Refine Your Focus on What Is Most Important - Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church
Bill Johnson teaches on the clarity and perspective that comes from refining your focus. During the time of Jesus, Anna and Simeon were completely focused on God’s promise to them about the Messiah. Their single focus prepared them to recognize the fulfillment of that promise even in a baby; Jesus. In our world today there are so many things trying to distract our affection and attention from our love for God and sensitivity to His voice. Many of the things that compete for our attention are not necessarily bad, but can still dilute our affection for God and take away from our purpose. As we reflect on 2023 and move into 2024, refining our focus on God and what He has called us to do will prepare us to recognize His voice even in the most subtle ways. Hearing His voice enables us to partner with Him to see His Presence and goodness fill every area of life.
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Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on December 20, 2020.
Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power.
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No chat line but if anyone sees this please pray for my family. Two of my adult children haven't spoken in 8 years. Another of my four children is so addicted and is shooting heroin and fetanal. He is homeless. At one point while in jail he was strongly seeking God. First low and he ran back to drugs. His name is Zoe. He is a good guy who struggles with depression and believed this drug is what he needs just to feel normal. The deception is bringing such destruction. He hasn't seen his daughters age 2 and 3 in over a year. I covet your prayers.
And you keep praying God’s word over your kids with unwavering faith. Do not let the enemy put doubt or despair in you. Crush his windpipe if he makes this feel hopeless. God hears your prayers as a mother and daughter of the King. Your faith moves the mountain. Pray without ceasing. Your mess will become your message. Bless you sweet sister in Christ ❤
Lord only you know the burdens I face give me strength to get through this Christmas. I am a single mom and it can be hard to have everything on your shoulders. Both of my sons are autistic they require so much from me. I’m struggling to provide for them. But I keep faith even as I struggle to pay rent every month and as I struggle to buy groceries. My health is also fading due to heart disease and lupus. Jesus please help me to find strength when I am weak, hope when I am struggling, and peace in the midst of chaos. I have faith God will provide. I believe in miracles. ❤
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Hiya! 😊 I hear you, courageous mama. ❤️ You're doing great! In case nobody else tells you today- I'm proud of you. I believe in you. You're strong enough to keep going. I'm glad you're alive! I love you. 🥰 & I believe that God will deliver your boys from the spirit of Autism! The question is, do you?? 🫶 Don't lose hope, Mama! Philippians 4:13 ❤
May you sense the Lord JESUS carrying you. Oh Lord -JIREH, great Provider, You hear the cries of Your Beloved. You are mighty to save, heal and deliver. Show Yourself strong on behalf of Your Beloved!. Pour out Your power over this family. Send them help and support. Renew her strength on the wings of Your Love. We praise You because You are no respector of persons. We curse this curse of autism and cast this affliction into the Red Sea of Your shed Blood, in YESHUA'S Mighty Name!
This spoke TO ME profoundly!!! I am an addict. I've been in recovery and began my personal relationship with Jesus about 12-13 years ago. This is my first time watching Bill. So much truth and revelation. I'm asking someone to stand with me in prayer for God and Holy Spirit to begin a new work, new song, new seed, in this One Thing. For my focus to be refined. It is by His Power and Spirit. AMEN
Praying for you @christiana3625!!!! Part of your focus being refined, is determining in your will (mind and emotions) that no matter what, you are submitting, and will continue to submit (to hand over the steering wheel of your life basically) into His care and command. (Daniel 1:8-9 helps give context) Because when you do, He will not only give you focus, but help you maintain it! So excited to see what He does in your life sis!
Dear whoever's reading this,GOD is about to put back together the things you've you divided & separated in your life.He has not forgotten you.Don't forget Him in the midst of your storm.praise Him in advance.Blessings are coming your way🕊
Please pray for my son to be set free from schizophrenia. I'm praying and believing for a miracle. And what a better time for a miracle than Christmas. The celebration of the greatest miracle of all, the birth of our savior!
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Praying in agreement with you.❤
You (your son) have not been given a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind.
Just when my “jigsaw “ had got all scrambled, this message put it all in the right place. I was looking at the wrong things again.
Brother Bill, this scripture of Anna and Simeon in the temple, never held so much significance in my life until this moment! Now at 62, it's shouting what The Lord had been preparing me for my whole life! DISTRACTION & The SEARCH for SIGNIFICANCE were what I was slave to. NO MORE!! I repented with you before the Lord for making it about so many other things and so many other people! You just released many of God's Own into a "War Season ", that even now... is bringing more PEACE than we've ever experienced! Thank you God's Beloved! And Merry Christmas! ~Dee
I'm awaiting results from a bone marrow biopsy that I had this week. Your prayer quickened me. I receive my healing by faith in Jesus' name! 🕊
One week later: The results are in my doctor's portal. I've read them but don't completely understand them, but I think it's good news! I meet with the hematologist on Tues to confirm how the Lord healed me. All glory to God!
Praise God! So many distractions and temptations in this life to focus on the love of God!
I have been diagnosed with degenerative disc, disease, stenosis, and arthritis in my entire spine. But today I receive my healing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ praise the Lord!
I really need a prayer in my life, I have been struggling with alcohol abuse and I want to see an end to this. I don't want to be controlled by this stronghold any longer, I rebuke the devil and alcohol abuse. Please pray with me, I know the Lord has already delivered me
Amen, our focus should be on the Lord. And everything is not imp in other words be single minded in seekin the Lord 🛐🛐🛐📖🔑🦅🕊🕊🕊💕
Thanks ❣️I know someone that at 80 going softy listening to your messages 🎶💖
“Whenever God wants to do something great on the earth, he ALWAYS sends a baby.” -Tom Mohn, Tulsa, OK
Simplified, focused, refined. I can feel that in my bones.
Thank you for continuing to stand with me for my breakthrough. God surely is at work and I long to see what He is doing behind the scenes
Very good message to be focused on our assignment. Simeon and Prophetess Anna saw the deliverer of Israel and Salvation light to Gentiles in the infant Jesus. Be focused on your assignment. Don't give place to distractions. Be focused in the one thing. Thank you, Pastor Bill for your messages. They are very insightful, Prophetic and Profound.
And let your passion for the Lord be your number one focus! Amen
Oh Lord bring me back to Only You
Amen. May i live to see the Day when both jews n gentiles will worship Jesus in One Accord 🛐🛐🛐📖🔑🙌🏻👑✝️🛡⚖😊
I need a miracle!! Amen
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🎯💥 The one and only thing that matters, Him and Him alone 💥🎯 Oh Holy Spirit, help me to keep my eyes, my resolute focus on Jesus, to know Him and the Father intimately & passionately as guarded first love of my heart.❤ What a beautiful way to enter 2024! 🔥Thank you…
Stop measuring my prayer life by what hasn't happened...this is so good.
I’ve just watched this Christmas Day morning. Bills prayer spoke massively to me. Recently diagnosed with Chronic disease, Lipodema, which they told me was incurable. I believe God is healing me I will be healed. Stand with me in agreement 🙏 Bethel family 🕊❣️ love you all. Thanks so much Bill 👍
Hi, my name is Marla. I have been leading the intercessors at Bethel for 21 years. I love, love, love to pray and intercede so I will be doing this for you. I declare that you will be telling everyone how Father, Jesus & Holy Spirit healed you. First of all. Don't agree with the doctor's diagnosis but agree with the Word of God (Jesus) and what the Word says about you. I stand in agreement to be saved, healed & delivered of everything that hinders you so that you can have the intimate relationship that you want with Father, Jesus & Holy Spirit. Agreements are powerful so let's all agree with The Word of God.
Praying for you!!! Standing in Faith 🤍✝🕊
This is such a powerful message. We need to remember that we live for one thing- to represent Jesus. Bill, you have hit the nail right on the head.
I will hear the subtle voice of God, in my children, in a Christian movie, in the beauty of the fields. Focus me the one thing Lord, that opens me up to listen from you.
EXCELLENT MESSAGE! This speaks to me very clearly, specifically, perfectly! Thank You, Ps. Bill
GOD BLESS YOU....XXX
Thank you Father for this messenger of yours, and for the example he gives.
Love this message. Thank you.❤
I still need a miracle healing from dementia for my mom. Thank you Jesus that u paid the price.
I want this word to take root in my heart and to bear much fruit in 2024 in Jesus name amen.
Thank you Lord for Bill Johnson and this incredible sermon. Lord I want to focus 100% ON YOU GOD!
"We sow into our dream, 'LIFE'...we contribute to our dreams." He that hath an🌽...hear!
Thank you, pastor Bill, you are giving birth to many Annas and Simeons that are going to change the course of history.
This morning, I was awakened by a dream about Bethel. I was with Bethel school students in some rooms, and we were going to give our testimonies. I live in Washington state and have been to Bethel many times since 2017. ❤ Merry Christmas, everybody
I certainly get that we have a purpose to be representative of our Lord Jesus Christ, so let’s bring to our minds, our actions and to others His Great Love and most importantly let us bring our own personal love for our God to our God … may we be graced by God the Father to know Him though Christ Jesus as we are counselled by His Holy Spirit.
“Your vision determines your discipline.” - Dr. Jason Jackson Man…. I am grateful to hear this reminder. Love this perspective as a reminder. So focused that they know when a blade of grass has moved. One blade. 😮💨🤯
Excellent message as usual! Blessings to you and your family!
Pray for me.
4:00 (paraphrased quote) "If the enemy can't get me to accept something being shifted from immoral to moral...then what he'll at least try to do is get me to add to many topics to my moral conviction so that I spread myself so thin I'm ineffective. And then his desire is to pull me to defend my position outside of the Spirit of Christ." WOW. That got me.
I love you Papa Bill - thank you
I need prayer for lower back pain and neck pain, please! Thank you!
I need a miracle now!
Profound
Love your fire and passion for the presence of God, Papa Bill!
Need clarity and direction. I’ve been praying and will continue to pray. Please agree with me that the direction that I need to go will be clear, and I will walk in the will of God.
Thank you so much for this powerful message, dear Pastor Bill. Please stand with me. I was diagnosed with cancer and have other issues too. The Lord knows. I am trusting Him for healing in my body, soul and spirit in Jesus' Name.
I am standing with you dear one. I say "NO! to cancer and other issues. "The Word of God says, "by Jesus' stripes we have been healed." The Word of God has the last word. Amen! MB
This is so good....
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Wow! Thats powerful… the Holy Spirit fell on one person… and you knew. 🔥 That’s powerful.
Thank you Bill. Timely Word for me.
Thank U Pastor Johnson 😊❤🙌💯🎁🎉🎄💃Yes, My Focus on Jesus!
Thank you very much for the Word, Pastor Bill.. I really believe that GOD is up to something! beyond what I can imagine, I really believe for the impossible.. Thank you very much, best regards from Indonesia.. GBU and your family and also your ministry 😇🤝👍🙏🙏
I receive that I will be surprised by joy in Jesus name amen.
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Thank you for praying for my back for healing !
Praying for healing hearts in my sons family.
Merry Christmas was a aspens teaching !! Thank you lord for using bill Johnson ❤
Amen sir. These words you speak are such edification to my soul. For I am One Who Is All In. And my God encourages me each day to remain.
Amazing. I want this focus. This is brilliant. Amen and Amen.
Truly wonderful sermon 🙏💙☺️ " Seeing it in seed form " that's exactly it, such a deep, special, and devine joy.
So Powerful. I would like to add something I read this week from an Advent devotional by Angela Hunt. She talked about the shepherds and what I am thinking about here is that they were honored with being present with the angels...at the birth. Bill, you are so strong on the testimony and Angela thinks that the shepherds would have been talking about that event all over the place including at the temple as they showed up with the sacrificial lambs soon there after. Yes, the waiting of Anna and Simeon would have heard the testimony of the shepherds and been on alert and excited that their moment has come. I was also touched by her telling of the status of the shepherds. I always thought of them with the status at least as farmers or fishermen but because they dealt with dead animals under the law they would have been lowered in status. Again I cried thinking about God using them, honoring them. God chose them and perhaps they were first to testify of this miraculous, ineffable event. I love that you said He wanted them to be part of the process. So powerful.
thankyou for your faithfulness in preaching the word honestly
Amen! Focus !😇
PREACH IT !!!!! halleluyah!!
Merry Christmas from my house to yours❤
in Jesus Name Amen 🙏
Amen 🙌🏻👑✝️🛡⚖😊 "I am alive to Represent Jesus." Well said, bro Bill. 🎯 I would have being Dead many times over!!! Even since childhood, i was nearly drown!!! And i had many near accidents, 2 times covid, near home fire... 😅 I am a cat with 9 lives! 😊
Merry Christmas, Bethel Family❤ Happy New Year! I receive your word Holy Spirit, "May I be surprised by joy"
Thank you, Pastor Bill!
Yes I am being wooed and have been warring over wasting time that should be given to the Holy One. The fact that I am so aware of it has begun a place of breakthrough. I can see it. Your words confirm it as well. Much love. I thank God for your. teaching.🤗
Excellent! I needed to hear this. Thanks Bill!
I love you Jesus ❤️🙏
I'm praying for reconciliation and strengthening of a friendship. Please stand with me in prayer.
Merry Christmas Thank You Jesus ♥️♥️♥️
while feverishly recording things quickened to me, I was wondering to myself - how did I miss all this the 1st and 2nd time??? Its like I stepped over into a room ablaze with light. thank you pastor.
Getting ready to listen for the third time. I have practically hand written the entire message as it aligned perfectly with my "unrelated" bible study that I had right before turning on this "random" video. lol. I love it when God teaches us that way. I need to get a printer that will print out the transcript for me so I can study it. ❤
THANK YOU!
Thank you❤ Amen!
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Such a great message
Wow! Anointed
Amen! Merry Christmas Pastor & fellow believers!
A timely message.
So accurate
I need a major break through. Thank you for the sermon!! Matthew 6:22
Awesome truths! You know what else I thought of, concerning this sermon, taken from Luke 2? Earlier in Luke 2, in verses 15 through 18, it is written, that the shepherds, after hearing from all those angel/s about the birth of the Christ, and having gone to see Him, "and when they had seen it (Joseph, & the mother Mary, & baby Jesus lying in the manger) , THEY MADE KNOWN ABROAD the saying which was told them concerning this child. And ALL THEY THAT HEARD IT wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.". . but what I'm thinking of, is why/how/where/what WERE the "all they that heard it" from the shepherds DOING WITH what they had heard from the shepherds, and with their own wonder??
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CHRISTIANS SHOULD ONLY HAVE ONE FOCUS: ETERNITY. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4 ESV)
I married a sniper. Yes, his single minded focus can be intense.
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Stop measuring your prayer life by what hasn't happened. Stop it! 😮💣🎯💥💖
You said the word: the name is Phanuel, Anna was his daughter in the Strongest Strong’s exhaustive concordance # 5323, נצא, to fly :- flee(Jeremiah 48:9) People of God, please seek the Truth of God. He is Life, and the goodness of the earth. For all things. The word Jesus is 2424 lifetime:- living, only used once in(2 Samuel 20:1-3(3), he fed them, but went not unto them (Living in widowhood) unto the day of their death. Anyone and Everyone should know for themselves , don’t be one that doesn’t enter into Zion
Stay separate from the world. Your friends are in Christ. Your friends talk about Jesus! Your friends do not engage in deceptive activity to destroy the lives of others. The dragon gave the beast power over the earth and those who worship and bow to the image of the beast. Everyone will serve the beast except for those who refuse to because they are of the righteousness of Christ--those God called, elected, and chose before the foundation of the earth was formed will not serve or worship the image of the beast. Those who serve God are under attack, we have a death threat on our heads because we will not worship the image or idols of the beast. Revelation 12 & 13. Do your job, be the best at what you do, make a living, work by the sweat of your brow. pray in Jesus name and before you are done praying the Lord will have answered. If you are about Jesus, be about Jesus.
1JOHN 5;16, ALL SIN IS SIN, BUT THERE IS A SIN UNTO DEATH, I'D HAVE YOU NOT ASK OF THIS. AN ENIGMA UP UNTIL NOW, NOT ABIDING IN LOVE WITH ONE ANOTHER OR WE QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT, THUS NO OIL. JOHN 13:35 YOU WILL KNOW THAT THEY ARE MY DISCIPLES, IS IF THEY HAVE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. 1JOHN 4, GOD IS LOVE AND WE MUST HAVE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER OR WE HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST.
you hate war, but you enjoy deer hunting for sport?
for food
That is hilariously ironic because this whole message was on being FOCUSED on the main thing: God's purpose for YOUR life. I am thinking you are probably a Christian or you would not be watching this video. There was SO much revelation and Godly instruction in this message, but your focus was hunting deer? It haunts me to even think about hurting an animal but were is that in the Bible? That was not what is what the Father or Jesus said to focus on. We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted an miss the what God is telling us what He wants us to do. Now please forgive me for being offense and please don't let ME be a distraction you have to deal with now. ❤