hands as arms around and and it was it

was he was astonished I think I was more

astonished but he was this time he said

it is it’s all gone says I am healed and

he is moving his arms his hands

everything around like that and he goes

on he says bill he says he said you are

a healer you are here no don’t don’t

correct an unbeliever for their bad

theology we have enough issues so I just

let him going because what is he doing

let’s be honest he’s trying to

compliment me trying to encourage me

he’s a friend he’s trying to encourage

me he’s shunned say it’s amazing

bill you’ve got a gift on your life and

go on and on so I just let him talk and

when he was through I said I I’m so

thankful for that thank you for for your

encouragement that is so amazing what

God just did I said but let me explain

something to you whenever we come

together as a people on Sunday and the

church Jesus shows up and he just he

sup and down the rows he’ll come to this

person that needs encouragement and he

just he just strengthens them and comes

to this person over here who needs it

needs clarity for a decision to be made

at work tomorrow

and he just gives clarity phone into

this person over here they’ve been

suffering in the migraine all week and

right during worship he just lifts it

off and he goes around and he just gives

these gifts to people up and down the

rows and then he thinks to himself it is

so much fun giving gifts I think I’ll

give this person a gift in healing but

it’s not for him it’s when he prays for

this guy over here after the service

I’ll just make sure I get those two

together and this person I’m gonna give

an insight to a scripture during worship

that this person over here needs to hear

so I just make sure that as they’re

walking to the car today that they run

into each other and they have that

conversation he loves giving gift so

much he wants us to enjoy what it’s like

and I said all that happened to you and

I told him call him by name and said all

that happened to you is you were visited

by Jesus your this was one of those

moments he gave me a gift that was my

privilege to give to you I got to

deliver a check again that I didn’t

write even the next time the next the

next time I went to see him I had gone

to Spain that next week when I got home

I wanted to go by and see how he’s doing

when I walked in the off and the in his

in his storefront when I walked into the

store II saw me said Bill euro and he

stopped and he said I was visited by

Jesus

why don’t you see

[Applause]

Jesus went about doing good healing all

who were oppressed of the devil because

God was with him

is the Spirit of God with you see as

soon as the spirit that raised Jesus

from the dead took up residence and

everyone in this room that confess

Christ as soon as that happened all of

heaven positioned itself to see what you

and I would concur in his name we’ve

been given the privilege to confront

things that are impossible knowing that

that is our assignment it’s the nature

of the Christian life it may be that

there are people in this room that don’t

have that personal relationship with

Jesus you don’t know what it is to be

forgiven to have clean conscience to

have a clean slate you don’t know what

it is to actually be adopted by God who

is the ultimate father who brings us

into his family in his circle you may

never have known what that is like and

yet you would say today bill I don’t

want to leave the building until I know

what it is to be forgiven until I know

what it is to be a peace with God so I

know what it is to have Jesus as my

absolute Lord master Savior if there’s

anyone here that would say that though I

don’t want to leave the building till I

know I’m at peace with God then I want

you just to put your hand up right now

right back over here is one right over

here anybody else whatever here’s

another lay down here’s another

everybody else put your hand down here’s

another another right here

yep bless the Lord

yep yep yep I see that when there’s at

least five five or six to put your hands

up right here’s another one yep yeah yep

another one right here yeah it’s the

most wonderful thing in the world I’m

gonna ask those that raise their hands

or six or seven of you that I could see

and anyone who in addition but say I

want that to be me I want you to make

your way over here to my left is a

trusted friends that we have and I want

to have a ministry team come at the same

time it’ll help them just come on down

bless you right over here

I want you to come down

yeah blessing good if you raise your

hand come right over here to my left

yeah come out over here these folks with

their hands raised are there just to

pray for you yeah yeah and I need to

make sure that we get everyone who came

down maybe um that come right over here

to my left there we have some more that

are coming

my goodness Church give thanks to the

Lord for this yeah walk them all the way

over yeah yeah yeah here’s another one

is it more yeah it’s more like eight or

nine P bus wonderful Jesus this is just

harvest time

this is harvest time and Jesus is

bringing people in and I pray that today

they would get the salvation of

forgiveness and healing and deliverance

because that’s what Jesus provided I

want to pray for you then I’m gonna let

you go father I thank you so much for

the privilege of being together like

this and the reminders that you give us

of what the gospel looks like the gospel

of power gospel of transformation spirit

soul and body and I asked it out of this

gathering you had to raise up an army an

army who would contend for the

breakthroughs that Jesus alone saw on

the earth that we would once again

glorify you through our absolute

surrender to your purposes we pray this

in Jesus name Amen

now if you would hold your places please

for just just a moment we’re gonna

invite people to come forward to receive

ministry but come on up then I’m gonna

get to the bed

and such a good word

but if if you need a miracle in your

body we want to encourage you just to

come up front to receive prayer to

receive healing specifically I felt like

anyone that has migraine headaches in

the back their head a problem with the

tailbone also achy knees just feels like

your knees almost want to give away if

you walk too long

sore feet also problems with sense of

smell any condition it doesn’t have to

be those but specifically I felt like

the lord of highlighting those things if

you need healing your body please come

up our ministry team would love to pray

for you but bless you all thank you so

much for coming and hopefully we’ll see

you next week god bless you guys