Prayer Strategies by Bill Johnson

Sunday, July 12, 15

Sin is a violation of design.
We should not react or respond to the world in fear.
Distortion, faade, deception = satans plan
No matter who (the court, for example) makes something legal, if it
is sinful, it violates the law in the heart.
The devil doesnt mind what side of a conflict youre on, as long as you
react to it with a political or religious spirit. The political and religious
spirit THRIVES on division, to collect popularity and isolate other
individuals. The church has done it!
Political correctness is evidence that stupidity is contagious. Satan
doesnt care what side youre on of an issue, as long as you react in a
way thats as wrong as the issue youre addressing.
Jesus has this passion for authenticity that supersedes my personal
need to be right!
Self-will is often perceived as the voice of God.
Warfare: Ephesians 6; 2 Corinthians 10
having your loins girded with truth
Warfare is not against people, therefore this is why you can embrace
someone who is under the influence of another power, or kingdom, and
completely love them! (just as Jesus did!) Break protocol. You dont
have to be offended if you TRULY value people. You should be able to
get over their stuff & strongholds. Dont ignore, instead Jesus said
Go and sin no more. Be delivered.
The law of the land, is not the law that God wrote in the heart- the one
that cannot be erased. The law of God is the voice of conscious.
Acts 2- outpouring of the spirit of God, immediately followed by
opposition & persecution, because power threatens those who are in
power.
The power of God always empowers people who dont want the power
for themselves, making those who do want the power feel threatened.
Acts 4- Peter is persecuted. Peter preaches in boldness. Peter is then
put into trouble, per se. Peter then prays for more boldness- the
exact thing that just got him into trouble. Hes praying to be more

annoying to the powers and principalities, but not those who truly need
help.
The Lord never tells us to pray for the harvest, He said prayer for the
harvesters. Its the condition of the harvesters that deterdmine the size
of the harvest.
Spiritual warfare is all about assaulting truth. We are no stronger in our
stance for Jesus, than our recognition of what is true. An infinite
amount of people can vote yes for something- it doesnt make it true, it
makes it popular.
??? - The leaven of the Kingdom of God
City of Ephesus was an occult center. The temple for Diana they
believed this thing fell out of the sky of Heaven, from Zeus. Paul
went to Ephesus, and theres such an extensive revival, and the church
becomes so established in purity and power, that some years later
when Paul writes back to address the church, he has no words of
correction. All of the other epistles he has something to correct, but
even in the hellhole of all hellholes, the revival is so great, the people
GET IT. They understand, ,and are changed.
What do you give to a church (or a person) that has everything? That
God give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, to give them glimpses
into the greater things.
God worked unusual miracles through Paul in Ephesus, which implies
they had some usual miracles- haha! They would take aprons,
handkerchiefs, and whatever from Paul to the demonized peoples
bodies, and the person would cry out and be healed!
John 12 Jesus said greater things than these shall you do
With Jesus, they touched the edge of his garment, but with Paul they
were able to take the garment to be sent somewhere to the peoples
bodies.
Dont thing Jesus will be offended if you do greater miracles than him.
That was his idea in the first place.
The massive revival goes from addition to multiplication.
One of the craftsmen had a meeting with men of similar careers, and
said Men, weve seen what this Paul character has done in not only
Ephesus, but in most all Asia. He has showed men that god is not
made by our hands, and our prosperity is in jeopardy.

So he stirs up a riot.
So the city clerk quieted the crowd. He said Men of Ephesus, what
man is there that doesnt know the city of the Ephesians is temple
guardian of the great goddess, Diana, and of the image which fell
down from Zeus? Therefore, since these things cannot be denied, you
ought to be quiet and do nothing irrational. For you have brought
these men here, which are neither robbers of your temple, nor
blasphemers of your goddess.
The world wants voices of reason in every circle of influence. God
chose Saul to be Paul, to use as a voice of reason, because he was a
man of great intellect. He was the Einstein of the day.
A voice of reason is not intimidated by the political spirit. In this story,
Paul wants to get in the middle of the riot, so he can be the voice of
reason, as he would do previously by sitting down with men to talk.
***Incredible: wherever you can find the biggest hellhole in the
WORLD, is where youll find some of the greatest spirit outbreak, and
revivals ever!
A man stands outside a mosque in the 1040 window (HUGE Muslim
outbreak in the world) and ask people before they enter, Have you
seen the man in white? and if they say yes, he says stand over here. If
they say no, he lets them go. After hes gathered a small crowd, he
tells them who the man in white is.
God made a covenant to respond to the prayers of his people.
Places where Jesus isnt supposed to be mentioned, is where some of
the greatest spirit outbreak is happening currently, because it doesnt
matter if you cant speak His name, He can show up uninvited and
change an entire nation.
You can pass a law, you can get anything passed, but it doesnt
matter. God doesnt pay attention to those laws, he writes His own.
Turning the heart of a king is as easy as turning water into wine.
There are kings all over the land in media, politics, industry, etc. We
are praying they have a visitation from you. We dont want to proven
right, we dont need the gratification of applause, please Lord, just
restore righteousness to our land.