Bill Johnson - Prophecies Are Weapons of Warfare
And we take that which God has spoken, put it into word form, and make decrees. Some things just have to be spoken. Well, good morning, nice to see you! How many of you had graduations to attend this week? Anyone else? I have a couple of them; yes, that’s good! My oldest grandson graduated from eighth grade, and Judah right here went to Bethel Christian School. That was fun! Then my oldest granddaughter graduated from high school this week from Foothill. When I walked up to the stadium, I noticed it’s called Bill Johnson Memorial Stadium. I thought, man, that must have taken a lot of work to prepare for me to come and see my granddaughter graduate! Then I thought, «Memorial? What do they know that I don’t? Are they prophesying?» It was so fun!
The stadium is set up, so every parent and family friend is waiting here for the kids to march down to graduate. I was standing against the railing, and I noticed they were walking in from behind. I had my iPhone ready and thought, I’m going to get the coolest video that no one else in our family will have, and I can airdrop it to them. I’m taking the video, and I’m thinking this is cool. I went over to show Benny the masterpiece. I don’t know what I did; I actually do videos quite well. I think the devil took over my camera! I have to blame someone besides me! I got the railing, and then I got my hand right over the lens the whole time. Here I am, following Kennedy, not knowing it, watching her smiling big, thinking, this is awesome. I never looked at the screen to realize she wasn’t on it. Oh well, we got some good photos, but it was a very fun night!
It’s interesting: when she graduated from eighth grade, Eric came to me probably in May. June is when she graduated four years ago, and Eric said to me, «Dad, you’re scheduled to be out of town on her eighth-grade graduation.» I went, «Oh no! When is the graduation?» He gave me the date, and I was in Europe for two conferences. We made the necessary phone calls, and one conference let me leave a day early while the next let me come a day late. So I flew home from Switzerland to Redding, went to the eighth-grade graduation, and then flew back for the rest of the conference. It was awesome! I made it! I felt so good that I was actually able to be there for the big event. That was fun!
I have a blonde joke for you; I apologize ahead of time, but my wife is blonde, so what can I say? Bob walked into a sports bar around 5:58 p.m., sat down next to a beautiful blonde at the bar, and stared up at the TV. The 6 p.m. news was coming on, covering a story about a man at the top of a 10-story building preparing to jump. The police were trying to talk him down, and fire crews were below setting up nets to catch him. The blonde looked at Bob and said, «Do you think he’ll jump?» Bob said, «You know, I reckon he will.» The blonde replied, «I bet he won’t.» Bob put $20 on the bar and said, «You’re wrong.» The blonde placed her money on the bar. They kept watching the scene unfold. Suddenly, the man stepped to the edge of the building and did a swan dive off, falling into the fire crew’s nets below. The blonde was very upset but willingly handed over the $20 to Bob. «Fair is fair,» she said.
Bob replied, «I can’t take your money; I saw this earlier on the 5 p.m. news, so I knew he would jump.» She said, «I saw it earlier too, but I didn’t think he’d do it again.» Probably, blonde jokes shouldn’t be allowed in church, but until they’re outlawed, I’m going to keep telling them.
Open your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Timothy chapter 1. I mentioned the graduations this week because one of the privileges I had was to actually speak at the eighth-grade graduation. I shared the verse I’m going to share with you—this concept has been on my heart for a while, just for me personally, because I believe that the world is trying to stretch me in ways that I’ve not been stretched before.
So, we’ve got 1 Timothy chapter 1, and we’re going to start with verse 18. Excuse me: «This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected, concerning the faith, and have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I deliver to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.»
I want you to look at verse 18 and the first phrase of verse 19 again: «This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience.» It’s interesting to note that a clean conscience is actually connected to strong faith. A defiled conscience undermines and weakens faith because we know there’s been compromise, and compromise is like putting dirt into cement. It weakens the whole process, it won’t settle, and it won’t be a strong foundation to build on.
So, it’s not that answered prayers come because of our righteousness—that would never be the case. But there is something to be said about treasuring and protecting a clean conscience. What’s important in this passage is to see that strong faith runs parallel to a clean conscience, feeding from a clean conscience.
I want to read the same passage to you out of the Passion Translation: «So, Timothy, my son, I’m entrusting you with this responsibility in keeping with the very first prophecies that were spoken over your life and are now in the process of fulfillment in this great work of ministry. In keeping with the prophecy spoken over you, with this encouragement, use your prophecies as weapons as you wage spiritual warfare by faith with a clean conscience.» I love that!
Now, I’ll tell you what’s really been hitting me lately: this whole idea that prophecy, first of all, is God coming to you with a word of promise about your future, about destiny, about where He’s taking you. But here’s the sobering part of this analogy to me: He’s saying, «That’s where I want you to go, but you won’t get there unless you use the tools I give you.» It’s fascinating that God would actually give us a word that has to be implemented correctly to step fully into our destiny.
Larry Randolph put it best; he gave me language that helped a lot. He said, «God will always keep all of His promises, but He’s not obligated to keep our potential.» So, think about the implications of that. There is something in God’s heart that He’s given us: the tools and the weapons—whatever we need to get from here to there He’s put in our hands. But unless there is the good fight of faith—where faith expresses the tool in the good fight of faith—we do not automatically step into what God has promised.
It’s critical to realize that I’ve been in a season lately where I’ve been doing a lot of waiting and resting for God to fulfill words, which is an important part. Here’s the deal: there are two basic ways that we make advancement in this kingdom. One is the Mark chapter 10 passage, where Jesus said, «Unless you receive the kingdom as a child, you will by no means enter it.» So, you can only enter; you can only walk into what you’ve received. It has to come as a gift. It’s something that He does on my behalf; He provides for me. It’s like receiving an inheritance. If you sit in a lawyer’s office and he reads off what you’ve inherited, you’ve not worked for it. It’s not wages; it’s simply a gift, the result of somebody else’s labor, and you’re receiving that gift. That’s what this Mark 10 passage is аbout: we receive as a child. A child is all about inheritance, identity, and knowing that I’m a child; I’m a son of God.
We are sons and daughters of God, receiving what He’s given to us freely as a gift. But there’s the Mark 11 passage that gives us the other side of the same coin, where He says, «The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.» So, here’s this contrast of receiving as a child and taking by force—both are essential. But if you try them both at the same time, you’ll hurt yourself. You might get whiplash; I’m not sure what will happen, but it’ll be painful. You can’t rest and receive and fight for something at the same time. Those are two different seasons, two different moments in life.
So, here we have this concept of promise: that which God has arranged, designed, and equipped us for. Yet it won’t be experienced unless I responsibly steward what God has put in my life, specifically His word over me. The word of the Lord will get me to where the will of the Lord is for my life. It’s not automatic. It’s the fact that God is willingly taking me into a conflict.
Here’s something interesting: I don’t have the chapter and verse; I forgot to get it for you today. But part of the story with Israel is that they were being taken out of Egypt into the Promised Land—excuse me, into the wilderness and then to the Promised Land. Early in their journey, within the first year after leaving Egypt, there was an enemy right in front of them. The Lord said, «If I take them into this conflict, they will want to go back to Egypt. They don’t have the strength as warriors yet to fight through that battle.» So, the Lord said, «I’m going to take them around.»
It’s interesting because if He doesn’t take us around the conflict, it’s because He’s equipped us to win the conflict. That’s the implication: He cares for us more than we care for ourselves. But He’s trying to build something in us, and there are certain things that can only be built in a fight. Some things can only be built in rest, knowing when to just simply observe, stand by, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. Some things can only be absorbed in the posture of rest, knowing that God is working on our behalf. Yet there’s this whole other realm that requires conflict.
So, God only takes me into a conflict I’m equipped to win, but the next thing about conflict is that it builds strength. The proverbial example would be the chick that’s in the egg, trying to hatch out. If I crack the shell for it, it will end up dying. Because it’s the fight out of that shell that gives that baby chick circulation to its limbs, allowing it to survive hatching. The fight out of the shell builds strength for survival.
This conflict is actually to strengthen us in character and resolve so that once we enter our «Promised Land,» we have the integrity to stay there.
See, if Israel was supposedly on an 11-day journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, if God had taken them in a straight line, they wouldn’t have the integrity to stay there; they would have wandered off. There are things you learn in battle that you need to stay in the land. There are things you learn in the fight that build that strength of heart, that strength of character, which enable us to live with maturity and steward well what God has promised to us, paying attention to what God has said and is saying.
I really love the prophetic; I love promises. I learned to read the Bible for me. I read it just for me, not for you. I still don’t read it for you! I read it just for me because it’s all about me. So, when I read, I am reading so that I can eat. Honestly! I am feeding my soul. I am not looking for sermon material—anybody can regurgitate what someone else has said. I want to know what He’s saying to me, and as it gets filtered through my experience, my thinking, my personality, gifts, whatever, then it becomes material I can pass on. But it’s got to hit me first.
I love reading the Word and seeing what God is saying about my life and what He’s doing in the earth today. A month or so ago, I mentioned that my phone and my car get along very well; they have a very close and intimate friendship because of Bluetooth. Bluetooth brought them together marvelously. When I get into my car this afternoon, I will just put my phone in there; it’s already set up, and they have an ongoing relationship, even though they are separate right now by a hundred yards. When I get back into that car, they will reconnect, and when they do, it will be beautiful!
What my car does is it randomly picks things off my phone to play for me. I could program it to play just this album, this music, or this prophetic word, but I like the randomness of my drive home. I don’t know if I’m going to hear The Beatles sing «A Hard Day’s Night,» Jimi Hendrix’s version of «The Star-Spangled Banner,» or Brian singing «You Can Have It All, Lord.» It’s all in there. But like this week, I heard Bobby Conner prophesying to me from 2013 because it’s in here; it just randomly brings it up!
I love that! It makes me want to go around the block to see who else is going to prophesy to me because you never know! I miss this stuff. I’ve been driving down the road, and Cindy Jacobs gets on there and starts prophesying about our new building. This was ten years ago, and it starts prophesying! I’m thinking to myself, «I just need to keep driving. I need to think of somewhere else to go because this is good!»
I love the prophetic; I love welcoming, admiring, and giving place to it, like a host would entertain someone in their home. I want to entertain the prophetic word over my life. You see, the battleground initially for us is the mind. The battleground is right between the ears. Paul talked about this in 2 Corinthians 10 in such graphic ways that it’s almost frightening. Sobering is a much better word.
He described the strongholds of thought in our minds. Stronghold: think of a stronghold as we would in the medieval days; you’ve got an army, a battalion of soldiers, and they’re in a castle, surrounded by a huge wall. They are safely in there, and at night, they send out troops to fight and do exploits. But they are safe in that environment, in that castle.
The Bible actually describes a stronghold; a castle like that exists in the thoughts of people. So, if I think wrong consistently, each thought is a block in the wall that eventually gives the enemy a place to hide. It’s a place of habitation, a place from which he kills, steals, and destroys.
So, repentance starts with sorrow, but the sorrow provokes us to a change of thought, a change of thinking. It is dismantling the wall that I’ve built that the enemy has hidden behind, and now he is exposed and easy to deal with. But when you create a castle for him to live in, you’ve given him permission.
Does that make sense? If I’m constantly believing a lie, I’m actually making agreement with the accusation, deception, and manipulation—all the tools the enemy uses. I have made agreement with that, which means I lend my authority to him. Jesus said, after He rose from the dead, «I have all authority in heaven and on earth,» which means there’s somebody out there who has none, right? He says, «I have all authority,» meaning the devil has none.
Here’s the deal: He passes on authority to you and me to implement His purposes in the earth. But when I listen to the deceiver and make agreement with his words, he can then function out of my delegated authority, at least in measure. When you believe the lie, you empower the liar.
So, the battleground is, first and foremost, in the mind. You remember, Ephesians 6 talks about the armor of God? It’s basically saying God is your armor—put on Christ; it takes care of the whole package. Put on Christ, and it takes care of the whole package. I heard somewhere recently: here’s this picture of the armor of God.
He says, «The helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, girded with truth, feet ready to share the gospel, the shield of faith, sword of the spirit.» The helmet of salvation means you have to think saved! My thoughts must be consistent with the saving work of grace in my life. When they violate that, I give place.
I’m not talking about being demonized. I’m just saying there’s a weakening of our position. There’s a weakening of our position to step more fully into the promises of God over our lives when we give ourselves to these lies. I’m about ten minutes away from fear and discouragement any day of my life. All I have to do is think on the wrong stuff. It takes me ten minutes to get there. I mean, it’s just not worth the effort! It’s way too much work.
You know, you fall down that hole and you’re just fighting to climb out for a whole week. It’s just not worth it. I’ve decided it’s not worth it. So, instead of entertaining the lie… if you want an interesting study, read Nehemiah chapters 4 and 6. You’ll see the tools that the enemy uses very clearly, especially in chapter 6. He uses things like accusation and distraction.
See, if the enemy can’t get me to sin—like stealing money, or abusing people—if he can’t get me to do that, what does he want to do? He wants to distract me from my purpose. He wants to get me out of my lane because if he can’t get me to fall, at least he can get me to lose impact. When you step out of your lane or assignment, what happens? I’m not capable! I’m not able to do my task and theirs.
Does that make sense? So the whole issue of distraction. So look through those two chapters and you’ll see just a list of accusation, manipulation—those kinds of tools that the enemy uses for every one of us. They’re repeated in our lives constantly.
The key then is to be so anchored in what God has said that nothing else is appealing. The only time the devil’s words are appealing is when I’ve lost sight of what God has said. The only time the lie looks reasonable is when I’ve lost sight of what God has said. Think saved; think saved!
Having the value system to maintain a clean conscience is huge because it keeps the heart in a place that is free to grow. You understand faith comes from the heart, right? It doesn’t come from the mind, but a divided mind will defile the heart. Valuing a clean conscience puts me in a place to experience ever-growing faith.
I love when God gives us a word, and I have several in my life right now that I’m reviewing. I have come to realize in the last—oh, just short time—especially in the last couple of weeks even more profoundly, that the Lord has been waiting for me to do something while I’ve been waiting for Him to do something.
You remember the whole story when the disciples woke Jesus up in the boat? He calmed the storm and then turned to them and said, «Why are you so afraid? How come you don’t have faith?» I’m thinking, «Wait a minute! I have faith! I knew who to come to! I came to you and asked you to calm the storm. You did a good job; thank you! I give you praise, thanks, and honor.» The Lord was looking for something else.
There are times when He does not want to do something for me; He wants to do something through me. Discerning those moments and seasons, to me, is the fragile part of life. There are times I want to rest, and He wants me to act. There are times I’m fighting and swinging, and He says, «You need to chill! Sit down! If you get this victory, you’re going to think you did it.»
There are just times when we have those moments that shift. I had a pretty funny experience. I wasn’t going to share this in this service because it’s televised, but you’ll understand why in a moment. I’m not that transparent of a person; Chris would tell you anything.
I’m a lot more personal and private than he is. Not necessarily a strength of mine, but it’s reality. About 35 years ago—I don’t share this publicly ever—I had this problem: an abscess in the rectum. Don’t picture it; it’s just gross. This kind doesn’t come out with prayer and fasting; it has to be cut out! I just didn’t tell anyone.
That’s why I’m at home. Dick Mills calls. Dick Mills, our dear friend the prophet, would call everyone. He’d say, «Hey, Bill, I have a good word for you.» He would just call and encourage me—he was such a father of encouragement. One day he calls and says, «I have a good word for you!»
I said, «Yeah, what is it?» I didn’t tell him what was going on with me. I’d rather not know, to be honest. I just wanted to go in for a dental procedure and come out fine—that’s all. So he calls and says, «I have this scripture for you: 'The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.'»
I’m not sure what to do with that, but I receive it! Amen! Some people think God doesn’t have a sense of humor; I have never forgotten that one!
God will always speak to your needs and leave it there. Although at Twin View, I just remembered after saying that, that Moses wanted to see God’s glory, and God just let him see His hindparts! I’m not sure if there’s a correlation there or not; I’ll probably stop right there unless this thing bottoms out entirely!
All right, man, and this is televised too! Hello to the Assembly of God Church in Weaverville! Some mail programs would abbreviate Assembly, but I’ll just leave it there.
So the battleground is here, but once victory is obtained in how you think, you have to do something with what was said. Many people in this room are just one proclamation short of victory—one proclamation—because the word is not supposed to be harbored.
I believe in that a lot. Mary is my hero, the mother of Jesus. How she handled what was spoken over her was stunning because she had the shepherds and the wise men coming, Anna and Simeon—they’re all coming with these words about her son, Jesus, the eternal Son of God whom she gave birth to.
It says two things about what she did: she treasured these words in her heart, and she pondered them in her heart. These two things: treasured and pondered. To me, treasure implies that what has been spoken is not for common use. This is not like, you know, I’ve got Benny, and I came back from being with friends in Asia who sent us home with two of the most magnificent goblets made out of the finest glass; they’re like $600 each. You don’t let the kids use that for their lemonade stand out in front of the house, you understand what I’m saying?
Why? It’s too valuable! You take it; you treasure it; you put it in a safe place to be brought out at appropriate times. The appropriate time is when you want to ponder what God has said. It says she pondered these things—the word things is the word rhema; she pondered these freshly spoken words of God. She would bring them out, dwell on them, and think about them: «Yes, He’s the Son of God; He’s the Savior of the nations.»
Anna and Simeon said, «Behold, the Christ child,» and they can now die because their lives have been fulfilled. She’s pondering these words and considering her son Jesus about the destiny and purpose of His life. I owe it to Him to treasure and ponder.
Treasure—it’s not up for vote. This isn’t Facebook material. This is about destiny, and I’ll share it with whoever I’m supposed to share it with, but until it’s time to bring it out of the treasury, I’ve got to keep it there to protect it. When I bring it out, it’s to ponder and consider—let the full effect of what God has said infect me inside and out so it changes how I think, how I see, and how I interpret present situations.
Because if I’m facing a battle, it’s only because there’s an enemy the Lord has allowed there because He has equipped me to win. And the tool I’m supposed to use is this: that God said, «Use the prophecies over you to get to where you’re supposed to go.»
So here we have it: if you have a family member who’s just not walking with the Lord, it’s not just, «Oh, I just thank you that all is well.» It’s about taking the word of the Lord: «As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,» and you begin to make proclamations, confessing the name of the individual, and you proclaim, «This is the will of God, and it shall be done in my household.» Every single family member will serve the Lord, and they will serve the Lord with purity and great joy. It will be with great delight; they will serve the Lord.
And we take that which God has spoken, put it into word form, and make decrees. Some things just have to be spoken. Psalms 103 or 104—I forget which one—on the left side of the page says the angels give attention to His word and the voice of His word.
Interesting, isn’t it? To his word and the voice of His word? This is how I understand it: There are times God declares the matter, and when the angels hear His voice, they know that’s what they are supposed to enforce.
But there are times God doesn’t make the decree; He’s the still small voice in your heart and mind, and the angels don’t get their assignment until they hear our proclamation. There are a lot of unemployed angels because there are a lot of believers who won’t speak.
They don’t know the assignment until they hear the word of the Lord. You say, «Well, we don’t boss angels.» I’m with you; we don’t. You can yell about some great idea you have all day long. It’s just going to exhaust you; nothing will happen. But they can tell when a word originated in the heart of God. They can tell when something you declared came from the throne room itself. It carries the fragrance of God’s own breath on that word, and they know that’s their assignment.
So, here we are, we’re in battle. We’ve got the shield of faith, all the armor on, and we’ve got a sword. That sword is what we use to bring about victory: it’s taking seriously what God has said. It’s very easy to want yet another prophetic word, another promise.
I’m all in; count me in! If there are good words being handed out, sign me up! Benny and I just spent time with about 20 of our 10-year-olds, and it took like 45 minutes just to prophesy over us! It was just gorgeous! It was so cool! Amen!
If there’s a good word being spoken, count me in; I want it! But the good words oftentimes are not decrees of what He will do without us; they are decrees of what He will do with us. Oftentimes He’s revealing that this is His will through you, not just for you.
The terminology that Paul uses here specifically refers to being summoned into the lifestyle of a soldier. Now, just think with me for a moment as we wrap this up. A person who’s in battle—many of you have served our nation or the nation from which you hail in battle on the front lines—doesn’t have very many concerns.
You have concerns, but you could care less about what’s on TV. You know, the amount your water bill has risen at home doesn’t really matter. I mean, all you care about is keeping your head down, having enough ammunition, and knowing where your friends are. That’s it! It’s just all that life is about. Somehow, it gets reduced to staying alive and making advancement.
It’s wisdom for us to know the difference between the season of rest, where we watch Him do things for us, and the season of war, where we take what He has declared and refine our focus so that very little matters besides victory itself.
My cry today—and we’re going to pray for us in just a moment—is that the Lord would provide a fresh word of promise to every single person in the room. A fresh word, not one you get to rest in—you have those—but a word you can fight with.
You get alone with God; you’re driving down the street, and you just begin to declare, «This is what God has said.» I’d encourage you, if you don’t already know how to do it, obtain the liberty to remind God of what He said.
It’s an unusual exercise in Scripture—you see it in Daniel: «God, you said after 70 years we would be released from bondage.» You see this reminding of God. God doesn’t forget; He doesn’t need reminding. But I need to know I am working in conjunction with what He has declared, and I’m using my right to pray appropriately.
And there is no more accurate way to pray than to pray what God has said. It’s for our sake entirely. This fight I’m in for this breakthrough changes me. If I could handle the breakthrough without any more change, He would just bring it—all to me! But because I need to change to occupy what God has promised, He wants me to fight my way in.
So put your hands out in front of you, just as a posture of receiving, and I want to pray for the release of promise and for the grace to handle what God has said well.
So, Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus, and I ask for us as a church family, as well as those family members watching on TV. I pray for all of us together, everyone in the building, our children’s workers, that today, in the next 24 hours, would be a day where you release a fresh word, a fresh word of promise, a fresh word of hope—something we can declare, confess, sing, pray, and implement what you have designed for us wholeheartedly.
All of our emotion, all of our thought, our mental exercise—everything engaged—to see you perform what you have declared. I ask for this gift and for the grace, the divine enablement, to carry this out. I pray for this in Jesus' name.
The greatest miracle that could happen today is the salvation of a soul; it is the forgiveness of sin. There is not a greater miracle. I’ve seen so many crazy things happen over the years—God has healed people with blind eyes and deaf ears.
I remember I was with Heidi; you know we prayed for Ronald and Heidi earlier. I was with Heidi in Mozambique, and two blind men came into the tent sanctuary on a Saturday, wanting to see. They were both blind. It was crazy; one of them had solid white eyes—there was no pupil, nothing; just solid white. Heidi prayed for a moment and said, «Come back tomorrow, and you will see.»
They came back the next day; we prayed over them, and I got to watch as these eyes just formed. God opened their eyes, and they walked across the highway to the sea where they got baptized in the water.
So tonight’s baptism—be here, all right? That just came to me as divine inspiration. I’m sure it was! I’ve seen amazing things happen, but nothing equals the salvation of a soul—that you can take a person who has no hope in life and give them hope, a new nature, and forgive their past. That is available for everybody in this room.
I want to throw out the net, so to speak. If you’re one of those who are here today and say, «Bill, I don’t want to leave the building until I know I’m at peace with God,» then I want to pray with you right now for you to be what the Bible calls born again—changed from the inside out. If that’s you, just quickly put a hand up. Just real quick—I want to pray with you.
If that is your place, real quick—right here—yep, beautiful, wonderful, wonderful! Beautiful! Nothing like it! Anyone else? Real quick? Got one. Got another hand right here—a second hand! Anyone else? That’s so cool!
I want to have all of you stand, if you would. I’m going to ask this: we’ve got a team down here—we call them the Freedom Team—and for these two that I saw, and if there are any others, please, please, please, please make your way down to this team. They just want to bless you, pray for you, love on you a bit, and talk to you about this that Jesus is doing in your life.
Anyone wants to join them, please do! This is your invitation to come and know Jesus. So come, step out of your seat! I want to have the ministry team come very quickly to the front as well because we want to be ready to pray for people in this room to receive their miracle. Chris, come on up here!
Yeah, come on down, right over here to my left. Right over here—bless you, bless you, bless you. Thank you, Lord! Well, Father, we just pray for a real spirit of breakthrough to rest on the house today and for miracles in people’s bodies—that it would just multiply, multiply, multiply, in Jesus' name! Thank you so much, Lord! Okay, amen!