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Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson QUOTES

1 " wheelchair in the mall and bringing healing. Learning how to find people at work where you invade their space and minister to them. You go to the poor parts of town and feed people. Giving words of knowledge and prophetic words to the waitress. We do all these sorts of things that are very strong and bold externally. We have to train in that element because the overt ministry helps to displace powers that have influenced our cities. Once you start moving in the miraculous, you start driving out powers that influence the minds of people because you have brought in another worldview. Exposing a city to the miraculous shifts the people's consciousness. Covert ministry, by contrast, is more about getting into the business, into the Babylonian systems and bringing change from the inside because we are kingdom people. It’s realizing that everyone’s life on the ship is saved because "

― Bill Johnson , Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson

2 " are really divine opportunities to inject the presence of the kingdom. But there has to be a long-term invasion by the covert, a subtle invading of the system so we have the Daniels and Joshuas in their place. These people are making decisions and gaining the hearts of the kings. For example, the school system is a really difficult area or has been thought to be. Most closed heavens for the believer are between the ears. Because we have thought that schools have been an impossible realm to invade, we are combative when we try to get involved. We want to remove a teacher, we want to get rid of a textbook, and we want to get our people on the board. Instead, let’s go in as servants, not as rulers. We don’t go in to run things; we go in to help. We go in to make the principal look like a genius. The teachers and principals, what do they want? "

― Bill Johnson , Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson

3 " Things are visible to those who have faith and generosity, enabling them to call the destiny out in others "

― Bill Johnson , Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson

4 " Whenever you step into what you are called to do, it gives life back to you and doesn’t drain you as much as it builds you. There is a divine grace. "

― Bill Johnson , Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson

5 " Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” It’s not a promise but a warning. Desire realized is a tree of life, and the tree of life is only found in Genesis, Proverbs and Revelation. Genesis is what was, Proverbs is what is, and Revelation is what will be. "

― Bill Johnson , Discovering Your Purpose: A Short Interview with Bill Johnson