Bethel Church Service | Kris Vallotton Sermon | Worship with Paul McClure, Hannah McClure

Hello, hello, hello. >> Hi guys. >> Good morning, good afternoon, or good night depending on where you're tuning in from. We are so excited to have have you. I got the wonderful Jamila Page with me this morning. >> Hi. I'm so great to be here. >> We got the Mrs. is teaching in kids school today, so she's uh preaching up a storm with all the kids and we got the superstar woman herself.

So, [laughter] it's going to be a good day. Uh we would love to know where you're joining us from. So, if you want, just go ahead and put in the chat where you're tuning in from. I saw some Germany's, some England's in there already. I guarantee you some Brazil's going to come up in a little bit.

We we've never gone without Brazil, but would love to give you a shout-out. So, go ahead and put it in the chat and today apparently is going to be a banger. Yes, tell us tell us. >> Well, you you had the inside [laughter] scoop. You were getting texts this morning about that.

Chris is bringing the word, so >> the word and we're sitting here talking about what our predictions are as far as what he's going [laughter] to speak on. I love it because WE DON'T MISS. >> [laughter] >> WE KNOW I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL IT FOR THEM THOUGH, RIGHT? Like I don't I don't want to tell you Oh, you can spoil it. >> spoil [laughter] it?

Yeah. Well, Chris would spoil it if he was here. >> Okay, well, he's speaking on Joseph. >> [laughter] >> I don't know the angle, but I bet it has to do with business >> [laughter] >> and how godly wisdom can change the world. >> Come on. >> [laughter] >> Come on.

It's going to be something about that. >> Mhm. Come on. So good. We got some people tuning in from France and Zimbabwe, there's the Brazil. We got Florida in there. Uh let's see what Utah. We see you in New Zealand. I I just started watching all the Hobbits and Lord of the Rings. >> You just started? >> Again.

I've seen them again, but I'm doing the extended version, so it made me think of New Zealand there, so some love there. They're long though. >> Yeah, 4 hours. I watched all the extended Hobbits, they're long. I just finished The Fellowship and now I'm on Lord of the Rings.

There's a lot of kingdom Yeah. juice in there. >> Yes, there is. >> There's a lot of things you can pull there, but >> [snorts] >> uh good to see you from joining from New Zealand. Uh Finland, we get see Juani there. Hello, Irvine, California, always a great place.

Uh England, good to see you guys. >> greeting so far this morning was from Mike, where he just simply said, "Hello, saints." >> Come on. >> Right? All over the world, we are the saints of God because of what Jesus did for us. I am so in awe just thinking through we were praying in the in the pastor's huddle about God being the king of the universe and his focus is on us.

That's crazy to me that he would put his whole he would stake his whole being on saving and redeeming us. So, hello, saints. >> Come on. Hello, saints. Like Paul himself right there. We just got done with the fast. >> Yes. >> It's officially broken. So, if you were participating with us and you're like, "Wait, you can eat now?"

Yeah. >> you start the fast, Steve? I did not start it. >> [laughter] >> I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT. I JUST KNEW YOU STARTED after [laughter] us. >> full transparent, I didn't fast food. I didn't I didn't fast food. I we're putting on an addition to our house. I got another little one on the way and my wife is very pregnant and so I'm like on three kids duty right now cuz she's tired.

So, if you would really get a hangry dad and a hangry husband, so I'm pushing through there, but I did I did fast some social media things. >> Oh, good. Yeah. >> So, I did I just didn't do the food thing. Yeah. I knew myself. >> I really didn't mean to put you on blast, sir.

I No, I don't I actually don't care. I probably would have confessed anyway. A lot of people on there know. Uh but yeah, it was a beautiful time though. >> Yes, yeah. We got to pray in the mornings. Many of you joined us online, which is super powerful and it was so special. >> evening their time, which got to watch online for those of us who couldn't be here, but uh man, I loved that we are incorporating the whole body praying together believing the Lord for change for our personal lives, but also in our ministry and then out out beyond the ministry.

I'd love to hear if any of you prayed with us, put in the chat that you prayed with us and any breakthroughs or even things you're still believing for, but that you prayed for during the during the fast. Yeah, and we had a really great time. We also have Randy Clark conference >> Yes, it's >> is coming next week, which is awesome here.

So, it's coming here next week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I don't remember the days. >> It's this week. >> Yeah, it's this week. It's coming this week, right? >> Yeah, okay, this week. This Yeah, I'm like, "Why am I saying next week?" >> and I'm like, "Sir." In 2 days. >> Sorry. >> [laughter] >> I'm a little bit everywhere.

Randy Clark is powerful. >> Yeah, he's coming to school. It's going to be an amazing time. The first night we are streaming for free, so Wednesday night you'll be able to tune in. If not, you can I don't know if it's sold out or not. I don't know either, but I heard a testimony that healing's already been happening.

You did a call Yeah. >> You talked about 90 Yeah, we did So, we have BSSM online, we meet on Wednesdays. I had the privilege of speaking in the main session when I was when I was asking the team, "What do you want to do?" They're like, "Just go for miracles."

So, I was like, "That sounds like fun." Come on. >> And the team had you know, in the chat like in Zoom, they put it in there and they were counting over 90 people testifying of God doing something within their body. Yes. >> Uh really amazing and then in school on Thursday morning, had a number of miracles take place too, including a man, uh he was in an I think he said it was a car accident, but I know it was some type of accident in 1995 and he's been in five out of 10 pain since 1995 in his back and he got completely healed in the meeting.

He was crying. It was this beautiful moment. It was so fun. But God's going to do even bigger things this week and we're really expecting for today as well. It's going to be powerful. We've been praying um I I get to do this really beautiful thing in Houston in a couple weeks and we had been praying for financial breakthrough and this week in a matter of hours, the Lord took care of the total debt.

It was amazing. Without going into too much detail, like God is moving on all fronts, healing, provision, family reconciliation in school. Our students came back from break and talked about time with their their folks and one one student, she has kind of just been in this wrestle, her dad not quite understanding why she's here, but over break she got to minister alongside him on the prayer line and they saw somebody rededicate their life to Christ.

It was so powerful for God to see the fruit of why he brought her here for her dad to see the fruit of why God brought her here. It was so powerful. >> Come on. But we have some answers. So, I I saw earlier that William posted he's praying for the king of glory to impart wisdom, precision, discernment, Come on. >> guidance, deliverance, direction, and healing, divine health, financial resources.

So, I just wanted to partner with that and download victory. Yes, yes, yes, we receive that. And then somebody else said that they prayed they fasted for 3 days. Well done. Tess Tessaboo. Come on. Rosemary put on Bethel online, she said, "I joined with the fast. A byproduct is I have seen a great improvement in her health."

Come on, that's amazing. >> God. >> even more right there. That's amazing. >> Eric, it looks like you have a word of knowledge for arthritis in hands and vocal cord healing. We declare that, also sleep. We declare healing in your bodies, especially if you have arthritis, receive that for yourself and then tell us when God does it.

Come on. Well, we have Paul and Hannah McClure bringing worship today. It's going to be a powerful time. Chris bringing the word. We got communion today as well. So, if you want to partake in communion, go ahead and get those elements ready. We'll be doing that after worship right before the sermon and then fun thing tonight is Jen Johnson's preaching. >> Yeah, a rare gift. >> Yeah, it's a rare gift.

So, Jen will be preaching tonight, so it'll be a stacked day. Uh but if you are believing just for breakthrough, I want to encourage you just to hold out your hands like you're about to receive a gift. We want to pray for you that you get zapped before we even get started and then just want to encourage you at the end of the call, we're going to be ministering to you as well as we have ministry rooms and prayer teams available to be able to pray with you and believe for breakthrough with you.

But if you're believing for a fresh touch of heaven right now, hold out those hands. Holy Spirit, we welcome you right now. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would just come so close. >> Yes, God. >> would reveal yourself to everyone watching right now. Even someone that doesn't even know you, Father, right now.

I feel like there's even someone right now you're just you just stumbled across you clicked on it, you're watching and you're like, "What are What are they doing right now?" Yes, Lord. >> And I just want to encourage you just to hold out your hands like this. There's nothing magical about it, but I want to pray and Holy Spirit, I ask that you would come right now and that they would begin to feel your tangible presence.

You would begin to feel a peace, a warmth of like love coming over you right now. That is the presence of God and Holy Spirit, we ask that you would just fill Yes, God. >> everybody on the call, God, that you would fill all of us again, God.

A continual infilling of the Holy Spirit. We just release grace and peace. >> Yes. Thank you, God. And Lydia, we're praying with you. You posted about your dad. We declare cancer completely eradicated from his body in the name of Jesus and I'll be praying during the service for that as well.

I saw a few more prayer requests and I'll just be declaring that I feel like the Lord is leaning in on our faith for healing today, so >> Come on. Amen. We're going to see some testimonies. Please if you have one during the service, God is going to touch bodies instantaneously and if you have one, please post it so that we can celebrate when we get back from after service.

Come on. We love you guys. We're going to jump into worship in just a little bit and so we will see you soon. Good morning, Bethel Church family. Great see you. If you're talking, keep talking, but would you go ahead and stand and greet the folks around you as we're going to be together worshipping the Lord and learning the word for a couple hours here.

So, just go ahead and introduce yourself to each other and stand if you're able, that'd be great. All right, that's good. Want to welcome our online family as well. Glad you're with us this morning. Okay, quiet down. That's enough love. Well, we we are wrapping up our week of fasting.

As a congregation, we just called you to like listen to the Holy Spirit, find something to lay aside so that you could make space for the Lord. Thank you. Something you could lay aside so you could make space for the Lord and just feast on his presence. And so, I experienced God's grace through this fast, his transforming power, his ability to carry us through.

Uh fasting on willpower alone's terrible. Fasting with the Holy Spirit and his leadership, chef's kisses. So, uh uh it was a tremendous week. We know that we met here for prayer from 7:30 to 8:30 every morning. It was beautiful. Our online community joined us, about 200 to 300 to 400 of them were with us in the mornings.

That's amazing. And uh by the way, we have prayer Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Monday and Tuesday in the upper room, up the staircase here in this hall, at from 7:30 to 8:30. And then Wednesday and Thursday in the great room from 7:30 to 8:30. So, some of you that got the habit of coming to pray with us, there's another opportunity to do that.

Well, the the scripture that's just on my heart this morning is just what Jesus said, "Man does not live by bread alone, but do you remember the rest?" "Every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." And so again, the Lord is going to speak to us this uh this morning.

Uh he's spoken through the the the minstrels, the writers of worship. We're going to be singing in the gospel over ourselves as we often do Sunday by Sunday, uh just declaring who we are, who he is. And so, we're in for a great morning. Uh the word preached, you prophesying to each other.

Uh there's going to be a lot of the word of the Lord coming to the congregation. So, let's turn our attention to him. God, we believe it. We believe what Jesus said. We do not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from your mouth. And so this morning, we say, "Fill us with truth.

Fill us with truth about who we are, our calling, that the Holy Spirit lives within us. Uh just fill us with truth about the immensity of your love." I pray that in worship, there would be a a dialogue that happens that our one our adoration towards you again would meet your abounding steadfast love towards us.

And so, there would be a mutual giving and receiving this morning. We bless this morning and ask that you would empower us to be faithful servants and and amazing worshipers, all for the glory of King Jesus. And the people of God together said, "Amen." All right, let's worship. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Come on, let's sing this together.

He gives. He gives ((music playing)) nothing but good things. He wants nothing but good for ((music playing)) me. It's who he is, who he'll always be. I know he gives nothing but >> ((music playing)) >> Come on, let's declare that truth today. He gives nothing but [singing] good I know that he wants nothing but good for >> ((music playing)) >> It's who he is, who he'll always [singing] be.

He gives nothing ((music playing)) but Come on, sing that with a thankful heart today. He gives nothing but good things. I know ((music playing)) that he wants nothing but good for me. It's who he is, who ((music playing)) he'll always be. He gives nothing ((music playing)) but good things. He gives nothing but good things. He's a good father.

He ((music playing)) wants nothing but good for Oh, it's who he is, it's who he is. He gives nothing but good things. >> ((music playing)) >> Let everything that has ((music playing)) breath praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath >> ((music playing)) >> praise the Lord. Oh, my soul will always praise >> ((music playing)) >> Let everything that has breath >> ((music playing)) >> praise the Lord.

Let everything that has breath >> ((music playing)) >> praise the Lord. Oh, my soul will always praise >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, my soul will >> ((music playing)) >> always praise How many have a thankful heart in the room today? >> ((music playing)) >> We thank you. We thank you, Jesus. Come on, just lift up your praise ((music playing)) today.

Lift up your thanksgiving to a good father. We ((music playing)) remember all you've done today. We remember your faithfulness ((music playing)) in our lives. You're a good, good father to me. >> ((music playing)) >> Yes, you are. Yes, you are. I sing. ((music playing)) Oh, my soul always praise the Lord. >> ((music playing)) >> I tell my soul today, you will praise.

Oh, my soul will always ((music playing)) praise Through every difficult season, I will bless the Lord. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, my soul will always praise ((music playing)) Come on, stir up praise today in your heart. Oh, my soul will >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, we lift a sacrifice of praise today and sing, >> ((music playing)) >> "Oh, my soul The church will shout your ((music playing)) praise forevermore.

Oh, my soul will always praise >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, he gives nothing but good things. He gives ((music playing)) nothing but We have a good father. He gives nothing but >> ((music playing)) >> It's who he is, it's who he is. >> ((music playing)) >> He gives nothing but Oh, sing it again. He >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) [singing] ((music playing)) [singing] ((music playing)) >> With every breath With every ((music playing)) breath that's in my lungs, my heart cries out to you belong.

Always worthy ((music playing)) of it all today. Bring you glory. >> ((music playing)) >> And through every loss or victory, >> ((music playing)) >> my soul will rise to only bring you glory today. ((music playing)) We bring you glory. Come on church, ((music playing)) lift your hands. And with every breath that's in my lungs, my heart ((music playing)) cries out to you belong >> ((music playing)) >> the glory.

Through every loss and through every loss or >> ((music playing)) >> victory my soul will rise >> ((music playing)) >> to only bring you glory. We bring >> ((music playing)) >> you glory. We give you the highest >> ((music playing)) >> praise. You deserve it all. We give ((music playing)) you the highest praise. You deserve it all.

Come on, sing it again. Oh, we give you >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, we give you the highest praise. Oh, you deserve >> ((music playing)) >> it all. You deserve it all. Oh, we give you the highest praise. Oh, with every breath >> ((music playing)) >> that's in my lungs, >> ((music playing)) >> my heart cries out to you belong the glory.

We bring you glory. ((music playing)) Oh, with every breath that's in my lungs, my ((music playing)) heart cries out to you belong the glory. >> ((music playing)) >> Come on, lift ((music playing)) a mighty shout of praise to Jesus. He's worthy. He's worthy. Come on, lift a shout to Jesus. ((music playing)) He's worthy. He's worthy. >> ((music playing)) >> He's worthy.

Come on, lift your hands. Just tell him he's worthy today. You're worthy. ((music playing)) You're worthy, Jesus. Worthy. Worthy. Worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy, Jesus. Come on, lift your voice. Tell him he's worthy today. >> [music and singing] >> You're worthy of all the glory, the honor, the praise. You're worthy. You're worthy. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> You carried the cross upon your back, bleeding ((music playing)) until your final [singing] breath.

Tears of ((music playing)) blood, a crown of thorns, you gave ((music playing)) it all. My sins you bore. >> ((music playing)) >> There is no greater love. ((music playing)) There is no >> ((music playing)) >> greater love. No ((music playing)) greater love. >> ((music playing)) >> Let's sing you carried the cross. >> ((music playing)) >> You carried the cross upon your ((music playing)) back, bleeding until your final breath.

Tears ((music playing)) of blood, a crown of thorns, you gave it ((music playing)) all. My sins you bore. >> ((music playing)) >> There is no greater love. >> ((music playing)) >> There is no [singing] greater love. >> ((music playing)) >> On the cross what you've ((music playing)) done, it was more than enough. More than enough. On the cross what ((music playing)) you've done the power of your blood was more than enough.

The sacrifice that changed history, ((music playing)) the nails in your hands, the hands that saved ((music playing)) me. The grave was sealed and death lost its sting as the lion roared in victory. >> ((music playing)) >> The sacrifice that changed history, >> ((music playing)) >> the nails in your hands, the hands that saved me. The grave was sealed >> ((music playing)) >> and death lost its sting as the lion roared in victory. >> ((music playing)) >> On the cross what you've done it was more than >> ((music playing)) >> enough.

More than enough. On the cross what you've ((music playing)) done the power of your blood >> ((music playing)) >> was more than enough. On the cross what you've done it was more than ((music playing)) enough. More than enough. On the cross what you've done >> ((music playing)) >> the power of your blood was more than enough. >> ((music playing)) >> We thank you for breaking the bread of your body, for spilling the wine >> ((music playing)) >> of your blood.

We thank you. Now my heart will >> ((music playing)) >> sing forever. We thank you for breaking the bread of your >> ((music playing)) >> body, for spilling the wine of your blood. >> ((music playing)) >> We thank you. Now my heart will sing On ((music playing)) the cross what you've done, it was more than enough.

More than enough. On the cross ((music playing)) what you've done the power of your blood >> ((music playing)) >> was more than enough. On the cross what you've done, it ((music playing)) was more than enough. More than enough. On the cross >> ((music playing)) >> what you've done the power of your blood >> ((music playing)) >> was more than enough. >> ((music playing)) >> The cross.

Thank you for the cross. >> ((music playing)) >> You took the cup of suffering. ((music playing)) You took the cup of suffering for me. >> ((music playing)) >> For us. Thank ((music playing)) you, Lord. That you took the cup. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Oh, thank you for breaking ((music playing)) the bread of your body. For spilling the wine of your blood.

Thank you. Now my heart will sing ((music playing)) forever. We'll thank you for breaking the bread of your body. >> ((music playing)) >> For spilling the wine [singing] of your blood. We say >> ((music playing)) >> thank you. Now my heart will sing forever. We'll thank ((music playing)) you for breaking the bread of your body. For spilling the wine of >> ((music playing)) >> We'll thank you, Lord.

My heart >> ((music playing)) >> will sing forever. We'll thank you >> ((music playing)) >> for breaking the bread of your For ((music playing)) spilling the wine We'll thank you. Now my >> ((music playing)) >> heart will sing forever. Thank you for breaking the bread of your >> ((music playing)) >> For spilling the wine >> ((music playing)) >> We say thank you.

Now my >> [singing] >> heart will sing. We say thank >> ((music playing)) >> Thank you for breaking the bread of your For spilling the wine >> ((music playing)) >> Thank you. Now my heart will sing forever. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, the cross what you've done it was [music and singing] more than enough. More than enough of the cross what you've [music and singing] done the power of your blood was more ((music playing)) than enough of the cross [singing] what you've done it was ((music playing)) more than enough.

More than enough of the cross what you've [music and singing] done the power of your blood was more than ((music playing)) enough. Thank you. Thank you. >> ((music playing)) >> My heart responds. My heart responds ((music playing)) with gratitude. My heart sings out. My heart will sing forever. Thank you >> ((music playing)) >> for breaking the bread of your body.

For spilling the ((music playing)) wine Thank you. Now ((music playing)) my heart will sing forever. Thank you. Thank you for ((music playing)) breaking the bread of your body. For us. >> ((music playing)) >> Thank you. My heart will >> ((music playing)) >> sing forever. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Lord, ((music playing)) here's my heart [singing] again. I come just ((music playing)) as I am. All that I have I give to you. >> ((music playing)) >> I don't have much to bring.

Faith like a mustard seed. All ((music playing)) that I have I give to you. I put all ((music playing)) my hope and trust in your promise. Oh, I'm reaching ((music playing)) for the hem of your garment. Oh, I'm [music and singing] desperate for you. Oh, Jesus, ((music playing)) I [singing] won't live without you. I want your presence. >> ((music playing)) >> I'm after >> [singing] >> your heart.

Where you ((music playing)) are I am running. I'm [singing] after your heart. Just one touch ((music playing)) of your garment. Perfect in all your [music and singing] ways. I'll seek you all my days. For ((music playing)) you alone satisfy. The lover of my ((music playing)) soul what else would I long for? When you ((music playing)) alone satisfy. I put ((music playing)) all my hope and trust in your promise.

Oh, I'm reaching for the [singing] hem >> ((music playing)) >> of your garment. Oh, I'm desperate for >> ((music playing)) >> you. Oh, Jesus, I ((music playing)) won't live without you. I want your presence. >> ((music playing)) >> I'm after your heart. Where you are I ((music playing)) am running. I'm after your heart. >> ((music playing)) >> Just one touch of your garment. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, just a touch.

Just a touch. >> ((music playing)) >> So come down. Fall down. I want ((music playing)) to see you, Jesus. Consume me >> ((music playing)) >> and fill me. I want to touch you, Jesus. [singing] Come down. Fall down. ((music playing)) I want to see you, Jesus. Consume me and fill ((music playing)) me. Come on, let's sing that out this morning, Jesus.

Oh, ((music playing)) come down and fall down. Yes, I want to Oh, we want to >> ((music playing)) >> see consume me and fill me. Oh, ((music playing)) I want to touch you, Jesus. Oh, come down. >> ((music playing)) >> Fall down. Oh, I want to see you, Jesus. Consume me and fill me. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, I want to touch you, Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, I'm desperate for you. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, my Jesus, I won't live without >> ((music playing)) >> you.

Oh, I want your I'm after your heart. Where you are I ((music playing)) am running. I'm after your heart. Just one touch of ((music playing)) your garment. Oh, see, come down. Oh. Come down >> ((music playing)) >> And fall down. Oh, I want to see We want to see >> ((music playing)) >> Consume me and and fill me.

Oh, I want to touch Oh, come ((music playing)) down. Fall down. Oh, I want ((music playing)) to see you, Jesus. Consume me and and fill me. I want to touch ((music playing)) you, Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> I'm desperate for you. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, Jesus. I won't live without you. >> ((music playing)) >> I want your presence.

I'm after your heart. Where you are, I am I [singing] am worthy. I'm after >> ((music playing)) >> your heart. Just one touch of your glory. Ooh, yeah, yeah. Just a touch. ((music playing)) Just a touch. Ooh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> ((music playing)) >> Come on, just begin to lift a song this morning. Lift your own song.

Come on, sing in the spirit. Lift your voices. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, fresh outpouring. Fresh outpouring of your spirit in 2026, God. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, fresh outpouring. We're going to have more of More of you. >> ((music playing)) >> More of you. It's the cry of our our heart. The cry ((music playing)) of our heart to be close to you, Jesus.

Come on, lift your voices. ((music playing)) Lift your voices. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Let's sing that bridge. ((music playing)) Come down, fall down. >> ((music playing)) >> So, come down. Fall down. I want to see ((music playing)) you, yes, Jesus. Consume me and fill me. Oh, I want ((music playing)) to touch you. It's our prayer today. Come down and fall down.

Oh, >> ((music playing)) >> I want to see you, Jesus. Consume me >> ((music playing)) >> and fill me. Oh, I want to touch you, Jesus. Oh, come down. Fall down. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, I want to see you, Jesus. Consume me and fill me. Oh, I want to touch you, Jesus. Oh, come down.

((music playing)) Fall down. Oh, I want to see you, Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Consume me and fill me. Oh, sing it one more time. Sing it one more time. Oh, come down ((music playing)) and fall down. Oh, I want to see >> ((music playing)) >> you, Jesus. Consume me and fill me. Oh, sing ((music playing)) it one more time.

Oh, come down. Fall down. Oh, I want to ((music playing)) see you, Jesus. Consume me and fill me. Oh, I want to touch ((music playing)) you, Jesus. I'm desperate for >> ((music playing)) >> Jesus. I won't live without ((music playing)) you. Oh, I want your presence. I'm after your heart. Where you are, I am I [music and singing] am worthy.

I'm after your heart. >> ((music playing)) >> Just one touch of your glory. And I I I >> ((music playing)) [singing] >> I'm ((music playing)) desperate for you. >> ((music playing)) >> And I I I >> ((music playing)) >> I'm lost without you. And I I >> ((music playing)) >> I'm desperate ((music playing)) for you. >> ((music playing)) >> And I I >> ((music playing)) >> I'm lost without you. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> I may not understand, but I can hardly stand ((music playing)) in your presence.

I fall to my knees. The weight of ((music playing)) endless glory, it's almost too much for me to bear. What else ((music playing)) could compare? Let my hallelujah >> [singing] ((music playing)) >> be a heart's surrender. Let my whole life sing how ((music playing)) I love you. I love you when my >> [singing] >> words fall short and I have nothing ((music playing)) more.

Let my >> [singing] >> sing how I love you. I love ((music playing)) you. I love [music and singing] you. I love you. I love you. >> ((music playing)) >> There's nothing I could say when there's nothing ((music playing)) left to pray. It's your spirit that rises ((music playing)) within. It's deeper than ((music playing)) my thoughts. Better than my best of intentions.

((music playing)) Oh, deep. Christ, you deep, so let ((music playing)) my hallelujah be a heart's surrender. Let my whole life sing how ((music playing)) I love you. I love you when my words fall short >> ((music playing)) >> and I have nothing more. Let my ((music playing)) whole life sing how I love you. I love you. >> ((music playing)) >> We love you.

We love you, Lord. With all our hearts we sing. ((music playing)) You can have all my >> [music and singing] >> moments, all my days. I give ((music playing)) you all [singing] my worship, Jesus. Oh, we sing to you. You can have all my >> [music and singing] >> moments, all my days. I give you all my >> [singing] >> worship, Jesus.

Come ((music playing)) on, sing it with us. You can have all my moments, all my >> [music and singing] >> days. I give you all my worship, Jesus. We surrender to you. >> ((music playing)) >> You can have all my moments, all my >> ((music playing)) [singing] >> days. I give you all my worship, Oh, we give this to you.

Jesus. We give our hearts ((music playing)) to you. You can have all my moments, all my >> ((music playing)) >> days. I give you all my worship, Jesus. Oh, sing ((music playing)) it one more time. You can have all my moments, all my days. >> ((music playing)) >> I give you all my worship, Jesus. Let my heart sing. >> ((music playing)) >> We are heart surrendered.

Let my whole life sing how >> ((music playing)) >> I love I love you when my words >> ((music playing)) >> fall short. And I have nothing >> ((music playing)) >> Let my whole life sing how I love Come on, sing it again. Let my heart sing. >> ((music playing)) >> We are heart Let my whole life sing how I love I love >> ((music playing)) >> you when my words fall short.

And I have nothing Let my ((music playing)) whole life sing how I love You can have Oh, you can have >> ((music playing)) >> all my moments, all my days. I give you all my worship, Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, you can have it You can have all my moments, >> ((music playing)) >> all my days.

I give you all my worship, ((music playing)) Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Oh, you can have it all. >> ((music playing)) >> You're worthy of it all. You're worthy, you're worthy of it all. >> ((music playing)) >> You're worthy of it all. >> ((music playing)) >> Come on, sing it. Oh, you can have all my moments, all my ((music playing)) days.

I give you all my >> [singing] >> worship, ((music playing)) Jesus. Yeah, sing that. Oh, you can have [singing] all my moments, all my days. Oh, Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Come on, raise your hands. Make that your prayer today. Oh, you can have >> ((music playing)) >> all my Oh, I give [music and singing] you all my worship, Jesus.

Sing it with a heart of surrender. Oh, you can have >> ((music playing)) >> all my moments, I give you all my >> ((music playing)) [singing] >> worship, Jesus. Every moment is [music and singing] yours. My whole life, it is yours. My family is yours. Come on, tell him ((music playing)) you surrender today in your own words, whatever that sounds like.

I surrender all I have to you. >> ((music playing)) >> We hold nothing back from you, Lord. Every moment, every day of my ((music playing)) life is yours. Come on, everybody in the room, sing that one more time. You can have >> ((music playing)) >> all my moments, all my days. I give you all my >> [music and singing] >> worship, Jesus.

One more time. Oh, you can ((music playing)) have all my I give ((music playing)) you all my worship, Jesus. ((music playing)) If you're able to stand with us, please do. We're going to >> ((music playing)) >> We're going to do two things. We're going to pray together right where you are. And then I'm going to have everybody up front go back ((music playing)) to your seats in a moment, but hang on because we're going to share in communion then.

Um, 29 ((music playing)) years ago, we had a four-day uh, a series of meetings that forever marked and changed the destiny of this ((music playing)) church family. We brought Randy Clark in. It was the first time he came, 1997. How many of you weren't alive in 1997? I mean, well, welcome to life.

We're glad you're here. How many of you were alive? Yeah. How many of you were a part of that four-day event? It It marked us and uh, something happened that's >> ((music playing)) >> uh, that I've talked with Randy about. He's only seen happen a couple times. Uh, he ministers a lot where there's impartation, ((music playing)) where there's a grace given to individuals to walk into in the kind of anointing that he ((music playing)) carries.

But this was one of two places that I know of where it wasn't given to an individual, it was given to a church family. ((music playing)) A grace for the miraculous. 29 years ago, how many of you were not here 29 years ago? All right, you ((music playing)) and I are in need of an upgrade.

We're in need of an upgrade and I believe this week is that and so I want you to put your hand on your heart and I want you ((music playing)) just to ask him, God, release that upgrade to me. I don't want to miss it. I don't want to be a spectator.

((music playing)) I don't want to embrace healing as just a philosophy, but as something that flows through my life. Father, our That's our cry. Is that you ((music playing)) would use this week to impart to us. I ask, Lord, that you would give us that holy hunger, that holy dissatisfaction that will not settle.

And that together there'll be something ((music playing)) released over this church family that takes us into a new season, a new day. I ask that in ((music playing)) Jesus' name. I pray the same for our online family to call the same grace to rest on you. Where where >> ((music playing)) >> miracles have become much, much more normal. >> [snorts] >> And I'm so thankful for ((music playing)) what we've seen in 29 years, but I really, really believe this is an hour for an upgrade and so I'm I'm ((music playing)) going to encourage you, make sure you're a part of this thing this week.

All of you up front, go ahead and go back to your seats. ((music playing)) Take the communion supplies. All of you can sit down. I'll have you stand again in like two minutes, ((music playing)) but enjoy the rest that I give you. Oh, yeah. Thanks. Thank you, Lord. If you do not have the broken body, the shed blood of Jesus, ((music playing)) if you do not have the elements, put your hand up.

We've got ushers who have ((music playing)) an abundant supply to provide for you. So, ushers can come quickly and and >> ((music playing)) >> uh, and give to these folks. Yeah, but yeah, keep your hands up till they till they get to you. Yeah, we got hands up all over the room, so >> ((music playing)) >> um, Thank you, Lord. >> ((music playing)) >> Okay, we still have some hands up.

If your hands are up, maybe wave it so they see you. I don't want anyone leaving with the spirit of rejection cuz we didn't get to you. Yeah. Beautiful. ((music playing)) All right. This is you know, one of the the things that I hope happens in the next several months and actually on into the next several years is that the Lord gives ((music playing)) us an increased understanding on the profound nature of this moment.

It's not just looking back to something ((music playing)) that took place 2,000 years ago with the death of Christ but it's an ongoing living experience, an ongoing living encounter ((music playing)) that we have with the resurrected Christ and it we hold in our hands the testimony ((music playing)) of his broken body and the testimony of his shed blood.

It is the most sacred moment in in history >> ((music playing)) >> and we not only remind ourselves of past events but we actually step into a moment where we renew ourselves, refresh ourselves in what Christ has done. Physical obedience brings spiritual release. It doesn't matter if it's water baptism or the tithe or partaking communion.

It's it's it's not routine for routine's sake. We actually encounter and embrace a fellowship with the Lord in moments like this that are rare. >> ((music playing)) >> And so I want to encourage you just provoke and stir up your own faith to receive in this moment. I want you to take ((music playing)) the wafer out the broken body of Jesus.

I want you to take that if you would. I'm going to have you sit for the first part ((music playing)) and then I'll have you stand again cuz you will have become so rested. I like to take this part of the Lord's body and break it. I I I I do it daily constantly I should say where I remind myself he was broken that we could be whole.

He became ((music playing)) empty so we could be filled. He was rejected so we could be accepted. All these things were his experience on ((music playing)) our behalf. The Son of God became the Son of Man and died in our place to make life possible and we've been ((music playing)) sharing in that all morning.

I want you to say this with me. By ((music playing)) the stripes of Jesus I was healed. That testifies to the fact that Jesus settled an issue >> ((music playing)) >> 2,000 years ago. Payment was made. By the stripes ((music playing)) of Jesus I was healed. Say that with me. By the stripes of Jesus I was healed. >> ((music playing)) >> Now let's put it this way.

By the stripes of Jesus I am healed. By the stripes of Jesus ((music playing)) I am healed. You're holding your hand the broken body of Jesus and literally he was beaten taking our punishment so that we could step into his life. ((music playing)) And what salvation means is it's it's of course it's the forgiveness of sin but it's also the healing of from disease.

((music playing)) The word actually means deliverance from torment and healing from affliction. Our salvation was body, soul and spirit. And you hold the testimony of that in your hand right now. >> ((music playing)) >> So I want you just to say over your own life right now by the stripes of ((music playing)) Jesus I am healed.

Amen. Let's partake of this together. Thank you, Lord. Now go ahead ((music playing)) and stand with me if you would. In honor of the blood there is no forgiveness without the the shedding of blood. And >> ((music playing)) >> um I I remember Stacie Campbell shared some years ago >> ((music playing)) >> um in this prayer CD that I listened to that she was looking at watching TV the news and there was a internet another international crisis and it just kind of erupted in her.

She just made this decree as she looked at the TV, >> ((music playing)) >> the blood of Jesus can take care of that. The blood of Jesus can fix that. The blood of Jesus is enough for that. And I want us to be more impressed ((music playing)) with the power of the blood than any other power, any other calamity, any other difficulty.

So I want you to say this over your own family. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Let's make the decree together. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. This is a privilege for every believer in the room to partake ((music playing)) of this moment to share in the shed blood of Jesus.

Let's make the confession one more time then we'll drink of this together. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Amen. Let's celebrate and take this together. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Yep. Life for us begins with the shedding of his blood. That's absolutely true.

All right. We've got ushers coming with plastic bags to collect the cups so pass ((music playing)) them down the aisle if you would. And without spilling anything on anyone won't you hug somebody's neck or shake their hand or do something. Bless them really good and then find your places. Thanks.

Good morning. Good morning. If you are a junior higher, if you are between 6th and 8th grade we are beginning our junior high discipleship group today. So if you are in junior high would you stand up and we're going to open the doors on your right my left and you're going to head to the dining room with Felipe.

Here's Felipe he's giving you a wave. So junior highers if you want to yeah you can give a hand to them. They love to they love to get embarrassed. >> ((cheering)) ((applause)) >> So fun. I saw a lot of junior highers this morning. So that's so exciting. As the junior highers are making their way out there's still time for you guys if you want to head out that door.

They're going to the dining room. Parents if you're wondering we're excited to start this junior high discipleship group. If you weren't here last week it's something new we're starting at the 10:30 service for our 6th through 8th graders. They join us for worship and then they go and have their own Bible study and we're just feeling to invest and pour into this next generation and so we're very excited for that.

If you are a visitor here we would love for you just to raise your hand. We'd love to see where you are. If this is the first time that you've visited Bethel Church would you raise your hands? Our team has something to give to you to our first time guests we're so glad to have you and so blessed.

Thank you for coming to join us. How many of you are here for the Randy Clark School of Healing? Give me a wave if that. Yes. Amazing. So good. As they're handing that out to our guests we just pray that our guests are just blessed abundantly. It's felt like such a special morning.

We just pray that you and your families even those that are home are blessed with the fullness of the Lord's life and life in abundance. Amen. Um we do have an overflow so if we are running out of seats we have the great room. I hear that is filling up so we might have to open up a second overflow but if you are struggling to find seats um there is an overflow.

If you have a seat next to you maybe since we had some junior highers leave would you just raise your hand just so we can see if some people are looking for seats. We'll let you keep that up for a minute. Um are you good? We'll have you just work your arm muscles while I make this announcement.

I'll keep my hand raised since I have a seat next to me too. But life with middles and littles um is beginning. Registration is now open. Hallelujah. Uh the classroom for the kids is full. So if you are a mom with a child with a little one under 1 year old or you don't need child care that registration is still open for you.

They would love for you to join them. Registration closes January 14th and we're very excited for that. And then just a reminder Dan mentioned it at the opening of the service but there are as we're exiting our fast praise God for celebration we can all eat again. Hallelujah.

Take it slow maybe start with some broth don't start with a chili cheeseburger something like that. Uh I think I got a text from Bill about someone that broke a fast with that and I think it's a bad plan. Um I'm going to stop every joke that's coming to my mind from this point.

Um but we do want to invite you. We would love for you to come to prayer Monday through Thursday morning from 7:30 to 8:30. We'd love to have you. You can take a look at our website for more information there. And now if you want to cast your eyes to our screens for church news.

Hi Bethel family. I'm Ashley Hills our local church manager and we're so glad you're here today. And I'm Cassie Allen our Bethel online church director and here's this week's church news. We're thrilled to begin our 2026 equip classes this week. These gatherings are powerful ways to become greater equipped with revelation and tools as well as step into greater freedom and spiritual authority with others in our church family.

To learn more check out the equip class handout ((music playing)) and visit bethel.com/equip. We have a prophetic season of harvest a time when souls across the earth are being won for Jesus. The harvest is here and it must begin with us being transformed through encountering the spirit of God. At this ((music playing)) year's prophetic conference happening from February 18th to 20th in Redding, California and online We are gathering those who long to hear God's voice and partner with him prophetically.

We believe lives will be transformed by His glory and presence, equipped to ((music playing)) step into the harvest Jesus is bringing forth. Come join us for this powerful time. As we begin a new year expectant for new ((music playing)) miracles and breakthroughs that the Lord will release in this new season. We want to take a moment to remember a powerful testimony of what God did in a man who is visiting Redding to enroll his grandson in our school of ministry.

Five months prior to his trip, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. When he attended a Sunday service, he encountered the presence of the Holy Spirit in a profound way as soon as he walked into the building. He also attended the healing rooms to receive prayer. >> ((music playing)) >> The day after returning home, he had an appointment with his oncologist and completed blood work which showed that his levels were lower than they had been in eight years. >> ((music playing)) >> His doctor decided that he did not need treatment and was very surprised that his levels had dropped so low so quickly.

As we believe that the next 12 months will be filled with supernatural breakthroughs and answers to prayers, we encourage you to lean into the heart of God and what he is releasing this upcoming year. ((music playing)) This week, people are coming from around the world to Redding and joining us online for the Randy Clark School of Healing and Impartation.

Evenings during the conference are open ((music playing)) healing meetings. If you're in need of healing in your body, we invite you to join us at night to receive prayer and ministry. If you've missed any of these announcements, you can find them at bethel.com/churchnews. Have a great week. >> ((applause)) >> Hi guys, it's offering time.

Would you stand with me? Online, you don't have to stand, but you get to give too. Um you know, as we were singing the worship songs, I give you all my worship, all that I am, I just started remembering my very early days of being a Christian and hearing about how to surrender my life to the Lord.

And I remember hearing the story of the the widow with two mites and one day when I didn't have anything but two cents to my name, I wrote a check for two cents. Simply because I wanted to give God everything. I know the banker was like, "Wow." But [sighs] but in my heart, my posture before the Lord was, "God, I trust you with everything.

And I want to set you at the front front of every decision I make including my finances." And so, I just wanted us to take 10 seconds this morning to do that. Like we can use this as an automatic, you know, kind of autopilot decision. Oh, yeah, I'm going to give, but I want us to take 10 seconds and ask the Lord for a number and give that today.

Okay. You can point your phone to the screen if you'd like to give online, you can give cash. If you need an envelope, the ushers are in the aisles if you raise your hand. And online, you can also give by clicking the link in the chat. But let's read offering number declaration number two because it's about giving something to the Lord.

So, as we receive today's offering, we are believing you for heaven opened, earth invaded, storehouses unlocked, miracles created, dreams and visions, angelic visitations, declarations, impartations, and divine manifestations. Anointings, giftings, and calls, positions and promotions, provisions and resources to go to the nations. Souls and more souls from every generation saved and set free carrying kingdom revelation.

Thank you, Father, that as I join my value system to yours, you will shower favor, blessings, and increase upon me. So, I have more than enough to co-labor with heaven and see Jesus get his full reward. Hallelujah. God, thank you for the opportunity to give. We honor you with our finances this morning and we ask that you bless it, send it where you want, do with it what you need, and we will see and celebrate the outcome in Jesus' name.

Amen. We have a video about the prophetic conference and then Kris Vallotton. Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. That's what George Whitfield said at the beginning of the first great awakening. And we're at the moment again of ((music playing)) another great awakening.

The world is ((music playing)) waking up. People are searching for the truth, for a rock in a sea of shifting sand. And our God isn't hiding. ((music playing)) He's drawing our hearts. He's revealing His glory to mankind. Eyes are ((music playing)) opening to behold the beauty of Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Can you feel the urgency of the hour?

Heaven is declaring, "The harvest is here." All eyes on Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> You become like the one you behold. >> ((music playing)) >> Fix your gaze on Jesus. Let His beauty reshape you, His presence steady you, His voice send ((music playing)) you. In a moment like this, there's only one place to look.

This is the hour. Step into the harvest. Awesome. >> ((applause)) >> Yes, come to the conference and Randy Clark this week. I'm sure you advertised that before I got in. Awesome. How are you guys doing? It's just an exciting time to be alive, much better than being dead right now, so that's good.

I'm going to pray. Father, thank you for this day. We pray for our spirit to be open to your word today, God, and for to have the impact that you designed for it to have in our lives. Amen. Well, I'm glad we're, you know, past the pruning words.

If you have a pruning word, there's other churches that need that word. We're we are done with the pruning word. And now we are in multiple growing mode right now. So, that's what I'm that's what I'm praying into right now. Well, um I've been doing this about three months or so this series on developing a wealth culture and a wealth mentality.

The last two times I spoke on the story of Joseph in the Old Testament. And I'm going to recount some of that story this morning and then take it to a different place. Um I actually wrote a few pages of that I'm going to actually read to you, so we'll see how that goes.

It went really good for the first two services, so if it doesn't go well here, it won't it won't be my fault. >> [laughter] >> But um talked about the story of Joseph. If you don't know that story, Joseph had a dream when he was a young man that he was going to be a great ruler.

And that he would be the leader and his even his brothers and father would bow down to him. And then you you may have known the story that his father made him a multi-colored tunic which becomes a part of the theme of that actually the book of Genesis.

This this multi-colored tunic is mentioned several times. And his he he is so favored by his father that his brothers it actually says his brothers hated him. They grew to hate him. And and Joseph didn't do himself any favors. He taunted them with his multi-colored tunic. And finally the brothers got tired of it and they said, "Let's kill Joseph."

So, they throw him in a pit and then they said, the oldest brother Reuben says, "No, we can't kill him. Let's sell him into slavery." So, they sell Joseph into slavery and obviously this is the very Reader's Digest version of the story. Joseph ends up in Potiphar's house who's one of the officials of Pharaoh.

And he does great there and he prospers there, but he's falsely accused. He ends up going to prison and he's in prison and in prison he interprets a couple of dreams for the Pharaoh's servants. And consequently a few years later, two years later, the Pharaoh has a dream.

A fat calves and skinny calves. He has to have a couple of dreams. Joseph, they bring Joseph in to interpret the dreams. Joseph interprets the dreams. Tells the king, "Hey, these dreams, seven years of famine the first fat calves, seven years of famine this the very skinny calves are seven I'm sorry, seven years of prosperity and the second seven the skinny fat sorry, the skinny calves are seven years of famine.

And if I were you, I would do this plan. Here's the plan for you. Store 20% of the grain and sell it back to the people." And so, that became the plan. In the midst of this, there's a there's another narrative happening. And Joseph becomes if you will, he's kind of a a parable of the coming Christ.

He becomes like a model of Jesus in in the in the Bible in that this in this way. Remember that Jacob his father his Jacob's name changed to Israel. And his father gives him this multi-colored tunic. And again, I told you it's a part of a theme. It seems to be a theme in the in the story.

And then his brothers when they sell him into slavery uh, of kill him, they say, "Well, what are we going to do? What are we going to tell our father?" So, they take this tunic, this multi-colored tunic, and [clears throat] they put it in uh, and they dip it in goat's blood.

And then they take it to his father and say, "Look, Joseph was eaten by wild animals." And that becomes the story. But I'd like to point out that Joseph is actually Abraham several years earlier, Abraham, Joseph's great-grandfather, has an encounter with God. And in that encounter, God says to him, "I'm changing your name from Abram to Abraham, and your wife's name from Sarai to Sarah, cuz you shall be a mother and father not of a nation, but of nations."

And you and and and God goes on to say to Sarah, "And kings will come from you." And so, there's this prophetic declaration. How is this connected Joseph? Because Joseph has a dream about being a great leader, and Joseph goes down into Egypt, and he becomes the leader of Egypt.

Can I point out the first Gentile nation? And and and and and now we begin to see that this multi-colored coat is actually like a prophetic act. That that coat, it's multi-colored because God is the God of all colors. He's the God of all nations. It's dipped in blood because Jesus is redeeming all the nations.

And Joseph becomes, if you will, a sign that God is saving the world. And then he becomes, if you will, the savior of Egypt from famine. It's this powerful statement. And so, Joseph, because Joseph is a leader in Egypt, he becomes the leader of the first Gentile nation.

I'd like to propose he's the first fulfillment of Abraham's vision, dream, encounter with God, that God is the God of nations, not the God of a nation. So, Abraham is not the father of Israel, just Israel. He's the father of nations. So, Joseph becomes the first fulfillment in the multi-colored coat.

You get the idea? That he becomes the first leader of a Gentile nation. Well, here's the challenge. The prophecy over Jacob, who becomes Israel, same guy, is that your 12 sons will become 12 tribes, and those 12 tribes will become one nation, Israel. And Joseph is the 11th son of Jacob.

So, he would have been the he would have been the 11th patriarch, which would have created and then Benjamin the younger would have after he was born, there would have been 12 tribes. Problem is, Jacob, I'm sorry, Joseph is not the leader of Israel. He's the leader of Egypt.

So, Joseph So, Jacob, name changed to Israel, takes Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and he's and he actually adopts them. He actually tells Joseph, "Those sons will be my sons, not your sons." And he takes the two sons, and remember, there can only be 12 tribes cuz the prophecy said 12 tribes.

So, Jacob takes Ephraim and Manasseh. He puts them over Joseph's tribes, but he makes them two half-tribe leaders. So, the two make one. Are you with me? What's really interesting is that Joseph So, Joseph becomes the leader of Egypt. Manasseh and Ephraim become the 11th of 12 sons that are actually over 12 tribes.

Got me? So, the book of Revelations depicts the New Jerusalem coming down and out of heaven, and there being 12 gates. And and John says that the 12 gates each have a specific patriarch name on them. John doesn't tell us what the name is. He just says one of each of the tribe members.

But Ezekiel has the same vision. He sees the New Jerusalem coming down. He sees the you know, the gold streets and all that. And he sees the names of the 12 tribes of Israel specifically on each gate. And when he sees the eastern gate, he sees this he sees the the name of the one of the eastern gates is Joseph.

Now, you're like, "What does that have to do with anything? There is no tribe of Joseph." That gate should have said Manasseh/Ephraim, but it says Joseph. Why does it say Joseph? And why is it the eastern gate? When Jesus comes into Jerusalem, he comes in through what gate?

The eastern gate, riding on a donkey. >> [laughter] >> Are you with me? They They put down palm branches and they and they shout, "Hosanna to the king!" But he's not the king of Israel. He's the king of kings and the lord of lords. And so, and what I'd like to propose that Jesus comes through, it's a metaphor, right?

He comes through the Joseph gate because God is not the God of Israel. He's the God of all nations. And Joseph, although Joseph's not a tribe, he becomes a gate into the New Jerusalem because God wants the Gentiles in and not just the Israelites. It's a beautiful story, right?

Okay. So, now I'm going to read you four or five pages. Let's see how you do. So, let's summarize Joseph's journey. Joseph had a couple of prophetic dreams about being a world leader. His brothers were jealous of him and sold him into slavery. The favor of God's on Joe, so he supernaturally rose to power, fulfilling his prophetic destiny.

Ultimately, he saved the known world through his prophetic insights and wisdom, and thus everyone lived happily ever after, right? Wrong. What if I told you that the greatest insights into the wisdom of God in the life of Joseph aren't in the obvious narrative, but instead in the hidden riddles that lie between the lines of Joseph's story, his brokenness, his slave mentality, and his lack of generational perspectives.

Let's begin with a few questions to ponder. Why did Joseph require the citizens of Egypt to sell everything, no, sell themselves into slavery? While he sustained his immigrant family without compensation. Why did Joseph withhold the revelation of the 14 years of of the prophetic journey from from Why did he withhold that information from the Egyptian citizens?

Consider the dramatic outcomes of Joseph's leadership decision. In 14 short years, Joseph reduced a first first world country to a third world country, elevating Pharaoh to the richest man in the known world at the expense of enslaving his entire country. Now, let's take an honest look at other options that were available to Joe and discuss why he didn't make different choices.

Probably the most troubling and confusing question is, why did Joseph I'm sorry. Why Joseph didn't reveal to the Egyptians about the coming famine and allow everyone to prepare for the crisis by storing their own grain in the 7 years of prosperity? This solution would have created a scenario in which the Egyptians would have prospered.

All the Egyptians would have prospered. And they would have likely become the wealthiest nation in the known world. Yet instead, he chose to reveal the prophetic interpretation of Pharaoh's dream only to Pharaoh and develop a solution to the famine in isolation. Here's another option. Joseph knew the length of the famine, so he understood it wouldn't last for decades.

So, he could have loaned the Egyptians money to buy back their grain, maybe with some interest, and then allowed them to pay it back after the famine. Or better yet, why didn't he store the grain for them as he did in the years of the famine and just give it back to them with a reasonable administrative fee?

After all, the Egyptians did virtually all the work. So, he could have taken it would have taken minimal effort to simply ration the grain back to them during the 7 years of famine. And finally, why did he favor his immigrant family? Didn't he [snorts] understand that the vast difference in the contrast between the wealth of his family and the poverty of the rest of Egypt would create a terrible conflict in society?

I'd propose that Joseph's upbringing and his years of slavery that preceded him coming into power had a dramatic impact on his mindset. Think about it. Joseph's brothers were going to kill him, but instead they sold him into slavery. Slavery rescued Joseph from death. So, it's not a coincidence that he rescued the Egyptians from famine by enslaving them.

Furthermore, Joseph's father, Jacob, favored him so intensely that his brothers grew to hate him. Yet instead of Joseph humbling himself in their presence, he wrapped himself in his multi-colored tunic and taunted them with his father's favor. Thus, Joseph grew up in a two-class family. Joseph was extremely favored, and the rest of his brothers, who they were obviously not.

Therefore, it's not surprising that Joseph favored his own family over the Egyptians in the same way his father favored him over his brothers. Instead of mitigating the harm that favoritism can cause, he replicated it on a national scale, giving preferential treatment to his family while enslaving all the Egyptian citizens.

It's funny thing It's a funny thing how history repeats itself in that the same way Joseph's brothers grew to hate him, so the Egyptians also grew to hate the Israelites that were favored and prospered. Joseph was a supernaturally gifted dream interpreter and spiritual guide. Yet there's no indication that his plan for Egypt to survive the famine was divinely inspired.

In fact, I would argue that for reasons I stated already, that his strategy was seriously flawed. He created a a He created a dysfunctional ecosystem in which today's cures became tomorrow's bondage. Joseph nationalized slavery against the Egyptians, and the succeeding Pharaohs weaponized it against the Israelites. The Bible teaches us the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable.

In other words, once God Once the Lord imparts a a to us, he never takes it back. Consequently, a person's gift does not necessarily mean that they have a great relationship with God. Furthermore, it's foolish to think that everything a gifted person says or does is supernaturally inspired.

In fact, the scripture says, "Do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Examine everything carefully and hold fast to what is good." In other words, supernatural ministry must be rooted in a culture of fallibility so that the gifted person's revelation is tested for flaws and fallacies.

The challenge is that a believer's supernatural revelation doesn't neglect or doesn't negate that a flawed mindset, nor does it guarantee that a person's perspectives are a manifestation of the mind of Christ. In fact, one of the most profound insights that we can glean from Joseph's journey is the fact that his gift was from God, but his worldview was infected by his upbringing and his painful experiences.

Joseph is a powerful parable of the body of Christ in that he was wholly dysfunctional. He was a noble man who refused to sleep with his boss's wife and forgave his brothers who sold him into slavery. He walked in purity, and as he got older, he became a humble, compassionate person.

Furthermore, he appears to have followed God his whole life. Yet, on the other hand, his life decisions were marred by his history, his life experiences, and the pharaoh he served. Unfortunately, I see in my life and the life of most believers in the global church that I know a flawed Let me read again.

Unfortunately, I see in my life and the life of most believers in the global church that I know flawed with the same wholly dysfunction. We are noble people who walk in purity, love God, and move in supernatural power, but we are often beset with mindsets fashioned more by the world around us than the God within us.

Like Joseph, we are prone to flashes of greatness, which are too often followed by short-sided mindsets, which cost instead of in power of the generations to come. We tend to fix the here and now by forfeiting the hereafter because we are entrenched in temporal perspectives that lack that lack eternal values.

In fact, much of our theology is rooted in temporal perspectives, which undermine legacy mindsets. We read over and over in the scriptures that the Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Bible's not telling us that God is the God of only three people. No, he's reminding us that God thinks multi-generationally.

Jesus is the one who was and is and is to come. Joseph had a supernatural gift, but his perspectives were formed by his upbringing. I think this is a powerful example and and even in that Joseph was such a sign of the coming Messiah, and yet he was a flawed sign.

And I think it's really important for us to to realize that you can have a supernatural gift. I'm reminded that Jesus encountered someone who said, "Didn't I Didn't we cast out demons? Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we Didn't we do all these things?" And he said, "I didn't know you."

And I think it's really important for where we're going in this next era that we actually tap in not just to the gifts of God, but the mind of Christ. That we begin to think like God. That we begin to think with legacy in mind. That we begin to think about how we are affecting the generations to come.

You probably noticed at least by the narrative that I gave that the next generation of pharaohs in the book of Exodus opens with this thought, "And there arose a pharaoh I'm sorry, there arose There arose a pharaoh who knew not Joseph." And the next verse, "And he enslaved the enslaved the Israelites."

And by the way, he didn't enslave the Joseph enslaved the Israelites for one generation. The pharaohs enslaved the Israelites No, Joseph enslaved the Egyptians for one generation, but a pharaoh rose Pharaohs rose for generations and enslaved the Israelites for 400 years. Joseph's flawed perspective of life that actually was was cultivated in a broken family and in a broken in broke broken slavery and broken prison, his perspectives actually caused Israel 400 years of slavery.

He was supernaturally empowered, but he did not think divinely. He did not think about how his actions today were going to infect and affect the generations to come. Joseph enslaved the Egyptians, and the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites for 400 years. It's so important that we don't create symptomatic cures.

That today's cure becomes tomorrow's problem. That we don't kick the can down the road for the generations to come to pay for our comfort today. I'd like to propose that a lot of what happened with Joseph is happening in our countries. That literally the debt of this generation is falling on the generations to come, and we care more about our comfort than their legacy.

And that is not the way we're to think. We are to disciple Are you with me? Like, why am I telling this story? Because we're called to dis make disciples of nations, and we don't want to disciple nations like Joseph did. We want to disciple nations like Jesus did.

Are you with me? We want to We want to think about the generations to come. We want to think about how our actions today and our solutions today are actually rooted in eternal not just eternal purposes, but in eternal perspectives. It's It's interesting that Solomon taught the book of Proverbs, but his mindset ultimately became the book of Ecclesiastes.

Let me give you a little contrast. In Proverbs, Solomon wrote, "How This is Proverbs 16:6. How much better it is to get wisdom than gold, and to get understanding than chosen How And to get understanding is chosen above silver." In Ecclesiastes, he wrote this, "I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but fools walk in darkness. And yet I know that the same fate befalls them both. And I said to myself, 'As the fate is to the fool, it is also befall me. So, why should I be extremely wise?' So, I said to myself, 'It's all vanity.'" In the book of Proverbs, he said, "Get wisdom.

Whatever you do, get wisdom." In the book of Ecclesiastes, he said, "Why should I be wise? It's foolish." In In In Proverbs 13:22, Solomon wrote, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children." In Ecclesiastes 2:21, he writes, "When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, then he leaves his legacy to the one who has not labored for it.

This is vanity, and it's a great evil." In Proverbs, he says, "A righteous man leaves an inheritance to his children's children." In In Ecclesiastes, he says, "If you leave an inheritance to your children, it's evil." In In Proverbs 14 In four Sorry, in Proverbs 4:18, he writes, "The path of the righteous is like the light of a dawn.

It shines brighter and brighter to the perfect day." In Ecclesi- In Ecclesiastes 7:16, he writes, "Do not Do not be Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?" In Proverbs, he said, "You should be righteous." In Ecclesiastes, he goes, "Don't do that.

You'll ruin yourself." In Proverbs, he says, "Don't wear yourself to gain wealth. Cease from consideration when of it. When you set your eyes on it, it's gone, for wealth makes itself wings like an eagle that flies to the heavens." In Ecclesiastes 10:19, he said, "Man prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything."

I'm pointing out What What's the point? I I don't think uh Proverbs was I don't think Ecclesiastes was written to be true like Proverbs is. I think it was written really true in that it shows you when you get a gift from God, he never he never takes it back.

And if you read Ecclesiastes, you'll see there are some great nuggets of wisdom in there. The only problem is Proverbs was written when Proverbs was written when the wisest man in the world had a relationship with God, and Ecclesiastes was written when the wisest man in the world lost connection with God.

I'm pointing out that God didn't take the gift back, but suddenly he lost perspective. No longer was his mindset the kingdom. And he's And his And the book of Ecclesiastes is a great example of what happens when we walk with God, and God gives us gifts, and we have these We have these moments of amazing things happen in our life, and then we lose connection with God, and all of a sudden our life becomes an Ecclesiastes.

It becomes like it's feels meaningless. How many Christians do you know that walked with God? I I I've mentored so many believers, especially in Weaverville, that walked with God, and they no longer they think it's vanity. I don't go to church anymore. I don't do this anymore. They're living an Ecclesiastes life, but they had a Proverbs gift.

It is so important we stay connected with God. It's so important that we don't just have supernatural experiences, but we actually develop We actually We actually renew our minds to have the mind of Christ so that we're not just doing We're not just doing dream interpretation, but when we give the king wisdom, it's actually the wisdom from another age.

I'm trying. The warning here is not to let life experiences define our core values and pollute our relationship with God. David committed adultery with Bathsheba, and his kingship was plagued with weaknesses for women. Solomon loved God and wrote about weakness and seduction. You know, there's seven chapters in the book of Proverbs that are mostly dedicated to seductive women in the life of Solomon.

Now, I understand there's seductive men, too. So, I'm just pointing out in Solomon's life. And yet, he ended his life by marrying foreign women and doing the polar opposite of everything he talked about in the book of Proverbs. And walked away from God and built temples to foreign gods.

Are you with me? Uh Ephesians chapter 4 verse 23 says, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind." I love that he says, "In the spirit of your mind." I believe that God wants us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. I mean, that God wants us to actually let the spirit of God actually infect and affect how we see the world.

Not just my upbringing. I had a tough upbringing and God redeem me from it. He redeemed you from it in that he saved you, but have you still Do you still live in the mindset of the way your parents abused you? The drug habit you had, the wife that you lost, the husband you lost.

Like, my point is this is that you can be saved from the famine, so to speak, and still think like a slave. There's uh in Romans chapter 12, I bet many of you are quoting this in your mind already, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by renew of your mind."

The renewed mind thinks like God, but the unrenewed mind thinks like Joseph. It's not necessarily evil, it's just human. I don't think I don't think Joseph had evil motives. I don't think he was trying to do something evil to the Egyptians. I think it's just the way he thought.

It's He took his life experience and he goes, "This is what helped me. This is how I'll help you." And I'm pointing out that he didn't have heavenly thinking when it came to his insights for wisdom. He had human wisdom and it did save Egypt and the And by the way, you may know this, but the first generation of people who were saved through slavery, they actually celebrated him as a national hero.

It wasn't till after Joseph died that they realized, "Hey, Joseph enslaved us." It like it took a whole generation for them to go, "Whoa, wait a second. WHAT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? And how come his family's prospering? And how come he didn't charge them for the grain? And how come he gave him the best of the land?

And how come Hey, how come we were treated differently than him?" It was a whole generation before they actually realized that Joseph duped them. And I don't think it's because Joseph did try to do that. I think he wasn't thinking like a legacy mindset. I don't think he was thinking about how his actions were affecting them.

I'm pointing out that you can have a good heart and still not have a renewed mind. >> [snorts] >> You know, most people love their children. Not everyone's a great parent who loves their children. Some of us like my own life, I mean, if I didn't meet this man in the front row, I don't know what kind of father I would've been.

Not because I didn't really love my children, but because I was trying to not be my parents. You can't become what you haven't seen or heard. I didn't want to be my parents. I I lived in reaction to my parents, but I didn't live in response to the will of God for my children because I didn't know what that was.

I was just trying to not be them. I was trying to not be angry. I was trying not to break things. I was trying not to break windows. I was trying not to let anger be in my family. I was trying not to I I remember the the the year before Kathy and I got married and went to we went together for 5 years.

The year before we got married, you know, you call it cold feet. I didn't have cold feet about marrying her, but I said, "I need you to promise me we'll never get in argument." She's like, "Okay." I'm sure she's thinking, "If we get in argument, it won't be my fault anyway."

[laughter] You remember that? I mean, I was like I'm like, "We're coming to marriage." Like and then, you know, reacting to like that means we didn't tell each other anything because we you know, you understand what I'm getting at. There's a principle in the Bible called the principle of first mention.

And it says this. It says the first time you hear about a subject, it becomes the way you view that subject from then on. The first time you view a subject No, I'm sorry. First time you hear about a subject, from that day on, you view that subject through that perspective.

In other words, the information you hear creates a lens. Everybody say lens. Everybody do this. And say, "The way I hear the first thing about a subject gives me these lenses." Okay, it doesn't mean that you can't change, it just means it becomes the way you interpret information from that day on, right?

So, everything that you hear or experience after your first exposure to that subject will be measured by the information you receive first. Are you with me? So, Joseph's life is a great prototype of this, right? It's a great prototype of the first mention. He loved God and was supernaturally gifted, but his upbringing shaped his world view.

And by the way, parents, I'll take a little exodus here for just a second and say, "It's really important that you talk to your kids first about sex." Because we are in a sexually charged culture where people ask in More Revolution conferences, "Hey, um my 10-year-old, is he too young for the conference to come to this More Revolution conference where you talk about sexuality?"

I'm like, "You know what? 30 years ago, I would've said definitely too young. Now, we got 5-year-olds in kindergarten learning about sexuality." And I'm like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. We need to be the first ones to teach them about sexuality, so when they hear something that's a perversion, the wrong version, they go, 'Oh, no, that's not true.'" But how many know if their friends teach them first and you teach them second, I'm you're running against a lens in which they view that and they're going to be more apt to go, "That's not true cuz this is what I believe."

Are you with me? So, in John chapter 8 verse 31, 32 actually, Jesus said, "You'll know the truth." Everybody say truth. And the truth will set you free or make you free. And by the way, the word set you free or make you free, it's actually a Greek word I understand that means process.

Now, I understand that some people have been addicted to drugs or whatever and the Lord does a miracle and you're over. That's great. Thank God it happened that way for you. It doesn't always happen that way for for other people who are still having a supernatural experience with God.

Sometimes it's a journey, if that makes sense. This word truth though is really interesting. The Greek word that we normally that we normally associate with the scripture, logos, the written word, and rhema, the spirit-led word, those two words are usually the word we would think, "And you'll know the logos, the Bible, that'll set you free."

Or you'll know the rhema, the spoken word of God, that'll set you free. This word's not either one of those. This word is the word we get our word reality from. You'll know reality and that will set you free. Because a lot of believers live in a virtual reality.

Feels real, it looks real, but it isn't real. What I I I went to I went to flight school a long time ago in Willows, Willows, Willows. Because we had a auto parts store in Willows, California and an auto parts store in Redding, California and our house was just like literally 3 minutes from the airport and the Willows auto parts store was literally 5 minutes from an airport.

So, this could save me an entire day if I just get a little plane fly back forth. So, I went to flight school. I went to ground school first. You have to go to ground school first. And I did fine in ground school. I don't remember, it's like 3 months long.

And then I I started flying with an instructor. And the first three times I threw up in the plane. Every time I took the wheel, I threw up. And the instructor's like, "You'll get past this." The fifth time I threw up, he's like, "You need to find another instructor and another plane cuz that's not happening in my plane again."

That was the end of my big career of flying. But one of the things that the most emphasized emphasized emphasized Help me. Emphasized thing that I learned in flight school was about this thing called spatial disorientation. Spatial disorientation. And it usually it's it's the it's the way it's the reason why most small planes crash uh besides mechanical problems.

Most small plane Most small planes crash because of spatial disorientation. And it's the sense it usually happens in a storm when you can't see out the windows. And it's the sense that you're upside down and climbing when you're actually right side up and level. And what I learned in flight school was that that every single plane, no matter how cheap the plane you buy, you can buy a really inexpensive planes, but they always have a duplicate.

I think it's about three gauges. The two I remember is the altitude the altimeter altimeter. There's two of those. And the yaw gauge that kind of tells you, are you this way, this way, or this way, or this way? There's two of those. And I believe there's one other.

Three gauges. And every plane, no matter how small it is, has two of these, two of each of these. And the reason is is because if you're flying and all of the sudden, you get in a storm and you feel like you're upside down and and and you're and you're and you're going up.

And you look at gauge number one and it goes, "Level and flat." And you go, "Something's wrong with that gauge." The the principle of a double witness saves your life. Cuz you look at the gauge on the other side, and you look at that altimeter and that altimeter, and they read the same.

And you look at that yaw gauge and that yaw gauge, and they read the same. And you're like, "Two gauges can't be wrong." And the point that I'm getting at is this, that you're supposed to be instead of trusting your feeling, you're supposed to trust your trust your gauges.

And so, the idea is that you would see two gauges, and you're like, "Two gauges can't be wrong. So, my feelings must be wrong." And I'd point out that our high values and our core values are often quite different. And let me explain. Jesus said, "Take care how you listen."

I'd like to point out that we all talk with an accent. You just don't know you have one till you meet someone that has a different one. I went to England, you should see what they have done to the English language. Thank God we got out of that country.

I went to Scotland. Bro, it is not it it it is not Braveheart. I had >> [laughter] >> I went to Scotland. This is a true This is not exactly a true story. And then I did a Q&A with about 100 leaders in a tent. And and and after the second question, I go, "I need a translator.

I have no idea what they're talking about. I don't This is not the Braveheart movie. This is I I just some mixed with Chinese or something. I have no idea what it's mixed with." >> [laughter] >> When you meet someone who has an accent, who do you think has the accent?

Yeah, you think they do. You're like, "What did you guys do with the English language?" My point is this, we don't just talk with an accent, we see with an accent. We see with an accent. We hear with an accent. In this case, Jesus didn't say, "Be careful what you hear listen to."

He said, "Be careful how you listen." And I'm pointing out that we will often question what we see, but we seldom question how we see. [snorts] And there's a huge difference between our core values and our high values. I want to tell you a story. Gosh, I'm almost out of time.

Um years ago, when I when I used to counsel, thank God I don't. I mean, the people are thanking God, also. >> [laughter] >> Who needs compassion? Get over it. I was counseling these three women, and I think it was the Lord that I was counseling these three different women.

They didn't know each other, and they all had this this same kind of circumstances. They were all married, they all had children, and all three of their husbands were physically, emotionally, too, but physically abusing them and their children. And I was trying to get and so and I I was meeting with them all like in the same month.

And so, I really do think the Lord was teaching me as much as he was teaching them. And and I was like I was trying to get them to separate from Tarzan for a season and let him deal with the animals for a while. I wasn't like, "Hey, get divorced."

I was like, "Can we get Tarzan to stay in the jungle for a while? When we get you well, then we can work on Tarzan." But they wouldn't leave. None of them would leave. And so, I like the second session with the first woman I was working with, I I I felt like, "Lord, what's really wrong here?

Like, what's really wrong?" And the Lord says, "She doesn't love herself." And and she's And because she doesn't love herself and she doesn't understand what I did on the cross, she she's creating you know, penance. She's creating She She hates being punished, but she likes the closure of she sinned and therefore she paid for it.

And so, I go So, okay. So, I go to the next meeting, and I'm kind of excited. I'm like, "We're going to solve this." And I say, "You know, the Lord told me that you don't love yourself, and that's why you stay in this relationship like this. And by the way, you attract men who will punish you because of the the the And she goes, "I love myself."

And she quoted five scriptures about loving herself. So, I I left that session. I'm like, "Well, that sucked. That didn't go well." So, I go to the Lord. I'm like, "Lord, she loves herself." And he said, "No, her high value is not her core value." I'm like, "What does that mean?"

He said, "The way What she What she has a high value for is not the way she sees the world." Let me ask you a question. How many believe that God always provides for you? Raise your hand. Okay. How many How many have ever worried about money? See that?

Message closed. >> [laughter] >> Your high value is not your core value. And so, the Lord said, "What I want you to do is I want you to take her high value, and I want to make it her core value because your core value is the way you see the world, not the way you want to see the world, but the way you really see the world."

Are you following me? And I'm pointing out that a lot of people will repeat scriptures in which they think, "Well, yes, this is what I believe." And I'm like, "Oh, yeah? Do you worry?" Yeah, well, that isn't what you believe then. Well, you're saying I don't believe in God.

No, I'm saying that you don't see the world through through your the values you say you see the world through. Those are values you wish that you saw the world through, but these are the values you actually see the world through. And I'm pointing out that that so many values are being shaped by by by our environment instead of by the scriptures.

So many of our values are being shaped not by experiencing the Lord, but by experiencing humans. So many Listen, we live in the 21st century where so many of our values of for truth, what is true, is shaped by how I feel. I'd like to point out that that's like the plane.

Like, how I feel isn't how I am. If I lose sight of my gauges, who knows what's going to happen to me? And we have people like, "The reason I live like this is because Why would God make me have a desire for this and then make me and then punish me for it?"

I'm like, "He didn't >> [laughter] >> give YOU A DESIRE. HE GOD, LISTEN, how you feel isn't who you are. How you feel isn't how you're doing." And people are like, "Oh, you you You're You're saying my feelings don't matter." I'm saying, "No, they're great servants, they're just terrible masters."

We have a whole generation that is crashing into the ground because they feel like they're upside down. And They feel like they're upside down and climbing, and it's like, "Actually, you're level. Just stay there." Are you with me? >> ((applause)) >> There's a brain Our brain has a filter called a thalamus.

This part of the brain determines what your brain listens to, what you believe to be true, what you value, and the experience you welcome. This is your reality filter. We pay attention to only a small portion of the information presented to us, and we throw most of it away.

This process is known as selective filtering, and we do it hundreds of times a day. Hundreds of times a day, we are filtering what is true. What is true? And when we renew our mind, don't be conformed to the world. Don't let the world determine your core values.

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of mind. When we renew our minds, what's happened biologically, or can I say neurologically, is that we are training our thalamus, this is true, this isn't true. Don't feed me this anymore. Listen, you tend to attract what you actually value.

I was I was just saying in first service, I'll end with this. Why don't you stand when I'm finishing? Bill Johnson Bill Johnson has a high value for testimonies. How many of re How many of you know that? And you know what happens because he has a high value for it?

He attracts it. He attracts. He has trained himself, "Hey, testimonies, that's what I want. I want to attract testimonies." How many of you know, if you're a person who always complains, guess what you attract. Anyway, let's move on cuz very bad way to end the message. I'm going to pray for you right now.

Father, I thank you for what you're doing in this room. I thank you for what you're doing on on on our online campus. And Lord, I pray that on our online and in the rooms, Lord, that you right now, you'd pour your spirit on us. God, we wouldn't just be highly gifted, we'd actually have the mind of Christ.

We wouldn't make decisions that that that solve today's problems and put the next generation at risk. But we'd be the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And that when we disciple the pharaohs of the world, we don't give them we don't give them the wisdom of man, but we give them the wisdom from another age.

I thank you for these people, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for listening. God bless you. >> ((applause)) >> Great message. I taught him that. >> ((applause)) >> If I could have the ministry team come forward, we want to pray with you this morning. If you need a miracle in your body, if you need Jesus to come into your life, you need a radical transformation in your life, we want to pray for you this morning.

We want to see heaven invade your body. Um otherwise, please have an incredible week. We will see you next week. Ministry team, as you're coming forward, please bring your your items with you so we can clean up. And then if you come to the front, make sure that that you uh just line up in front, and then the the prayer servants will have their hands up, and we'll get right to you.

You guys, what a service. Such a good word. >> Yes, that word is so prevalent in so many different places where I'm getting like, you know, you listen to sermons from all over, but but the Lord is on that. I've heard so many different people, but never as clear as what Chris just gave us.

Uh I never knew the things that he articulated about Joseph, about the various ways that he is the the the symbol in the Old Testament of God's heart for the nations. Um but then also how his humanity got in the way of God's will. And it is such a great reminder to allow the way we think to also be surrendered to the Lord.

To not just take the what from God, but also offer to him, surrender to him the how. How are we thinking? How are we seeing the world? How are we hearing the things that he's saying to us? And even the way that we're um seeing the world around us.

So powerful. >> Come on. So good. Just so many good things there, but it's also just a helpful reminder of uh we we all have areas to grow and actually to develop and actually strengthen. And just that whole point of renewing our mind. Like uh you know, he was talking about you know, the phrase that I loved is he said, you know, "Feelings are great servants, but they're terrible masters." >> on.

And how many times we allow what feels to be true to dictate how we respond to things instead instead of what actually God is actually speaking over a situation. That's right. >> And for me, it's that thing of like uh you know, our feelings are like a thermometer.

Yes. But our beliefs are like a thermostat. >> Come on, sir. So when my emotions are out of whack, it's not it's it's just a uh a sign that oh, I got to adjust. I got to adjust the dial a little bit here. >> right. And I just even feel like even today that God's adjusting the dial on some of us.

And even for some of us, it's even making us aware of the dial that we actually have the ability to renew our mind. >> Yeah. And the way we do that, you know, I love this in Ephesians 4:29. It says, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind."

And that word "renew" is ananeo over and over again to think younger like a child. >> Mhm. And so there's something about renewal of the mind that we actually get back to childlikeness. And the thing about children is they don't have a lot of stuff >> Right. that they have to unlearn.

And some of it is actually just us needing to wash away and unlearn some of the things that we've carried with us. >> Yes. >> And I feel like God is just wiping the slate clean. I saw many of you actually just going back and thinking like a child.

And I saw the Lord coming in a powerful way. And so right now, Father, I thank you just for cleansing our minds, Father, that you would stop getting us so self-focused and present-focused and get us focusing on the future, focus on legacy. Father, I thank you that we're we're building for a generation that we'll never see.

We're we're moving to see heaven come to earth now, but also for a generation we'll never see. So Father, I just thank you for grace >> Yes. coming over people right now. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, God. >> also to be present with how you're thinking. Um uh the renewal of the mind is is necessary in every moment. >> Yes.

Right? So to to view feelings like, "Oh, I'm feeling this." But rather than using my natural mind, my normal interpretation, that anytime you notice yourself going emotionally in a direction that doesn't feel quite good or right, to bring God into that moment. I feel like that's the assignment for this week.

To bring God into our thinking moment by moment. >> Yes. So that we're we are given his perspective and we are being pushed forward according to his way of thinking. Come on. >> Yeah, I love it. Come on. If you're if you happen to be watching this and you're like, "I don't know what any of these people are talking about." because you don't actually have a relationship with Christ.

We just want to give a moment for you to respond. Yeah. And uh I I got to tell you, giving your life to Jesus is the best decision you could ever do Yeah. in your life. I was going through a season in my life where it was a prodigal son moment where I was trying to chase uh satisfaction and gratification through everything but Christ.

And I just kept on coming up empty. I was like, "Oh, if I could just achieve that, then I'd be satisfied. Oh, if I could just get that high, I'd be satisfied." There's nothing that satisfies the the longing of our hearts than the son of man. >> That's right. >> And so if you're watching, you never given your life to Jesus, I just want to encourage you to put in the chat, "I need Jesus."

That just lets our pastors know and our team know that you want to give your life to Christ. And at the end of the at the end of this time, there's actually going to be a link that says, "Start here." And I want you to click on that link.

There'll be people that want to pray with you, walk you through what does this life with Jesus look like. But we all need a savior. We all miss the mark. We can't do this on our own. We can't do it by ourselves. We need a savior, but we also need each other in this, too. >> And so Father, I just declare right now if there's anyone here watching that's on the fence, that God, you just make yourself known >> Yes. and close to them. >> Yes.

And we just speak life and grace and that he really did pay the ultimate price on the cross so that you could be fully forgiven, fully cleansed, fully saved, and fully redeemed. So Father, we just release grace Yes. in Jesus' name. And we see you right there. Um Uh Chris uh I think it's Kristo saying, "I need Jesus."

Come on, that's the best decision that you could possibly make. >> That's right. >> I just want to encourage you at the end of this, there's going to be a link that says, "Start here." And our team wants to meet with you, pray with you, and walk you through what this new life with Jesus looks like. >> Yeah, and also Caleb said, "I need forgiveness, not only from the Lord, but from someone I held transgressions against."

And the first place is with the Lord. >> Yeah. wisdom and how to uh to make amends if if that is his way, if that is his will for this situation. But first uh forgiveness with the Lord is where we start. I love that you led us there.

Um there's information in the chat uh both uh if you're watching from Bethel online or you're watching from YouTube, uh it says Jesus yes at the end of that link. If you just gave your life to the Lord, click that link. We want to walk you through discipleship, teach you what it means to actually walk out this new life with the Lord that you've selected today.

So please click there and begin your discipleship journey with us. We'd love to help you and support you. Um and then there's also prayer ministry time. >> Yes. There's another link that the uh moderator in your chat will will make available to you if you'd like to receive prayer today.

We'd love to partner with you that way, too. Yeah, and just a fun testimony shout-out. Someone put in the chat 3 weeks ago in worship on the online service, their left ear opened up. >> Come on, Jesus. Come on. That's amazing. That [laughter] is good news. Talk about that. >> Jesus is really good at his job.

And so just want to release that testimony to people. One of the you know, I just want to one of the reasons why we're so big on testimony here and why Bill is so big on testimony, it's rooted out of the principle of Revelation 19:10 that says, "The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

What does that mean, right? Basically, what it means is this. What God has done once, he's willing and able to do again. >> Mhm. And so I grew up used to thinking like when I would hear testimony, like a testimony was a reminder of what wasn't happening in my life.

And then God spoke to me. He's like, "Steve, testimonies were never meant to remind you of what's not happening in your life. They're supposed to be a promise of what will happen in your life." >> Come on. And so one of the reasons why we shout testimony so much is cuz we believe he's going to do it again. >> Yes.

And so if you're believing for hearing loss to be restored, you're believing for a miracle in your body, you have pain, you have cancer, whatever the condition is, we want to pray for you really quick. And then we want you to jump into those ministry rooms and get even saturated even more with pray uh prayer.

But the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And so Father, right now, we just declare ears opening up right now. Father, we thank you for ears opening up for hearing increase. Father, we thank you for pain leaving people's bodies. God, we curse cancer and disease and we declare full restoration of body and soul right now.

And Father, we thank you for a washing and an infilling of your spirit. All pain go right now. Samantha just said, "My left ear is injured." So thank you for sharing that testimony. He could do it for you. He could do it for me. Thank you, Jesus. That's right.

Come on. Yes. Right now, we just declare over Samantha for her left ear to be completely healed in Jesus' name. Luke even put, "I believe her tinnitus to be gone in Jesus' name." We just command all ringing in the ears to stop right now. >> Yes. Kristo, we command your ears to pop right now in Jesus' name.

And I just want to encourage you to start testing out your body. Start testing out your hearing. And if you notice any change, put it in the chat cuz we want to celebrate what Jesus is do. But also, we want to pray for you even more. Poetic Poetess put that she had a spine and neck need for healing.

So we release to you the testimony that Steve spoke at the beginning of of our broadcast today uh that you will experience the same healing in Jesus' name. No more pain in your neck. Uh complete alignment in Jesus. Amen. Um we also I want to make sure that you know that we have a form uh where you can tell us the testimony.

Come on. >> There's a link where we want to hear when God touches you, when God touches your situation. We want to hear what he's done so that you can continue prophesying to us. >> Come on. >> [laughter] >> Because we hear so much of the need in the body of Christ, but we also love hearing the answers God gives to those needs. >> Come on.

Someone also put that their headache was healed. So come on, Jesus. That's amazing. Jenny said she believes she was healed. Tell us about it, Jenny. We want to hear. How were you healed today? >> So good. But we are so glad that you joined us. We got a team that wants to pray with you, believe with you for even more breakthrough.

And so click on the links that's going to show up in the description and on the video right now. If you need prayer, click there. If you gave your life to Jesus, click on that link that says start here. And then reminder tonight we have the wonderful Jen Johnson bringing the world the world bringing the word to the world. >> the whole world.

Maybe she'll sing that. Who [laughter] knows? But we're so thankful that you guys joined us and hope that you have an amazing day and pray radical blessings and grace. Bless you Bethel family. We'll see you.