“We must declare the goodness and faithfulness of God even in the midst of our trial—even before we have an answer.”
This portion of The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind not only reveals how powerful worship is when warring in the spiritual realm, it arms you with supernatural powers that assure victory.
Bill Johnson and his wife Brenda (Beni) Johnson are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Church in Redding, California. Johnson is a fifth generation pastor.
Johnson was born in Minnesota in 1951 and became a Christian as a young child. Soon after, Johnson read seven books on prayer, which significantly affected his perspective and subsequent ministry.
Bill Johnson and his wife have three children: Eric, Brian and Leah.
Johnson speaking at a conference Bill Johnson and Beni (Brenda) began as singles pastors under his father at Bethel. In 1979, they became senior pastors of Mountain Chapel in Weaverville, California.
While pastoring in Weaverville, Johnson attended a 1987 conference led by John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard Church Movement. According to Johnson "A number of healings and manifestations broke out and I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't object to it, I wasn't opposed to it; I just didn't know how to pastor it in a way that it would continue and increase".
In 1995, Johnson attended the Toronto Blessing revival at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church. Johnson relates: "In Toronto I said, 'Lord, if You touch me again I will never change the subject.' So I went up for prayer every time it was offered. I didn't have anything dramatic happen, but I came home and said, 'I am going to give the rest of my life to this.'"
In February 1996, after 17 years of leading the Weaverville church, the Johnsons were invited to become senior pastors of Bethel. Today Johnson describes Bethel as a church where "everything we do either fuels revival or is fueled by revival." Under his leadership, Bethel left the Assemblies of God in 2006 to become a nondenominational charismatic church.
According to a recent book written by Johnson, "Face to Face with God", Bethel is "a church where supernatural encounters with God happen regularly, miracles are common, and the congregation has an infectious passion for spiritual growth." The church has approximately 1,500 members, and a School of Supernatural Ministry.
Their Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry has 1,200 students enrolled with over 370 from other countries. Johnson leads a network of churches dedicated to global, multi-generational revival, Global Legacy. Johnson has written a number of books and travels extensively as a featured revival conference speaker. Johnson is also involved with the Northern California Revival Fellowship, a group of north Californian pastors committed to revival.
Three 2-page chapters that emphasis the battle going on around us and that the enemy will target our bodies, our minds, our jobs, our families and such like to bring us unstuck. But God.
Bill even shares a story of when he was unable to help a demon-possessed child and how this drove him to seek even closer union with Christ. Jesus operated out of a well of intimacy with the Father and they desire that we would do likewise.
6 pages of great content taken from his book "The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind" but it's a little bit cheeky to charge for it.
I read this book for 99 cents in about 10 minutes. But it sparked faith in me. Something in my spirit lept as I read simple truths and testimonies by this awesome man of God. It stirred something in my faith, kickstarted something in my heart that was so needed during this time of being locked in during COVID-19. My only regret was that it ended so soon. Best 99 cents you will spend any time soon!!
This is a very good read there inspirational and thought provoking I promise you will want to make minute changes in your life and to Walt more intimate with Christ through not just you're reading of scripture but appraising him in the miss of all our storms glory to god
It was a good, albeit short read, that I quickly got into before going to bed. I love the emphasis on the power that faithful prayer can have in our everyday lives and over life's circumstances. Well done.