Bethel Church LJ Podcast

True repentance is recognizing our errors, changing the way you think about what you have been doing, and then taking the necessary steps to correct the errors we have made.

The Word of God teaches us the necessity of speaking God’s Word, God’s promises so that we might see the fulfillment of His will in our lives and through us.   

God's desire is to bless us that we might then, through our giving away what He has given us, be a blessing to the world around us.

Yes, we will see people saved, baptized, spirit-filled, and set free.  But, the fruits of that move among His people will be marked by unity, mega-power, mega-grace, and care as we, in love, bring God's grace to bear among the hurting people of this world.

It's imperative that we, as the New Covenant people of God, recognize the importance of the Word of God. If we don't know the Word of God, we can, and will be far off our walk with Him.

God's priority is that His house would be built up and that can't happen unless we, His living stones, are joined together in Him.  It's together that we become the victorious people He paid a price for and through whom His purposes will be accomplished.

The restoration of this blind man was a process that ended in his ability to see and hear clearly.  Our healing and restoration is also a process that will lead us towards wholeness as we press forward into Him and the mission that He gives each and every one of us.

The first part of restoration is reconciliation with God.  It's restoring the relationship with God.  You've got your part to do and in response to it, God does His part.  In response to His sacrifice of love for us, in love we offer ourselves to God, and give ourselves to Him to demonstrate the goodness of God through the works that we do.

The experience of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was not the exception, but was the normal Christian experience for all who would follow Him.  "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."  (Acts 2:39)

We saw that God accomplished His work of restoration progressively, and He did so through the power of the Spirit as Ezekiel prophesied the will of God thought the Word of the Lord.  So also, in this church, we are believing God's Word and God's will for restoration for the people in this church.