Our Guest Bill Johnson
BILL: Cause just to make sure the name was his name on the check.
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
BILL: And I looked at it and it was $30,000!
AUDIENCE: Wow!
BILL: And I went wow! Then I checked the name and I go yeah, that’s his.
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
BILL: So I put it in my Bible and thought well, he’s going to be blessed by that. And so that evening in our pre-service prayer meeting Chris walked in. I said Chris, someone gave this to me for you today. And he looked at it. Does that say 3,000? I said that’s $30,000! He totally ruined the prayer meeting!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHING]
BILL: He walked around waving this check just telling everybody –
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHING]
BILL: – look, look what, look what God has given me. Do you know what? He never thanked me for all that money!
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER AND CLAPPING]
BILL: He didn’t thank me because I delivered a check somebody else wrote! And when you pray for the sick and they’re healed it’s a check that Somebody else wrote!
AUDIENCE: [APPLAUSE]
BILL: We’re just delivering the check!
AUDIENCE: [APPLAUSE]
BILL: So I think it would be great. I just called out a number of things. We’re going to do this briefly and quickly. But I just called out a number of things. Is there anyone with hearing loss that would like to get that healed today? Is there anyone with arthritis in the neck? Who’s that? Okay, we have a few. Some of you keep raising your hands. You just, how many of you need an overhaul? No don’t –
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHING]
BILL: Don’t put your hands up. No. Is there anyone – [laughing] Is there anyone suffering with cancer? Anybody in the room have cancer? Okay. All right. Maybe in overflow? Yeah. Sure. Of course. Of course. You know it’s crazy the kinds of miracles that we see happen. And I had one meeting in Brazil where we had people healed in the meeting and then we had people healed by phone and we actually had a higher percentage of people healed on the phone than in the meeting! I had somebody come up afterwards. I thought man, you ought to go outside and call me. The chances are a lot higher so –
AUDIENCE: [LAUGHTER]
BILL: [LAUGHING] This is true. So the other things that were mentioned. Digestive issues. Is there anyone with colitis or Crohn’s disease specifically? Is there – yeah, colitis. Okay. All right. Food allergy. Real serious food allergy stuff. All right. We’ve got several of that. All right. There’s something in the right eye. Is that you? Is it an infection? Can you tell me what it is real quickly? The optic nerve was severed. Awesome. This will be a great opportunity to see a miracle. Deafness in the right ear? Okay. Is there anyone that has a learning disorder? Letters get reversed or maybe dyslexia or something of that nature? Trauma to the head caused problems? All right. All right. Well we’re going to pray for these situations right now. Also is there anyone here you have problems, you had a blow to the head? Specifically you had a blow to the head. It may have been a football injury you know 40 years ago but there was a blow to the head and things have been different since then. And you have? Is there –
WOMAN #1: I went a thousand feet down off of a cliff!
BILL: A thousand foot down on a cliff? That qualifies as –
WOMAN #1: [LAUGHING]
BILL: – as trauma. Man, okay! Anybody else with any kind of a head trauma thing? Right here. Okay. All right. Right there. All right. All right. Well we want to pray for all of you that just put your hand up. So all of you that stood, why don’t you put your hand up, why don’t you stand real quickly. If you’re able to stand, obviously. If you can’t just stay where you’re seated and we’ll get somebody to you. All right. You know one of the most refreshing ways to pray for people, Randy Clark made a statement to me years ago. Actually I heard him in a meeting. He made this statement that just stunned me. He said “For us to beg for God to heal someone is for us to as we have more mercy than He does.” Hah! That got me really big. And so what we’re doing is we are simply delivering checks that Somebody else wrote.
