Dave Harvey - stewarding a supernatural lifestyle

I'm an Ozzy. I'm married to Taff, the most beautiful wife. Ezekiel, 8, Jaden River, and Chase, 3 years old.

Pushing for Jesus for years in schools and God began to drop, drop, drop more. After being here for 6 weeks Zek (at 2) prayed a plant would come back to life and a week later two bell peppers grew out of the dead plant.

You guys are loaded. I could say "pineapple" and you would get hit with Holy Spirit.

A revivalist is one who is focused... Hahaha!

Mt 28:18 - you have authority, so Go!

John G Lake - set up healing rooms in Spokane, Washington. He offered money for anyone who wouldn't get healed. Spokane became the healthiest city.


Testimony: mechanic showed him a video of a car running with no spark plugs.

Testimony:
1. Dream of this revival the night before
2. Dream the night before of the word exuberant. She didn't know what the word meant so she googled it! The definition means
a) Effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic; lavishly abundant
b) Abounding in vitality; overflowing; plentiful
c) Extremely good; overflowing; plentiful
d) Profuse in growth or production; luxuriant; superabundant

Sept 24 - Leslie Crandall - His Manifest Presence

This close is so sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Since you are covered with His Glory and you go to the nations - the nations will be covered by His Glory!

Here new Bible is NASB

Book of Ezra
Back story: Israel disobeyed God and so they were in captivity. A man named Cyrus helped the people go back and build up the nation if Isreael

Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zachariah, and Esther are books that should be read together since they are of the same time period.

Ezra and Nehemiah is a way to build students up. The first thing the people did in Ezra 3
1 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
2 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. - Ezra 3:1-2

Why have a temple if you don't have an altar. If you don't have the heart of sacrifice and worship in your life, why build a temple. As soon as they start building the temple, opposition hits.

In the book of Ezra 4:24
Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. - Ezra 4:24

For 18 years they were not completed. They had the authority of the Kng to build the temple, but some outsiders discouraged them. A few years later the re-started building the temple. See Ezra 5. They wanted to build the altar to protect the altar!

If you can let your heart be that burning altar of worship, then you can build the temple around it. Zachariah prophesied, "not by might, not by power, it's by my Spirit says the Lord God." In the season of rebuilding the temple to house His Presence.

Moses said, "How will you know we are your people unless you go with me?" We must have his Manifest Presence.

The temple had the tri-fold purpose
Mind - scholarly discussion
Will - political action
Emotion - festivals and sacrifices

What is the wall that steals the flame in your life?

Give The prophetic community permission to speak into your identity, how to rebuild broken parts of your temple, so that the heart can host the presence.

Story: Leslie puts her daughter to bed with prophetic blessings. 20 minutes later her daughter comes running to her, "mom, I am having happy tears! I was singing songs to Jesus and he came and I started crystal Ng in his presence." Her teacher at Bethel Christian school challenged her to share the testimony, to overcome her fears and be bold. She shares and a teacher has the strongest encounter with the Lord in 20 years. That night at dinner she prays her normal dinner prayer but adds the preface "Jesus thank you for helping me overcome my fears and sharing in chapel! And... for dying on the cross and taking away our sins!"

If you break emotions or lies that you don't want in your life, it needs to be replaced by different emotions and truths. Cycles of bad thoughts need to be torn down and rebuilt. In the same way the temple walls were rebuilt in community so our walls need to be built up in community.

Graham Cooke said "if we did all the "one another's" in the Bible we wouldn't have another prayer meeting. We would have ongoing revival forever!"

We are ultimately called to worship from the heart. We are the temples of God. 1 Cor 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Manifest presence is the number one key for transformation. You cannot but produce fruit if you carry His Manifest Presence! You walk into the room and his Presence impacts people. Like Moses who saw the Lord and people saw God, so we can host His presence and shine God on people.

My father my whole life told me this, "you are a beautiful woman and your are intelligent." She has never believed anything else.

The first gate they restored was the Sheep Gate. This shows their priority to keep worship flowing in and out of the city. When you leave Civic Auditorium, keep the gate of your heart to sacrificial worship working.

So important that your spirit can sustain a supernatural life. Only one way she knows how to do this: Ezekiel
26 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.
27 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
28 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking. - Ezekiel 1:26-28

3 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.
5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,
6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: - Revelation 4:3-6

Rainbow means "God will fulfill His promise!" God is the same yesterday, today and forever. If we behold him, we will be like Him. Worship recalibrates our hearts. When I see Him I know I am loved, I am going to be victorious. Worship is what the Lord is trying to protect. It is everything. If He gets us in His presence we will be transformed into His likeness.

Worship keeps our eyes focused on the magnitude of who He is. Worship gives us the capacity to receive more of Him. To expand our capacity to see and receive more not to pray that He would give us more because He is always wanting to give more.

Judges: Samuel is about to be born. The angel comes to promise the birth of Samuel. She gets her husband, gets a sacrifice and asks, what is your name? The angel responds, "it is too much - it's indescribable." The way he thinks of us is indescribable. The way He thinks of us is indescribable.

There needs to always be an access point to see throne, to see the rainbow. Pinky Brewster would ride a rainbow that would take her to some fairyland. If we can carry His presence we will have continual access to Heaven.

If you behold him you become like him.

All you have to do this year is fully engage in worship. Tart solves everything. Then... You can see clearly.

Review-Book Report of Hosting the Presence by Bill Johnson

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1. Briefly write what the whole book is about and why the author has written it. (Imagine the author will read this and would say, “Yes, this is the main point of my book and the problem I wanted to fix.”)

Bill Johnson says it best, “Our true nature and personality will never come to fullness apart from His manifest Presence. Learning to host Him is at the center of our assignment, and it must be our focus so that we can have the success He desires before Jesus returns.” (p. 28). This book was written because many people are striving for significance through our works (religion) but losing our purpose (intimacy). 

The Church needs a fresh revelation of God’s goodness - the Good News needs to be a revelation of God’s goodness and as we host His presence miracles attach themselves. If everyone hosted His Presence, there would be a corporate anointing, unity would be seen in the church, His people would be known for being free in love, honor, and power. Jesus needs to be our prototype example of how we are 

to minister in this Kingdom now.

2.   Briefly outline the major points of the book as the author presents them.

Introduction:  

1. Thesis: Learning to host Him is at the center of our assignment, and it must be our focus so that we can have the success He desires before Jesus returns. 
2. Intimate friendship with Adam and Eve in the Garden. Adam willfully gave Satan domain by choosing to eat of the tree which resulted in the Fall of Man. Fear entered a land of intimate love. Jesus willfully  took back the King’s domain by willfully climbing the tree of condemnation and giving the keys to the kingdom to His people. This resulted in the Presence of God to return to the Earth as Heaven invades with our partnership to host His presence.

Anticipating the Coming Kingdom:

1. Moses goes face to face with God in Ex. 33 and glows. The people asked him to put a veil on his head because they couldn’t handle his reflection. 
2. Saul is anointed king and fails to host the Presence of God. 
3. David teaches Israel how worship hosts the presence. Gideon is a model of when we are less, we make room for God to do more.

The Perfect Prototype

1. Jesus is baptized and the Holy Spirit descends as a visible dove. 
2. Jesus tells the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to come on them - the kingdom rushes to earth as an invisible wind. This is the climax of God’s story as Heaven invades earth.
3. All the sinlessness and righteousness of Jesus is now available to followers of Jesus. As a dove is pure white, so we are to be holy. Our holiness becomes our identity as we delight in the One who is holy. 
4. We release his Presence through the Word, acts of faith, prophetic acts, touch, compassion and worship. 
5. We discover His presence as we fully trust, deeply repent, speak in tongues, incorporate creativity/obedience into our prayer-life, balance prayer to worship 80% worship to 20% intercession, and read the Word for pleasure and more of His presence.

1. Thoughtfully explain at least 2 main strengths (or points of agreement) with the author AND at least 2 weaknesses (or points of disagreement) with the author.

Strengths:

1. The Big Picture is presented very well. I appreciate how the book started in Genesis, wove its way through the Old Testament, narrowed in on Jesus and the disciples, and gave examples of the last 100 years. If Hosting the Presence is the #1 purpose for us on earth, then it needs the support of the Bible and history. 
2. The theology is refreshing. I often read through Scripture with the aim of completing the task of evangelism to every unreached people group (All Nations). Reading through Hosting the Presence and seeing the focus of restoring lost intimacy as the focus of our purpose and from that All the Nations will come running to the Presence is so refreshing.

Weaknesses:

1. More context for understanding Jesus as a boy being sought out would help. This is a difficult text to understand, but it would help the reader to know that a 12 year old was just months from being considered an adult. It would also help to see that Jesus did take up his Father’s trade as a carpenter and did honor is parents through that choice of working the trade for some 17 years. 
2. More stories from Bill Johnson would be well received! Releasing His Presence through the “Shadow” (p. 166) could have included the story shared in BSSM of the lady at a gas station who couldn’t stop laughing or the time Bill Johnson was buying a cell phone and the person near him fell over because of the Presence.

4.   In what way did this book impact your life as a revivalist?  How will you be different?

This is a book I will treasure and re-read during the next few months. There are a lot of practical steps I want to take and incorporate into my life. 

First, I want to study Acts 2 - I agree this is the anointing that we has been promised. This is THE Kingdom we the prophets spoke about coming to not just the Promise Land but to All Nations!

Second, I want to tattoo WIFD (What is Father Doing) on my heart. I want the brainy agreement to lead me to spend time in the Word and in conversational prayer with our Father in anticipation he will speak to me daily. 

Third, I plan to daily start my Jewish day waiting for His Presence before I go to sleep — inviting Him into my dreams and partnering with Him ALL day long.

Fourth, I will read the Word for enjoyment - definitely not to just complete an assignment. I will expect the Father to speak to me daily.

Last, I want to study the lives of revivalists to look for examples of how they invited and manifest His Presence. I will look for audio books of revivalists that I can listen too when I walk to class.

I think I will be different because I struggle with first things first. I am busy doing good works, but not prioritizing my relationship with the Father. This will change.

Leslie - Analogy of pure love washing out our sin.

Leslie

1 John 3

I'm not concerned about what's coming out as long as pure live is pouring in.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. - Hebrews 4:16

At Fire School at Brownsville Revival. She has an anxiety attack. They don't lift. Jen Flynn, ex drug addict beautician, doesn't know what to do but prayer and His presence fixes things. They met at prayer chapel and prayed through the anxiety. The anxiety lifted. In community, there was power to see the oppression lift. 

If you create a plastic "you" people do not know the real "you." They give compliments to the plastic "you" and it doesn't absorb because plastic doesn't absorb anything. You will never trust love given to you unless you share your true "you."

Shame hides and vulnerability brings freedom.

Dan Farrely - story of how he encountered God

Dan Farrely

Made space for God to work even when he had doubt as to whether the manifestations were real. Two thoughts: 1) something wrong with me or 2) something wrong with others.

Manifestation Story

Bill Johnson would tell his staff: "Your job is not to fill file cabinets. Your job is to be filled with God and leak." Staff meeting Bill says, "let's take another drink." Dan received prayer and felt something. He was hit by the power of the Lord. He was sitting on his chair. Electricity like power. Wave after wave came at him. He balled up on the chair. His hands curled in and his muscles ached as he continued to spasm. He sees the music pastor, Mark Holt, and reaches out to touch him and nothing happens. After 10 minutes people began to let off and he grabs their hands and says, "more, more." 

After prayer he prayed, "Lord, I'm sorry for not thinking this was so true!"

God re-wired the church to emotions through the Toronto Revival, Rodney Howard Brown, Basel, and others. Culturally different S. African presentation: "I'm not a sipper, I'm not a sipper. I'm a chug-a-luggah! I'm a chug-a-luggah!" 

When Pentacost hit in Acts 2 and tongues were spoken it doesn't make sense to think they were drunk? They could of manifested in affection, laughter or other emotional responses normally associated with drunkenness.

I do think it is on purpose that God has touched the church 1) physically, 2) emotionally, and 3) with joy. Joy doesn't have to be an inner quiet emotion. Joy can be like the children of Narnia wrestling with Aslan. The children say, "Aslan, you seem bigger than before." Aslan responds, "the more you know me the bigger I am."

Banning Liebscher and Dan get together and laugh a lot. Why wouldn't my Heavenly Father do the same?! If my body can sense cold or hunger, why can't we then sense the pain of others to know how to pray? 

Mark Brooks - the Secret to being a Revivalist: the Secret Place

Mark Brooks

Met with his mentor Steve Backlund 6 days a week at 6am for four years. They spent time praying, journaling and reading the Word. These years of being mentored were foundational. His private time flowed into his public time.

Revivalist: a believer who is focused, passionate, and willing to pay any price to live in community, purity and power because they are loved by God, whose manifest presence transforms lives and cultures. 

Soaking: lay before the Lord and receive with affection. God would take him on adventures.

Devotions: hang out with God to hear what's on His heart and partner with him to go on assignments. 

There is a war against you connecting with God. Our nature of wanting to get things done and be productive fights against our devotions. Winning souls can take the place of our devotions. Instead, our devotions should be the source of our motivation to win souls.

Adam would walk together with God in the cool of the day.

We want our assignment, but missing the alignment with God. Spiritual fornication: doing good works without God. Good works were meant to be done WITH God.

Mt. 6:6 

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:6

He only shares secrets with His friends.

Secret to Jesus ministry was the secret place. 

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. - John 5:19

You have to stay connected to be a revivalist

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. - John 15:4-7

If you don't Abide daily, you will get burned out. 

You can learn from revelation or you can learn from tribulation! The secret place helps us get daily relevation.

Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. - John 6:15 

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. - Luke 6:12

Pray from intimacy

Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  - Matthew 6:9

Read about Jesus and his interaction with Father God and then see how he responds to this interaction.

When we hear what He says to do, then we have the grace to do the tasks.

Mark shares how he was insecure the first three years of leading BSSM - rejection was huge!  

Kris consistently said, "It's not the most gifted person or the most anointed person, it's the person who God called who is to lead."

In the secret place you can SOZO yourself and ask the Lord why am I having this emotion. The Secret place keeps you from being burned out; keeps you on fire! Secret place keeps you in the truth, replaces fear with love. After you repent from sin, you have to ask what lie was I believing? 

How to do "Secret Place"

Schedule it - nobody can steal that spot! Never ever ever ever ever cancel your appointment with God.

He's waiting for me. Do you want a boring powerless life? Then don't have a Secret Place daily.

Journal - he does a journal every year. Write, draw, jot down dreams. Word for the day.

Worship - 

Read scripture - meditate on what is it saying about God. What is it revealing about me (humanity)

Make a habit about all the little things he's done to show His affection

Reflect on testimonies. Ask Him to do it again!

Through the Secret Place you have an overflow to leak God and become the living epistles. 

Sheri Downs

1968 - Sheri encountered true love of Jesus. Found safety and acceptance.

1995 - Lord called her away. 5 hours before children woke she started her secret place

2010 - 2nd year of Pastoring at bethel she had a stroke. First time living alone. She said to God, why do I feel so lonely. God said, you greet me when you come into that house. Now she says, Hi Pappa, I'm home! She fell down and the Holy Spirit says go have a bath. Have a bubble bath. Get all the candles. Get a bottle of wine. She goes under the water. She hears someone walk in the room. She sits up and nobody is there.

Brandon

There is grace being released today. If we can save you ten years. Came to faith at a young age. At 20, God pursued him and captured by His love. He went to work at a plastics  factory. He had a revelation that Father was always with him. He became the secret place. Asked God to give him am instrument.  

Bill Johnson - Mt 16. Revelation of Christ the foundation if the church

Bill Johnson

African revivalist said, "being raised from the dead really changed my life." He went on to raise 36 from the dead. Yesterday a 12 year old was raised in front of 200,000!

Mt 16

13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

14 And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."

15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

16 Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

17 And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 16:13-17

Jesus is affirming him his ability to hear. When he saw his children do something well he would get their attention and tell them good job, that is the fruit of the spirit!

18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." - Matthew 16:18-19

You can't bind something in time and then bind it in eternity.  Better translations n: "whatever you permit on earth will already be permitted in heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven"

20 Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.

21 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

22 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you."

23 But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." - Matthew 16:20-23

This deals with another aspect of the renewed mind.

"Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" the disciples belonged before they believed. Jesus didn't require them to accept him as Messiah before He chose them. End of Mark 4 where Jesus stills the storm. The disciples ask, "who is this guy?" All of us are in track to get this stuff. It's encouraging to know that the disciples followed without knowing who he was!

Vs 18

"Peter, and on this rock I will build my church" - Jesus is not saying Peter is the rock, but it is the revelation of who Jesus is that creates the foundation upon which the church is built upon.

Here is the revelation if Jesus: "I am" when judas betrayed Jesus the soldiers asked, "we are looking for Judas of Nazareth." Jesus replied, "I am." And they fell down.

"the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Hell is a place of permanent torment, not a place that Satan moves from. Who is on offense? The church! We live in a green light the district!

At a football game is another player who is out of bounds and calling plays. We shouldn't get defensive and try and stop that out of bounds player! The lion walks about the earth like a roaring lion. Just noise. Jesus says, "all authority has been given to Me!" This means Satan has no authority. The moment someone who has authority agrees with him, Satan is feeding off their authority.

Whatever has been bound on earth will be bound in heaven. 

Why did Jesus say, "he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ." Jesus worked hard to keep the people he loved away from truth that they were not ready for. With knowledge comes greater accountability.

Here's a prophecy that didn't come to pass: "Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you."

Vs 23 Jesus said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." Humanity without Christ at the center is demonic in nature!

The disciples worried about not having enough food after seeing Jesus multiply food two times. Jesus says, "why do you reason."

Peter said, "you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses." - Acts 3:15

Why is the anti-Christ not called anti-Jesus. It's because the anti-Christ spirit is visible when their is opposition to the anointing.

Jesus gave them power and authority, but after he died Jesus gave them power and authority in the Great Commission. 

Revival Groups, Whiskey Town Lake Party, Red Line word

Revival Group introductions  - the 1000+ BSSM students are divided into 20 revival groups with 60-70 in a group. Our RG has 67 people. 6 interns with 10-11 students assigned to an intern. Monday morning the interns introduced the students. They read statements of the strengths of the students as described by those who wrote references for us to get accepted into BSSM. 

After the RG meeting we drove 20 minutes West to Whiskeytown Lake. We had a potluck bbq and our assignments was to find another student and give them a word of knowledge about their room they grew up in and prophecy over them. 

Lukus was the person who had my name. He correctly had a word of knowledge I had a blue wall and then went on to excitedly explain that he saw a red line that would take me to the world. I explained to him I work with Chinese and want to help them take the silk roads back to Jerusalem. He said I needed to stay on the red line to see the massive fruit coming.

I described to him this map I saw when he prophesied over me: 

BSSM Worship Team, Redding civic auditorium, Dan Farrely Testimony

BSSM Volunteer Worship Team Introduced

History of Redding Civic Auditorium and BSSM

1.5 million dollar deficit. The city was going to close it down. In 2010, Bethel approached the city of Redding to offer a solution - rent the Civic Auditorium for $6500/day. Bethel recently signed a lease through 2021. 

Dan Farrely.

His story - born to an ex altar boy Irish father. He was an only child of older folks. Grew up in San Francisco. They were not connected to local church. In crisis they found God. His older brother (8 years old, passed away) when Dan was 4 years old. Local pastor loved on them and brought them to church in Daily City. Sister was born when is 3 years younger. God found him in a Good News Club. In 1969, 4-year old Dan accepted the Lord at the Good News Club at his home led by his mom's friend, Tanya. He went to his room in private to pray. Summer camp was a highlight. Campfire goose bumps when they sang worship. He became a camp counselor when he was a teenager. He was on a missions trip with Ray Larson to NY and saw David Wilkerson in ministry. They did skits and preached the Gospel. In came David Wilkerson who then would start preaching by saying, "I bind every foul spirit in the name of Jesus!" In the church in NY he felt a call to full-time career ministry. He believes every Christian is in full-time ministry. He felt called to career ministry. Went to Simpson university, then he went to Fuller seminary. John Wimber had just got kicked out of the school of missions by leaders of school of theology. C. Peter Wagner and Chuck Kraft invited John Wimber as a substitute teacher. Wagner's class on spiritual warfare was spooky. Two biggest populations on campus were AG Armenians and Presbyterian Calvinists - a guarantee for good discussion! He worked as a substitute teacher and lived in a 1905 roach infested apartment. He ate Top Raman and Trader Joe's 99 cent protein deals (Spam?) back when TJ's was super cheap.

Ray Larson invited him to Bethel to volunteer in youth ministry. Super fun time. In early 1990s prophet Iverna Thompkins sees a picture of dancing and banners in the front of the service. The 7 men in leadership all agreed this would happen only over "their dead body." They allowed one lady to dance in the back corner. Sometimes she would dance her way to the front and the men in maroon jackets would escort her back. Ray left due to sin and many others (300 of 2500) left because of religion and not knowing how to be loyal. Bill rebuked the leaders and said you pounced on Ray when he needed help and drove him out of town.

His parents were driving up to see him preach. His dad fell asleep at the wheel and his mother was killed. He also broke off a relationship. Danny silk was the youngest of the old guys. Danny was the oldest of the young guys. The board sat in on the interviews of senior leaders and when Bill Johnson was interviewed. Bill had just experienced Toronto Revival where people were stuck to the ground of the parking lot. Wendell McGown, known for prophetic anointing, asked to meet with Dan and wanted to pray for him after coming back from Toronto. Wendell believed in pushing people down to receive the anointing. He encountered the chicken dance and involuntary crunches.

Bill Johnson said in the interview, "I'm ruined for revival. We had revival in Weaverviole and went back to programs and the anointing lifted." Bill was hired and the Lord said, "go slowly." Dan thought, "that's not slow!" 

People would finish a service at Bethel and Banning and the youth would go to the CMA Church of the risen King to pursue more into the night!

Church went from 1800 and went down to 800. Guest speakers would take their own offering and preach two hours long. Went from being the lamp stand Church to the laughing stock church. Bill reminded them that it was difficult for Mary to explain her pregnancy with "the angel story." Initial Unity is not required for the "lord to be in it." Look at Joseph and his dreams.

The manifest presence were impacting people with joyful laughter, and healing. Bills family loved him. He taught with integrity. Bill heard they were planning to stop supporting missionaries and Bill said no. Reason found its proper place: being led by faith.

Dan is worried about group think but the empower has no clothes on. When people prayed for him he didn't feel anything. Friends would say, "Dan come over here! There's a Holy Ghost Spout!" He went over and didn't feel anything. Dan came up with the the theory that 

1) only those who had experimented with drugs felt the Holy Spirit [but many non-drug users had it]

2) he wasn't hungry enough. During the dry season if their lives they dug down and made a cistern. I did not dig out a cistern and that's why the Lord is passing me by. [but recent believers were impacted]

Bill taught this was a revival of tears of joy; tears of sorrow not required.

He was labeled "hard to receive" when people would lay hands on him and say "receive!" This a movement of grace, you don't have to manifest to be accepted. 

He learned to sit down when he received prayer. He didn't have to worry about being pushed over or falling. When he sat down he could focus on receiving more.

He also gave up being the flesh police: "God" mmm "not God" mmm "she's needy" mmm "65% God." There's always a perfect God working with imperfect people. Some manifestations looked like epileptic seizures. He went up and asked, "are you okay? What was the Holy Spirit do my?"

18 months in Bethel when he had no manifestations. Don't sweat it! Just focus your affections on the Lord. Manifestations are not signs of maturity - they are just a way to encounter God.  

Testimony:

Ryan shared he was saved 3 years ago. Heard the Lord to sell his house to fund the school. The house never sold. 1 week before school he had no money. 2 days before he came here from Ireland he had an interview with the embassy and was nervous bc he knew they would want to see money in the account. His interview was 10 seconds: "why do you want to go to bssm?" I want to experience more of God. The answer was, "well there you go!" 

The next day someone comes to him with a check of 3000 Pounds. The next day another person offers another 2500 Pounds! Then a friend says I'd like to pay for your mortgage when you are at school

Bill Johnson - John 3-4 and Mark 5

Bill Johnson

John 3

It's truth is a setting In a ring and the new truth is the diamond

Sowing and reaping. If you live intentionally to live the Kingdom well you will see a harvest. Want a greater harvest? Ask Him for more seed.

Line upon line, precept upon precept. The highest law is of Blessing, not sowing and reaping. He is trying to reveal the nature of His world by using the nature of our world.

1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him." - John 3:1-2

Teaching of the Word is to make room for miracles. God always follows His Word.

Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." - John 3:3

Our conversion gives us the capacity to see. The realm of the Spirit is something that you can see because you have been born again.

4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." - John 3:4-8

Jesus likens the wind to the Spirit. The Spirit is not to be controlled but to move with.

Little girls was frustrated in class taught by her dad and told her mom, I'm confused daddy says we come from monkeys and not from Angels. Mom says, that's true - but he's just talking about his side of the family.

9 Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?"

10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. - John 3:9-13

Verse 13 reveals Jesus' breakthrough ministry

Before he died, glorified, ascended, Jesus said this. Paul wrote we are seated with Jesus in the heavenlies. Dual citizenship concept: living on earth but being citizen of heaven. 

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." - John 4:23-24

Only place in Bible God reveals He is looking for a certain type of worship.

"Truth" means nothing hidden

The person who only wants to stay in the presence but no go out is one-sided. Complete worshipper a have to go out. See Isaiah 6:8:

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here I am! Send me."

When God reveals truth it is available. For it to be revealed in Signs and Wonders, the weightyness of Gods presence in the person needs to match the miracle.

1 Corinthians 12-14. Don't just believe in our ability to flow in gifts, pursue the presence of His love to carry the weight of the glory required for the gifts.

1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

2 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.

3 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.

7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."

8 For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

9 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,

12 and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."

13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.

14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.

15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

16 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.

17 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.

18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.

19 And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. - Mark 5:1-20

This one man prepared the way for great revival through the testimony of the works of Jesus.

Bill prays for us Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, - Ephesians 1:17

 

Vallotton on Hell, Foreknowledge and Prophecy

Kris Vallotton 

Romans 8

Foreknowledge

4 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."  - Jeremiah 1:4-5

4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, - Ephesians 1:4-5

Before the creation of the world God knew Kris would choose Him July 1973. Then God said, "I choose Kris."

Two places we go upon death:

Hades

Sheol (place before the cross) Jesus was dead for three days where he went to Sheol. The spirit realm has no time. He went from a time zone to a timeless zone.

Abraham's bosom

When Mary saw Jesus after resurrection, mary fell at His feet and told her, Mary don't touch me because I have not yet ascended to the Father.

Thomas touched the holes in Jesus' hands after Jesus appeared in the room. 

When Jesus went into Sheol he went from earn to eternity. He took all the saints captives out of Sheol  and when he rose from the dead all the saints rose with him. 

6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there,

7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. - John 20:6-7

Face revealed but body not yet revealed.

Satan knows who you are. Angels know who you are. It's only you who does not know who you are! You were born to be in a palace but you act like you are in a prison. Heaven will not come to earth until the body knows it's identity as royalty. Women are suppressed by Satan, but If women figure out who she is the devil will be defeated. 

Why did Jesus die at Golgotha (skull). Why did Jesus have a crown of thorns? Because he died to break the curse of woman (to be ruled by their husbands) and man (to work the land of thistles). 

Who was at the mount of transfiguration

Moses: represented the law. Moses died because he hit the rock instead of speaking to the rock. 

Elijah: prophets

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." - Jude 1:9

Satan wanted the Law alive in Promised Land. Michael protected Grace Land by keeping Moses out.

Law says don't steal, Jesus says cut off your hand if you are tempted to steal. Jesus adds to the law to up the requirements.

10 A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened. 

11 "I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.

12 As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

13 "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. 

14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. 

15 "As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.

16 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things.

17 'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.

18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.' - Daniel 7:10-18

We have received the Kingdom when Jesus died in the cross and the time arrived when the Ancient of Days made a decree that allowed the Devil to live without power and gave to the saints with all dominion. 

Daniel 7 is not about our future but the church era.

Isn't the world coming to an end? Yes, but the kingdom is coming!

The last days began at the resurrection or Joel's Acts 2. Last days go until their are no day or light... Not on heaven, but on earth. The great Jerusalem will come down to earth. You are praying Heaven down.

If you have a rusted old 55 Chevy, I don't care how much it costs. If I come to see how the work is doing and then say, hurry up and finish, give me the bill. I decided to take it to the dump and crush it for recycling.  The quality of workmanship will drop significantly.

Don't expect the earth to be recycled. The earth will have a baptism of fire. Creation is waiting for its born again experience. 

How can the world get darker but the church get brighter? If we come to church (our basket) and not become the church on the top of hills where cities are the light gets dim yet the world gets dim. We need to get out of our basket!

Isaiah 2 says that in the last days 

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.  - Isaiah 2:4

Mt 24 has been mostly fulfilled except verse 14

Mt 24:14 is "discipling nations" to Kris. [instead of people groups]

The Bible says the devil has had his power taken away (Daniel 7). How does satan have power in the Book of Revelation? 

28 "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 

29 Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.  - Joel 2:28-29

Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.  - Isaiah 55:5

KV (not Bethel) Eschatological Beliefs

I will not embrace a view that empowers the devil

Takes away children's future

Sabotages the 3rd command that we disciple nations

Doesn't restore cities

Celebrates bad news bc Jesus returns sooner

Takes promises of God away from our time zone

Great and terrible day of the Lord

Great bc we see Jesus

Terrible bc God judges those who trampled on Jesus

Kris Vallotton - Bob Jones Story & Death of Sin Nature.

Kris Vallotton

Bob Jones encounter. Two angels flying around last night. You pick me up at 9am. Kris arrives at

8:45am and Bib says "you late." Larry Randolph comes out at 9:30am with shirt buttoned wrong,

hair all out of whack. Bob says, you didn't sleep! You had a demon last night. Larry says,"How

did you know?!" The demon came to my room and I said, "you are in the wrong room, Larry is

next door."

Give me your number, if you are ever in trouble I will call you! Bob calls, "I told you I would call

when you were in trouble! You having nightmares. A demon is messing with you. You will be

okay, he tells Kris his nightmare. He tells him that he was praying in the heavenlies with saints of

old and help is coming." The next day nightmares again. He went to the living room and went to

sleep. He woke up to a 7 foot Native American with black tights, black slicked back hair, no shirt

and steely eyes standing near him. When Kris thought is this maybe an angel, the guy

disappeared. Kris calls Bob. Bob says, "did an angel visit? Was he an Indian wearing wrestling

tights with black slicked back hair, and in a bad mood?" Yes. "Oh, that was Michael, he is always

in a bad mood."

The first Adam fell by doing to be. We were created to be human BE ings. After God speaks to

Jesus, "this is my son whom I am well pleased!" Jesus went Into the wilderness. Satan tempted

Jesus to take the rocks and turn them to bread. Satan tempted Jesus to do something to show

his deity and Jesus replied with "I am!" Jesus rebuked Satan be being.

5 times Paul exhorts" to strive and labor". You were born to work but identified by your creation

(being). How did Adam and Eve fall? By working to get acceptance.

There's a river that runs through your soul. If you don't paddle you end up at Gods house. Adam

and Eve sinned without a sin nature. And so can you.

8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness.

10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. - 1 John 1:8-10

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin,

we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. - 1 John 2:1

Jesus said, "judge fruit."

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. -

1 John 2:2

Before you became a Christian you needed a savior. Now you need an attorney. You didn't have

to sin, you chose to.

4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him

or known him.

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is

righteous.

8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the

beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot

keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil:

whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his

brother. - 1 John 3:4-10

It is not your nature to sin.

The voice of conscience weakens as one repeats the same sin. Once you get off the road of

following Jesus and pursue a sinful path you are no longer following Jesus. When your

conscience voice is muffled down to a whisper is when people twist Scripture to justify sin.

A hyper grace follower who has been through three years of bssm. Explained his salvation is

secure. Kris responds with, if I sinned while in marriage wouldn't it be best to tell my wife and ask

for forgiveness. I got married to have relationship not to get her estate. When I hurt the

relationship through sin, I need to restore it by confessing and stopping the sin. Jesus said, "stop

worshipping and get right"

Communion is a symbolic act. Putting up stones of remembrance is a symbolic act. Baptism is a

a prophetic act. Dipping in water 7 times is a prophetic act. Going under water is dying with

Christ. Coming out of water you receive your crown. Infers: Baptism is necessary for salvation?

You are not a sinner. You are a sainter!

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the

righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:21

Condemnation tries to tie your sin to your identity.

Conviction says, that's not who you are! Stop it! Stop behaving below your identity. You are a son

of the King. When you are convicted by the Holy Spirit or by your faithful friends, it hurts in a

good way.

The first step out of sin is knowing your identity, and then the sin stops.

You have same sex attraction or attracted to children or .... Doesn't create your identity. You are

not your attraction. If you say I am my attraction. You don't say to a pedophile it's okay because

your attraction justifies it. Am I a thief because I am attracted to money? Jesus was tempted in

every way but was without sin. Temptations have mutated. There used to be 10 basic

temptations and now there are thousands. You can resist temptation or by default you are

embracing it.

Do you understand that resisting temptation is what builds your character? The day you allow

temptation is the day integrity is ruined. Once one door is knocked down, temptation begins

knocking on all your doors.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who

in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. - Hebrews 4:15

First it's sexual sin, then lying, then greed... Sinners who say "I am a Christian." Kris responds, I

don't know, that's between you and Jesus. I do know you are not following Jesus.

There's a difference between a flaw and a sin. You are a flawless person.

Kris Vallotton - Romans 1-8. Sin, Grace, Death and Sinlessness

Kris Vallotton

Romans 5

If you read Rom. 7 out of context you can hunk sin is normal: "look, the Apostle Paul sinned!"

Romans 1-5 is Paul's argument that one is saved by grace and not by works.

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned- - Romans 5:12

We are only under the sin of Adam. He knew what was right and chose sin. Whereas, Eve was deceived (she thought she was doing the right thing, but was deceived).

Sin didn't happen after the Bible was published. No, the commands of God are written on your heart.

Main point of Romans 1-5:

 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. - Romans 5:15

Sin is not a mistake

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, - Romans 5:20

You cannot sin on accident. Sin is always an act of the will. Jesus did not die on the cross for your mistakes.

Being a Christian is not being modified, it's being killed: "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." - Romans 6:6 

Old bad saying: "There is a black dog and a white dog, the one you feed is alpha. "No, my black dog is now dead!" 

Why did Paul say the law only has power of peer the living:

Or do you not know, brothers-for I am speaking to those who know the law-that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? - Romans 7:1

Because you are dead - ie.; the law has no power over you!

4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. - Romans 7:4-6

Rom 6-8 has 44 times that says you are dead. Dead people don't sin.

When you were under the law, you were told all the right things to do but no power to change. If you are under the law, sin is your master. Romans 7:15ff is Paul speaking in present tense to help us understand what Pharisees under the law felt!

These verses are not written about you. They were written about the you before you came to faith.

Mt 5:14 - you are a city on a hill, not you are a light in the church.

Kris received a check for $30,000 from a church member named Eli. For the next few months he avoided Eli. Finally, he asked God what's my problem?! He

Intimacy means "into me I see." 

The only way to be complete is to be married or have a supernatural gift. The woman was taken out of the man. There's no way to get in touch with your feminine side. 

Don't siphon off your desires by delaying marriage and satisfying your desires outside of sex. Aren't you glad sex is enjoyable. God could have had us... Lay an egg.

When courting happens and one side begins to see into someone, the fearful one makes a case against the other. Intimacy creates fear if you are broken, good at putting up a fake image. 

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. - Ezekiel 36:26

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. - 2 Peter 1:4

11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. - Titus 2:11-14

I wonder who God wants me to marry. Well, who do you want to marry since you think like God.

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"- 

10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

11 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. - 1 Corinthians 2:6-13

Do demons know your thoughts? No. Spirit of God does. One reason we speak in tongues may be to speak in secret to God!

John 17:22

The glory has been given to you

If you take a slave and put them into a palace. They turn the palace and create a prison.

The Lord gave you a palace - it is called the earth.

If you take a prince and put him in a prison, you will create a palace. (Story of Joseph)

We are taking the next two months to talk about who you are - to change the world.

You were born to reign in life. The goal is to get the kingdom inside you and the kingdom will leak wherever you go!

The best thing you can do for your neighbor is to love you.

If you sneeze and you get boogers on your glasses. Everyone you look at has boogers. The problem isn't the other people, it's your boogers. Everything looks like wood, hay and stubble because you have a log in your eye.

You get revelation when you read the Bible to learn, not to look for reasons why you are right. Don't use the Bible to keep you in prison.

Sept 15th - Lou Engle Special Guest Appearance

Announcements:

AMT - advanced Ministry Track - 10 weeks

Michael Brodeur and Steve Backland - church leadership

Theresa Dedmond - creative arts marketplace: fashion, photo, film, dance, art, food. Express

yourself without fear of performance, working with a mentor towards the completion of a project.

Sept 20th: meet with leaders

Learn about painting on stage: Sept 22nd at 11am. Room tbd. Run at fear!

Calendar

50 and over meet and greet - tomorrow

Worship - worshiproom@ibethel.org

Testimony - Amy from England

How much do you think you are worth in Christ? $1000 random donation given to her

Lou Engle - introduction: only history will tell us all that his prayers have moved the Heavens.

Before there was a Jesus movement there was a Jesus fast. The Spirit drove Jesus into the

wilderness to release a new light to overcome the shadow of death. But this kind does not come

out but by prayer and fasting. "Atomic power of prayer and fasting" was released 70 years ago in

book form. 1947 was the start of William Branham. Oral Roberts prepared with fasting and

prayer. 1948 the book gets to Canada. The grace of fasting, not the legalism of fasting.

My claim to fame is that I've broken more fasts than any of you. He broke one fast with yoghurt

and chips. The next day a prophetic lady approaches him and says she has a disappointing

dream: she saw him breaking his fast with Chips and yoghurt!

1948 Israel becomes a nation. Joel 2. A global fasting movement begins. 1949: billy graham and

bill bright.

Bring in a new era of signs and wonder. Billy Graham's mantel. Thrust out labored I tot he

harvest.

Ps 40

If there is a scroll foretelling our lives, we should be offering our lives to fulfill those prophecies.

Dreams are like chapter headings for

There's a scroll about my life. 1984, there's a black man saying come to LA to see unity and

revival. 1985, Frank Bartelman's book "Azusa Street" brought Lou to Pasadena. Frank lays hands

on a man and the neighbors gather. A lady who never played piano goes to a piano plays perfect

piano and worships in 8 different languages. Everything screamed to Lou, "this is who you are!"

Lou prayed, "God, give me the mantel of Frank Bartelman!" I saw this big black book and the title

said Revival. In the book was a picture of Frank Bartelman and his face turned to yours! Black

people will show us how they forgive and William Seymours of today will be released.

Lou had a dream of picking up MLK and he had a white bag with black handles. He dumped out

the contents of the white bag. It's how the blacks forgive us for all the white baggage that leads

us to revival.

He want to a Woman's Aglo meeting. A black lady comes up to him and black lady approaches

Lou and says she's looking for a Frank Bartelman.

3.5 years ago, these doors walked into my Hobbit hole and a word "there's coming a shift to the

prayer movement, stadiums will be filled, proclamation of the Gospel, billy Graham's mantel will

fall. A great awakening will occur in America."

The call Berkeley was with 70 Asians gave up a semester of school. Reconcile to a black man

who was ahead of the Azusa Street organization. He reconciled. This man says Azusa Street Call

is waiting for you. April 9th, 2016 is Azusa street anniversary. 110th anniversary of Azusa Street.

Memorial colloseam is the only stadium that hosted the World Series and super bowl. The same

stadium that Billy Graham hosted LA 1963 revival.

You have to re-member your past. Go back through your journals and study your past.

He knows he needs to meet with Bill Johnson. Bill is clearing his schedule. Daniel Bolinda

(Reinhard Bohnke's protege). Daniel says he will cancel his South America stadium gatherings to

be there and will bring his media team.

USC stadium is the place where the first super bowl was played. Vince Lombardi was the coach.

Two 11 year old girls described an open heaven 20 years ago. They said Mott auditorium is too

small. I see Vince Lombardi!

Dreams are like spies. Spy out the promised land.

The field of dreams is Lou's movie.

The stadium historian was present during the stadium tour. They built the stadium when LA was

only 250,000 in size. Then he said, "if you build it they will come."

After Class I searched online for how many people were in attendance:

The article was published Sept 9th, 1963. Exactly 52 years from the day BSSM started.

Listen to Lou Engle audio clip.