Sometimes the greatest deterrent to revival is our satisfaction without it. In this clip, Bill Johnson shares some beautiful moments where the Presence of God became tangible in the room. Let your heart be stirred with hunger for more of God as you listen.
i’ll never forget the sunday sitting
right down there where
brian my son happened to be leading in
worship that sunday
he may have played two chords i’ve
always said it was one but something
happened
on that second chord
where
he
filled the room
and we didn’t get to our first song for
40 minutes
in the manifest presence of the king of
glory suddenly there’s only
one thing on your mind it’s what i was
born for i i was born for this seamless
interaction
between the king of glory who has made
me qualified because i could never
qualify myself
i have been strangely apprehended again
for something that’s way bigger than
us
i love us but this one’s bigger than us
this one’s bigger than us
i remember
that one sunday morning where brian hit
i think it was the second chord and and
he just i don’t know how to describe it
you know it’s afterwards in the moment
you don’t know what to do
you know
afterwards you look back and go man he
just walked into the room and that was
that kind of a moment i’ll never forget
that we’ve only had that happen on that
level one time in
25 years
but i remember a sunday night where
the worship team was playing and there
another one of those moments where the
glory just came in and
everybody up here just stopped
and everybody out here just
stopped and it was almost like we were
suspended in time
you know you know how people get nervous
when nothing’s happening you know like
somebody especially in pentecostal
circles somebody need to pray in tongues
or prophesy or
laugh or get out and dance or do
something you know it’s like we get
nervous with blank spaces there was no
nervousness with that blank space
because he filled the blank space
he he just came into the blank space and
all of a sudden you didn’t have to tell
people turn your affection to him it’s
just there was just silence i don’t
remember ever hearing silence for that
long in a in a crowd that likes to make
noise
it was like the ultimate offering was
just to shut up
but yet nobody said or suggested it was
just
it’s what you do
when he enters the room
you find everything that you could think
of to say is completely meaningless
and i’m hungry for that again
i’ve had tastes in the last
10 days or so at levels
measures
that i’ve not had
for a while
and it tells me
that we’re being set up
and it’s going to be good
but it won’t be about you
and it won’t be about me
he has set something in motion
and he wants us to see that he was
absolutely
serious when he said it
the glory of the latter house would be
greater than the former the context was
there were people that saw the temple
before it was destroyed and then rebuilt
and they remember both and the first one
solomon was just incredibly glorious and
the second one wasn’t near as beautiful
and so you had you had two groups of
people there some were laughing for joy
because look the temple’s built and
others were weeping man it’s nothing
like it used to be and so that prophecy
was very very specific
in in other words
this thing that you see over here that’s
not it
i’m going to do something in the earth
that is going to be
way more glorious than even
solomon’s temple
which silenced and stunned the leaders
of nations
god
will do it again in this house that’s
you
and that’s me
i feel like there’s
an invitation i i wasn’t sure how to
how to label this talk this conversation
with you today but
to me i i can’t talk about it without
feeling invited
without feeling compelled
dissatisfaction
is a holy holy gift
see sometimes
our satisfaction
in the absence of revival
is what prohibits revival
is that i’m actually okay
without it
sometimes the absence
of the manifest presence of the king of
glory
sometimes my satisfaction in those
moments may be the very thing
that propels
that glory
so here’s
here’s an invitation
i’d like for everybody watching
to join me in this very very simple
prayer
god i can’t make myself suitable
but i can surrender
and there are people right now watching
you don’t even have a personal
relationship with with the lord jesus
christ and this is the most
unusual message ever to invite you into
the family but i’m going to do it anyway
in this moment you have this sense some
of you in your homes
there’s going to be this sense of
presence you’ve never seen before you’ve
never felt before you’ve never realized
before
but it’s happening now i had that sense
early this morning that there would be
this
encounters with the lord himself in your
home i love the corporate gathering but
there’s see it was in my one-on-one
stuff that helped me to realize the
corporate stuff
so wherever you’re at
some of you have never surrendered to
jesus i want you just to simply pray
this prayer and in in the online chat
room tell somebody what you’ve done but
it’s just praying this prayer of god i
give you my entire life
that you would be glorified
do in me
whatever pleases you
that your name would be exalted
do in my family
in my home
that which delights your heart
see the scripture says the lord speaks
at one point he says for i’m not ashamed
to be called their god i would like
everybody watching this to have the lord
shout over your actual home the physical
home that you live in
i would love to see the lord of glory
stand over your household and shout to
everything that exists i am not ashamed
to be called their god
there’s something about to be released
in the earth
and it’s through surrendered people so
father we pray right now i ask that you
would use this overwhelming sense of
presence and that you disciples this way
you teach us this way that we would
never be satisfied with anything
less than you again
like moses we want to say if you’re not
taking us we don’t want to go up from
here we don’t want to go just blessed we
don’t want to go just with favor and
open doors if you’re not going if your
presence isn’t that which makes us
different than everyone else then we
don’t want to go anywhere
so i’m praying that i’m praying that for
us us
this tribe this family the bethel family
all over the world
mark us with the glory
god invite you interrupt our dream
time
teach us what you like teach us
open up new
pathways of discernment and perception
in our physical body our hearts our
minds that we just expand our ability to
recognize you the glorious one
and that somehow that would be the
contagious factor not a pandemic not a
virus
but a contagious factor called
the glory of god
the glory of god has become known in the
earth that’s what we want
so i
invite you to do that with us as a
family and i give you thanks
amen
yeah i’m so glad that you uh watched
this video i do pray that it’s a great
great strength and encouragement to you
and i’ve got a verse that it really is
my cry for all of us and it’s psalms 20
it’s verse 4
may he grant you your heart’s desire and
fulfill all your plans
that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that
this would be the season of rich rich
fulfillment
thanks for joining us