Allison ArmerdingYou did a great job of taking my materials and putting much of it into a readable form. again. Again, thanks.
Dann FarrellyYour skills at editing content and flow of information have helped me beyond words. It is an honor to partner with you for the Kingdom. Thanks.
Pam SpinosiYour help in editing is priceless. Thanks.
Mary WalkerYour help in gathering information and helping with the process of writing a book have been invaluable to me. Thanks.
Endorsements
Bill Johnson has done it again! He has written a wonderful book that will build your faith, activate you to another level in the supernatural and a book that could be a catalyst for another healing revival. I highly recommend this life-changing book!
Che Ahn
President and Founder of Harvest International Ministry
When Bill Johnson begins to tell the testimonies of what God is doing through people in his school or church, or the testimonies of what God is doing in his ministry, it is always a highlight in our Schools of Healing and Impartation or conferences. You can feel faith building in the room and sense the electricity increasing in the room with the power of Heaven when the testimony is being told. Now in Bills newest book, Release the Power of Jesus, you too can experience the power of these testimonies. I know you will be encouraged and will expect greater miracles in your life, your church, and your work than ever before. The power is in the testimonies whether you hear them or read them; get them into your renewed mind.
Randy Clark
Founder of Global Awakening
Author Bill Johnson is not only a pioneer but also a practitioner of the Kingdom of God with more than twenty years of experience in explaining, expressing, and expanding the implications of the Kingdom.
The loudest and clearest amen on the vital truths herein as well as in his other previous volumes continues to be sounded and observed from Bethel Church, Redding, California, a veritable laboratory of Kingdom training and activity.
Because of this book, I will never be able to view the word testimony in the same narrow sense as I viewed it before. It will bring readers to the clear terms of why we must and how we can release the power of God to bring order amid the chaos of the 21st century.
Jack Taylor, President
Dimensions Ministries
Melbourne, Florida
I have worked with Bill Johnson for more than 30 years and have never known anyone who walks in more integrity and intimacy with God than Bill does. He is one of those rare individuals in life whom the more you get to know him, the more you admire him. This book, Release the Power of Jesus, is not only a great book that will activate you in supernatural ministry, but is also a rare look into the life of a man who is a friend of God. In this book Bill teaches us how to develop a culture in us, through us, and around us that invites a holy visitation and establishes a habitation for the Kingdom of God so that miracles become a natural way of life. Bill shows us how the impact of the testimony can transform us from mere Christians into modern-day revivalists.
If you are bored, feeling powerless, or living a joyless Christian life, this book is for you. Much like the apostle Peter, you are about to be invited out of the leisure ship and into the stormy seas of the great adventure. Dont look down!
Kris Vallotton
Co-founder of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry
Author, The Supernatural Ways of Royalty,
Developing a Supernatural Lifestyle, and others
Preface
M y great passion is for reformation. It must happen before Jesus returns, for He is returning for a victorious Bride. This great move of God will impact families, churches, cities, and nations. For that to happen, we must first have an overwhelming sense of Gods presence, followed by a deep devotion to truth. This book is an attempt to shape Christian culture with truth that restores us to that which God intended.
I am very excited for the days directly ahead of us. His outpourings are increasing, both in frequency and in demonstrations of power and glory. This is the moment all the prophets spoke of. And this outpouring is to become the move of God that never ends. Its worth living for. And its worth dying for.
A Prisoner of Promise
Bill Johnson
C HAPTER 1
Truth
Empowers
O ne day I was sitting in my office reading the Book of Revelation, when I felt something unmistakablethe feeling I get when the words seem to jump off the page and I know I am hearing a present word from the Lord. I thought, Wow! That is so powerful! I have no idea what it means, but its powerful! (As usual, my spirit was getting it much faster than my mind.)
The verse I had read was Revelation 19:10: And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!