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Bill Johnson - The Power of the Holy Spirit Is Measured by Overflow


Bill Johnson - The Power of the Holy Spirit Is Measured by Overflow
Bill Johnson - The Power of the Holy Spirit Is Measured by Overflow
TOPICS: Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake, but He rests upon me for yours. We have to understand that when the Spirit of God comes upon us, it’s always for action. We’ve been privileged to step into the middle of an impossibility. We may not know what’s supposed to happen, but we step into the middle of an impossibility knowing that the God of the universe, the creator of all, lives in us and has practical solutions for the situation.

Good morning! How many of you are horse people? You like horses? We have fast horses for fast riders and slow horses for slow riders. For those who have never ridden, we have horses that have never been ridden. Probably not! I’m not a horse person. I’ve been on horses, but I got on one that was demonized. It was the horse where all the demons went from the man of Gadara. That horse wanted to kill me, and he knew he had an idiot on his back. They just know instantly what you know and what you don’t know, and that thing tried to kill me. They had to keep it in a small corral because it would run itself to death.

So my friends put me on that horse, and it took off across the field like a rocket ship, then ran towards a tree with low branches because it was trying to get deliverance from me. I seriously melted into the saddle, and the branches scraped over the top of my head and back. I thought, «I need to stop!»

No, I got as close to horses as I have an appetite for! I just got it out of my system all on that one day about 35 years ago or whatever it was.

All right, everyone thinks a girl’s dream is to find the perfect guy. Please, every girl’s dream is to get thin by eating cupcakes! I didn’t make it to the gym today; that makes five years in a row. My bathing suit told me to go to the gym, but my sweatpants were like, «Nah girl, you’re good.» I probably have two or three hundred of these, and I just save them. You know there are three kinds of people in this world: those who are good at math and those who aren’t! There’s always a little delay! What did he say? Spellcheck has got to be my worst enemy! Has your phone ever spell-checked you, and you sent a message, and as it’s going, you go, «Come back, come back, come back»?

Yeah, I had a pastor friend send me something by voice, and it put a swear word in there. He wrote me back full of repentance, and I’d rather believe he did it on purpose just so I could tease him!

Lastly, if you’re depressed about being fat, you should eat right and exercise, then you can be depressed about being hungry!

All right, grab your Bibles, and it’ll take me a little while to get there, so open to Isaiah 61. It’s kind of a hallmark passage for us, and probably for the church in the last 2,000 years. We’ll get to it a little bit, so put a piece of paper in there or something unless you get bored with what I’m saying, then you can just read it while I’m talking!

Jesus modeled what it looks like to be full of the Holy Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is actually a command in Scripture; it’s both an invitation and a command. It’s kind of like being invited to a birthday party, and someone says, «You will be at my birthday party!» That’s the way this command comes: «Be filled with the Holy Spirit! Don’t be drunk with wine; be filled with the Holy Spirit. Don’t live under the influence of this; live under the influence of this.» Don’t let this shape how you walk; let this shape how you walk!

So, Jesus modeled what it looked like to be full of the Holy Spirit. Imagine this: thankfully, we’ve just finished with a drought. We got tired of it and prayed it out of here. We enjoyed bountiful rain last year. I’ve been here during two droughts: one back in the '70s and then the one that just finished last year. Both times, the drought was so severe they said it would take like 10 years for our lake to recover. Yet both times, the Lord restored the lake in one year, one season! A real, real miracle. I’m thankful for it but let’s imagine for example that you live in San Diego. I don’t know what the rainfall is, but let’s say they get 10 inches of rain a year, and you move to Redding during a drought, where we get 20 inches. You might think it’s more than enough.

See, a lot of people experience outpourings of the Spirit and think it’s abundant, but according to biblical standards, it’s a drought. Jesus models what the fullness of the Holy Spirit looks like, never to shame us, never to ridicule us with, «Look what I have, what you don’t have.» It’s always an invitation to pursue. It’s interesting to me in Scripture that some things He has just determined will be given to you; sometimes that’s what happens, you’re just in the room and you catch something. Other times, He’s unpredictable because He’s a God who draws us into relationship. He’s not just a philosophy; He’s not just a God of principles where you take one, two, and three steps and end up with equation point four. It’s not that way. It’s a relational journey, and in this journey, He’s invited us to do things, and some things just happen simply because you’re in the room. Sometimes it’s as simple as a prayer.

I’ve watched some of the most extraordinary things happen to people who weren’t even asking for it. God just visited them literally. We’ve had people join us here; some come very hungry, while others honestly have told me they came just to check it off the list. They had someone tell them they need to go, and they come just to get their friend to leave them alone for a while, you know? And I get that; I’ve done the same thing. They won’t get off my back till I do what they ask, so I just do them a favor.

Some people literally have just come into the room that way, and then Jesus completely, totally heals them of something impossible. I remember a pastor friend sitting right over here who almost didn’t become a pastor because his dyslexia was so bad he couldn’t read. It would turn things around so badly that he’d have to study the Bible using CDs. It was just so challenging! He sat here and the Spirit of God fell upon him in fire. While it’s happening, he discovers his bad attitude. He goes face to face with the fact that he doesn’t even want to be here, and you’re touching me anyway. It’s a wonderful story! He said God, in His grace, was touching him, and he said, «Oh God, please don’t let me mess this up,» because he could tell something was happening. He went from someone who couldn’t read to someone who, within just days, was reading six to eight hours a day.

There are things like that which He just does, the surprise thing. There are other things that come to us in seed form or come to us as promises, and He waits for us to pursue. So much of the kingdom is actually available for those who pursue. We pursue according to His invitation, and we pursue according to His commands.

Anyway, we have this concept of Jesus modeling the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Another term we often use is «Jesus Christ’s perfect theology.» I don’t believe there’s a problem with that statement, but what’s highly possible is that theology is typically thought of as what we know about God, and Jesus was perfect theology in that He modeled perfect knowledge of God—the burning conviction of what to do, and the actions that followed illustrated what He believed. There wasn’t a separation between idea and display; there was no separation between the philosophy of healing, the burden to heal, and seeing people healed. They were seamless in the way they merged.

Jesus is perfect theology in that sense—He not only had perfect insight and knowledge of the Father because He is the Eternal Son of God, He is exactly like the Father. I love Hebrews 1. At some point, we should study it because I really love it! It says that Jesus is the exact representation of His nature; He is that which emanates from the Father. Just as light comes from a light bulb, Jesus comes forth from the Father, so He is exactly like the Father; He represents Him perfectly. There’s zero blemish, zero difference between the Father and Him in nature, in kind, in action, in word—everything is exactly the same.

So when Jesus said it’s better that He goes and would send the Holy Spirit, He used a term to describe the Holy Spirit as «another.» He said, «I will send you another comforter.» There are a couple of words that could have been used. For example, behind the piano is a chair, and then you’re sitting in a chair. They’re not the same kind of chair, but they’re both chairs, would you agree? Here’s a chair that you’re sitting in, and then there’s another, but they’re not the same. Whereas in the chairs you’re sitting in, what Tom is sitting in is exactly the same as what Paul is sitting in—there’s another.

When Jesus describes sending the Holy Spirit, He uses a word that means «exactly the same as me.» So here’s Jesus; He emanates from the Father; He’s exactly like the Father. Then He says, «I’m going to go; the Holy Spirit, who is with you, is going to be in you.» It’s better that I go, and He is another comforter; He is exactly the same as me. Imagine this perfect representation of the Father now dwelling inside every born-again believer.

His longing is that accurate expression of who God the Father is would flow in and through us. He models the fullness of the Holy Spirit, He models perfect theology. He contains, illustrates, and demonstrates the knowledge of God and brings about the deliverance, the healing, etc. In every situation He entered, He had a redemptive solution for it. In other words, there wasn’t a problem that He walked into and looked at, then walked out, thinking, «I have to avoid this one.»

He calmed storms; He slept in a storm; He would walk through a storm. He was stormless; He was unaffected by storms—He affected storms! He was carrying something that affected storms. So every situation He entered into, He brought a redemptive touch into that situation. The dead child He raised, the blind eyes He opened, the storm He would calm or direct His disciples—He didn’t avoid problems; He always walked into them with redemptive solutions.

We know that the Bible says the devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy. That’s not an assignment by God; it’s just what he does. The devil is not the opposite of God; he’s the opposite of Michael. The devil is a created being who has zero authority. I don’t want to talk about him, but you get the point. The devil comes to kill, steal, and destroy, which means death, loss, and destruction are the fingerprints of his work; it’s the residue of him being present in a situation. You find death—you know you find something that’s dying. You find something that’s broken—you know where the enemy has been; that’s what he leaves behind.

But Jesus comes in every situation with redemptive solutions and answers. In 1 John 3:8, it says that He came to destroy the works of the evil one. Elsewhere it says that He came to openly display the foolishness of darkness. All of that is a measured way of what the fullness of the Holy Spirit looks like when the Lord says, «Be filled with the Spirit.» It literally enables us to do exactly what Jesus did: illustrate the Father and deal with the infirmities, afflictions, and issues of life. There’s not one that Jesus bypassed.

I remember a passage that really messes with me a bit is out of Mark 9. It’s very personal to me. There’s a moment where a dad, who has a demonized child, brings this child to the disciples to set him free. They were so experienced in healing and deliverance that Jesus actually trusted them to go on their own in pairs to their hometowns. They were so successful in their ministry that when they regrouped with Jesus, they started arguing about who was the greatest.

They only argued about who was the greatest because they had just seen such great success. They saw demons leave and miracles happen. They thought, «Well, Peter thinks, there’s no way John could have carried that kind of anointing. I’m pretty sure I have the corner on what Jesus just did.» So they got back and were arguing, and Jesus doesn’t mind making you successful to the point that ugly things come to the surface. He wants them to come to the surface so we can deal with them.

It’s when we put religious names on them that we pretend we’re broken. We give it a virtuous name and it now has permission to stay and grow. When you take things that are really marks of brokenness and put a virtuous name on them, then they now have permission to stay and set up camp.

Anyway, back to the story. Jesus brings the disciples into places of great success, and they taste of healing miracles and all the stuff. No doubt the crowd, where the disciples are, has experienced that because that’s what they’re assigned to do. Jesus told them to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, etc.

So the dad sees what’s going on with the disciples, grabs his son, because now there’s hope, and brings the son to the disciples to try everything they’ve tried before. They rebuke the child every way they’ve tried before. They’ve bound, they’ve loosed, they’ve done everything they know to do. They probably poured oil, blew the shofar, and played every tambourine they could find to get rid of that demon, but nothing happened.

I had a similar situation; I’ll never forget it. I happened to be in Southern California for some meetings that were quite honestly extraordinary. It was just one of those times where Jesus seemed to enter the room and there was so much going on. I remember one situation: a young mom brought her son to me; he was probably five or six years old and was just horribly demonized.

I’ve seen Jesus set people free; it’s a great privilege to bring liberty and freedom from that torment from the evil one. I did everything I knew to do that I had done before; I prayed, I bound, I tried to do exactly what the Father was doing, and that child didn’t get free. The mother looked at me after I spent a fair amount of time with both of them and said, «What do I do now?» because the child wasn’t free.

I’ll never forget the look on her face. She wasn’t rude, she didn’t point the finger at me, but it seemed to me that when she said, «What do I do now?» she was really saying, «Is that all you got?» You know? It was a stark realization that you’ve done your best, and that child you are so moved for is leaving in the same condition they came in with.

It’s the same with the wheelchairs that come in week after week. I’m thrilled with what we see happen! I’ve seen things I didn’t know I’d ever get a chance to see. We had unusual invasions of God this week, absolute raw miracles, and I’m thankful. I’m not ungrateful at all; He’s already gone way beyond anything I’ve seen in my lifetime, but He’s touched me deep enough to ruin me to stay there.

The father brought this child to Jesus or the disciples—they couldn’t get him free. So he saw Jesus and took the child to Him, and Jesus drove the evil spirits out, and the child was free. The disciples watched this, and they were stunned by His success. They were stunned by His ability to do what they couldn’t do because they were trained by Him; they weren’t careless rookies, they actually knew what they were doing yet they couldn’t get free.

Then they took Jesus aside and asked Him, «How come we couldn’t get the child free?» There’s that great statement that Jesus made: «Well, this kind only comes out with prayer and fasting.» To come out of that story with that as a formula is really important. When you don’t get breakthrough, pray and fast. It’s something all of us can glean from that story, but I think there’s a bigger lesson when there’s not a breakthrough.

You take Jesus aside, because sometimes the breakthrough comes with prayer and fasting, but sometimes it’s a decree, sometimes it’s a radical act of obedience, sometimes it’s giving, sometimes it’s the shout of praise. It can be any number of things that He brings us into. I’ve watched all these; we learn them as principles.

But we don’t turn them on and off at will to get what we want; we are children who learn to respond to a Father and do as He’s leading us to do. That’s our life’s journey, our life’s goal, to say what the Father’s saying and do what we see the Father doing. We’ve been invited into that kind of relationship where we get to represent the Father.

It was the command of Jesus in John 20. After He had risen from the dead, the disciples were hiding in a room, scared to death. Jesus walks through the wall, which surely helped them with their fear issues! I’m sure Pampers were needed by everyone!

There’s this encounter that extends for several verses, and at the conclusion of this encounter, Jesus says, «As the Father sent me, I send you.» If you look at every verse that describes Jesus coming as sent from the Father, the overwhelming theme is He was sent by the Father to reveal the Father.

So if we take that as Jesus' primary function to reveal the Father, and then Jesus turns to those who follow Him and says, «As the Father sent me, I send you,» then really what He’s saying is: your privilege in life is to reveal the Father. But I’d like to suggest to you it’s impossible to do adequately without being filled with the Spirit.

I’m not trying to make this a doctrinal issue; there are many, who I believe, I think praying in tongues is glorious, and I can’t imagine life without it. I like what Paul said: «I pray in tongues more than all of you.» The language he uses there says «I pray more in tongues than all of you combined.» In other words, I’m a tongue-talkers, and I believe in that breakthrough!

But it would be like, if that’s the goal—it’s a worthy goal—but if that’s the only measure, it would be like walking through the River Jordan into the Promised Land. You cross the river, and you’ve got houses built, lands, vineyards planted—all this stuff to inherit. You walk through this river on dry ground, stand on the banks of the river, and you just stand there for your entire life and never enter the purpose for going through the river.

Yes, tongues are valuable; yes, that shoreline is important, but it’s the beginning of a breakthrough in which the Lord Almighty—the God of the universe—is represented and manifested through people that taste of His goodness and His provision.

Isaiah chapter 61—I fear that sometimes I become too familiar with this passage. Sometimes I’ll read it in a different translation; sometimes I’ll read it aloud; sometimes I’ll stop after each phrase and think, «I need to jar myself from familiarity,» because some things are so huge, so weighty, that it’s easy to skim over the surface of something and not be impacted by its depth. This is one of those passages.

This is what Jesus read in His hometown of Nazareth. This is what He read to announce the beginning of His ministry from Nazareth. In verse one, He says, «The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness—the planting of the Lord that He may be glorified.»

Such a wonderful verse! He is basically saying, «Listen, the Holy Spirit is upon me.» I know the Holy Spirit lives in us, as I’ve stated countless times over the years. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake, but He rests upon me for yours. We have to understand that when the Spirit of God comes upon us, it’s always for action, it’s always for impact, it’s always to change something.

We have been privileged to step into the middle of an impossibility. We may not know what’s supposed to happen; we just know God doesn’t want it left the way it is. We come in looking to Him, our hearts turned to Him for solutions. We don’t come as the smart people; we don’t come as the ones who always have the plan. Sometimes we know the least about a given situation, but we step into the middle of an impossibility knowing that the God of the universe, the creator of all, lives in us and has practical solutions for the situation.

And here we have this announcement that Jesus makes over His own life, describing the broken, the poor, the blind, the lame, the imprisoned, the tormented—all this stuff. He says, «I’m here to fix that.» But then He comes to the end of verse three and talks about these people that are broken becoming oaks of righteousness. I remember when we used to get firewood in Weaverville; it was a love-hate relationship. It was fun being outdoors, but man, it was work! We’d go into areas where trees had fallen down because of windfall, and we’d get in there, chop or cut them up, put the rounds into the truck.

It was always a very interesting journey, but we’d get on these logging roads, and sometimes we’d have a friend who’d have a key to a gate, and we’d get on these logging roads. Maybe the area hadn’t been logged for 20 or 30 years, and there’d be little pine trees about this big around, growing right in the middle of the road.

In your truck, you just go right over them. They don’t die; they just bend over and bounce back up after you go past them. But if you run into an oak tree that size, you’ve got an issue because that thing isn’t budging, and now you have damaged your car. So we learned, «Oh, oak tree; oak tree! Go around the oak tree.» But we’d see the pines just bend down and bounce back up.

Oaks of righteousness are absolutely stable, and that’s the goal of the Lord for the most broken of the world—oaks of righteousness. He’s saying, «I will take the most broken among you.» Remember, He doesn’t choose us because we’re qualified. He doesn’t choose us because we’re gifted. If we have anything, it’s only because He gave it to us. It’s not about that at all; He chooses the least for a reason.

In this passage, He champions the most broken. Why? Because that’s where He receives the most glory. So here are the most broken of the world; Jesus steps into their lives. Are you the anointed one? You, the one who carries the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit in your life, step into that person’s life to see that individual restored. They’re now set free; they sleep at night; they’re not tormented anymore.

Those who were so bound with fear and anxiety are now free to think creatively. They have an impact in their jobs; they have an impact as entrepreneurs; they influence other people’s values. They don’t do the addiction and drug thing anymore; they’re now reaching out to their friends who are bound by those addictions.

What happens is the person that was once the most broken in the community becomes the oaks of righteousness—those with such firm roots that you just can’t budge them, you can’t move them. Well, there’s a reason for that; there’s a purpose, there’s an «unto» something in that great miracle.

It’s verse four: «They shall rebuild old ruins; they shall raise up former desolations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.» This is one of the most beautiful pictures in the Bible. You’ve got the most broken becoming the most stable, but they don’t stop with their own personal stability. They don’t stop by saying, «I can now prosper.» They’re saying, «All right, let’s rebuild the city!»

Here’s the point I want to share: you don’t get the rebuilders if you don’t get broken people healed. If you don’t get broken people healed, you don’t get rebuilt cities. We keep crying out for our city to be healed and restored. You know, all the stuff that’s in our hearts—this only happens when you have people here that are filled with the Spirit.

There’s a cause and effect; there are people that carry this fullness of the Spirit, living under the influence of this outpouring, constantly changing, ebbing and flowing, moving from this to that because it’s relational. It’s not just that we memorize six principles and then change the world; it’s a relational thing.

We had an interesting experience this past week. I met with some leaders Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning. Tuesday was the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation. I didn’t realize when I called these leaders together that we would actually be meeting on the actual day of the 500-year Reformation! We’ve been celebrating it all year, praying into it, talking about it, but I didn’t realize I’d be with these friends of mine on that day.

My team put name tags for everyone because they came from nations around the world; there were about 40 of them. We met up at the summit near the lake, and in this large area for a couple of days, on the name tags at the top is a skeleton key.

It was a beautiful sunny day, and we stood outside during breaks. You could see the dam in the lake and down into the valley—it was just gorgeous! They were all outside taking pictures because the view was so pretty. One of the guys was looking through his pictures and said, «Man, look at this!» There were clouds in the shape of a skeleton key!

One of the guys turned around, and in a vase inside the beautiful lodge, he pulled out a nicely decorated skeleton key! We had these clouds in the sky, the name tag, and now a skeleton key. It was hiding in the vase! Someone had a prophetic word: 500 years ago, they nailed the 95 Theses to the door, but the Lord is now giving you a key to go through the door in this next Reformation!

It’s amazing! People give me pictures of clouds, and they say, «Do you see them?» I go, «Man, I’m trying!» My staff makes fun of me, and they hung one in my office just so I can look at it.

So here’s the point: we’ve got this beautiful declaration of God rebuilding cities. That was the target God began with when He filled people with the Spirit. He was saying, «All right, so you’ve never dealt with addiction, but guess what? I’m going to put the Spirit of God upon you in such a profound way that when you talk with somebody who’s bound by addiction, you’re going to bring freedom.»

That fullness of the Spirit on you is to bring freedom to them. And that person that becomes free will become stable, and as they become stable, they will become the real rebuilders of broken cities.

But it all starts with somebody saying, «Holy Spirit, come! Baptize me anew! Fill me with Your Spirit!» Many people stop short of a divine encounter because they’re satisfied with good theology. They’re happy with meeting whatever qualifications they may have for being filled with the Spirit.

«Well, I pray in tongues; well, I do this; I do that.» Listen: the point is, is there power coming forth from your life that sets captives free? That’s the issue; it’s the issue! The Holy Spirit’s in you to comfort you, to bring peace to you, to give you insight—all that stuff that’s for you—but this Spirit of God who comes upon us is for us to bring about transformation in the events and stuff around us! That’s the purpose; it’s measurable!

The fullness of the Spirit is measured by impact. In Acts chapter 2, we know they were filled with the Holy Spirit. It’s an extraordinary chapter—it’s a Pentecostal favorite—where there is an outpouring of the Spirit that’s extraordinary. But in chapter 4, it happens again, anywhere from someone saying two years to maybe five years after the day of Pentecost!

So we’ve got some of the same people that were in Acts 2 that were rocked where thousands were added daily. They’re in the same experience a couple of years later! What’s the point?

As you’re a broken vessel, you leak! Old-timers used to put it this way: they’d say, «Stay under the spout where the glory comes out!» That’s how it is; the whole deal is just to stay under in that place where the Spirit of God comes upon you continuously.

My testimony yesterday is wonderful, but it is no excuse for the absence of hunger today. Anytime yesterday’s experience erases my hunger for today, I’ve chosen where to level off when, in fact, the Lord has invited us into this relationship.

Being filled with the Holy Spirit, the ongoing filling of the Holy Spirit, actually becomes necessary for us to demonstrate who the Father is. Yes, that’s it! I don’t think it’s possible; in fact, I’m confident it’s not possible to adequately display the love of God without power.

I love the practical stuff! I really do! I love giving sandwiches to somebody who’s hungry, giving coats, and shoes—things that people in need need—we love doing this! I love this! But without power, they’re still bound. Their belly may be full, which is important, but the addiction that got them to that place of brokenness has got to be broken!

Somebody has to come in filled with the Spirit of God that breaks that thing off—someone who knows how to end this cycle of perhaps five generations of poverty—just break it off! God has given the ability to make wealth to every individual, anyone who will just turn their hearts to Him and say yes.

He gives the ability and reveals the purpose for wealth, for prosperity, for blessing—it’s unto something! It’s never about accumulation! This Kingdom that we live in is so different!

You are exalted by going low; you become filled by becoming empty! It’s just a different Kingdom, and He welcomes us into this Kingdom where there’s conflict and understanding, enabling us to realize that abundance is measured by what you’ve given away, not by what you have!

The fullness of the Holy Spirit is never measured by what you have; it’s measured by what overflows you. It’s measured by what overflows! See, this kingdom is different. It’s completely functioning differently! It’s not by what I contain; it’s not by what I keep; it’s by what I release! That’s what I give away!

I almost threw this without the top off! That would have just… yeah, throw it on Chris! Just throw it over on Chris!

Yeah, I love the privilege of coming together any time we get the chance! I do love Sunday mornings; they’re full—with the multiple gatherings. But I do love the chance to get together.

My only regret is that Sunday night is the service without end! When we come to this point in the meeting, we just say, «All right, everybody come to the front.» We start laying hands on people and just going for it! Sunday morning, if I do that to you, we have a whole other group coming up the hill in just a few minutes.

So I’m just going to say, if you have the nerve, come back to the gathering without end! That’s not a threat! I do want to pray for you now. I want you to stand.

I do want to pray that the Spirit of God would come so powerfully upon you that it would take weeks to unravel—to fully discover what’s happening in this moment. I believe the Lord is giving us a key; it’s a key of surrender.

It’s not a key of our strategic wisdom; it’s a key of yieldedness that He’s going to take us into the next season to really see reformation for cities and nations of the world.

So put your hands in front of you— I say, «Holy Spirit, please come even now with great power! Great power! Great power! Mark us with purpose, the purpose of the fullness of Your Spirit! Mark us deeply and profoundly for this next season, I ask in Jesus' wonderful name. Amen.»