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
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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