In this full sermon, Bill Johnson teaches on the importance of recognizing divine favor on each other’s lives and keeping our hearts from bitterness and jealousy. How do we respond when someone receives breakthrough and favor in the very thing we’ve been praying for? Managing our hearts well in these moments is what will set us up to be good stewards of the favor on our own lives.

good catch

um

chris and kathy have been such a huge

part of our life that’s just the

understatement of this of the century we

actually lived together for a season in

weaverville while their home was being

built and it was just such a privilege

when benny and i moved to weaverville

um chris uh kathy they were not in the

leadership at all of the church chris

was recovering from a nervous breakdown

there were a bunch of other leaders the

dairy berries

who are here why don’t you

wave your hand there bill and judy

i

chris probably wouldn’t be alive without

these two

they really had such profound impact on

all of us but i know especially chris

they they weren’t a part of a leadership

team by any means but chris just had

this passion to learn

and a passion to serve he would stop by

the house

constantly on the way home from work

asking if there was something he could

do i finally just decided i have to make

stuff up i have to i have to just i have

to look for some odd job to give this

guy to do because he he pesters me in a

right way you know in a godly way just

to serve and uh and that hunger to learn

and to serve

has just marked their lives to this day

and i’m i’m so i’m so thankful i just i

can’t imagine life without these two

they’ve had such impact on me and my

kids i

at work in weaverville if if i was

having a rough time i would just

schedule lunch with chris

because

it was almost guaranteed he was having a

rougher time

[Laughter]

and we we would we would sit down to

lunch at the mustard seed

we’d sit down for lunch and he’d tell me

what was going on in the in the gas

station that day or the auto shop or

something and we would laugh at

i’d go back to the office thinking man

i’ve got it good i just i’ve got it good

uh and this would happen over i mean

this is 17 years of this stuff you know

i remember one day coming uh having

lunch with him

and thought i just heard the ultimate if

you can imagine

he owns a gas station and there’s a car

parked

against the wall it’s been there for

several days waiting for the time for it

to be repaired and it had been dropped

off and i don’t know how long two or

three days it had been there and it’s

been there

for all that time with no problem

well he happens to have a customer who

has his car there to be worked on who

doesn’t really like chris but chris is

the best at what he does nobody else in

the area could fix it so he brought the

car to chris so they’re standing there

talking about the job that needs to be

done

and they look over and this car that’s

been there for like three days it just

starts backing out of the stall

and they look at and the customer says

to chris i don’t think there’s anyone

driving that and chris of course it’s

not going to spin it for days so one of

his guys is moving it and they look and

he says i don’t think anybody’s in that

car and they watch the car back down the

driveway

nobody in it it’s been there for days

back down the driveway and then turn

left

and go up the highway

no nobody’s in it and then turn left

again

and come back up the driveway and run

into this customer’s car

and the customer said i i had i not seen

it for myself i never would have

believed you

so i would go have lunch just to get

laughter relief

because certainly he had experienced

something worse than i did and uh and it

was it was fun we are just really

indebted and we wanted to say thanks all

week long to you and honor you guys and

thank you so much 20 years it’s

wonderful bless him again would you

thank you

yeah

so thankful for you

um i’ve got about an hour-long message

that we’re going to do in 36 minutes

so listen fast

because i can’t go an hour but grab your

bibles open to

the book of matthew the 20th chapter

and i’m going to abbreviate some things

honestly i i uh

i talked a couple weeks ago about the

subject of bitterness nice christmas

message

uh

[Laughter]

merry christmas by the way i’ll i’ll

i’ll reinterject that phrase now and

then just to remind you that i know what

season it is all right

um i i spoke on the subject of

bitterness a couple weeks ago

as um

the defiling factor

in hebrews there’s this warning about

bitterness and there’s this jesus taught

and said

basically this you are forgiven as you

forgive

so you set the standard for how you are

forgiven in your life and so the issue

of bitterness is so

uh destructive in a person’s life

and i have i’ve been wrestling with this

uh as a theme for a season and have felt

that this would be the the right time

even though it’s awkward because the

holidays so just warn all your friends

don’t come back during christmas yeah

i’m kidding

um i want to do the second half of that

today and talk to you a bit about

jealousy jealousy in many ways is the

mother of of bitterness

and learning to deal with these issues

of the heart

is is paramount now

bitterness is uh is so destructive it’s

somebody once said bitterness is like

drinking poison hoping it will have an

effect on the other person and it’s the

opposite it destroys the internal world

of an individual

and what i’ve noticed through pastoral

care

for the last 45 years

is that there are three areas that seem

to invite

and accelerate

demonic activity in a person’s life

and those three areas are sexual

perversion

any repeated activity i mean

do you understand that

sins start as sin of the flesh and then

they move into a sin that is spiritual

where they become demonically

inspired and

regulated

it’s true even witchcraft is mentioned

as a sin of the flesh

in galatians 5. witchcraft do you think

that would start off absolutely demonic

it doesn’t because which witchcraft by

nature is manipulation and control

and many parents use manipulation and

control

to raise kids not knowing they’re

actually partnering with the spirit of

witchcraft

politicians do it all the time

and so do pastors and leaders

the issue of manipulation and control

is the is the seed bed for the spirit of

witchcraft that eventually becomes this

demonically controlling and empowered uh

activity in a person’s life all right

same thing with sexual sin sexual

perversion i’ve watched through the

years as people have come under this

demonic activity in their life through

repeated

sexual sin the second one would be drug

abuse but especially there’s something

about hallucinogenics that open a person

up to the spirit world where they become

a pawn in to to the demonic realm and

the third is bitterness

the two most

scary people i’ve ever known and as a

pastor you work with a lot of people

sometimes off the streets especially

weaverville we were right on on on the

main uh main street people would just

literally would just pass by and knock

on the door and ask for help

the two scariest people i ever met

their issue was actually bitterness they

had other issues going on in their life

but they were so

possessed and tormented by the spirit of

bitterness that uh it was it was

frightening uh and and they both

actually ended up in there in prison for

life for murder

because bitterness is murder in diapers

it is undeveloped murder and that’s what

it is and the enemy’s attempt is always

to get you to destroy somebody else and

destroy yourself in the process so merry

christmas by the way just

interject that now and then to let you

know i know what season it is all right

now let’s move on

what i’m going to do with this story i i

really want to come back to this when i

can take a good period of time it might

be like a sunday night where i can take

an actual full hour

but i’m going to take a story in matthew

20 and i’m just going to abbreviate it

for you and read the conclusion

this is the story it’s about

a landowner and servants and he hires

people

from the city square he would go down to

the city square and he would find people

that needed jobs and he needed help on

his ranch on his farm so he’d go down to

the city square he’d get some people and

he would hire them and it was a 12 day

12 12-hour work day

and so he would hire these folks for

daenerys they would come to work for him

he went back down i forget now after i

think

the third hour of the day so there’s

nine hours left of the work day and he

found some more people that needed work

went back to the ranch he went back

after six hours etc and finally the 11th

hour of the day there’s only one more

hour to work he goes back down to the

city square and he finds people that

still are needing work and he needs help

on the ranch so he gets them takes them

back to the ranch and at the end of the

day he pays them and so they’re lining

up for pay and uh if you remember the

verse

the last shall be verse the first should

be last this is actually one of the

contexts in which that phrase was used

so what he did is he brought those who

had who were hired at the end of the day

he had actually only worked an hour

and he paid them a denarius where

everybody else in line thought well this

is awesome the landowner the boss is

being generous he’s giving them one

dinner so let’s just call it a hundred

dollars gives them a hundred dollars for

their work that day and everyone else is

thinking oh this is awesome because now

we’re going to get more and when he gets

down the line and he pays the people

that had worked for 12 hours he gives

them a hundred dollars the same as

everyone else and they’re angry about it

they’re upset and angry because they

were paid

the same as the guy who only worked an

hour and

listen to this concluding verse it’s in

verse 15 of matthew 20.

uh let’s let’s uh let’s go back to verse

14. take what is yours and go your way i

wish to give to this last man the same

as you is it not lawful for me to do

what i wish with my own things or is

your eye evil because i’m good catch

that last phrase

is your eye evil because i am

good here’s the bottom line

every one of us are in this story

either as the favored one

or as the friend of the favored one

and the role will change

there will be moments where the

spotlight is on you and you get what you

know you do not deserve

you will be honored and blessed in a way

that you never could have worked for

it’s called grace

there will be other times where your

friend gets the very thing you prayed

for the very thing you fasted for i

don’t know why it works this way

but it seems that the person who has

three cars is always the one that drives

into the grocery store is the one

millionth customer and they win a fourth

car and the person who needs the car

doesn’t have a car and is not the 1

millionth customer don’t make me explain

that because i don’t understand it but i

just know resource attracts resource

favor attracts favor

and there are moments in our lives where

we are the ones that are cho are

selected chosen and we’re the one given

the hundred dollars for one hour work

instead of twelve everybody in this room

has those moments it’s called grace it’s

the way the kingdom works but the

kingdom also works this way where the

guy next to you gets the very thing you

prayed for

and here’s the question is your eye evil

because he is good

let’s put it another way

because of the corruption in your own

heart do you see the goodness of god

displayed on another person in a wrong

way

has it distorted your perception of

divine favor somewhere else

the real lesson the real invitation of

the lord is for us to learn to celebrate

the breakthroughs the favor that is

shown to another person

proverbs says

if i don’t know to handle another

person’s possession

i cannot be entrusted with my own so

let’s just take this as the possession

of favor

if i cannot celebrate the favor that is

put upon dan if i can’t rejoice in that

grace that just rests on him where he is

this uh amazing highly favored by

everybody i know

if i can’t celebrate that that rests on

his life then i am not qualified

i don’t know if qualifies the right word

but i’ll use it i am not qualified to

have the same measure of favor on my

life why because i’ll pervert and

distort it if i cannot use somebody

else’s possession well i can’t be

entrusted with my own

in the practical sense it’s the car you

rent

people rent cars treat them much much

worse than if that car were their own

personal car

and what it does is in the unseen realm

it restricts the measure and level of

personal promotion

because we have chosen to abuse what is

not ours

therefore restricting ourselves from

future promotion

and so another person’s favor is to be

celebrated and there are times where the

lord will actually plant somebody in

your life and they will receive the

thing you’ve ached for you maybe have

fasted and prayed for it you’ve had

prophecies all about it you’ve

cried out to god you’ve done all this

stuff for maybe for years and then they

come in you know

you’ve been praying for 20 years for

this they come in and six months later

they got it

and there is a it’s called a test

and the test is is to see how can i

manage my heart when somebody else

receives easily what i’ve labored for

and that’s the story here is your eye

evil

because he is good

because this is what happens is when

things are not right here

i will distort the circumstances of

another person’s life

and i will twist it for my favor for my

uh

to where i’m the winner in the argument

i’m the winner and what jealousy does is

jealousy

uh jealousy moves to read other people’s

motives

to bring accusation in the heart maybe

never out loud

but jealousy

let me put it this way both jealousy

and bitterness are reasonable

there are reasons

right you talk of some i remember

wanting to pray for somebody i i could

sense something on them i said do you

need to forgive anyone and her response

was you don’t realize what they did for

me in other words i have a reason

my reasoning says this is a legitimate

response to what was done to me

that reasoning

is carnal reasoning

it is unrenewed mind reasoning it is not

biblical reasoning

biblical reasoning works from the cross

towards a situation

biblical reasoning works from the

redemptive work of jesus towards any

broken situation that you and i are

involved in

jealousy causes uh

enables a person perverts a perspective

in a person’s heart to where they read

motives wrong motives into another

another person’s heart the way that you

walk in forgiveness is stay away

from thinking you ever know somebody

else’s motives

it is forbidden territory it’s it’s no

trespassing

i do not have a right to go and say well

they did this because of i don’t have

the right to ever do that

because the bible says i can’t even know

my own heart

what’s scary to me is there are people

who are confessing christ that don’t

read this word

this is a knife that cuts and it cuts to

expose this thought is from god this

thought is not

how does a person live with ample

discernment to recognize when we are

going into something that is forbidden

and no trespassing

and trying to figure out the motives of

another person so the scripture says i

don’t even know my own heart how can i

know yours

well the lord showed me no he didn’t

show you because he’s a better steward

than that

he’s not going to reveal the heart to

another person

that’s going to make them bitter

there is someone who will show you their

heart

but it’s not our lord

look at this passage in james

in james chapter 3

there’s this

a very sobering uh portion of scripture

by the way merry christmas to all of you

glad you’re here

our bethel tv audience around the world

we’re glad you’re watching merry

christmas

i have not forgotten

james chapter 3

verse

13 who is wise and understanding among

you

let him show by good conduct that his

works are done in the meekness of wisdom

but if you have bitter envy

and self-seeking in your heart that’s

self-promotion in your hearts do not

boast and lie against the truth

this wisdom does not descend from above

but is earthly sensual and demonic

here’s what you’ve got to see

bitterness

and jealousy is wisdom

that’s what it says

this wisdom

is not from above

why those who are steeped in bitterness

and jealousy

consider themselves to be right

discerning

accurate

bitterness and jealousy masquerades as

the need for justice

it masquerades under the need for

justice

and for that reason it’s biblically

called wisdom it’s just wisdom that

comes from the demonic realm

the battleground for every one of us

the biggest battleground we face is the

mind it is our it’s our thought world

and uh perhaps perhaps a day i don’t

know maybe in the next year sometime we

can take two or three weeks just to work

on this one theme this one idea

if if you could imagine

uh

second corinthians 10 talks about the

pulling down strongholds

and strongholds exist in thought

patterns

it’s a real abstract a picture an idea

but the concept is very real and very

biblical so imagine this a an old in the

old days the big castles those castles

were places where where the king and his

family could hide out if there was an

assault the soldiers could could regroup

there and

and recover their strength and replenish

themselves it was a place of safety a

strong hold

so imagine now this castle is built out

of these large stones and these stones

are the

illegitimate thoughts and concepts that

the enemy raises up

to us against other people or against

our identity our destiny whatever they

are every one of these stones and

whenever i embrace an illegal thought

let’s say it’s against an individual

let’s just stick with the theme of

bitterness resentment if i entertain a

thought that accuses somebody that’s in

my life what i’ve done is i’ve put a

stone there

now that stone is not a hiding place for

the demonic

but if i keep building on it pretty soon

i have a castle in my thinking a way of

wrong thinking in which the demonic

hides

and you say well christians can’t be

that influenced by demons that’s just

not true

it’s not true it’s why paul had such a

strong warning in ephesians 4 don’t give

place to the devil

in other words

you could

don’t

don’t do it those kinds of that way of

thinking so when you when you find that

you’ve been you’ve been under delusion

about bitterness or resentment uh

jealousy those kinds of things it means

that repentance is needed it means very

specific

confession of sin it’s not oh god

forgive me i had a bad attitude

or god i just haven’t liked this person

forgive me

deal with the lies and the best antidote

for lies is truth

find what god says about a person this

is kind of an awkward story and i i i

don’t know if it

it it might make sense to you it it uh

it happened to me several years ago i

was i was going through one of the

christian magazines and

and

and it was conference after conference

and and i i

what i’ve learned to do is i’ve learned

to uh if if i know something about

somebody or i question the integrity of

somebody that is very famous i i don’t

sit there and become bitter and accused

i just turn the page quick

it’s just how i avoid the issue i just

yeah i i don’t need to have an opinion

about this person it’s my that’s my but

what i saw was is i saw that i i was

actually

i was i was succeeding in resisting the

spirit of accusation

but i was not succeeding in feeling

god’s heart for them

the opposite of love is not hate it’s

indifference

and i was choosing indifference

as the solution

for

whatever i would question about this

individual

all right

and so i went when i saw what was

happening i went back through them

i literally went through the magazine i

turned page after page let’s see this

conference

and i would stare at the pictures of the

people

until i could feel god’s heart for them

and then i’d turn the page again and i

look at the picture

oh god this person’s so highly favored

for a reason

i know they paid a price that i’ll never

know about but you favored them because

of that and i turned the page and

something began to become activated in

me what you don’t want to do is you you

don’t want to embrace

um

that whole nonsense of knowing somebody

else’s heart

and it’s a huge trap once you once

you’ve succeeded there we have to move

into a place

where we become

we become we give people the benefit of

the doubt

it’s it’s a really big part of life for

me

is i i see this happen i hear this

happen you know the more we travel the

more we rub shoulders with

amazing people all over the planet but

occasionally we run into a rascal or two

i know it’s hard to believe but it

actually happens there’s actually at

least two rascals out there the the

chris knows one i know the other that’s

that’s weird

and

and to give people the benefit of the

doubt

my dad had this saying that’s honestly

one of the most important phrases i have

ever heard in my life

he would tell us

if you wash another person’s feet

you’ll find out why they walk the way

they do

i spent time with some folks that are

real rascals

and then i get in i wash their feet

and i find out what kind of life they’ve

had

i find out that they’ve never had

anybody stand with them

i find out all this stuff by just

spiritually if you get figuratively get

the the metaphor of just serving that

person washing their feet so to speak

all of a sudden i find out oh this is

why they limp

this is why they only i if i had that in

my past i would limp too of course i’d

want to be healed i’d want to be

delivered but at least i understand it

does that does that make sense to you

there’s something about

stepping in into a place of serving and

loving people that you question

the third thing that i would say

is uh is so uh

is so critical

is is put

the heart of forgiveness

put the favor that you’re trying to

extend to that individual as much as is

possible put it into an action

behavior has to be measurable through

action

again a passage quote i quote often if i

say i love god whom i can’t see and i

hate my brother who i can see

i’m a liar

why

because i don’t have the right to claim

an invisible reality that cannot be

demonstrated in my behavior in the

natural

it has to be verifiable on how i treat

the people around me

so here we’ve got this we’ve got this

issue of jealousy we’ve got this this

thing that really becomes the seedbed

the atmosphere for bitterness to

actually take over a person’s life so

this issue of jealousy is called

according to scripture

jealousy this bitter envy is actually

reasonable

from the demonic realm so if it makes

sense to you guess where you’re thinking

from

you’re seeing through the situation

through the enemy’s eyes it’s the only

reason it is reasonable

that’s where this has to matter we come

before god we drop tyrannies we say god

i see this i i’m convinced i’m right and

i know i’m not because it’s contrary to

your word and we come clean with the

lord and we we stay there and it may be

a repeated situation i remember a

situation i had years ago where my

goodness i must have forgiven the person

a hundred times a day literally

a hundred times a day

it was i was just being bombarded in my

mind

and i would i would it was such a fight

at work i would stop i i i wasn’t able

to function normally i was being so

bombarded my mind my thinking my

emotions

but i i stuck with it i make the

declaration i say no i have forgiven

this person i refuse to think evil of

that person i will not accuse so-and-so

before the lord they are servants of the

lord they are not my servant i bless

them and then just work to serve that

individual put put the forgiveness into

some sort of an action

so you didn’t win the car you needed

your friend who has three cars now has

four

buy them a tank of gas

do something put it into a practical

action because we all need fruit that

gives evidence for what’s happening in

the unseen

inside of us we need fruit we need yes

of course you can fake it but fake it

until you get it

fake until it’s real do the right thing

until it becomes your nature to do the

right thing

jealousy kills people

and i’m saying this to you today because

i have sensed

that we are in another wave

another season and under the wave of

promotions

and promotions are wonderful but they

never happen to everybody at once

one of you is going to be the guy that

worked for an hour and you get the wages

for 12 hours

and you’re going to have to deal with

the fact that everybody around you

if they operate in ungodly wisdom

are trying to discern what you did

to have that kind of favor how did you

manipulate the situation

you never have to apologize or explain

the lord’s blessing

when you have favor

live with a favor

don’t be apologetic

i’ve i’ve gotten in a car of a friend of

mine before and he had uh

it’s a beautiful car he picked me up the

hotel we’re going to a meeting and as

soon as i sat down he began to apologize

for having such a nice car and i know

how awkward he felt

i’ve i have felt the same i

you know people say well you don’t

deserve that now it’s true i but i i

don’t i also don’t deserve a lesser car

yeah actually i don’t deserve one at all

i don’t deserve a bicycle

if i got what i deserved i’d be walking

everywhere i went you know that’s that’s

the bottom line so everything you do

have is by grace so the point is is he

felt this need to apologize and explain

well the church took an offering they

bought me this car it was wonderful i

was thankful for him but i felt bad for

him at the same time that he was walking

through the motions of what i had walked

through before

you never have to apologize for the

blessing of the lord

so in this season of promotion some of

you are going to be the one with the

wages of a day’s work for one hour and

others of you

it’s going to be your friend

and you’re going to be the one that

works so hard

for minimum

and it will be your assignment

to learn how to move into a place where

jealousy has no voice in your heart

no voice in your head no voice

truth is what dismantles these blocks

that creates strongholds that the enemy

functions and operates out of

it’s revelation truth

there are times where you know

philippians 4 talks about thinking on

these things thinking things that are

knowable and right and truthful and and

faithful and all these all these things

are in this list in in philippians 4

verse 8 he says think on these things

and i have i have had times when my mind

is being bombarded about a certain

individual that has done me wrong or

whatever

and and i

i go to that verse and i say all right

whatever is true god what is there that

is absolutely true about that person

that i am obviously missing to dwell on

this

and i will look for things i’ll ask god

i will pray for things god show me what

it is that you’ve done say the same

thing looking at the favor you know uh

feel looking to feel the favor of god on

that individual on the page i remember

several years back i was in a i was in a

conference big conference and i was on

the front row i was one of the speakers

and and there was this gal right on the

other side of the barrier

that was just making all kinds of noise

and doing all kinds of unusual things

and

but i

thankfully i’ve gone through this about

a thousand other times so i knew not to

be accusing in my mind

you need to rejoice with me i did not

sin

i just i just want you to know i

succeeded i did not have a bad attitude

but it sure was annoying

and then heidi comes over she stands

heidi baker’s there she stands next to

me she’s isn’t this wonderful

and i

yeah

it is

and then she mentioned yeah i said she

uh

was a prostitute for 30 some years and

now she’s afraid

all of a sudden all that noise

this seems so awkward seems so

reasonable

yeah she’s free

that’s right you can have the microphone

you know

demonstrate what liberty looks like to

the rest of us

now just become too accustomed to

freedom

[Applause]

the christmas verse

merry christmas by the way

the christmas verse

that’s been on my mind

since a week or so last week or so

has been in romans

where it says all creation groans and

travails for the revealing

of the sons and daughters of god

why would they be interceding for that

because they’ve already seen it once

they were here when the son of god

was manifest

creation itself cooperated to point to

this messiah jesus

the star in the sky

revealed the nature and the source of

this one who was sent from heaven

but now today

creation itself groans

prays for if you will

the revelation of the children of god

the context is freedom

and there’s no freedom where there’s

jealousy

there’s no freedom where there’s

bitterness

there’s no freedom see

do you know what

free

bitterness

jealousy

and regret

all are addicted to the past

they all have a similar effect on the

soul

of a person

have a similar effect on the emotional

condition the mental condition

and i’ll tell you what the enemy

fears and and i don’t think i can say

this strong enough

he fears your freedom

because in our freedom there is such a

creative expression

of what god is wanting to do in the

earth

that we reveal him through our liberty

through our freedom through our creative

expression

this very strong biblical basis for this

this concept of freedom

that the artisans were the the ones that

god raised up in the last days with

creative expression to war against the

four

beasts that the horns that ward against

the saints the whole point was god’s

solution

for

restriction bondage resentment

bitterness all this stuff was a people

that were free and the result of their

freedom was that they creatively

represented him in the earth to where

all of creation itself steps into a

liberty because the people of god are

free and the people of god are free when

we deal with the issues of jealousy and

bitterness regret all these things that

link us to things that are already under

the blood

we’ve been invited we’ve been commanded

to step into this liberty because

creation itself longs for the accurate

representation of who he is through our

freedom

the greatest

freedom that anybody could ever

experience

is the freedom that a person receives

when they surrender their life

to the only one

who has the right to run my life

and that’s jesus the christ the king the

lord the master

he has the right to run it

and that he chooses to co-labor with us

he forgives us

and he becomes the loving expression of

a father he becomes the one who tutors

and mentors and cares for and brings us

into layer after layer of liberty and

freedom

and that liberty and freedom is

available for everyone who’s watching on

bethel tv everybody who’s in this room

anyone in any overflow room

that freedom is

available and i want to do just one

thing i want to just ask the question

is there anyone here today that would

just say bill i don’t want to leave the

building

until i know that i’ve been forgiven by

god himself that i’ve been brought into

his family that i can finally be a true

disciple a follower of jesus

if there’s anybody in the room in that

condition you’d say bill i don’t want to

leave until i know that’s settled i want

you just to put a hand up in the air

right over here yep anybody else put

your hand up high

yep there’s another one over here

wonderful welcome welcome welcome it’s

beautiful

beautiful anybody else

just wave it if i don’t see it sometimes

sometimes it’s hard to see

all right this is wonderful and we

celebrate this

it’s the greatest miracle of all that a

person can be changed

in a moment forgiven of sin

given the actual nature of christ

filled with the holy spirit that raised

jesus from the dead that’s about to

happen in these people’s lives i want to

ask you to stand and i want to ask

ministry team people to quickly come to

the front and we’re going to pray

together i want to ask these two to

raise your hands if you do yourself and

me a favor

come right over here to the people in

front of this banner right here

right over here to my left right here

just come down

and uh and they will serve you they will

minister to you they will pray with you

now

i want you just to hold your hands in

front of you i want to just this kind of

just represents our we’re holding on to

our life here so hold it before the lord

i want to pray father i ask that you

would give such an unusual anointing and

grace

to this church family

to not be bound by yesterday

to be free from every trace

of jealousy

every trace of resentment every trace of

regret

that true liberty would be demonstrated

in the life of this family

i ask this in jesus name

in jesus mighty name

amen now some of you need prayer for

miracle in your body some of you have

issues you just need someone to stand

with you in prayer maybe from what i

talked about today we’ve got a team down

here today that would love to talk with

you tonight

you must be back here tonight you just

must be david hogan is here

wow

wow

it’s going to be awesome could we give

pastor bill a big hand isn’t that

amazing

i thought that was an appropriate

christmas message because he’s helping

us all get healthy as we step into

family at another level amen hey god

bless you guys have a great day if you

need prayer for anything come on up

front

and uh we’re going to see miracles

happen and just god’s going to move it’s

going to be great have a wonderful day