Bethel Church Service | Kris Vallotton Sermon | Worship with Emmy Rose, Kory Miller, Mari Helart

us over us. And as far as the east, from the west, he has removed all our sins. We are forgiven. by his blood. Far as the east from the west, he has removed all our sins. We are forgiven by his blood. Thank God I'm for by his blood.

I see. All I see is the battle. You see my victory tree when all I see is the mountain. You see a mountain. And as I walk through the shadow, your love surrounds me. There's nothing to fear now for I'm safe with you. So when I fight, I fight on my knees with my hands lifted high.

Oh God, the battle belongs to you. Every fear I let you free. I'll sing through the night. Oh God, the battle belongs to you. And if you are for me, you can be against me. For Jesus, there's nothing impossible for you. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh God, the battle belongs to you and all mighty fortresses. Oh, you go before us and nothing can stand against the power of our God. Cuz you shine in the shadow. You win every battle. Cuz nothing can stand against the power of our God.

Oh mighty fortresses. You go before us. Nothing can stand against the power of our God. You shine in the shadow. You win every battle. Nothing can stand against the power of God. Almighty fores you go before nothing can stand against the power of you shine in the shadow. you and everyone.

Nothing can stand against the power of the way. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. But I'll be lost to you. I'm done fighting in my own strength. I'm done fighting in my own power. I'm ready to hit my knees. I'm ready to hit my knees. I'm done fighting in my own strength.

I'm done trying in my own power. I'm ready to hit my knees. I'm ready. just had that picture. We're doing that song. Just this thought of could I get some cool like music in the background so sounds a little more inspirational. But I had a um just this thought of like some of us just need to hit our knees and quit trying so hard to to figure things out and to battle.

And there's just something about like hitting your knees and raising your hands just be like you are worthy. You are holy. I got nothing else but that. >> So, let's do that. Trying to think of something we could sing in this key that would be I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned in awe of the one who gave it all. and I'll stand my soul, Lord, to you.

Surrender all I am. >> Let's do that tonight. Lift your hands and sing this. And I'll stand with arms high and heart abandoned in awe of the one who gave it all. I'll stand my soul to you. Surrender all I am. Heat. Heat. Oh, heat, heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. to his name. >> And I'll stand with arms high. I'll send my soul Lord to you surrender all I am is yours hungry for Show us your glory. Show us your We are standing on the holy ground and I know there are angels all around.

Let us pray. We are stand. Come on, lift your hands and sing it again. We are standing on holy ground. And I know that there are angels all around. Let us praise Jesus now cuz we are standing in his presence on hold. We are standing in his presence. >> Hello.

Hello. >> Hello. Good evening. >> Hey, Bethl online community. We're so happy to be with you tonight. We hope that you are having the best Sunday, that the sun is shining wherever you are at. Probably setting now, but we hope that you've had an amazing amazing. >> Oh, that's very true.

Depending on where you're watching from, but we hope that wherever you're at, whatever time zone you're in, that you're having the best day, and we're so excited to be with you tonight. >> Yep. I'm Cassie. This is Tori. Guys, it's been such a good day. >> It has been.

I feel so grateful for God. I just feel I don't know. I feel really thankful. Um, I was telling Tori, Tori and I ran into each other this morning at our favorite coffee shop. And uh, this is real time, real talk. Does anyone else love a good morning coffee?

A little evergreen coffee. >> A little evergreen coffee. Reading, you know, evergreen. >> Yes. If you come in, it's a actually I don't know if I want to say it's a must go cuz >> it is a must go. Get a waffle, get a little cup of coffee, a little cap. >> Everyone's going to come to my favorite spot.

It's okay. It's fine. I'm We're fine. You guys can all come. Um, but anyways, I was talking to Tori and um, I woke up this morning and my power was out in my house, guys. I woke up, couldn't turn my lights on. I went I've been doing this like morning Bible reading time and I went to turn my lights on, couldn't turn it on, got ready in the dark. >> It's actually pretty scary when you're like, "Wait, I have no lights.

Does my toilet work?" Not 100% sure. Vulnerable. Vulnerable. Um, and I was getting ready this morning. I was like, "Jesus, what's going on?" Like, I don't have power. And oddly enough, yesterday I went to Toyota um to get my car serviced because I've been having issues with my passenger side um window going up and down.

There's something weirdly off about the power. >> And as I was um sitting at Evergreen, just drinking my coffee, just having time journaling with the Lord, um I felt like the Lord was prompting me and actually talking about um what it looks like to walk without power. And I felt this thing like, oh, I I I feel like the enemy I I don't know if this resonates with anybody.

I'm wondering because it's something that I feel like I'm walking through right now. Um, I I feel this this interesting thing where I feel like the enemy is trying to uh take places where the body of Christ is meant to walk in power, in authority, knowing that Jesus has given them authority to um cast out demons, raise the dead, uh heal the sick, um cleanse the lepers, and and so much more to make disciples of all nations, to uh prophesy, to all the things, the supernatural things that the Holy Spirit empowers us to do.

And I was feeling this um conviction but also this beautiful invitation into walking in power. And as I was um coming up the hill, actually before the hill um as I was driving, I I felt the Lord prompt me to uh well John 1 and then I was reading in Matthew 10 and it talks about sending out the disciples.

He said Mark 6 and I was like oo Mark 6 God like what are you going to be talking about? And um I felt it was about uh well Mark 6 is not I can't it's not a feeling about it's actually about sending out the disciples and being marked with power.

Jesus giving them authority. Um and then the Lord reminded me of Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him. And I was curious if there were any people who were on this call and maybe you've been feeling similarly like me, like God, I actually need to see the power of God move in my life.

Maybe you're on this call saying, "Uh, I need a a miracle. I need a a move of God in my life, in my marriage, in my family." Maybe you're in that place and you're just like, "Ah, I stopped walking in some of these things, but I feel like God is prompting me and saying, "No, you you were meant to be a conduit of the Holy Spirit to move and walk with his radical power."

And if that's you, I'd love to pray for you. I want uh I know Tori's got something she's going to add on to this in just a second, but you can add in the chat if that's you. You're like, "Oh, actually, I want to be walking in this way."

I was just so surprised. I'm like, "God, I didn't even realize it was like these random things that were happening in my life." And I feel like I just I don't know. Maybe with everything else that was going on, I just felt like I took a different heart posture and I'm like, "No, Lord.

I'm I'm supposed to be a woman who's walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, who's running after the lost, who's prophesying over over different people, who's running after and praying for the sick. And so, I don't know if that's anyone or maybe you're watching this back and you're saying, "Oh, that feels like me."

Like, I feel like I've just been walking, whether it's, I don't know, like dryness or whatever it is. But God, we just pray even tonight that there would be um a fresh outpouring. Jesus, we're having uh physical water baptisms, but God, we're asking that you would drench people in the Holy Spirit tonight.

That you would baptize Aresh in power and of the Holy Spirit, God, that you would come and mark your people. If there if there's anybody, Jesus, who's struggling, who felt similar uh similarly to me, or maybe you're just saying, "Oh my gosh, maybe that has been me." God, I pray even now that you would begin to remind people that you are the one who gives authority.

You're the one who baptizes people. You're the one who marks people. You're the one who actually gives us the ability to do what would be otherwise absolutely impossible. It's just through Jesus. It's just through Jesus. So, if that's you and you're needing that, God, I just pray that you would pour out on your kids.

That you would baptize them aresh, God. That you would remind them that there is an outpouring available of the Holy Spirit right now. >> Yeah. God, >> every day, but right now. >> Yeah. And even I'm reminded in scripture, it's not by might nor by power, but by the Holy Spirit alone, that we don't walk in power because of anything that we do, but we walk in power because we're actually empowered by the Holy Spirit.

And so, Holy Spirit, I ask that you'd fill whoever is watching this live or even when they watch it back again that God that they reminded of the Holy Spirit and reminded of the power of the filling of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus, I even ask that um I feel like some of you guys are going to be watching this back um tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning for us.

And I want to remind you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to put on the armor of God, which is putting on Christ, which is putting on himself, and that you would be uh filled with Christ from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet, that you would be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I was telling uh Cass what I've been feeling today, what I've been feeling probably since the very beginning of the year. Um, I've been on this portion of of the river and that anything that the river touches comes to life again. That he is life. That he's the only way.

He's the only truth and he is the only life. That he is abundant life. That he came to give us abundant life. And I feel like maybe some of us um have just been experiencing life that have been experiencing grief, have been experiencing pain. And I just want to remind you of a portion of scripture in John 4 when Jesus comes to the woman at the well.

He says, "If you only knew who I am and the gift that God wants to give you, you'd ask for a drink and I would give you living water." And then uh skipping through in verse 14, it says, "But if anyone drinks of the living water I give them, they will never thirst again and they will be forever satisfied."

And I just want to remind you guys that we have the availability to drink from the living water. That he is the bread of life, that he is the lifegiver, that he's come to give us abundant life, that he's come to give us abundant joy. And actually when we drink of him, when we are filled with him, we are filled with his kingdom.

And his kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy. So if you have been struggling with maybe a little bit of grief, a little bit of heaviness, maybe maybe some depression in your life, I I feel like it's actually be it's time to be filled with the living water that takes away grief, that takes away pain.

And I even feel like the Lord is lifting off years of grief where um even nagging thoughts that keep coming into your mind where it's just like a loop cycle of thoughts. A loop cycle of oh, I did this thing wrong and I can never make it right again.

I'm here to remind you that he is the living water and you will be forever satisfied when you take a drink of him. Come on. And he's available for all of us. >> And he is. Oh my goodness. And I see so many of you, Jonathan, you're saying, "I receive it."

Some of you are saying, "That's me." Uh we say yes. Holly and Willie and Lori and and so many others. Galindo and uh maybe that's Alexandra. So sorry I might have just read your last name. Jennifer and and so many others. But God, we just thank you, Lord, that you are available.

And Lord, I I even pray, God, that you would uh teach us what it looks like to drink in your presence tonight. Some of you are like, "What does that even look like?" God, I just pray that you would um >> you would fill us with you. >> And we just say we're hungry.

We ask that you would fill us, God. You might even just take a heart posture right now where you lean back and you um get in whatever posture, heart posture, physical posture that allows you to receive where you're not making something happen. You're not having to um strive for it, but you're actually just leaning back into the loving arms of your father and allowing his spirit, allowing the Holy Spirit come and fill you.

And so God, I pray that our people would drink deeply that anything, oh my gosh, anything is possible with God. And I just uh I just believe so many of us are going to learn what it looks like to drink in his presence tonight. >> Yeah. And I'm uh taken to uh Revelation 22 uh talking about the river of the water of life.

Um and in verse two it says, "The river was flowing in the middle of the street of the city and either side of the river was the tree of life with its 12 kinds of ripe fruit according to each month of the year. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of nations."

And I feel like the Lord actually just wants to heal people tonight with the river of living water. And uh specifically, I feel like uh maybe some of you guys who are watching have a heart issue. Um and I feel like the Lord just wants to heal your heart.

And not just a phys, not just like an emotional thing, but an actual physical thing that the Lord wants to heal your heart. >> Come on, guys. We're about to go into worship. We have um Emmy Rose, Corey Miller, and Mari Heler leading us in worship. Powerful word from Pastor Chris and the availability of Jesus.

May we just get lost in him as we lock eyes and worship our king. Guys, we love you. We'll see you after service. Bye. >> For the honor of your name, >> Jesus. Everything for the honor of your name. Everything everything will be on the wrong. Nothing held back for you.

Everyone just lift up your voice to the Lord. There's no more you are your name. We lay our lives before you. My name is before you search me and know God everything for the honor of your everything. You're my whole life. For you are in my world. For you everything.

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Jesus. Oh, I love you. Oh, I love you. Oh, I love you. Jesus, I love you. Oh, how I love you. >> Oh, how I love you, Jesus. I love you. I love you. I love you. Oh, how I love you, Jesus.

I love you. I love you. Oh, you are the center of it all and my heart belongs to you. My savior all and all. You're the one I hold on to. For the beauty of your name, my soul will live to say, "Jesus, I love you." My soul will live to say, "Jesus, I love you." >> My soul will live to say, "Jesus, I love you.

I mean missions. Hey family, how you doing? 6 o'clock family. Welcome everybody. It's good to see you. Come on in and have a seat. Yes. Welcome to 6 o'clock. It's so good to see you. You know, I love it. I see people talking and enjoying each other. And that's what it's about, being a part of the body of Christ.

Well, listen. My name is Tanya Pittz and I've been given the privilege to welcome you. So, that's what I'm doing. You know, but it's nice to welcome me welcome you. But you know what? Uh >> oh, hold on a second. Can everybody hear me? Okay, great. Keep going.

All right, great. I just wanted to make sure. Okay, it's a teacher and we make sure everybody's hearing me. Okay, it's one thing for me to welcome myself and tell you welcome, but it's important for us as a body to welcome each other. So, listen. I would like for you, whether you're an introvert or extrovert or an amvert like me, to stand up and go greet your neighbor and tell them, say, "The Jesus in me loves THE JESUS IN YOU."

GO do it. You can smile at them. You can shake their hand. You can give them a hug. Come on. There you go. That's it. >> Okay. Oh, you I love it. And listen, as you head back to your seats, as you come back to your seats, everybody, I want you to know tonight that you have full permission to be who God called you to be.

YOU HAVE FULL PERMISSION TO BE AS wild and free in this environment. >> LISTEN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE RESTRICTED BY THAT CHAIR. SO, I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO THE ALTAR. IF YOU WANT TO COME AND dance and shout AND WIGGLE AND JIGGLE, IT'S UP TO YOU.

IF YOU WANT TO raise your hands, it's up to you. All we ask is that we bless the Lord in spirit and truth. Amen. >> Amen. Enjoy the Lord today. I've seen your faithfulness move in the wildest ways. I've seen your glory falling. So come and fill this place.

I know you're always working. See time and time again. Oh yes. God of impossible powers in your hands. You're doing miracles. No matter the circumstance, I know you're always working. See time and time again. Oh. Lord my God, you are my rock, my strength, you are my hope, my joy, my rightousness.

I can't stop singing of your neverending goodness. Oh yes, I will forive. I will praise your name forever. I've seen you cry a lot. Even the darkest day, healing the broken hearted. Filling your church with faith. You show where you're walking. We want you in this place. Oh my god.

You are my You are my home, my joy, my righteousness. I can't stop singing of your neverending goodness. I will forget. I will praise your name forever. I will praise. I will praise. When I look When I look to the cross, I remember what you've done. What a savior.

What a savior. When I think of your son, everything you give to us, I remember. Oh, I remember when I look to the cross. I remember what you done. What a savior. What a savior. When I think of your son, everything you gave to us. I remember when I look to the cross.

I remember what you done. What a savior. What a savior. When I think of your song, everything you Oh, you're my God. You are my rock, my strength. You are my home, my joy, my living. I will praise your name forever. When I look to the cross, I remember what you done.

What a savior. What a savior. When I think of you, everything you get to I remember. Oh, I remember when I went to the cross. I remember what you done. What a savior. When I think of your song, everything you can do, I will never. Oh Lord, my God, you are my rock, my strength.

Yes, you are. You are my hope, my joy, my righteousness. I can't stop singing of your neverending goodness. I won't forget and I will praise your name forever. Come on. That was a nice golf clap. I think Jesus deserves a Super Bowl clap. So good. It's baptism Sunday.

I'm not just normally up here in shorts and my dogs are hanging out, but uh we're Today's just a great day. I mean like what better is this than to see people get baptized to follow the Lord in his death, burial, and resurrection. The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 that God in his mercy.

How many just love thankful for the mercy of God? In his mercy, he saved us. It's by grace you've been saved through faith. That not of yourselves. It's not a anything that any of us could work for or earn. And uh and so tonight, man, we're going to hear some from some awesome people on why they want to get baptized.

Maybe you're in this room right now and you just hear their testimony of why they're getting baptized. I believe the Lord's going to touch some people here, maybe even online, that it's time for me to make a full surrender to Jesus and give your life to Christ fully tonight.

Amen. Why don't you go ahead and just sit right where you're at there and uh they're going to come on out here. Come on up, guys. We got some kids getting baptized tonight. >> All right. All right. You're just going to share tonight what's your name and why you want to be baptized. >> My name is Lesie and I realized that my whole family is baptized so I needed to be baptized.

Awesome. Come on, man. Right there. Good job. What's your name and why you want to be baptized? I know your name, but they don't. So, >> my name is Joy and I love the Lord and he is my savior and I want to tell and I want the whole world to know that. >> Come on, Joy. >> My name is Deacon and I feel like this is just the next chapter with me just like getting to know God better. >> So, good de My name is Darby and I want to get baptized because I know that God laid down his life for me and I feel like this is the next thing I need to do to show the world that I want to serve him and I want to be his faithful servant. >> Come on, DARBY. >> My name is My name is Viv. >> There we go. >> My name is Vivian and I want to be baptized because I want to show the whole world my commitment to Jesus Christ.

Um, I'm Paola and I'm just ready to give my life to Jesus and follow him for the rest of my life. >> So good. Come on. >> I'm Ally and I want to get rid of my whole old self and live fool my life for Jesus and just receive fuller's love. >> So good.

Come on. Hi, my name is Ed and I'm renewing my life to all the people I love. My great Christian friend Escobon, David, and Jennifer Jesus. >> You all Jesus. >> God bless. >> Getting baptized into Christ, right? >> Yes. >> Into Jesus. Not into people, >> but in Jesus.

Right. I am with very strong with the Lord and the Lord are taking care of me all of my life and he's watching me right now and he's going to be very glad that I renewed my life with Christ. >> Come on. Love it. It's my friend Ron.

I'm Ron and uh the reason I'm getting baptized is I was approached by two angels one night after I just was a wreck and uh they healed me while I was sitting on my walker out in front of my place. >> These are two of our BSSM students who came to pray for him. >> It has been without a doubt real. >> You hadn't been able to walk in two years, right? >> I've been I was in a walker just for Yeah. two years or more. >> And then they prayed for you where >> I had to be I couldn't even really go anywhere. >> They prayed for you and then what happened? >> They prayed for me and they prayed for me like three different times.

I mean, and it lasted close to an hour probably. And I mean when I when I go up, if I just stood right up and then I was on my way to my door, I just pushed my walker towards the house and walked right into it. Walked right into my house.

I usually not even be able hard to get into my house, but I just stepped right up in there and I pushed my walker over to the corner and went in, made something to eat, and I just It's just so real. I just can I could I can't hardly stop smiling right now, you know.

Um, >> was that the night blessed, man? >> Was that the night you gave your life to Christ? >> Yeah. Yeah. I but to except for the other day when I came to church. It had been 60 years before I went to church. I don't know it took me so long but >> we're glad you're here >> now.

But we love you, Ron. >> Bless you. >> Hi, my name is Payton. I want to get baptized because I'm ready to give my life to God and grow in my faith. >> Come on, Payton. Her name is Edendia and she's from Mexico and she's been in pursuit of Jesus and she came to Ready and she heard that Jesus is here.

So, and she's been encountering the Lord since she's been here. >> Amen. Why don't you go ahead and stand? We're going to go back into worship now. Woo. If anybody needs healing in your body, you can't walk tonight's your night, just start walking. Just walk by faith. Walk by faith.

Maybe you're in this place and you'd say, you know, you you've been you've been playing in two worlds and uh one foot in the world and one foot in God. And somebody invited you tonight. You don't even know how you got in this room, but tonight's your night to to just let the world get broken out of your life and get fully surrendered to Jesus.

Amen. Jesus died on the cross 2,000 years ago to set you free from yourself. Set you to destroy the power of the devil, to deliver you from pornography and addiction and everything else that would try and pollute your mind and give you a sound mind, freedom, and hope.

Amen. So, if you're in this place, man, the kingdom of God is here and he's moving in power tonight and he's here to set you free. So, if you're in this place and you say, "You know what? That's me. I need I need freedom in my life. I want Jesus.

I'm not talking about religion or man's ways. I'm talking about just like what Ron said, this is so real. Christ coming inside of you." If that's you right now, man, the grace of God, the mercy of God is here to meet you. I want you to just raise your hand up right now.

If that's you, just raise it up high. If there's anybody here, raise it up high. Come on. Come on. Okay, listen. If you want to get baptized, there's a hand back there. Okay. God bless you. If you want to get baptized tonight, if you feel like that's for you, right over here, Adam's They're waving their hand right now.

You can come have a conversation with them and they'll see if they're together with you if that decision is right for you tonight. Okay. God bless you guys. to the world. Yeah. Oh. Everything changed. It's getting harder to recognize. The person I was before I encountered Christ. I don't walk like I used to.

I don't talk like I used to. I've been washed from the inside. I've been washed from the inside. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Could have only been the blood. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Could have only been the blood. Oh, I cannot explain.

But nothing's more real than this in the presence of God. Oh, what my heart experienced. When my shame hit the wayside and my sin met the most high, I was washed from the inside. I was washed from the inside. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Hallelu.

Hallelu. It was the blood. Could have only been the blood. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Could have only been a blood. Hallelu. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. performance. Heat. Heat. Heat. free. Does anybody want to be holy and righteous? Let me tell you just Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat. We thank you Jesus. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Where would I be without you? Hallelujah. Hallelu. I know it was your blood. Could have only been your blood. Hallelu.

Hallelu. I know it was the blood. But if not again, hallelujah. I know it was your blood. Could have only been your blood. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was your blood. Could have only been the blood. Oh, just tell him thank you. Thank him for the blood. Thank him for the cross. >> Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jes. Thank you. Oh, pour it out. Oh, pour it out. Thank you Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. around you. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Hallelujah. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Could have only been the blood. Hallelu. Hallelu. I know it was a blood. Could have only been blood. And closer than a brother and closer than my breath.

Rest darkness and rescued from my sin. My maker and my master somehow calls me forever. You are my all in all my everything. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Whatever I'm searching for, I'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Cuz he is our price, our portion forever.

And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find it. Everything I need to hold the rock of my salvation and rock on which I stand. You ran to me in mercy and I run to you again. My shepherd and my stronghold. Lead me till the end.

You are my all and all my everything. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it at the feet of Jesus. I'm never searching for, I'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Cuz he is our price, our portion forever. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find him.

And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in. Oh, we find it in you, God. Where else could we go but you? Cuz you save redeem, you heal, you set free. You are my joy. You are my strength. My all in all, my everything.

You save, redeem, you heal, you set free. God, you are my joy. You are my strength, my all in all. My everything is save, redeemed, you heal, you set free. You are my soul. You are my soul, my all. Come on. Every voice you say you save redee.

You are my joy. You are my everything. Whatever you find Jesus whatever I'm searching for. I'll find Jesus. Jesus Christ our forever. All that we're looking for. Whatever you find at the feet of Jesus. Whatever I'm searching for, finding the Jesus. He is our Christ forever and all that we're looking for.

All that we all looking for. All that we need we find in there. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in heaven. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Whatever I'm searching for, I find it at the feet of Jesus.

Cuz he is our prize. A portion forever. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him.

Oh, we find it here at your feet, God. Where else could we go? Cuz you have the words of life. Cuz nothing else satisfies. Oh, no one else satisfies like you, God. Our bread of life, the words of life. We find it right here. We find it right here.

Just with you, Jesus. It's always been you, Jesus. Oh, just look to Jesus tonight. He is the source of life. Come and look to Jesus. Cuz only you satisfy me. God, you satisfy. Cuz only you satisfy me. Lord, you sing that with me. Cuz only you satisfied. Only you satisfied.

Cuz only you sisfy. No one else but Jesus. And only you satisfy me. Only you sisfy. Only you sisfy can fulfill my deep sisfied only. And only you satisfy my greatest joy in you. Cuz only you satisfy. No one else is the way. And only you satisfy. Oh, just sing it a few more times.

Remind yourself that only you sisfy. Heat. Heat. You sisfied redee. You are my soul. You are my strength, my heart and my everything. You save your team. You heal. You set free. You are my joy. You are my strength. My heart my set. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Cuz only you're satisfied. Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Whatever I'm searching for, I'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Cuz he is our prize, our porch forever, and all that we're looking for. >> Let's sing that one last time. >> Whatever you're looking for, you'll find it at the feet of Jesus.

Whatever I'm searching for, I'll find it at the feet of Jesus. Cuz he is our prize, our portion forever. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him. And all that we're looking for, all that we need, we find in him.

See, no other king, no other king gets the glory. No other name is like yours. No other God is still living. There is no one like you, Lord. The wounds that you bore are my healing. The blood that you shed, it still speaks. The crown on your head is still proving there is no one like you, Lord. for you.

Rain above it all. Victorious, wonderful you are, living seed on the throne. How glorious, wonderful you are. You are the Lord of the nations. Oh come, take the place you deserve. With heaven and earth we cry holy. There is no one like you, Lord. know there is no light you are for you above all victorious wonderful you are on the throne How glorious, wonderful you are.

For you are great above you all. Yes, you do. Victorious, wonderful. You are living on the throne. How glorious, wonderful you are. Oh, it's you. It's you. It's you. It's you. It's only you. It's only you. You conquered the grave and you took the keys. Ro on the third day in victory.

Ruling and reigning eternally. Jesus Christ in the head of the enemy. I am true to the king of kings. Yours is the name over everything. Jesus you have to keep on victory eternally. Jesus Christ. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. How glorious you are. Jesus Jesus.

There is no you. There is no you. Heat. Heat. You are you are reign above it all. Victorious. Wonderful. You are living one. Seed on the throne. How glorious, wonderful. Sing again. You alone. You alone. Rain above it all. Victorious. Wonderful. You are living seated on the throne.

Glorious, wonderful you are. It's only you, Lord. There's only one sitting on the throne. >> Oh, raining high above it all. There's only one sitting on the throne. He's high and lifted up. Oh, you're high and lifted up. We behold you now, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

You're high above it all. You're high above it all, King Jesus. Yes, you're high above it all. seated in majesty high above it all. For you are great above it all. Victorious, wonderful you are. Living one seated on the throne. Glorious, wonderful you are. So wonderful. Wonderful. You are wonderful you are. righteous.

How perfect you are. You get all wonderful you are. Yes, you are. Lift him up. Lift him up. Give all the Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. moving on. How glorious, wonderful you are. You get all the glory, Lord.

Oh, you get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. Lord, >> just keep singing. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory.

Lord, you get all the glory. You get all the glory. You get all the glory. Just lift your hands on this place if you can. I don't know if I've ever done this, but there's a It's like there's an anointing on the electric guitar at the moment. I I want you to just I don't know what you're supposed to do, but I just as the violin we're so used to just takes us into an encounter with the Lord, there was something on that lead line that just uh was like, "Woo!"

And so just just hands up. I I I sense the Holy Spirit drawing us in like a like an open door, like a window. Uh so eyes closed, hands up. I just sense the presence of the Lord saying, "Would you come a little closer? Would you go a little deeper with me?"

And and then you guys do whatever. And you know, I'm just following the anointing. You sit right there. initiative. Heat. Heat. God, anointed one who was and is and is to come. Seated on the throne above. Holy, holy, righteous one to shed his blood. We prove to us the father's love.

Jesus Christ be lifted up. Holy, holy, come see. I just want to sh Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Lord who was in days and days to come. Seated on the throne above. Holy, holy, righteous to shed his blood. He proved to us the father's love. Jesus Christ we lifted up high God was seated on the throne of God.

Thank you God. He is the only way. He is the only truth and he is the only life. that there is no life apart from him. There is no truth apart from him. He is the only way. He is the only truth and he is the only life.

There is no life apart from him. >> He is the one that fills us. >> He came to give us life and life abundant. That he is the bread of life. >> And it was for freedom's sake that Christ set us free. And that when he fills us, he fills us with all of him.

And all of him is righteousness, peace, and joy. That is the beauty of the gospel. It's the beauty of the kingdom. It's the beauty of him. And I feel like as I was uh worshiping, I felt like the Lord just wanted to remind us of the beauty of the water of life that fills us, of the beauty of the abundant life that fills us, of the beauty of the joy that fills us.

And would you with me? Go ahead and lift your hands. And we're just going to focus on him. And we're just going to get a higher perspective and remember the water of life that will never run dry. The water of life that came to give us life and life abundant.

The water of life that sets us free. The water of life that redeems. The water of life that restores. The water of life that reconciles. It is the beauty of the kingdom. It is the beauty of him. And as the instruments were prophesying, I just felt like the water of life was filling us again.

That the water of life was refreshing us again. That the water of life was flowing from our head to the bottom of our feet. And I I would just love the instruments to prophesy over us as we receive from the water of life as we remember the freedom that Christ paid for.

And I believe that he's going to lift addiction in this room. And I believe that there's some of us who've been dealing with depression and it leaves tonight. And I believe that some of us have walked in with an illness. And guess what? It leaves tonight because the water of life is filling us.

Because the water of life is refreshing us. Mama mama. Shar. Woo. River coming through. River coming through. River coming through. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. is the power is the glory forever. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Yes Jesus. There is no one like you God. There is no one like you God. You are the abundant life. You are the lamb of God. You are the marvelous king, God. There is no one like you and there will be no one like you. Yeah. How about we end like this?

How about you put your hand on the neighbor next to you? We're just going to ask that the Lord would fill us with the abundant life. That the Lord would fill us with the fullness of his kingdom, with righteousness, peace, and joy. that the Lord would fill us and strengthen us in his joy.

Lord, we thank you for the strengthening of the joy of the Lord. Lord, we thank you that you fill us with your fullness in Jesus' name. And everybody says, "Amen." Go ahead and find your way back to your seats. But as you do, would you thank the worship team?

And everybody welcome up Cassie. Hello. Hello. Wow. Welcome to the 6 pm service. Those watching online, those in the room, it is good to be in the house of God, guys. So cool. Baptism nights are one of my favorite nights. I heard this cool testimony in the middle uh of worship after baptisms were done.

One of our little girls um actually got a sunburn today and she said when she got out of the water, she didn't feel any pain on her skin. Isn't that crazy? Thank you, Jesus. If you're visiting um Bethl tonight and it's your first time, would you go ahead and stand?

We'd love to just honor any of our guests. We see you. We see you. Welcome. We're so happy that you're with us tonight. if you could um just real quick just stay standing. Our ushers have a gift for you. Um but the body who's around them, can you guys just uh quickly just stretch out your hands to anyone who just came for the first time tonight?

I just um I kept feeling this this bubbling up in me that anything was possible tonight. And I God, I just thank you for anyone who came here, whether you're here for the first time or you came hungry, that anything is possible with the Lord. And so God, we bless these ones that they would get radically filled tonight that they would leave overflowing.

Overflowing. Someone say over the rivers of living water. God, fill them with rivers of living water. God, I pray that you would make them targets for your glory tonight and that they would receive more than they ever thought could be possible. We bless you in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Well, we're about to take the offering. Would you guys help me welcome up Elizabeth Wing? >> Thank you. >> All right. Wow. Well, in this season, I've been meditating a lot on the sermon on the mount and life together. How do we how do we live as a community together?

And as I was pondering giving tonight, doing our offering and our tithe, I thought, what does how does that tie in to Jesus's teachings in this sermon on the mount? And I was reflecting a little bit on just Richie's theme. You know, I when he took over Sunday night, he he began developing this theme of us as a living stones, as a temple together.

And then uh last week, I don't know if you caught his Sunday morning sermon, but it was so good. just talking about Christ in you and how do we how do we acknowledge Christ within ourselves and acknowledge that in the lives of those around us? And I thought what I wonder if we couldn't tonight as we give our tithes and offerings think about what we're giving to one another as a body.

Sometimes we think about giving our tithes into the whole operation maybe of this amazing movement um or our regular service to the Lord or seeking the Lord through generosity. But tonight I want us to think about one another in love. How do we care for one another? Because in Acts we read that the church as they were gathering together they they didn't they held almost everything in common.

They were able to hold their hands open wide to the needs of one another to ensure that everyone had all that they had, all that they needed. And so, let's as we give our tithes and offerings, why don't you stand with me? We'll read our offering tonight, but let's think about how we love one another as a body.

How can we come together as a community and acknowledge ourselves as the temple of God? Yeah. as the temple of God, as a community. All right, let's read together. As we receive today's offering, we're believing the Lord for jobs and better jobs, raises and bonuses, benefits, sales and commissions, favorable settlements, estates and inheritances, interests and income, rebates and returns, checks in the mail, gifts and surprises, finding money, debts paid off, expenses decrease, blessing and increase.

Thank you, Lord, for meeting all of my financial needs that I may have more than enough to give into the kingdom of God and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. All right, I think we're going to be passing the buckets. So, as we do that, I just want to take a moment to welcome Chris tonight.

You know, I know that there we're a few minutes late, but I just have to testify. You know, the first Easter that I attended was in 2014. And during that service, you stood up and you were giving a word. Bill was preaching, but you gave this word and you said, "I feel like God is resurrecting dreams."

And I had been I mean, I had been through such a crazy season and now in 2014, I still had a lot of life change to go through. And I thought to the Lord, I would believe that you would resurrect my dreams if Chris would come down off the platform and prophesy over me.

And would you know that as he handed things off to Bill, I was sitting right over there in the second row with some good friends and he made he looked it was like I finished that prayer. He looked right at me and my husband Doug and he walked right off the platform and he began praying for me.

And I, you know, I'm about to graduate from seminary with my doctorate and a lifelong dream, a lifelong a lifelong dream, a 30-year dream is being fulfilled in just about six weeks. >> That's amazing. And so I just want to bless you >> and thank you. So look forward to hearing what you have to say. >> Yeah.

I had a dream of graduating with a doctorate once. I think it was from the devil. So proud of you. Thank you so much. Well, it's good to see everybody. Um the our our leadership team asked me to sit for a couple of months and just uh focus and and um reflect.

And so it's been a really good season for for me just to focus and reflect and and um yeah, I'm really excited to be here tonight. It's not like I haven't preached all week, but it's mostly to screens. people on screens all week. But it's good to see you.

Well, why don't you grab a hand and I know you prayed once, but you can get a girlfriend this way, boyfriend this way. Lord, thank you for this night. We ask your blessing on everything that you do tonight, God. We thank you for the people that you've touched already.

We thank you, God, for the testimony of that man who wasn't walking till students laid hands on him. and begin to walk and receive Christ. God, thank you for the way that you transform people. Thank you for the way that you transform me and my family. I ask your blessing on us in Jesus name.

Amen. >> Changed messages a couple times this week, but I do want to talk about a supernatural church. And um >> I I'm going to tell you stories I've told before, but um you know I I when um this is a story I've told many times and it's in probably two or three of my books, but I felt to start with this.

When I was 15 years old, my mother had went through a divorce. My father obvious my my my biological father drowned when I was three. My mother remarried and eight years later she divorced a very violent man. And um we were living in in this uh old home and we had a a prowler trying to get into our house for almost a month.

I'm almost a year and the police were out many times a week and trying to c catch him. He got in our house twice and my mother was sleeping with a gun with a with a rifle and I was I was uh sleeping with a with a rifle and my and I and I have two younger siblings of a sister and a brother and my mother was um covered in psoriasis just all over her body.

Every I mean like everywhere you could see was just covered in psoriasis. And I was really really scared. And uh and and I would listen to my mother. She's sleeping on the couch. And I was listening to my mother cry at night. And I would just say, "Oh, I don't I don't know what to do for my mom."

And and then the prow got into my window at one night, summer night. We didn't have air conditioning. It was summertime in the Bay Area. And the power got into my window and I it was probably, I don't know, 2 3:00 in the morning. and I yelled and he jumped out the window and I took a shot at him.

And then the next night I was laying in bed and I I was really anxious. My mom was could hear my mom weeping in the front room and I and I I wasn't raised to be an atheist. My grandfather was my most in influential person in my life.

My grandfather was an atheist all his life until I led him to the Lord about, you know, when I was uh 19. But um but I so I but I was just we you know my mom would pray for us but we didn't we didn't really know God.

And I said one night at 15 the night after that proud of God in my room if there's a God if you heal my mother I'll find out who you are and I'll serve you the rest of my life. And an audible voice said my name is Jesus Christ.

You have what you requested. And the next morning I got up and I got went into the kitchen and my mother's psoriasis was gone. And uh and a week later, the voice came back and he said, "My name is Jesus Christ. You said if I healed your mother, you'd serve me and I'm waiting."

And so I began a three-year journey with my then girlfriend. She was 12. I was 15. And I and I I remember we got engaged when she was 13. I was 16. And I remember telling her that I I just want to serve Jesus my whole life. And we were on this journey together.

She was went to the Catholic church on and off, got confirmed as as a kid. And uh and so she kind of went back to the Catholic church and I started just going hard after God. And we would start, we would go to churches um pretty much sometimes twice on Sunday and I raised my hands three times to receive Christ uh in three years.

And uh and I was really disappointed in when I raised my hand and prayed a prayer. Nothing happened. I I didn't know what was supposed to happen to be honest. I didn't I couldn't read. I read on the third grade level when I graduated from high school because of all the trauma in my life.

I I never learned to read. So I never read the Bible and the only Bible we had in those days was the Message Bible in the King James. And the man who finally led me to Christ and discipled me said the message Bible is not a real Bible.

So the King James Bible was old King James. So it sounded like you're reading Shakespeare. And um so finally uh I I I raised my hand. I went forward in a Billy Graham concert conference. Uh sorry, crusade is what I was trying to say. Trying to find the word crusade.

I went forward and I I you know committed my life to Christ and um but I I thought there would be something big happen because I heard an audible voice. I've only heard the audible voice twice in my life and both times was before I knew God. And so I I knew that there was a real God and I knew that he could heal people because he healed my mother.

And so I I and I was really hungry to find God. And I had uh several uh things happen on the on the road to finding God. I don't think I've ever told these stories, but uh one when I was sitting in class when I was 16, I think 16 probably.

I was, you know, you can imagine if you can't read, you're a pretty terrible student. I was a terrible student. Not not terrible in the way, you know, being uh you know, behavior- wise, I just couldn't I just couldn't learn. And I was and I was we were required to take a philosophy class.

So, I miss sitting in class with my the philosopher who's a atheist. He's not just an atheist. He's an evangelism for atheism. And I'm sitting in the class. I'll never forget this long as I live. And I always sat in the back of class because, you know, let's try to stay out of hopefully he's not going to ask me any questions.

And I'm sitting in class. There's like 30 students in class. I went to a really large high school, like almost 3,000 students. And all of a sudden, he was talking about atheism and how there was no God. And again, I had had an encounter with God, but I didn't know anything about the Bible. and something happened to me and I stood up in class and I interrupted the teacher which would I would do that to be funny but I was like I interrupted the teacher and he's talking about atheism and I started talking to him about and articulating in a theological way why there was really a god.

I knew not and I didn't know one thing about what I was saying. It went on for more than five minutes. I sat down and the students stood up and started clapping. It happened twice to me. >> Another time, another time I was I was when I was a freshman, so I would have been around 15, probably right after I had the encounter.

I'm I'm late for class, which is my mo and the hallways are pretty empty. And I'm running to my class and all of a sudden this great big guy grabs me and he throws me on the ground and he gets on top of me and he starts wailing on me and he starts saying, "I know.

I know what you said about me." I like I never seen this guy in my life and he's he's beating me up and I I can still remember thinking if you hit him back he might get madder and he's got me on the ground and I'm probably up down on the ground for half a minute or a minute and all of a sudden this great big guy comes bigger than him picks him up throws him against the wall grabs him by the neck and says this guy's my friend if you touch him again you'll deal with me do you understand me and the guy's like yes and he looks at me and he goes if you have you have another problem with him give me a Paul.

I said, "Okay." He takes about 50 steps and disappears. >> And I'm like, I wonder how you call him. Don't know how to call that guy, but okay. This is all before I actually knew Christ. Like I had been raising my hand, but I didn't. And then and then the Lord protected me. like I had this, you know, I had basically no I had no uh par much parenting at home and and Kathy and I were pretty much left to ourselves.

You can imagine if we get if we got engaged at 13 what kind of homes we were raised in and so pretty much absent. And I remember I never took drugs. I never smoked. I never dr I've never drank. I've never I took a sip off my grandfather's beer one time and I remember the only time, you know, and drugs were a big thing in high school and the guys would hide all their drugs in my locker because they would search their lockers all the time and they would not they would not find any drugs cuz my locker was full of drugs.

And I remember this one time going to school when I was probably 16 and and that day I said, "I'm going to try drugs." And all the way to school I'm like, "I'm going to try drugs." And I open my locker and the only time, one of the only times I can think of in my history, there was no drugs.

So I asked all the guys, I'm like, "Hey, I need some drugs." And they're like, "I don't know why, but we have no drugs today." So the only day I ever wanted to take drugs, I couldn't find them. Next day, my locker was full of drugs again, and I didn't want to take them.

And I I just like I just saw the protection of of the Lord on my life. My whole life. My whole life. I remember that I dated this girl. Well, you know, I don't know what you call dating. We didn't have any money to go anywhere. But I walked her home from school like and she lived two miles the opposite direction of this is like I was holding hands with her and she was like she was a junior uh uh uh cheerleader JV cheerleader and she was the most popular girl in high school and I couldn't even believe that she would say yes to going to study with me and I walked her home two miles the opposite direction and this is the first time I'd ever walked her home like I asked her to be my girl and the next day I walked her home and we got to her door and as we're getting to her door, she said, "My parents have a water bed."

And I'm like, "I couldn't figure out why she's telling about the furniture, but it's all good." I totally was like, "Have no idea what we're doing." And I go, "Oh, that's cool." And I remember we get to her right to her I can remember walking past her in her up her driveway and and we get to the front door and we're standing and we're looking at each other and you know I didn't I didn't really know what to do and she's like yeah my parents got a new water bed and I said oh yeah you said that it's cool and she goes you want to try it out and I then it dawned on me what she meant and I looked at her and I didn't know what to do and I heard a voice say, "Run."

So I turned around and I ran four miles home the other direction. True story. Not because I was godly, because someone protected me my whole life. The next morning, I got up for school and I was terrified to go to school cuz she's the most popular girl in school.

So I played sick for 3 days. On the fourth day, my mom's like, "You don't look sick. You're going to school." And I can remember like I still remember like being, "Oh my gosh, what's going to happen when she's probably told everyone I'm like weirdo." And I realized like by by the end of that year that she was afraid what I was going to say.

And of course, I didn't say anything. But I I just like the Lord just protected me my entire life. And then when I received Christ, which I've told that story so many times. We were with a bunch of hippies. And my friend had invited me to this to this.

It was called Hallelujah Singers, so you can imagine what it was like. And it was in a house and it was about 120 kids crammed into this not a very large house. And we get there and by that time I I'd asked the Lord in my life like three times, but literally nothing changed in my life.

Like nothing changed in my life. And so Kathy and I were sitting we we get to this house and my friend says you have to get there early. So so or you won't get a seat. You won't be able to sit inside the house. You have to sit on the lawn.

If you get there late you have to sit on the lawn. And so we get to the house and we we we got there early enough to sit in the front room and it's kids pile in the house and they're all ex drug addicts. All like I didn't know any of them that weren't on drugs at one time.

They're all hippies who'd found Jesus. Jesus people. I didn't know they were Jesus people t 10 years later, but and I remember sitting on the floor and they started singing and I I can't even try to sing right now. I've had a sore throat for three days. Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah.

And as they were singing, the hippie kids would get up and give a three-second testimony. I was delivered from heroin. Jesus healed me from cancer. >> Jesus healed my epilepsy. And they would give like 30 testimonies. Just stand up quickly and go, "Jesus healed me from epile. Jesus delivered me from heroin."

And I'm sitting in that room and that's the first time I've ever heard about other people that had an encounter with the power of God because I'd had an encounter with the power of God. And I turn I can still remember Kathy sitting on the floor next to me.

And I turned her and I said, "God, the God who touched me is here." So they said, "You know, after worship, if you'd like to receive Christ, raise your hand." I raised my hand. This is number four. I raised my hand. She raised her hand. And then um after the service, they came over.

The the leader came over who was playing the guitar and leading. His name was uh Ken. Tall, skinny guy. He's probably maybe four years older than me. come sit on the floor and he explained the gospel in really simple terms. And he just said to me, "You you received Christ and the Bible says you're born again and you're like a little baby."

And he just talked to me. He read a few scriptures and talked to me about the fact that I was born again. And that when I got born again that I became a child of God and I was like a little child in the kingdom. And then he said, and we probably talked for maybe 10 minutes, and then he looked at me and he goes, "And you need a dad.

You need a spiritual father because you're a son and you need a father." And I'm like, "Yeah, that's a good idea. Needed that most of my life." And I and he and he brought over two young men and I can still remember like we were sitting on the floor and they were standing up over us and he said, "Which one of these men do you want to be your father?"

And I go, I just took the better looking one. And I said, I'll take him. I'd never met him before. I've never seen him before. And uh that man, his name was Art Kipperman. And Art became our spiritual father. Kathy's my spiritual father. He got married uh that that year.

And his his wife's name was Kathy. And we were at their house every Friday for three years. >> And he taught me how to be a man. >> Wow. how to love Jesus. >> How to read my Bible. >> In fact, you have to read your Bible every day.

So, you had to give an account when you got on Friday. He'd say, "Did you read your Bible every day?" And I'm like, "I'm not going to be the guy who says no." And so, you know, I learned to read my Bible every day. And he his thing was, "You read your Bible every day, you pray every day, you worship every day, and you share your faith every day."

So, I was like always trying to find someone to tell Jesus, tell about Jesus. And then we got uh married when I was 20 and Kathy was uh 17. Kathy graduated a year early so we could get married. And we were on fire for God. We were radical Christians.

We were hanging out with the Jesus people. And um we saw deliverances and it was just a really wild time. You know, I didn't coin this, but it really speaks to me. When you have been birthed in fire, smoke will never do. I didn't even know there was people who didn't believe in the power of God until 10 years after I was a Christian.

I met someone who were I guess he was a sensationist who told me that the power of God uh the gifts of the spirit were for another time and they passed away with the apostles. I couldn't even understand how someone could believe that because my my I wasn't fighting for the the my theological stance.

I was I was just trying to make sure that other people would like me who were broken knew that God can do anything. >> I remember another thing. I've don't think I've ever told this story publicly. This is during this whole three years. I I turned 18 and I had just received Christ and the draft the draft was happening.

Actually, I was it was just about two months before I turned 18 that I received Christ. And and everybody all all my friends were going to Canada because they were drafting for Vietnam. And I had an uncle come back with terrible PTSD. I had a cousin come back who was a total he came back a heroin addict.

And my mom said to me, I still remember three months before I turned 18, which would have been when I would be drafted, she said, "You're going to Canada." And I was, so I was I remember I was like praying, "Oh, God, I don't want to go to Canada, but I don't want to go to Vietnam."

I was praying. I was praying. I was praying. And then a month before in January 1973, I was born January 31st, 1973. in January. Uh I was born January 31st, 19 uh 1955, I should say. And n in January 1st, 1973, they stopped the draft exactly 30 days before.

And I was praying my guts out, Lord, please don't let me have to be drafted. And I felt the Lord, I mean, not an audible voice, I felt the Lord say, I'm going to stop the draft for you. And literally, literally three days later, they stopped the draft 30 days before I would been drafted.

I still had to go register. So all these things were happening in my life. God saved me from actually that that situation I told you about the girl. Twice I ran away from girls who actually asked me to go to bed with them. Twice I did. I did.

And it wasn't because I was a moral guy. It's because something was protecting me all my life. all my life from drugs, from alcohol, from women. I'm sure I was much a problem as the woman. So, let me be clear. I wasn't a moral person. It was just that God was saving me.

And when I received Christ, I was so aware how the Lord had protected me. How he had kept me. How he kept me from drugs and how he had kept me from girls and how he had kept me from things that how he had protected me with an angel or whatever that man was who disappeared in front of me.

How he protected me over and over. So by the time I actually received Christ and and started following the Lord, I was so convinced that the Lord could do anything, that the Lord would do anything. And the Jesus people were their their theology was really not very good.

But we saw people healed all the time. We saw people delivered instantly from heroin. There was heroin was a big deal. And we saw people continually delivered from heroin, continually delivered from cancer. And so it just became a part of our of our everyday life. You know, I had a vision in um in 2023, July of 2023, I believe.

And um it was I was in the vision um I was walking down the street with a de domesticated lion on a leash. And I heard a voice in my spirit say, "Unleash the kingdom." And when I and um he said, "Unleash the kingdom." And in the in the vision, I I remember the Lord like, "I want you to get back to the zeal of your youth. >> I want you to get back to anything could happen.

Everything's possible." This morning, I had a dream right before I got up and the Lord said, "You're trying to please the wrong audience." And I'm like, "Who's the right audience?" And he's like, "If you don't know, I can't tell you." And I'm like, "Oh, probably you. It's probably you."

But I um I I you know, I do believe that the supernatural life is risky, >> but I do believe that the not supernatural life is riskier. I have this feeling that none of us are going to get out of here alive. And um you know, driving a car is risky.

You know how many people died last year in car accidents? Just in America alone, just below 40,000 people died in car accidents. Died. Not we're not talking about people who got in accidents. We're talking about people who died in car accidents. But we still drive. Do do you know what I mean?

And uh you know, Bono said, "Religion is what's left over when the spirit leaves the room. I don't I don't want to live in a I don't want to live in a room like that. I don't want to live in a place like that." You know, I I've been thinking I was u I did a conference in Atlanta last week with uh Blake Healey.

Have you guys know who Blake Healey is? >> Blake Healey's He's amazing. He made the statement. He said, "You can drive a car and have lots of things wrong." He said, "If you fly in a plane, there's got to be less things wrong." >> But he said, "If you if you if you take off on a rocket ship, there's very little margin for error."

And he he referenced what happened in 1986 when the Challenger rocket ship blew up because uh one O-ring there was a bad O-ring and it killed seven people in the rocket ship. And I I do believe that God is doing something powerful that he's calling us to a new level of righteousness.

Not to punish us, but because we're going from cars to planes to rocket ships. And I do believe that there's that God is he's in his you know in his beauty he I do believe that you know what he said to me two years ago he said there be there's going to be a righteous revolution and uh and I and I I do believe that we're in the midst of a righteous revolution and he said people he said I said seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added to and he said people have sought my kingdom but not my righteousness and so I I do believe that that God has called calling his whole church to righteousness to a new level of righteousness and it's not uh it's like I believe that where we're going requires a new level of righteousness and I do believe that God wants the supernatural to actually be to to to have you know I want the gifts of the spirit I believe God wants the gifts of the spirit and the fruit of the spirit to run on two tracks.

I don't think we should be have the power of God without the character of God. I wouldn't want to have the power of God without the character of God. But I wouldn't want the character of God without the power of God either. And and I know that there's a lot of people who've been hurt by the supernatural.

And of course, I I think that's something that we that those that's it's in congruent with what God wants. I also know that there's a lot of people who have been hurt by pe by Christians who actually don't believe in the supernatural. I think there's probably more I think I I wrote this down.

More people have been hurt, enslaved, and oppressed by people misunderstanding the Bible than have ever been injured by by by in by prophecy or supernatural. Slavery in America was perpetuated by southern theologians who cited passages from the Old and New Testament. Thankfully, many other northern abborigists like Fre Frederick Douglas argued that slavery was morally wrong and incompatible with Christianity.

I'm just pointing out that people that people that read the Bible and don't have the supernatural probably created more problems for people. I mean, there's over 50% of Christians in the world, I just Googled it, over 50% of Christians worldwide restrict women from serving in leadership roles in church.

Funny thing is, a woman can be a queen, a judge, or a prophetist in the old covenant, but she can't be a pastor of 70 people in the new covenant. >> Wow. >> A woman can be a CEO in a Fortune 500 company, but she can't teach the word of God in a home group with men present.

It's sad that women under under the curse of the law had more freedom than they do under the new covenant when Jesus rose from the dead and set the world free from the curse of Adam. And in my mind, religion has imp has oppressed way more people than the supernatural's ever hurt.

And and um and so I I believe that we're in a reformation and I believe that God cares about all those things. By the way, I wrote a book called uh Fashion to Rain, ladies. So, you should get that book. And I I believe that God I believe that God set I believe that Christ died to break the curse of the law. >> And by the way, you may know this, and this isn't really my message tonight, but in the Old Testament, you know, there's a in the Hebrew, there's a word for husband and a word for uh a word for for uh a word for man.

In the and there's a word for wife and the words there's a word for woman. In the New Testament, there's only one word for male. No, man husband. And there's only one word for woman and wife in the Greek. Are you with me? Okay. So, I'm about to tell you something.

That's why I'm you're like, "What? What? Why do I care about that?" Because the curse over the woman was that you will give you will have pain in childbirth and your husband will rule over you. The curse over Eve was not, "And you'll have pain. You'll have increased pain in childbirth, and every man will rule over every woman."

I don't know if you got what I just said. I'm saying if that had been if if the Old Testament had been written in Greek, then we would be able we wouldn't know if the passage was saying and and you will have increased pain, woman. Here's the curse over you.

You will have increased pain in childbirth. and your husband will rule over you or all men will rule over you. We wouldn't have been able to tell like we we would have had to make a choice like the theologians would have had to decide. But because it was written in Hebrew, we know that the the curse over Eve when when Adam and Eve fell, the curse, are you with me? >> Am I making any sense tonight? >> Like when when Adam and Eve fell, the curse over Eve was not that every man would be over her.

The curse over her, the curse over her is your h your your your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule you. Your husband will rule you, not every man. >> Are you with me? >> It's funny that every man rules every woman now in the new covenant. >> And I'm just pointing out that theologians that misunderstand the context of the Bible have oppressed way more people than the supernatural has ever heard.

But we should have neither. >> Are are you with me? That's a good word. >> Um, in Mark chapter 16 verse1 15, Jesus was talking to the disciples and he said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed, he who has believed and been baptized shall be saved, but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

These signs will accompany those who have believed. In my name, they will cast out demons. In my name, they'll speak with new tongues. They will pick up serpents. And if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.

Uh it's interesting that Jesus didn't say these are the signs of the leaders who believe. These are the signs of the first century people who believe. These are the signs of the apostles who believe. He said, "These are the signs of those who believe." And what were the signs?

He said, "You'll" He said, "In my name, you'll cast out demons. You'll speak with new tongues. You'll uh you'll pick up serpents. If they if you drink any that poison, they will not harm you. You lay hands on the sick and they will recover. Those were the signs.

Jesus said these are the signs for those who believe. And I'm pointing out that the power power should have Jesus never intended for power to be absent from our lives. >> I think when he said you'll pick up serpents and if you drink any deadly thing, you'll take you'll pick up serpents and they and you shall not you shall not be harmed.

I think he was in reference to Moses. Do you remember when God sent Moses to Pharaoh and he said, "Throw down your staff." And Moses threw down a staff and God said, "Pick it up." And he picked it up and then he did that trick in front of Pharaoh.

I I believe that God Are you guys with me? Am I? >> Am I boring the crap out of you guys tonight? >> Okay, I'm so sorry if I am. I think that I think that God is reminding I think that Jesus is reminding his disciples like Moses who delivered the Egyptian the the Israelites from Egypt by having it began with his staff turning into a snake and he picked it up and it didn't harm him.

I think that I think that he's reminding us that we have been called to release people from the Pharaoh of this world with signs and wonders and miracles that he's given us power over all the power of the enemy. Are you with me? >> And so in Acts chapter uh 1 6 uh in fact verse four he says don't leave Jerusalem till you receive power from on high.

And then he says this it asking him when is your when's the kingdom going to come? And he's like, "It's not for you to know, but you shall receive power." Verse 8, "When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, in in Judea and Samaria, and even to the other parts of the world."

He said, "Don't leave town till you receive power from on high." It must be kind of important that you don't just know the gospel, but that you can express the gospel through the power of God. Yes. >> And um in in Romans 15:1 17 uh Paul writes this, "Therefore in Christ Jesus, I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.

For I will not presume to know to speak of anything except for Christ what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles in word and deed in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the spirit." So from Jerusalem all the way to Iconium I have preached I have fully preached the gospel.

I I love this part. In the power of signs and wonders in the power of the spirit. So from Jerusalem to Yakoneium I have fully preached the gospel. And I'm just pointing out you can't fully you can't fully preach the gospel without signs and wonders. >> It's just part of the go.

You can't separate the you can't separate the gospel from power. I I I I I just told you when I received Christ, you know, for three years, I experienced the power of God. The power of God to to physically keep me uh safe. The power of God to keep me out of uh two two young ladies uh beds.

The power of God to keep me from drugs. Are you with me? Power of God to heal my mother. But power of God to stop the Vietnam War 30 days before my birthday. I I'm like, I just don't even know how to live without the power of God.

To me, it's not a theology. It's a lifestyle. >> And and my and what I'm preaching right now is like I let's take a big stand for the power of God. I'm like there are so many Christians out there that we want them to know that God has power to deliver them.

No matter how far you fall, no matter how far you fall, the father can find you. >> No matter what you've done wrong, Jesus Christ's blood was >> sufficient for you. >> This is so important to me. Part of the challenge that you we face, I think, part of the the challenge we face is a is the challenge that Moses and Aaron faced when they faced Pharaoh.

God said, "I want you to take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh." And by the way, I don't know if you noticed this, but it's not Moses who throws his staff down in front of Pharaoh. By the time they get there, Aaron has the same anointing.

And Aaron throws down his staff and it becomes a snake. And what does the Pharaoh do? He turns to the sorcerers and he says, "Can you do this?" And the sorcerers throw down their staffs and they come multiple snakes. I I'd like to point out the devil has power >> and those staffs their staffs how many you know when God can't stop the power of God he duplicates it and there's snakes on the ground and I like to point out that there's one snake that's God's and there's multiple snakes that are the devils and part of the challenge is is that the devil only duplicates things that are powerful he only counterfeits what he only counterfeits what's powerful. >> And by the way, the first two plagues, the sorcerers duplicated.

By the time they get to the third plague, the sorcerers say, I don't know if you're getting where I'm going. The sorcerers duplicate the plagues. They make from staffs, snakes, >> they make blood >> in the water, >> like supernaturally. So, what does God do? Well, that won't work.

Let's try something else. Let's try some verses on them. Let's see if we can convert them with with intellectually. No. God, I got seven more where that came from. And by the time they get to the third plague, the sorcerers say to Pharaoh, "This has to be God." >> Did you get that?

Like, our works are from the devil, "This has to be God. We can't duplicate these works." And I'm pointing out I'm pointing out that God doesn't stop doing the supernatural. He just keeps taking it up further and further and further till the devil goes, "This got to be God."

But listen, what was the tactic of the enemy? The tactic of the enemy was to counterfeit the works of God so that Pharaoh would not be Are you with me? So Pharaoh would go, "Well, your gods know better than my God." Yeah. >> And what what part of the challenge I I feel that we we that we really need to be true to is that in the church if the if the sorcerers are doing stuff that Aaron can do, we run away from it.

And I'd point out that the that God initiated it, not the sorcerer. >> The sorcerer counterfeited it. >> Are you with me? And I pointed out that when you walk when you when you retreat from everything that the that the sorcerers do, pretty soon you have a powerless church >> because you're afraid, well, well, the sorcerers do that.

Well, the the new age people do that. Well, the well the cults do that. The old cult does that. I'm like, yeah, where do you think they got the idea from? And what are they trying to do? They're trying to say anything your god can do, my god can do better.

And I point out, "No, anything your God does, my God does it better and he keeps." >> And so people say things on on internet all the time. They're like, "Well, those people that's what the, you know, the the the the new age people speak in tongues. I I know.

Where do you think they got the idea?" The new age people have transes. Do you know there's only two transances mentioned in the Bible? One Peter had the Gentiles came in through and one Paul had the Gentiles came in through. There was two transances in only mentioned in the Bible.

There is not a negative trance mentioned in the Bible, New or Old Testament. And both the transances that were mentioned in the Bible were both God and they're both the way the Gentiles got in. Peter had was in a trance and you saw remember the sheet. >> Paul was in a trance.

Uh listen, I I well I'll read it to you. Acts 22:17. It happened when I returned to Jerusalem. I was praying in the temple and I fell into a trance and I saw someone saying to me, "Take haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly. They will not accept your testimony."

So the two the only two trances mentioned in the Bible was one by the Apostle Peter and one by the Apostle Paul. >> Listen, I'm not running around telling I've never prayed for anyone to be in a trance. I'm just I'm just pointing out though some of the weird stuff that you're like, "That's new age."

I'm like, "Yeah, that's in the Bible. Do you know there was eight earthquakes in the Bible in the New Testament alone and all of those earthquakes were released when the God was moving? Do you know there's an earthquake when Jesus Christ rose from the dead? >> You know there was an earthquake in Acts 4 when they prayed.

Do you know there was an earthquake when they were worshiping the jail and the and the and there was an earthquake that shook the jail doors and released the released them. That happened three times. Do you know there was so many there were so many supernatural jailbreaks that when they put Paul in prison, they actually put a hundred men, they put a 100 men to protect him and then he got out anyway. >> Do you know that?

Do you know? I know. I'm just trying to tell you like the supernatural is all over the the New Testament. I It's all over the Old and New Testament. Do you know there's 187 angel accounts in the New Testament alone? >> You know that the Holy Spirit's only mentioned 222 times.

Holy Spirit is God. Let me be clear. Let me be clear. I'm just pointing out how often angels participated in the New Testament. that listen angels were so participated so much in the New Testament that when Peter got released from an by an angel from prison because they were praying at John Mark's house right I call it the house of acts they were praying for Peter to be released because James was killed just a few months earlier and it says and then when they arrested Peter it says the church went to praying they were praying for Peter to be released Peter gets released by an angel angel opens the door.

His shackles fall off. Did you get that? They fall off. >> He goes to the house where they're praying for him. They knock on the He knocks on the door. Roa answers the door. She sees them and she goes running in. She goes, "Peter's here." She forgets to unlock the door.

And they go, "Well, that's not Peter. It's his angel." How many angel visitations have you had? And somebody knocks on door and goes, "Bill Johnson's at the door." And they go, "Oh, now it's got to be his angel." That's right. >> I mean, you got to have a lot of angel visitations for you to think that the person knocking on the door >> is the angel >> who looks like Peter. >> I don't even know if you know where I'm going. >> I'm pointing out how do you even spread the gospel without the power of God?

How do you spread the gospel without supernatural stuff happening, angel visitations, earthquakes when you're praying, >> just crazy stuff happening? >> Yeah. I'm trying >> people, you know, they read Jesus's warning in the last days there'll be false Christ and false prophets and they'll show great signs and wonders.

Some people are convinced that Jesus said in the last days all the prophets will be false. Nobody would be fooled if there were no real prophets. Most of the heresy hunters don't believe that there are prophets in the last days. They deem all signs and wonders are false.

Of course, there are false prophets, false signs and false wonders, demonic transes, demonic tongues, etc. But the devil only counterfeits things that are valuable. Yeah. >> No, no one ever counterfeited a penny >> or even a dollar. >> Just too much work for too little impact. But in their zeal to not be deceived, most Christians take anything that's counterfeit and assign it to the new age movement.

Consequently, what's left is the powerless church. >> So, I I'm just, you know, I I think two things are happening. One, God is calling us to holiness. That's the Lord. >> We have to be mindful that the Lord that the Lord wants to have a holy church. >> I I prophesied two years ago just just less little less than two years ago that he's making the crooked places straight and he's starting with the church.

I I love what uh what um Hava said. She she said she says this all the time. goes, "I knew that when my husband and I got married, the two would become one, but I thought it would be me. I knew that the Lord was making the crooked places straight.

I just thought we were straight. I thought we were p we were we were like holy then." I then I don't think so now. But I think the Lord wants to take us where we where we've never gone before. >> Yeah. >> And and I think that requires a new level of righteousness or can I say can I say real righteousness in all of our lives.

And by the way, be careful when you judge someone else because I found in my life as I said a couple years ago like I woke up in the middle of night and the Lord said no more cussing. I I always thought that I I never thought that I was doing anything wrong.

Now let me say it this way. I never felt convicted for cussing. That's what that's the right way to say it. Until that night. >> And then I couldn't believe how stupid I was. I remember just a few months later talking to a Christian at at the YMCA and he was cussing.

And I said to myself after the Lord convicted me, "How could he cuss and be a Christian?" And the Lord said to me, "Self-righteousness is like filthy rags. You h how did how are you doing?" It's funny. Once you get right in an area, you you you look at other people like Anyway, and I just want to say to everyone who wants to make judgments about other Christians, obviously there should be righteousness, but we have to, as Galatians 6 says, we Yeah.

Galatians 6. Yes. Galatians 6. It says that when we when we confront a brother who's sinning, we should do it in fear and making sure that in a spirit of gentleness, making sure that we too don't fall. the idea that anyway I won't say that. Okay. It's encumbered upon us.

I wrote this a while back actually probably three years ago. It's encumbered upon us to go where no one has ever gone before in God to push past the temptation to settle into the spiritual land left by our forefathers. It's therefore essential that we press deeper into the heart of God and take new territory in the spirit to discover what it means to see the glory of the Lord cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

Our vision has to be greater than large gatherings and full services. Our forefathers walked on water. They witnessed shadow healings and handkerchief deliverances. They turned nations upside down and witnessed entire Greek and Roman cities steeped in witchcraft and false religion turn to Jesus. I was part of a beautiful Jesus movement that saw hundreds of thousands of hippies come to Christ in groves so large that the only baptismal tank that could facilitate them was the ocean.

But we need more than a movement. We need a Holy Spirit reformation that drives evil out of our nations and turns our schools and universities back into educational organizations based in truth and delivers our children from the indoctrinational camps posing as educational institutions. We need a move of God.

You can clap. It's good. Makes me feel good. We need a move of God so powerful that it breaks the back of fatherlessness and motherlessness so that fathers and mothers return to the family farm and wait patiently in their field of dreams for their sons and daughters to leave the pig farmer of sexual perversion and return to a healthy home.

Jesus healed everyone who came to him and he proclaimed greater works will you do when I go to be with the father. I'm thankful for the miracles I've seen. But a few years ago, I returned from a funeral of our matriarch who died of cancer. And like Mary and Martha, I said to Jesus on that day, if you had been here, my mother would not have died.

I want angels to frequent our ministries so often that we mistake them for our closest friends. >> I don't want to I don't want angels just be hanging out in the sanctuary to be unemployed by faithless prayers. I want our faith to build its strategic alliances with heavenly allies.

I want them to deploy I want I want them deployed to to save our city to apprehend drug pushers and school shooters. I want them to cut through the iron bars that are holding revivalists and reformers out of the palaces of prominence and power so that the Nebuchadnezzar of the world can encounter the living God and we can make disciples of nations.

There is more folks. I intend to leave my children's children's children world in revival. Therefore, we have to leave the cesspools of virtuous living and find the promised land of fulfillment of 2,000 years of praying on earth as it is in heaven. That's my prayer. That's my prayer.

I believe that we are moving from cars to planes to rocket ships. And I do believe that that God is emphasizing righteousness, >> righteousness, peace, and joy. But he's emphasizing righteousness in your life and in mine and in in Beth at Bethl Church and the church all over all over the globe.

And I I don't think he's just actually I don't think the righteous revolution is just happening in the church. I think if you look around the Jeff Jeff Epstein files and all the things that are happening in America, I don't say that to like shame anyone, but I just would just say it to point out that God is making the crooked places straight everywhere.

He's making it crooked straight crooked places straight in the LGBTQ movement. And I believe that God's destroying the the idea that homosexuality is a is a Christian lifestyle and it not destroying the compassion for people who are struggling. Of course, as soon as you point your finger at that one, you better be careful because I'm telling you, God the compassion of the Lord is on.

God God's called sinners. I want Bethl Church to be full of sinners. I want I I want to make sure that in in this righteous revolution that sinners call Bethl home. I want to make sure that our that our seats are full of people who have drug addiction and pornography problems and people who have fallen and people who have been told you you don't matter you know you you can never be redeemed because you've you've committed this sin and you've committed that sin.

I I never want anyone to think God can't touch any sin. Not just that he can't, but that he won't. >> It's one thing to believe that God will could heal someone. It's another thing to know that he he will. >> And I and me like uh the you know, as a young man, I was surrounded by people who saw miracles every day.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't be healed, that I couldn't be redeemed. That most of the people I that that I got saved with that I told you they were heroin addicts. They were addicted to heroin and God almost almost always instantly instantly delivered them and they were on fire.

They were like, "God can do anything. My God is so great, so prom, and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do." Like in the midst of this righteous revolution, I never want people to lose sight of the fact that you can't fall so far that God can't find you.

You can't do something so terrible he can't >> deliver you. Yes. >> I point out that the Apostle Paul, he killed Christians before he was saved. >> You know, I don't I don't you know, we read the Bible, we know the end of the story, but I don't know how it would feel if this guy killed Christians for several years as a religious person. >> We're not talking about Hitler here.

We're talking about a religious person who just had a different view of the Bible. >> That's right. >> We're talking about a guy who killed Christians out of believing in the Bible. >> Yes. >> Are you with me? I don't know if you're really getting where I'm going.

I'm pointing out that we're I'm not talking about an atheist who is persecuting Christians. I'm not talking about China where they persecute Christians. I'm not talking about Islam that persecutes Christians. I'm talking about people who believed in the Torah. >> That's right. >> The Bible. >> And they use the Bible to find ways to kill Christians who believed in Jesus Christ.

Are you with me? And that guy has an encounter with God. You know the story, right? He has an encounter with God. He sees a light, falls down on the ground. He hears a voice, an audible voice of God. He he's blinded. He goes to a house, a a um a just a Ananas, just a normal everyday Christian.

He's not an apostle. God g tells him what the house address is, what to say, where to go. I'm talking about an everyday Christian. Like, it wasn't some super apostle. It wasn't it wasn't Peter. It it wasn't James. It was Ananas. If God didn't tell you his name, you would never know him because he says Ananas was a disciple.

And God says, "I want you to go to this guy's house. I want you to pray for him. You're going to heal his eyes and you're going to give him this word." And when Ananas hears who it is, he's like, "I'm not going there." And and God says and God says to him, "He he's he he's your brother."

And he gets to that house and Paul's, who's Saul at the time, is blind. He lays hands on him and he instantly sees and he prays for him and he gives him a prophetic word. And what I'm getting at is that guy, that guy the next day that guy goes out and starts preaching.

I I don't know. >> You want to talk about abusive Christian like who who's going to ever trust that guy? That guy wasn't an atheist who became a Christian. That guy was a Pharisee using the Bible to persecute Christians who also used the Bible. And after he has an encounter, he becomes one of the most famous people in the entire >> I don't know if you know where I'm going.

I'm talking about like and can you imagine it says that the none of the apostles trusted him. >> Can you imagine? He's like, "Here's this guy persecuting Christians from the Torah." And he goes, "I had an encounter with God. I've changed." And Peter and the rest of the guys are like, "No."

And it says, "And Barnabas took a hold of him." Now, I don't even know if you understand what I'm saying. I'm saying these people failed >> and they ended up leading. Paul wrote 13 books of the New Testament. This guy who used the Torah had one encounter and and was supposed to be trusted.

I don't know if he was supposed to be trusted. He probably wasn't trusted for years, but Barnabas takes a hold of him. Peter denies Christ three times, cuts the guy's ear off. That is a little bit violent. I don't know if he'd be on the Bethl staff for a long time.

He cuts a guy's ear off, denies Christ. Wait a second. He doesn't just deny Christ three times. Christ tells him, "You're going to deny me three times." He goes, "No, I'm not." He goes, "Yes, you are." Goes, "No, I'm not." Goes, "Yes, you are." And the very next that very night after the Lord warns him, he denies Christ three times.

Like, you've been warned. He denies Christ three times. And then he cuts the guy's ear off first. Then he denies Christ three times. And then the Lord meets him four days later and goes, "Feed my sheep." You know how bad Peter, you know how do you know how the other apostles felt about Peter?

When Mary saw Jesus rise from the dead when she meets I'm sorry. When Pet start over when Jesus rose from the dead and meets Mary at the tomb, he said, "Go tell the disciples and Peter." >> Yes, that's right. Go tell the disciples and Peter I rose from the dead. >> She had he had to tell her and Peter. >> I'm just pointing out that God knows how to restore people. >> God knows how to restore people. >> I remember uh uh I'm sorry I should be done.

I've got four more minutes. Uh Paul Manoring was uh he used to run a juvenile prison in in um UK. In the UK he was a he was a governor of a juvenile prison. That's what they call them, prison governors. And um he he said every once in a while like when they get a whole bunch of new guys in these young boys, these young men, you know, that they were juveniles, so they were under 18.

He would get he went he would go buy a cheap Bible, a paper Bible, and he would tear out all the pages written by murderers. So he starts with the four four books of the Bi, you know, first five books of the Bible, which Moses wrote, and rips all those out.

Moses was a murderer. Then he rips out the Psalms and everything David wrote. And he rips out everything the Apostle Paul wrote, which is 13 books of the Bible because he murdered Christians. And when he gets all done, there's not much Bible left. And he goes, "And all of those people wrote books of the Bible.

God knows how to restore you." >> Wow. >> God knows how to restore you. >> You might be watching online right now. You might be watching online right now. You might be in the room right now and you're like, "You have no idea what I've done wrong. I don't know what you've done wrong, but I know what my God's done right. >> Come on.

I know that Jesus can restore murderers. >> He can restore molesters. He can restore sexual predators. He can restore drug addicts. He can restore just name anything that a human has done wrong. And Jesus can restore you. I don't just mean you can raise your hand and be forgiven.

I mean he has the power not just to forgive you, but to restore you. >> And I want to tell you, would you? First John says, "If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive our sins." And most people put a period there, but the Apostle John put a comma and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. >> The next verse is second is 1 John chapter 2, but it's the next verse.

There was no chapter breaks. He says, he said, "If you confess your sins, he's faithful and just to forgive your sins and cleanse you from unrighteousness." All unrighteousness. The next next verse, if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous. How many understand that when you receive Jesus Christ, the power of God is so powerful that if you continue to sin, needing an attorney?

It says if you sin, you have an advocate with the father. If if you sin, if anyone sins, not when, if anyone sins, we have advocate with the father. Jesus Christ the righteous. My point is before we know Jesus, we don't need a attorney. We need a savior.

But when we receive Jesus Christ, he so changes our nature >> that God goes, "Listen, you have an attorney if you sin." Now, >> and I'm pointing out not that not to shame people who are sinning, but to say that God doesn't just forgive you, he has the power to transform you. >> He has the power to transform you. >> And there is nobody that can't be transformed.

If God can transform the Apostle Paul, if he can take David, a man after my heart. Do you know David's called a man after his heart? And Jesus said that in the New Testament after he committed adultery with Basheba and killed her husband. And then Jesus says in the New Testament, he's a man after my heart.

And you know that Jesus does not sit on his throne. He sits on the throne of David who who committed adultery and killed the man. I'm just pointing out that God can God can save anyone. God can change anyone. >> God can God God not just can he.

If you cry out to him, he will. And listen, I am a man who cried out to God. I People are like, "You're a celebrity Christian." Mike, I never have any desire to be a celebrity. I'm just me. Can't help it because you're all attracted to my beauty.

Can't blame you for that. >> I understand it's attractive. Especially how articulate I am. Especially attractive. I'm not fighting for doctrine, guys. I'm just fighting for the Chrises of the world >> to know that there's a God who cares. >> Yeah. There's a God who can change you. >> That's right. >> I was a very broken young man when Jesus found me.

And I'm so thankful that he knew me before I knew him. And I'm so thankful that he pursued me before I pursued him. >> And I'm so thankful he kept me. My testimony isn't that he delivered me from drugs. My testimony is that he didn't let me take drugs.

My testimony is I've never been in bed with another woman besides my wife. And it wasn't because I'm so holy. It's because he protected me. I didn't go to Vietnam because he protected me. And I don't think I'm anyone special. I think that this is what happens when you turn your heart towards God.

Would you stand, please? Thank you for listening. If you need a miracle in your life, do do you know there's a lot of weird people who come to Bethl. Bill attracts these people. It It's kind of funny, you know, if I feel like Well, I don't know. Yeah, I guess I'll say it.

You know, Bill's a fifth generation pastor on one side and a fourth generation on the other side. When I met Bill when I was 24 years old, I'm like, I've never met a holy man like that. I'm not kidding. Like, that man doesn't talk against anyone. He's never cussed in his life.

That makes me mad. That doesn't He doesn't go over the speed limit. Like, I don't even know how you do that. He told me the other day when I said, "You don't even go over speed limit." He goes, "Well, if the traffic is going," I'm like, "That's not even that's nothing."

And I I feel like there was, you know, always been so many people attracted to the Bill's just obviously obviously what we've been through like there's no one perfect, but just the way that he has the start that he had with five generations of people who love God.

Then I came here and I started telling people about my nervous breakdowns and my my demonized three and a half years and all of a sudden it attracted a whole different kind of people. And I I'm I'm glad that we attract >> both those kinds of people. >> I never want Bethl to be a place that you have to be you have to be afraid to come in here because you're afraid that the place is too holy for you.

But I do believe that God is calling us to a new place of holiness and >> and I and I I'm glad that he is and I I just want to yield myself >> to his will. >> If you need a miracle in your life, would you just raise your hand?

I've just told you about mine. Would you just put your hand? Is it okay if the person puts their hand on your shoulder? And I just I'm going to just pray for you right now. You heard my story. Lord, I just pray right now for every person who's come here and they're like, "That weird place, Bethl, I need a miracle."

And those people believe in miracles. Lord, I pray right now in Jesus name that you would release their miracle. They would walk out of here tonight, God. And I pray that hope would is rising because of the stories I've told about what you've done for me and my family.

Lord, I pray that hope would rise in them right now. And I believe and I believe that God, I believe this is a breakthrough day. If you're online right now, just put in the chat, I need a miracle. If you feel confident, if you feel like you want to, you can even say where in my body, in my mind, in my family, in my I have an addiction, whatever it is.

Lord, I pray in Jesus' name. I pray in Jesus' name that you would just release a miracle in their lives. A miracle in their lives. I don't know why, but I'm supposed to tell a story. I'll tell it real quickly. I had a friend uh that I met, this is probably 15 years ago, and he came and gave a testimony and he uh he was a young when he was a young man, he was drunk and he was on a date with a girl and he got in a car accident and she died.

And a man was writing to him for all the years he was in prison. I think it was like seven or eight years. I could be wrong, but it was it was like years. And then when the man uh and then when he got out of prison, this man who had been writing to him who he thought was like a chaplain picked him up from prison and took him to his house for dinner.

And he looked over at the that at at a wall and he saw the girl that had died in an accident on the wall with his family and realized that this man who had been writing to him and who had picked him up was her father. and that man led him to Christ. >> And Lord, I just thank you that there's no one who's fallen too far that you can't save. >> There's no one that's done something so terrible that you can't forgive.

And God, I pray for everyone who's online. I pray everyone that will hear this message later. God, I pray that you would do for them what you've done for me, what you've done for so many in this room. That Lord, you took us out of the pit. You you you took unrighteous people like me, God, and and you you saved me and you saved my family and you've been so good to me.

And I pray, God, that that goodness would be to them, too, in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much for listening tonight. Means a lot to me. Wow. just uh stay where you are. Ministry team, why don't you come forward? Uh man, that was uh uh don't you just love the Christ in you, the hope of glory?

And don't you just love the Christ in Chris? Man, it's like you just punched us in the gut. It was the best. That's my mentor. I just love you, Chris. I just love who you are. Um I while he was speaking I felt the Holy Spirit challenge me uh just it was just so simple but he said uh don't make the church a comfortable place >> and uh uh don't put up too many walls in the church um for the sake of creating a comfort. it uh for you will be at risk of losing your edge and becoming normal. >> And uh you heard it, this church will not become normal. >> This church will be, you know, how Bill preaches and he stands like on the edge. >> This this a prophetic picture.

This church is right on the edge. >> Toes hanging, dangling right over. >> This church is pursuing the radical things of Jesus. Pursuing the radical miracles of God, the impossible. Many will be brought here with cancer. Many will be brought here with broken marriages. Many will be brought here saying, "I cannot be set free."

But when they come to this bride, this place, freedom will come to their lives. Marriages will be set free, restored. Bodies will be healed. People that said their minds can never come into alignment. And right, Christ will heal them in this place. I radically believe. And if you believe that too, why don't you just uh say amen with me on three.

One, two, three. Amen. >> If you need a miracle in your body or if you have somebody that needs a breakthrough in your family, this is the moment. These aren't just words. Jesus taught and he did. Jesus is about to do. So why don't when you when I count to three, we can put some music on.

I want you to come forward with faith that the word will not go out and uh be void. That the word is going to accomplish what he did. If you're online, I want you to put your hand on a place in your body that needs healing right now.

The Lord wants to heal you. Your if it's your heart or your marriage, put your hand in your heart. And when I count to three, if you need a miracle in your body, come forward. One, two, and three. Come right now if you can. God, we bless those online that are watching.

I ask in Jesus' name that as the word has preached God, it would go to the low places, the shameful places, the painful places, Lord God. And there would be resurrection life in those places in Jesus name. >> We love you online family. We love you guys. >> Hello.

Hello online family. We want to just jump right in from where Richard just closed from Chris's powerful message tonight. If you are in need of a miracle in your body, I know he was just saying put your hand on that body part. Um if you're watching this, wherever you are, um we would just encourage you to do that.

And Holy Spirit, we just say come. Come, Holy Spirit, that you would bring um a miracle, God, that you would take away pain in any areas of our bodies, God. Longterm illnesses, chronic conditions that they would bow right now in the name of Jesus. We just speak to any lung conditions where people have had issues breathing.

We say come to life in Jesus' name. Wherever you are, whatever it is that you're doing, just begin to receive from the Lord right now. You don't have to strive. It is a gift. You get to just simply receive it. But God, we do ask that you would come and that you would begin to move in amongst bodies in different body parts.

I'm not sure if you're feeling any specific areas. >> Yeah. Um I actually felt as uh Richard was closing uh he went after marriages. And I feel like um some of you guys are sitting on uh on this chat and praying over your marriages and relationships in your family, whether it's your uh relationship, your marriage or u parents or something.

But I felt like the Lord uh wanted to speak to it. And Colossians says that he reconciles all things back to him in heaven and on earth. And there's reconciliation over marriages. And so Jesus, we pray over the households that are watching. We pray over the households. I don't know about you, but I play this on my YouTube while I'm cleaning my house and it's and it's being broadcasted throughout my whole house.

And I just feel the breath of God over your home. Um that there's going to be connection again. That there's going to be connection between um husbands and wives. And even if you're praying over those that are close to you, I just feel this thing of connection and reconciliation.

So Jesus, we we prophesy that we prophesy connection and a softening of the heart. >> Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. You guys can just receive. We're going to keep popcorning just as the Lord prompts us. But uh someone's being healed with asthma right now. I saw um just asthma clearing any of any conditions in the lungs, anything where you're having even that heaviness.

Um, oh, Father God, I just, uh, oh, uh, someone has a hyperextended, uh, leg. I'm not sure if it's a a knee or a joint in the leg, but I saw, um, I I saw the word hyperextended. And so, if that's you and you've got a hyperextended muscle, it could be on your arm.

It could be um I don't even know honestly what every what what body parts can be hyperextended, but if that's you and and you're receiving that, just receive that in in Jesus' name. >> Yeah. And there's a few prayer requests that we're getting in the chat. Um Justin, um you put that girl's autoimmune, the girl's autoimmune.

So right now, we declare the blood of Jesus and the body of Jesus over your girl's body. That right now in the name of Jesus, her body comes into alignment with the cross. Um scripture says that he heals all of our diseases. So we declare a full healing over her eyes and autoimmune disease right now in Jesus name. >> Come on.

And also there's a a prayer request uh from Doug for thyroid and sleep. And so right now tailbone and tailbone. Okay. So right now we declare from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet a full alignment to the cross that you're going to sleep so well tonight Doug that this is going to be a shift over your body.

And I pray over your sleep and your rest tonight that it's actually going to help restore your body and the thyroid is going to return back to normal and the tailbone is going to be whole in Jesus name. >> Yeah. Someone's having pain in their right uh forearm.

I don't know if it's just your wrist. You might even have metal in your right uh forearm, but I saw um like a lack of mobility, like the inability to even go like this with your I don't know who that's for, but um someone's been having pain. You haven't been able to move your wrist, and I saw um your wrist being reset in Jesus name.

Someone wrist >> Oh, someone has a broken wrist. Okay. Um uh and so God, we just pray right now any places in your forearms, God, that you would bring mobility and life, Jesus, that we would see a radical shift. And I saw um oh father god I saw people who were trying to go to sleep and um I don't know if you've been struggling with um depression or if you've been struggling with um crazy anxiety even like um >> thoughts like uh thoughts that have been um I don't know if it's suicidal thoughts or whatever it is but I saw you trying to go to sleep and I saw the uh the hand of the Lord actually cradling your head.

And so God, right now, I pray Jesus, even as your people go to bed tonight, God, I pray that they would experience even just your hand, your support on their heads, God, that there would be peace even as they would begin to rest. I feel like even that um insomnia is being broken off in Jesus' name.

Some of you are struggling with insomnia. I even feel like there's someone, it's been like two years and three months. I don't know, that's the the number I heard, but someone's been struggling for a really long time. you've had terrible sleep and I and I sense the Lord is actually resetting your sleep schedule.

So God, we just bless sleep cycles, Lord, that they would be reset in Jesus' name. That there would be such an ease to rest. Yeah. And I uh specifically over what Cassie was talking about of a spiraling of the thoughts. I felt like uh it ends today that there's going to be peace over your mind.

And I want to pray uh for this person in the chat. Um they said, "Pray for my students epilepsy." I actually have uh been healed of epilepsy. Um and so Jesus, we we declare um a full restoration over her mind. We declare a full healing over her mind.

Lord, we thank you for the testimony that you once healed me and that you're going to do it again. So, anyone uh struggling with epilepsy or family members struggling with epilepsy, we declare uh healing right now in Jesus' name. Come on. And I saw someone write in the chat, can someone who watches this back later be healed?

So, can can those who watch this live stream later also receive healing? Absolutely. I mean, they sent letters, right? Uh back in Bible times and as they received it, I'm always reminded of John 4. Jesus heals an official son. If you guys watch this often, you know me, I love John 4.

It's like my Bible chapter of my life. Um but it talks about how the official goes to Jesus, ask him to come to heal his son. And he says, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe." And he says, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

And Jesus says to him, this is John 4:50. Go. Your son will live. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. There was a word that was sent.

Jesus did not go and lay hands on the person. This was not in lack time. It happened as the word was spoken. Someone was touched. But God is outside of time. It is radical what Jesus is able to do. And so if you're watching this back and you're listening and you're like, "Wait, did something just happen in my body?"

Probably >> cuz God can do anything. He can send his word and people are healed. And so Jesus, we just thank you for what you're doing, God. Um even as people watch this, whether it's live or watching it back, Jesus, that you are the miracle worker that you can do anything in your timing, Lord.

And we ask that you would just continue to move, continue to rest. someone um someone I can I can see a left heel and I don't know if you've been struggling with um like lack of arches like an issue where you've had um trouble even just walking. I don't know if it's um what's that foot condition where there's like pain in the heel.

Uh do you know what that's planter fasciitis? Uh if someone has plantar fasciitis and you've had issues in your heel, if you need arches grown, just receive that in Jesus name. God, we just thank you for healing that planer fasciitis would uh uh just be rebuked right now in Jesus name and that we would see relief even in movement and mobility right now.

Yeah. >> Yeah. And I want to pray for the joy of the Lord to cover you guys and to strengthen you guys. Thank you, Lord. >> The joy of the Lord is our strength. And I had a dream a few months ago where a prominent person um in the faith came up to me and they're like, Tori, uh the the song of the season is the joy of the Lord is our strength.

And so for those of you that are dealing with grief, for those of you that are dealing with heaviness, for those of you that are dealing with depression, I want to remind you that the joy is is your strength. And so God, I ask that you would strengthen uh your children and your joy.

That you would strengthen their spirits, that you'd strengthen their bodies, that you'd strengthen their minds and the joy of the Lord, that all heaviness, that all grief would be lifted right now in Jesus name. And that there would be clarity of thought. We declare clarity over the minds, clarity over the eyes.

Yeah. >> In Jesus name. >> Yeah. And before we close, um I I just want to read for you real quick in First Corinthians 2. This is one of my favorite verses. This is Paul and he's writing. He says, "And I was with you with you. I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling.

And my speech and my message were not implausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." God, I pray right now, Lord, that it's not just something that we've done, but we are your disciples.

We are following you. We know that you gave us authority to heal the sick to cast out demons, God. All the things that Chris was talking about tonight, that there is power in the Holy Spirit who rest in each and every one of us, but that we're going after it.

That you're not looking to us. You're not looking for the wisdom of men, but you're actually of men, but you're looking for a demonstration of power. God, we pray right now over our entire community. Whatever you're waiting for, whatever you're looking for, whatever miracle you need, Holy Spirit, we pray right now that you would pour out your power, that you would do what only you can do, that nothing is impossible for you, Lord.

And God, I pray that in any impossible situation, you would come with breakthrough. Holy Spirit, we just bless this community, that they would see signs, miracles, and wonders, but not only for themselves, but they would be disciples of Jesus who would go out moving in radical power because this is the authority we were given. that it's not just us, it's us, the whole body of Christ being awakened to the reality of what's available because of what Jesus paid for on that c uh on that cross and his holy spirit that is with us that we get to see this.

And so God, I pray that you would awaken us to move in radical radical power. This is what's available to us, >> guys. We bless you. We bless you. We love you. Keep checking your bodies. >> Best week ever. >> Test out your bodies. If you experience any change, throw it in the chat.

We want to celebrate what God is doing in your life. We want to we want to just uh be able to rejoice with all of heaven that God is moving in radical power. We love you guys. >> We love you. Bye. >> Bless you. I love you. I love you.

I love you. How I love you. I love you. Oh, you are the center of it all and my heart belongs to You my savior all and all. You're the one I hold on to. For the beauty of your name, my soul will live to say, Jesus, I love.

My soul will live to say, Jesus, I love you. My soul will live to say Jesus I love you. All the weight of his glory, all the wonder of his grace, the power of salvation. Oh, that brought me from the grave. His hope is not empty. And forever he will reign and he won't be put to shame.

And oh my soul sing to the God of the aes to the Lord of creation. Sing his praise again. Oh my soul, sing like the heavens are waiting. Roar like a angels. See his praise again. From the moment of resue. Oh, I have never been the same since his love took me captive.

And my sins were washed away. Now I said you forgive and I know that I am saved and I won't be put to shame. Oh my soul sing to the God of the aes to the Lord of creation. Sing his praise again. Oh my soul sing like the heavens are waiting and roar like an army of angels.

Sing his praise again. Remember how our God has never failed never failed us. Remember that his name will make a way. will make a way. And from the cross to the grave. Oh, he is risen. Now he reigns. Oh, praise the Lord and sing his praise again. Come on, sing it again.

Oh, can you remember how our God has never failed? He's never failed. And remember that his name will make a way. Make away from the cross of the grave. He is rises. Sing to the Lord of creation. Sing his praise again. Oh my soul sing like the heavens are waiting and fall like an army of angels sing this crazy my soul