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Scripture References: Judges 6-8 Matthew 6: 24 Psalm 78 Lamentations 3: 21 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on November 5, 2023. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #Testimony #Remember
as I read over that again I remember I
cried the Lord heard me and he delivered
me from all my fears see it’s so it’s a
memorial stone they’re all through here
this book is a Diary of a history of a
journey of Walking with God and I cannot
afford to forget because if I forget the
enemy has many things he’d rather I
think
about nice to see
you thank you it’s good to be seen
saw this a week or two ago liked it I
was at the McDonald’s drive-thru this
morning young lady behind me leaned on
her horn started mouthing some ugly
things because I was taking too long to
place my order when I got to the first
window I paid for her order along with
my own the server must have told her
what I had done cuz as we moved up she
leaned out her window and and waved at
me began to mouth thank you thank you
probably feeling a bit embarrassed that
I had responded to her rudeness with
kindness when I got to the second window
I showed the server both receipts and I
took her food
too now she has to go back to the
beginning of the line and start all over
me
don’t honk your horn at old people was
the was the moral of that
story and I I had this in my Bible for a
long time I don’t think I ever read it
to
you so I got my concealed gun permit
yesterday now the first service cheered
so you guys are obviously no it’s it’s
it’s too late you you’re much more
politically correct
so I went to the local Bass Pro Shop to
get a small 9mm pistol for home home
[Applause]
protection when I was ready to pay for
the gun and bullets the cashier said
strip down facing
me making a mental note to complain to
the NRA about gun control whacko running
a muck I did just as she had instructed
when the hysterical shrieking and alarms
finally subsided I found out she was
referring to how I should place my
credit card in the card
reader
I’ve been asked to shop elsewhere in the
[Laughter]
future oh they need to make instructions
to seniors a little
clearer I still don’t think I look that
bad
so oh so funny all right um Book of
Judges chapter
6
Judges chapter 6 I’m going to talk to
you
um about uh about
Gideon and it’s it’s not so much a a
well it is it’s not so much a study just
on Gideon his life we I’ve done that
before it’s been years but I really
enjoy
reading almost all the Old Testament
stories and I really love the story of
Gideon he was a he he was he was afraid
he was a guy with very little sense of
self-worth at least that’s what it
appears he’s hiding in a a wheat press
or wine press beating out wheat which
it’s it’s hard to get the revelation of
wheat the word of God when God is
pouring out wine but that’s a another
subject many people still try to do it
when God serving wine drink when he’s
serving bread eat and uh and he knows
the seasons for his movements
and so he’s trying to beat out the wheat
and the wine press and um and the Lord
shows up and calls him Mighty Man of
Valor and he responds it’s amazing to me
that God could show up and you just have
that quick of an answer oh
yeah if God is with us and where are all
the Miracles that our father told us
about I mean how do you how do you carry
an offense so deeply and for so long
that you have an immediate answer to an
angel that shows up anyway so they uh he
has this dialogue there’s amazing thing
happens the Lord shows up there’s an
offering uh it’s it’s a pretty cool
scene then he starts doing what the Lord
said as far getting an army together so
he’s got he’s got enemy armies around
him that are just enormous in number and
he puts together an army of 32,000
soldiers and he and he goes to the
soldiers and he says the the Lord gives
him the first test he says everyone
who’s afraid just go home and so out of
32,000 2 2,000 go home so there’s 10,000
left how many know if if you’re in the
10,000 you want the second opportunity
to go home if you’re afraid because
two-thirds of your army just left you
know so they’re already way outnumbered
when they had 32,000 but now they’re
reduced to 10 and there was one more
test and this test was um was was
unrecognizable he just invited all the
guys to come and to and to drink so at
they’re at this pool and they drink and
all the soldiers who got on their hands
and knees and just got down into the
water and began to drink was 9700 of
them there was only 300 that took the
water brought it to their mouth while
they kept alert to their
surroundings so when God
reduced 32,000 down to 300 it wasn’t
just a reckless selection of 300 people
it was the 300 best it was it was the
group he could build on it often times
when the Lord reduces us here he reduces
us to our place of strength so what he’s
about to build next will have a
foundation that will last and that’s
what happened in this moment so he’s
reduced to the 300 the most alert
Fearless soldiers and they were the ones
that were equipped and ready for battle
it’s it’s it’s a strange uh battle
strategy that only Jesus could come up
with but he he puts them around this
camp and and they’ve got these pictures
and torches and they break it and and
the enemy just thinks they’re you know
going to die and they
do
but right before that the Lord speaks to
Gideon he says if you’re afraid go down
into the enemy’s
camp and he does wow it says he was
afraid all the soldiers that were afraid
got to go home leaders don’t get that
option you have to deal with your
stuff word and sometimes the way you
deal with your stuff is not going where
you think you should go to get
encouraged the enemy sends him to the
the Lord sends him to the enemy’s
Camp I remember uh years ago in waville
we actually had there was a period of
time where the Lord was doing so much in
a city that unbelievers would boast of
what God was
doing sometimes you actually hear the
confession or the proclamation of of
what God is doing that you maybe didn’t
know and you hear from those unexpected
Places I Remember way back when there
was there was a older couple in the
church here and the the the wife was a
strong believer the guy wanted nothing
to do with it and and stayed away but
the wife was very
devoted but where this guy worked there
was a person who worked there that knew
that he was the husband of a
Believer and he wanted to be born again
so he asked the unbelieving husband how
to get born again and he led him to the
Lord so you never know where the good
news is going to come from you just just
know it’s going to come just recognize
it when you hear it so here’s this
really a strange story that ends it ends
triumphantly and then there’s three
verses where there’s a tragedy and I
want to talk to you about that so we’re
going to work our way through the story
and let’s just see see where we get
chapter 6 we’re going to start with
verse um 10 I said to you I am the Lord
your God do not fear the gods of the
amorites in who whose land you dwell but
you have not obeyed my voice look at
that verse again I am the Lord your God
I told you don’t fear the gods of the
amorites in whose land you dwell but
you’ve not obeyed me so how was their
Disobedience evident okay now think with
me they are commanded Don’t Fear The
enemy’s Gods yeah got it how did they
how did they reveal that they feared the
enemy’s Gods because they worshiped the
enemy’s
Gods what you fear will always affect
what you
Worship the Lord works hard to deal with
the issues of fear in all of our Lives
because it affects and infects dilutes
if you will the authentic Heart of
Worship that we had for the
Lord
Matthew 21 talks about or I forget the
chapter I think 22 but any it’s in
Matthew it’s in the last half how’s
that the the Lord says it talks about
Mammon Mammon is a is a I believe to be
a demonic being that works to influence
the economies of the world and God so he
says you can’t serve God and
Mammon and then he uses this
illustration he says either you will
love the one hate the other or you will
hold to the one and despise the other so
for those those who are devoted to
Christ you love the one and you hate the
spirit that steals and kills and
destroys that Spirit of Mammon that
works to ruin people’s lives but then he
reverses it he says now for those of you
who are devoted to Mammon you hold to
the
one fear being broke it’s affecting
worship you hold to the one and you
despise anytime finances are brought up
in
church
to
fear always affects or infects worship
if I have the fear of man in my heart I
am bowing to the opinions of others
before I make a
decision if I fear some sort of tragedy
I will constantly live in reaction to
things the Proverbs talks about the
sudden fear that comes in the
night and all of us have been given a
reason to never fear again and yet all
of us deal with it right one time or
another so it’s just it’s owning up to
that that what the enemy is trying to do
he’s trying to infect my adoration my
affection for him and it’s affected by
fear so the Lord shows up and speaks to
Gideon and he says um it says verse 12
he says the angel of the Lord appeared
to him and said the Lord is with you you
mighty man of Valor Gideon said to him
oh my Lord if the Lord is with us why
then all this happened to us where are
all his miracles which I wish more
Believers
would say that
one yeah I I I still
do thank you thank you got a better
response out of that
screen the presence of God is is the is
the manifested presence of the Lord is
the Tipping Point for the
miraculous and he reveals himself to to
be with people because they’ve been
we’ve been given an impossible
assignment he said to Moses I’ll be with
you why did he do that because he had to
lead Israel out of Egypt into the
promised land he tells Gideon same thing
all through scripture every time you
manifest themselves because it’s
connected to an impossible
assignment so the manifestation of the
spirit of God upon us is the position us
to to see things bow their knee for the
name Jesus amen yes
I want you to move on in this chapter he
says way over in chapter 7 it says um if
you are afraid to go down go down to the
camp with purra your servant you will
hear what they say and afterward your
hands will be strengthened to go down
against the camp so he went down with
per servant to The Outpost of the Armed
men who were in the camp and this is
where they’re standing next to a tent
and they hear two guys inside the tent
talking about a dream one of of them had
a dream of a barley Loaf and the other
guy goes he has the interpretation says
that’s none other than Gideon so the
Lord had already been working on the
enemy’s Hearts if you will to cause them
to be nervous about a man who doesn’t
know who he
is
wow
brilliant he does he doesn’t get it yet
but the master Craftsman is at work
shaping him for his purpose and his
destiny
God likes to talk to us about where
we’re going not where we
are so when he speaks to Gideon as this
Mighty Man of Valor it’s the same thing
he did with Peter he called him a Rock
when he lived as a broken Reed he has
this habit of speaking into our lives
the things that are necessary to get us
into our destiny into our purpose so
here’s the thing that I that really
spoke to me this week when I was reading
through the story in my own my own
devotions is that we start with Gideon
going you know who am
I and we come all the way up here and
we’ve got in verse 18 of chapter 8 we
have
um Gideon speaks to zubba and zuno two
kings enemy Kings what kind of men were
they whom you killed at tabore and they
answered as you are so were they each
one resembled the son of a
king what had happened from chapter 6 to
chapter
8 is he finally stepped into his purpose
and as soon as he stepped into his
purpose his entire appearance shifted
into the appearance of the son of a
king it happens for every person in this
room I forgive me but I I tend to get a
little bit of annoy annoyed at people
who only volunteer to serve where they
think they’re good
yeah
you know I I I have my I remember my my
dad’s story I remember different
relatives of mine and different
missionaries and friends of ours that
we’ve known through the years and so
many of them have had these amazing
encounters with the Lord where he called
them into Ministry called them into
service I’ve never had that
experience I’ve never been called into
the
ministry my dad was a pastor here and
and they needed
help so I volunteered to teach the
Junior High boys they needed a
newsletter so I said I’d do
that needed a bookstore so I started a
bookstore don’t know anything about
business needed a single adult Pastor so
I volunteered to do that and did that
year after year just serving where I
could I had like eight responsibilities
six were administrative so you know
Divine humor is in is in is in place but
sometimes you need to serve where you’re
not good I mean why did God assign Paul
the
Jewish genius to minister to
Gentiles why did he take the rough cut
Peter and assign him to the Jews because
sometimes working outside of where
you’re good causes you to automatically
be more dependent on the Holy Spirit and
if I can learn to serve where I’m not
gifted well not only do gifts develop in
me but I become more trustworthy where I
am skilled because I develop this
lifestyle of
[Applause]
dependency so we come to the end of the
story and there’s so many things in here
while like verse four of chapter 8 says
Gideon came to the Jordan with 300 men
who were with him they crossed over
exhausted but still in Pursuit I think
New American Standard said weary yet
pursuing I love that
verse it comforts me
you know you may be a wounded soldier
but you keep fighting you may be tired
for whatever reason it may have been a
rough season you just keep marching
forward I may March slower but I’m going
in the same direction I may not swing
the sword as hard as I did last week but
I’m still swinging the sword the whole
point is is you don’t stop there it’s
it’s important to take rest it’s
important to take care of ourselves but
sometimes it’s a day or two before we
get to that right now I have to be weary
yet pursuing I still have to be in
pursuit of the very things for which I
was
assigned Gideon took on the appearance
of
royalty when he finally embraced his
assignment now let’s get to the reason I
have have us here talking over this
story today towards the end of chapter 8
we have three verses verse 33 is where
we’ll
start so it was as soon as G Ian was
dead that the children of Israel played
the Harlot with Bales and made Bale
Barth their God thus the children of
Israel did not remember the Lord their
God who had delivered them from the
hands of all their enemies on every side
nor did they show kindness to the house
of zerubabel that is Gideon in
accordance with the good that he had
done for Israel look at verse 34 again
thus the children of Israel did not
remember the Lord their
God
Jesus at one point with his his
disciples he’s got he’s giving them this
profound lesson on influence of values
in the mind or thought processes and
he’s talking about Herod and the
Pharisees and he’s giving a brilliant
lesson and they’re not they’re not
getting it at
all and and he had just multiplied food
he reminds them he’s reminding them in
this storyline about the multiplying
food and then he asked him this question
it’s in Mark 8 I think it’s verse 18 he
says he says can’t you see now Jesus is
talking about the
Unseen he’s not saying can’t you see the
boat we’re in he saying can’t you see
because he’s talking about realities
that they have no connection with but
they should they’ve seen enough of God’s
activities to be connected with what God
is doing but they’re not getting it so
he asked the question he says can’t you
see there’s no
answer can’t you
hear no answer
says can you
remember here’s the deal we tend to
think that seeing perceiving unseen
things hearing the voice of the lord we
attribute that to either maturity and or
spiritual
gifts remembering as a
choice there’s there
is there is the deliberate the
intentional grasping of past past events
as as markers along the way that reveal
to me who he is and it’s that
intentional pursuit of remembering that
keeps my heart calibrated to what God is
saying and doing and I’ve noticed that
for me is if I can if I can remember
I’ll be in a hard situation that things
just seem to be swirling and I I can’t
remember anything that God has done
which is just as stupid as can be and
then all of a sudden you just you just
determine to remember and then you work
your way back and you go oh yeah on that
day oh this happened I I remember right
here right right there a young gang
leader came to us from another city
dying of colon cancer he was he was
healed right there come on I remember
right over here missionary came four
diseases in her body they didn’t want to
let her out of the country because of
her health condition she snuck out the
Lord spoke to her and said if you get to
Beth I’ll heal you she was healed of one
disease on the way the other three over
here she was healed right over there
right over there one of them was Ms
right over there she was
healed right over here a woman paralyzed
56 years wow gets up out of the
wheelchair and walks her daughter who
never had a mom that could interact with
her is just sobbing because right there
she got out of the wheelchair right back
over here a woman who had broken her jaw
10 years earlier had very restricted
movement extreme
pain pop and her jaw is completely
healed right over here an Olympic
Athlete working out on a trampoline had
severed his foot from his leg only
attached by the Achilles tendon they are
reattached everything but he’s got
excruciating pain and a limited movement
some people gather around him he said
his ankle got cold he heard a pop and I
was healed I walk around this room is a
memorial stones God said to Israel when
you cross into the Promised Land go back
in the river get stones out of the river
and make a pile don’t cut them don’t
shape them just pile them because you
need tangible physical reminders of what
I’ve done and where I did it
at your home and my home they’re filled
with memorial
stones I
think I think we have a
responsibility to capture the
meaning of material things that God has
given to us
now I’m not saying accumulate material
things I’m
saying you had a desire for that
fountain pen and a relative gave you
one it’s a pen but it’s a memorial stone
God knew of this desire that was in my
heart and he honored it with such a nice
but insignificant thing maybe it was you
finally got a chance to buy the home
maybe I remember a time I could take you
through my house we had a couch and and
it wasn’t a very nice couch but we
needed a couch and the Lord provided a
couch for us and I could take you
through the home I remember when this
was provided for us I remember when this
happened several years back Benny and I
sold our our home on the west side of
town we bought one over here on the east
side and we’ve been remodeling it for
five years
plus oh
Jesus and so finally after like four
years in in the other house we sold
almost all of our furniture in that with
the home including my piano and I I’m
not a great pianist but I love to I love
to play and have time of just uh with
the Lord and uh yes yes Mom thank
you by the way my mom is here the second
time second time in a
row has because of nightmarish
accident 7 months ago she’s been gone
she’s here two weeks in a row so this is
revival time right
here so a year or so ago um we Benny and
I started thinking you know it’s time to
get a piano well they’re they’re
expensive and uh so it just started
praying into it and somebody I’m not
sure if I’ve ever met
them they don’t live in this
country set me enough for a piano
wow it’s a piano
but it’s a memorial
stone you know if you if you stay
connected to what God has done in your
life that is represented sometimes by by
a a couch sometimes it’s represented by
a friend a connection to somebody in in
high position that you never could have
earned the right for their friendship
yet they value you and there’s there’s
something about that that friendship
there’s that opportunity at work there’s
these memorial stones and they’re all
there to remind us of who he is and once
the piano just becomes a piano I start
to get disconnected from the memories
that keep me calibrated to the values of
God to his presence and his purposes in
this in this life Israel fell for false
gods after they forgot yes they just
forgot see if my mind isn’t f
with the memories of God’s activity in
my life they will be filled with
something else and it will always work
to uproot and to dissuade my affection
from him to anything and everything
else I want you to look at Psalm
78
please
one of the things I I want to encourage
everyone to do is just prayerfully walk
through your life and have have him
remind you oh yeah we we got that we got
that piano in this
season we we we were able to buy that
car at an unusual time but it was it was
the kindness of the Lord and what
happens is is you start you start
stirring up that Grace for
thankfulness that is one of the most
profound weapons we have in our
Arsenal thankfulness removes the tool
out of the enemy’s hand and gives it to
the Lord’s hand where he uses it to
build us what the enemy meant for evil
to destroy the Lord uses to
build and it’s thankfulness that makes
that transition happen
yes Psalm
78 uh testimonies of course is that
which uh is is what we remember uh that
helps us to stay uh focused in verse
five he established a testimony in Jacob
he appointed a law in Israel which he
commanded our fathers that they should
make them known to their children so
we’re we’re telling testimonies The
Works of God to another generation verse
six that the generation that come might
know them the children who would be born
that they may arise and declare them to
their children so we now have multiple
Generations in repeating the works of
the Lord not allowing any generation to
forget repeating the works of the Lord
why verse 7 that they may set their Hope
on
God the failure to remember and to keep
in conversation The Works of the Lord
actually affects the destiny of future
Generations right
wow
wow if I’m
unwilling to put before a
generation works or Revelations of
nature if I’m unwilling to put before
Generation The Works of the Lord that
testify of who he is if I’m unwilling to
give them that space that information
there’s somebody else out there that
willing to give them other
information it is space that must be
occupied with information and it’ll
either it will be that which causes them
to remember or distract their
affection in verse 9 it says um the
children of Ephraim being armed and
carrying bow so here’s here’s one of
that’s a Hal tribe of Israel and they
are trained for battle they’re Warriors
they’re trained they’re ready for war
but but they turn back when the battle
comes all right so so at why children of
Ephraim being armed carrying bows so
they’re they’re in Pursuit Of War they
turned back in the day of battle why
because verse 10 they didn’t keep the
Covenant of God they refused to walk in
his law why didn’t they have the courage
to walk in obedience verse 11 because
they forgot his Works
yes and the Wonders that he had done
they lost contact see it’s the it’s the
exposure to The God Who works above my
talent above my skill level above my
ability sometimes to even believe for
The God Who involves himself in my life
at that level living aware of that
shifts and changes what I can expect
from my
life and so you have a whole tribe that
is assigned to a victory they approach
the war and they turn around because
they’re afraid and they’re afraid
because they haven’t been obeying and
they haven’t been obeying because they
forgot who he
was
verse 40 how often they provoked him in
the wilderness grieved him in the desert
yes again and again they tempted God and
limited the Holy One of Israel that’s a
stunning statement to me they tempted
God you don’t want to tempt God they
tempted God how did they do it they
limited
him that’s got to be one of the easiest
things in the world to do is to is to
limit God I don’t mean we control him we
we never we never do enough to ever
control him thankfully but the the
effort to restrict what what what we are
willing to believe for what we think
he’s capable of doing it’s the guy with
the son who’s demonized if you’re able
Jesus would you set my son free it’s
that limiting thing and how how is it
that the ability to limit God becomes a
skill that we
develop verse 42 they did not remember
how did they limit him how did they
restrict what they expected and thought
of him they just they forgot they forgot
who he was forgot his
history Israel goes through that River
and they pile Stones because God knows
they’re going to need a natural physical
reminder something that draws their
attention their affection back to their
history in God they need continuous
reminder the pile of stones never leaves
so there’s the constant reminder yep he
delivered us he brought us through the
promised land when when do people tend
to forget what God has
done it’s easy to remember when you’re
in the middle of a great miracle season
right in fact it’s hard to
forget but when there’s the pause
between the greatest breakthroughs
you’ve seen and the Readiness for the
next season in that
that people
forget and that’s where that’s where our
life is set up
around encounters experiences with God
the subtle little touches of the Lord I
still to this day when uh I I I was up
uh early yesterday and and when the
clock said
6:38 I had an encounter with the
Lord in 19 95 in
October and it started at 3:00 a.m. and
it lifted at 6:38 wow and so I I see
that on the clock am or p.m. doesn’t
matter it triggers the
memory I encountered
God it happens all through the book
here right God I I was crying out to you
for help and and I was walking in the
woods and I had my Bible with me and you
spoke to me out of this verse and I I
underline it and and so that as I read
over that again I
remember I cried the Lord heard me and
he delivered me from all my fears see
it’s it’s memorial stones it’s they’re
all through here this is this is this
book is a diary it’s a diary with little
notes and notations of of a history of a
journey of Walking with God and I cannot
afford to forget because if I forget the
enemy has many things he’d rather I
think
about yet again and again they tempted
God limited the Holy One of Israel they
did not remember his power the day he
redeemed them from the enemy when he
worked signs in Egypt in his wonders in
the field of
Zone I think um one of the things that
the Lord has instituted or brought into
our
life is the I’ve already made reference
of it but it’s the it’s the act or I
don’t want to call it discipline I guess
discipline of Thanksgiving giving
thanks David had this uh this Tabernacle
where there was worship from the priest
in the actual presence of God which is
forbidden previous to this time and they
would Minister to God with Thanksgiving
praise and worship and what he would do
is let’s just say this is a group he he
says all right all of you here um show
up uh this morning at 3:00 you have the
shift from 3: uh to 6:00 and I’ve got a
list of 100 things here I want you to
give him thanks
for well that doesn’t feel very genuine
oh shut up just do it just just give
thanks just give thanks right here it
says he delivered us from Egypt okay
just give him thanks mybody he’s giving
him thanks for that just do it again do
it again remind yourself you get into
that flow of thankfulness you started
remembering who he is what he’s like and
by the end of your list you’re going and
therefore you know just pushing into
another level God is activating the
remembrance of who he
is I I’ll tell you I I I wonder we we
have a we’re at a time in our our
nations of the world where so many
people so many wonderful people
are experiencing
Alzheimer’s and Dementia
and I
wonder if maybe it’s the enemy’s attempt
to dislodge us from the memory of who
God is and what he has
done I don’t I don’t know I’m I’m
wondering I’m wondering also if if maybe
the unwillingness to remember as a
discipline has allowed a thief to come
in to steal one of our most important
tools and gifts that we have as
people whatever whatever it is we’ve
been given the responsibility to
remember yes yes to remember and I know
for me I’ve been in situations lately
where it’s it’s hard for me to
remember it’s it’s hard for me to
remember the things that I remembered
well six months ago but but today there
it takes more work to recover them you
know because things get kind of swirly
things things get kind of clouded when
you’re when you’re in a difficult
situation and and if you don’t if you
don’t work to remember the specific
things that God has said the specific
things that God has done you will fall
for the
inferior and if you fall for the
inferior you’ll end up with a God who
looks like
you
God who he is and what is like has to be
spoken has to be declared I love the
songs that our team’s right because
they’re just day after day just decrees
declarations I came to you as a beggar
yeah you bled for my
pardon it never gets
old those themes you and I will
celebrate throughout all of
eternity we will never never exhaust the
wonders of who he
is and grabbing our moments
now is a huge part of what keeps us safe
and healthy in a crazy world because we
remember who he is why don’t you
stand
Lamentations as this verse of chapter 3
I think it is says this I recall to my
mind therefore have I
hope this I recall to my mind therefore
I have I hope it’s of the Lord’s mercies
that were not
consumed uh one of the things that I
enjoy a lot is is I I especially when I
travel I get to spend time with
alumni and uh we’ll we’ll try to say if
I go to Spokane or Tokyo or wherever we
always try to set up a meeting with
alumni that are going to come to the
conference the event uh that we’re
at and and I always try to give them
chance to ask any question they want and
and during the dialogue there will
almost always
be do you remember that
day you do you remember that day and
then there’ll be some some story about
the the colon cancer or the
MS this last week the Blind
Eye Blind from birth
opens I don’t know how I forgot this
when a guy came up do you remember when
we were in St Louis and the guy who had
no hip joint got up out of his
wheelchair and climbed the stairs
how did I forget that
one
wow do you remember the day we had about
10 people here a Sunday night I I gave
an Altera said anyone who has any kind
of an addiction come forward wasn’t a
long one 10 maybe 15 people right stood
right
here and we just prayed for him as a
group we didn’t Minister oneon-one we
just prayed as a
group 6 months later or so one of the
guys comes to me says do you remember
the Sunday night you you did I said yeah
he said my friend and I were both heroin
addicts for over 20 years
each in that prayer we lost all appetite
for
heroin
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all H yes I
remember yes I
remember
it reveals who he is it reveals what
he’s
like it reveals The Wonder of this
Covenant we’ve been brought into this
relation this
family where we get to explore and enjoy
this mysterious one every single day of
our
life if I think he’s in my life to
fulfill my dream I will be disappointed
the rest of my
life but when I realize I’m alive to
fulfill
his every day is a
dream so put your hands in front of me
let’s pray father we ask right now in
the mighty and The Wonderful Name of
Jesus that you would rid us of
spiritual
Amnesia
dementia all these things that just
caused us to Only See a present problem
and not our Victorious history that you
would heal us and that you’d forgive us
and that as a people would be known for
remembering remembering what you’ve done
remembering who you are I ask this in
Jesus
name amen