♪ You were close like no other ♪
♪ I've known you as a father ♪
♪ I've known you as a friend ♪
♪ And I have lived in the goodness of God ♪
Oh yes.
♪ And all my life you have been faithful ♪
♪ And all my life you have been so, so good ♪
♪ With every breath that I am able to breathe ♪
♪ Oh I've listened to the goodness of God ♪
♪ And your goodness is running after, running after me ♪
♪ With my life laid down, I surrender now ♪
♪ I give you everything ♪
♪ And your goodness is running after, running after me ♪
♪ With my life laid down, I surrender now ♪
♪ I give you everything ♪
♪ And your goodness is running after, running after me ♪
♪ After me ♪
♪ And all my life you have been faith ♪
♪ And all my life you have been so, so good ♪
♪ With every breath that I am able ♪
♪ I will sing of the goodness of God ♪
Sing that again.
♪ And all my life you have been faith ♪
♪ And all my life you have been so, so good ♪
♪ With every breath that I am able ♪
♪ I will sing of the goodness of God ♪
♪ And I will sing of the goodness of God ♪
Just lift it up.
Yes Lord.
Yes Lord, you're so good.
Thank you.
♪ No longer are you less but Christ in me ♪
♪ For I've been born again, my heart is free ♪
♪ The hope of heaven before and the grave behind ♪
♪ Hallelujah, you brought me back to life ♪
♪ I won't forget the moment I heard you call my name ♪
♪ Out of the grip of darkness into the light of grace ♪
♪ Just like Lazarus, you brought me back to life ♪
♪ Where there was dead religion, now there is living faith ♪
♪ All of my hope and freedom I found in Jesus' name ♪
♪ Just like Lazarus, you brought me back to life ♪
♪ No longer I who rest, but Christ in me ♪
♪ For I've been born again, my heart is free ♪
Hello, hello Bethel Online family.
We are so excited that you're here with us this morning.
You asked if I was gonna introduce myself.
I normally don't, but my name is Jamila Page.
I'm a pastor in Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry
and a pastor in our local church movement.
Hi, I'm Cassie Allen.
I'm one of our online revival group pastors
in our BSSM school online.
Hi to all of our students around the world.
We love you guys.
So fun to be with you this Sunday morning.
Yes, and I love the camaraderie that we're seeing online
from South Africa, and I saw Latvia.
Latvia, Poland, Brazil.
Yes, come on.
So many Brazilians.
Look it, from Finland.
You guys already know the drill.
You get on, you tell us where you're joining us from,
and we are so excited to have you,
not only with us in spirit, but with us on the broadcast too.
Yeah, it honestly feels like a family reunion in this room,
and we actually feel the same thing online
when you welcome each other.
Hi Ulrich, I see you.
When you start to welcome each other,
when you start to share where you're from,
when you start to just talk to each other
because you're actually part of our Bethel family,
you're part of who we are as a global movement,
and we're so grateful that what's happening in this room
is happening online too.
That's right, yeah.
I love what we were talking about
before you guys were added to the conversation.
We were talking about what we expected the Lord to do today,
and you shared something really beautiful
and powerful, Cassie.
Yeah, I felt like God was bringing hope to the hopeless.
Like there's impossible situations in your life,
and I felt like God was actually infusing hope
inside of people today.
If you've been in a place and you felt like
or you're looking for a word from God,
you're looking for fresh vision,
you're looking for hope,
you're looking for something worth living for,
God's gonna give that to you today.
There's gonna be a fresh deposit of hope in lives
all across this room, but all across the world
because God is infusing hope today.
So if it feels impossible, give your situation to the Lord.
Come on.
Let him into that situation.
Bring him in and see the impossible
become possible with a massive God.
Yes, and I love it.
Emily is breaking us open with testimonies
about that very thing.
She said a few weeks ago, she was on for prayer
about a missions trip and she encountered God
and the Holy Spirit in a new way
and is walking in true freedom now.
We're also praying with you.
If you need healing in your body,
if you're believing the Lord
for one of those impossibilities,
we want to stand with you right now,
even before we go into worship
and declare that the Lord is a God of his word.
He is reigning over all of our situations
and our circumstances and he has everything that we need.
So God, we honor you
that you're touching bodies this morning,
that you are touching families,
that you are blessing those who need your abundance.
You are touching those who need your faithfulness
in the form of peace and in the form of comfort.
Lord, we honor you for what you wanna do,
not just during this service, but throughout our lives, God.
Yeah, and I also felt this morning
while I was praying that there are people
who are waiting for like adoption stories,
people who are waiting and wondering
if they should adopt or foster.
And I feel like God is giving you a heart for his kids,
for the kids who are already here,
for the kids who need kingdom families,
mothers and fathers to bring them in.
There's gonna be a miraculous component
in your adoption story.
There is faith in the room.
There is hope that he's giving you
to actually step into your destiny.
So we bless you with that.
If that's something that you've been dreaming about,
something you've been praying into,
and it's felt impossible,
whether it's because of finances,
whether it's because of your living situation,
whatever it is, God is infusing hope for you right now
so you can actually step into the things
that he's called you to.
Yes, yeah.
This is gonna be a breakthrough service.
We've already heard testimonies from our 8 a.m.,
which doesn't get streamed,
but it definitely makes an impact
and serves as a foundation for the rest of our Sunday.
And they talked about the fact that Dano's gonna release
some beautiful prophetic words and mantles over us today.
I didn't find out, do you remember who is worshiping?
I think I saw Hannah Waters.
Ah!
It's Dan!
It's Dan Armstrong!
Miracles, that's what's gonna happen in worship today.
Miracles, expect breakthrough in your body.
Expect miracles to be poured out.
I am just anticipating that God is gonna show up
and show his character and nature
and teach us something in the realm of miracles.
Come on, sir.
I love these girls, they're amazing.
Come on, sir.
I love it, see, family reunion.
Everyone comes to the party.
That's right, so get ready.
I saw on here, Sally, you're looking for healing.
Your spine, we just blessed your spine right now.
We say pain, leave right now in Jesus's name.
Don't wait for just worship to start
for a miracle to happen.
Today is a great day to be healed.
Today is a great day to encounter the Lord,
to experience His goodness and His nature.
We're gonna worship together today.
Can't wait to do it with you
and we'll see you after service.
On that day, we join the resurrection
And stand beside the heroes of the faith
With one voice, a thousand generations
Sing worthy is the lamb who was slain
On that day, we join the resurrection
And stand beside the heroes of the faith
With one voice, a thousand generations
Sing worthy is the lamb who was slain
Forever He shall reign
So let it be today, we shout the hymn of heaven
With angels and the saints, we raise a mighty roar
Glory to our God, who gave us life beyond the grave
Holy, holy is the Lord, so let it be today
Let it be today, we shout the hymn of heaven
With angels and the saints, we raise a mighty roar
Glory to our God, who gave us life beyond the grave
Holy, holy is the Lord, so let it be today
Holy, holy is the Lord, holy, holy is the Lord
Holy is the Lord, holy is the Lord
Holy is the Lord, who was and is to come
Who was and is to come
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy
Just start to sing out your own song tonight.
Lift up a voice.
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Hold it
Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord
Holy, holy, holy
Singing holy
Holy, holy, holy
Singing holy
Holy, holy, holy
Oh, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Yes
Sing holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Yes
Sing holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
Sing it out, brother
Sing holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy,
holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy.
Check.
Well, good morning Bethel Church.
How's everyone doing?
You doing well?
Why don't you stand to your feet?
I see people standing around the edges.
We are so excited that you're here with us this morning.
God is going to move in incredible ways.
Hey, before we even jump in, why don't you find out who you're standing next to.
Say hello to them.
If you're online, joining us online, put it in the chat where you're from.
Let us celebrate together.
Great job, church.
Way to love on one another.
I love the buzz and excitement in the room.
Are you anticipating a move of God today?
I am.
I'm looking at the second row here, and I see the Revival Alliance in the room.
And maybe, just maybe, there's an alignment in the spirit for an increase of revival today.
Hey, I am believing God that he is going to move in worship in a pretty incredible way.
Let me read a scripture to you.
John chapter 10, starting in verse 37.
Do not believe me unless I do what the Father does.
But if I do it, even though you don't believe in me, believe the miracles.
That you will learn and understand the Father is in me, and I am in the Father.
When miracles are released, we learn something,
and we begin to understand something about the nature of union with God.
And I believe God is going to release miracles even while we worship and praise him today.
I really believe it.
I believe you don't, maybe today you don't need the laying on of hands.
If you came expecting, during our worship, as we look and behold him, I believe he's going to transform us.
And if there's anything in your body, any sickness, any disease, any problem, any mental attack,
God is actually going to just remove that in his presence today.
I want you to expect that.
And we're going to worship from a place of expectation.
Amen.
Why don't you raise your hands.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done in our lives.
In this place.
Spirit of God, we treasure you.
We adore you.
And we lift you high this morning in our praise and worship.
let us pray.
♪ Mmm. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ All around the world we're singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ Can you hear the earth? It's singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ The sun will dry so I'm still singing. ♪
Let's just sing that one more time.
♪ Rain down. ♪
We cry out.
We're singing.
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ All around the world we're singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ Can you hear the earth? It's singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ The sun will dry so I'm still singing. ♪
♪♪
♪ Looks like tonight the sky is heavy. ♪
♪ It feels like the winds are gonna change. ♪
♪ And beneath my feet the earth is ready. ♪
♪ Cause I know it's time for heaven's rain. ♪
Cause it's gonna rain.
♪ Cause it's gonna rain. ♪
♪♪
Cause it's living water.
We desire to flood our hearts with holy fire.
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ All around the world we're singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ Can you hear the earth? It's singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. ♪
♪ It's summer time so I'm still singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. Baby. ♪
♪ Back to the start. And my heart is heavy. ♪
♪ It feels like it's time to dream again. ♪
♪ Cause I see the clouds. And yes I'm ready. ♪
♪ To dance upon this barren land. ♪
Cause hope is in my hands.
Hope is in my hands.
Oh, it's living water.
Cause it's living water.
We desire to flood our hearts with holy fire.
♪ Rain down. All around the world we're singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. Can you hear the earth? It's singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. Summer drives so I'm still singing. ♪
♪ Rain down. Let it down. So do not shut. Do not shut. Do not shut. The heavens open up. So open up. Open up. ♪
♪ Open up. ♪
♪ Come to my heart so we're singing rain down ♪
♪ All around the world we're singing rain down ♪
♪ Oh can you hear the earth is singing rain down ♪
♪ And summer dries so I'm still singing rain down ♪
♪ Raining down and rain down ♪
♪ And all around the world we're singing rain down ♪
♪ Oh can you hear the earth is singing rain down ♪
♪ And summer dries so I'm still singing rain down ♪
♪ Raining down and rain down ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Can't stop us trying to break ♪
♪ Hey hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey ♪
Put your hands in the air.
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Try our tears ♪
♪ Living water we desire ♪
♪ Try our tears ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Living water we desire ♪
♪ River of living water ♪
♪ Fountains of living water ♪
♪ Living water ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ River of living water ♪
♪ Flood our hearts with holy fire ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ♪
♪ Living water we desire ♪
♪ Fountain of living water ♪
♪ Oh fountain, oh fountain, oh fountain of living water ♪
♪ River of joy, spring of wealth, oh God, yes it is ♪
♪ Spring of wealth, oh God, yes it is ♪
♪ Rain down, all around the world we're singing ♪
♪ Rain down, can you hear the earth is singing ♪
♪ Rain down, and some are dry so I'm still singing ♪
♪ Rain down, rain, sing that one more time ♪
♪ We sing rain down, all around the world we're singing ♪
♪ Rain down, can you hear the earth is singing ♪
♪ Rain down, and some are dry so I'm still singing ♪
♪ Rain down, rain it down ♪
I have watched how you drove by the sea and swallowed up my every fear.
I have walked from the shore to the deep, and through it all, you were there.
Mighty, deliberate, strong, oh, you are the great I Am.
We crown you with every crown for the way you saved us.
We crown you with every crown for the way you love us.
Oh, King of Heaven, we crown you the Lord of all.
I have watched how you led through the wild, the cloud by day and fire by night,
guiding me to your promised land.
Every step, you're by my side.
Mighty Redeemer, mighty Redeemer, strong to deliver, you are the great I Am.
We crown you with every crown for the way you saved us.
We crown you with every crown for the way you love us.
Oh, King of Heaven, we crown you the Lord of all.
Oh, yes, we do.
Oh, help, Redeemer, help, for He has died for me.
Your praise will never, never fail through all eternity.
Oh, help, Redeemer, help, for He has died for me.
Your praise will never, never fail through all eternity.
So we crown you with every crown.
We crown you, Lord, for the way you love us.
Oh, King of Heaven, we crown you the Lord.
We crown you with every crown for the way you saved us.
Oh, King of Heaven, we crown you the Lord of all.
Oh, no one else deserves this crown.
Oh, God, there's no one like you, Lord.
No one like you.
No one like you, God.
Oh, no one.
♪ No one else was worthy ♪
♪ No one else found worthy ♪
We love you great Redeemer, awesome Ruler.
Lord, you are more precious than silver.
And Lord, you are more precious than silver.
And Lord, you are more costly than gold.
Lord, you are more beautiful than diamonds.
And nothing I desire compares with you.
You, Lord, you are.
Lord, you are more precious than silver.
Lord, you are more costly than gold.
And Lord, you are more beautiful than diamonds.
And nothing I desire compares with you.
Nothing I desire compares with you.
Oh, sing it again, Lord, you are.
Lord, you are more precious than silver.
Lord, you are more costly than gold.
And Lord, you are more beautiful than diamonds.
More beautiful than diamonds.
And nothing I desire compares with you.
Jesus.
♪♪
♪ Let's explain the yes you are, oh Lord ♪
♪ To our God we lift up one voice ♪
♪ To our God we lift up one song ♪
♪ To our God we lift up one voice ♪
Yes we do!
♪ To our God we lift up one voice ♪
♪ We lift up our song to our God we lift up one voice ♪
♪ Singing hallelujah, to our God we lift up one voice ♪
♪ We lift up one song to our God we lift up one voice ♪
♪ Singing hallelujah, as your bride and boy, oh ♪
♪ To our God we lift up one voice, singing hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, ooh ♪
♪ How we love your name Jesus, your holy name Lord ♪
♪ How we love your name Jesus, you're the beautiful one ♪
♪ We love your name, how we love your name Jesus, Lord ♪
♪ How we love your name Jesus, you're the beautiful one ♪
♪ We love to tell you how much we love your name ♪
♪ We love your name, we love your name Jesus, Lord ♪
♪ Oh, it's by the name we sing, salvation in the name, oh ♪
♪ Oh, how we love your name Jesus, you're the beautiful one ♪
♪ We love your name, oh Jesus, and how we love your name ♪
♪ Jesus, you're the beautiful one, we love your name ♪
So we sing glory.
Now we sing glory to the, the righteous one.
We give glory to the, the righteous one.
We give glory, we give glory.
To the, the righteous one.
We give glory to the righteous one.
We love your name, Jesus, you're the beautiful one.
We love your name, and how we love your name.
Jesus, you're the beautiful one.
We love your name, and how we love you.
King of kings, how we love you.
How we love you.
Lord of lords, how we love you.
King of kings, how we love you.
Lord of lords, oh, sing that again.
How we love you.
King of kings, how we love you.
How we love you.
Lord of lords, how we love you.
We love, we love you.
King of kings, how we love you.
Lord of lords.
Fumbling over with love.
We're overflowing, we're overflowing
My cup is running, running, running, running over
My cup is running, running, running, running
oh sing that again
My cup is running, running, running, running over
My cup is running, running, running over
And you keep me running, running, running, running over
Send my how we love your name
And how we love your name
Jesus, you're the beautiful one
We love your name
And how we love your name
Jesus, you're the beautiful one
We love your name
Sing that one more time
And how we love your name
Jesus, you're the beautiful one
We love your name
Jesus, you're the beautiful one
We love your name
To our God we lift up one voice
To our God we lift up one song
To our God we lift up one voice
We're singing hallelujah
To our God we lift up one voice
To our God we lift up one song
To our God we lift up one voice
We're singing hallelujah
To our God we lift up one voice
To our God we lift up one song
To our God we lift up one voice
We're singing hallelujah
To our God we lift up one voice
To our God we lift up one song
To our God we lift up one voice
We're singing hallelujah
We lift our voice to sing hallelujah
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
We give you high praise today
We give you the highest worship today Lord
Lift your voice, lift your voice up
Lift your praise today
He is worthy
Lord of all
Highest praises
Lord of all
We bring highest praises
Lord of all
We bring to you today the highest
Highest praises
Lord of all
Highest praises
Lord of all
Lift your voice! Lift your worship!
Highest praises
Lord of all
Highest praises
Lord of all
Being thrown upon the praises of a thousand generations
You are worthy
Lord of all
And unto you this reign and risen King
We lift our voices and sing
You are worthy
Lord of all
Being thrown upon the praises of a thousand generations
You are worthy
Lord of all
And unto you this reign and risen King
We lift our voices and sing
You are worthy
Lord of all
And you're worthy
Oh, He's worthy, yes
And you're worthy
Yes, He's worthy, yes
Oh, Jesus, oh
And you're worthy
Yes, He's worthy
Oh, He's worthy, yes
You are, you are
So worthy
♪♪♪
♪♪
If you're able to stand, why don't you stand with us?
We're going to pray together.
I want to read a Scripture to you that has become increasingly
important for me in the last couple years,
and it's about the God of hope.
He's actually called the God of hope,
so hope is actually one of His names.
It's His identity.
And the measure of hope that you and I live with reveals the
measure of influence the God of hope has in our lives.
To live without hope is to live with another mindset
other than God's.
This verse is found in Romans 15.
It says,
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace.
That's a good start to this verse right here.
May the God of all hope.
All.
I love the word all.
I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh.
I love the word all.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and all peace in
believing.
See, great hope will always take you to great faith.
And the journey is filled with joy and peace.
It's unexplainable, goes beyond the reach of human intellect, it's not something that
can be contrived or created on our own, it's not the result of hype, it's simply the result
of the influence of the Spirit of God on a surrendered heart.
Great faith does not come from striving.
Great faith comes from great surrender.
Let me read this first part again in case you were daydreaming what I was reading.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound
in hope.
His intention is to make us ridiculously hope-filled.
Great hope is evidenced when circumstances do not lend themselves to great hope.
Otherwise, if you have hope when things are naturally hopeful, nobody will give God the
credit.
But when you have hope in difficulty, in challenge, in adversity, only He gets the credit.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound
in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
I pray this for you, may you, may us together abound in hope by the power.
Hope is not a mental exercise, it's an encounter with the all-powerful One.
And you got people around you that need a serious overdose of hope.
And I want you to pray.
I want you to pray.
In fact, I'm going to have you do this in just a second.
I want you to just put a hand on somebody's shoulder.
I want you to pray, God, make them infectious with hope.
Let their hope be so, let it be contagious.
Let them infect a community with hope.
Let's prophesy increased hope over their lives.
Great great hope, prophesy that over them.
Unconstrained hope, contagious hope, uncompromising hope, hope that sees, hope that discovers.
All right, you did good.
I pray our online community did good too.
Now wait, hold on.
Now lay your hands on your own heart and pray for the one who really needs this.
All right, you got to know how to pray for yourself, so do it good.
Be just as zealous as you were for your neighbor.
Pray for yourself.
God, may I be contagious in hope.
Increase the encounters with Your power, with Your presence.
We pray this in Jesus' mighty name, in Jesus' mighty name.
I really felt earlier in our first service that there's going to be pockets in our nation,
actually pockets of hope.
It's almost going to be like a bubble, a divine environment where there's extreme hope that
people will actually be burdened with depression and walk into the environment of hope and
not even know why, but they just begin to believe.
So I pray that for you, and I pray, I want to personally just thank you for the great
incredible strength and encouragement you've been to me and my family in this particular
season.
I'm so thankful.
We had such a glorious celebration and service Friday and then graveside yesterday, and just
really want to give you thanks.
And I've got many dear friends all over the room, but our Revival Alliance, six couples
that have been covenanting and meeting together for a number of years are here.
I want to honor them especially, and just thank you guys for being here.
I love you much.
John and Carol, Arnott, Randy, and Dan, and Ronald.
to Heidi, George, and Winnie, Che, and Sue, dear friends,
and I don't know, I just feel like a rich man
just being in the same room.
So, all right, why don't you turn
and bless somebody really good that needs hope
and tell them, get it, get it, get it.
So good, hey, why don't we take a minute
and just thank our worship team
for leading us this morning.
They did such an amazing job.
As you're heading to your seat,
just look at somebody and say, man, we're blessed.
Man, we're blessed.
I just am, I was just standing there in worship
just thinking, I cannot believe I get to be here
just in the house of God and His presence
with so many incredible people.
We are so rich to have so many
of our wonderful friends here today,
and it's just so beautiful to be part of God's family.
Amen, aren't you just thankful you get to belong
in a family and be a part of something amazing?
Well, hey, my name is Nathan Muller,
and I get to lead our outreach ministries here at church.
And hey, if you're here for the first time as a visitor,
I wanna welcome you.
Go ahead and raise your hand.
We wanna see where you're, oh my word.
Church family, look around and just look at all these people.
We are so honored to host you today.
Welcome to the family.
We're so excited you're here.
If one person from your family could keep your hand raised,
we have ushers that would love to pass out a contact card
so that we can stay connected to you
and begin this amazing relationship with you.
We love you, and we're so glad that you're here with us.
Hey, like I said, I get to lead our outreach ministries,
and we have an amazing event coming up this Saturday.
It's called the Backpack Giveaway.
Every year before school starts,
we throw the biggest pool party in town
where we give away backpacks
that are stuffed full of school supplies
to kids that are about to head back to school.
A lot of these families may struggle
to afford those supplies,
and so we wanna help out
not only in giving them physical supplies,
but in giving them an encounter with the love of God.
And every time we hand out one of those backpacks
full of school supplies,
they're encountering somebody believes in me, amen?
And we're sending that message of belief,
and we're demonstrating the power of God through generosity.
It's an amazing event.
There's a lot of different ways you could help out
to volunteer and be a part of it,
but overall, we're leading people into an encounter
with God where they're changed forever.
They feel that message of belief in who they are,
that they can succeed, that they can win,
that they can overcome,
and God shows up in radical ways.
We're gonna preach the gospel.
We're gonna pray for the sick.
We're gonna see people touched by him.
Last time we were at this venue,
there was a girl who had PTSD,
and after she gave her life to Jesus,
she had an encounter while she was being baptized
and was completely set free from PTSD.
God's just touching people at this event,
and we need your help to make it happen.
We've got a team that's out at the info booth
in our Hebrews Lobby.
You can go there and sign up.
You can also donate financially
to help pay for a backpack full of school supplies.
We so appreciate your help in this.
It's gonna be so much fun this coming Saturday,
and hey, we've got church news coming up right here,
so direct your attention to the screens.
Hey, Bethel family, we've got some updates for you.
Here's this week's church news.
This last week, we've had the opportunity
to celebrate and honor one of our favorites,
Pastor Benny Johnson,
and we so appreciate all of you who have joined us
to celebrate and honor Pastor Benny Johnson.
We're so grateful that you're here
and we're so grateful that you're here
to celebrate and honor Pastor Benny Johnson.
We so appreciate all of you who are able to come
and be a part of the celebration of life,
both for our local and our global-wide church family.
If for some reason you are not able to come,
we are gonna replay this service,
and you can watch this on bethel.ws slash Benny.
Well, as a children's pastor here at Bethel,
I'm so excited to announce this next thing,
which is to ask you guys to pray for August the 13th.
We're gonna have a backpack giveaway.
Can you guess what we're giving away, Joe?
Backpacks.
You got it.
Come on.
Exactly, that's to the children of Shasta County.
There's many of the children here in Shasta County
actually have a really tough start,
and it's great to be able to play the part
of a church in the community
that shows the children of Shasta County
that he sees them, that he knows them, and that he loves them.
We're gonna be giving backpacks to kids.
and we'd love you to pray.
And if you feel a little tug that you wanna help volunteer,
we're still looking for volunteers too.
So for more information, just go to Bethel.ws slash backpack.
We have an opportunity
to take this big, beautiful Bethel family
and break it down into portions
that we can all participate in,
where we can build community, we can be connected,
and we can be seen and known.
And one of the ways we wanna do that
is to invest in our leadership of these groups.
We are going to have, starting August 21st at 10.30
in the East-West Fellowship,
a four-week leadership training class.
We hope that you would sign up
and be part of this family-orientated opportunity
to reach the heart and lives of the people of Bethel Church.
Do you know, in Deuteronomy 6,
it says this little sentence,
parents, impress upon your children.
And it's a little key as to how we pass faith on
to the next generation.
And as a church, we'd love to support you in this,
and we're doing that
through BCS Encounter Discipleship Program.
This is a program, it's not a one-off event,
it's right the way through the school year,
it's for K through eighth,
and it's not just for kids, not just for parents,
it's for both together.
It's how do you bring the kingdom of God into your home.
To find out more and apply,
visit Bethel.ws slash BCS Encounter.
Bethel family, it is in our DNA as Bethel Church
to seek the face of God and his presence.
I don't remember a time
when that is actually more important than right now.
With everything that's been going on around in our world,
globally, and even personally in our own family,
September 28th through the 30th,
we are going to gather as a local family
and as a global family to do just that.
And we wanna invite you to register
at Bethel.com slash events.
So that's it for this week's Church News.
If you missed anything in these announcements,
please go to Bethel.com slash Church News.
Great job, Jeff.
Have the most amazing week.
Well, good morning.
Today is Mission Sunday here at Bethel.
And you know, we love the testimonies
of breakthrough and miracles.
You know, Paul says that I may know him
and the power of his resurrection, right?
And we celebrate those testimonies.
But what else does Paul go on to say?
And the fellowship of his sufferings.
And this morning, we're gonna be talking
about the power of his resurrection.
And the power of his sufferings.
And this morning, our missions moment
really is going after intercession.
Because there's a situation that's been unfolding
in the north of Mozambique that some of you are aware of,
where a group of violent, radical extremists
have launched a reign of terror on over 1,500 villages.
And these villages are the exact region
where Mama Heidi and Papa Roland
and Irish ministries have been ministering
for many, many years.
In fact, a number of their friends,
their coworkers in the gospel,
and even their spiritual children
have been victims in this just senseless extremist violence.
And so as a church here,
we just really wanna get behind them in prayer.
Just praying for a release, a breakthrough there.
Over 800,000 people have fled out of these villages
into the more urban centers.
So can you imagine eight cities the size of Reading,
all of a sudden uprooted, no homes, nothing,
but just the shirts on their back and on your doorstep.
That's the situation right now in Pemba, Mozambique.
It is desperate, but God.
We serve a God of hope.
And he's raising up his church,
and Iris is right at the front.
And that's just a little background.
I want you to hear the latest update from Heidi
on the screen above.
Love and blessings to all of you who pray for us
and care about us here in Northern Mozambique.
The past few weeks have shattered the fragile sense of peace
that was growing in Cabo Delgado.
Another series of attacks ripped through villages
and even targeted the main highway.
As you know, we have been relentless in our efforts
to meet the needs of the people fleeing violence
and those of our neighbors who are increasingly susceptible
in these times of local and global turmoil.
Our team mobilized immediately.
with an emergency distribution to serve thousands who arrived in Pemba
disoriented, afraid, and with nothing. And each month, because of your love, your
goodness, and generosity, and your prayers, we are continually reaching over 50,000
people with physical and spiritual relief. Food and shelter are valuable, but
an introduction to the beauty of Jesus, the source of eternal hope, is priceless.
We are so excited to be able to continue giving these Audio Solar Bibles out in
local dialects. We're able to bring them hope in a language that is their heart
language. When they're afraid, when they're war-torn, when their their hearts
are burning with pain and fear, they're hearing the Word of God night and day
and day and night. We are so grateful. In the enemy's campaign of terror and fear,
we are resolute in our response, and we rely on Holy Spirit to guide us. His
peace is what carries us above what we see with our eyes and understand with
our minds. We stand on the promise that God's grace is sufficient. With
overwhelming need and people suffering the debilitating effects of crazy trauma,
His grace is sufficient. And here, in this place, where all of our weaknesses are
exposed, His power is made perfect. Daily, we lift up our eyes to the Maker of
heaven and earth. He is our Helper. He is our Lord. He is our King, and we trust in
Him. We thank all of you for your extraordinary generosity, for standing
with us in the midst of this very challenging time, but also believing with
us for the greatest harvest we have ever seen. We bless you, we love you, and we
thank you. Ciao, ciao.
It is a heart-wrenching situation that's happening in Mozambique, but isn't it
wonderfully amazing that Papa Roland and Mama Ida and their Iris teams are there
to be the hands and feet of Jesus in this place. They are tangibly carrying
the love of Jesus, hope, joy, and peace, just as Papa Bill mentioned, because
that's who Jesus is. They're tangibly carrying Jesus as they wrap their arms
around the precious people in Mozambique. So it is our privilege as family, it's
what we do as family, we lift each other up. As family, we want to come alongside
Mama Ida, Papa Roland, and all the Iris team, and add our faith to theirs, that
breakthrough is coming, that the mighty harvest, the harvest that already has
been seen in the Spirit, the harvest is coming. In Jesus' name, I also want to
stir up a fire in your bellies, that you would begin to increase your prayers on
behalf of the people of Mozambique and the world. So actually today, we are
blessed to have Papa Roland and Mama Ida with us, and other members of the Iris
team. So good to see y'all in here, and I just want to take this time again as
family, let's extend our hands, extend our faith to them, where they're
sitting here, doesn't matter, this is in the Spirit, and we just want to release
our faith with theirs, to see the Lord be glorified in the land of Mozambique. So
would you pray with me? Sweet Jesus, we exalt you. Right now, we just exalt you.
We glorify your name above all the earth. We glorify your name above all the earth.
Thank you, Lord, for the way that you have been hugging, touching, providing food,
providing supplies, providing your very bread, your word, through the hands of
Mama Ida, Papa Roland, and the Iris team in Mozambique. We thank you, God, because
we know that your word does not go out and return.
and empty, it's gonna bear fruit, and the harvest is coming.
And in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name,
we declare that that harvest is coming soon.
Lord, thank you for their willingness to pick up
not just the cup of joy, but the cup of suffering.
Thank you for their yes to go to the hardest
and the darkest places.
Thank you for their yes to sit in the dirt
and to wrap their arms around your children in Mozambique.
So Lord Jesus, we just, again,
want to praise you and lift you high
and declare that you will receive all the glory
that is due your name, and that your joy
and your restoration, your strength,
I just feel like there's gonna be this bubbling up
of joy and bubbling up of strength
that the whole team is gonna feel in their bones.
They're just, they're gonna feel it
in every fiber of their being.
In Jesus' name, we pray these things, amen.
I'd like to welcome up Papa Chris.
These guys are like my superheroes.
John looks like the Marlboro Man without the marbles.
Well, I get to take the offering.
Why don't you stand?
You know, I turned on the television,
this is probably five years ago,
and it was on, and T.D. Jakes was on there,
and I love T.D. Jakes, and he could take one scripture
and talk for two hours.
And so I turned it on,
and he was in the middle of his message,
so I didn't get to hear the beginning of his message,
but he had a great big grocery bag full of dimes.
And you know, his church is this mega huge church,
and he's walking down the aisles,
and he's grabbing handfuls of dimes,
and he's throwing them in the audience,
and he's saying, for 10 cents,
you can make God your partner.
Ha ha, I was so impressed.
I rewound that to that spot, and watched it again,
and put it in my book, Poverty, Riches, and Wealth,
because I thought, this is what the Bible says.
For 10 cents on a dollar, you can make God your partner.
And he controls everything.
How'd you like to have a non-controlling, controlling partner
that only wants 10 cents on a dollar,
and you get to keep 90?
I mean, that's a good deal.
I mean, think of my Corvette.
It's 10 cents on a dollar right there.
I get to drive, anyway, that was supposed to be funny,
but it was kind of real.
Anyway, we're gonna do the first reading,
because it's the only one I have memorized.
Are you guys ready?
You wanna put it up there?
There we go.
Let's do this together.
As we receive today's offering,
we are believing the Lord for jobs and better jobs,
raises and bonuses, benefits, sales and commissions,
favorable settlements, states and inheritances,
interest and income, rebates and returns,
checks in the mail, finding money,
debts paid off, expenses decreased, blessing and increase.
Thank you, Lord, for meeting all my financial needs
that I may have more than enough
to give in the kingdom of God
and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
Okay, now, that's good.
I want you to put your hand on your heart,
and I wanna pray Deuteronomy 8.18 over you.
People say, well, money has nothing to do
with your relationship with God.
I propose that sometimes it does.
When God blesses you in that way, right?
I'm just saying, you can have money and not have God.
You can have God and not have money,
but you could have both.
So I'm just pointing that out.
It's not wrong.
So, Lord, God said to Moses,
Moses, tell the people
that I'm gonna give them power to make wealth
that I might show my covenant that I have with them.
And so, Lord, I just release this over all of our people,
that, Lord, that you would give them power to make wealth,
and that wealth would be real kingdom wealth.
It wouldn't just be money,
but it'd be real kingdom wealth that has no sorrow to it.
And we bless this movement, in Jesus' name,
there would be more than enough
to do everything that the king and the kingdom needs
and even wants, in Jesus' name.
Why don't you just say, I receive that for myself,
for my children, for my children's children.
Jesus name. All right, you can be seated. You can pass those bags. You can put up the slide. Yeah,
you already did that. There's other ways to give right there if you'd love to give.
And I just, yeah, so good. I want to, could I have the Revival Alliance guys stand up?
I know Bill mentioned them this morning, but would you have all the Revival Alliance,
these guys? I love these guys. I just really wanted to give honor to those who deserve honor.
Why don't you just extend your hands to them? No, stay up for just a minute. You guys,
these guys are really the leaders of our network with Bill Johnson. And they have, you know,
sacrificed to be here. Heidi and Roland were actually in Africa like two days ago. And they
flew all over the world to be here. And I'm just so thankful for them. And they have been a huge
encouragement for Bill and Benny for many, many years. And they really are the apostles and
prophets, the real foundation of our entire movement. And so, Lord, we just bless them
right now in Jesus' name. And we pray, God, for you to overflow in blessing in their life,
pressed down, shaken together, running out all over. And Lord, we pray for their health. We pray
for the mental, physical, emotional, spiritual health. And we pray, God, that you would give
them the anointing of this house as they travel home this week in Jesus' name. Amen. Thanks for
standing. God bless you guys. And then finally, I get to introduce Daniel McCollum. How many of
you have heard Daniel McCollum? Daniel and I have been partners in crime for many years. We have
done the School of the Prophets for, I think this is our 16th year. And he's here because we're doing
the School of the Prophets this week. Would you welcome Daniel McCollum, one of the greatest
prophets of our time.
I cannot tell you how weird it is to be asked to speak with all your kingdom heroes all in one room
looking at you. It's hard not to feel self-conscious. I know. I was like, I wonder
whether, and now I know. I wonder why you guys were having me speak. I'm like, because none of
you wanted to do it. Because it's a little intimidating. No, it's such a privilege to be
with you today. It's such an honor to be in this house. And I want to give you a free gift real
quick. I wrote a book called Bending Time. And we have a version, a digital version of it that's
free for all of you. My wife Regina, who's on the front row, she and one of our trainers got together
and just did like a little book club where they discuss every chapter. And it's really fun. They
talk about real life challenges and what things are working and not working. And it's really
awesome. But you can get the digital version of the book by going to activateprophecy.com.
It's got a bunch of our courses there, but this one is free. And I'd love to just sew that into
you and all those that are watching as well. And the idea of the book is this, that too many of us
live like time is our master rather than our servant. And you know, when you feel like you
never have enough time, you know that time's in the wrong position. Is anybody with me? Maybe
you're just under conviction. I don't know. But you know, I found that time is a measurement of
duration relative to your awareness of the kingdom of heaven. That's why we say time flies when you're
having fun. Because when you're in joy, you are in the kingdom. You're in a kingdom realm. And so
time loses its grip on you. And so time is just a created reality that is relative to your
awareness of the kingdom of heaven in any given moment. And so if we realize that we're seated
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, it begins to do weird things with time. And I want to invite
you in to that wonderful weirdness of the multiplication of God's purposes being fulfilled
in your life and in this generation. So check it out. And I hope you enjoy that. Hey, we're going
to jump right in today. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19 and 20. This is a pretty familiar portion of
scripture. But it says, Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow
citizens with God's people, and also members
of his household built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ
Jesus as his chief cornerstone. Let's pray. Father help me. And Lord we
thank you that your Word is living and active, powerful. We pray that you'd make
it so for the glory of your name in the building of your kingdom. Amen. I am here
for the School of the Prophets. Chris and I founded the School of the Prophets
together about 17, 18 years ago. We can never figure it out. And then I also am
co-founder of the Prophetic Company, which is a group of prophetic trainers
that are helping to rewrite what the prophetic looks like in our generation.
Not because what was before was bad, but because we believe it's our
responsibility not to spend inheritance, but actually to increase inheritance. And
so we take what we've learned and we make it something more. We're contributors
not consumers, right? And so we're building into that. Some of you've
heard the stories how we use the prophetic and spiritual gifts to help
find missing children and solve crimes and things like that in places all
around the world. And that's been a really fun adventure. But I believe in
the foundation of Apostles and Prophets. As a matter of fact, in my lifetime, one
of the things, one of the privileges I've had is to be able to watch the Lord
rebuild the church on this foundation of Apostles and Prophets, and honestly
very much so by this group of people right here, which is pretty
amazing. But church looks entirely different when it's not built on this
foundation. It just looks way different. I grew up in a denominational church
that didn't preach the gospel. We only had one service, one hour a week. That's
why I first learned about bending time in reverse. Yes, exactly, because one hour
seemed like an eternity. I remember there was a big clock on the back wall and I
would watch it. I swear it wouldn't move. It would just, you know, because in a
atmosphere that is void of the presence of the Lord, time slows down,
you know. And so I'm a teenager growing up in a church. We don't know anything
about Jesus. Don't know anything about the Holy Spirit. It's torture. We're not
singing the great hymns of the church. We're singing the lost hymns of the
church in keys unknown to man. And we don't have a cool band. We have one lady
on an organ. She bought the organ. That's how she gets to play it. And in this
environment, they tell me that heaven is a never-ending church service.
And I'm like, what's hell like again? Could you...
Seems like an important decision.
Then we got a new pastor who was born again. And he began to teach salvation by
faith through Jesus Christ. And we all got saved. And my life was so
drastically changed. I had the privilege of 15 years old leading 2,000 people to
Jesus by the time I was 17. And touring many places with a band and things like
that. And then I found out about the Holy Spirit. I didn't even know there was a
Holy Spirit. And I was in church every week of my life. And you know, to be filled
with the Holy Spirit and to experience His joy and His presence and His power.
And the things I've seen now. I mean, oh my goodness. We were in Krasnoyarsk,
Siberia. We had three resurrections in 24 hours. I know. It was amazing. And just
some amazing things. And that's what happens on the foundation of
the Apostles and the Prophets. That's what happens when God's church
looks like it's supposed to look, honestly. And we're thankful for every
gift. I mean, pastors, teachers, evangelists, we're thankful for every
gift. But it does look different when we build God's thing God's way. Doesn't it?
And I want to talk about that a little bit today.
day. And I want to talk about what it looks like a little bit when it's not built that way.
So one of the things I've found is that when a church is not built on the foundation of apostles
and prophets, then what tends to happen is the pastor, and this is just a tendency, it's not a
judgment, it's just an observation, but the pastor tends to be happy when they pastor the old man
out of his dysfunction into a place of health, and then everybody's good.
But in an apostolic prophetic foundation, you are compelled by the vision of your new creation in
Christ Jesus, and you're only content when you've pastored the new man into his destiny.
Big difference. Big difference. In the church that's not built on an apostolic prophetic
foundation, you can have this great teaching, just powerful, purposeful teaching, but we tend
to limit our experiences to our knowledge of scripture or our interpretation of scripture.
It was never meant to be that way. It was meant that as we're having experiences, we would find
them rooted in the word of God. That as things are happening to us, we'd go back and we would
find where is that in scripture, and guys, this was my life. Coming from a cessationist background,
I was having things happen to me that I was taught against, and I came from a lineage
of ministers that taught against this for many, many years. So as I'm having these experiences,
I'm invited to leave that lineage. It costs me something, you know, but I found that
some people teach to create boundaries and others teach to create freedom,
and when we're built on an apostolic prophetic foundation, one of the things that we're able to
do is contextualize people's experiences in the word of God, and that is of a different nature
entirely. Even an evangelist looks different. Growing up in the Jesus movement was such a
wonderful time. It's part of why I was able to lead so many people to Jesus, but I gotta be honest,
it was kind of guilt-motivated having been in an evangelist meeting where they guilt you into
your responsibility to lead people to Jesus, and honestly, I always felt like I was selling
something rather than celebrating someone. You know, leading somebody to Jesus is not selling
something and closing the deal. It's celebrating the life of Jesus in a way that makes people
jealous and want to have what you have, but on the apostolic prophetic foundation, it's
oftentimes evangelists would preach the gospel of salvation, and when they got people into
salvation, that was kind of where it would stop, and that was my life for a while. Even after I
was born again, it's like Jesus is the way, Jesus is the way, and that's the only message I knew,
and that's the only message we preached, and so we all came into Jesus and stood in the way.
You know what I mean? But he's the way into something, not just out of something,
and we find that the evangelists built on the apostolic prophetic foundation
not only preaches the gospel of salvation but the gospel of the kingdom of heaven,
and so we're not only coming out of something, we're coming into something.
We're not only getting people into heaven, we're getting heaven into people,
and this has been my glorious journey with these amazing people right here that all had
such an impact on my life because they've helped to rebuild the church on an apostolic
prophetic foundation, and I am forever grateful. Can we just honor them one more time?
But what does that foundation look like on a personal level? We talked about what it looks like
on a church level because I want to take it down to maybe its lowest common denominators. I want to
oversimplify this a little bit, and so forgive me, an oversimplification will always have,
you know, its points of error, but just maybe to clarify it personally, let me say that I believe
that the prophetic foundation is the grace for the inflow and the apostolic foundation is the
grace for the outflow. In other words, the prophetic is where we receive.
the voice and the vision.
And the apostolic is where we receive
the power and the purpose.
And every one of you was meant to live
with the dignity of hearing the voice of God.
See, God's goal was not just to get you cleaned up
and send you into the garden for another try.
We are not garden variety Christians.
We were always destined for the throne.
And so I lived a reality where I was forgiven
but not free.
And then I was free but not full.
And I realized that the purpose of the gospel
of Jesus Christ was not just to forgive you of sin
but to free you from the power of sin itself
and to free you from the nature of sin
so that he could fill you with the fullness of God.
His goal was always to fill you with the same thing
that fills God himself.
And so that we could begin to live from a paradigm
of fullness and abundance rather than lack and scarcity.
So the Lord wants you to live with vision
and he wants you to be voice activated.
The most powerful thing in the world
is to know that you can recognize and respond
to the voice of God.
Nothing will make you more powerful.
And so God puts the prophetic grace upon us
for vision and for voice.
In the last days I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh says the Lord
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy.
Joel 2.28 as well is paralleled in Acts 2
when that came to pass.
And the idea is this,
that God wanted every son and daughter
to have the dignity of recognizing and responding
to the voice of God.
Come on, the first challenge in the garden
was the challenge of uncertainty.
Did God really say?
Yeah.
And the enemy has been beating the church
over the head with that ever since.
Did God really say?
But when we're built on an apostolic prophetic foundation
we can say the word of the Lord came and said.
And we have that confidence.
We have that dignity.
There's many forms of social justice
that don't restore dignity.
And you know, that's really just mercy work.
Right.
The ultimate form of social justice
is the restoration of dignity.
And nothing gives you more dignity
than to know that you can recognize
and respond to the voice of God.
This is the prophetic grace,
but the apostolic grace, what is that?
It's the power and the purpose.
You were created with a purpose.
You were created to commune with the voice.
You were created to experience visions,
but you were created to have a purpose
and to be empowered to fulfill it.
The Christian life was never meant to be hard.
It was meant to be impossible.
You're not supposed to be able to do it
without Holy Spirit.
The greatest tragedy for a believer
is to live an explainable life.
These are just broad strokes.
And certainly we're only at the infancy
of understanding of what the Apostolic Prophetic Foundation
and all the precious gifts of the fivefold really look like.
And these are, again, just tendencies.
But I believe that one of the greatest symptoms
that we have when we're not built
on an Apostolic Prophetic Foundation,
and unfortunately many people haven't caught this yet,
is we have a come and do gospel
rather than a go and do gospel.
See, it's the apostolic that gives us the go and do.
Jesus said, freely you have received, freely give.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils,
preach the kingdom of God.
And what happens sometimes is that in our quest
for deeper connection and for the sweetness
of His presence, which is absolutely a reality,
but it is a in Christ reality that's already there,
that's already available.
And when we live with a come and do mentality,
it's like we're never responsible for the outcome
because He didn't come.
And if we are responsible for the outcome
and He didn't come, then we get all guilty
and heavy laden because we didn't pray hard enough,
fast hard enough, we didn't do enough good works
to get God to come.
I can't tell you how many worship services I've been in
in countries all around.
the world where they are trying to get God to come to a place where he said, if two or three are
gathered in my name, I'm already there. We don't actually worship the Lord into the room. We
worship ourselves into a recognition of the reality that's already present. And I'm not
saying that God doesn't come and inhabit a room with manifest presence at times. No,
he absolutely does. And that is an entirely different thing. But I think we are not aware
enough of the reality of Christ in you is the hope of glory. Christ in you is the secret to
all of this. And so the apostolic is what gives us the go and do assignment, not just the calm
and do prayer. The come and do prayer like God come and do this and come touch my city and come
in. And guys, I was an excellent beggar. Honestly, I would read all these books about revival and I
would and I would enter into the pathos of something I really didn't understand. And it
came to the point literally I was praying three times a day. And then I saw in Psalms where David
said seven times a day, I will praise you. And so I switched it to seven. I'm not kidding.
Start every year with a 40 day water fast and then fast, you know, a couple of days a week.
And all this was in the name of revival. And guys, I'm for fasting. I'm for prayer.
I'm for I'm consuming the word. I mean, I love all that. But it can put you in a place
where you have this wrong idea that what we do is going to make God do something different.
And the problem with that is when you don't realize that when you ask Christ in,
no matter how good at following him, you are or bad at following him, you are.
God is really good at what he does. And when you say God possessed me,
he took that opportunity and filled every fiber of your being with the resurrection life of Jesus
Christ. And that's why the scripture says that all fruitfulness comes from remaining in him,
from abiding in him, from staying in his love. Why? Because it's not something we're achieving.
It's something we're receiving. It's something we're unlocking.
I was reading on an airplane one time, a science digest. Somebody had left it in the
pocket behind the seat. And I opened it up. And on the front cover, it was something called
sudden savant syndrome. And I was really interested in this because I'd been teaching
on creativity for a while. And as I read, it was about people who'd had head injuries,
and suddenly they could play the grand piano, like play classical pieces. They'd never
studied piano. They could draw amazing pieces of architecture and things like that. And they were
chronicling all these different sudden savants who, through a head injury, were suddenly able
to do something they couldn't do before. And they were trying to explain it with science.
And they said, well, we know that we only use a small percentage of our brain. And when part
of the brain gets damaged, the brain will start seeking pathways through unused territories of
the brain. And that's where creative genius lies. And so this is what they're saying.
But it was their conclusion that was my favorite part. They said, or perhaps all of us already have
creative genius. And the genius is less an issue of acquiring skills and more an issue of removing
obstacles. Colossians 2, 9 and 10 is one of the most terrifying verses in the scripture to me.
It says in verse 9, all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in Christ in bodily form.
What does that mean? Everything in God the Father, everything in the person of Holy Spirit,
and everything in pre-existent Jesus was in earthman Jesus. All of it. Fullness. Do you
believe that? I believe that. That's not the terrifying part. The next verse says,
you have been given fullness in Christ.
What fullness?
All of the Godhead dwelt in Christ in bodily form.
And you have been given fullness in Christ. What?
That's a mystery, but it's.
The reality.
And what if it's not about, Lord, come and do this,
Lord, come and do this, Lord, come and do this,
but it's rather the secret of removing the restrictions
that unlock the fullness of Christ inside of us.
John G. Lake said, the great healing apostle said,
we're excellent beggars, but we're poor believers.
We're asking God to come do revival,
to come give us power, to come do this or that,
and all these things are good, but he's already done them.
We're waiting on Jesus to come and do,
we're waiting on the church to take the mandate
of Jesus Christ and to go and do the same things
that he did and even greater things.
How do we do that?
Well, we have to unlock the fullness.
See, you've been given the fullness of Christ,
but you are functioning in measure.
And this is what the fivefold gifts are for, actually,
for the equipping of saints to do the work of the ministry,
to build the unity of the faith,
till we come to the full knowledge of the Son of God,
but listen to this part, attaining to the measure
of the stature of fullness
that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ.
In other words, the graces of the gifts
are releasing measures of fullness inside of us.
Or let me say it this way,
you already have everything you need
pertaining to life and godliness,
but it is unlocked through the knowledge of him.
I used to think that an impartation
was me receiving a grace from someone,
and I'm not sure that's actually how,
I mean, a gift from someone,
and I'm not actually sure that's how it works.
I think, actually, the fullness of Christ is inside of me
and someone else's grace is unlocking that fullness.
It seems more consistent with the biblical record.
And so the Apostolic Prophetic Foundation
takes us from a will you come and do
to a come on, church, go and do.
Be the revival.
You know, events of revival are only opportunities
to reveal what the normal Christian life
is supposed to look like.
The revival's supposed to be in you and from you,
and you are the catalyst of that revival.
You are Jacob's ladder, come on.
You are what was behind curtain number two
that every buddy in the temple longed to experience.
The fullness, the highest concentration
of manifest presence on planet Earth
was behind curtain number two in the Old Covenant.
But when Christ died on the cross,
it was ripped from top to bottom.
It came out behind that curtain
and it went into the believer.
You are now the highest concentration
of the manifest presence of God on planet Earth,
so go and do.
Go and do.
And this is what the Apostolic Prophetic Foundation
has helped us do.
It's helped release that grace
because part of the apostolic is the authority,
it's the power of signs and wonders and miracles.
Part of the prophetic is the voice to hear
where and what and how and to have that instruction.
And then as we root it in scripture,
it not only becomes an experience,
it becomes a lifestyle because without the roots,
it's not, there's no fruit, it's not reproducible.
And so the word, we begin to draw the life
from the word to reproduce this as a lifestyle,
not just as a one-time event.
We start pulling upon the pastoral grace
to build communities where we see each other
according to their heavenly man
more than their earthly man.
The scripture says, so from now on,
we make it our goal to view no one
from an earthly point of view,
even though we used to do Christ that way.
We used to just think he was a carpenter, a great teacher.
We saw all his value in his functions
and in his earthly identity, but then one day,
you are the Christ, you are the son of the living God.
That revelation came and changed the foundation.
It changed the paradigm.
And this is what we're saying is like, there is a shift.
There's a shift that's happening
and the people that have been part of that shift
are largely in this room right now.
And now we have a decision.
What foundation are you gonna build on?
Now, of course, Jesus is the cornerstone, come on.
Everything, what is the cornerstone?
It is, it determines what will be built on the foundation.
How generous of God just even to include us
in the foundation.
You know why?
Because God's value is relationship,
his method is partnership.
He could do it all himself,
but because his value is relationship,
he chooses to do it together with us.
And so a cornerstone is the brick
that every other brick in the building is patterned after.
And so he is the pattern,
but he allows us to be part of this foundation.
And so I'm so thankful today
for the apostolic and prophetic foundation
that I've been able to build my life on
from, again, people in this room.
Such a change of life, such a change of paradigm,
but there's one other prophet in this foundation
that I'd just like to honor for a moment today,
and that is the joyful intercessor.
Yeah.
Part of the foundation we have, you guys,
is someone who rewrote what prayer
looked like in our generation.
And, you know, you used to be able to tell an intercessor
by their hairdo,
by their stress and anxiety levels,
by their weirdness.
And I love weirdness in Christ.
But then along came a lady who caught ahold of a truth.
Along came a prophet who caught ahold of a truth
of joyful intercession.
And as I was meditating on it,
I thought about Isaiah 56, seven.
It's actually speaking to a different group of people,
but the truth applies to us as well, I believe.
He said, these I will bring to my holy mountain.
He's talking about foreigners.
He's talking about Gentiles,
prophesying one day what would happen.
These also I will bring to my holy mountain.
I will give them joy in the house of prayer.
Their offerings and sacrifices will be acceptable
on my altar, for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.
And I thought about some of the things
that were said at the memorial.
Eric said, she rewrote the narrative on prayer
and made it cool again.
She did that, didn't she?
Chris Valden said, she had a connection
with the spirit realm that to this day
has laid a foundation for our whole movement.
And Cindy Jacobs, the great general of prayer said this,
she changed the face of the world.
And how many can say they've done that?
If that were coming from anyone else,
it would sound like a grandiose statement,
but coming from the great general of prayer
and intercession, it's got some weight to it.
And what am I saying today?
As I meditated on just this one incredible deposit
that this prophet in the house laid in our foundation,
I also thought about the story of Elijah and Elisha
in 2 Kings chapter two.
And in 2 Kings chapter two, roundabout verse 10,
he says, hey, I'm about to leave, what can I do for you?
And he said, I wanna have twice.
I wanna have a double portion of what you have.
And he said, you've asked a hard thing.
That's interesting.
He said, you asked a hard thing.
Why is it hard?
Because honestly, there's nine promises
for a double portion anointing in scripture,
at least nine that I've found so far.
And then of course, the nature of God, who is he?
He's the one who does exceedingly abundantly above
and beyond all we ask or think or imagine.
So it's not hard for God to do double.
I think Elijah was thinking, wow, the road I took
to get this anointing, I don't want you, my son,
to have to walk that same road.
But beautifully enough, that's not how it works.
People open up a breakthrough for us.
And sometimes the reason the size of your battle
is disproportionate to the real issue
is because you're fighting for more than yourself.
You know, that's true in resurrection as well.
It's not hard to raise from somebody from the dead.
It's just challenging to work through hundreds of years
of mindsets that God doesn't do that anymore.
It's not the one event, it's shifting the mindset.
And so this prophetic foundation,
He says, I want a double portion.
He said, you've asked for a hard thing.
He said, nevertheless, if you see me when I go,
you'll have the thing that's requested of you.
And then as soon as that happens,
down comes the chariot and the horses.
And Bill has a great message on this,
so I won't even try to elaborate on it.
But what happens is he's taken up to glory, Elijah,
and then the mantle drops.
And Elisha steps over and tears his own garment
because he's saying, no turning back.
And he picks up the mantle and he rolls it.
And he goes over to the water and he strikes the ground.
And he says, where is the Lord God of Elijah?
And the water parts, and he walks across on dry ground.
And as I was thinking about the incredible contribution
of the life of Benny Johnson, not just to this house,
not just to our movement and to the world,
but in the prophetic and apostolic foundation,
she laid something new, the joyful intercessor.
And as I began to meditate on it and saw this story again,
I saw people who were taking their dry prayer life.
I was seeing people who lost the joy of their salvation.
I was seeing people where prayer had become a burden
and a work rather than a grace and a delight.
And I was seeing them take the grace.
In the first service, I said mantle, but I don't,
it wasn't the mantle, it was the grace.
They were taking the grace of Benny Johnson
and they were striking the ground.
And this time, instead of the water dividing,
they were striking the dry ground
with the grace of Benny Johnson and saying,
where is the God, the Lord God of the joyful intercessor?
And joy began to bubble out.
And I began to see joy hitting people in prayer times.
And I began to see the alabaster room couldn't even fit,
the alabaster house couldn't even fit all the people
that were coming for prayer.
I saw people standing outside and peering
through the windows and there wasn't even room
for everybody, but they were getting hit
in the yard as well.
And I was seeing that people were coming here
just to renew their fountains of joy.
Joy in the house of prayer.
And I want you to know that whenever an anointing
is in the room, whenever the anointing is in the room,
it's easy because their grace is making that ability
available to you.
But as soon as you're out of the room,
you find that grace harder to access
unless you personally appropriated it while you were there.
And this is what I'm saying.
If the fullness of Jesus is already inside of you
through the work of salvation,
through the infilling of the Holy Spirit,
everything heaven has to offer is already in you.
You're not getting installments.
The fullness of Christ is there,
but we're functioning in measure because we haven't seen,
because we haven't heard,
because we haven't taken responsibility,
because we haven't applied our intention to our intuition.
Graham Cook taught us, it will do by intention
what we've done by intuition will achieve acceleration.
In other words, when I start doing on purpose
what has just kind of been the flow in the past
when I realized, oh, this is how God likes to move
in this way, and I start stirring that and going after it,
then it becomes a lifestyle, not just an encounter.
And I'm telling you that we are at an interesting point
in history as a movement right now
because one of our Elijah's has been taken to glory.
We're not standing by a Jordan
that we need to part and make dry.
We're standing at a dry place that we need to strike
and see the joy of the Lord begin to bubble up.
But right now we're choosing
whether we will just honor and celebrate and remember,
whether we will take the grace of this foundation
and personally appropriate it and say,
what I saw in the prophet Benny Johnson, I will take.
I'll take that grace and I will strike the dry places
and say, where then is the Lord God
of the joyful intercessor?
And I will strike that place until I see joy bubbling up and watering the weary ground
Where people's prayer life is recaptured by the passion of Jesus?
by joyful encounters by seeing things transformed
the Lord has something beautiful for us today, and I think it's I
Think it's time-stamped
Think it's time-stamped. I
Want to thank God for the foundation we have
when I
First entered the church. It didn't look like this
Wasn't just my church. It didn't look like this
It looks different
Well done good and faithful servants, and you're far from done, but well done
But as one of our foundation's stones has gone on to glory
There's a grace laying on the ground today
and you could do no greater honor to the life of Benny Johnson than to take it and
to strike the ground and say I
Not only want this I want to expand this I want to walk this in greater measure
And for those of you that have been dry and weary
For those of you that have lost that joy of your salvation and even or or just even the grace to be in that place of prayer
I'm telling you there's good news today
There's good news today
The fullness of Christ is in you and a prophet has gone before you to unlock a well of joy
And a fountain of grace and all we need to do is just say
She had that and
I will take that I will build upon this foundation, and I will live in the place of joyful prayer in
Jesus name
God bless you guys
I
Want you to stay exactly where you are for a moment
Dano has offered us an invitation I
Said to him after first service. I couldn't imagine another person
Being able to do what he did
than him
he took a moment a
Word and a person with an intimate knowledge of this house
and
Has offered to us an invitation
There's an atmospheric anointing that you have an invitation to appropriate
There's a transition from crying out to God to come and do to us being the ones that go and do
He talked about hearing the voice and seeing the vision, but accessing the power and making it our purpose
That's the invitation. I
I
Said to sue in the car when we were driving here, and she said to me
We went to on it. We're going to honor Benny, but we're taking something home
Take something home, please take something home. Let's just take a moment
Dano said in first service. This is a unique moment. I believe he's exactly right this moment will not be here again
This is a unique weekend a unique moment
Many of us have been privileged to be in this house in similar unique moments, but this is a unique moment
Will you choose
We've been taught in this house
make my
sealing your floor
Build on the foundation of other generals reads God's generals and make sure that we don't lose
but right now
our general
Our general is the one that we can choose to do something about right now I
Don't know what it means for you whether you kneel but he put your hand on your heart with you raise your hands to heaven
You might even want to take your jacket off and hit the ground I
Think that's what Benny would probably do
Father
Would you allow us in this room and everyone watching and everyone listening
to take this moment and
choose
To live the rest of our lives not memorializing
Not remembering moments in your past
presence, but choosing to be changed.
Would you allow us to do that?
And today we choose to take that grace
and to hit our personal ground,
wherever it is and whatever it looks like,
and to expect joy and laughter and breakthrough
and promises and prophetic answers
to happen in our lives and in our homes
and in our lands and in our nations
and in our ministries and in our workplace.
Today we choose to hit the ground today, this day.
Mark today, mark it, mark today, mark it.
On your phone, your journal, your Bible, mark it.
It's timestamped, it's timestamped.
We choose to live the rest of our lives,
to honour an anointing, a prophetic word
and mantle that we've been around for all these years,
but we choose to believe for the increase,
for the greater works, for the double portion.
In Jesus' name, don't let us leave here without it.
In your name, amen.
Amen.
You can stay where you are.
There's a couple of other things you wanna do.
The ministry team can come to the front,
but maybe you're here today and you've been listening.
Maybe you're here and you're thinking,
how can this house be talking about the loss of somebody
at the same time talking about hope and joy?
It's because of Jesus.
And maybe you don't know Him
and we have a team over here to my left
and they would love you to come.
You can come straight away now if this is you
and you have never said yes to Jesus Christ.
You don't have a clue what we're talking about.
You don't know how to access joy and hope
in the midst of difficult stuff.
You need Jesus in your life.
I want you just to come straight down to the front here
because He is the answer.
And the fullness that Dan talked about
is available for every one of you.
So you can come down to the front there.
If you have sickness in your body,
come down to the ministry team here.
They would love to pray for you.
This is a house we have seen so much breakthrough
in physical, emotional, mental healing.
Come to the front.
Just come down to the front.
But lastly, one very special thing.
Heidi is speaking tonight.
Mama Ida is speaking here tonight.
You might wanna get here early.
It has been known for Heidi to fill the room rightly.
So she's speaking tonight.
But come to the front if you need prayer.
Come to the banner on my left.
If you do not know Jesus Christ,
if you do not know what it's like
to have a life filled with joy and hope
in the midst of stuff you do not understand,
and for everyone else,
do something today that marks today
because this was a calendar moment
in the life of Bethel Church.
And you do not want to waste this moment.
Have a great rest of your day.
Come forward to the front for prayer.
If you don't know Jesus, go to the banner.
Maybe tell somebody what you're gonna do.
Maybe get to the prayer chapel,
but mark this day.
Online family, we are just wrapping up
an incredibly powerful service.
I feel it just even as Paul Manwaring was closing today
that there is an actual deposit available for us.
I felt it even in the room.
I feel it's still stirring right now.
I want you to stay in that place.
That if there's something available for me
because I'm sitting in here,
it's available for you wherever you are.
We know that we have family all over this room
who are so hungry for more,
who are looking for a tangible way to receive
what it is that has been deposited
not only to our house, but to our movement.
And I want you to respond.
I want you to respond.
Maybe you can put it on this chat
and say, today is my day.
Today is the day the Lord is marking me.
He has said something to me.
And I want you to write it.
I want you to say it just like he was saying on stage.
It can either be something of significance
or it's just another day.
But we really believe that today was the day
for impossible things to be broken,
for God to invade into our lives.
And I feel it now.
Yes, it's so good.
It's so good.
I love the reminder that in Jesus dwelt all the Godhead
and in us is the fullness of Christ.
We have everything that we need.
I'm just reminding us of something.
before we take a step away from this time in the presence,
that in us is all that we need.
In us is all that we need in Christ.
Christ is in us and everything that we come to,
every riverbed, whether dry or wet,
whatever we need it to be,
the Lord has anointed us with his very spirit
to speak to it, to address it,
to see it transformed before us.
I am so, so excited about what is going to come
out of this day and I love it.
We're seeing you all throughout the chat.
This is the day.
This is today.
Today is my day.
This is what happens.
The family of God, the body of Christ,
the bride gets touched.
It's not just one of us.
And even today during worship,
I felt the Lord giving us a hug.
I said, God, is that for me?
Is this my hug?
He said, I'm hugging my body.
This isn't just for one of us.
When we see here, today is my today.
Today is our day.
We are getting touched.
This body, we're getting touched.
Jesus, we thank you for what you're pouring out, God.
We thank you for what you're doing,
not only here, but all around this room,
all around the world for your brothers and sisters,
for your kids, God,
for the ones who love you so dearly.
Jesus, we thank you for how you're moving.
Yes, Lord.
I would love if you would take the time
to write out the things that the Lord's revealed to you
in this message.
I'd love this week if you would take the time
to sit and prophesy over yourself.
What is this message going to change in your life?
How is it going to be different with you
because you are beginning to unlock the fullness of Jesus?
That's right, and take time to pray.
There was something released today
for prayer and joyful intercession.
What they were saying today,
if it's been dry for you, try it again.
When you release and when a grace is released
and we get to receive that grace,
it means that the next time we try to do that very thing,
something different is going to happen.
So for you, spend time in your prayer closet,
pray with friends, pray with family,
and just see what God unlocks for you.
Something, the fullness inside of us was unlocked, right?
So test it out.
See what God is doing.
Pray this week and just experience the joy that comes
as you press in, interceding, not begging,
interceding with heaven.
Right, sons and daughters don't beg.
They just eat.
There's a place at the table for every single one of us.
We get to actually enjoy and feast
among the presence of God.
Yes, and I love it because Paul closes out so beautifully.
I want to invite you to also do some prophetic acts
in your prayer time.
I saw the Lord showing me that I would take my Bible
and hit the ground with it.
I saw folks take their shawls and hit the ground with it.
Others got on their knees.
But as a prophetic people,
we're gonna take prophetic action
and appropriate the anointing
that was just released over us.
Exactly, exactly right.
We are in a moment of history.
I see that all over the chat.
Today is a beautiful day to celebrate what God's doing,
but guys, it doesn't stop here.
Tonight, we have the wonderful,
incredible, powerful Mama Heidi.
She'll be speaking at our 6 p.m. service.
If you're in Reading, I recommend you get here.
If you're online, tune in.
We'll be live on YouTube and Bethel TV.
This is a chance for us to experience
the more of God together.
Yes, and I love what she carries.
Having been all over the world touching God's people
in the most destitute places
and in the most powerful ways,
I'm excited because I feel like the mantles
that just got started today being handed out
are just gonna continue tonight.
So we invite you to join us back here
and worship with us
and then receive from the Lord through Heidi.
We love you guys so much.
We're believing that this week, today is our day,
but it doesn't stop here.
We get to now go and do the things
that God has given us authority over,
that he's given us power to go do.
We don't have to stop on just a Sunday.
Come on.
This doesn't just stop in a church service.
Now we get to go beyond the walls
and show people the power, the love of a loving Father.
Yeah, so let's pray for them.
Lord, we honor you for what you're doing.
We thank you for the encounters that are only beginning.
We thank you that you are moving in us
and reminding us of the truth
that you in all your fullness, you live in us
because that was always your plan.
We bless your week.
We bless you, people of God, family, Bethel family.
We bless you to experience God in so many different ways.
The ways we can't even articulate
because he has a plan far beyond our ability to comprehend.
So bless you in every way that you can receive blessing
to encounter the Lord
and also to appropriate the anointing of Benny
and that just got released through Dano.
And we'll see you tonight at six.
Love you guys.
I love you.
God bless you.
We just love your presence.
We just love your nearness.
Friend above all others.
Right here, right now.
All sufficiency.
You are all we need.
Amen.
I love you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord.
Oh, yes.
Oh, we sing of the goodness of God.
Your goodness is running after.
It's running after me.
Oh, yes.
Your goodness is running after.
It's running after me.
Your goodness is running after.
It's running after me.
As my life's in doubt, I surrender now.
I give you everything.
♪ Your goodness is running after me, it's running after me ♪
♪ All my life You have been faithful ♪
♪ All my life You have been so, so faithful ♪