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Scripture References: Luke 3: 21 Luke 4 John 5: 19 1 John 3: 8 Hebrews 11: 6 Mark 6: 5 Hebrews 11: 3 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on October 29, 2017. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #WordOfGod #Discernment
let’s just say somebody uh gave this
word it was verified as fully the Lord
that God had put an anointing on you
similar to Smith Wigglesworth exciting
day you pray for some people that get
healed you pray for a good friend and
they die and you begin to question
whether that word came from the
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Lord Eric sends his love he’s suffering
in
Hawaii but
now Eric and his two daughters are
actually speaking at the Y wom BAS and
cona and uh you know if if you got to
preach
somewhere let’s go to Hawaii I mean come
on that just sounds like the will of God
to
me and uh Isn’t that cool about uh the
boat with Iris you know you guys helped
to buy that thing we made a commitment
to them oh a year and a half ago maybe
now and uh and help them to purchase
this boat they had two others before
this and those two
sank so you don’t want to have a boat
that sinks it’s not any fun and oh crazy
stories behind those in fact there’s
probably more than two boats if you
count the rowboats and rafts and
everything else Heidi has tried because
there’s islands all over that part of
Africa that have never heard the gospel
and so they just have this passion to
get the gospel to these islands and uh
so anyway thanks you you you helped uh
us us together we helped them to to buy
this uh this boat and I can hardly wait
she I was with Heidi just a few weeks
ago she was so excited because the boat
was almost to mosm Beek at the time we
talked it was like going to be there in
the next week or something and and she
was just so so thrilled because a dream
was coming to they finally uh were able
to get the kind of boat it would have
been nice in hindsight to get in the
first place um so anyway thank you Jesus
for that and I have a story to read to
you but you cannot be easily offended if
you’re a
blonde if you are I just apologize in
advance my wife is blonde my daughter is
blonde
often
often but with the change of the moon
comes the change in hair
color and uh and I don’t remember what
she is
today
cuz because Gabe is preaching in Hawaii
too wait a minute there’s
something Eric Hawaii gab and Leah
Hawaii we should be going to Hawaii
yesen all right well anyway my daughter
is blonde
sometimes and I’m getting more blonde
all the
time two blonde girls were working for
the city public works department one
would dig a hole the other would follow
behind and fill it
up they worked one side of the street
then down the other moved down to the
next street working furiously all day
without rest one girl digging a hole the
other filling it
up an onlooker was amazed at their hard
work but couldn’t understand what they
were doing so he asked the whole Digger
I’m impressed by the effort you two are
putting into to your work but I don’t
get it why do you dig a hole only to
have your partner follow behind and fill
it up again the whole Digger wiped her
brow and said well I suppose it probably
looks odd because we’re nor normally a
three-person team but today the girl who
plants the trees called in
[Laughter]
[Applause]
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sick that’s just wrong on so many
levels but but
is it it is redeem myself I don’t think
I can I think I think I’m already lost
redeem
another I don’t think I
have
anything Kathy wants me to redeem
myself I don’t think it can
happen unless I read about the Texas
beer
joint Mount Vernon Texas Drummond’s bar
began construction on expansion of their
building to increase their business in
response the local Baptist Church
started a campaign to block the bar from
expanding with petitions and prayers
work progressed right up to 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 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
ultimately the church was responsible
for the demise of his building either
through Direct or indirect
means in its reply to the court the
church denied all responsibility or any
connection to the building’s
demise the judge read through the
plaintiff’s
complaint and the defendant’s reply and
at 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 an entire church
congregation that Now does not
[Applause]
all right that’s all that’s all that’s
all all right why don’t you open your
bibles if you would to Luke chapter
3 and I actually uh uh felt early this
it just this doesn’t happen to me very
often we many many many days ahead of
time I I have a sense for what the Lord
wants me to do on a
particular uh Sunday but I really felt
earlier this week that I was to review
uh something that I had uh a word that I
brought to you in its entirety about I
think three years ago I’m guessing now
and I’ve used parts of it um off and on
for the last several
years so we’re going to we’re going to
begin in Luke chapter 3 but before I do
I want to take a a before I even start
we’re going to take a detour we’re going
to take a diversion and I want to read
to you phrases out of Matthew 14 and
it’s going to it’s going to be about I
think four phrases maybe five out of
about 20 verses because there’s a
there’s a story line that I want you to
catch because there’s a um Jesus how
many of you remember Jesus was tempted
in all ways as we are yet without sin so
he experienced every emotion every every
opportunity for failure that any of us
would experience and yet none of it was
ever appealing to him because he didn’t
have the value system so he made it
through that without any problem without
any issue but this is one of those
moments John John the Baptist dies John
the Baptist was beheaded John is the
prophet that Jesus gave the greatest
honor to in Matthew 11 he declares John
the Baptist to be uh the greatest
prophet of all Old Testament prophets
but John was also his
cousin and so it says
this Herod sent and had John beheaded in
prison
when Jesus heard about it he departed in
a boat to a deserted
place when the multitudes heard about it
they ran ahead on
foot Jesus was moved with compassion
when he saw them and he healed their
sick when he sent the multitudes away he
went up to a mountain to pray here’s
what I want you to notice he gets the
news his cousin the Forerunner to his
own life and Ministry John the Baptist
was beheaded the first thing he does is
he separates himself from all other
activities when crowds begin to pull on
him he moves in compassion but there
comes a limit there comes a a point
where he draws the line he sends the
multitude away and he goes up on a
mountain to pray what’s the point every
time we experience some of the greater
challenges in life uh we always have
issues going on but some of the greater
challenges that really could derail us
really could undermine our confidence in
a given
situation it’s in those moments we are
supposed to refine our Focus there are
certain times in our life where we can
manage you know six plates spinning at
the same time and can do it quite well
you know we can be involved here we can
be involved there we have this activity
going we have that activity but there
are other times where things shift and
it’s a real challenging season and
sometimes we deaden the challenge can I
use the word pain we deaden the pain
through business and in doing so fail to
refine our focus and we don’t ever
capitalize on the severity of the moment
getting it to turn to where God
vindicates his own name in and through
our life because every challenge to our
faith is an opportunity for
Vindication see he a god of vindication
I I I like the movies where the bad guy
loses and the good guy wins I love those
movies I I’ll sit there for two hours
and wait what I don’t like are those TV
shows where there’s no closure you got
to watch an entire season and then they
leave you hanging for the next season I
don’t have five years I don’t have I
don’t have five years to get this issue
settled in my heart I need the bad guy
to suffer now or repent I’m I’m good
with both but they don’t usually have
them repent in the TV show so I I like
the Justice thing get get this thing
settled right away at least by the end
of two or three
shows if I got to wait multiple Seasons
I just it just makes me angry I get to
the end of the season you did it
again but I like I like to show
her guy gets what’s coming to
him that axle
honestly that cry for justice now I mean
I don’t mean that against people but
that cry for justice in the earth is a
natural desire for a Believer if you do
not long for Vindication against the
powers of Darkness you don’t know who
you
are it’s not about
you it’s not about you it’s about the
king and his kingdom it’s about the name
that you and I bear that we car people
say Bill the devil’s just so mad at me I
go he doesn’t like any of us you know we
we remind him of Jesus he’s really angry
about that he it’s not you it’s not
about you it’s never been about you it’s
it’s that you remind him of Jesus and he
hates Jesus and wants to destroy every
representation of Jesus that he can on
the earth it’s not about you the
Vindication isn’t so that you and I feel
good about ourselves it’s because the
name of the Lord is once again
demonstrated is superior to every other
name and whenever there is an attempt
can I I don’t want to read too much in
this into this picture with Jesus uh
because there’s not enough dialogue
there to give us but let’s just say for
a moment that this was a a moment that
he had to sort
through he decided to go up to a
mountain to pray why because he heard
John was dead he was beheaded so he REM
removed himself one knowing he was going
to be facing a brutal death himself but
number two the one that he loved and
honored above all other prophets that he
also loved
was dead and he gets up to a mountain
who knows what he did but if he was
tempted in every way as I would be I
would need to sort through this issue to
make sure I was trusting the father in
the midst of this mystery I don’t want
to put my weakness on him that would not
be fair because he was eternally God but
he was also
man regardless he goes up to the
mountain he refines his Focus steals all
the other activi
when he comes down from the mountain it
says they brought all the sick to him
and as many as could touch him they were
made
whole everyone that could get just close
enough to touch clothing received a
miracle when did that happen it happened
after refined Focus up to the mountain
met with the father and he came down the
glory can I say it this way the power
the glory the anointing was so prevalent
on him that anyone who got close enough
to him was automatically
healed that’s
Vindication when you’ve suffered loss
challenge to your faith grab your moment
don’t do pity party stuff grab your
moment look redemptively into the moment
what is it that God wants to do in this
situation it’s not about me it’s not
about you it’s not about this ministry
or the ministry across town it is about
the name of the Lord Jesus that has been
assaulted in the eyes of the church and
unbelievers alike and the Lord would
vindicate his own name and by you and me
re recognizing Our Moment all right I
got to normally I can do this normally I
can do that but but this month I’m just
going to do this I’m going to refine the
focus extra time with Jesus extra time
in his word and let’s pray into this
full
Vindication all right it is in the
kingdom and I believe Solomon models
this Kingdom lifestyle
um uh when something was stolen or lost
they had to ROR seven times restore
seven times what was
stolen the day before two days before my
dad died I talked with Rick Joiner on
the phone and and he was he just
mentioned to me he said this is going to
give you access to a seven times greater
anointing I don’t ever want to imply God
causes a conflict or disaster but we
live in a broken world and if you live
in a broken world you might as well take
advantage of what the enemy wants to do
to steal and let it be reversed for the
honor of the name Jesus so Luke chapter
3 Luke chapter
3 um this part we’ve actually talked
about goodness so many times but I I
need it to set the stage for the next
one all right so verse 21 all the people
were baptized it came to pass Jesus was
also baptized while he prayed prayed
Heaven open the Holy Spirit descended in
bodily form like a dove upon him a voice
Came From Heaven which said you are my
beloved Son and you I am well
pleased I teach on that portion enough I
don’t need to do that now that’s um I
need to conserve the time verse one of
chapter
4 Jesus being filled with the Holy
Spirit returned from the Jordan was led
by the spirit Into the Wilderness
okay stop right
there Jesus being filled with the Holy
Spirit when did that happen I’d like to
suggest to you that Jesus came with all
authority because he was commissioned
from the father but he did not have all
power now obviously as God he did but he
chose to not live out of that he chose
to live out of human restriction so
restraint a limitation so that he could
set an example that could be followed
and so he chose to live with limitation
that’s why he said the son of man
pointing to himself he would address
himself as the son of man the son of man
can do nothing of himself I only do what
I see the father do only say what I hear
the father say so he’s given us the
context for his entire life on planet
Earth so he comes to Earth with
authority because he was commissioned by
the father he embraced the
mission 1 John 3:8 says that he was he
came to Earth to destroy The Works of
the evil one so he was sent from Heaven
to Earth to destroy the works of the
evil one so he already came with a
commission that he said yes to so he was
carrying Authority but Authority comes
in the commission power comes in the
encounter so when he was baptized in
water came up out of the water the
spirit of God Came Upon him and that’s
when he was filled with the Holy Spirit
in a way that would be similar to our
experience
amen verse one again chapter 4 Jesus
being filled with the Holy Spirit
returned from the Jordan was led by the
spirit Into the Wilderness how many of
you want to be led by the Holy Spirit
that’s good it wasn’t a trick question
but it but it
was we want to be led by the spirit
absolutely because those are the sons of
God that’s the what the scripture
teaches us but one of the vital things
to realize is that the holy spirit will
sometimes Lead You Into the Wilderness
but he will only lead you into a
Wilderness when there’s a promised land
on the other side he doesn’t lead you
into a Wilderness to stay he leads you
into a Wilderness to obtain a measure of
strength and victory so that when you
get into the promised land you have the
Integrity to stay
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there see character is not formed apart
from
choices the character is not formed
separate from
options if you have no options you know
as long as you stay away from people
people you can actually think you have
the fruits of the
[Laughter]
spirit I can think yeah I’m the most
long-suffering person I know I just
don’t hang out with
anyone and so you live under the
illusion of what you have when you
distance yourself from where you
actually have to make hard choices it’s
in the context of choices that character
is
formed verse three devil the devil said
to him now this is the the Wilderness
that where the devil was the devil said
to him Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit
Into the Wilderness not to fail but to
Triumph and you can’t Triumph without a
battle That’s the Truth
Listen next time you’re in spiritual
conflict remember the scripture he
prepares a table before me intimacy
Jesus me he prepares a table before me
in the presence of my
enemies the enemy wants me to con be
devil
conscious and as long as I’m devil
conscious I don’t know I am in the most
intimate moment of my life here is the
opportunity for a depth in Christ that I
have no access to outside I don’t have
this measure of access to outside of the
problem devil said to him if you’re the
Son of God command this Stone to become
bread in verse 99 the same he brought
him to Jerusalem set him on a pinnacle
of the temple and said if you are the
Son of God throw yourself down from here
all right Adam and Eve and Jesus is
called the last Adam so we have the
first Adam and the last Adam the first
adom the Temptation that came to the
first Adam was has God said yeah that if
you eat of this fruit I’d like to
suggest that the first Temptation really
wasn’t the forbidden fruit it was to
question what God
said I would like to suggest to the last
Adam that the the first temptation to
him was
not to turn Stone into bread but it was
to question his identity if you’re the
Son of God what was the last thing Jesus
heard from the
father you’re my beloved Son what was
the first thing he heard from the devil
if you are the son so there’s two main
lessons we’ve got to get the first one
is is the reality that in the kingdom
when a word is spoken over your life it
attracts
conflict if you don’t understand that
then you’ll think you’re doing something
wrong if you do understand it then you
position yourself for
Vindication there’s a huge different
difference in the outcome of those two
things
in Matthew 13 it talks about the parable
of the seed and the SE and when he talks
about rocky soil he
says and when tribulation or persecution
arises because of the
word persecution tribulation persecution
opposition tribulation difficulty I’m in
a broken World things go
wrong when these two things arise
because of the
word many don’t have the depth or the
strength to maintain or to hold their
position in the middle of that kind of
difficulty there’s not the root system
that is needed there’s not the depth in
of
relationship whenever the enemy opposes
a word over your life it’s because he’s
afraid of your
destiny
and there are two things that I’m that
I’m aware of there’s probably dozens but
there’s two things I’m aware of that
happens when the Lord releases a word
over our
life that word must be opposed for two
basic reasons one is I need to discover
the strength of the
word otherwise I can live in this make
believe world not really
realizing what am I willing to take a
bullet for this that God has spoken over
my life yeah if you if you live in that
pretend world where I never hang out
with people so I’m sure I’m filled with
all the fruits of the spirit if you live
in that in that pretend world then
everything’s always okay and you never
fully realize what God wants to
reconstruct what he wants to restore
what he wants to rebuild what he wants
to demolish and build over again you
never know because you’re you’re not
involved deep enough into life itself
and so here persecution tribulation
arises opposes the word over your life
let’s just say somebody uh gave this
word it was verified as fully the Lord
that God had put an anointing on you
similar to Smith Wigglesworth exciting
day you pray for some people that get
healed you pray for a good friend and
they die and you begin to question
whether that word came from the
Lord see he makes
sure he makes sure that we always have
two trees in our
garden one you can eat from and one that
if you eat from it you you empower the
inferior until it dominates the infer
the the
superior I said that
right God’s word has all authority all
power the devil’s word has no Authority
no
power I have authority if I listen to
the wrong word I empower the wrong word
to the point it can undermine the most
powerful thing in the universe which is
the word of the Lord over my
life so the word of the Lord comes this
healing anointing somebody I pray for
dies it must not be God the prophet must
have been wrong I must have been
emotionally just too expectant and
unrealistic this just simply not true
what happens is I feed myself on the
wrong word and that which has unlimited
power now becomes powerless because of
what I have done with the
inferior this would be an interesting
study sometime just to see how often in
scripture the inferior beat the superior
two are better than
one unless they’re
divided and when they’re divided two are
less than
one sorry just get get rid of that let’s
just move on let’s move on so we have
this concept A word of the Lord must be
opposed to discover its strength number
one but number two is if I don’t have
options choices there’s no basis for
reward people say well I’m not
interested in reward I just want to
serve Jesus oh stop
it are you better than Jesus he endured
the cross because the joy set before
him that was a very good point bill it’s
excellent it’s it’s written into the
nature of Faith it’s not it’s not a
glorify me or get for me Club it’s it’s
this is the way his economy Works he’s a
father with sons and with daughters
looking for opportunities to celebrate
right choices to celebrate sacrifice to
celebrate these things that we do in
surrender in yielding to Christ he
honors he celebrates that he’s the great
encourager he’s the great rewarder and
he rewards those in Hebrews 11 it says
if to believe God I must believe that he
is and he’s the rewarder so half of the
subject of faith is connected to the
issue of reward so a a word must be
opposed to
discover
reward yep
amen verse 14 Jesus returned in the
power of the spirit to
Galilee the news of him went throughout
all the surrounding region
interesting he went into the Wilderness
filled with the spirit he came out with
power sometimes
conflict brings to the surface what God
has put in
you
all right this one’s free be no charge
for this
one Israel came into Egypt Jacob dwelt
in the land of ham he increased his
people greatly made them stronger than
their enemies and he turned the heart of
their enemy to hate his
people that’s
weird did you hear what I just
read God made his people strong strong
strong strong strong and then he stirred
their heart to come in opposition
why because he wanted his people to
experience
Victory if he ever lead you into a
conflict it’s not with people it’s with
with demonic Realms that would lie and
deceive and if he ever leads you into a
conflict it’s only because he’s prepared
you to Triumph
[Applause]
all right that went over pretty well
let’s keep
moving verse 16 he came to Nazareth
where he had been brought up as was his
custom he went into the synagogue of the
Sabbath day stood up to read he was
handed the book prophet Isaiah when he
opened the book he found the place where
it was written the spirit of the Lord is
upon me he has anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor sent me to heal the
brokenhearted Proclaim Liberty to
captives recovery of sight to Blind set
at Liberty those who are oppressed
proclaimed the acceptable you of the
Lord he makes this declaration in front
of the people inoc synagogue in Nazareth
the people he grew up
with he closed the book and sat down and
said today the scriptures is fulfilled
and you hear it let me give you a
description of what’s Happening
Here
Israel has been without
dreams Visions prophets for 400 years
there’s been silence 10
Generations Jesus explains something to
us in John 6 he
says my words are spirit and that spirit
gives life so here he’s describing that
whenever he opens his mouth he only says
what the father’s saying so we have to
assume it was the father that led him to
this scripture as he read Isaiah 61
words became
Spirit the presence of God was actually
released
through his words so imagine this you’ve
got 10 generations of Silence longest
drought in history longest spiritual
drought from heaven in history people
are sitting there they have never
experienced presence they have never
sensed that internal WI witness of the
presence of God they’ve never had that
sense atmosphere of peace that you draw
in at this very moment they’ve never had
that Jesus begins to read and you can
just imagine everybody in the room
goes do you feel
that and he it continues to read you go
yeah what is it I don’t
know and then it says in verse 3 22 it
says all bore witness of him marveled at
his gracious words New American Standard
which is a favorite of mine says all
spoke well of him look at the original
language it actually says they testified
of him or they bore a witness to him
yeah what does that mean you know
they’re sitting in a synagogue they’re
there every Sabbath going through their
routine doing the best they know how to
honor and to serve God Jesus reads out
of Isaiah 61 something starts happening
inside they’ve never experienced
before in their heart of hearts they are
actually
thinking we’ve been praying for the
Messiah our entire
lifetime this could be
him they all have this internal witness
of what’s happening right in front of
their eyes
yeah they all are perceiving something
with their heart that they could never
wrap their head
around they all bore witness of it
and then somebody said look at the verse
isn’t this Joseph’s son yeah and you get
to see everybody in the room
go of course it is you’ll never believe
what I was just thinking oh I’m
embarrassed to say it but I actually
thought this was the Messiah for a
moment but thank you that’s right it’s
Jesus Joseph’s son Shez we grew up with
him I don’t know why we didn’t recognize
him when he stood up there that’s
crazy and they talk themselves right out
of a Divine moment that would mark them
for the rest of their
life now Jesus recognizing what just
took place I remind you it says
elsewhere it
says Jesus could do no Mighty works
except lay his hands on a few sick
people and heal them what does that mean
this is in this room right now this
synagogue he couldn’t do any Mighty
works let me use my language here their
unbelief shut down the corporate
anointing but no one could shut down the
personal
anointing and so he ministered oneon-one
with a laying out of hands and still
brought healing but the corporate
anointing is where you have exponential
increase a moment is become becomes
pregnant and it explodes imp possibility
because now it’s not just through laying
enough hands or through addressing one
individual something begins to take
place in a room where it’s actually
multiplied I’ve seen that happen here
and and in travel several times where it
just all you had to do literally was to
call out a condition and there was a
miracle
yeah it happened here one Sunday I I
felt the healing presence of Jesus come
right through the door I can’t tell you
how but I I knew that I knew that I knew
I stopped I said the healing pres of
Jesus just came to the room and a guy
right back here prostate cancer left his
body went to the doctor that following
week it was completely gone a woman in
the second row had a tumor and her
breast dissolved disappeared Miracles
began to happen around the room and all
it was was he came you say well he’s
here already yeah I
know but he came he came different he
came
more he did he came more and and there
wasn’t an unbelief in the room to shut
down corporate
anointing in this particular
case Jesus goes into a sermon that if it
were given today it would be probably
thought cruel
says in verse 24 he said assuredly I say
to you no Prophet is accepted in his own
country in another gospel he says it
this way a prophet is not without honor
except in his own his own
country so the the context the subject
here is honor he says I tell you truly
many widows were in Israel in the Days
of Elijah when the heaven was shut up 3
years and 6 months
there was a Great Famine throughout all
the land but to none of them was Elijah
sent except is zerath in the region of
sidon to a woman who was a widow many
lepers were in Israel in the time of
Elisha the prophet and none of them was
cleansed except non the Syrian this is a
bizarre message that Jesus is bringing
now remember he’s bringing this in
response to a people who intellectually
just talk themselves out of the
experience that God was given not true
Faith leads to Greater
understanding it is not
wrong looks
right when the worldview is
Twisted immorality looks like
morality people say we have a right to
our own opinions I I you may I don’t
want my own opinion I it only gets me in
trouble I only want that which is
influenced by the presence of God the
Breath of God his word I want that
shaped I I want I I’m so thankful for
the life of Liberty in the context of
Grace amen it’s the empowerment to do
the right
thing some have decid defined Liberty as
the ability to do whatever you want no
Liberty is the ability to do what’s
right Francis schaer said that so many
years
ago so here Jesus brings this message
and he uses two areas he says he says
financial provision the Widow uh during
famine and then he uses leprosy so we
have healing so we have provision and
healing and he comes to them with with
this word he says all right in your
history
Israel God although there were many of
you your forefathers who had great
economic
needs because there was no honor just as
you’ve shown no honor for me the Messiah
Jesus I’m using all my own language to
paint a picture because there was the
absence of Honor in recognizing the
spirit of God resting upon me as I
announc the word of the Lord to you the
spirit of the Lord is upon me because
you did not recognize it you could not
give honor to what God was doing and
because you did not give honor to what
God was
doing in Israel’s history he actually
went to a widow outside of his Covenant
people and he prospered her because he
needed to demonstrate who he was yeah
and what he was like there wasn’t
sufficient honor within his own Covenant
people to demonstrate his heart to
provide so he went outside and then to
push the envelope a little farther he
says there’s a lot of lepers in
Israel but there wasn’t the honor to
recognize the spirit of God that rested
upon Elisha and in the absence of honor
God actually stepped outside of his own
Covenant people and he brought healing
to the general of an enemy
army people say Well that’s God’s heart
of evangelist evangelism now that’s
stupid it’s not his heart of
evangelism to heal somebody from another
Nation he he did something because his
own people didn’t value the spirit of
God that rested upon the people around
them here’s the deal it’s easy to
recognize we’ve got Kon Andrew White
coming here tonight wonderful wonderful
man it’s easy to recognize the grace
that is on his life he comes from some
distance but it’s the person sitting in
front of you may have the anointing that
you need for your breakthrough and the
inability to recognize the spirit of God
resting on somebody you know well is
actually what keeps us from the
Breakthrough you you you’ve heard the
joke I’m sure the the guy who’s in a
flood and he’s sitting on a rooftop
saying oh God please save me and a boat
comes by and he says nope I’m waiting
for God to save me and the helicopter
comes by drops a ladder down I’m waiting
for God he drowns he appears before the
Lord he says how come you didn’t send me
he says I sent the boat I sent the
helicopter and often times we are this
far away from our break God we need
healing we need breakthrough and he says
why that friend of yours has an
anointing that you need for this
breakthrough but because of your
inability to recognize and give honor to
what I have done in them even though
they’ve been within reach it’s as though
they don’t
exist that’s not a shame word it’s an
inviting word to say Paul said the
Discerning of spirits was a gift we
needed for a reason when he talked about
the discern of spirits I grew up
thinking it was recognizing when demons
were involved in somebody’s life yeah it
includes that but that’s not it it’s not
Discerning of evil spirits it’s
Discerning of the
spiritual it’s Discerning the spiritual
because it it it means that I
recognize when there’s this Grace this
anointing this gift this presence
resting on a person and when I give
honor to them for saying yes to God and
to him for resting upon them suddenly I
honor the prophet if you will in the
name of a prophet suddenly I have access
to what that gift brings to the table I
have access to it why because honor
gives
access it’s the reason we see Pro I
think is the reason we see
probably oh goodness I would guess 90% %
at least of the Miracles and healings
that we see throughout a week here is
through you guys not through the staff
why because the sh the focus has to
shift it’s way too easy to honor the
guest that comes in town or the pastor
that you never spend any time with and
I’m fine with that but I’m telling you
that anointing rests on the person next
to you often times God has brought a
close friend to you with a real burden
for your breakthrough but because we
don’t give proper estimate to who they
are in God and who God is in them we
allow them a token prayer but there’s no
confidence that there’ll be a
breakthrough let’s go ahead and stand
up
I
think I think that learning this
one would help I think it would
help I think it would help I think it
would help
because I don’t know if you can
imagine there’s so many different ways
that the holy spirit moves
and when you are confident in only one
way you restrict how much you get to
experience of what God is doing that’s
right sometimes impartation for example
comes to the laying out of hands but
sometimes it just comes because you’re
hungry and you’re sitting in the
room I’ve had some of the most dramatic
things happen in my life just by being
in the
room I love the other stuff but he just
works differently
most profound encounter I ever had was
by myself I was
alone actually Benny was in the bed next
to me but she was sleeping I think I
think the Lord knocked her out so she
wouldn’t interrupt what he was doing in
me CU he was digging rather
deep but the point is is he uses
different tools different methods and
it’s not up to me to dictate how he’s
supposed to touch me and there are times
he will use the Randy Clark January this
coming year it’s going to be
extraordinary again the Miracles that
will happen and God will use him
powerfully but between now and then he
actually wants to use
you and some of you have needs you’ve
prayed for yourself a thousand times
nothing’s happened why don’t you
recognize the anointing that rests on
somebody
else who doesn’t have a name and hasn’t
written a
book do you hear what I’m trying to say
I’m saying sometimes Jehovah
sneaky it’s one of the names that didn’t
get into the book but I I think I think
it could have sometimes Jehovah sneaky
puts that anointing for breakthrough
upon someone we wouldn’t have
expected we’re going to pray over that
in just a moment I want to First give
opportunity for any
anyone here that has never
made a commitment to follow Jesus Christ
is the absolute Lord and Master of your
life going to ask especially at this
point let’s not have anyone moving
around the greatest Miracle of the
day would not be the cancer being healed
as much as I love to see that it’s the
salvation of a soul it’s a person being
forgiven a person turning from
a way of sin a way of self-centeredness
to follow Christ and I want to give
opportunity for anybody here who would
just say Bill I I don’t want to leave
until I know I’m at peace with God until
I know I’ve been forgiven of sin I’ve
been brought into his family I’ll turn
from everything to follow
you if that’s you put your hand up just
by doing so you’re just saying bill I
won’t leave till I know I’m right with
God put your hand up real quick I want
to give just one minute to be able to
recognize anyone in the room they would
say Bill that’s
me okay I’m going to assume you’re all
in oh there is somebody here I didn’t
even see I bless your heart wonderful
thank
you
beautiful anyone else real quick just
wait wave it at I some of you are
shorter than others so I don’t I don’t
see your hand just you know you don’t
have to stand up and yell or anything
but just at least wave till I see you
okay I’m going to assume that’s it then
all right what I want to ask is I want
to ask you who put your hand up we’ve
got friends that we know and trust right
over here to my left they’re putting up
a banner so they’re easy to spot I want
you to come down it’s not about
membership here it’s simply about a walk
with Jesus for you to know what’s
happened I want to encourage you come
down to the front somebody can walk with
them uh down to the front and I want
Ministry team to come to the front right
now and then I’m going to pray all over
all of you and we’re going to head on
out all right so come on up but let me
pray for you first Ministry team come
quickly
beautiful thank you
Jesus all right yeah make sure that yeah
the one who raises hand just come right
right over here you introduce him to our
team I’ll pray with him beautifully so
glad for that bless him
you all right
let me pray over you father I ask that
you would awaken within every person the
grace the
gift to recognize the spiritual to see
what rests upon people around them that
you would fill us with such a heart of
admiration for the work of the holy
spirit that we could recognize that
anointing that Grace even Upon a Child
and celebrate give place to that we just
ask ask Lord God demonstrate your
purposes your power and we pray
specifically for provision the Widow and
for healing the leper to be released
through this body at a whole new level
all for the honor of the name Jesus
everybody said amen