Bill Johnson delivers a cornerstone message about faith, power, and authority. As we steward a soft heart towards God’s Word and
allow Him to deal with unbelief, we will become strong in our faith and walk in great authority.

your bibles if you would the gospel of

mark chapter nine

mark chapter nine i mentioned uh a

couple months ago

i felt like i needed to take at least

this summer i don’t know maybe a little

longer we’ll see

the times that i talk to bring up

subjects that are very very familiar

for us but the analogy that came to my

mind here a couple months ago was

when a trucker takes off with his load

he will drive a distance and oftentimes

pull over

and tighten down the load and after this

last year i think we have a load that

needs to be tightened

and uh and so i i felt the need to

review some things and so that’s what

i’ve been doing

and i’m going to talk to you about one

of my most favorite subjects today and

i’m going to look in a story

uh that is a favorite story i i read

these

to learn there there are nuances in

these stories that i need so much

because i

the longer i walk with jesus the more i

find out he thinks different than me

and he’s not going to change and i’m i’m

the one that’s to change so

that’s the journey i’m on so what i’m

going to do though is i’m going to

we’re going to take a story out of mark

9 but i’m going to read

a verse out of matthew 13

out of the parable of the seed and the

sower

i know that it is sometimes dangerous

to take elements out of one parable or

one story and mix them with another

because they don’t always translate well

story to story

and you can sometimes end up with false

information i know that that’s true

so i’m just warning you ahead of time

i’m going to do that

and you’ll have to figure it out i know

that sometimes

for example the fire of god is always

the judgment of god

except that one time in acts 2 when the

fire of god was the tongues of fire

and tongues are a language of praise and

it’s for edification

so it’s far from judgment the snake is

always the devil

i accept that one time

it was jesus on a cross who became sin

on our behalf earthquakes were always

judgment

except for that one time in acts 4

when in the outpouring of the holy

spirit the entire place was shook

because of the presence of god

so what you don’t want to do is become

too rigid and so i’m going to ask you to

approach these two stories loosely

because i think

one will actually give us the insight we

need for the next one all right so this

is what we’re going to start

is the parable of the seed and the sower

now because we’re not doing the whole

story i’m just going to read one verse

i want to remind you if you’re

unfamiliar with the story parable of the

seed and the sword the seed

in this parable is the word of god

the soil is the condition of the heart

here’s a very important lesson the

productiveness or the fruitfulness

of a word that god spoke does not

validate whether or not it was from god

because that parable actually gives us

four different kinds of soil

three were no good the word was

authentic

but it just didn’t bear fruit

the fault wasn’t what god said

see many people make the mistake of

saying well we won’t we will

we judge a tree by fruit that’s

absolutely right but they will say

well we’ll know whether this was a work

of god or not by the fruit

not always jesus talked about healing 10

lepers

only one had a character change enough

to return and give thanks

did it mean the other nine were falsely

healed

no god’s word

the validity of his word is not

validated by what we do with it

in other words it’s not proven by what

we do with it god’s not on trial by what

i do

i am

in this particular illustration

we have in verse 22 though he who

received seed among

thorns is he who hears the word and the

cares of this world

the deceitfulness of riches choke the

word

and he becomes unfruitful so here’s the

picture my my wife is the master

gardener

she has not been gardening she’s been

too sick

we have a garden though

the pepper plants are not this tall it’s

the weeds that are this tall

we have been invaded by the weeds in

this garden

and it’s because we planted certain

seeds

but not being able to take care and tend

the garden

we have other seeds that have competed

for the nutrients

observed the moisture and have outgrown

and actually cast shadow or shade over

the plants that were supposed to be

prolific and grow and provide food

the word of the lord is the same way

faith comes by what

hearing and hearing by the word of god

faith comes by hearing

hearing by the word of god say that with

me faith comes by hearing

and hearing by the word of god say it

again faith comes by hearing

and hearing by the word of god it does

not say

faith comes from hearing the word of god

if it did then that’s all of us go home

put on youtube where they’re quoting

scripture for the next 24 hours

let’s have it playing 24 7

in our sleep and we’ll have the wiggles

wigglesworth kind of faith by friday

it just it doesn’t work that way faith

comes from

hearing it’s your connection to the

voice of god

but the voice of god is activated by

your exposure to the word

it’s the word that enhances and trains

the hearing

now here’s the challenge is i’ve got a

word that god spoke to me

but i have another idea and i have a

disappointment

and i’ve got this criticism and i’ve got

this complaint

and i’ve got all these seeds that are

vying for the same nutrients and what

does the bible say happens

it says the cares of this world the

other interests

the other burdens or concerns busyness

is artificial significance

the enemy works to expand our busyness

to increase our cares

the enemy works to expand our activity

to

increase our cares because if we can

increase our cares he plants seeds

that compete with the word of god

mark chapter 9.

verse 17. we’re going to read quite a

few verses so please do

follow in your bible or your neighbors

as much as you can please verse 17.

then one of the crowd answered and said

teacher i brought you my son who has a

mute spirit

and whenever it sees him it throws him

down

he foams at the mouth gnashes at the

teeth

gnashes his teeth becomes rigid so i

spoke to your disciples that they should

cast it up but they could not

and he answered him and said oh

faithless generation how long shall i be

with you

let me stop there i’m i’m annoyed by i

love this translation but i’m annoyed by

their use

use of this word faithless because it’s

not what it says

the literal word is the word unbelief

and there’s a difference between

faithless and unbelief unbelief is not

the absence of faith it’s the presence

of unbelief

there is a difference later he says

i believe but help me in my unbelief

the problem is is you can have more than

one seed growing in your garden

to say it’s a faithless garden is not

accurate

there’s faith in the garden are you

following my

analogy here to call it faithfulness not

is not accurate

there’s just unbelief there people come

to me and they say well i’m

i’m more uh i have an intellectual bent

oh you mean you have an unbelieving bent

it’s nothing to be proud of god’s quite

smart and it doesn’t interfere with his

faith

so if my intellect is

affecting my faith then i know the wrong

things

the knowledge of the tree of good and

evil i know the wrong things

i i fill my garden with seeds that

compete with what god is saying

they compete with my destiny

true faith gives you access to your

greatest point of intelligence

i believe in the days ahead we’re going

to see the greatest intellectualism come

out of faith

yes bill amen keep it up the bible says

by

faith we understand the worlds are made

out of nothing by faith we understand

we don’t understand by faith we don’t

understand

excuse me we don’t believe because we

understand

we understand because we believe

faith gives us access to a level of

understanding you can’t get through

human reasoning

all right i feel like i’m preaching all

by myself here it’s all right

i’m not going to quit no sir i’m not

gonna quit

and i’m teaching i’m just happy to see

so many people in the room

there’s humans i just want you to know

this last year i discovered i was

addicted to humans

all right let’s uh let’s move on here

verse 19. he answered and said to him oh

faithless generation i’m going to change

he answered and said to him o

unbelieving generation

how long shall i be with you how long

shall i bear with you

bring him to me then they brought him to

him and when he saw him

immediately the spirit convulsed him and

he fell on the ground

and wallowed foaming at the mouth why

would he do that in front of jesus

because i think it worked in front of

the disciples

if you can create enough disturbance

with what you see in the natural it can

interfere with what you see in the

spirit

the enemy was working to create a

disturbance

that they saw here that helped them that

caused them to

no longer see what they saw here and

that was what god had already willed

to happen

faith doesn’t deny a problem’s existence

it just denies the problem a place of

influence

[Applause]

they brought him to him he threw him on

the ground wallowed forming at the mouth

verse 21

so he asked his father how long has this

been happening to him

and he said from childhood and often he

has thrown him both into the fire and

into the water to destroy him

but if you can do anything have

compassion on us and help us

it’s interesting it’s the smallest

measure of faith i can find in the

entire bible

if there’s a smaller one please show it

to me this one barely moved the needle

when you come to god and say if you can

god if you have the ability to do this

big problem

and the lord turned the table on him and

said if you can believe

all things are possible to him who

believes immediately the father of the

child cried out and said with tears

lord i believe help my unbelief

i’ve got more than one plant growing in

my garden

when jesus saw that the people came

running together he rebuked the unclean

spirit saying to a deaf and dumb spirit

i command you come out of him enter him

no more

when the spirit cried out convulsed him

greatly

and came out of him and he became his

one dead so that many said he is dead

jesus took him by the hand lifted him up

he arose

and when he had come into the house his

disciples asked him privately why could

we not cast it out

and he said this kind comes out by

nothing but prayer and fasting

we’ve got several things that i want to

point out in the story

first of all picture garden we have

raised beds in our house

we didn’t raise them from the dead

they’re actually just elevated

organic soil everything

and picture the plant you want to grow

and next to the plant you didn’t plant

and all these things are competing for

air for

or for a sun for nutrients for all water

and there’s this competition that’s

going on

we have an automatic watering system

and it waters the weeds too

i’m trying to figure out how you can get

a watering system that only waters the

plants

i mean we’ve got an orchard and we’ve

got trees growing but we also have weeds

growing

because they found out there’s water

there

the point i’m trying to make

is the water of god’s presence waters

all seeds

whatever seed is planted will become

manifest by the presence of the lord

because it will begin to manifest

let me illustrate this because you need

to catch this to understand how the lord

works here

when he exposes for example you’re just

driving along and you find this just

just a little bit of an angry attitude

or or

just arrogant whatever just begins to

creep up

the lord in his mercy through his

presence is exposing a

seed that wants permission to be planted

you have a quick moment to deal with it

repentantly

in repentance so that it doesn’t set

down roots because once it sets down

roots

certainly can be removed but it starts

affecting personality

and so quick repentance is the best

you’re driving down

you see that attitude where no they just

think they know

and all of a sudden you realize oh

that’s arrogance god forgive me

quickly repent then turn and bless that

person i’m trying to have shorter

and shorter times between the exposure

of something

and the quick repentance don’t go into

guilt and shame

because it gives you a false sense of

spirituality

it creates a it creates a sense of

humility

that mimics humility but it’s not

humility it doesn’t give you access to

what humility gives you access to

and so doing the guilt shame thing oh i

did it again don’t go there

because then you’re making an agreement

with the accuser that’s trying to draw

you into the sin in the first place

if he can’t get me into this sin then he

wants me to become arrogant over the

fact

that i’m dealing with the sin

that’s too big of a hole to fall into so

forgive me i’ll pull out of that one

let me illustrate this concept that the

presence of the lord causes all seeds to

water

picture with me the last supper

this is the most intense and intimate

moment

like ever they know they can feel it in

the air

something’s about to happen jesus knows

he’s about to go to the cross

he’s got the 12 there

in this intense moment of divine

presence

this intimate moment we see john

with his head on jesus’s chest

we have peter announcing i will never

deny you

and we have judas walking out of the

room to betray him

because all seeds are watered in the

presence

they all become manifest in these

moments

wisdom is to recognize when the lord is

bringing something to the surface

and in that moment he’s giving you a

grace deal with it quickly

deal with it thoroughly

if you’re like me you find all kinds of

things planted

in your garden bed you’ve got the word

of the lord over your life

but like this guy in all honesty you say

god i do believe

you are my confidence but i’m fighting

i’ve got some unbelief too

see we’ve thought that the answer to

this

challenge is to have bigger faith

jesus actually canceled out that concept

of faith size as being the answer

when he said faith just the size of a

mustard seed

could take mount shasta and put it in

the pacific ocean

that’s not just a nice warm fuzzy

illustration it’s not

a motivational point it’s not a raw raw

on jesus behalf

it’s a statement of fact something this

small

can move something that big if it’s by

itself

see the problem is i got other plants

in my garden

this particular story the disciples were

presented with

a case to bring deliverance to a child

i’ll never forget as long as i live

probably 20 probably 24

23 24 years ago i was in a meeting and a

mom brought a little child to me that

was demonized like that child

very similar very violent very

it was horrible i did everything i knew

to do

i’ve ministered in deliverance many many

times

i i pulled out all the weapons

and nothing happened

and i’ll never forget the mom looking at

me with their tormented child

saying what do i do now

and giving some stupid answer

that didn’t please her or me because

sometimes

you don’t drive out a problem with power

you only do it through authority

and learning how to minister in

authority is different than ministering

in power

authority is needed to deal with

authority

authority is needed to deal with this

kind of obstacle this kind of a problem

the father couldn’t do it so he brought

him to the disciples

now i remind you the disciples are the

most skilled

and trained people in the area of

deliverance to ever live

up until that point nobody had the

experience they had

no one had the insights nobody had the

history

the testimony no one jesus could trust

them enough

to send them in groups of two to a city

and clean out the place

all the demonized are free and the

people that are tormented and

sick are healed and all the stuff went

on in fact

it was so impacting that in luke

chapter 10 jesus adds 70 more to the

group

and sends them out picture this he sends

out 82 folks

they go out they come back they are so

excited

because demons were subject to them and

jesus says by the way he says i saw

satan fall like lightning

so he’s responding to their success if

we can

he’s responding to the impact of their

anointing their gift

their ministry is jesus said i saw satan

fall like lightning

just don’t make that your point of joy

make your point enjoy the fact that your

name is written in my book

your name is written in my book great

story great point but here we are

we’ve got those with the greatest

expertise

couldn’t bring healing deliverance to

this child

the dad was lucky enough to see jesus

coming and brought the child to jesus

jesus wasn’t impressed by the demonic

manifestation

sometimes we take our identity in the

size of our problem

be careful how you describe your problem

because sometimes we’d actually rather

have sympathy from a friend

than breakthrough from a person of faith

i’m not saying don’t share i’m just

saying be careful where your heart is

going because sometimes we feed on that

stuff

so it brings them to jesus jesus was

unmoved

by the demonic manifestation brought

deliverance to the child

the disciples saw it and it says they

took

jesus aside and they asked him how come

we couldn’t do it jesus gave them this

profound advice

this kind only comes out with prayer and

fasting which i’ll talk about in a

minute

for me the biggest lesson in this story

is that when the disciples couldn’t

bring about a breakthrough

they didn’t create a theology around

what didn’t happen

they didn’t look for biblical reasons

why it wasn’t god’s will

to deliver that child instead they took

jesus aside

and they asked why not i pray the day

comes for you and for me

that instead of being shocked when the

breakthrough happens

we’re shocked when it doesn’t shocked

enough to take jesus aside

and ask him to please explain why i

didn’t work on this situation in this

occasion

jesus said this kind only comes out with

prayer and fasting

but he neither prayed nor fasting

we know jesus fasted the one time we

know that he fasted was 40 days

when at the beginning of his ministry

it’s kind of at the initiation

but he didn’t i’m not saying it’s wrong

but he just

he didn’t fast for a problem he fasted

into a lifestyle

so jesus said this kind only comes out

with prayer and fasting then neither

prayed nor fasted

and brought deliverance

what did jesus identify as the problem

in this story

unbelief unbelief was the problem

what did the dad think the problem was

a demon yes

he wants the demon out of his son

what’s the problem to the dead the demon

what’s the problem to jesus

unbelief

there are times where you face a

situation

that is bigger than your unbelief can

handle

i’m going to dig a hole that i’ll never

crawl out of i could feel it

there’s a sucking sound into this into

this hole there are times where

the measure of faith as compared to all

the questions that you keep

pondering and keep questioning quit

meditating on that you keep

feeling with the energy of your own soul

is too big of a battle when you actually

have the

faith of god himself that when it’s by

itself

is more than enough to move the mountain

but because you’ve allowed it to be

planted with

other competing things you’re in a war

he didn’t create for you

prayer and fasting does not drive out

demons

the devil doesn’t get intimidated when i

miss a meal

i think he finds it entertaining it may

because i’m such a pitiful faster

i was fasting this week watching hunting

shows where they cooked

the food that they shot

i gravitate towards those kind

leave me alone just be quiet

i don’t think the devil is intimidated

by my fasting

he’s intimidated by my authority

and what happens in prayer and fasting

is you discover who he is

and you discover who you are that’s it

let me rephrase it fasting for

some of us at times have been has been

more likely called a hunger strike

it’s where you announce to god you’re

not eating until something happens

that’s that’s funny to me that’s funny

that that would ever cross our mind that

all right you want me to fast

i’m fasting until this it’s not like

fasting

it doesn’t earn brownie points you know

it doesn’t it

it doesn’t you know what it does fasting

is where you are hungrier for something

you can’t see than what you can see

that’s what it is what does faith

operate in

if it operates in the unseen what does

unbelief operate in it operates in what

you can see

it’s the wallowing child foaming at the

mouth

that’s the challenge the disciples had

they not been given

a proper amount of authority to deal

with that child

they had been jesus gave them

all the authority needed to deal with

any problem they faced did they deal

with it no

why too many seeds in the garden

too much competing with what god had

given them they had the authority

it just it was deluded in its use to

minister to this problem

fasting is learning to have an appetite

for things you can’t see

and as abstract as that sounds it is the

life of faith

as abstract and as unreasonable as that

appears

it is where i become anchored in what

paul said

what you can’t see is eternal what you

can see is temporal

so if my confidence is in

this that i can see

my confidence will crash it will fail

because this is not reliable

my own human strength is not reliable

it can’t be on any of those things it

can’t be on human talent or skill

it has to be on something that is

outside of that

that brings influence a miracle comes

i’ve watched so many times

where a miracle comes it’s hard to

explain

but it’s in the unseen and i see a

problem

and the miracle just through faith gets

released into that situation

i’ve watched it change before my eyes

i’ve

seen it i’ve seen it happen i’ve seen

where bones are missing and they grow

i’ve seen bones that were deformed and

they dissolved

i’ve watched it i’ve watched it where

there’s absolute 100

deafness and all of a sudden they hear

it was in the unseen but it was released

into the visible into something that was

inferior

in something was damaged or destroyed or

afflicted or whatever it might be

it’s it’s that connection of the

believer between the unseen world

and the visible world and i come as a

representative and that’s why we don’t

beg god for the miracle he’s already

decided to do it

we’re just learning to cooperate with

the way he moves the way he works

the way he thinks

i’m so thankful for the lord’s prayer

that he taught us to pray our father who

art in heaven hallowed be your name

your kingdom come your will be done on

earth and as

it is in heaven the rest of the prayer

give us this days all petition prayer

but that those two statements can be

translated like this

will of god be done

kingdom of god come

they are decrees it’s a part of the

prayer life

the prayer life has woven into it the

responsibility

to take the heart and mind of god and

proclaim it into a given situation

the worlds were made out of him speaking

that’s why he wants us to talk

but talk as a yielded vessel to him

because then it’s not just good ideas

being declared into a situation it’s not

just positive the power of positive

thinking

which if that’s all you have don’t lose

it

you’re depressing otherwise

just felt good to say i don’t know why

so he says this kind only comes out with

prayer

and with fasting

do you know what he’s telling him he’s

saying listen

the way to deal with unbelief

is put your attention on that which is

eternal

there’s something about prayer i i don’t

understand this and i find it

i i find that when i need this kind of

praying the most is what i want to do at

the least

and it’s the prayer that is beyond words

it’s the prayer that’s beyond words

sometimes it’s praying in the spirit

praying

in tongues sometimes it’s literally just

being engaged with the presence of god

with a groaning that’s too deep for

words

there are no words for what i feel but

i’m not going to leave this engagement

i’m not going to leave this moment it’s

a face-to-face moment

i’m not manipulating controlling god

i simply want to be shaped by him

i want my heart to reflect his heart i

want my words to reflect his words

and there’s these moments where he’s

just saying listen

the problem isn’t the demon the problem

is unbelief

and the antidote learn to pray

beyond convenience and be willing to

skip a meal

to anchor into what you can’t see why

because that’s where your authority

functions from

typically what gets done

is

creating all kinds of bad theology

to explain why something didn’t happen

picture this today if this were today

and we’re the disciples we try to get

the child free

child doesn’t get free and there’s no

jesus in the flesh to bring deliverance

what do we do at the end of the day

well most places it’s well god works in

mysterious ways

we know that god is able to use this i’m

sure what he’s doing is trying to really

increase the level of devotion to christ

and the prayer effort of this household

wow

instead of saying there’s too many seeds

planted in my garden

i’ve got too many options i’ve got too

many other things to think too many

other things to believe

because according to jesus’s example on

the size of faith

it doesn’t take this big of faith to

move something as large

as a mountain it just takes this kind of

faith

so when jesus talks about great faith

greater faith

i don’t know that he’s talking about

greater and a sense of size

i think he’s describing whether or not

that faith

is by itself

it’s the only seed in the garden

the only seed in the garden

that’s why it’s great it’s impact its

significance it’s

mountain moving weightiness

is not in its size it’s in its quality

it’s in its ability to stand by itself

i’ve been actually in my own personal

prayer time

been asking the lord talking to the lord

about this thing of authority because i

i became aware uh several months ago

maybe six eight months ago

maybe a little longer that i was i was

so much stronger

in being able to move in power than i

was to move in authority

and i don’t mean to imply i don’t move

an authority i i feel like i do but

but i could tell if if you could have

power and authority i got one leg that’s

a lot longer than the other one

and i want to be able to walk a way that

represents him

well in any situation and some

situations

require power but some power won’t fix

it

sometimes it’s knowing who he is

knowing who you are unashamedly

taking your position in your posture and

expelling

that influence that is wreaking havoc on

a household

on a city on a situation

and i pray that in this next season

every one of us would see

just personal breakthroughs family

breakthroughs

corporate breakthroughs where this to me

it’s a mystery may be clear to you but

to me it’s a mystery

that this mystery would become clear

that there would be something

more deeply rooted in who he made me to

be

that knows how to operate in both power

and authority

because i feel like we need i know i do

i know i’m in a situation right now

where it’s an issue of authority

and i have had plenty of occasion

to uh do the guilt shame thing

but but i i danced with that partner

years ago and it just wasn’t any fun

i learned a long time ago hopefully i’ll

remember

that that one is is not any fun and not

rewarding at all

it gives such a false sense of

spirituality

it’s not authentic it’s not real so for

me

staying connected to the presence of god

the peace of god the heart of god

living simply

what i don’t need is overexposure

to things outside of my call

busyness artificial significance

i don’t need that because i know my

temptation

is i’m a responsible person and i will

start taking responsible for things

he didn’t say i was responsible for

and those very things become the cares

of this world

that compete for the nutrient of the

seed

so i pray for that for you i pray that

the lord would give us a wisdom and a

grace

for this next season a wisdom and grace

that knows the difference

between god’s assignment and what just

looks appealing

i pray that the lord would put a spirit

of wisdom and revelation on us as a

people

to know the difference between

authority and power

to help us to know the difference to

recognize when he spotlights

attitudes simplest things i’ve been

asking god

i’ve been seeing the connection between

certain kinds of infirmities

and ways of thinking i’ve been asking

the lord point that out to me

when it starts me because i don’t i

don’t want to let that thing grow i’m

not even aware of it

and these last two weeks i’ve been

seeing so many things

it just it’ll remind me of a of an

experience i had 30 years ago and i go

oh yeah i released that person from all

judgment

i refuse to come to a conclusion that

would indict them

it’s not my job i release them from that

i pray the blessing of the lord

and it just means throughout the day

i’ve got stuff just popping up

all day long because i want to make sure

i want to do what jesus did he said

satan has nothing in me there was

zero attachment there was not one

thought or idea

in his head that somehow had its origin

in the mind of the enemy

i pray that for you and i especially

pray that for me

father help us in this season to come

into

a level of authority that we’ve not

known before

and a true level of effectiveness that

has been outside of our reach

help us to never be the people that

create a theology to allow a problem to

exist

instead i pray that we would learn to

take you aside

and find out why

i i feel like i feel like i need to take

about 30 seconds for something

there’s this kind of praying it’s the

groaning that’s beyond words

it’s not a show it’s just

all i know is to say as you get into

this time into the presence of the lord

where all you have you don’t have words

you don’t have a song you just have that

deep deep moving the heart that just

that’s all you got that’s all you got

don’t leave it because it doesn’t make

sense

stay locked in do what like chris said

earlier you pray till the burden lifts

you stay there you may go into a song

you may go into a scripture you may go

into that but don’t be quick to leave

those moments

of engagement where you just stop and

you just say

no this must

move this that has been set against

my household or my family or my friend

this must move

complacency does not demonstrate the

kingdom

you’ve got two ways of progressing in

the kingdom the violence of faith

and receiving as a child both are

positions of extraordinary strength

one is authority the other is realized

identity

where you receive inheritance and i pray

this next season

that you make these two things

increase in our thinking in our

influence i pray in jesus name

amen one more thing one more thing

i want to know if there’s anybody here

that has never

you don’t have a personal relationship

with jesus you don’t know what it is to

be forgiven

you don’t know what it is to truly be a

disciple and who follows him

you’re one who would say bill i don’t

want to leave the building until i know

what it is

to have peace with god to be forgiven by

god but also to be truly a disciple

one who follows jesus if that’s anybody

in the room

anybody online and by the way i forgot

to welcome all of our online family i

bless you

anyone online anyone in the room just

put a hand up and just say bill that’s

me

i don’t want to leave the room until i

know what it is to be born again

that i know what it is right over here

wonderful yes

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anyone else real quickly those who are

online

please put in the chat box we’ve got

pastors on there ready to talk and to

pray with you

take advantage of this moment we have so

many people come to christ

online i want to encourage you please

respond to this i want to have everybody

stand i’m going to ask for the

two gentlemen that raise your hands over

here

maybe if yeah if come on down here maybe

if you brought them

as a friend come with them come on down

to the front and i need to have a couple

of our guys

come on over here yeah bless them as

they come down

we want them to leave with the entire

package today yes

absolutely filled with the spirit of god

touched so powerfully

others in this room there is somebody

else in here that needs to join him

there’s there’s there’s at least one

more person

i’m going to encourage you get out of

your seat right now and get down and

this group of people will love you pray

for you

and serve you in a way that will change

the rest of your life

but i’m going to ask you just to get out

right now

church just pray for that pray for that

pray for those who are even online

it’s just it’s not a day to be doing

your own thing

it’s a day to be found in the safety of

following jesus

amen i bless you i’m so glad happy to

see you tom wrap this up

thank you