Walking With the Holy Spirit in Power and Faithfulness - Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

0:00 I ask people all the time, I say, well, if I have a dove sitting on my shoulder, how am I going to walk around this room? Every step will be with a dove in mind. Every movement will be to protect that which I value most, which is presence. Thank you. Wow. Oh, goodness. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'm glad you're here. My goodness. Glad you showed up. How many of you are here from somewhere else?

0:50 I kind of already knew that, but I thought I'd just ask the question, you know. It's one of the most amazing honors we have a number of times during the year is to have an event where we have friends come in from all over the world. We'll find out probably tomorrow how many nations and all of that. We usually have 28, maybe 30 countries represented. And we're just glad you're here, even if you're from Reading. In fact, especially, is there anybody here from Reading? Oh, thank you, Jesus. Good. All right, all right. Well, I'm glad you made it. This is not about dreams in the night. This is not interpreting dreams. This is about the co-laboring role that we have with the Lord. and we we love when a person seeks first the kingdom. We don't know what to do with them when all things are added into their life.

1:47 We love it when people humble themselves under the mighty hand of God. We don't know what to do with them when God exalts them in due time. We love people who pray in secret and give in secret, but when God rewards them openly, we don't always know how to handle it because we know what the cross is in measure, but we don't know what resurrection life is. And the Lord wants to work in and through you and through me to release his dreams into the earth. And it's a co-laboring role. So that's there. Born for significance. Master the purpose, process, and peril of promotion. That's scary. Open heavens. Goodness. There's a theme that works. positioning yourself to encounter the God of revival, that's in the back, and hosting the presence. Probably one of the most important things I've ever written is this one right here.

2:40 So, anybody born on July 18th, it's your birthday? July 18th. July 18th? 18th, come on down. Should be a national holiday, that's my birthday. All right, just pick. how many of you are coming okay hey there we go okay all right good and there's more all right we'll get another one um i was i was you know give her the no we're not giving her that one she she will get one hosanna will get one for you all right good you ready all right um Oh, I should, just because it's my routine.

3:34 It's my wife's birthday tomorrow. She's been leaving jewelry catalogs all over the house, so I bought her a magazine rack. my wife tells me I have two major faults number one I don't listen and something else

3:55 There's another one that says, my wife said to me, you weren't even listening, were you? And I thought, what a strange way to start a conversation. This is one of my favorite all-time ones that I've read here 50 times probably. A pastor had dinner at the home of a couple in his church. After he left, the wife said to the husband, I think he stole our spoon. And it bothered her for a whole year. A year later, the couple had him over for dinner again. Unable to resist, the wife asked, did you steal our spoon last year? the pastor replied no I put it inside your Bible oh that just makes my heart sing i love that one that one that one is perfect oh goodness i think i have another one here for you that actually i think i have hundreds but oh here here's one that not everybody enjoys but i'm reading this for me so i i will i will in fact this will be the last one so we may end on a bad note but it's all right So imagine this picture.

5:09 It's around the manger, the birth of Christ. So we've got the manger, and we've got animals all around. So over here, we've got a camel. He says, I will bear him gifts. The donkey says, I will carry him. The fish says, I will pay his taxes. The cow says, I will quench his thirst. The dove says, I will bless his baptism. The sheep says, I will warm him. The duck says, I will feed him. the pig says I will let him fill me with demons and I'll jump off a cliff

5:44 I never get to finish it. Let me finish it. I will let him fill me with demons, then I'll jump off a cliff. Wait, what? Okay, that's enough. Oh, I just think that's funny. Yesterday, in our staff meeting, our staff meeting, we take the first, usually about an hour, just to share testimonies of what God's been doing. And we actually have somebody who records him so that we just keep record of the activities of the Lord among us. And while I was sitting there, I felt, I believe it was the Lord, I guess we're about to find out, I felt of the Lord to tell you four stories and to start my message with these stories and then let's just see what he wants us to do.

6:42 You ready? You don't get to vote. I'm trying to encourage you in the process here. I was in Minnesota. I was speaking at a church, a dear friend of mine. And at the end, you know, it wasn't a large, it's not a large church, it wasn't a large group. It was maybe, I don't know, I'm guessing now 100 people. And I remember at the end of the message, we started praying for the sick, and the associate pastor's wife came up. She had been in a snowmobile accident. and as a result she had pins and and you know metal stuff put in her in her ankle and and a pretty serious accident and so anyway I was praying for her she got some relief but there really wasn't much dramatic happened at all the next morning we had another meeting and this meeting was with maybe 30 people, 40 at the most. And she came up to me and she said, she said, Bill, you prayed for me last night? I said, yeah. She said, when I was getting dressed this morning, my husband looked down at my leg and said, hey, that wasn't there before.

7:57 And she looked down and what had happened is she was missing part of her calf muscle from the accident and it grew back overnight. So I thought, that's cool. We need to let people know. So she stood up with me and gave the testimony. And of course, everybody's giving praise to the Lord. And she starts going back to her seat. But as she does, there's a lady on the front row from Toronto, a friend of the leadership. And personally, I hadn't met her years ago. She comes off of the front row and walks right up to me. She said, Bill, God is no respecter of persons. If he did that for her, certainly he would do that for me. And then she told me about a car accident that she was in where she actually had to learn to walk all over again, and she was missing part of that calf muscle. And so the gal that got healed was going back to her seat. I said, hey, come back here.

8:51 Freely you've received, freely give. So we brought her, and the pastor's wife came up, and they prayed for her, and the muscle grew back right before their eyes. They actually saw the development of that muscle. Well, this is weird. When you have a group of about 30 or so in the room, two more women come up. And they are both missing part of their calf muscle. The third one, the next one, had been kicked by a horse. And she actually had a tumor in the place of what growth, a big hard spot, where the muscle used to be. And so the ones that got healed laid hands on her and prayed. and they watched as that tumor disappeared and the muscle reformed. And the fourth one, I don't remember what the experience was, but they had the same kind of a miracle. And so I'm just, I'm stunned by this.

9:44 First of all, I felt like an epidemic of missing calf muscles, you know, that you could find four people out of, you know, 30 or 40, whatever it was, that had that issue was really quite amazing and they all experienced a miracle. I flew from there from Rochester, Minnesota. I flew from there to Tennessee. I forget the city now. Anyway, we're in a meeting there, and it was just one of those extraordinary breakthrough kinds of meetings where there's just instant things happening. And sometimes, you know, you pray and you labor, you work, and there's a process, and you get breakthrough. This was one of those things that was just like popcorn. It was just happening.

10:27 And so I shared that testimony. She had the testimony of those four women. And so we're praying for people all along the front and come to find out a medical doctor had broken his leg a year earlier and it had atrophied and the muscle had not developed properly. He had pain, he had restricted movement, everything. And so I have a bunch of students that I like to travel with. So they're praying for this guy. And he goes down on the ground and gets up after a bit And they said, this man just got healed. I said, come, I wanted to find out about what happened. So he told me the story. He says, I broke my leg a year ago. He said, the muscles atrophied. And I said, well, what happened? He says, well, it's all healed. He says, I've got all mobility.

11:20 I've got all movement back. He said, I've got, there's no more pain. But I wanted to know about the missing muscle thing, you know, the growth. I said, how about the atrophy? What's happening with your muscles? And he said, I can feel my skin stretch. That was his exact words. I can feel my skin stretch. So I thought, that's cool.

11:45 So I flew from Tennessee back to Reading. And I like to share stories fairly often when I get home of something that we've seen happen. And so I shared those stories, the four women and the one guy. I think it was two weeks later, we had a prophetic session with new church members, people that were covenanting to be a part of this family. And there was a gal in there that we were just ready to start praying for people. And she said, do you remember two weeks ago when you told us the stories about the missing calf muscle in the leg? I said, yeah. She said, well, I broke my leg a year earlier. My muscles had atrophied. I had pain and restricted movement. And I said, well, what happened? She said, when you started talking, my leg got hot. We tell our folks hot is good. Hot is good, which we really appreciate in the summer here. So anyway, hot is good. And her leg was completely healed just sitting there. Nobody prayed for. So I went, I went from some short time afterwards, I went to Brazil.

13:03 And I was on, I was with Randy Clark, one of my best friends. And we brought a team, or I should say he brought a team of about 40 or 50 people with him to minister in Brazil. And it's some of the most extraordinary things, you know, that we see happen anywhere in the world we see happen there. And so I'm speaking, and I'm speaking to about, I think if I remember right, 800 four-square pastors and leaders. And behind me is our team, our ministry team. And I felt to share the stories that I just shared with you, this missing calf muscle thing. Unknown to me, one of our team members had been in an automobile accident and was missing a part of her calf muscle. So she got up while I'm teaching. She goes, excuse herself, go find the restroom and, and get your clothing off so she can look at her leg. And it grew back. It just grew back. And so of course I didn't know then, but she, she told me later, she said, I just, I just had this miracle. So then it was, I was on a mission to find missing calf muscles. No, it actually just, it just, it just happened. I never, I don't remember ever, ever asking for that.

14:21 I then went to be with Mahesh and Bani Shabda in North Carolina. And this was before they built their sanctuary. So they've got this, this huge tent and, and that's, it's where they, it's where they met for a season. And I remember standing, teaching in this, in this tent and it's a, it's a packed place and people are just hungry for God, you know. And so I started taking them through these stories. I went through the exact sequence that I just gave to you. And while I'm talking, I get to the end of the stories, and I'm teaching on really the power of the testimony is what I'm teaching on. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Every testimony carries a prophetic anointing to re-engage us with what God once did that he really wants to do again. So it's the nature of testimony. So I was teaching on that concept. And when I was through giving those stories, I was going to continue to teach. And a woman right over in this area here of this big tent, she said, I'm missing part of my calf muscle.

15:29 And I was just about to say, come to me at the end of the meeting tonight, and I will pray for you. and she said, before I could get that out of my mouth, she said, and I'm from Minnesota. Now that may mean nothing to anybody in the room, but for me, This thing started in Minnesota. It doesn't mean there's any magic for people who are from Minnesota. What it was, it was an unusual coincidence, which to me is the language of the Spirit. and I just had the confidence in that mom should be healed right away. So I said, all right, go to the back of the tent, then come and see me. By the time she came up to see me, she was completely healed. I think I'd gone back.

16:24 It's an unusual series of events, but the point was there was faith activated when she said, I'm from Minnesota. see when you lean into the lord you don't need a lot of things to persuade you When I'm sitting in complacency, I need all kinds of signs and confirmations and stuff. But when I'm leaning into what he's saying, what he's doing, leaning into his heartbeat, there is such a much greater readiness to act quickly. Delayed obedience is disobedience. And I've had so many times where I've analyzed and processed and tried to figure out whether this is right or whether that's right. and literally I've just drained the anointing out of a moment because of over analysis.

17:18 And the Lord is really readying us to, we have to stop depending on our ability to hear and start depending on his ability to speak. If you have a friend, a relative, someone who is hard of hearing, you don't punish them for not hearing you well. You raise your voice. You make sure they're looking at you. I will make sure I mouth my words clearly. I take it as a responsibility to be heard. And oftentimes we shift the focus to our gifting. shift the focus to our call, shift the focus to our history or our determination to believe God, when in fact he's looking to raise up a people that are just willing. It's the willingness. It's not just the willingness. It's the anticipation that God is about to say something. He's about to do something. The expectancy, where does that come from. It comes from this awareness of the goodness of God.

18:29 I'm not embarrassed to say it that way, but I feel a little bit hesitant because it's such a common phrase that we live aware of his goodness here, but don't necessarily burn with it here. He's good. He's a good father. Bobby told us years ago, he said, you have permission to try to exaggerate his goodness. We've failed every time we've tried. We have miserably failed. being able to exaggerate God's goodness. when that's your cornerstone of theology, when that's what defines you,

19:12 you're not nearly as rattled when you face a disappointment. Because the answer is other than God betrayed me. The answer is other than what did I do wrong? The answer is other than blaming him or the people of God or whatever it might be. there's still, there's a journey that we are on when we face disappointment. I have felt for quite a while now that the two most crippling, not diseases, but the most crippling things that we experience as believers is number one is resentment. The other two is not being able to handle disappointment, how to handle loss. What do you do with loss? And not being able to navigate through those seasons has really hurt our longevity. It's hurt our effectiveness in the long haul. Being able to represent him accurately, represent him well.

20:10 You see, if I can't handle loss, I can't be trusted with the measure of gain he has for me. if I can't navigate my heart in disappointment, I really can't be trusted with a measure of fulfilled dreams that I was designed for. If I can't navigate my soul in times of criticism, I really can't be trusted with the measure of praise that he wants to bring into my life. You know, he's the one who says, well done, good and faithful servant. He's actually into that. He actually liked to bring strength and encouragement to honor us. Jesus was the one who points at this Roman centurion and says, stunning.

21:05 I've not seen faith like that in the entire nation of Israel what is he doing? he's honoring he's giving praise to someone and the Lord wants to bring that kind of affirmation into our life but if I can't navigate my heart when the opposite comes my way then the measure he wants to give me would actually hurt me if I can't navigate my way through betrayal. if I can't navigate my way through betrayal when the most trusted one becomes the one who violates if I can't navigate my way through that I can't be trusted with the measure of loyal friends that he wants to pour into my life and it may sound strange to you know that i have to somehow pass the test of being criticized before i'm honored i i get that's just life it's just you know god doesn't have to inspire anyone to oppose me it's just it's called life or maybe it's called bethel i'm not i'm not sure what it is but it's one of those two things it's one of those two that was that was an inside joke here that was inside joke.

22:30 That the Lord would take us on this journey where we learn to navigate our heart well. And a ship can sail into the wind. I've been sailing twice. Once was pleasant, peaceful. You could write worship songs out there on that one sail trip. And then I went on another one.

22:56 No, that's where heavy metal music was invented was on that last sailboat I was on. Oh man, it's terrifying out in the ocean. You can sail a boat into the wind. You just have to manage the rudder and the sail correctly. You just have to manage the attitude of your heart and your conversation, your tongue. Well, if you can manage the rudder, your tongue, and the sail, the attitude of your heart, you can actually advance against adverse winds. I had somebody write, actually an acquaintance, but someone who wrote, is writing a book and wrote part of it against me.

23:38 And a mutual friend told me about it, called me one Sunday morning early and said, hey, did you know? And I said, no, I didn't. So he sent me part of the book and so I read it. And so I wrote him a letter, an email. And I said, thank you.

24:02 Thanks for writing that. I need it I don't I'm not thanking you because I think what you've written will help the body of Christ I'm writing to thank you because what I dream of in my life is on the other side of adverse winds and you're giving me the opportunity to advance and I want to thank you we actually it's a long story but we developed long correspondence over it and he actually repented and changed it but the point is is that we have to grab our moments. You grab your moments of greatest loss. You grab your moments of greatest disappointment. And if I'm not driven by a consciousness of the goodness of God, I will come up with a wrong explanation for what just happened.

24:53 And, you know, I, my wife died, my late wife died two years ago. and I'm not teaching much to that. I kind of apologize for that. I'm just telling stories, I guess. But I was... She breathed her last.

25:21 And in that moment, very, very painful, obviously. Most everybody in the room has experienced something like that. as soon as she breathed her last, I just put my hands up and began to give God thanks for his goodness, for being perfectly faithful, and specifically for always being the healer. Always being the healer. in revelation it says in isaiah it says for the the city has gates and the gates of praise it's isaiah 60 verse 19 says or 18 one of those two your walls will be called salvation and your gates praise the walls are what he builds for us the gates are what we build for him it's the co-laboring role it's the combination of the two that creates this realm of safety if you will not safety from the devil coming in and killing just people who don't have gates of praise become vulnerable to spiritual assaults that are unnecessary not everything we face where are we supposed to face David wasn't out to war when all the kings were out to war.

26:46 When he wasn't in the war he was designed for, he faced a temptation he had no grace for. it's recognizing the moments that God creates for us by the way if you wonder why it's so cold in here it's because we have Bethel Music sweatshirts in the bookshop and we're really You know, this is marketing. This is what we do.

27:16 We'll close all the exits over here and have you go out that way. Sorry. It's either hot or cold in here. It's never lukewarm. So the Lord will never be spitting Bethel out of his mouth.

27:36 Thank you. So here we've got this. We've got this. This. this part of life that is so significant where he says, your walls are salvation and your gates are praise. And then we find out in Revelation that chapter 21, verse 21, the gates are made of pearls. How are pearls formed? Irritation. Exactly. belief. It's how are gates formed, the gates, the gates, the pearl gates of the kingdom of God, of the New Jerusalem. They're made out of one solid pearl.

28:27 Anyone, anyone can give God praise when you've gotten the raise at work, when you finally were able to give birth to a child, when you finally were able to marry the man or woman of your dreams. Anyone can give praise when they finally got the degree they've been working so hard for. And those are all moments where we're supposed to celebrate God's goodness. We're supposed to celebrate his kindness to us. But show me the person who will celebrate his goodness in the middle of loss. And I'll show you somebody who's creating a gate. And what gates are is they are places of entrance of the presence. It's all about the presence. It's all about the glory. It's all about, it's what I do in the crisis moment. it's what I do it it's what I do when it's the most costly when it's the most difficult it's grabbing the moment and just you know it's not done out of strength I've told our family here I'm not trying to be strong I'm just trying to be faithful I just want to make sure that I take my moment the best I know how and God and honor God in that moment God you are faithful I don't understand But I don't need to understand When the scripture says that God intends to do abundantly above, beyond all that we could ask or think, Ephesians 3.20.

30:06 that God longs to do abundantly above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. He's not talking about what he plans to do in heaven. It's actually a right now promise. It's a right now promise. It's a promise where God would draw us into his purposes and plans that are beyond our wildest dream. When he says beyond all you could ask, That's the depth and the reach of your prayer life. Beyond all you could think, that's the reach of your imagination. God functions outside the reach of imagination, outside the reach of my prayer life. But he does so according to the power that works in me.

30:52 I don't know if this is making sense to you, that he will work beyond the reach of your prayer life in the measure his power is at work in you. he will work beyond the reach of your imagination in the measure that his power is at work in you in other words it's the yieldingness to the holy spirit come and do as you please my biggest problem is when i think i know what he pleases and then i invite him and try to direct his hand because i know i know exactly what revival looks like that's when it doesn't work out so good because we end up with copies and clones of what God is saying, what God is doing. When in fact, he's trying to raise up a people that will trust him with something new, something that's not been done before.

31:46 It'll always have traces of previous moves of God, but it'll also have a new expression. It'll also have something very profound and powerful that is to be released into the earth. And he looked for a people that he can trust. You know, why does God seem to always move in places where they don't know what they're doing?

32:08 I mean, I'm serious. I'm serious. You look at the great places of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, they didn't know what they were doing. And I think that's what qualified them. Really, because they wouldn't mess it up. They wouldn't mess it up. You got this little group, you know, meeting in this church and they just pray and God shows up. They don't know enough to mess it up. Thank you. what's the one meeting that nobody knew enough to mess up there was one meeting nobody knew enough to mess it up it was Acts chapter 2 nobody knew enough Acts chapter 3 they knew a little bit but Acts chapter 2 they didn't know anything and suddenly there's a sound Suddenly a sound came from heaven.

33:08 Suddenly there was a sound. No one was expecting it. They didn't know what to expect. Suddenly there was a sound. There appeared to them divided tongues as a fire. There's wind swirling around the room. Wind and fire. Where have we heard that before? Hebrews 1 talks about the angels as ministers of wind and ministers of fire. There's this angelic presence that seems to just fill this room. Nobody knows what they're doing.

33:45 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, began to speak with other tongues as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance. And then it goes on and says, when the sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused. You want to know what the signs of revival are? I'm going to give it to you right now. They were confused. I'm serious. They were confused. They were confused.

34:08 People say, well, you can't speak in unknown tongues in front of unbelievers. Well, you should have told the Holy Spirit that. He didn't read that interpretation. He said they were confused because they heard him speak in their own language. Then they were all amazed and they marveled. It goes on to say they were amazed and perplexed. And finally it says others were mocking. Those are the signs of revival. Mocking, confusion, perplexity.

34:44 That's just a good move of God right there. And they didn't know enough to direct God. They didn't know you can't speak in tongues in front of unbelievers. They didn't realize that. tomar when he was baptized in water, he came up out of the water and the Holy Spirit came, rested upon him in the form of a dove and remained. Doves are very skittish birds.

35:52 And if you actually have one on your shoulder, you've got to move around pretty carefully so you don't frighten them, send them away. I ask people all the time if I have a dove sitting on my shoulder how am I going to walk around this room every step will be with a dove in mind every movement will be to protect that which I value most which is presence this idea of an open heaven Jesus lived in it continuously, and he was the prototype for your life and mine. the Bible says that the Father is jealous for the Spirit who lives in you. What demonic power can block the fellowship of the Holy Spirit in you and the Father in heaven?

36:49 There is none. for me to think that I live under a closed heaven when in fact the Father's jealous for the Spirit in me and there is no demonic power that can block that. For me to live thinking that I'm living under these closed heavens is to live, is to actually entertain a lie and empower the lie. When you believe a lie, you empower the liar. the Lord, I believe, would teach us through the presence of the Holy Spirit on our lives, teach us what it is to live in this open heaven.

37:28 It's not, there's such a thinness between this world and that one. There's such a, it's, I don't know, it feels like it's getting thinner. there's such a merging of these worlds. I'm sorry, it's real abstract, but there's this consciousness of the Spirit of God who was released from heaven through an open heaven. The heavens opened and the dove came upon Jesus. He came through an open heaven. And when the Spirit of God comes into your life, he comes through an open heaven. there is no war between god and the devil that wouldn't be a contest it would be no contest the infinite one against the finite one no it's always been against the powers of darkness and those made in his image Jesus became a man and defeated the powers of darkness on our behalf so we could step into his grace and his victory.

38:36 All right, so here, let's find a place to land this. Thank you. the Holy Spirit lives in me for my sake. He comes upon me for yours.

39:08 The Holy Spirit lives in you for your sake. but he comes upon you for the sake of the people around you. The point is, is to be a person that he would rest upon qualifies us to live in a realm of the impossible that we could learn no other way. For our lives, there's natural and supernatural. For God, there's only natural. that was a really good point it's too late you missed your chance it's only natural there's only one realm for him it's all his natural he doesn't have to crank it up to do a miracle he doesn't have to believe extra hard he speaks things are created so learning to be a people that host him, that give place to this open heaven. My prayer for you and for me, we've titled this Open Heavens because we love the theme.

40:18 but it's pointless if we don't increase our awareness of what God has actually given us, literally, an open heaven. It may be closed over there, but it's not right here. Your neighbor may have issues. But not at your house.

40:47 Not at your house. and I just have the sense that the Lord would increase our awareness. All progress in the kingdom happens through surrender. There's no progress apart from surrender. faith doesn't grow through striving it grows through surrender it's yieldedness and I've got this sense of the prayer time that we had today after the worship with just the sacrifice that Abraham gave I just feel like the Lord is bringing us into this place of well let me put it this way I've got something in my hands he has something in his hands if I'll drop what I have I get to have what he has and he wants to make that exchange with us where there's a consciousness or there's awareness of the Spirit of God who rests upon our lives and is ready to do impossible things in and through us.

41:48 I want to ask you to stand. We're going to pray together. man i i didn't even quote i didn't even read a bible verse i quoted some though I meant to, but I just didn't. Yeah, I felt I was supposed to start just telling you stories about the healing of the muscles, which is very, I've never done that before in a thing like this. But I feel like the Lord, here's what I felt. I sat in the staff meeting yesterday, and when I remembered, she said, and I'm from Minnesota. I felt like that one example would invite many people into a willingness to believe God much simpler than waiting for the writing on the wall. It was just, well, I'm from Minnesota.

42:50 It must be time. you have something happen at work. They just happen to bring up a subject you just talked about with somebody else. There's that unusual, hmm. Unusual coincidences at minimum are to show us we're in the right place at the right time. At minimum.

43:10 And I just believe the language of the Spirit is going to increase in our lives this week. And that I'm hungry to learn more. I'm in a place where I really, really bad need to hear. from God. And what I've noticed is that when he's trying to stretch me, he doesn't speak to me the way he's always spoken.

43:32 It's almost like he's on a different channel. You know, I'm on FM, he's on AM. I don't know if you guys still have radios, but I remember back in the caveman days, we used to have radios. And, you know, God's talking on AM and I've got it on FM claiming every channel I can. he's speaking I know he'll speak so father I do ask that you expand our heart enlarge our heart to live aware and conscious of who you are live aware and conscious of open heavens of the no power can block and interrupt the fellowship of the spirit of God with the father and that you would help us in our readiness and willingness to just do whatever you say to move in a way that you move We're just hungry. We're hungry for you. In fact, I ask that tonight, these next three nights, that you would fill our lives with dreams, with visions, with various encounters and experiences that reaffirm your word over our lives.

44:32 God, I do pray that every single person in this event, in this conference, would leave with a confirmation, with a confidence in having heard from God about something that troubles us or concerns us. I pray that that would be released here in Jesus' mighty name. In Jesus' mighty name. In Jesus' mighty name.