Bill Johnson talks about the people God chooses to fulfill His plans in the earth. While we look at the most qualified to achieve a purpose, God often chooses the least qualified. Teaching from Isaiah 61, Bill Johnson shares God’s strategy for restoration and reformation in the earth. It’s God’s plan to take the most broken and have them be the ones to build His Kingdom. Our willingness to say yes to God and our dependency on Him is what qualifies us. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: Isaiah 61 Hebrews 11: 10 Psalm 107: 20 Luke 2: 14 John 4 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on September 7, 2014.
the least qualified person was qualified
by grace and in a moment she went from
the immoral woman with a horrible
reputation to an evangelist that brought
an entire city to faith in
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Christ nice to see
you wow wow wow how many of you were at
Holy Ghost that’s
night if you were not there it is still
available streaming online at bethl TV
so go there W just trust me just watch
it watch it watch it
Darren thanks Darren Wilson Janelle’s
wonderful wife and the whole the whole
team why all of you that are here for
the uh premiere of Holy Ghost why don’t
you stand and uh let family why don’t
you bless them welcome them
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beautiful beautiful Let It Go
thanks
beautiful we we’re so so thankful for uh
how God is using um the films that
Darren produced how many of you have
seen Finger of God yeah almost everyone
Furious
Love Father of
Lights Holy
Ghost hands just keep going up I love it
so fun and thanks so much and Todd White
good to have you here Brian great to
have you here it’s just fun and the
whole team thanks for showing up so we
had such a fun time yesterday it’s a
real honor that they give us to host
this kind of an event here in reading
and uh a whole bunch of you thought the
same and showed up and it was wonderful
and uh so anyway thank you thanks thanks
for making films that make us think and
oh in fact i’ just like to sit down and
show the whole film right now that’s
really what I’d like to do but but we
don’t have time so uh but I do want to
encourage you on that one that’s uh
that’s a real really powerful powerful
film um we’ve got a testimony where’s
the mic where’s where’s the why don’t
you give it to me why don’t you come on
up here we’ve got a wonderful testimony
I was in Denver goodness how long ago
how long ago about a year and a half
year and a half or so ago yeah Randy
Clark is a healing school and uh we
we’re going to pray for some folks with
issues here in just a heartbeat but I
wanted you to hear a real really cool
testimony first on how God healed this
tiny
[Laughter]
person I I I want you to know in heaven
I I will impress you with my
size former NFL player had injury tell
us what Jesus did yes I I played several
years in the NFL and I was a middle
linebacker so basically my head was used
as a weapon uh regularly and often and
uh after retiring from
football after retiring from football uh
I was at times and regularly plagued
with depression suicidal thinking uh
pastor of Church in Denver and and even
as a as a leader uh the shame that came
with at times was getting hit by
overwhelming uh anxiety depression and
suicidal thinking uh when Bill was there
and the team was there you were you were
praying and did an altar call and I as I
was sitting there my head felt like it
was on fire I felt like I needed to go
run and put it in a bucket of water
somewhere and it was like shards of
glass almost being pulled out of my my
very head and uh I got I got instantly
healed I Know It And from that point on
um
yeah and we’ve seen a a shift in our
region in some of those Dimensions as
well but but personally uh just being
able to wake up free from that weight
and that fear and that heaviness and now
he’s uh as as we know when you get
delivered now we pray for people with
head trauma brain injuries learning
disabilities and we’ve seen God do some
just amazing Miracles so thank you so
much for your faithfulness in Jes we
just thank him so much what you
described the pain there in Denver I
remember when I first got the testimony
you described the pain that you lived
with what was it like just describe what
you felt on a daily basis on a daily
basis definitely a weekly basis I would
just get hit with uh shame
discouragement and really suicidal
thinking in such a way that it would uh
I knew how to fight but there comes that
point when you get wore down and you get
beat down enough that you kind of
Retreat and then the effects upon your
family and I got an unbelievable wife
and I’m just so grateful that that that
has lifted off the entire family and uh
that weight and that heaviness and that
depression comes at at strategic times
and to see that lifted has been just a
miracle of in the grace of God thank you
Lord Jesus wonderful than thank you for
doing that thank you beautiful
wow wow wow wow anyone in pain you know
what let’s just go wholesale anyone in
pain stand up anyone in pain let’s bring
an end to it now we’re going to pray and
go to the root cause of it doesn’t
matter what it is if it’s an old injury
if you played in the NFL and you used
your head as a weapon doesn’t matter
what it is if uh you are qualified
because of the grace of God for a
miracle not someday but right now right
now the Lord is going to release a
creative miracle for some of you in the
spine there’s damage in the spine where
there’s degenerative conditions in spine
in joints hip joints Etc where there is
a Decay uh there’s debilitating uh pain
as a result the Lord is uh healing you
even even right now so uh uh there’s
also someone here that has had uh an
ongoing uh a popping I guess in the left
ear just an ongoing issue with the left
ear if that makes sense to you stand up
because this is your moment as well all
right this is your day all right Church
you guys know what to do these folks
need a Miracle you have the authority to
give it to him so stand next to him find
out where it hurts the cause and let’s
go after it right
now you don’t need a long
interview just real
brief the authority of the name Jesus we
declare this
ends
today this ends today the cycle of
torment and pain ends
today shame is connected to some of
these folks that are
standing and in light of the testimony
we just had break off shame the
depression the things that come because
of sustained uh issues in the body we
just break that off in Jesus name
if it’s any kind of head trauma I want
you to lift it off their head as though
it was something you could see is so
something you could grab hold of just
lift it off declare over them
prophetically it ends today in Jesus
name if you can’t reach someone just
extend your hand be a part of the
miracle just be a part of the miracle
just be praying for someone at a
distance thank you Lord we invite you
Holy Spirit to exaggerate the healing
presence and power of God just to
increase for breakthrough now for the
glory of the name
Jesus inside of the left knee pain is
dissolving in Jesus
name cartilage damage in the right knee
Bend right now bend it now watch What
the Lord Has
Done we declare healing over that in
Jesus
name all
right all right
everyone that just receive prayer check
yourself out really really
good really
good anyone who just got healed all the
pain is gone symptoms are gone wave both
hands over your head for about 10
seconds
Church look around you let’s give thanks
to the Lord over here there there there
back over here some more here and there
all
right how many of you couldn’t say the
pain is gone but there’s Improvement put
your hands up wave your hands yep bless
the Lord for
that we thank you Lord we just pray
right now for a completion of what
you’ve started we just declare that in
the mighty might name of Jesus a
completion of what’s been
started thanks Lord amen go ahead and
sit
down I want you to open your Bibles
Isaiah
61 Isaiah chapter
61
I think I could honestly say the three
most important chapters in my life in
the last 40 some years have been Isaiah
6061 and
62 they’ve shaped my thinking my value
system I had an encounter with the Lord
in May of 1979 Thursday afternoon
um over the 60th chapter of Isaiah we’ll
not get into that now it’s not important
I’ve done it before it’s not necessary
today but Isaiah 61 starts with a
portion of scripture that Jesus
quoted at literally the beginning of of
his ministry now think about this before
Jesus has multiplied food healed the
sick raised the dead done anything he
stands in front of Israel in front of a
group of people and he makes a
pronouncement he says the spirit of the
Lord God is upon me and then he tells
why he makes a confession of faith of
what the father was going to do in and
through him because the spirit of God
was on him now the holy spirit is what
qualifies us for the
impossible one person and the Holy
Spirit equals no
impossibilities the holy spirit is what
qualifies us not only qualifies us but
in a sense urges us or commissions us
into the realm of the impossible Jesus
models this for us he is eternally God
never stopped being God but he took a
season of time on planet Earth where he
lived as a man dependent on God to work
through him as a human being and this
announcement we’re going to read Isaiah
61:1 the spirit of the Lord God is upon
me because the Lord has anointed me to
preach good tidings to the poor he has
sent me to heal the brokenhearted to
Proclaim Liberty to captives the opening
of the prison to those who are bound to
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord
the day of Vengeance of our God to
comfort all who mourn to console those
who mourn in Zion to give them Beauty
for Ashes the oil of joy for mourning
the Garment of Praise for the spirit of
heaviness that they may be called Trees
of Righteousness the planting of the
Lord that he may be glorified all right
we’re going to read on but just hold
hold on for a moment Jesus makes this
announcement about his Target his Target
is to broken people it’s to shattered
Minds it’s to broken people that are
depressed overwhelmed by life people
that are diseased Afflicted you name it
any kind of Brokenness is his Target at
one point in his ministry he was talking
to a crowd in the crowd was a group of
Pharisees and he announced to them that
only the sick need a physician what he
was doing was saying I am here as the
physician but unless you realize your
need for healing I have no value to you
there’s nothing in other words the the
Pharisees were the most diseased people
in the crowd but their unwillingness to
recognize their need disqualified them
for the
miracle
when Jesus came to John the Baptist to
be baptized in water John knew he was
not qualified to baptize the Son of God
he wasn’t qualified to untie his
shoes but somehow realizing he wasn’t
qualified is what qualified
him listen listen to the the the
patterns of thought for the kingdom the
Lamb of God will be seated on the throne
for eternity why because we can never
forget the
cross there’ll never be a moment in a
100 billion years from now where we lose
the gratefulness for the offering of the
Lamb of God and if it is
that that reality exists in eternity
then how much more are we to maintain
that sense of gratefulness for what he
has done because what happens is we
develop an artificial
maturity and that artificial maturity
becomes big in Concepts big in thoughts
low in experience and low in
gratefulness and when there’s no
gratefulness there’s no
dependency and so the Lord is raising up
a group of people that never lose touch
with the reality of the
Cross what happens in this passage Jesus
prophesies his intent and in this intent
he says the broken are going to be
healed the shattered minds are going to
be restored I love the statement Beauty
for Ashes God is the god who invented
Beauty and not only did he invent
Beauty Holiness is
beautiful and as the Lord restores our
understanding on what Holiness is we
will be infat uated with the beauty of
Holiness and pursue it with every breath
every part of our
being in this little outline of ministry
that he gives he says I’m going to give
Beauty for Ashes recovery of sight to
the blind I’m going to uh the
Brokenhearted I’m going to heal I’m
going to me what he comes to this
conclusion he says all these broken
people are going to become
Trees of Righteousness in other words
the instable the unstable are going to
be stable the insecure are going to be
secure the shattered are going to be
restored some translations actually say
not just Trees of Righteousness but Oaks
of
righteousness uh in
Weaverville uh we our only our only
source of heat was wood heat and we
would often Drive the roads of the
mountains up there and what they would
do is they would go in and they would
clear Timber out of an area they would
cut these roads into the hillsides and
and if it was 20 30 years ago then uh
trees would grow in the in the roadway
and and whenever we were going looking
for wood or for those animals that have
horns on their
head I of course I was on a photo
Safari that’s not
true I was building
memories I was was allowing these
animals to sustain
Revival by fueling the
revivalists somebody gave me a t-shirt
here two weeks three three weeks ago
they
said if God didn’t want us to hunt he
would have made broccoli or didn’t want
us to hunt animals he would have made
broccoli more fun to shoot at
yeah that seems prophetic to me anyway
so we’re driving on these mountain roads
and whenever we saw a pine tree this
like this big round we literally just
drive over it cuz the pine tree would
just bend we’d get past we’d go get the
wood that we needed or them animals and
then we’d come back out and there was no
damage to the tree it just bent but
whenever we saw an oak tree like that
that’ll hurt your car those things are
so strong and so so St I remember the
first time coming up it it won’t it
didn’t do what the last tree did you
know and here the Lord is saying the
most broken among you are going to be
not trees that are stable but they are
going to be Trees of Righteousness in
other words the very thing they were
weakest in they will become the
strongest
in Grace moves you from
great weakness and failure to great
strength and great sustainable success
for the Long
Haul and that is good news now we’re
going to read on because this is only
the beginning of the story verse four it
says and they will rebuild old
ruins they will raise up the former
desolations they will repair ruined
cities desolations of many generations
who is
they they In this passage are the
broken now how many of you before Jesus
changed your life for one of the broken
ones all right that’s that’s us all
right
this tells us the purpose for every
redeemed life every person in this room
every person that has experienced that
healing touch the Forgiveness of God the
restorative Grace that impartation of
presence and the adoption into the
family of God has a purpose you have
been drafted into an army that is to
rebuild
cities
now rebuild cities we’re not talking you
remember Abraham says was looking for a
city whose Builder and maker was God I I
don’t believe he’s looking for a city
with lots of houses and buildings and
stores he’s looking for something that
is culturized by Heaven itself is
actually influenced and shaped by a
value system of another world that
becomes superimposed over this one until
this city actually mirrors the design of
God for heaven
itself when when Jesus came there was an
announcement I want you to think about
this there was an Ann announcement that
said glory to God in the
highest and on
Earth peace and Good Will towards
men
when can you imagine him
saying here’s the Messiah glory to God
in the highest and on Earth peace Good
Will towards men but don’t get your
hopes up several thousand years
away just just wanted you to know what
we’re going to do
eventually so this this really isn’t
even for you don’t know why I’m telling
you it’s going to be for your
descendants your descendant no it was
given because it became possible when it
was
declared the power is always in the
declared word and he sent his word and
healed them that’s where the power is is
in the in the word of God that’s where
the nature the DNA of God himself is in
the very word he
speaks glory to God in the highest and
on Earth there’s parallel worlds this
world affected by what’s going on in
that world in other words on
Earth as it is in
heaven this is I think a profound
chapter we covered this a while back uh
when we I I did this series here for
nine weeks on wisdom and the the nature
of Solomon’s wisdom for transformational
impact on society all right and talked
about this then but here’s here’s the
deal that I I want to I want to bring to
our attention to this
morning the
key to restored
cities is found in how we value broken
people
the poorest of the
poor are to become the richest in the
things of God to lead the restructuring
and rebuilding of cities the lord gave
me a word years ago that he was going to
take the ones rejected by the elite and
give them such an anointing and
breakthrough that the elite would
actually feed from the rejected to get
personally restored
this word is so profound because Jesus
says this anointing qualifies me to do
this to you and this to you is
restoration of the most broken
impossible situations imaginable but it
doesn’t end there those folks become the
builders I was I was thinking this
morning actually
about sometimes the way uh new Believers
or somebody with a problem or issue as a
new believer sometimes how they’re
valued or how they’re treated in life um
I i’ I’ve seen it in various places to
be honest I don’t I don’t see it here
but I I uh I I chuckle
sometimes the way instant maturity is
expected what would happen if we had a
little 9-month child 9-month-old who
stood up and and he’s standing and he
wants to walk as bad as can
be and he fell
what happens if Church
leadership treated that
child the way many new Believers are
treated well I I don’t I really don’t
think he has a heart to walk I don’t I
don’t know I I don’t think I really
don’t think it’s his desire I don’t
think it’s in him I think there’s some
flaws and uh I don’t know another guy
says I I just I think he needs to study
the word more I think if he if he just
studied the word I mean we can do all
things through Christ who strengthens us
it’s obvious he doesn’t believe that he
just needs to get he doesn’t know his
Bible if he knew his Bible he’d be
walking another guy says I think the
issue is Faith I mean it says we walk by
faith not by sight if if if he really
knew what was going on here he would he
would be walking for sure and someone
else says I don’t know I’m I’m
Discerning a generational issue
here I’ll bet his parents fell in fact
I’ll bet you his grandparents fell I
think there’s I think there’s cycle here
we need to break this thing because I’ll
tell you if we don’t break this thing
this kid is this kid’s got he’s going to
live with a lifetime of issues and
someone else says I I think it’s a demon
in fact yep it’s
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a
it’s it’s definitely a
demon you know it’s it’s silly when you
when you put it in that
context the the kid that that has this
insatiable desire to learn to grow to
advance models childlikeness for the
entire
church and we would never treat a baby
that way a young child that way instead
what does the child need to walk he
needs he needs the parent that grabs the
hands and say all right walk walk and
then we let go and we say all right
follow follow dead come come to Daddy
and we back up the entire time there and
when they fall we we never curse the
fall we always
we celebrate the steps we we celebrate
the the progress we we count the steps
it was five steps today Grandma it’s
five steps today and that’s and that’s
the way it is and and it’s a different
kind of a kingdom because these people
that were so shattered that couldn’t
function socially the ones that have
been so tormented through abusive past
or it doesn’t matter what it is are so
beat up by religion it doesn’t matter if
it’s the goody goody sin or the
dark horrible sin doesn’t matter
everyone needs Jesus and that
restorative process doesn’t always
happen in a day and we need
some moms and dads that will take the
fingers and hands and say all right two
more steps two more steps you you never
write in the
journal he to took three steps and
fell you’re right he took three steps
because the fall is insignificant I’m
not talking moral failure I’m talking
about just the process of Life Learning
to carry this thing that God has given
us why because there’s a destiny that
kid that took two steps today is a
Rebuilder of Ruin
cities and you we we see we think we
pray we live with this Burning
conviction I’m raising a world changer
and it’s not just the children in my
home and my grandchildren it’s the
people that I run into it’s the people
that I do life with World Changers city
builders City
restorers I want you to look at the
passage of scripture in John chapter 4
it’s a wonderful wonderful story at the
the woman at the
well and the greatest Revelation in just
my opinion but the greatest Revelation
in the Bible on the worship is in this
chapter and right after this incredible
Revelation on worship is the what I
consider to be the greatest Revelation
on
evangelism lift up your eyes round about
and
seea the Harvest is white Under Harvest
uh they’re all harvestable now and this
is great Revelation on the Harvest being
prepared right now and it followed the
greatest Revelation on worship and I
just don’t think it’s an accident
because evangelism in its greatest form
purest form is an overflow of worship
and here the Lord has this conversation
with the lady I want to set the stage
for you Jesus has told his disciples to
not minister to the Samaritans it’s not
because he doesn’t love Samaritans it
was because he was given a period of
time in which he was to minister to the
Jews and in their re their rejection he
would be crucified after the crucifixion
the gospel is for everyone so this is
before the crucifixion this is before
the rejection he tells us his disciples
do not minister to the Samaritans to the
Gentiles so Jesus is sitting at a well
and he sees a woman sitting there and he
begins dialoguing with her begins to
talk with her in fact he says you know
if you knew who was who was sitting here
next to you you’d be asking me for a
drink and opens this the disciples walk
up and see him talking they’re they’re
stunned because number one he’s talking
to a woman and a great religious leader
like this shouldn’t be number two he’s
talking to a a
Samaritan he’s got this interaction
going on because he
felt the pleasure of the Lord over this
woman now listen when we try to live by
principle we try to always do what’s
best for people but when you live by the
presence you discover the pleasure of
the Lord for people and you Delight in
their experience or in what God is
working and doing in
them the pleasure of the Lord is
different you feel the pleasure of the
Lord over people and it it takes care of
all all the things that you and I would
be deficient in in Ministry to people
because you never have to
be burdened enough qualified enough
gifted enough because you’re not
partnering with the one who is all those
things and
more living from the presence is the
solution to every Ministry
situation all
right all right now let’s read this
story verse
22 excuse me verse 23 the hour is coming
and now is when true worshippers will
worship the father in spirit and in
truth for the father is seeking such to
worship him God is Spirit those who
worship Him must Worship in spirit and
in truth all right just stop right there
for a
moment God looks for worship
no he looks for worshippers why because
God as love always chooses the best and
we always become like whatever we
worship and so God could want nothing
better for you and me than for us to be
worshippers why because we become like
the one we worship and so out of love he
looks for us to step into our place in
position of
worship all right so those who worship
must worship in spirit and in truth in
spirit number one directed led by the
Holy Spirit In Truth means nothing
hidden it means our life is an open book
in worship good bad ugly everything as
we involve everything as an offering to
the Lord the good days the bad days does
not matter because it’s never determined
by how I feel it’s determined by who he
is worth worship is our response to his
worth all right so here is this word
that he gives to the woman at the well
all right he says um in verse uh excuse
me we’ll jump all the way down to verse
39 many of the Samaritans if I can just
tell you what happened she goes back to
her town and tells everybody what Jesus
said all right verse 39 many of the
Samaritans of that City believed in him
because of the word of the woman who
testified he told me all that I ever did
so when the Samaritans had come to him
they urged him to stay with them and he
stayed there two days and many more
believed because of his own word what’s
happening here these hungry Samaritans
that are not qualified for what Jesus is
speaking Jesus is speaking at a moment
that his Old Testament they are supposed
to wait till the New
Covenant but their hunger change the
season hunger enables people to pull
into their day what was actually
reserved for another day we see this
countless times through the scripture so
here is a season shift and Jesus stays
there two days even though he told his
disciples don’t do
this why because in God’s sovereignty he
wrote you and me into the equation so
that we actually have influence by our
life our offering our cries our hunger
our thirst these things actually have
effect on the unfolding of Divine
Events all right verse 41 again and many
more believed because of his own word
verse 42 our last verse then they said
to the woman now we believe not because
of what you said for we ourselves have
heard him and we know that this is
indeed the Christ the savior of the
world all right what happened
here this woman has
issues she’s had many
husbands she’s living with a man now she
is an immoral woman up to this moment
that God speaks to her and Jesus speaks
to this most unqualified woman given her
the greatest Revelation on worship and
evangelism in the Bible gives it to this
unqualified
person you would think he would would
give this Revelation to
Paul or
someone but instead he gives it to the
least
qualified because that’s often the
person that is going to be the most
grateful we too often think it’s human
Talent training years of experience I’ve
been praying for 20 years those things
that qualifies for the things of God in
intentionally have a spirit of
entitlement that comes to our life as
Believers and entitlement gives the
spirit of poverty at
home entitlement is what
creates a thankless environment for
believers entitlement is what gives
place to
self-promotion self-promotion comes
where there’s entitlement why because
self-promotion says I’m I’m going to
make sure that I get what’s coming to me
no one else will do it I’ll make sure it
comes to me the problem with
self-promotion is it’s like a tire that
you have to keep
inflated and it’s got a leak and you
have to constantly Pump It Up to keep it
alive when it’s God’s promotion he
sustains it when it’s your promotion you
have to sustain it and it’s
exhausting amen amen that was that was a
good point
that’s was a good
point what happened here the least
qualified
person was qualified by
grace and in a moment she went from the
immoral woman with a horrible reputation
to an evangelist that brought an entire
city to faith in
Christ the beginning stages of a builder
a builder a builder of cities a builder
of ruined
places I remember years ago I remember
facing this as a as a a pastor just uh
probably two or three years into it and
I remember being challenged with a
thought that when I ministered to people
that were that were born again this is
going to sound silly maybe but when I
ministered to
Believers that I needed to approach them
believing they were
saved now what does that mean translate
that means if a person is truly born
again they are born again from the
inside out their heart of hearts has
been changed and they have a god birth
desire for the will of God anyone who’s
truly been born again at their core the
center of their being has a desire to
serve and to please God that’s what
being born again means is it changes us
from the inside
out and so at our at our early early in
in Pastor Ministry I began to when I
when I’d have a couple that were having
uh marital problems or whatever issue
was going on I would always speak to
people believing in their
conversion and speaking to their
Devotion to please God with everything
they are when you don’t believe that if
as a leader if I don’t believe that then
what I’m going to do is I’m going to
treat you with control and with judgment
to keep you motivated to serve
God I’m going to use Scare Tactics I’m
going to limit your your Liberties your
freedoms to to uh discover the will of
God and to present him as you are gifted
and called to do I’m going to do all
kinds of things that narrow down your
capacity to function according to what I
think is God’s will for your life and
that control is frequently justified by
people who don’t believe that in the
Heart of Heart somebody wants to do the
will of
God Jesus just treated people
different and we we know that I guess
it’s easy to say but he just did he just
he just took 12 extremely unqualified
guys and sent them out to preach the
gospel I mean he didn’t wait till he was
like through after three and a half
years he didn’t wait till he put him
through his discipleship training class
he just put him to work immediately just
say it’s time to get to work I I
remember one of our young men prophesied
at Barnes & Noble prophesied over a
couple witches and and and they got
saved and um and delivered all in Barnes
& Noble which is a great you know if you
can’t have Revival there we you going to
have
it he he brought Deliverance to him and
it it was just marvelous they got set
free from the torment and all the stuff
and he’s sitting there at the table the
having coffee U ministering to these two
witches and ex- witches now as as of
several
minutes and then he he he’s he’s
surprised he would have surprised all of
us he said all right now you give me a
word
see a lot of Christians are afraid to
get
contaminated because you know how
powerful the devil
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is I have yet to see Darkness swallow
light so he turned to these two and he
said he said all right you know I I
don’t know how he worded it you know
you’ve been saved five minutes he said
now prophesy to me and they looked at
him and they thought well this is all
they know of the Christian Life this is
what you
do they have 5 minutes experiencing the
things of God the life has been changed
they were saved baptized in the Holy
Spirit delivered of the torment on their
life all within few minutes and they’re
sitting at the table and they began to
prophesy to him here’s the deal they
begin to quote scriptures they had never
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read sometimes our inability to enable
people to serve
him is governed
by our misconception of how big he is
on he said the broken will be beautiful
and they’ll restore cities
the mournful will
repa and they’ll restore
cities the tormented will be restored
they’ll rebuild cities every one of them
he had a destiny
everyone and here it comes to someone
out of time unqualified in many levels a
person not ready for a commission they
needed some training
and Jesus brought her a word that set
her free from the inside out she
believed and he brought she brought a
city into faith in
Christ I’m looking for every new
believer in this
room to take baby
steps I told you a couple months ago my
wife I’ve been trying to get her to
drink coffee for 41 years
she has resisted me completely she’s a
Godly woman but she just had this one
problem and about two months ago she
discovered she liked this certain kind
of decaf coffee and I figure baby
steps baby
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steps I want every new believer in the
family to realize you have permission to
step step and sit down step step and sit
down because what we celebrate are the
steps we celebrate why because you’re
marching towards the privileged position
of rebuilding cities and I want everyone
else in a room to be the mom and the dad
that say all right two more steps you
took five today that’s awesome right
Grandma took five steps to be the person
that says come on you you can do more
you can do
more because we’ve we don’t have time to
play games to see who’s
qualified we we we are in in a season a
very measured time and it’s important
that we Empower we stay loyal we value
this tree of righteousness this holy
lifestyle but in that process we just
give people permission let’s just change
the world as long as we’re here all
right I just
understand
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all
right Eric’s going to be ministering
tonight it’s going to be
good always is
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good do you realize what would happen in
this city and now we got churches good
churches all over this town and I I feel
like we’re some of the richest people in
the planet because you almost can’t make
a mistake where you choose to go I mean
there’s just great pastors great leaders
great people with for a heart for God
all over our city all over this
region but if this were the only
church it isn’t if it was do you realize
what would happen in five years if all
you did was reproduce yourself once a
year it’s not about just how many people
attend church in a city that tells me
it’s
built the Rebuilders will rebuil a
different standard they’ve discovered
through God’s restorative process what
it takes to heal the culture of a city
until that culture mirrors the values
and the atmosphere of Heaven
and I believe God’s raising that up and
I believe God’s giving us an
opportunity to cheer on one another as
we involve ourselves in seeing a city
completely completely healed so father
that’s the cry I pray for that I pray
for that in the for the honor of the
name Jesus that there would actually be
peace on Earth and Good Will towards men
it would actually happen like in our
lifetime where you’ve given us place to
set down roots and have long lasting
influence I I pray for that I pray as
well for every new believer every person
never felt they had the chance to take
three steps and sit down never had the
chance to really learn how to do this
walk thing God that you you would bring
healing to those who got stung with
ignorant accusations on what caused them
to sit out God we just we celebrate
progress and I pray for every person in
this room to be engulfed in the
privilege of transformation I pray for
this in Jesus name amen amen