Bethel Redding Sermon of the Week

Bill Johnson shares on how we should respond to unanswered prayer. Set your heart to pursue first and foremost the Kingdom. Then co-labor with God, whether that is moving into violent faith, or resting as a child and waiting for Him to bring breakthrough to you. Live fully in the significance of the moment He’s given to you!

Bill Johnson teaches on how to receive breakthrough in your life. The only thing that can keep us continuously advancing in the things of God is to remain poor in spirit. Remember, everything that’s done in and through us is done as an extravagant act of God’s grace. This perspective enables us to experience breakthrough without it leading us into entitlement.

Kris Vallotton preaches on encouraging the people around us who are walking through dark times. Sometimes we have to go into warfare with others in order to build them up. We are in a season of encouraging the weak and exhausted, and strengthening the feeble.

Dann Farrelly teaches on what God wanted to communicate with us when Jesus became flesh and came to earth. The baby in the manger was a way for us to subtly find God, so that we could begin to understand Him. Be encouraged to access all the richness that is available to us because of the incarnation, and celebrate everything that He came for!

Eric Johnson shares what he feels God is releasing for 2015. It is important to look back and remember what God has done in our lives so that we can see where He is taking us, and falling in love with the history of God will play a large role in the upcoming new year. Pray and seek Holy Spirit on his guidance for 2015, which will be a year of courage, promises fulfilled, miracles and the providential working of God!

Bill Johnson shares a message on making covenant with God by visiting the story of the Magi, who visited Jesus when He was an infant. Throughout the Bible people would meet with God, offer a sacrifice, and make covenant with Him. It’s important that we build a history of meeting with God and telling Him the cry of our hearts. There’s more to your capacity to make a covenant with God than you ever thought was possible!

Paul Manwaring expands on his teaching on rest. Rest is a place where we take our identity in God, and promises He’s spoken over our lives, and move forward in faith towards what we cannot see. Whatever your circumstances, ask for courage to step out in faith towards the promised land!

Bill Johnson teaches on the true meaning of victory. We usually define victory as confronting and changing outside circumstances we’re facing. However, God counts victory as when you experience loss but continue to pray and have faith in his character and goodness. He honors you when you continue to seek Him even when things don’t work out the way you expected.

Bill Johnson concludes his series on the purpose of prosperity by highlighting creativity. God is solution-oriented and has created us to be creators, designers and problem solvers. It is wise to use whatever God has given you to reproduce, contribute, and allow the Lord to bring a return. You were designed to be a designer of heavenly realms on earth!

Eric Johnson encourages us to learn how to embrace change. If we see change the way God does, then it’s easier to embrace it, understand the mechanics of why it’s hard, and understand why it’s necessary. If you are in a season of change, ask the Lord questions about what He is addressing in your heart, and remember to look forward in hope as you move from glory to glory.

Bill Johnson concludes his series on the purpose of prosperity by releasing a word of jubilee—the release from all debts and restrictions. God is positioning us to demonstrate His goodness to the nations through blessing and favor on our lives. The Lord is destroying the roots of anxiety and fear we have about money. Be encouraged, the day of the anointing for the cancellation of debt is upon us!

Bill Johnson continues his series on purposeful prosperity by explaining the difference between money that is meant to be seed and money that is meant to be bread. Seed is for for sewing and investing for the future, so that you increase your available resources to invest in others, while the bread is for personal enjoyment and delight in the present. As our resources increase we become positioned to shape the course of history through our generosity!

Bill Johnson continues his series on the purpose of prosperity by highlighting obedience through tithes and offerings. Obedience in the natural realm with your resources, including finances, qualifies you to be entrusted with riches in the invisible realm. At the same time, experiencing the true riches of God in your spiritual life will also have an effect on your physical world. God is releasing an authority for breakthrough in finances, so partner with him as you steward what you’ve been given, so that you can shape history with abundant resources!

Bill Johnson continues his series on the purpose of prosperity by highlighting tithing. The scriptures teach that there is a bounty of blessing, but it’s given as a result of prioritizing the Kingdom first. Although you can’t buy anything from God, being obedient with your tithe will result in a spiritual release. Your obedience demonstrates the lordship of Christ over your life and shapes economies and cultures.

Bill Johnson begins a new series on the purpose of prosperity by highlighting missions. God is commissioning all believers into a world changing impact by going to, sending to and praying for the nations. Financial prosperity is being released so that we are individually taken care of, but are also positioned to be a part of impacting the destinies of nations!

Danny Silk teaches on the difference between living in expectancy and putting God in a box with our expectations. Expectancy is based on the track record of His goodness in our lives, and the understanding that He is the best Father we could ask for. When we have expectant hearts we anticipate God’s goodness in our futures, regardless of what that might look like. If we don’t live in expectancy, we create a box with our expectations and lists of what we think God can and cannot do. This trap of expectations creates limitation, lack and control. If you stay in a place of expectancy, He’ll show you beyond your wildest expectations what an abundant life can look like!

Bill Johnson teaches on the power and necessity of living a hope-filled life. Hope is anchored in eternity, and it works backwards in time from that place to affect every other part of our lives. If your thoughts are rooted in hopelessness, the life of hope is about to flourish as God gives you a kingdom context from which to think!

Kris Vallotton challenges us to open up to God and let Him speak into our hearts. It’s important to know God, but does God know you? The Lord wants to know where your heart is, and He needs you to give Him access and invite Him in. God wants to know us intimately so be encouraged to be real and live authentically before Him, with nothing hidden!

Eric Johnson teaches on the importance of finding and releasing your unique voice. There is a massive collision of the reality that God is endless, with the reality that God lives in and delights in you. The world needs authentic believers who can articulate the wonder that the endless God of the universe paid the ultimate price for the ultimate temple. Nations, cities and cultures are begging for people to describe this truth and speak it out.

Bill Johnson releases a decree and a prayer for hope. We are called to Abraham-type hope and faith, that even when all of the odds are against us we hold on to what God has spoken to us. Hope is the joyful anticipation of goodness, and this creates an atmosphere that attracts the promises of God. As you hold onto hope in dreaming with God, be encouraged to create more room in your heart for Him to place His promises.

Bill Johnson teaches on the rebuilding of cities through the restoration of broken people and the celebration of progress made by new believers. The key to restored cities is found in how we value broken people; the poorest of the poor are to become the richest in the things of God, in order to lead the restructuring and rebuilding of cities. God is giving us an opportunity to cheer one another on as we involve ourselves in seeing a city completely healed!

Eric Johnson exhorts us into a deeper level of love for God and for people. God wants to take us beyond loving others out of reason and logic to loving from the depths of our hearts. Today give God the permission to increase your capacity to love like never before!

Kris Vallotton shares steps to successful living in the Kingdom. Be present and live in the “now”, so that you can receive the fullness of what God has planned for you in each moment. Keep thankfulness in the forefront of your mind, remembering that it was by grace, while we were yet sinners, that God chose us. Focus on your vision for your life, because this will give your process and pain a purpose. And lastly, persevere, knowing that this will build character.

Bill Johnson leads the congregation in prayer for those facing false accusation or night terrors and daytime panic. Taking Psalm 91 as his text, he affirms that God desires for each one to find his or her purpose in life and thus experience fullness of life that results in overflow to others (Ps. 67:1). Divine protection and healing are found in the Presence of God, and the past is under the blood of Jesus, so we can live free from regret.

Eric Johnson casts vision for the season that Bethel is currently in; a season of transition. God is connecting our stream to a river of revival that is bringing life on earth, and it is important that we seek His wisdom and insight as we serve the body of Christ in this time.

Bill Johnson teaches on growing your faith as you set your focus on God. Whatever captures your attention will increase in influence in your life. Therefore, it is important that we listen as He speaks, and refuse to let other voices dictate how we think and see. God wants to adjust our world view as we look intently at Him, so that what we behold refreshes us.

Eric Johnson shares a message on the kingdom importance of living life in community. When the Holy Spirit fell in the book of Acts, two things happened: the Kingdom advanced in miraculous ways, and community grew stronger amongst believers. They were of one accord, one mind and one purpose. God is taking us to a new level in loving people, so be encouraged to pursue oneness with other believers!

Kris Vallotton continues his series on giving authority to women in and out of the church. Kris sheds light and brings understanding to Paul’s verses in 1 Corinthians regarding women. If you look at the Bible as a whole, women are empowered throughout. Jesus doesn’t just love women, He empowers them, and it’s time that we do the same!

Bill Johnson shares a message on the measures and dimensions of the manifest presence of God that are accessed through worship. The Presence is the manifestation of the face of God before His people, and interacting with it is what we were created for. In God’s presence perspective is made clear, dreams are birthed, and we are changed from the inside out. The exchanges that occur in the presence allow us to manifest the full expression of the redemptive nature of the perfect Father to cities and nations all around us.

Kris Vallotton preaches a powerful message on the roles of women in and outside of the church, and encourages women to go after their dreams. He shows us the importance of context and unpacks Paul's letter to the Corinthians with an emphasis on women, demonstrating that they are free, equal and powerful! Jesus loves everyone and with Him, both men and women are free to minister, and bring the Kingdom to earth!

Paul Manwaring shares a message on the roles we each play as we answer the call to be fathers and mothers. Our heavenly Father sends us a spirit of adoption that transforms us, so that we are no longer orphans but sons and daughters. In becoming sons and daughters, we will transform the world by stepping into our roles as mothers and fathers to an orphaned planet that is crying out to be loved.

Danny Silk explains how God gives us promises because He knows that an obstacle course of trials lies between where we currently are and our promise being realized. Maturity happens as we intentionally negotiate these trials, knowing that our heavenly Father is faithfully with us through the adventure. Take courage to pursue and embrace a path of maturity with God, and pick up the gems of wisdom that he has laid out for you!

Banning Liebscher talks about how every single one of us is called to be a part of a team that changes the world, carries the presence of God, and leads in the sphere we’re in! What separates us is not our call, it’s our response to the call by meeting God in the secret place. The most strategic thing you can do in your life is separate yourself to the inner room of prayer, where you’ll find God’s presence and His anointing and authority to change the world.

Kris Vallotton continues his series on Prophets by concluding his message from last Sunday night about false prophets. He briefly reviews part one of this message, then continues to explain the importance of testing each spirit to see if it is from God before believing it. Through our prophetic words, we are not called to judge, but rather to extend grace, edify, exhort and comfort. For part one of this series, visit: https://shop.ibethel.org/products/what-is-a-false-prophet-6-00pm-june-1-2014

Eric Johnson shares his personal story of falling in love with scripture. The Bible is not simply a text, but it is the living word of God. It is the most relevant book to any person, in any situation, at any point in time. Be encouraged to take moments to give God permission to speak to you through his word as you build a history with the Bible.

Bill Johnson teaches on the significance of living life with a renewed mind. He uses examples from throughout the gospel of Mark to demonstrate the way that Jesus’ internal reality transformed his external reality. As God transforms our minds, our internal victories become our external victories!

Eric Johnson teaches us to apply wisdom to favor. He shows us the wisdom of David, Stephen and Jesus, who all experienced favor with God, but not man. Eric explains how each handled being hunted and trusted in God. When our favor isn’t received well by men, stay true and turn to God for strength and courage!

Bill Johnson teaches on what we can learn from three miracle births in the Bible; from Sarah, Hannah and Mary. He encourages the church that there is a miracle, something impossible that can only be brought through in its purest form through each of us, and the world is crying for it. Be encouraged that God wants to do the impossible through you, and be bold to share your unique story!

Kris Vallotton continues his series on prophets by explaining how they comfort and protect nations. Some of the core fruits of prophecy are that people would be edified, exhorted and consoled. In difficult seasons of life it is important to remember the prophetic words of comfort and encouragement that have been spoken over us as we fight for victory. Be encouraged because your personal victory will become a corporate covering!

Eric Johnson teaches on the importance of being a slave, servant and friend of God. Everything we do in life has the potential to be ministry to the King and advance the Kingdom. So in friendship with God, do what you are good at with excellence and display His manifold wisdom on earth!

Bill Johnson speaks on the resurrection power of Jesus; that the tomb stone was not rolled away to let Jesus out, but rather to release faith as the observers saw that the tomb was empty. Jesus gave us a message that he is ready to back up; that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand and within reach, and the realm of God’s dominion is available for every situation we encounter. Pastor Bill then leads us in a time of prayer for the resurrection power of Christ to be made a reality in our lives.

Kris Vallotton continues his series on prophets, highlighting the lives of Daniel and Joseph. They both practiced covert ministry by building relationships with their kings, loving them beyond what they deserved. These relationships gave them access to impact the governing of nations. Let’s learn from Daniel and Joseph, by loving people beyond what they deserve and coming alongside them to serve our cities well.

Bill Johnson teaches on the true demonstration of being a disciple of Jesus - humbling ourselves and taking up our cross. In our journey, God gives us seasons of increase and promotion. It’s important that when we are given those promotions, we choose to go low, pick up our cross and sacrifice. When you sacrifice, you may be the only one who experiences the pain and cost, but in your day of breakthrough everyone under your influence will experience that breakthrough too!

Bill Johnson teaches on the power of grace to partner us with our almighty God, releasing breakthrough on earth. As we have compassion on humanity, radical obedience empowers us to bring transformation to cities. Find the broken places in your life where you have experience and authority, because from those places you will release the process for ruined cities to be restored and redeemed!

Eric Johnson encourages us to be victorious in the battles of our lives which can come as temptations or tests. When temptations come our way, Jesus always gives us a way out. God knows that we can pass tests well because they are only given according to our abilities! Whatever challenge you are going through, trust that God is a good teacher and has prepared you for temptations and tests, so you will come out victorious as you abide in him.

Eric Johnson teaches on experiences, encounters and mysteries of God. It is healthy to hunger for supernatural experiences, but the pursuit of our hearts should always be for God himself. Let's remember that we serve a God of encounters without making encounters into a god. When we make him our main goal, we discover that much of his goodness is hidden in mystery!

Kris Vallotton describes what it means for saints and prophets to live in the new covenant. Under the old law we deserved to be judged for our sins, but through a violent act of grace we came into graceland. Therefore our ministry is to now reconcile people to God. Let us extend mercy to those who don’t deserve it, because it is through undeserved mercy that we too entered the Kingdom. For Part 2 of this series visit:https://shop.ibethel.org/products/prophecy-and-prophets-part-2-6-00pm-march-2-2014

Bill Johnson ends his series on Solomon's wisdom by focusing on the community of the redeemed. In Isaiah 62, we are commanded to not give ourselves or God rest until He makes the community of the redeemed the praise of the earth. As we learn to do life and rule with wisdom, we corporately become the city on the hill that both attracts people and causes them to be in awe of God.

Dann Farrelly encourages us to lift our eyes to eternity and foster a longing for our heavenly home. Heaven should reach into the here and now and affect our lives and priorities. Let us allow God to increase our longing for eternity and the manifest presence of God!

Kris Vallotton explains the difference between the gift of prophecy and the office of a prophet. God gave the five fold ministry, including prophets, so that we could grow into the maturity of Christ. When a prophet is fully operating in his or her God-given role, the Body is equipped with eyes to see and ears to hear.