Bill Johnson: Taking Flight from the Dead Sea

Great teaching from Bill about how fear and anxiety can hamper the move of the Holy Spirit in our lives. When we are self-consumed or hijacked with fear and anxiety, we are turned inward. He says, “We know instinctively anyone who's depressed, for whatever's going on, they are turned inward. When we are turned inward, while we have the capacity to release presence, we have in fact become a Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea is a place where water flows in, but nothing goes out. For that reason, everything in the sea is dead. As believers this happens to us when we get wrapped up in fear and anxiety, when we become discouraged or depressed. We allow that thing to be prolonged in our life.” When we learn to host the presence of the Holy Spirit unencumbered by our personal affections God can take us and use us like he did with Peter and Paul where their clothes and their shadow carried an anointing for healing.

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What do you host?
What is your what are
your affections anchored into?
What do you live conscious of?
We know instinctively,
without anybody teaching us, that a
depressed Christian will not walk into a
room and see their shadow heal people.
Why?
Because we know instinctively anyone
who's depressed, for whatever's
going on, they are turned inward.
When we are turned inward, while we have the
capacity to release presence, we have in
fact become a Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea is a place where water flows
in but nothing goes out.
For that reason, everything in the sea is dead.
As believers this
happens to us when we get wrapped up in
fear and anxiety,
when we become discouraged or depressed.
We allow that thing to be prolonged in our life.
We don't take - biblical matters - we
don't take things according to what scripture says
and apply the biblical solutions to these issues.
What happens is we become very self-absorbed.
You may even be one that criticizes yourself
in the effort to be humble.
But listen, it's still self-centered.
I used to pray for hours but it was all about me.
I was confessing, “Oh God, how rotten I am!”
I was doing all this stuff that looked
really good on the outside - and it might
have been really good in a book somewhere –
but there wasn't liberty in a relationship because
I was preoccupied by what I wasn't instead of being
preoccupied by who He is.
There is a shift.
And that kind of self-centeredness
is no more legal than walking around
saying we're the greatest thing on the planet.
That kind of arrogance is
easy to spot but the other kind sneaks
into church daily.
It exhibits false humility and false humility will
never take you to your destiny.
True humility will.
And so we have these
stories in Scripture where people would simply touch…
Paul is working building tents and they learned there's
such a presence of God on this man.
They’d say, “Somebody just get the apron that he
worked in - grab that piece of cloth.
Take it over to Aunt Martha, she's tormented with demons.
Put it on her back and watch what happens.”
The presence that abided on him wasn't just
in him for his eternal security!
It wasn't just in him to give him comfort in life.
it was upon him to alter and to change
the environment around him.
Paul says, “You are restricted by your affections.” (2 Corinthians 6:12)
What does that mean?
When I am self-centered, when I am turned inward,
I have restricted the flow of the anointing from me.
Why?
Because the anointing flows through godly affection.
Paul says you're restricted by your affections.
When I get wrapped up with fear and anxiety that
which is supposed to flow from me is now constrained
and restricted to be towards just satisfying my own life.
It becomes the Dead Sea.
Jesus healed and touched and delivered so many people in
three and a half years that the earth couldn't contain a full record.
That is the Holy Spirit unquenched in one man in
three and a half years.
Peter learned this from Him and
began to host the presence himself.
He learned how to have that Spirit, that dove,
rest upon him and remain without compromise,
without the kinds of things that drive Him away.
Not the presence in a sense that God withdraws from
us and the covenant is broken.
The Spirit of God is in us, He’ll never leave us leave us.
But there is a presence, the Spirit of God
that rests upon us that is there
according to the assignment we have
and the yielded-ness we have to what God's
purposes are in the earth.
And we see this kind of a model in Paul.
There was an anointing on him where they
could take his clothing to the diseased
and tormented and they could be set free.
Profound.

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