In this video, Bill Johnson discusses saying yes to Jesus with complete abandonment and learning to steward revival.
what are the milestones or keys that got
you to the place that you are today I
mean if you could just run through those
and there’s so many you know the the
first one was just saying obviously just
saying yes to Jesus it was an absolute
complete total abandonment I have you
know it was you know I described though
the interest of the kingdom is the
straight never a road you know the only
way you get in is that’s not my will but
yours I give you my life I have nothing
left I give you everything and that was
it and it was absolute abandonment and
everything and I was afraid to pick up
anything for oh wow you know I wouldn’t
fish I wouldn’t do anything I mean I
just all I wanted was just about 20 20
yeah Yeah right 19 and 20 right in that
period of time so you were believer all
you were raised in a Christian home and
yeah Church and all the things but
they’re just there came there came a
milestone like this is a claim a moment
it’s a Saturday night you know everyone
is in bed I got out of bed and just felt
God dealing with me had been for quite a
while yeah and I just said all right
you’ve got the rest of my life and so
that was them that was the abandon the
abandonment my dad taught in worship
year to later for several weeks and I
remember after one of the messages I
just I just bowed my head you know he
didn’t have an altar call or anything he
was teaching on the priority of
administer to the Lord a common subject
now but extremely rare of them yeah
diminished the difference between
ministry in the inner court to God in
ministry in the outer court to people
and he used that Ezekiel passage and
it’s bowed my head at the end of it I
said I give you the rest of my life I
know that I’ve heard a lifetime where
they give you the rest of my life for me
to learn that and that was that was huge
you know when I when I went to we’ve
revealed the pastor was a huge milestone
as such a great group of people and they
really gave me a lot of grace and a lot
of room to grow and and you know a lot
of unique or different ideas or approach
to life and ministry I had this I picked
up from my dad the worship thing came
out of the everybody was a priest so I
had I went with this concept
goes on in church is supposed to happen
in culture supposed to happen in society
it’s supposed to happen in your business
and homes and stuff like that so we
would push the envelope there and we’d
have we had a measure breakthrough you
know mm-hmm when I went to Weber’s
conference in Anaheim in 87 I saw what I
believed work but I could never produce
and that really provoked me into taking
a risk that they took I was waiting for
my theology to make away and they had to
put they put their theology into an
action that brought her breakthrough
yeah and it was a huge lesson for me
Toronto and 95 February of 1952 so many
people have major encounters that I
didn’t yeah I mean I got prayed for
every time I could you know they could I
jokingly tell people they could have an
altar call for african-american pregnant
pastors lives and I probably would have
gone forward but but I mean I I got
prayer every time I mean it was
wonderful I sense the presence of the
Lord you know I sense that same but it
wasn’t dramatic or as kneel there’s
nothing dramatic at all the night it was
another one of those live life time
moments where I again prayed on my way
home I said all right I’ve seen it I
give her the rest of my life for this
mmm now what happened is in 87 when we
started to have a breakthrough from the
wimbur conferences we could there’s no
leg out of hand so there’s none of that
we just came home and to pray for
somebody and then we’d have to catch him
or they’d fall over you know and and
this has never happened before nobody
pray for us we were just in an
environment and somehow it got on us
yeah you know and people started getting
healed and you know things of that
nature so but I didn’t know how to
sustain it I just thought it was all
sovereign I thought well when something
wonderful happens just God’s sovereign
intent and when it doesn’t we just suck
it up and works the work through in life
Kelly shows up again you know our
worship was good the prophetic was good
but we didn’t really have those shaking
visitations you know and and so when I
went to Toronto I said if you’ll touch
me again because I had picked up
somewhere that it was up to me to
sustain it I had a responsibility to
keep the fire burning you know that’s
you or you got it from the Lord or just
you know
I’ve thought about it since I’ve tried
to forget I just knew it I don’t know
how I knew it I don’t remember I just I
had that conviction inside that he
entrusted me something in the 87 yes now
95 and then I’ve watched it come and go
for these seven or eight years it would
come for a season of three months the
first is like six months and it would
left we wouldn’t see that anointing
again for another three or four months
yeah and I just thought it was
sovereignty and I started burning with a
passion for more for breakthrough so
much that I kind of came to the
conclusion I thought all right I think I
get it if you’ll touch me again I’ll
never change the subject which meant
yeah I will make I won’t add what you’re
doing to what we’re doing
we had good worship we had strong
prophetic we had certain operation any
gifts with certain things that were
functioning pretty well but I said I
won’t add what you’re doing to what
we’re doing I will make what you’re
doing the only thing we do and so it
wasn’t dramatic yeah it was about eight
or nine month long process for
everywhere until October end of October
that same year it’s not dramatic it’s
interesting almost all your milestones
aren’t very dramatic like if you were on
the outside looking in a movie of bills
life it’d be like and then another
milestone I didn’t throw in it was just
the Lord spoke to me out of Isaiah 60
and it’s changed my life ever since then
and it was not dramatic mm-hmm but it
was it was a revelation he gave me out
of that chapter that changed my life
so anyway up till this point that’s
that’s been connecting with Randy Clark
yeah you know increasing he has such a
grace for importation anyway increasing
that anointing for healing you know we
were having when they wouldn’t he before
he came we were seeing healing every
week but when he came it turned everyday
it was just that multiplication factor
and and that’s impacted my life
tremendously
you sense it that there was an
impartation at that wimbur conference
but you didn’t have a theology of it
yeah oh yeah I mean cuz we picked it up
yeah that’s why I encourage our students
and others say listen you know you
always want to weigh in of hands and I
understand the desire for it
but I’ve got it by being in the room
mm-hmm
you know I can feel it when Bobby
Connors here there’s certain stuff just
being released in the room you just have
to learn how to honor from the heart the
individual the gift they carry and the
Spirit of God that’s on them and if you
can learn how to recognize the Spirit of
God on a person give honor their but I
learned that my experience is is that’s
exactly what happened as we came home
stuff was happening we had no grid for
yeah I mean we had we had I remember a
meeting with children you know they
wanted me to talk to the kids so I
talked to the kids they stand up invite
the Holy Spirit to come my son Eric was
about 12 at the time he went late hands
up he stood ERISA’s at the end of the 90
see daddy since I was gonna pray for
this person he’s 12 so I was gonna pray
for this person I felt God say no don’t
pray for their purse so he backed away
and then he saw another kid he was like
eight years old he said felt like the
Lord said to pray for him so pray for
him
they can’t lost the ability to speak hmm
I mean at home the mother calls me and
nice as Donnie’s not talking hmm but he
weeps every time we mentioned her name
Jesus mm-hmm I mean encounters like that
I know so my 12 year old gets on the
phone to counsel him this is what you do
we had no greed for that she’s just such
a such a presence would come to changes
everything you know so it it you you
just adjust you just adjust that with
and we got that somehow down there yeah
but there was never any prayer for
anyone
ah which I like I mean I like the prayer
but yeah I’m so thrilled that you can
get it by being in the room absolutely