Know God and make God known

Completed my second book in the previous volume by Bill Johnson.

Book 2 - “Release the Power of Jesus”.

Our capacity to remember what God has said and done in our lives and throughout history -  the testimony - is one of the primary things that determine our success or failure sustaining a Kingdom lifestyle of power for miracles. ~ p.g. 26

Just as God’s nature is revealed in what He does, the evidence that we are being transformed into His likeness is that we reveal His nature in what we do. ~ p.g. 31

We, as sons and daughters of God, are destined to reveal our Father to the world by bearing His likeness. We do this as Christ did, by communing with the Father, the Kingdom of Heaven to earth through demonstrations of power and authority, all in the context of showing the love of God. ~ p.g. 33

Everyone desires Jesus. They just don’t know it. ~ p.g. 34

Everything God has said and done in history is your eternal possession, and that record holds all the resources you need to be transformed into the image of Christ and become a transformer through demonstrating His good works. ~ p.g. 35

Power is a huge part of your inheritance, but the way to walk in power cannot be separated from personally encountering the God of power. You will grow in your relationship with Him through that experience. ~ p.g.37

The more room we make for Him in our lives, the more we puts His power and revelation to work for that purpose. He is the one who reveals what the Father is doing and saying and then equips us to do and say it. ~ p.g. 38

God’s people were not to be known for the perfect law code they possessed, but by the fact that God Himself was present among them. ~ p.g. 61

Likeness and agreement are the heart of covenant. It was this perfect agreement with God that enabled Jesus to release the Spirit of God whenever He spoke. ~ pg. 71

When we declare the testimonies of the Lord, we are actually describing who He has promised to be in relationship with us; and more, we are putting a demand on Heaven for the covenant to be renewed and demonstrated in the present as it was in the past. ~ p.g. 72

The truth is that the anointing on the testimony has always been there, but our ignorance has kept us from receiving what we never perceived as available. ~ p.g. 82

There is no neutral territory in our world. Either we are forcefully and proactively pursuing the Kingdom of God, or we are, whether actively or passively, allowing the kingdom of darkness to legislate its influence by gaining a place in our hearts -  the place from which we perceive reality. ~ p.g. 85

In fact, the spiritual reality with which we commune in our hearts is precisely the power released in our declarations. For this reason, the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart are intimately connected. ~ p.g. 86

What David discovered in studying the works of the Lord is that they have a life of their own that is unaffected by time. ~ p.g. 88

No matter how mature we become in God, the theme of our utter dependence and His perfect ability permanently runs through our lives. ~ p.g. 95

Miracles erase options for the believer. This is what the renewed mind looks like. It no longer starts with lack. ~ p.g. 102

But also we must develop a growing awareness of God’s presence among us if we are to draw from that presence and walk out our God-given assignment. Our awareness of God is what determines how we respond to Him, how we perceive reality, and how we live. It is an extremely important element required for us to be successful in following and obeying God. ~ p.g. 113

Our strength and courage to do what God has told us to do flow directly from our awareness that God is with us. ~ p.g. 114

When you walk in radical obedience, you have sustained confidence to face the difficulties of life. Radical obedience positions you for victory after victory because it preserves and expands your trust and intimacy with the God who makes you victorious, But when you’re walking in disobedience, it’s virtually impossible to muster the courage to face the battles around you. ~ p.g. 119

Radical obedience to God means refusing to compromise or redefine what He originally told us to do in order to fit within the paradigm of human possibility. ~ p.g. 120

The problem is never on God’s end. He is good, and He hasn’t changed. ~ p.g. 126

Undeveloped things in the Kingdom sill have the life of the King in them. ~ p.g. 136

Jesus taught us that it is natural for all believers to know His voice, so it is equally natural to be able to tell others what He is saying. ~ p.g. 138

The least person in the Holy Spirit-filled life has access to more in God than the greatest of all the Old Testament prophets. ~ p.g. 138

The testimony is to make us hungry for more, giving us the license to pursue supernatural breakthroughs. ~ p.g. 142

And because the testimony by its nature is something that God is ready to “do again,” we can make our decision based on His intention to repeat the miracle. ~ p.g. 154

Real wisdom is not something you can get apart from relationship with God. ~ p.g. 154

We came from joy, and we were made for joy. Any plan for life that does not involve our being perpetually joyful is in contradiction to God’s design for us. ~ p.g. 155

Our greatest responsibility is to know God and make God known. ~ p.g. 167

Our greatest treasure is God Himself. Our greatest privilege is to manifest Him. ~ p.g. 173

God will allow us to carry as much of His presence as we’re willing to jealously guard. ~ p.g. 174

The record of God’s activities among men is not to be hidden or forgotten. It must be declared to the younger generation, who must intern be trained to do the same with their own children. The chain must not be broken. It is one of increasing revelation of God’s nature and presence upon the earth.Each generation is privileged to build upon the previous one, until the manifestation of God’s nature and presence becomes more and more pronounced. ~ p.g. 177