How to Walk in the Anointing That Breaks Every Yoke, Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

0:00 When Jesus came, he made this prophetic pronouncement, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. I'm here to announce the favorable year of the Lord. It is the Jubilee year, economically, emotionally, relationally, family-wise, every place where there's been imprisonment, restriction, restraint. I believe the Lord is about to release a great anointing that breaks the yoke. All right, you guys ready to go? Yes? Yes, okay. Grab your Bibles, if you would, and just open somewhere. Just open somewhere. I've got some things that I want to take you through. We're going to end up in Psalms 67, but before you go there, go to Proverbs 11, and it'll take me a few minutes to work my way there. So Proverbs 11, if you would. This is the final week possibly of your life.

0:58 No, final week of our series on the prosperity with a purpose. And if you're new to this series, I can't give too many more disclaimers than I've already given the previous weeks. I understand of the errors that have existed in the last few decades in the church regarding prosperity. Two errors. One is to use prosperity, financial increase and blessing as a mark of spirituality. I don't believe that that's at all even close to the truth. But the other error is to embrace poverty as a way of life.

1:35 The spirit of poverty does not want you to die. The spirit of poverty does not want to kill you. The spirit of poverty wants you to have just enough to make by so that he always has an evangelist to promote his message. the Lord uses natural things to illustrate spiritual principles. And throughout the Old Testament, specifically Israel, coming from Egypt, representing sin, through the wilderness into the promised land. the wilderness was very important training for them because they were trained to go without. Actually, they left with all the gold of Egypt, but they turned the blessing into a golden calf. And so immaturity will always take the blessing and turn it into a golden calf.

2:29 Become the thing you trust in, the thing you turn to, the thing you become reliant on. So Israel went through the wilderness having to trust God every day for bread on the ground, water out of the rock, the air conditioning by day, the cloud, the heat by night, the pillar of fire, all their needs were provided for them as they went through this wilderness experience. But the miracles were always to sustain them. The miracles were always to keep them alive until they got into the land of promises. The concept of us barely making it, keeping alive as a wilderness experience, it's not where God is taking us. He trains us through that season. we embrace it and learn trust because the Lord wants to take us into the promised land. The promised land is where the miracles are now to advance us. The miracles are now to enable us to actually affect culture around us. So survival is the first season of miracles. It prepares us to come into the promised land where we plant our own crops. If I can use this metaphor, the promised land, they planted their own crops. There's no longer manna on the ground. What's the point. Miracles enable us to see the hand of God to keep us alive so that when we move into the promised land and we work and he blesses our work, we still give him the credit for it.

3:51 The Lord is erasing several lines, secular, sacred. He's also erasing that line between natural and supernatural. You and I live in two realms, natural and supernatural. He only lives in one, natural. Come on.

4:12 Everything is his natural. He doesn't have to step outside and amp things up to get something supernaturally done. That's his norm. And what the Lord is doing is he's training us through seasons without or seasons with lack for trust to see the man on the ground, so to speak, so that we've been trained enough in his hand, how he works, so that as he breathes on our labor and increase comes through our work, that we actually give him the credit for. It's important because only those who can trust him for the manna can actually see his hand clearly in the labor.

4:52 And it's not until we can see his backing in natural things can we be entrusted with the promised land lifestyle. Proverbs says this the horse is prepared for the day of battle but the victory belongs to the Lord the horse is prepared for the day of battle the victory belongs to the Lord what's the point? the point is we do everything that we're supposed to do in the natural knowing that behind the scenes in the unseen realm it is God who is breathing on or adding his favor adding his blessing to that thing that we've put our hands to do this is an essential part of a blessed life. And what we need is a whole host of people that understand what blessing is. When the blessing is from the Lord, there's no sorrow that comes with it. That's what he teaches in Proverbs. The Lord adds wealth or favor or blessing increase to somebody's life and there's no sorrow added with it. The one thing about increase that comes outside of the Lordship of Jesus, it always comes at a price.

5:57 people lose their family they lose their business they lose their partners in business there's crisis after crisis when blessing and increase comes into a person's life apart from the lordship of Jesus it will always cost somewhere so anytime that lordship of Jesus is intact we serve one king his name is Jesus and in that lifestyle he begins to add and expand and enlarge our borders our boundaries or tent pegs, if you will, and expanding us into realms of blessing that we never thought possible. It all comes from this issue of lordship. And when the lordship of Jesus is intact, all blessings endear our heart to him and actually extend and strengthen this concept of lordship. if it comes from my labor, apart from lordship, I will take the credit for it. I don't care what my words are. I can be as religious sounding as possible, but in my heart, there is a blessing and increase that I feel came from my own labor. Is this making sense? But when it comes in the lordship of Jesus, we become endeared to the one who is graciously pouring into our lives beyond what we could ever earn or deserve. When the Lord blesses and brings increase, it does something to us. Number one, Paul said that when we are generous, he was talking to the church at Corinth, 2 Corinthians chapter 9, he says, your generosity produced thanksgiving in us. Think about this. That means then that you can actually have a spiritual fruit of righteousness being expressed in another person's life because of your generosity.

7:47 you can actually, through generosity, contribute to their own spiritual development. Something becomes active in them. In the Passion Translation, there's, out of Proverbs 25, verses 21 and 22, in the Passion Translation, he does something unusual with this verse, where he talks about generosity awakens the conscience of the people you give to. Think about that. That generosity actually awakens the conscience. It actually causes moral values to rise in a community. Generosity does. We actually contribute to the spiritual atmosphere of thankfulness and of this awareness of eternal values through generosity. People become awakened to purpose.

8:44 They become awakened to accountability. to eternity. All these things become activated, moral value, moral conscience through generosity. And if that can happen from you towards somebody else, how much more does it happen from the Lord to us? He awakens things in us through his kindness that can't be awakened any other way. There's a verse here in Proverbs 11 that I want you to look at. Proverbs 11 verse 24 I make reference to this every once in a while because it fascinates me so much I love these verses that just kind of rattle your brain and I don't know if this one does that for you but it sure does for me there's three verses we're going to read verse 24 there's one who scatters yet increases more there's one who withholds more than what is right but it leads to poverty verse 24 again there's one who scatters, that is referring metaphorically as one who is generous, okay?

9:59 There's one who scatters, yet he increases all the more. There's one who withholds more than what is right, it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will himself be watered. Now, these two verses are dealing with generosity. Look at verse 26. people will curse him who withholds grain but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it I love that verse because in the middle of a subject of generosity, he says if you grow a crop and you sell it, you make a profit, you're being generous. Because you're contributing to society. What you're doing provides identity, provides supply, provides product, provides enterprise to your community. You are part of a contribution to your community and God considers that generous.

10:56 The Lord is erasing that line between secular and sacred. So we look at Tracy, one of our heroes of the faith, what she's doing in Mozambique and around the world is absolutely stunning. We have a long list of people that we admire. But when God calls somebody, if he calls them to be a missionary in Mozambique or a dentist in Redding, California, A call of God is a call of God, and it becomes supernatural the moment the person is called. I don't want to degrade or devalue those who stand behind the pulpits and serve us in this way. But what I want to do is elevate the awareness of the purpose of the person who uses natural labor to express worship to God. All work is supposed to be worship.

11:50 in Ecclesiastes he says whatever your hands find to do do it with all your might to me that's go big or go home just do it with all your might do it with all your might Ephesians and Colossians both books have this one phrase that whatever you do do it as unto the Lord so here is this opportunity to take natural labor it may be plowing a field it may be, I keep having the picture of a dentist drilling a tooth bless your hearts if you do that I need a sozo before and after I need a deliverance yes I do whether it's drilling the teeth or drilling for oil it's labor that when it is offered to the Lord as worship suddenly what you do with your hands with your life becomes an attractant for heaven fire always falls on sacrifice And when we give what we do unto the Lord, it actually attracts the manifest presence of God in that environment.

12:56 the prophet says in I think it's Isaiah he says that the Lord is going to take your plowshare the plow and turn them into swords what does that mean he's going to take natural labor and he's going to make it supernaturally effective in the book of Acts we find very interesting stories the Lord illustrates the profound nature of sanctified labor the apostle Paul I believe by his own choice chose to continue his tent making business as he ministered the gospel around the world he was a tent maker it helped to fund his own business and it was a fairly prosperous business and they would come to him and they would take articles of clothing specifically sweat bands that he used while building tents work, take the sweat band off of his body take it to somebody who was demonized or somebody who was dying, somebody who was sick put the cloth on him, the demons would cry out and leave or the sickness would leave.

14:17 Why? Because of the power of sanctified labor. These were not prayer clause he prayed over. I believe in that. We do that. We've seen miracles. I have no problem with that. But we learned the concept from him using sanctified labor, sweat from his brow on a hanky, was taken to somebody who's demonized, a demon screamed and leave. Why? Because of the power of sanctified labor. that means every person in this room, not just as a point of theory, but as a point of practical application, every person in this room is a minister of the gospel. And when we take what we do, can you imagine this many people offering their labor, raising the children at home as a labor as under the Lord? The dentist drill again. Oh, I got to get rid of that image because it's it's messing up, it's messing with my joy.

15:13 It's messing with my joy. But the guy who's building the house, it's all the work that is done, the lawyer that's presenting his case in a courtroom, all these people that have taken their God-given gift skills anointings and offers them as unto the Lord, what happens? God says, you make your crop available. I call it generosity. Now interestingly, the Lord had already set up in the law ways to care for the poor through giving and through, fascinating to me, they would take a crop and the landowner was not allowed to harvest all the way to the edge of the crop. He had to leave the edge of the crop unharvested so that the person who was hungry, was needy, would be walking along the wayside and they could not have to humiliate themselves by walking deep into a field to get something to eat, but instead could just reach off the side of a road and get something to eat. Our concept of caring for the poor presently is extremely frustrating to me for a number of reasons, and this isn't aimed at any political parties, just the system that we are part of. We do so much to humiliate those who are in need, which is tragic, number one.

16:31 Number two, as long as I'm on a roll. As long as I'm on a roll. this is just my opinion. I was going to say it's not the opinion of the house, but actually, I'm in charge. So. It might be. I don't know. I have to think this through.

16:57 When... When I am taxed to care for the poor, it robs me of personal connection and it robs me of the joy of choosing giving over receiving. There is something that happens to a person who invests in another person's life. Now, obviously the reason we are taxed to care for the poor is because it's not happening without the taxes enough. So I understand the reason. But the point I'm trying to make is The Lord has created a system whereby you and I become solidified in identity and sense of purpose through the affirmation we receive through giving. And there's a unique and special joy when nobody knows what we've given.

17:44 You really know the joy of giving when your left hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing. all right go to psalm 67 and i'll see if i can work my way there the Lord is wanting to destroy the root of anxiety and fear as it pertains to money the very anxiousness and fear that people experience over their money, their finances, their income, lack thereof, whatever, the anxiety actually kills creativity.

18:39 And creativity is part of the thing that God honors to bring prosperity into our life. I don't know if you can see the cycle I'm trying to, the picture I'm trying to paint for you, is that by keeping me anxious, if I pay attention to that lying voice, by keeping me anxious and fearful, it actually, almost like a dislocated joint, it's alive, but I'm not functioning, dislocates me from my place, my posture, my position of functioning as a creative influence in the earth, which in itself attracts income. when I fear when I'm worried my attention all of my thoughts my emotions are focused on so many other things and that is all energy spent for survival that's supposed to be spent for advancement and learning how to deal with this thing once and for all.

19:39 We're going to pray at the end of this meeting today about a specific direction the Lord gave me a number of years ago. I think this is the first time I've done it corporately. It might be the second. But we're going to pray regarding this concept of Jubilee because of a word that the Lord spoke to me. I believe in the process the Lord wants to destroy that root of anxiety because he has ideas that he wants to release to people. But sometimes when we're anxious and fearful we can't hear what he's saying. Psalm 67 is a psalm that I have taught on a number of times in the last three years. I'm going to do it again today because it's kind of a perfect place for me to go to in this series. Psalm 67 represents what I believe the Lord is saying to us right now. I've had this I started teaching on this about three years ago, various conferences places that I go to, frequently I'll talk about this particular Psalm. Why do I emphasize that? The whole I believe the whole Bible. I believe all of it. I believe the table of contents, I believe the maps. I'm even intensely committed to my elephant hide leather cover.

21:07 Yes, amen. I do. I love the whole, I love the Word of God, all of it. All of it is true and it is ripe and ready for now. But have you learned that there are seasons where the Lord is actually breathing on a portion of Scripture and there's something available in that season by his designation that you can't get any other time. You can try it. You can try it through principle. You can try this and that, but you're not going to get the measure or level of breakthrough that he intended if we don't pay attention to what he's saying in the right season, the right moment. Many people miss what God is saying because they're so devoted to what he said. we're committed in our study of scripture to read the whole thing, study the whole thing, pray over the whole thing but we have to have a relationship with him that recognizes when he has said this one now and Psalm 67 is that one for us, alright?

22:10 Psalm 67, begin with verse 1 God be merciful to us and bless us. Cause his face to shine upon us that your way may be known on earth and your salvation among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy for you shall judge the people righteously and govern the nations on earth. Let the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you. then the earth shall yield her increase. God, our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. here's the burden, burden not in a sense of heaviness, but a burden that I have carried into this series that I have been anticipating this opportunity to talk to you for at least six or eight months just preparing for this day. The weightiness of heart that I carry is that I know that we cannot fulfill the commission of the Lord to disciple nations without prosperity.

23:22 I know the danger of prosperity I know what Israel did with the gold they got from Egypt they turned it into a golden calf and began to trust it began to pray that I understand the danger but that's the way of the Lord as he calls us into dangerous positions where we can only do what we need to do by hearing his voice and doing what he says and I feel like he's calling us as a church body and honestly as the body of Christ to illustrate the blessing of the Lord in such a way that people around us can see the Father's nature through the blessing that's in our life. It's not blessings of exclusivity. It's not I have it and you don't. It's not that. It's that together we see the favor of God on my life that overflows into yours, and suddenly as a community we begin to manifest and demonstrate this wonderful, perfect, gracious, loving Father in ways that the world is aching to see and to realize.

24:18 We've been invited to this. Hosea 3.5, people will fear God because of his goodness. Jeremiah 33.9, same thing, that the fear of God will come to the earth because people see his kindness, his goodness, his graciousness towards people. The New Testament says, and through his kindness, people will repent because of his kindness. The kindness of God will lead people to repentance. This concept is throughout scripture. It's not the part that gets emphasized. The part that gets emphasized is the trauma and the difficulty. I'm here to announce to you that there is an opportunity, an opening in the heavens, if you will, for the people of God to embrace blessing responsibly. And the blessing, a responsible blessing is this, God, please bless me. Cause your face to shine on me. I want you to consider this. When you catch sight of his eyes, there's nothing he blesses you with that could ever distract you.

25:17 that favor of his eyes is so all-consuming that everything he adds only endears you even more to that one whose eyes are set on you with deep affection and love cause your face to shine on me that face of delight and favor why? the next verse, next phrase that your way would be known on earth. God, they're not learning what you're like through my messages. My sermons aren't changing them. It's got to be something tangible on my life that causes people around me not to separate from me, but instead to celebrate what God has done that they too might step into the momentum created by an act of God's blessing on one. Because he doesn't favor one over the other in that sense. He's no respecter of persons. If he did it for me, he'll do it for you.

26:19 If he did it for you, he'll do it for everybody around you. That's the whole point about God's nature is it's not this exclusive religious club. It is something that is always inviting, always enticing, always drawing people into this relationship with a father who actually cares about his kids and is capable of providing everything they need into the place where he begins to fulfill the dreams and the desires and wishes so that his nature might be known on earth.

26:49 That your way, that your way would be known on earth. And what's the next phrase? Your salvation to the nations. maybe some of you have dealt with this one before this is new for me in the last three years or so to actually consider that a revival could be ignited because of God's goodness on people See, without a theology of blessing, we have the theology for sacrifice. I've run you through this one before, but we love it when somebody gives in secret. We're just not as happy with them when God rewards them openly. Scripture says, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, he'll exalt you in due time.

27:46 We love it when people humble themselves under the mighty hand of God. We're just not quite as happy with them when God exalts them at the proper time. We love it when people seek first the kingdom of God. We're not always as happy with them when all things are added. And without a theology of blessing, we cannot be entrusted with the responsibility and privilege to disciple nations. This thing has to be sorted out to where we discover the purpose of blessing.

28:15 It endears us to Him and it makes us capable of impacting the world around us. And so here we have it. That your way would be known on earth. Look at this. A face-to-face conversation with God. Bless me. Cause your face, your favor to shine on me. Let the brilliance of your eyes be seen on my own countenance, God. I want them to know what you like. I know if they know what you're like salvation will touch all the nations and then he goes on and he says let the peoples praise you oh God what peoples are is that it's the peoples that just got saved in their last verse let the peoples praise you oh god let all the peoples praise you that's that's my kind of revival all all let me try this side all all he's he said in his i i don't i don't believe in universalism i'm i'm i'm not into that no matter how you live everybody goes to heaven i don't i i don't if that's the case let's just stop trying do anything you know it's ridiculous Later.

29:26 Later. Yeah. but he says I will pour out my spirit on all flesh that's that's that's heaven's plan all the law and the prophets were until John Luke 16, 16 the law and the prophets were until John but since that time the kingdom of God is being preached and everyone is pressing into it so from heaven's perspective the provision is made for all so here he says let the peoples praise you let all the peoples praise you verse 4 I don't know if that stands out to you. It should because we get this distorted view of judgment.

30:21 Here, joy comes because of judgment. you say we don't want judgment yes you do you're under the blood of Jesus judgment is now aimed at the powers of darkness that inspired you to do wrong how else can Jesus stand there and announce he's come to set prisoners free captives I understand captives are there because of sins done against them but prisoners are in prison because of what they've done wrong do you hear me? prisoners are there because of their so Jesus came to set them free, why? because he deals with the root gives them transformation and then brings judgment on the powers of darkness listen, you've not had a better offer all day long this is a good deal Verse 5.

31:16 Let the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you. Seems to be a theme here. Then the earth shall yield or increase. God, our own God, shall bless us. Then the earth shall yield or increase. We don't have time for this today, but I'd like to just direct your attention towards passages like in Romans 8 that says, all creation groans, travails, waiting for the day the daughters, the sons and daughters of God would be revealed. What's the point? The point is that creation lives under the weight of restriction due to sin. And the more the people of God step into identity, something is lifted off of creation itself. This is not a one offhanded comment in Scripture. This is a theme that you see God bringing liberty to creation itself. Why do you think one of the commissions, The great commission was to preach to all creation.

32:14 it's not just an emotional term to get us all feel gooey about the privilege of spreading the gospel he's actually announcing the fact that the way you live affects everything around you all of creation is impacted by how you've lived and what you've chosen to declare case in point if you've not seen it it's probably on YouTube Almolanga a city in Guatemala Horrible alcoholism, poverty-stricken place. They couldn't grow crops. Horrible, horrible soil. And revival hit the area. Massive revival. And something happened where God actually healed the soil. The soil universities send agricultural specialists to the area because they have up to seven harvests a year.

33:11 I mean, it's absolutely mind-boggling. Ground that wouldn't work now provides, releases its produce. Fear is agreement with the devil. Faith is agreement with God. When we tap into agreement with God, we have access to the riches that are in the soil that we're standing on. Proverbs says, there's much wealth in the ground, in the soil of the poor, but injustice keeps it from them. We can be this far away from breakthrough, but something happens through the fear, the injustice issue. And the Lord is trying to create a people that don't just have fat wallets, but people who have big fat hearts, fat hearts. Oh, well.

34:10 but watch your cholesterol that's that's all i've got to say fat hearts abundant in the way we do life the way we approach life because we raise the moral consciousness of the city through radical generosity and then god says listen i'll even cause creation to work with you Wow.

34:36 I'll read that verse again then the earth shall yield her increase God our own God shall bless us and here's the last verse God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him the first verse was a prayer for blessing the last verse is a confession of blessing I want you to say this with me God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. God shall bless us. The earth shall yield her increase.

35:15 And the nations will give you praise. I love how the Lord talks. in my early years with the Lord I was aware of the still small voice that was the primary way I heard from the Lord especially in reading scripture he would just seem to highlight things and I would have that sense of the presence and the voice of the Lord maybe 10, 12 years ago or somewhere in that area maybe 15 years ago I began to hear differently I started to hear through unusual circumstances I started to hear through unusual coincidences.

36:18 Unusual things would happen. And if you've been around here, you know of a weird story with a roadrunner. And if you don't, find somebody who knows. Maybe they'll take the time to tell you. We don't have the time today. But just unusual things would happen. You know, a burning bush burned and wasn't consumed. That was an unusual experience. When Moses turned aside, the voice of the Lord came to him. And there are times where there's unusual things that have been set up in our life. and it's when we turn aside that that act actually attracts the voice.

36:48 I had a situation a number of years ago where I had filled my schedule up with conferences and all kinds of things and I checked into a hotel in Texas and they gave me a room key for a .308. I'm a hunter and .308's a good caliber and it's my most accurate gun actually. I looked at the room, I'm a .308 and I thought to myself, that's a good caliber. Perhaps this is God's will for me to go hunting or something. I went to my room. We had the meeting. Had a wonderful time. Went to the next city, which I don't always have very many cities in a row, but this particular trip I did. And got to the hotel the next day or the next hotel. I checked in. They gave me room 308. And I went, hmm. 308. All right.

37:39 So apparently I am supposed to go hunting. This is a confirmation here. So honestly, in my heart, I'm going, all right, Lord, that's interesting. So I go on and have the meeting. And when you have unusual coincidences, at minimum, the Lord is just telling you you're at the right place at the right time. It doesn't always have some profound message. But when I went to bed that night and I woke up exactly at 3.08. I went, all right.

38:10 And I heard nothing, which is unusual, because usually if I'm half awake, he can trust me. He usually talks a bunch clearer in those moments. And he said nothing. I got home, I was sitting in my office the following week, and I'm sitting there just kind of revering the 308, and I remembered when I was young and pastoring, I had sought the Lord very specifically about whether or not I should write. I had a desire to write. I didn't have the training. I didn't think I had the skill. I didn't know I'd be able to write at all, but it was in my heart. I didn't want to waste God's time. I didn't know how this thing worked, pursuing desires and see what He blessed. I didn't understand any of that. So I just prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed about God, should I write? And one day He woke me up with His voice. And this is what He said. He said, Isaiah 30, verse 8. with no explanation.

39:05 And I'm laying there awake like this going, that was clear. And when I opened Isaiah 30, verse 8, it said, now go and write. this is working for me so actually right after that I started writing just in a church bulletin just little three, four hundred word segments that eventually came out in a two book series I have in there, Center of the Universe kind of a humorous deal so fast forward a number of years later October 9th, 2002 I was in Minneapolis, Minnesota at an international healing conference conference that I had done several years in a row. And I don't like making any coincidence some deep, profound message because it just seems to invite people who are already weird to get weirder. But maybe I are one.

40:05 I don't know. I just, I just, so I don't always tell all the details of the story. I usually just tell the outcome. But I'm going to tell you the process. For a number of weeks preceding this trip to Minneapolis, I had been running into the number 555 over and over and over again. It had gotten ridiculous. It was everywhere. I went to bed late at night, woke up at 5.55, and I said Benny wasn't with me on the trip so I could talk out loud and not wake anyone. I looked at it and I went, what are you trying to tell me? And he spoke. And he said out loud, The day of the anointing for the cancellation of debt is upon you. and I thought that was clear that was awesome, that was wonderful, what does that mean?

41:12 and I began to process, obviously at just face value, it's a wonderful anointing to carry to break up, cancel debt it was interesting language that the Lord would use to awaken my attention to the importance and the present tense need of the year of Jubilee. The year of Jubilee in Israel's history, every 50 years, they'd have rest every 7th year, 7 times 7 is 49, they'd have rest that year. The 50th year, if an Israelite was sold into slavery because of their indebtedness, because of their wrongdoing, in the 50th year they were released. Even if they were taken into slavery in the 49th year, they were released in the 50th year. All debts were forgiven. Everything was released. Everybody got to start over every 50 years. When Jesus came in Isaiah 61, He made this prophetic pronouncement, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. And in that list of things He mentioned that that anointing was for, He said, I'm here to announce the favorable year of the Lord, the year of favor.

42:19 it is the jubilee year and I believe what the Lord did He spoke over my life as I laid in that bed in Minneapolis October 9th 2002, I thought it was 2003 but I found my journal this week October 9th 2002 He announced something over me that I believe gives me an authority and a grace to pray for you to release an anointing to touch every area of life to bring jubilee economically, emotionally, relationally, family-wise, every place where there's been imprisonment, restriction, restraint, I believe the Lord is about to release a great anointing that breaks the yoke of that kind of indebtedness. So why don't you stand? I know that there's, I'm sure, quite a few people in the room that have no financial debt whatsoever. You own your car, you own your home.

43:23 God bless you. Can I rub shoulders next to you and see how that works? I know that that's the case for many people. But there's oftentimes realms of indebtedness. people who feel indebted to a family member, not economic, not just an emotional thing, something didn't work out right, and there's this kind of regret that people often live with, and they drag throughout their life. I feel like the Lord wants to sever the issue of regret. He wants to sever unhealthy emotional entanglements. He wants to release people from the sense of indebtedness where you can't expect sustained victory because this sense of indebtedness makes you think something's going to go wrong soon. And it's almost like in the back of our mind, well, we deserve it. And the Lord is delivering us from that so that he can trust us with increase and blessing.

44:18 Because he wants to reveal, you know, your blessing, my blessing, he's a father. He loves to see us encouraged and strengthened. But he is honestly is positioning us to be able to teach the nations what he's like. and so I'm going to pray this over you right now so just put your hands out, in some way posture yourself just as though you were receiving a gift and I want to just pray for this anointing to come to bring spirit of breakthrough Father, I stand in the name of Jesus and I confess your word your word that you spoke over me that the anointing for the day of the cancellation of debt is upon me and I stand in that authority right now in the mighty name of Jesus and I proclaim release now over people's lives the sense of indebtedness economically that true jubilee would come into the finances of every household in this room that the prison of indebtedness would be broken and that there would be abundant supply and that you would give us the wisdom equal to the resource so that we know how to do things in a kingdom way that honors you. God, I pray that blessing would be the mark on this body of people, that blessing would illustrate your nature in the most profound way the cities and the nations have ever seen. God, we determine, we purpose our heart, we set our hearts to give you all the praise, all the glory. We work hard, we get the horse trained, but we give you credit for the victory.

45:50 And we set our heart to do that even now. And we pray, let the abundance of the promised land be entrusted to your people in this hour in Jesus' name, that there might be radical advancement of the kingdom in the earth. I pray this for the glory of God. Let there be financial breakthrough, let there be relational breakthrough, let there be this sense of regret and indebtedness broken in Jesus' name. I pray for the anointing that breaks the yoke to be released now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

46:25 Amen. Amen. I have been waiting for months for that moment. Because you've got to do it at the right moment. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting. Because I feel like a gift is being given. And I want to encourage you, receive it as best as you know how. Just do what Mary did. Mary heard this impossible word. She was going to give birth to the Christ child. That was a fairly impossible word. And she said, be it unto me according to your word. So say that with me. Be it unto me according to your word.