Psalm 23 is one of the most recognizable scriptures in the Bible. Pastor Bill Johnson reads through 3 translations of Psalm 23 to teach us what God is communicating to us. May this psalm speak something new to you today.

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by the way Eric and Candace send their

love they were back where were they

Austin Texas they were at yes yes yes

the nation of Texas we honor you

they were there having a meeting with

the leaders of the several Bethel

churches that we have around the country

and world did you guys get her

introduced earlier yes you did okay all

right so New Zealand is here we’ve got

the southern hemisphere covered or just

work it working on the rest so anyway

they send their love to you they are

doing such an amazing job the fastest

land mammal is a toddler who’s been

asked what’s in your mouth

I will drink you under the table I

whisper this to my coffee as we hide

from morning people don’t forget to

drink water and get some you’re

basically a houseplant

with complicated emotions I wish

mosquitos sucked fat instead of blood

can I have an amen on that one one more

one more I’m gonna get a bumper sticker

that says honk if you think I’m sexy

then I’m gonna sit at a green light

until I feel better about myself

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we had a great story this morning

testimony this morning one of our staff

someone from their past that was some

fairly resistant on them being involved

here ended up many years 10 years later

I think with cancer and they came here

for healing room set it in it but they

got here in time for service on Friday

night and they walked in the back and

they fell flat on their back which

happens to some of us

they fell under God’s power felt the

healing love of God kind of a fire go

through their entire body they went back

home and got examined they’re gonna

start radiation in the very next week

they got home fact can’t find any cancer

whatsoever they really I was just in had

a great privilege of being with a

Hillsong in Sydney about 3-4 weeks ago

like they go to Australia again tomorrow

but I was in Sydney with Hillsong and

then in London with Hillsong Sydney is

30,000 people London is 20,000 and you

know I like to direct traffic when I’m

doing healing meetings and stuff and you

can’t in that size of a group so you

just have to call it up and guess what

Jesus still shows up in heals people

it’s amazing

it was it was so cold just to call out

conditions have a brief prayer maybe 10

or 15 minutes there were just so many

extraordinary miracles including you

know metal disappearing and deaf ears

open and just the list goes on and on

it’s just so fun one of the most fun

miracles was actually at leaders event

that I did in Bradford it’s I’ve done it

for the last six years I think it is and

there was a guy there there was a guy

there that broke his arm I mean there’s

AG out up out of a wheelchair she’s been

a wheelchair for like ten years

another gal was a hunched a hunchback

large growth on her back only could see

the ground because of her physical

position and that lump just disappeared

she stood upright and put the crutches

down and is walking without crutches and

there’s a guy yeah that’s pretty cool

a guy who broke his arm kickboxing and

had a metal plate put in in it it stuck

out about an inch beyond the regular

bone and so he had a bunch of friends

with him they were praying and praying

nothing happened so they one of them

felt to tell him he needed to forgive

himself and as soon as he forgave

himself they watched it disappear

come on Michael my assistant Mike event

interns medical doctor so I love having

him there because he gets to check all

these people and and he examined and

examined it’s just you know nothing

nothing wrong no no metal plate that’s

left whatsoever can’t can’t discern any

any plate but maybe the most cool thing

was not maybe the coolest miracle was

Tim Eldridge who who has heads up this

particular vent he and his wife suit Tim

was walking with another friend of mine

they were walking across the food court

there’s a court food court in between

two of the main buildings on their

campus and as they’re walking across the

guy comes up to him and says what is

this this is like the third day he says

what is this event and he says well it’s

a it’s a Christian conference we have

leaders in from around Europe and and we

we have this median so he said why do

you ask

and they said well ever since I’ve been

here I’ve been having visions and dreams

and so he asked them about so he just

Tim just shared the gospel with him and

after hearing the gospel says okay what

do I do

I mean you got fish jumping in the boat

when they start doing it that way and so

he got born again right there in the

parking lot and greatest place where

football we’re gonna pray for anyone

with PTSD bipolar a dyslexia any kind of

brain issue I want you to stand because

we’re gonna pray for you I really have

confidence that the Lord is healing this

today it’s always on his mind but I’ve

felt very strong this morning when I

came in early that this was something he

was going to address those who are

watching on Delta TV

Gideon on this because the healing word

knows no distance it’s as present in

your home as it is here Bethel family

you know what to do stand around these

folks just just very simply lay hands on

them declare that peace of the Lord the

Shalom of heaven to come over them and

to heal everything that was stolen

damaged some

of them have issues because of trauma so

we just declare trauma you have no more

effect on this life in Jesus mighty name

we rebuke trauma we asked for a healing

grace or that you were to release that

healing presence of Jesus in fact pieces

is the word I want you just to declare

peace over over them literally over

their mind over the heart their mind the

peace of God to be released to them

right now in Jesus name

healing of the brain so that those with

dyslexia and similar afflictions be

released from that and they’d be healed

now in Jesus name so I want you just to

declare it to them we bless you in the

name of the Lord we bless you in the

name of the Lord declared John and then

just declare sound a sound mind is your

portion amen amen

all right you did good you did good good

and be seated yes yes all right

several several years ago I had a real

challenge physically and I ended up

where I had a I had a small growth in

one of my intestine and that they found

that had to remove long story short they

got it out of everything’s fine but but

for a season I couldn’t either I could

eat very little and then for a while I

couldn’t eat anything I couldn’t even

drink they fed me intervene II ously and

that wasn’t near as fun as they said it

would be it’s it’s a it’s a great weight

loss program but it’s not really what

you want to do I I spent a lot of time

in a recliner until I got to a hospital

and then I was in bed for a while and

and I would read as I do anyway I’m

constantly in the word anyway but in

that time is very it was very I have

made it a practice in my in the last 40

whatever years to read not so that I

have a teaching but to read for me just

to read for me and then just learn and

take out of whatever I happened to be

learning and then share that with you

that’s my that’s my that’s my practice

so but even more intently I would come

to the scriptures and read I spent a lot

of time in Psalms and and today we’re

going to study Psalms 23 and I read I

think I read the 23rd psalm every day

for two or three months besides the

other things I was reading and would

review review prophetic words I would

watch prophetic ministry times I’ve just

tried to acquaint myself with what God

says about my life instead of the

circumstances that that surround me and

and it was it was a very I wouldn’t wish

it on anyone but I’m so glad I was able

to go through that journey and know the

peace of God through every single every

twist and turn

don’t ever estimate peace because it’s

the

station of his mind over you the the

peace of God is that as a manifestation

of his mind having effect on your

environment because he’s not nervous

about anything if if you’re anything

like me you have the ability to make a

mountain out of a molehill and to take

the simple and make it very complex it’s

a gift I have that gift and hang around

me long enough and I’ll show you how to

do it but it’s really true and but what

happens for us many of us as we walk

with the Lord we tend to exaggerate the

size of our problems so we feel

justified in our fear we exaggerate the

size of our problem so that our anxiety

is logical yep yeah we need to read the

Bible that’s what we need to do I can

tell we’re gonna let’s read the

scripture together we’re gonna read the

23rd psalm and I’m actually going to

read it to you how to three translation

so that it’s a bonus day today we’re

gonna do New King James it’s what I

study I know and then we’re going to do

the passion translation which we’ll be

extra passionate and then we’re gonna do

the amplified which is extra loud so

we’re just gonna have our good good good

Swedish again the Psalms 23 how many of

you memorize this maybe even as a child

you know it’s it’s probably the most

well-known portion of Scripture on the

earth it is quoted it is you know a TV

show somebody dies as a priest during a

funeral oftentimes they will quote at

least part of the 23rd psalm and it’s

famous or well-known for a good reason

it is that good the problem with it is

we’re too familiar with them some of the

richest things I often come in my

reading you know or to help me to read

this for the first time again want me to

read this for the first time

sometimes just simplifying things

sometimes changing a translation

creating a different translation because

I’ll hit it from the different

angle and any of you ever write

something and when you were through you

proof read it and everything was perfect

and somebody else read it and they said

hey you forgot a word here but you can

you read the word when you yeah I have

entire paragraphs that I see on the page

but it’s not there that’s that’s why God

gave us editors created by God to help

us not look stupid when we certainly

could so but sometimes we do that

automatic reading thing if you will a

familiarity caused us to skip over

things that we really need to hear as

though it were the first time so I pray

that today would have that effect on you

as it’s having on me so I’m 23 verse 1

the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want

he makes me to lie down in green

pastures he leads me beside still waters

he restores my soul he leads me in the

paths of righteousness for his name’s

sake yea even though I walk through the

valley of the shadow of death I will

fear no evil for you are with me your

rod and your staff they comfort me you

prepare a table before me in the

presence of my enemies you anoint my

head with oil my cup runs over

surely goodness and mercy shall follow

me all the days of my life and I will

dwell in the house of the Lord forever

let me take the passion translation the

lord is my best friend and my shepherd I

always have more than enough he offers a

resting place for me in his luxurious

love his tracks take his tracks take me

to an oasis of peace the quiet brook of

bliss that’s where he restores and

revives my life he opens before me

pathways to God’s pleasure he leads me

along in his footsteps of righteousness

so that I can bring honor to his name

Lord even when your path takes me

through the valley of deepest darkness

fear will never conquer me for you

already have

some of you are daydreaming I’m sure of

it

let me read this again well even when

your path takes me through the valley of

deepest darkness fear will never conquer

me for you already have you remain close

to me and lead me through it

all the way your authority is my

strength in my peace the comfort of your

love takes away my fear I’ll never be

lonely for you or near listen to this

phrase you become my delicious feast

even when my enemies dare to fight oh

wow you become my delicious feast even

when my enemies dare to fight you anoint

me with the fragrance of your holy

spirit you give me all I can drink of

you until my heart overflows so why

should I feel fear of the future for I

am being pursued only by your goodness

and unfailing love then afterwards when

my life is through I’ll return to your

glorious presence to be forever with you

that was good

one more the Lord is my shepherd to feed

guide and shield me I shall not lack he

makes me lie down in fresh tender green

pastures he leads me beside still in

restful waters he refreshes and restores

my life myself he leads me in the paths

of righteousness which is uprightness

and right standing with him not for my

earning it but for his namesake yes even

though I walked through deep sunless

valleys shadow of death I will fear no

dread or evil for you are with me your

rod to protect your staff to guide they

comfort me you prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies you know

at my head with oil my brimming cup runs

over

surely our only goodness mercy and

unfailing love shall follow me all the

days of my life and through the length

of my days the house of the Lord and his

presence shall be my dwelling place this

is just a glorious Psalm that needs to

be revisited verse one says the Lord is

my shepherd I shall not want

oftentimes for all

we don’t have a financial problem we

have a lordship problem the issue of

lordship the Lord is my shepherd is

where this begins and it doesn’t ignore

that there’s conflict that there’s

warfare that there’s Devils that there’s

darkness doesn’t ignore any of that it

just gives us an insight as to how he

takes us through that process not for

defeat not for fear not for anxiety but

for triumph that his name would be

exalted and we will be strengthened the

Lord is my shepherd I shall not want

we are the worst at diagnosing our own

problems our own circumstances and there

are many who think they have relational

problems and they actually have lordship

problems there are many who struggle

with fear and anxiety and it’s only the

result of the absence of lordship it’s

if I and I can I can take any small

problem and make it so large in my mind

that I forget who Jesus is but no

problem is impressive no problem looks

big in the face of the one who defeated

everything on our behalf in the face of

the law the Lord is my shepherd I shall

not want sometimes the Lord yokes us

together with people maybe in a work

context maybe it’s a family upbringing

could be any number of things but he

yokes us together and the when you’re

yoked with someone the yoke only hurts

when you try to go a different direction

than they’re going when you try to sit

when they are sitting you know it’s it’s

the it’s the fact the Lord is actually

using the circumstances around us to

teach us to walk like Jesus and

sometimes the pain we feel that we are

so certain is somebody else’s fault it’s

actually a lordship issue

yep we can go now

the Lord is my shepherd the Lord the

master the ruler the wonderful gracious

father the benevolent kind caring leader

that we have he directs my life and I’ll

tell you I’ll tell you my greatest my

greatest weakness over the last 40 years

it comes up I’m embarrassed to say how

often it has come up my greatest

weakness has been that I assumed that I

know the will of God in a matter and and

it’s it’s never it’s never a choice

between you know something evil and

something good or something moral vs.

immoral or honest versus dishonest

that’s not that’s not the issue those

issues have long been settled it’s the

issue of doing the right thing that God

has directed are the right thing hoping

that he’ll bless it a good thing and

he’s such a great father sometimes he

covers me you know it’s this yeah

I’ll cover you you know you just do

something you know in his name that he

wasn’t a part of because he has clothes

and he’s just like he’s just that kind

of a father and I’m so thankful for that

because he’s he saved me out of a bunch

of dumb stuff but other times he just

leaves me hanging and but it’s not it’s

not like it’s not like he’s punishing me

it’s just like son if you can feel the

pain of the moment you’re in it’ll help

your memory the next time you get in

that situation where you think you

already know what I want from you is

that make sense to anybody else I just

feel like I already know I saw him do

this this and this obviously this is

what he wants and that’s not always the

case it’s that assumption that gets me

into trouble I receive a lot of

encouragement especially from David in

his life I think I think maybe his life

is the one that speaks to me the most of

where there were times where maybe he

would forget to pray or he sought the

Lord on the most obvious details

he would he would pray for things that I

wouldn’t even think to pray for I just

assumed well this is what God wants and

that’s it’s he’s he’s Lord

he’s Lord he’s he’s the king of glory

he’s the lord of all lords he is my

Savior he is my benevolent dictator he

is a kind and perfect father he’s loving

and he covers me and he empowers me but

he is Lord and it’s never to be

forgotten he is absolutely Lord and Lord

of all and every knee will bow and

confess that Jesus Christ is Lord at

that moment that day is coming but we

have the privilege of doing it every day

of our life and here he starts this

psalm by describing the condition of a

disciple it doesn’t mean what it says I

shall not want it doesn’t mean that I’m

not going to have another need tomorrow

doesn’t mean I don’t have a difficult

decision to make it doesn’t mean any of

those things it doesn’t mean if you have

a problem in your life than you then

Jesus obviously isn’t your Lord that’s

the opposite in this of this home this

Psalm is describing how to how to live

life in such a way that regardless of

your circumstances you always come into

a place of breakthrough because Jesus is

Lord and he notice in the saw me says

for my name’s sake every victory that

you and I experience all of creation

celebrates Jesus for your victory why

because they see his plan worked

the scripture says wherever two or three

of us are gathered in his name he is in

the myths what he’s already in me but

there’s an increased measure of presence

when we come together in his name so we

have two or three of us gathered in his

name Jesus stands in their midst all of

creation celebrates it because his plan

worked it was actually possible to

create something in people who are born

again the capacity for unity that only

the father and the Son and the Holy

Spirit I’ve known throughout all

eternity and all of creation looks at

that and said it work and there’s this

celebration of who he is so when he says

for his namesake

he’s actually describing

that it is imperative it is vital that

all of creation sees and witnesses the

effect of his plan

in fact Romans chapter 8 talks about all

of creation groaning and travailing we

got some good music going on somewhere

yeah this the beauty of cell phones yes

I one meeting I said you know somebody

needs to get the hell away of course so

that when your phone rings it’s kind of

a moment of celebration so that night

they had the holiday of course on their

phone so so the Lord the Lord is looking

for for one simple thing it’s our

acknowledgment of his lordship it’s not

complicated it may be heard that’s not

complicated Jesus is Lord and in that

place there is such rich fulfillment

that it is possible for you and me to

stand in the face of adversity

difficulty challenges whatever we might

be facing and say because he’s my

shepherd I actually am lacking nothing

and it’s in that context that we are

able to testify of his goodness in our

life the Lord is my shepherd I shall not

want he makes me to lie down in green

pastures some of you need to be made to

lie down

made to light it down he he he leads me

beside still or quiet waters

I had a phrase go through my mind here a

few weeks ago in in Sydney see if this

helps anyone many of us struggle with

guilt and shame in equal measure to our

overemphasis of our own role in our

conversion many of us struggle of guilt

and shame in equal measure to our

overemphasis of our role in our own

conversion do we have a role yeah I

chose him but he first chose me I love

him but he first loved me I put my faith

in him but the faith was a gift from God

and anytime we overemphasize we over

take responsibility when in fact he’s

looking to lead us into a place of

abandonment and trust maturity is where

I represent him well in power and wisdom

in love but I remain as a child I never

grow out of dependency I only grow

deeper in dependency the issue of

lordship will be an issue throughout all

of eternity but it’s never restrictive

in a sense of punishment it’s never a

restriction in a sense of confinement of

who you are born to me to be instead

it’s a restriction so that all your

efforts can be put into who you were

designed to be it’s it’s canoe it’s a

controlled strength if you will it’s a

directed strength the better term

directed strength and so the lordship of

Jesus is always with your eternal

purpose my eternal purpose is always in

mind that we could stand fully

representing Jesus accurately I really

believe that before he returns it’s

going to be a generation not just in

individuals but a generation that

represent him well in purity true

holiness great power great wisdom which

automatically means is

to be transformation of cities and

nations as a result alright so he makes

me to lie down in green pastures he

leads me beside still waters he restores

my soul the word soul there now

oftentimes when we really see the word

soul we think in terms of mind will and

emotions which is legitimate but this

word is used

it’s like 750 times in the in the Bible

and it’s often used to describe us in

our whole our whole person spirit soul

and body everything about us so when he

says it restores my soul it’s saying he

restores me completely everything about

me becomes healthy again sign me up for

that one that’s a good one it restores

my soul he leads me in the paths of

righteousness for his name’s sake

there’s that phrase again even though I

walk through the valley of the shadow of

death I will fear no evil for you are

with me here’s one of the most important

things I saw in that particular season

for me I’ll be honest I was I was of a

sick and and I I kept waiting for that

word of the Lord I kept waiting for that

that thing that would clarify everything

for me and and it just it just didn’t

come it silence whenever he’s silent

it’s not punishment it’s because he’s

already spoken and he’s his silence will

help you to find what he’s already said

it’s it’s not the silent treatment he’s

not like you and me giving each other

the silent treatment he’s is a gracious

father so everything is out of love

everything does that I’ve loved and and

I was hoping to get you know that word I

was hoping that somebody would call or

somebody would write and and there were

a lot of things giving to me it was all

wonderful but it was never that

breakthrough word that breakthrough

moment just didn’t come all there was

was sick and you know

I was in the hospital for a while

there’s two people with kidney

transplants that came in and left before

I did yeah and there was a third person

that was there when I got there so they

all graduated before I did so I was

there for and I’m just praying I’m just

looking for that word I had great

friends come to pray for me talk with me

so it was wonderful zero complaint but I

was looking for that breakthrough word

and it never came

what did come was overwhelming peace and

after I look back and I could say two

things two things I came out of with

number one bold faith stands on the

shoulders of quiet trusts bold faith

stands on the shoulders of quite trust

what he was looking for in me was not

the expression of bold faith he was

looking for me the quiet trust he was

trying to build something deeper me

where I had been working to illustrate

demonstrate pursue bold faith he was

looking to develop a rest in me that

enabled or allowed for a quiet trust to

be the platform on which another level

of bold faith would come that makes any

sense

hope so but here’s that here’s the main

deal that I wanted to mention to you

this morning as he says though I walk

through the valley of the shadow of

death I’ll fear no evil because you’re

with me I’ll fear no you because you’re

with me I I came to the realization that

there are measures or manifestations of

his presence that you can only find in

the valley of the shadow of death he

manifests himself differently in

different contexts in different

situations and there’s an aspect of his

presence you can only find in that

context

why would he take you through the valley

of the shadow of death because he

believes in the work he’s done in you

he’s confident of the great work that

he’s that he’s done in each one of us

he’s confident enough that he can trust

us in perilous situations if it wasn’t a

true sufficient new creation that took

place inside of our hearts when we

believed on the Lord Jesus Christ if

that were not a reality he would never

put us in that environment

because we’d be devoured devoured in a

heartbeat but he enables us to go

through those situations he doesn’t

create the evil he doesn’t create the

darkness but where he wants to take us

we walk through there and I tell you

what the longest way through a trial is

to try to do it apart from the lordship

of Jesus they quickest way through a

trial is what Jesus says Lord there’s

only one shortcut Jesus is Lord Jesus is

Lord that’s how you go through but when

I what I came to realize was there’s

there’s I I didn’t have these thundering

words and thundering encounters you know

spending years I’ve hardly even talked

about this I I just felt good morning

this morning might be might be good

maybe talk about some of some of at

least what I experienced that there was

never that that life-changing moment but

at the end of it I could tell I have

discovered an aspect of his countenance

of his face they I could not have found

anywhere else and because that was the

treasure I came out with it was

absolutely worth it absolutely worth he

goes on

he goes on he says you prepare a table

before me in the presence of my enemies

oh boy

you prepare a table for me you see it

you read it you prepare a table before

me you prepare the table and you put it

in the middle of the enemies what is the

table a table as a place of nourishment

the place of interaction fellowship

family intimacy it’s the is the table

remember my Felicia the Old Testament

his legs were lame but he was brought to

the table of the King so his lameness

was covered in the table of the Lord so

here’s this table of deep fellowship

closeness tenderness with God and God

says I’m going to put it in the middle

of the enemies what’s happened to so

many believers is all they can see is

the enemies and they define their

circumstances by the enemies they see

instead of defining the circumstances by

the Lord who is seated across the table

with intimate interaction and fellowship

there is a place of intimacy and

fellowship with him that actually causes

all these hellish things to dissolve and

disappear it’s not even that they’re

gone just that they don’t matter the

Bible says of God before you who can be

against you

it doesn’t mean no one can be against it

just means no one can be against you and

be given a chance to vote no one against

you ever gets to vote they have no

ability to contribute to a conclusion or

decision that’s been determined by the

one who is the Lord the Lord he prepares

a table before me in the presence of my

enemies I think one of the most frequent

challenges that I watch people that I

love and care for and interact with is

that as I watch them go through stuff I

see I see that they’re so aware of the

enemies that are

that are there and not the Lord who is

there you know your darkest situation

it’s a table of fellowship see most

people don’t have a financial problem

they have a lordship problem they don’t

have a relationship problem it’s a

lordship problem it’s not an anxiety

issue it’s a lordship issue that’s

really it’s really a thought at the

heart of so many things that’s when I

when I try to fix the stuff myself

instead of in that place a tender

surrender do I make a mountain out of a

molehill do I exaggerate the size and

effect of something and so here the Lord

is telling us listen I’ve set you up for

victory ahead of time and just to prove

it I’m gonna take you through a dark

valley and then I’m gonna when we get

there I’m gonna put a banqueting table

up and it’s gonna be you and me sitting

down and it basically means every time

you say I love you to Jesus he puts it

on the devil’s intercom Jesus makes the

devil listen to your affection and love

for Jesus because he places the table in

the presence of the enemy not so the

enemy can kill steal destroy but so that

there is ongoing testimony of the nature

of God in His redemptive purpose in

fallen humanity to restore us to a place

that reminds the enemy you did not win

you only set us up for a greater victory

even though I walk through the valley of

the shadow of death I will fear no evil

for you are with me your rod and your

staff they comfort me you prepare a

table before me in the presence of my

enemies you anoint my head with oil my

cup overflows anybody ever have the

chocolate sundae a moonstone can you say

will of God yes why why for those of you

who are not enlightened it’s a large

goblet on a platter plate they fill it

with ice cream and then they pour

chocolate on it until it overflows and

is filling the plate will of God

overflows the outcome of this is your

chocolate sundae will overflow he says

my cup overflows there’s there is more

pouring through me that I could possibly

contain I am a fountain of resource in

life for countless numbers of people

because I’ve remained in a place of

trust in the darkest of times and what’s

happened in me is he’s created in me a

fountain of life that will feed and

nourish many it’s the result of the

lordship of Jesus as he can trust you

with greater capacity greater influence

simply because you have found the

presence in the darkness and you cause

that to be your feeding place and the

result is you will have more than you

could have asked for more than is even

necessary your cup overflows your head

is anointed your thought life is

immersed in the anointing the Spirit of

God and out of your heart flows rivers

rivers rivers of living water

he then ends it with this he says surely

goodness and mercy shall follow me all

the days of my life I will do all in the

house of the Lord forever

the Lord goes before me I got two angels

behind me goodness and mercy they just

pick up the slack they keep going go

keep going don’t stop now this is no

place to stop this is they pick up the

things I drop but this goodness and

mercy dwelling in the house of the Lord

you were designed to live in the

manifested presence of the Lord did I

did I mention the I mentioned person

that got healed came in the Friday night

service I’m sorry this is my third

service I forget what I say we’re hi

good morning so here a person walks into

a room and is healed of cancer without

anybody praying for them several years

ago one of our staff guys one of our

international staff guys was coming

through customs in San Francisco and the

customs agent hasn’t at the at the

deaths are he’s international skeptic

he’s got a green card he works here and

the gallic summary says is where do you

work and said the Bethel Church he says

is that the church that has a prayer

house up there

that’s Oakland he says yeah it is he

said let me tell you story this is a

friend of Mines dying a fourth stage

cancer he drove up to Redding he walked

into the prayer house and was completely

healed of cancer they drove back and

then he looked at the pastor he stamped

his passport he said welcome home

what happened somebody’s Cup was over

floor somebody’s tent was over for that

lack mindset has got to go

lack mindset is only the product of fear

it is not true it is not truth my baby

going through a valley of the shadow of

death but I am NOT a person bound by

lack I’m a person in process

I like outcomes he likes process I like

the end result the breakthrough the

miracle or whatever he likes the journey

I don’t we think differently because we

do I want the outcome he says ah but you

get to trust me the whole way

and I would dwell in the house of the

Lord forever

doesn’t mean you come to church forever

means that we live in the presence

continuously forever that everywhere you

go the house of the Lord becomes

manifest it’s always a chance in a crowd

this size that there would be people who

have never made a confession of faith in

the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation

for your healing for your deliverance

and Jesus went to a cross with you in

mind with me in mind and he made it

possible that every person in this room

on a moment like this could place their

faith in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of

sin and for healing and transformation

of a broken life

everybody in this room needs it everyone

has been brought to this point today for

this reason Jesus Christ is Lord of all

and he’s inviting every person here they

may not have a personal relationship

with him he’s inviting you in to a

personal relationship with him if

there’s anybody here in that position it

would just say bill I don’t want to

leave the building

until I know that I’m at peace with God

that I know what it is to be forgiven

that I know what it is to be brought

into God’s family

I want you just to put a hand up right

where you are I don’t want to miss

anybody who does this so put your hand

up now I want to see who you are there’s

somebody right over here yes wonderful

anybody else okay

my back over here’s another one they’re

wonderful wonderful

it’s the most beautiful thing this guy

who owned the food truck just said what

do I do and this is what you do you just

respond to the invitation of King Jesus

to enter into life