Yeshua Proclaims His Father’s Name – Keith Johnson (Open Door Series – Part 12)

Yeshua Proclaims His Father's Name - Keith Johnson (Open Door Series - Part 12)

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Keith: We’ve been on this tour, and hopefully you all will bear with me. I’m going to try my best to get through this. Nehemia, really for the last 24 hours, we have had some time together that has been amazing. The last 24 hours. In our hotel, and just sharing, and the situation with his father, and a number of other things. But one of the things that Nehemia did do is he said that we were going to be going out and teaching people about the name of God, we were going to be storming the prisons. And I will tell you something, I felt like I was in a position where it felt sort of aggressive. But I’ve realized something - sometimes our Father gets aggressive.

So I want to give you a simple picture. And I actually sent this picture to my wife, and she got a little bit nervous, because she’s a Montessori lady. You know, in the Montessori everything is kind of like how you feel and how it is. But I sent her this picture, I said, “Honey, I want you to know, as I’m out on tour with Nehemia, this is how I’m feeling.” And this is the picture. [laughter] That is my Israeli tank, or my chariot, from heaven. Can I get an amen? [applause] Why do I show you that picture? Because when I got to here, to New Mexico, something else happened, and it happened today. I guess what I’m going to try to do, to the best of my ability, is I’m going to try to explain this the best that I can.

What happened was this. Let me just back up a little bit. When Michael told me about coming to New Mexico, he made a statement, he said, “Hey, we’re going to go to New Mexico, but we’ve got to make the decisions now because there’s this festival that’s taking place in New Mexico. It’s called the New Mexico Fiesta...” Somebody knows what it is here? If you know what it is just raise your hand. It’s this really big deal. People come from all over the world to go up in these things, little wicker baskets, [laughter] with this really light material and fire. Not such a good idea, in my opinion.

However, I wanted to understand more about this, so on Friday, I did a really radical thing. On Friday I got up in the morning, and I have a Facebook friend… Facebook is amazing; sometimes it works. I have a Facebook friend from this region who happened to, as we were going to Los Lunas... I was in Los Lunas and this thing has been on my mind since Michael told me. On my mind, “What’s it about these balloons?” We’re at Los Lunas and my Facebook friend Carol Coffing… Where are you, Carol? Just stand up real quick. Give her a big hand, you’re going to be real happy about her. [applause] She hears about the invitation to Los Lunas, and she does what I wish more people would do - she invited her family, all four of her daughters. And her daughters came to Los Lunas, and I’m sitting there, and we’re talking about everything that’s there. But this kid just doesn’t get out of my mind. And I know that when the Father’s doing something with me, He will not let me rest until I do it. Can I get an amen on that?

Audience: Amen.

Keith: So I’m there at Los Lunas. I’m asking everyone, “What do you know about balloons?” All of a sudden, I ask her daughters, “What do you know about balloons?” And one of them says, “Well, I happen to be up on the chase crew of one of the best balloons in New Mexico.” And I said, “Really?” And we’re talking, I said, “Tell me about the balloons,” back and forth. She says, “My uncle is the best pilot in all the world. His name is Steve Coffing, and you know what, he’s the best.” I say, “Could I talk to him? Is there any way?” “I know he’s really busy.” 700, say seven.

Audience: Seven.

Keith: 700 balloons are here this weekend. [applause] And I’m thinking to myself, “I believe that the Father has me doing this, it’s so important that I’m going to get a chance to actually talk to this guy at the busiest weekend of not only the year, but it is the 40th year anniversary of people going up with wicker baskets and very light material and fire.”