Your voice

Teaching at DLTC on September 19,2009 by Billie Johnson

We’ve learned from Don 2 about words that we should not speak and last week Don lead us in a prayer of words that are very appropriate for us to speak. So tonight I want to talk about our voice.  Your voice is an instrument, an extension of you; how you let others know what is going on with you or how to know what others are doing. The dictionary says that ‘voice’ is a sound produced by the lungs and larynx (the vocal cords) in humans.  ‘Voice’ in the Greek is phone pronounced fo-na and its meaning is: sound, noise, or to be noised abroad.  So it is something we hear with our ears.  It is interesting that our word telephone is similar. It probably was taken from that Greek word.

A PIECE OF POSSIBLITY

By Billie Johnson at JGLM International Conference

in Denver, June 19, 2009

We continue to seek more light from the scriptures.  We seek to be enlightened – to have more light more illumination, to see more clearly!  The way to do that is to spend more time in the Word – that is where the light is.  Jesus said he was from above.  Light comes to you from above.  You sit a candle upon a stand where the light grows brighter and the shadows are less.  The light causes the darkness to recede.  You see as you get more light there is less darkness – that includes your mind as well as your eyes!  The dark recesses are opened up so they are dark no longer.  They are flooded with light.  Where light is darkness flees.

Gifts in Romans 12:6-11

Teaching at DLTCBy Billie Johnson,

June 13, 2009

We’ve had teaching recently on the gifts in 1 Corinthians but tonight I’d like to touch more on the gifts mentioned in Romans 12.  The Roman Road is narrow but it is the way of life! These are sometimes called the motivational gifts.  They are what motivates us; that part in our makeup that makes us want to do something.  We could say they are the spirits behind our behavior and hopefully the Holy Spirit is in charge.  We know they are considered manifestations of the Holy Spirit within us.  He uses these gifts to grow up the fruit of the Holy Spirit in us as well.  NKJ “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, [let us use them]: if prophecy, [let us] [prophesy] in proportion to our faith; or ministry, [let us use it] in [our] ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”

Let’s take this piece by piece or gift by gift.  We all have gifts talents or qualities and they are different in each one of us.  The difference is because of the grace – the special gift God given to each of us.  We are to use them according to his grace, his favor.  Verse 6: Prophecy is to be done with faith – that part of the grace that God gives is a portion, a part of what he has given.  Prophecy is to come out of the impulse of God in and thru us. It does take faith to step out and prophesy to someone.  You have to ignore the thoughts of:  what if it doesn’t happen; what if he doesn’t receive it; what if I’m wrong – all of these thoughts have to be dismissed and you just move ahead to what the Holy Spirit is prompting within your mind.  You open your mouth and say those things that encourage, exhort and console others.  I’ve heard some say that those who move in prophecy see things black and white.  There is no middle ground; it has to be right or wrong.  I sometimes see myself as that.   

 What Did Jesus Say About  Hell?

Teaching at DLTC

by Billie Johnson, May 9, 2009

We are going to look at a subject that is not taught much in churches. We need to know what the Bible says as there are many erroneous ways of thinking prevalent today.  Thank you, Shirley for giving me this book by Gordon Lindsay on The Life & Teachings of Christ; Volume 2 Christ Teaches His apostles.  It has helped me think more clearly about death.  Most people are interested in what happens after we die.  Some questions we ponder:  are the dead conscious?  If they are, under what conditions do they exist?  Many people believe in life beyond the grave (immortality) -- but there are different opinions about what happens.  The Bible is the only authority  which tells us the truth about life after death.                      

 “WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD”

Teaching given by Billie Johnson

At Dominion Living Training Center

March 28, 2009         

The title is taken from our main scripture.  The washing of the water by the word: w and w w.  It’s a little hard to say but the scripture is Eph 5:26 where Jesus makes a comparison between Christ and the church and the place of a husband and his wife.   Christ made the church holy by the washing of his Word, he cleansed it from sin.  The most usual way of talking about getting rid of sin is to be cleansed from it; to be washed.           

  IF THE SPIRIT

Teaching by Billie Johnson

 at DLTC, Feb 28, 2009

Romans 8:11 amp  “And if the spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you[ then] He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your moral (short-lived, perishable) bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”           The spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! He lives in us!  When Jesus’ body was dead, in the tomb, the Holy Spirit was still ALIVE in that body even though the body was not alive the Holy Spirit was!  He was the energy, the life giving power that caused life to be restored to Jesus’ body –resurrected – come back to life.          God is spirit, the immortal, Spirit which never dies. Ps 45:6 says “Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever.”  He lives forever.  Jesus, after his coming back to life transferred that Spirit to his disciples.  Then they transferred Him to us as well, down through the centuries of time.  The body is of the earth, it dies, but the spirit is from heaven it lives eternally.  It doesn’t go back to dust as the body does because it is not made from dust.  The spirit was given to Adam through the breath of God! Genesis 2:7 says  And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Other words for spirit are Pneuma, breath, life.  If we have no breath, there is no life in our bodies.  When I saw a child who has stopped breathing she didn’t even look like a person, she looked like a doll.  Her face was ashen, no color there.  After she was resurrected I watched the color come back into her face and saw the life in her.  God’s spirit is beyond time.  Genesis 1:2 says   “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. He was over the face of the waters as he created the earth.  He has been here before all things and when all things are no longer here he will still be here.  We know the verse, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever” from Hebrews 13:8