The Power of Choosing Joy - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church 

My husband drove from Texas to California because the Lord told him to go to Bethel and he would receive something! He did! I've seen the Holy Spirit in him! My mind is blown 😳 a holy ghost lives in him!!!

I told two of my sons that your wife went to be with the Lord recently. One of them was unaware of this and his comment was, "I would have never been able to tell because he hasn't changed and that's exactly how it should be when we're walking with God. We should never let our circumstances here on Earth change who we are in Christ and how we respond to things."🔥🙏❤️ We love you Bill

I've prayed for joy two yrs ago, then last yr my baby came along. My baby's nickname is joy-bringer. Reminds us to choose it.

If Bill was a restaurant, a 5 Star at that I wouldn't mind paying for a meal $1000 or more. That's just how I feel each time I listen to him! Thank You and God Bless you Bill.... Love You.

Joy is not only the fruit of the spirit but also is the expression that’s causes things to working well

If you are reading this, pls know that falling down is an accident....but staying down is a choice... but I rather choose to stand up☺❤

Paster Bill is so genuine. 'Joyfully serving Him' is the way I sign all my letters. Thanks for the encouragement to keep it up. ~

Joy is the expression that causes things to work well 😀 😄 😊 ☺️

I have been putting off joining a church ever since I moved 3-4 years ago. I would sit and wait and when my parents would tell me to come to church, join any other church, I would tell them God is everywhere, I will join one eventually, I am not comfortable etc. This word really hit me like a shot that I SHOULD NOT WAIT for God to come to me, I have to hunt and find what I am missing in life. This word really was fulfilling and a blessing and I was just praying this last week for God to give me a sign and there is no better way than this. Your sermons have been encouraging me and teaching me many things. I thank you for that. I truly am thankful. Regards, Just someone from India

Thank you Pastor Bill . Over the last few years I've really grown to appreciate your teaching, from the quotable nuggets, to the exemplified life of the Love walk. My condolences on Beni graduating to heaven but thank you for showing us that in spite of the pain and loss, you're pursuit of Him and walking out the Fruit of the Spirit is possible for us all. Bless you and I look forward to one day being able to shake your hand and say thank you, whether here on earth or on the other side in eternity.

If you're feeling down, having a hard time,and about to give up just listen to these songs and read every lyric and reflect and feel Jesus in your heart and all your worries and burdens will surely go away...

My wife almost died last November from pneumonia. She fought back but she is on dialysis now due to the damaged it causes in her system. I knew then that joy was a choice and not a feeling. I love this sermon. Somedays I feel like I can fly higher than the clouds. Days like today I feel like the devil just kicked my teeth in

The absolute best sermon on joy I have ever heard and understand ! I took notes! To keep! Thank you Pastor Bill!!!!!!! 😁🥰

"If you're not free from sin until death then Jesus isn't your savior, death is." - Georgian Banov <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2140">35:40</a>

Hope: Cultural Hope: Biblical - The joyful of anticipation of good. Hopes permit us to experience the joy of a breakthrough before the breakthrough comes.

Amen, great Word And agree 100% my mom graduated to heaven about two weeks before Benni. I choose joy instead of sorrow.

Thank You Jesus!🙏🏾

The Fouth time im listening to this Message ❤ with one year

THANK YOU SO MUCH: The vivid image of 'the diamond on black velvet,' and how our LORD JESUS ENDURED the CROSS because of the JOY SET BEFORE HIM.... THANK YOU

God lives in us, how incredible is this. Catch that, it will change you.

You don't know what it is, but you know it's good. Truth!!!

"If you're not free from sin until death then Jesus isn't your Savior, death is." Georgian Banov Wow.

Thank you pastor Bill Johnson, your message made me weep & recommit my life to God. The LORD had me move from FL. to CO Springs. All the Prophets left along with Dutch Sheets. I'm no Elijah, but I know how he felt. The precious Trinity worked together to raise my younger sister from the Dead in front of my eyes. When I got in CO, EVERY EVIL SPIRIT HAS BEEN TRYING TO KILL ME. UNTIL TODAY. THANK YOU & GOD BLESS YOU

The spirit of the Source of all is always in each and every creation. I hope you all wake up and do your own research. I deserve anything and everything my Creator has and is, for I am a fractal of this divine BEing of love and of light.

Thank you so much, Pastor Bill! I’m not part of Bethel but I have been inspired by your example of love, wisdom combined with humility and humor, and grace. May God bless this next part of your journey even more than the one that went before!

after listening to this I was reminded on Habakkuk's chapter three especially connects with v 13 to 19

It’s not you- it’s the other folks-that part Uncle Bill ❤

God bless you, Pastor Bill ❤

Hope is the soil in the pot and you plant the seed of faith in the soil (❤️) and it grows in the atmosphere of hope.

I meant Pastor Bill thank you for the joy filled message please keep praying for me as I go through this difficult storm I know the Lord has his hand on me this is scary about the Lord so much this you guys know Bethel

Beautiful Message

AMEN!!! WORDS OF LIFE!!!

I want to be stuck with the lifetime of joy!!!!

Powerful word! Thank you!

Good stuff, Bill! Wonderful clarifying contrasts between worldly and Kingdom definitions of hope, patience and joy. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="305">5:05</a> The kind of a hope that is merely a synonym for a “wish” is transformed in the Kingdom to another dimension. The Kingdom definition of hope is a joyful anticipation of good! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="797">13:17</a> Similarly, Kingdom patience is more than the common passive toleration of things we don’t like. Mere men can generate this kind of patience. Kingdom Patience transforms that into independent, unyielding defiant perseverance in the face of aggressive misfortune- an intolerance of the Enemy’s work to kill, steal and destroy, provoking a courage that says, “enough!” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1574">26:14</a> Undeserved Joy. . . (Imagine that!) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2188">36:28</a> Kingdom Joy is something we don’t earn or deserve but it’s accessible because Jesus paid for it. So we can choose to believe and celebrate it in spite of the circumstances - somehow rejoicing before I have the right to be happy transforms me into a person . . . to live at a dimension in Christ that is otherwise unattainable. Like I said. . . Good stuff, Bill!

Thank you Pastor Bill

God brought me to this message because He's teaching me to live in joy. It's one of the hardest things I've ever had to learn. Then, as I was reading the transcript for this message, He just dropped this on me: The reason the people wept is because they knew that their forebears were exiled because they didn't follow the law. So when they finally heard the law and realized that they were breaking it, they weren't just penitent, they were TERRIFIED that God was going to destroy them and exile them again. In my own life this translates to how things always seem to collapse on me right as I'm almost "there". Now God is telling me that this is a new day, that I won't see my dreams die when I'm standing at the door about to enter anymore. So, like the Israelites, I'm in the land of promise, it's time to enjoy the fruits of God's goodness, then suddenly here comes the same old situations wrecking everything I've just barely managed to keep together. I can almost hear them screaming, "NOT AGAIN! WE DIDN'T KNOW! PLEASE DON'T MAKE US GO BACK INTO EXILE!!!" 😢 But it's a new day. He tells them through the priests to get up. You're okay. It's not a day of mourning but a day of celebration and joy. I'm there right now. It's been excruciating to let go of the fear and doubt, but God has helped me. Glory to His name.

Thank you so much for this message, Pastor Bill. Just what I needed today. Much love and blessings from South Africa! 🇿🇦

Ty Pastor Bill For your great faith and encouragement to the body in your most vulnerable state.. I can't think of a greater Ambassador of the gospel. I never know for sure if this is your own website or someone else's grabbing your picture but I am grateful for these messages and you're incredibly courageous ang strong walk in the Spirit. You're a father to so many of us Around the world.. God-bless all of Bethel it's always been awesome to go there. Wish I could go there right now on my husband wants to take me there to get prayed for. Maybe I will ... I'm praying I have the stamina to get in the car and come. I have more faith for a miracle than I do in the medical community right now. Not sure if I'm supposed to walk through With the medical community. My husband wants to take me there for healing. Again thank you for the great faith and I am praying for the joy of the Lord to be my strength again thanks again like it used to be.. I choose joy I choose life.🙏🏼

GLORY TO GOD!!!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="785">13:05</a> Patience: independent, unyielding, divine perseverance in the face of aggressiveness fortune and thus to a kind of courageousness 🙌✊ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="827">13:47</a> Patience is the intolerance of the enemy's work to kill, steal and destroy and provokes in us a courageousness to say enough!!

GREAT WORD!!!

Amen thank you Jesus

Exactly what is needed in the first 20 seconds. Thanks again for all that you do Bill.

You make me smile by your jokes & so love the Word & insights you share! Thank you Pastor Bill for sharing!!! Pat (Iowa)

Your teaching has helped me more than I can say. Thank you pastor for preaching the word of God.

Help me to get to that place of joy, before the breakthrough!

Yes! Yes!! Thank you! And Praise HIS Name!! ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks that made me chuckle 😃

thank you Bill, ive begun to live in a dimension of what you,ve shared ,for me its living in substance of things hoped for because Christ never failed.

I need to listen to this again and again!

Such a great message. God really opened up my mind to all this. I’ve lost everything I owned which started in April. And as I kept losing things I would say, your grace is sufficient. I’m stronger than I think I am. And the joy of the Lord is my strength. This just explained to me why God had me saying these words over and over. Also explained why God had me start encouraging others when I needed encouragement. I saw it as sowing and reaping back then but He was also teaching me to stay joyful. He was getting rid of depression and suicide forever. He was training me to be victorious. I watch so many of your messages. God bless you for being such a blessing and encouragement to me.

Amen thankyou Jesus Thankyou dear Pastor I receive the spirit of joy in the name of Jesus Christ Amen

AMEN, Brother!!! A local minister here in Tennessee, Melvin Dunaway, says, "A Christian shouldn't go around like he's been eating sour pickles".

Thank you for this understanding 🙏 💕 💖

I found a really fun way to stir up joy and rejoicing when I don’t feel like it. It’s kind of hard to explain in words, and it’s better than in a video but I’m not doing that :-) remember when we were kids and we did goofy things with our body, like hokey pokey type stuff? Well when I want to stir up joy I just grin and shake my hands all about, I kind of raise my hands and say woo hoo well I’m shaking them, cracks me up every time

I love you @billjohnson in the Love of Jesus The Christ! As a First Nation Native would say: "I join my breath to yours." And I add, "I join my heart to yours"- Pastor Bill Johnson. Amen.🤲🏼

So powerful

Encouragement that give me hope.

Hope gives us permission to enjoy the emotional benefits of an answer to prayer before it happens.

I love Bill and his insight!

Starting off good! Love that story!

Thank you

Very inspiring thanks. And sort of refreshing Waters inside somehow

To wait on the Lord. Slap yourself if you say, if it is God's will. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">09:05</a> Waiting on the Lord. It is reducing my option, and refining my focus because I'm about to enter a God moment and I don't want to miss it.

You are anointed. Thank you for this sermon. I am a subscriber!

thanks for sharing

Thank you Brother ❤️❤️❤️

I love Bill Johnson!!

Amen Jesus.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="615">10:15</a> One of the greatest acts of arrogance in the life of a believer is to sit back do nothing and say if God wants me to have it, He knows where I'm at. It's normal to hunt and pursue. Pursue God, suddenly. You have to position yourself.

Thanks A LOT for this message Pastor Bill. I am a member of a larger spirit-filled church in Mpls. I've been a member there for a number of years now. And even though I've been baptized in God the Holy Spirit with tongues, even though I understand 'there is therefore no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus that walk after that same Spirit' (Rom.<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="481">8:1</a>) I STILL get choked up at my shortcoming sometimes. Interestingly enough it's when I watch clips from the show THE CHOSEN. I've seen some of these clips numerous times but they still make me weep. It's like what you said here, the disparity the Israelites felt after realizing they were so far apart in their behavior from what the Torah said to behave they wanted to weep. Thank you for your reminder that I could never have effected my own righteousness in the 1st place and that I should be joyful. That in doing so I will have the thing I realized already was utterly impossible for me to ever appropriate on my own. 😇

Amen !!!!!!

Amen

I have to be honest - this was a hard teaching for me to understand how to implement. How does one choose to rejoice when feeling deep sadness, despair, hopelessness, etc? I don't know how to set aside these emotions, and they don't seem compatible with joy. What does it mean to not subject my heart/mind to my difficulties? I so desperately need this, and want to be able to do it, but I'm at a loss. I'd appreciate help on this. Or prayer, which is probably what I need more of...

I’d watch so many more of these videos if there weren’t sooooo many ads!

am unclear whether 'The Joy of the Lord' is an inner experience of joy which feels good and encourages me, or a mindfulness that God (who knows all the outcomes) is thrilled with how it all turns out in the end - which gives me hope and frees me from despair. I'm beginning to think it's both - both seem plausible for the Nehemiah 'Joy of the Lord is your strength' thing.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="685">11:25</a> Patience My friends, be glad, even if you have a lot of trouble. You know you learn to endure by having your #faith #tested. But you #must #learn to #endure everything, so you will be completely mature and not lacking in anything. If any of you need wisdom, you should ask God, and it will be given to you. God is generous and won't correct you for asking. But when you ask for something, you must have faith and not doubt. Anyone who doubts is like an ocean wave tossed around in a storm. If you are that kind of person, you can't make up your mind, and you surely can't be trusted. So don't expect the Lord to give you anything at all. James <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="62">1:2</a>‭-‬8 CEV

ThAnk you Lord Jesus 🙂✝️🙏🔥🌻

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="962">16:02</a> Nehemiah (Comforter)

Thankyou pastor Bill, so love your word, Adelaide, South Australia 👑

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Could you please make your videos downloadable Sir? If not, that's absolutely fine. I celebrate you Sir!

Choosing? He chose first. That's my joy. What lots of people (even pastors) don't (yet) understand. God created us according to His own image and likeness. Godly. Mankind/the first Adam fell. The image of God in man got lost. That's why there is all this predicament on earth (selfishness, greed, lust, wars, sicknesses, death, etc). We are all born into that mess. For the fall of man a perfect atoning sacrifice had to be made.... that is what God did in Christ. With His own once and for all perefect sacrifice, He paid the debt for the fall of man for us, so we can be indwelled by His Spirit again and finally receive the divine life of the ages back, the first Adam let got of in the fall of man. An amazing act of grace and love by our creator. That is what you see happening in Christ's first disciples. They too healed all and walked in unselfish love. And yes.... that is still avaible today. The holy blood is in place, the Holy Spirit is here to give us understanding, power and transform us back to origin. Not to be debated about, but to be embraced and be-come. So: The Kingdom of God already came. Through Christ, in Spiritform, in those that understand. Hence the divine healing miracles we experience. God manifested in Christ to give us back the divine life mankind lost in the fall of Adam. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after in Gen 1. The image we lost in the fall of man. The image that can be freely restored by Christ's blood and Holy Spirit working IN us. What a plan. What a solution. What a love. What a God. Jesus is amazing. It is the ultimate conclusion of the word and plan of God. God came full circle. He Himself stooped down from glory to restore us back to original created value: Christlikeness. Walking in divine healing power and unselfish love. Jesus, born of the Spirit of God, filled with the spirit of God. The "Son" of God, the incarnated word, God in the flesh. For three years He healed all, raised the dead, casted out demons, controlled nature, spoke pure divine truth. He said: "Follow Me. If you see Me, you see the Father. The Father and I are one. The glory I have IN My Father, I give to you. It pleases the Father to give you His Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature. I will send Holy Spirit, the same as Me, He will be IN you, guide you into truth and give you explosive power. The same miracles i do, you will do too, because you will understand that the Father is IN Me and I am IN you. Freely I give you My Kingdom/Holy Spirit/divine nature, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, freely I give, freely share" Etc, etc, etc. I have experienced thousands of beautifull healing miracles through the power of Holy Spirit IN me already. Broken bones, cancers, covid, all kinds of infirmities healed in seconds. Demons manifesting and casted out by a simple "get out, in Jesus name". Jesus. De name above all names. In Him all power and wisdom is sourced and.... He calls us one with Him. God in man and man in God again. C'mon Jesus!! So.... again: God stooped down IN Christ to restore us back to Gen <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a> were He said: "Let us make man according to our image and likeness and let them have authority.....": walk as Christ. Christ, the exact image of the invisible God. The image we were created after and being restored to by His atoning blood for the fall of man and indwelling Holy Spirit. You are free to receive this original divine life of the ages by Holy Spirit of Christ/God. Ask Him to guide you into truth. Read the Gospel of John and fall in love with your creator. You are not made for the fall of man and its effects, but for the image/glory of God and to walk like Christ. Holy Spirit is the guide and transforming power that will get you there. Amazing grace. A big leap in faith can be made when we start realizing we are already IN Christ, IN the last Adam. Free from the fall! Loved! Growing into awareness of our new (yet old) godly identity. Changing by Holy Spirit. The most fullfilled life ever. Paul healed all on Malta. He understood and wrote: "As in the first Adam ALL died (lost the divine nature), so also ALL were made alive IN Christ to walk in Zoë (= divine life) again". "IN Christ (the last Adam) we are co-cruisified (dead to the fall and its effects), co-raised (justified/made righteousness, holy, blameless, above reproach), co-seated (one with Him)" "The fullness of deity dwells in Christ and YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM, who is the head of every principality and power". So.... thank you Jesus! Thank you for redeeming me from the fall of man. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that makes this new (yet old) divine life come alive in me. You are amazing! In the shadow of Peter the sick healed... He understood too and wrote: "By Gods power (Holy Spirit) and knowing Christ, we have become partakers of the divine nature and have escaped the fall of man". The divine life of the ages has been returned to us by Jesus once and for all perfect atoning sacrifice for the debt of the fall of man and His indwelling Holy Spirit in us. Jesus/God is amazing!!! Ask Him to give you revelation and change you to the way it was before the fall of man: Christlikeness. He will do so. For it is written: "the Spirit brings forth after His own kind". "I have come to give you Zoë (divine life) in abundance...."

Pastor, you are packed with so much wisdom thanks for your faithfulness! My husband and I love and appreciate you! Hoping to see you @Victory church in Tulsa OK …we moved out here from San Jose California last year without any family or friends…it’s nothing like seeing family (we consider you family)

Hunt pursue fine line between striving

Who controls the definition of joy, rejoicing, and happiness? If it comes from within(Holy Spirit) then that means it would look different in every believer and no human can quantify anothers level of worship. Cause its to the Father so its up to Him whether he accepts our expression. i.e Cain and Able, no?...just my 2 cents

This message is so good! Thank you!💕

Why do these commercials have to show up???

hey pastor bill, i was wondering how i can continue the closeness that I had with God before boot camp. im in the military now and i graduated and all and i feel like something had changed in my relationship with God. i was drifting for a while and I repented but things dont feel the same anymore. idk if you’ll see this but if you do could you offer some guidance to what might be going on or missing in my relationship now? much thanks!

You confirmed that you are teaching a theology that not the jesus teach to the 900

Did anyone get the author of the quote Bill shared at the end? It was around min 36

A Lil bit of humour with Godly wisdom 😂