Did you know that prophecies are to be used as weapons of warfare? In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches from 1 Timothy 1: 18 on Paul’s instruction to Timothy to use his prophecies as weapons. God has equipped us for victory in every battle and challenge we may face, and has given us specific promises and prophetic words that will anchor us to His plans and purposes and bring us into victory. May we use our prophecies as weapons and hold onto His promises no matter what we face.
and we take that which god has spoken
and we put it into word form and make
decree
some things just have to be spoken
well good morning nice to see you
how many of you had graduations to go to
this week anybody else said i have a
couple of them
yeah that’s good had
my oldest grandson graduated from eighth
grade
and judah right here
to bethel christian school that was fun
and then my oldest granddaughter
graduated from high school this week
i’m from foothill
and uh and i when i walked up to the
stadium i noticed it’s called bill
johnson memorial stadium
i thought man i bet that was a lot of
work to get that prepared for me to come
to
see my granddaughter graduate
and then i thought memorial
what do they know that i don’t know
[Laughter]
are they prophesying what is that
it was so it was so fun i
i uh
i was
the stadium is here the football field
and all is here so every every all the
parents all the family friends are here
waiting for the kids to come around here
and march down to graduate well i’m
standing up against the railing and i
noticed they’re walking in from behind
so i’ve got my
my iphone ready and i thought i’m going
to get the coolest video that no one
else in our family is going to have and
i’ll be able to airdrop it to them so
i’m taking the video and got the video
and i’m thinking this is cool so i get
over to show benny
the masterpiece
i don’t know what i did
i actually do videos quite well
i think the devil took over my camera
i think something i’ve got to blame
somebody besides me
i i got the railing and then i got my
hand it was like i put my hand right
over the lens the whole time
so here i am following kennedy
not knowing it
i’m watching her smiling big going this
is awesome never looking at the screen
to realize she’s not on there
oh well we got some other good photos
but it was very very fun night and i
it’s interesting
uh when she graduated from eighth grade
eric came to me
oh probably in may so that what this is
june right yeah
she graduated in june
of uh
four years ago
and eric came to me and may says dad
you’re scheduled to be out of town on
her eighth grade graduation
i went oh no
when is the graduation so he gives me
the date and i’m in europe i’ve got two
conferences going on
and so we made the necessary phone calls
and
one conference let me leave a day early
and the next conference let me come a
day late
and so i flew home from switzerland
to reading went to eighth grade
graduation then flew back for the rest
of the conference it was awesome i made
it i made it i felt so good
that i actually was able to get there
for the the big event
so that was fun that was fun i have a
blonde joke for you i apologize ahead of
time
i apologize but my wife is blonde so
i don’t know what to say i don’t know
what to say bob walked into a sports bar
around 5 58 p.m
sat down next to a beautiful blonde at
the bar stared up at the tv
6 p.m news was coming on the news crew
was covering a story of a man at the top
of a 10-story building preparing to jump
the police were trying to talk him down
fire crews were below setting up nets to
catch him
the blonde looked at bob and said do you
think he’ll jump
bob said you know i reckon he’ll jump
the blunt said i bet he won’t
bob placed 20 on the bar and said you’re
wrong
the blonde placed her money on the bar
they kept watching the scene unfold
suddenly the man stepped to the edge of
the building did a swan dive off the
building falling into the fire crew nets
below
the blonde was very upset but she
willingly handed over the twenty dollars
to bob fair is fair she said here’s your
money
bob replied now i can’t take your money
i saw this earlier on the 5 pm news
so i knew he would jump
so he said i saw it earlier too but i
didn’t think he’d do it again
[Applause]
probably blonde jokes shouldn’t be
allowed in church but until they’re
outlawed i’m going to keep doing them
[Laughter]
so funny open your bibles if you would
the first timothy chapter one
i i mentioned the graduations this week
because one of the privileges that i had
this week was to actually speak at the
eighth grade graduation
and uh and i i shared the verse i’m
going to share with you it’s uh
this concept has been on my heart for a
while just for me personally
because i believe that the world is
trying to stretch me
in ways that i’ve not been stretched
before
so we’ve got
first timothy
chapter one
we’re going to start with verse 18.
excuse me
this charge i commit to you son timothy
according to the prophecies previously
made concerning you
that by them
you may wage the good warfare
having faith and a good conscience which
some have rejected concerning the faith
and have suffered shipwreck
of whom are hymenus and alexander whom i
deliver to satan that they may learn not
to blaspheme
i want you to look at me with verse 18
in the first phrase
of verse 19 again
this charge i commit to you son timothy
according to the prophecies previously
made concerning you
that by them
you wage the good warfare having faith
and a good conscience
it’s uh interesting to note that
a clean conscience is actually connected
to strong faith
a defiled conscience actually undermines
and weakens faith
because
because we know
we know we know that there’s been
um
compromise
and compromise is like
it’s like putting dirt into cement it
just weakens the whole process it won’t
settle it won’t be a strong foundation
to build on and so it’s not that
answered prayers come because of our
righteousness that would never be the
case
but there is something to be said about
treasuring and protecting a clean
conscience
and what’s important in this passage is
to see that strong faith works a
parallel road to a clean conscience that
feeds from a clean conscience
i want to read the same passage to you
out of the passion translation
so timothy my son i’m entrusting you
with this responsibility
in keeping with the very first
prophecies that were spoken over your
life and are now
in the process of fulfillment in this
great work of ministry
in keeping with the prophecy spoken over
you
with this encouragement use your
prophecies as weapons
as you wage spiritual warfare
by faith
with a clean conscience listen to this
last
verse or this last sentence again
with this encouragement use your
prophecies as weapons
as you wage spiritual warfare by faith
and with a clean conscience
i i love that now i’ll tell you what
what has really been hitting me of late
has been this whole idea prophecy first
of all is god coming to you with a word
of promise about your future about about
destiny about where he’s taking you
but here’s the sobering part of this
this analogy to me
is that he’s saying
that’s where i want you to go
but you won’t get there unless you use
the tools they give you
that’s fascinating that god would
actually give us a word
that has to be implemented correctly to
step fully into our destiny
larry randolph put it the best he really
gave me language for the citizens helped
me a lot he said
god will always keep all of his promises
but he’s not obligated to keep our
potential
god will always keep all of his promises
but he’s not obligated to keep our
potential so think about the
implications of that
there is something that is in god’s
heart it is actually he’s given us the
tools and the weapons whatever it is
that we need to get from here to there
he’s put in our hands
but unless there is the good fight of
faith where faith is expressing the tool
the good fight of faith
we do not automatically step into what
god has promised
it’s critical to realize that
i
i’ve been in a season lately where i’ve
been doing a lot of
uh waiting and resting for god to
fulfill words which is an important part
because here’s the deal there’s two
basic ways that we make advancement in
this kingdom
one is the mark chapter 10 passage where
jesus said unless you receive the
kingdom as a child
you will by no means enter it
so you can only enter you can only walk
into what you’ve received so that’s come
has to come first as a gift it’s
something that he does on my behalf he
provides for me
it’s like receiving an inheritance
if you sit in a lawyer’s office and he
reads off
what you’ve inherited you’ve not worked
for it it’s not wages it’s simply a gift
it’s the result of somebody else’s labor
and you’re receiving a gift that’s what
this
uh mark 10 passage is all about is that
we receive as a child child is what
inheritance identity
in my place i know that i’m a child i’m
a son of god
we’re sons and daughters of god we
receive what he’s given to us freely as
a gift
but there’s the mark 11 passage that
gives us the other side of the same coin
and that is where he says the kingdom of
heaven suffers violence and the violent
take it by force
so here’s this this contrast of
receiving as a child and taking by force
both are essential
but if you try them both at the same
time you’ll hurt yourself
you get a whiplash or something i’m not
sure what’ll happen but it’ll be painful
you can’t you can’t rest and receive and
fight for something at the same time
it’s those are two different seasons two
different moments
moments in life
so here we’ve got
we’ve got this concept of
possibility of promise
that which god has arranged for us
designed for us equipped us for
and yet it won’t be experienced
unless i
responsibly steward
what god has put in my life specifically
his word over me
the word of the lord will get me
to where the will of the lord is for my
life
it’s not automatic
it’s
it’s the fact that god has
is willingly taking me into a conflict
here’s something interesting i don’t
forgive me i don’t have chapter and
verse i forgot to
to to get this uh for you today but
there’s this part of the story with
israel israel is being taken
out of egypt into the promised land
excuse me into the wilderness into the
promised land so early in their journey
i it was within i think the first year
out of the land of out of egypt
there is an enemy right here and the and
the lord says if i if i take them into
this conflict
they will want to go back to egypt
they don’t have the
strength as warriors yet to fight
through that battle so the lord said so
i’m going to take them around
which is interesting because if he
doesn’t take us around the conflict it’s
because he’s equipped us to win the
conflict
that’s that’s the implication
is that he cares for us more than we
care for us
but he’s trying to build something in us
and there are certain things that can
only be built in a fight
some things can only be built in rest
knowing when to just simply observe
stand by and see the salvation of the
lord which he will accomplish for you
today some things can only be absorbed
in the posture of rest knowing that god
is working on our behalf and yet there’s
this whole other realm
that requires conflict
so god only takes me into a conflict i’m
equipped to win
but the next thing about conflict
is conflict builds strength it’s i guess
the
proverbial example would be the chick
that’s in the egg
that’s trying to hatch out of the egg if
i crack the shell for it it will end up
dying
because it was the fight out of that
shell that gave that baby chick
circulation to its limbs where it would
actually survive
hatching it was the fight out of the
shell if you crack this shell for them
and get them out they will actually just
lay there and die because there was no
fight to strengthen them for their own
survival what is this
this conflict
that’s right this conflict
is actually
to strengthen us in character and in
resolve so that once we enter our
quote-unquote promised land we have the
integrity to stay there
see if israel
is supposedly 11-day journey from egypt
to the promised land
if god would have taken them 11 days
straight into the promised land they
didn’t have the integrity to stay there
they would have wandered out
there’s things you learn in the battle
that you need to stay in in the land
there’s things you learn in the fight
that build that strength of heart that
strength of character
that enables us to live with maturity
and steward well that which god has
promised to us
paying attention to
what god has said and is saying
i
i really love i i love the prophetic i
love promises i
i learned to read the bible for me
i i i just i read it for me i didn’t
read it for you
i still don’t read it for you i read it
just for me
because it’s all about me it’s all about
so when i read i am reading so that i
can eat
i’m honestly i am feeding my soul
i am not looking for sermon material
anybody can regurgitate what somebody
else has said i want to know what he’s
saying to me
and as it gets filtered through my
experience my thinking my personality
gifts whatever
then it becomes material i can pass on
but it’s gotta hit me first
and i love i love reading the word for
for just seeing what god is saying about
my life and what he’s doing in the earth
today and all that stuff my phone i
mentioned i think a month or so ago but
my phone and my car get along very well
they’re very close very very intimate
friends
because of bluetooth bluetooth brought
them together in just a marvelous way
and when i get into my car when i drive
home this afternoon
i’ll just put my phone in there it’s
already set up they’ve already got an
ongoing relationship
even though they are separate right now
by a hundred yards when i get back into
that car they will reconnect
and when they do it’ll be beautiful
and what my car does is it randomly
picks things off my phone to play for me
now i could program it to play just you
know this album or this music or this
prophetic word or whatever but i like
the randomness of my drive home because
i don’t know if i’m going to hear the
beatles sing a hard day’s night
if i’m going to hear uh jimi hendrix
version of the star spangled banner
or if i’m going to hear brian singing
you can have it all lord it’s it’s all
in there
but like this week twice i heard bobby
connor prophesying to me
from 2013 because it’s in here it just
randomly brings it up and i just love
that i just makes me want to go around
the block to see who else is going to
prophesy to me because you never know i
miss this stuff i’ve been driving down
the road and cindy jacobs gets on there
and starts prophesying about our new
building and this is like 10 years ago
it starts props i’m going i just need to
keep driving
i need to think of somewhere else to go
because this is this is good
but i love the prophetic i love
entertaining in a sense of
welcoming admiring and giving place to
as a host would entertain someone in
their home
i want to entertain the prophetic word
over my life
you see
the battleground initially
for us is the mind the battleground is
here it’s right right between the ears
paul talked about this in second
corinthians
10 in such graphic ways
that it’s almost frightening
a sobering sobering is a much better
word
he described the strongholds of thought
in our mind stronghold so think of
stronghold as we would in the medieval
days or something you’ve got you’ve got
an army a
battalion of soldiers and they’re in
that castle right there and there’s this
huge wall that surrounds this castle and
they are safely in there and at night
they send out troops to fight and to do
exploits but they’re safe in that
environment in that castle
the bible actually describes
a stronghold a castle like that
exists in the thoughts of people
so if i think wrong consistently each
thought is a block in the wall that
eventually gives the enemy a place to
hide
it’s a place of habitation a place from
which he kills steals and destroys
so repentance
starts with a sorrow but the sorrow
provokes us to a change of thought a
change of thinking
it is dismantling the wall that i have
built that the enemy has hidden behind
and now he is exposed and is easy to
deal with
but when you create a castle for him to
live in
you’ve given him permission
does that make sense
so if i’m constantly believing a lie
then what i’ve done is i’m actually
making agreement
with the accusation the deception the
manipulation all the tools that the
enemy uses i’ve made agreement with that
which means my authority i am i have now
lended to him
because jesus said when after he rose
from the dead he said
i have all authority in heaven and on
earth
which means there’s somebody out there
who has no authority
right he says i have all authority which
means the devil has none so here’s the
deal he passes on authority to you and
me to implement his purposes in the
earth but when i listen to the deceiver
and i make agreement with his words
he then is able to function out of my
delegated authority at least in measure
i empower when you believe the lie you
empower the liar
so the battleground then is first of all
first and foremost in the mind
you remember ephesians 6 talks about the
armor of god which is a
basically saying god is your armor
put on christ takes care of the whole
package
put on christ takes care of the whole
package
i heard somewhere recently
so here’s this picture of the armor of
god and he says the helmet of salvation
breastplate of righteousness girded with
truth
feet ready to share preach the gospel
shield of faith sword of the spirit
helmet of salvation
you have to think saved
my thoughts must be consistent
to the saving work of grace
in my life
when they violate that i give place i’m
not talking about
you know being demonized and also i’m
just talking about there’s a weakening
there’s a weakening of our posture of
our position there’s a weakening of our
position to enter more fully into the
promises of god over our life when we
give ourselves to these lies
i’m about 10 minutes away from fear and
discouragement
any day of my life all i have to do is
think on the wrong stuff
i mean it takes me 10 minutes to get
there in a week to get out i mean it’s
just not worth the effort it’s way too
much work you know you fall down that
hold and you’re just fighting to climb
out for a whole week you know it’s just
not worth it
i’ve decided
it’s not worth
so instead of entertaining the lie if if
you want an interesting study read
read nehemiah four and six those two
chapters and you’ll see the tools that
the enemy uses they’re they’re outlined
very clearly especially in chapter six
but he use the enemy uses things like uh
accusation
um
distraction see if the enemy can’t get
me to
sin you can’t get me to
morally sin steal money
abuse people if you can’t give me to do
that what does he want want to do he
wants to distract me from my purpose he
wants to get me out of my lane because
if he can’t get me to fall at least he
can get me to lose impact
when you step out of your lane i step
out of my assignment i take on somebody
else’s responsibility what happens i’m
not capable i’m not able to do my task
and theirs
does that make sense so the whole issue
of distraction so look through look
through those two chapters and you’ll
see just a list of accusation
manipulation all those kinds of tools
that the enemy uses for every one of us
they’re repeated in our lives constantly
the key then is to be so anchored in
what god has said
that nothing else is appealing the only
time the devil’s words are appealing is
when i’ve lost sight of what god has
said
the only time the lie looks reasonable
is when i’ve lost sight of what god has
said
think saved
think save
having the value system to maintain a
clean conscience is just huge because it
it it it keeps the heart in a place that
is so free to grow
you understand faith comes from the
heart right it doesn’t come from the
mind
but a divided mind will defile the heart
valuing a clean conscience puts me
in a place to
to experience ever-growing faith
i love when god gives us a word and i
i’ve got several uh just in my life
right now that i’m i’m
i’m reviewing because
i have come to realize in the last
oh just short time last two months
especially maybe the last even couple
weeks
even more profoundly that the lord is
i’ve been waiting for him to do
something when he’s been waiting for me
to do something
i’ve been waiting for him to do
something when he’s been waiting for me
you remember the whole story when
the disciples woke jesus up in the boat
he calmed the storm
and then he turned to them and he says
he says why are you so afraid
how come you don’t have faith
and i’m thinking
wait a minute i have faith i knew who to
come to
i came to you
and asked you to call the storm and you
did a good job thank you
i give you praise i give you thanks i
give you honor and the lord was looking
for something else
there are times where he does not want
to do something for me he wants to do
something through me
and discerning those moments of seasons
that’s to me is the fragile part of life
because there are times where i want to
rest and he wants me to act and there’s
times i’m fighting and swinging and he
said man you need to chill you know sit
down sit down and rest if you get this
victory you’re going to think you did it
you know and there’s just times where we
have those moments that just shift
i had a pretty funny experience i wasn’t
going to share in this service because
it’s televised but
you’ll understand why in a moment i’m
i’m not that transparent of a person
chris would tell you anything but
[Laughter]
i’m a lot more personal and private than
he is
not necessarily a strength of mine but
it’s reality
i
about 35 years this is a little
embarrassing i i don’t share this ever
as in
ever
public i shared with some doctors once
because they would understand
actually twice with a group of
medical
i
i had this
problem
an abscess
in the rectum
don’t picture it
it’s just gross
this kind doesn’t come out with prayer
and fasting it has to be cut out
i didn’t i just didn’t tell anyone
that’s why
i’m at home dick mills calls dick mills
our dear friend the prophet he would
call everyone so i said hey bill i got a
good word for you and he would he would
just call and encourage me he’s just
such a father of encouragement and he
calls him one day he says he says i got
a good word for i said yeah what is i
didn’t tell him what’s going on with me
i’d rather know what i’d rather i didn’t
know what was happening
i’d rather i go in for a dental
procedure and i come out fine that’s all
so he calls he said i got a good word
for he said yeah what is it what is it
he says i’ve got this scripture for it
the glory of the lord will be your rear
guard
[Applause]
i’m not sure what to do with that but i
receive it
amen
some people think god doesn’t have a
sense of humor
[Applause]
i have
never forgotten that one
god will always speak to your needs and
leave it
there
although at twin view i just i
remembered after i said that that moses
wanted to see god’s glory and god just
let him see his hindu parts
i’m not sure if there’s a correlation
there or not i’ll probably stop right
there unless this thing bottoms out
entirely
[Laughter]
all right
[Laughter]
oh man and this is televised too hello
in weaverville the church of assembly
got church and certain mail programs
would abbreviate
assembly
[Laughter]
i’ll just leave that’s it right there
i’m i’m
i’m pulling out of that that
fateful direction all right
so the battleground is here
but once victory is obtained in how you
think
you have to do something with what was
said
see many people in this room you’re just
one proclamation short of a victory
one proclamation because the word
is not supposed to be is harbored i
believe in that a lot i mary is my hero
the mother of jesus how she handled what
was spoken over her was
was just stunning because it’s
she’s got the shepherds coming she’s got
the wise men coming anna simeone they’re
all coming with these words about her
son about jesus the eternal son of god
that she gave birth to
and it says two things about what she
did she treasured
these words in her heart and she
pondered them in her heart these two
things treasured pondered treasure
treasure to me implies that this
that has been spoken
is not for common use this is not like
you know i’ve got benny and i came back
from being with some friends in asia and
they sent us home with
two of these most magnificent
goblets glasses
made out of this finest they’re like
600
each and these people sent it home with
us you know you don’t let the kids use
that in their lemonade stand out in
front of the house
you understand what i’m saying why it’s
too valuable
right you what do you do you treasure it
you put it in a safe place to be brought
out at appropriate times the appropriate
time is when you want to ponder what god
has said it says she pondered these
things the word things there’s the word
rhema she pondered these freshly spoken
words of god she would bring them out
they’re treasured she’d get along she’d
bring them out she’d dwell she’d think
about that yes he’s the son is the
savior of the nations and uh and anna
and simeon said behold the christ child
you know they can now die because their
lives have been fulfilled and so she’s
pondering these words and considering
about her son jesus about the destiny
the purpose of his life
i owe
it to him to treasure and ponder
treasure
it’s it’s not up for vote
this this isn’t facebook material
this this is about destiny
and i’ll share it with whoever i’m
supposed to share it with but until it’s
to be brought out of the treasury
i’ve got to keep it there to protect it
and then when i bring it out it’s to
ponder consider let the full effect of
what god has said infect me inside and
out so it changes how i think how i see
how i interpret present situations
because if i’m facing a battle it’s only
because there’s an enemy of the lord is
allowed there because he has equipped me
to win and the tool that i’m supposed to
use is this that god said
use the prophecies over you
to get to where you’re supposed to go so
here we have you’ve got a family member
that’s just not walking with the lord
and it’s not just oh you know i just
thank you that all is well it’s take the
word of the lord ask for me in my house
we will serve the lord and you begin to
make proclamation confessing the name of
the individual and you proclaim this is
the will of god and it shall be done in
my household every single family member
will serve the lord and they will serve
the lord with purity and with great joy
it will be with great delight they will
serve the lord and we take that which
god has spoken and we put it into word
form and make decree
some things just have to be spoken
psalms 103 or 104 i forget which one on
the left side of the page
right there
says the angels
give attention to his word and the voice
of his word
interesting isn’t it to his word
and the voice of his word this is how i
understand it
there are times where god declares the
matter
he just declares over a situation and
the angels know their assignment
whenever they hear his voice they know
that that is what they are supposed to
enforce they are to enforce the word of
the lord but there are times god doesn’t
make the decree he’s the still small
voice in your heart and mind and the
angels don’t get their assignment until
they hear our proclamation
there’s a lot of unemployed angels
because there’s a lot of believers who
won’t speak.
they don’t know the assignment until
they hear the word of the lord
you say well we don’t boss angels i’m
with you we don’t you can yell
some great idea you have all day long
it’s just going to exhaust you nothing
will happen
but they can tell when a word originated
in the heart of god they can tell when
that that i just declared came from the
throne room itself it carries the
fragrance of god’s own breath on that
word and they know that’s their
assignment
so here we are we’re in battle we’ve got
the shield of faith all the armor on and
we’ve got a sword and that sword is what
we use to bring about victory it’s
taking seriously that which god has said
it’s very easy to want yet another
prophetic word
another promise i i’m i’m there count me
in
if there’s good words being handed out
just i’ll get in line i i will get in
line benny and i were just with
about 20 of our 10 year olds and it took
like 45 minutes just to prophesy over us
it was just gorgeous it was great so
cool
amen
if there’s a good word being spoken
count me in i want it
but the good words often times are not
decrees of what he will do
without us
they are decrees of what he will do with
us
oftentimes he’s revealing this is my
will through you
not just for you
the terminology that paul uses here
specifically refers to be summoned
being summoned
into the lifestyle of a soldier now just
think with me for a moment and we’ll
wrap this up
a person who’s in
battle
and a number of you have served our
nation or the nation that you are from
you’ve served in battle in war
and
on the front lines of battle you just
don’t have very many concerns
i mean you have concerns
but you could care less what’s on tv
you know
the
the amount your water bill has risen at
home doesn’t really matter i mean all
you care about is keeping your head down
having enough ammunition knowing where
your friends are
i mean that’s it it’s just it’s just all
that’s in life somehow it gets reduced
to staying alive and making advancement
it’s wisdom for us to know the
difference between the season of rest
where we
watch him do
things for us
and the season of war where we take what
he has declared
and we refine our focus so that very
little matters besides victory itself
my cry today and we’re going to pray for
us in just a moment
is is my my cry is that the lord would
give a fresh
word of promise to every single person
in the room a fresh word
this time not a word
that you get to rest in
you have those
but words
that you can fight with
you get alone with god you’re driving
down the street
and you just begin to make the decree
this is what god has said
i’d encourage you if you don’t already
know how to do it
obtain the liberty to remind god of what
he said
it’s a it’s a unusual exercise in
scripture you see what daniel
god you said after 70 years would be
released from bondage you see this the
reminding of god god doesn’t forget he
doesn’t need reminding but i need to
know
that i am working in conjunction with
what he has declared and i’m using my
right as one to pray appropriately and
there is no more accurate way to pray
than to pray what god has said
it’s for our sake entirely
this
fight
that i am in for this breakthrough
changes me
if i could handle the breakthrough
without any more change he would bring
it to me
but because i need to change
in order to occupy that which god has
promised he wants me to fight my way in
so put your hands out in front of you
just as a posture of receiving and i
want to i want to pray both for the
release of promise and for the grace
to handle well what god has said so
father i i come to you in the name of
jesus and i
i ask for us as a church family those
are family members that are watching
on tv i just pray for all of us together
everyone in the building
or children’s workers everyone
that today the next 24 hours would be
a day
where you release a fresh word
a fresh word of promise a fresh word of
hope something that we can declare we
can confess we can sing
we can pray
we can implement what you have designed
for us
wholeheartedly
all of our emotion all of our thought
our mental exercise everything engaged
so to see you perform what you’ve
declared
i ask for that gift and for the grace
the divine enablement to carry this out
i pray for this in jesus name
the greatest miracle that could happen
today
is the salvation
of a soul it’s the forgiveness of sin
there is not
a greater miracle i’ve seen so many
crazy things happen through the years
where god has healed people were blind
eyes and deaf ears and i remember i was
with heidi you know we prayed for ronald
and heidi earlier i was with heidi and
mozambique and these two blind men came
into the
into the
kind of a tent uh sanctuary they have
their open air
and they came in on a saturday and they
wanted to see and they were both blind
and it was crazy one of them his eyes
were just solid white
there was there was no pupil there’s
nothing it’s just solid white
and uh and heidi prayed for a moment and
she said come back tomorrow and you will
see
and they came back the next day we
prayed over them we got to watch as
these eyes literally just formed and god
opened their eyes and they
they went from there we all walked
across the highway to the sea where they
got baptized in the water so tonight’s
baptism be here all right
that just came on me as divine
inspiration i’m sure it was
i’ve seen amazing things happen but
there’s nothing that equals
the salvation of a soul that you can
take a person who has no hope in life
and give them hope a new nature and
forgive of their past
that is available for everybody in this
room
and i want to just
throw out the net so to speak if if
you’re one of those that are here today
you say bill i don’t want to leave the
building till i know i’m at peace with
god
then i want to pray with you
right now for you to be what the bible
calls born again change from the inside
out if that’s you just quickly put a
hand up
just real quick because i want to i want
to pray with you if that’s
if that is your your your place real
quick right here yep beautiful wonderful
wonderful
beautiful
nothing like it
anyone else real quick got one got
another hand right here a second hand
anyone else
that’s so cool
i want to have all of you stand if you
would
and i’m going to ask this we’ve got a
team down here we call them the freedom
team
and for these two that i saw and if
there’s any others
please
please please please
make your way down to this team they
just want to bless you and pray for your
love on you a bit and and talk to you
about this that jesus is doing in your
life anyone wants to join them please do
this is your invitation to come and know
jesus so come step out of your seat i
want to have the ministry team come very
quickly to the front as well
because we want to be we want you to be
ready to pray and for people in this
room to receive their miracle chris come
on up here yeah come on down right over
here to my left
right over here bless you bless you
bless you
thank you lord well father we just pray
for a real spirit of breakthrough to
rest on the house today and for miracles
and people’s bodies
that uh that it would just multiply
multiply multiply in jesus name
thank you so much lord
okay amen hang on for a moment chris
will give you some instructions