My 6 year old daughter was in a car accident with my mom and my nephew about a month ago. Sense then I have been searching for something to help ease this pain. Ive been trying to understand how to live again. Jesus is going to get us through. He gave me a beautiful daughter and showed me what true, pure, love looks like. So now every morning I wake up and say “thank you lord for my baby” and my heart hurts a little less.
My husband of 53 years, was not only the other half of me; he was my best friend and covenant partner, and we were in full time ministry for over 50 years! When he went "home" after he fought a horrific battle for over 10 years against non-hodgkins lymphoma, I was overwhelmed with grief. I didn't understand why it happened, but I never questioned the Lord and I never doubted His Word. I know the pain you are facing right now - and I also know the tremendous peace, joy, and love you are sharing with us right now. I didn't want to even be here any more; it was as though I lost half of myself. But God! The Lord took me in His arms and covered me with HIs Grace; His Peace; His Joy, and His Love. I still cry when I think of Rick; I miss him every day. And I will never forget him, but the deep places of grief have lifted and I am finally ministering again. It has taken me a year and a half to step out and do what I have been called to do. This is a new season for me and a new chapter in my life. Thank you for sharing this beautiful sermon with us.
I agree with you for a new season and a restoration of your divine calling to the body of Christ. My sincere condolences on the loss of your beloved husband. Some finish the course early and some of us have to keep running. May His strength always be you strength.
Bless you my sister in Christ. Your story has touched my heart. As I am waiting for my mum to pass any day now. Your testimony gives me hope for the future.❤
Nearly 7 years ago. I lost my wonderful husband to lymphoma too- we prayed for healing over the 11 months of his illness & it was a roller coaster ride of hope & hope lost. But God was there & remains there, through the pain, the loss & the questions. Love is never lost but gathered into the love of God.
@@ponzee22 Prayers of love and togetherness for you and your family in this difficult time. May the Lord, the Spirit, the Comforter be especially present and close to all hearts in your household of faith: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, you and your house."
@@lindemelhuish3206 sister Linda, thank you for that comment. What a testimony to faith and faithfulness. We look not at what is seen which is temporary but what is unseen and eternal. We will all go there one day, amen?
At the death of our second son, as the Lord led me through that valley and hot tears spilled onto my pillows, He helped me realize that this valley is only a “shadow” of death. Just a shadow...I prayed that one when I couldn’t even whisper anything else. He had me firm in His grip. I thank Him every day. Blessings and prayers for the Johnson Family. We will be seeing Him soon. Praise God.
@@oregon32nursenurse43 No, but thank you. Changed to whisper b/c it was more of one than muttering...murmur was the word but auto correct didn’t like it. It might show up as murder now, but never know till I hit enter. Thanks again.
@judithestears So sorry for the loss of your precious son. We are all here on loan from God. How blessed you were to have your son for the time that you had him. He is experiencing unspeakable joy in heaven now! Let that be your consolation when waves of grief come over you. Grief is such a personal journey and everyone experiences and deals with it differently. May God give you (and all others that have lost a loved one), that peace and comfort that only God can give.
I lost my Dad at age 27 and was backsliding on drugs and smoked cigarettes wasn’t living for Lord I was so overcome with grief at my rebellion before God and my Dad I vowed you get me out of this I will serve you the rest of my days You know what he delivered me from those things 2 years later in a Healing Ministry from Minneapolis called Daystar I rejoice he used that grief to work on my heart to change to Glorify him Wooo Hooo Glory to Jesus His unending Love for us
I lost my husband at a young age from cancer, he was 35 yo. I am a young widow who has 2 kids, when the expectation didn't come, it was so hurtful, but before he passed away, God asked me even if the healing would not happen, would you still love me and trust me?. It is not only faith that can move the mountain proves stronger, but also even when the mountain doesn't move, our faith can be proved more stronger, to love Him for who He is. Praise God Almighty the author and the finisher of our faith!!! Thank you Jesus for the great love and comfort you have for us. Amen.
This is the second time I've listened to this. My peers are starting to lose spouses. I have been cancer free for almost 1 year. My friend just said good bye for now. I don't know why my outcome was different than theirs. But I do know we both want to glorify God.
Same here! I have been cancer free for 6 years and I have those Why me moments but God has put a very deep trust and peace in my heart. I therefore am up in the third realm and experience God’s prophectic prayers n intercession and a very strong call to ministry. HE IS AN AMAZING GOD ! Glory be to Him!
The best sermon I’ve ever heard about loss, mourning, grieving. “God doesn’t owe us an explanation , he doesn’t work for us.”just get closer not away. Mourning can either lead you to the presence of God or doubt. We are in a race , how you finish matters.
Mourners are not in a race. They are surviving day after day, learning to move from the love of the deceased to the Father’s love. It is possible, but it takes time. Love can’t be rushed. But we can pray for them and check on them now and then.
I loved this awesome message. I lost my dad several weeks ago. And was blessed to be with him in his home going. Praying for you ad your family Pastor Bill.
Pastor Johnson, I am only a few minutes into your message and I can see this is a profound message. My precious husband died 2 years ago and you are speaking everything that my spirit has sustained me with. God 's goodness in giving me my husband at all-- let alone 35 years, keeps me on my feet and going forward. I know how hard it is to believe but you are going to find a peace with this, enough to awaken in the morning and not be stabbed by pain every morning. Hugs, understanding and love to you!❤️
@@wynettegreer3812 61 years, AMEN‼️ But again, the goodness of God in having had my husband at all--- is a life sustaining force❤️‼️ The Word does call widowhood an affliction and He is there with great compassion daily for all we widows and widowers. He is a MIGHTY one indeed.🔥
This sermon and your life, Bill, will help so many. Both our losses and crosses need to draw us closer to Him. Prayers for you, your family and His Bethel Church that you shepherd. Sincerely His, Bette Bond
Thank you so much for sharing your walk through grief with us. This is such a deep place. I praise God for His faithfulness. We exalt Him through everything this life throws at us. When my son passed years ago, I was sitting in silence, I heard the precious sound of the Lords voice, “ Linda, do you trust Me?” After much deep thought I finally said, “yes, Lord no matter what I trust you!” This took time- praise God this prepared the way so many years later to be able to walk through this time in my life. My husband Dan passed away 21/2 years ago. I could call Jesus my Ishi- Husband as He spoke to me once again, “Linda, do you trust Me.” “Yes Lord,” came so quickly, because You have held me, walked with me, cried with me, rejoiced with me. ❤️ May our precious Lord, hold you in the night hours, comfort you when you feel alone in the crowd. May His loving arms embrace you as you seek Him early in The morning…He truly is enough!
I don’t know you or ever heard of you but brother I love you and I’m for your loss and this is a David Wilkerson level sermon God bless you and keep you the Lord make His Face shine upon you and be gracious to you the Lord lift up His Countenance upon you and give you Shalom the Shalom that passeth all understanding Amen 🙏
That was an amazing seeking Bill.i lost both my sons many years ago and my husband was murdered 8 years ago. I really related with your pain. It is only God and the fellowship I go to that kept me going. God's bless. Hazel from South Africa
Transparency, vulnerability, simplicity and faith comes out of this sermon. As the Bible teach us we’re not like does who have no hope. in the house of mourning there is wisdom. Thankyou for sharing this moment with the body of Christ. A new season has arrived pr Bill the Lord will strength you to finish your race according to his purpose. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I lost my father September 20, 2021. My mother was hospitalized one week afterward and continues with chronic illness. My 39-year-old daughter was just diagnosed with malignant Stage 4 breast cancer. It is a deep pain. In deep anguish, I've cried to my Lord. "Though he slay me, yet I will trust him". I lean into His bosom. I don't understand, but I trust Him.
I Paul Klemesrud grieved for several years and felt nobody understood me like my Dad I was wrong only Jesus understands me fully and Needed inner healing of my past what I felt about myself and Experience unconditional Love of Jesus Wow He is Awesome!!’
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family .We are blessed in the Christian message of love , peace and joy when we remember and look forward to that glorious reunion that Jesus bought for us. Memories help to ease the pain until we meet again. I truly believe we shall all experience the blessings and I pray that The Lord will bring you the comfort that mourning brings. God Bless.
😔I am so sorry for the loss🕯️ and I feel your pain, before my late mother passing😔🕯️I prayed my Heavenly Father🙏 the Holy-Spirit🙏🕊️ for strength and courage😔 and I continue pray🙏for my mother soul but I can't get over this pain howmuch I missed my mother, because during her sickness for a long-time I know the Lord🙏 will calling her home one day or another, she was in pains daily but it was about time, no one don't want any loss it is deep, my mind and soul very painful😪Courage 🕊️ peace 🕊️ and strengh's during our moment of sorrows 🕊️🕯️🕊️
Just lost my mom and I am going through the many stages of grief and loss, but God has been there the whole time, just found out I need heart surgery and I am trusting him God loves me,
I lost my husband after a brief hospital stay in December 2021. I have never experienced such deep mourning in my whole life. I just kept giving it to Jesus. People said I was strong, but I let them know it was my Savior who is strong. This sermon helped me recognize the Hope that I have been clinging to. Thank you for all of the wisdom you shared.
Incredible pain. I’m so glad my husband never experienced this kind of pain. If he is missing his precious wife after a few days, he is going to miss her even more after 6 months. If you miss your soldier after a week… just wait until you miss them for a year. It’s a hallow feeling… not empty because if a glass is empty it can be filled up… a hallow tube can ever be filled
Heavenly Father, I come in humble gratitude in knowing you have assigned my angels to help me through my days. Help me Father this day too not stumble in any form that is not pleasing to you.
I'm so very sorry for your great loss. I am praying for you pastor and your family. May you feel GOD'S presence always especially through this hard time. AMEN
Wow❤ Just Wow....Praise the Lord for His Word.. Have never heard such wonderful and relevant sharing of the Word of God that is shared from the heart of a Servant of God who is no doubt in deep pain but who is very much in love with His Savior💯❤❤❤
I’m so very sorry for the emptiness you must be feeling because your precious wife went home ahead of you. I am praying for you, your family and church. Thank you for this teaching. I passed it on and I know I will come back to it over and over and over again….it’s timeless, timeless. God has blessed all of us through your teachings….JESUS TRUSTS YOU WITH HIS WORD. Much love and a big hug from Kansas❤️
He gives us the grace to get through the horrible times as we need it. We say I couldn’t stand it if I lost my husband but when it does happen he is there to hold our hand and give us the strength we need at the time of need ..
Thanks so much for uploading this powerful message i am just in tears... In Jesus we are not without hope. To speak to the crowd after his wifes death is just so heartfelt. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing about what our God did through the taking away of your beloved. He took my beloved home in November of 2021. There are so many facets to it you can't effectively share them with everyone all the time, but I never have been closer to Him than after I surrendered her to Him that His will be done and not mine.
Yes, our strength is in the Lord. He is so good, such a comfort in our time of need. So sorry for your loses. The Lord is with you and will guide you through this new journey in your life.
I recently, lost my husband , just one day, after we lost, a son to cancer. , and I can relate, to what you are, saying, about the wonderful Presence, that Christ was to me, , and after many years, as a Christian, I have never, experienced JOY,, at a level, that I do now. He, Christ, is so precious, I love Him, so much, but even more, than that, He loves me .
This has ministered to me in such a way as to understand our child like faith is a blessing not a lack of understanding - Jesus's comfort is priceless no wonder Holy Spirit is called the comforter - thank you for sharing your grief in such a way it gave my friend understanding to see her grief in a different way and to set her free from the grief that binds - we praise you Jesus it's you who has set us free xxxxx
I lost my mom almost 2 years ago from cancer & it hurts so bad. I’ve also lost my youngest sister in January from cancer as well as my baby brother to cancer. I just have to believe that there is a reason for all this. I pray to God that I will be reunited with all of them one day 🙏
So sorry for your loss of such a special lady. May God carry you through this time of pain and loss. God bless you. Thank you for sharing your gold nuggets if wisdom if life in Jesus. God bless you during this trial, may God refine you even more during this.
We’re receiving communion daily… we’ve been led to pray for revival ever since we started this in our home. HIS KINGDOM COME, HIS WILL BE DONE… even as it is done in Heaven! LET GOD ARISE!!! Thank you for sharing this message ❤️❤️🩹❤️🔥💋🎈❣️🩸
My deepest condolences to you my bro. Rejoice you shared your life with a woman who impacted so many lives. A life long lesson from your wife, gave me freedom in the face of deases. Her teaching was sound. Rest in peace my sister, a champion of holiness. You sought God in the best way you could without fear of man. Daughter of Zion, see you soon.
While death is hard for us. God knows! We can trust if God carried Beni home... She is WHOLE NOW! We will all go to Heaven and forever be with The Lord. We'll go when our tasks are completed as said by God. I thank God for her book ..The Happy Intercessor! It has such great insights for me as an intercessor. Months back God lead me to her book. I have some but her book is so full of wisdom coupled with personal experiences. Pastor Bill take time to rest before God. Truly Rest in God for a season! God bless you and your family.❤
God bless You my Brother. 💝 It deeply toutch me, Your testemony. I whas emotioly mowed to tears. I can emadgen the pain You feel, losing sutsh a fine wife. But dont be sad. Not a sparrow falls to the ground whithout that Jesus know about It. Your sweet wife whas more then a thousen sparrows. You gone meet her som Day. On the Lords Day. Be Happy for her, she do not have to go the tribulation that is about to come ower the world, any time now. Be Happy in ower Lord Jesus. Serwe Him whith Great Joy. Your Brother in Crist The Lord Jesus. You are a blessing to ower body. God bless You in the name of Jesus Crist The Lord.
Praying for You and your Family at this Time of Celebration of You Wife’s Life. Thank You so Much for sharing This Word Today. May God be With You All at This Time.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Watching on line from a small town in Tennessee. That was one of the most moving sermons I have ever experienced. God bless you Bill Johnson . I pray also for a revival in our nation.
thank you, bill. my beloved parents passed a couple years ago, within 44 days of each other. my mom believed in god, my dad professed to have no real faith. it was hard enough, and still is at times, but i honestly don't know what those who are 'left behind' do who don't believe god's love is bigger than someone's 'profession'. life couldn't be anything but a living hell. i know i will see them both again someday and that makes all the difference in the world. makes life actually with living, with hope and joy. thank you so much, bill, for sharing your heart with us at such a vulnerable time.
Thank you for your tender heart Bill Johnson & priceless revelation. My Dad loved & served the Lord with all his heart for over 40 yrs & was diagnosed with Parkinson's the last 12 yrs of his life. He & my mom took communion every day until we had to move him into assisted living. It was a hard journey but a journey of trusting God every day for healing. My dad went home to Jesus in Dec 2020 & it was very painful then but now I can rejoice 💞 May the Lord strengthen you each day & give you a short grieving process like He did me❣🙏❣
January 22 2022 i lost my amazing father to covid, the hardest part was he was in covid hospital for 9 days all alone as i was not allowed to be next to him until he went to be with the Lord. From that day i moved in with my mother to take care of her as she also nearly died due to covid however God answered my prayers and she lived. October 4th 2023 my beautiful mother passed to be with the Lord due to getting covid a 2nd time. What hurt like nothing has hurt me ever before was she too was in Covid hospital all alone for 5 days until her last breath! Yet again i was denied being with her those last 5 days due to strict Civid rules. I love Jesus and God and dont ask why i know i will be with them again in eternity but it hurts to my core thanks for this amazing sermon God Bless you Pastor Bill Johnson
What an emotional and powerful message. Hearthfelt sympathy to you and your family. You're such a blessing May God comfort you all at this very very sad time.
I didn’t know of you until I saw this sermon, but I thank you for this heart rending testimony! I too have been through one of the valleys of the shadow of death when my spouse passed in 2019. I still hurt from this, but your faith filled testimony is a beautiful example of the Holy Spirit living in you. I thank you sincerely and may His rod and staff still comfort all who have suffered loss. God Bless you!
I’m greatfull pastor you have a huge family. Charisma that( as I see you do)!-But people sometimes don’t have that so as I experienced 3 weeks ago.. losing my husband of 35 years , was hard not having a church family . I do have an online family( due to my disability, BUT FOR GODS PRESENCE.. I’d not be texting this . Mourning can be just as healing ( lonely.. but just as peaceful with the presence of God near. All the peace that Jesus gives I cannot explain it, and I cannot thank him enough in the Bible it says, and I quote her blessed are they that mourn they will be comforted.
The moments are painful but they are priceless and they shape us. The story didn't end, it's the beginning of something else. Praise God. Experience it by compassion when seeing my mother went to be with the Lord.
Amazing!...one of the most selfless messages I have ever witnessed. A true pastor. Your care for those God has entrusted you with was beyond human ability; definitely an offering of self sacrifice to the Lord. You are deeply loved, highly favored, and continue to be greatly blessed of the Lord. May you see revival as never before!
Sept. 2021 my 42 year old son was found dead in his apartment. The day after, my husband died from lack of hospital treatment from covid. Honing, mining, gleaning from who I know of my God from the journey of loss 9 years to the date when we lost our daughter I carry into this loss and look for more, deeper. He's held me above the loss as I face life without my partner and realize the death of my son. (He had died possibly a week earlier and we were not able to see him again). Realizing he's gone more and more as my brain starts to remember I haven't heard from him. This message helps!
Good to have family and friends who stand with you in time of need! I don't! That is why I want the rapture to come ...! GOD HELP ME EXPERIENCE HIS LOVE AND POWER IN CHRIST JESUS!
You are the only one with that finger print you have gifts in you that are not in anyone else. Satan wants to keep you locked up in lack of family so your eyes are on the rapture and NOT on saving the lost in turn INCREASING YOUR FAMILY🙌. Go get your family ❤️ If Jesus is your Lord and Savior you have tons of family and there is more out there that need Him
Yes, in an earthly view i too have lost all my family, friends i have, because i am a friend to many. Yet, i have a Father in heaven, very very real, so do you. He is as real as u make up your mind He is. Yes, really! And i have a brother, Jesus the high priest, Jesus my Savior and Jesus lover of my soul. So much more we can say here. And Jesus made sure we are never alone, by sending Holy Spirit, who makes a perfect friend and teacher, one who never leaves u, no, never. Now go on your knees, tell God you need a revelation of the riches of your inheritance. Just look at Ephesians chapt. 1. Romans 4,5,6,7, and for sure 8. And believe. You have nothing without believing what God says. To YOU,and to your heart. And know you have a great big family of brothers and sister besides the Father, and Brother, and comforter. Praying you will receive this priceless love of God, simply believe Him.
@@heidibrown997 ...You mentioned Eph 1...which I read and quote often and Rom 8- BOTH BOOKS ARE MY FAVOURITE INCLUDING Colossians! So I know you speak thru the Spirit! Thank you. Use your gift too- speak faith and life into people's life and situation! Love you!
Powerful message 🙏Glory to God 🙏sorry for your loss. God is awesome God. My prayers for Pastor Bill Johnson and family that God bring peace and comfort Sorry for you loss. Ps 91. We lost lots in our family before still praying peace. Amen 🙏
Oh God, this sermon has so many shockingly deep sentences, they defy everything, all the feelings, all the faith, all the trust we put on the Father. Lord, give us the strength to mourn as a beautiful sacrifice, to lay everything at your feet, and trust anyway! To be identified with Jesus in everything He went through!
I appreciate you so much Sir. My condolences Sir. My mother passed over 4 years ago. I still miss her so. I have had days that I thought, I'm glad you're not here for this, Mom. I had hoped to meet your wife . In heaven, I will. Bless you.
