Seeing The Power of God Today || Sunday Sermon Kris Vallotton

Summary of the Sermon (Kris Vallotton)

The sermon argues that Christians must not shrink God to their personal experience. Instead, believers should read Scripture to know God’s character and authority—especially His power to work signs, wonders, and deliverance today.

1) Two ways to read Scripture: experience-based vs. author-based

• Vallotton says people often interpret the Bible through what they have personally experienced, such as: “It can’t be today because it hasn’t happened to me.”
• He contrasts that with an approach centered on Scripture’s promises and on who God is—then allowing experience to align with God rather than limiting God by past outcomes.
• He emphasizes that the purpose of the Bible is not merely memorization, but knowing the “author” (God Himself).

2) God is “bigger than your fear”: restore reverence for glory

• He shares a journal-style moment where God rebukes the idea of a “meager God,” urging him to serve the “God of the universes.”
• He uses examples meant to inspire awe—such as cathedrals built over centuries and the beauty of nature (e.g., flowers of many colors)—to argue that worship should involve greatness and reverence, not understatement about God’s power.

3) God’s power is not “for then only”: signs, wonders, and deliverance in real life

• Vallotton recounts early days starting the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry:
  • A first-day teaching from Psalm 29 about “thunder,” followed by literal thunder despite clear skies.
  • Training that quickly moved into deliverance as students testified to oppression and demonic manifestations.
  • Multiple deliverances during the school’s launch, which he describes as forming a “foundation” for the ministry.
• He also describes later incidents where witchcraft and demonic opposition surfaced (on planes, in church gatherings, and through threatening actions), portraying them as opportunities to demonstrate God’s superior power.
• Central claim: a doctrine that “God’s power isn’t for today” is opposed to what he sees as Biblical continuity and the ongoing reality of spiritual warfare.

4) Spiritual warfare framing: “counterfeits,” not retreat from power

• Using Moses vs. Pharaoh’s magicians as an example, he argues that the enemy “duplicates” God’s power to confuse people.
• Therefore, believers should not dismiss powerful spiritual activity simply because it resembles the occult; the devil is described as a “counterfeiter,” not the source of genuine miracles.
• He warns that resistance—described as spiritual “snakes,” “witchcraft,” and “giants”—is often misread as proof that something is wrong, when it may actually be opposition to advancing into “promised land” territory.

5) Fear, oppression, shame, and Jezebel spirit: symptoms and misconceptions

• He includes a pastoral “era” of warning and prayer:
  • Reports that people he knows are experiencing panic attacks and fear, which he frames as spiritual influence rather than purely psychological causes.
• He outlines “11 symptoms” attributed to a “Jezebel spirit,” including depression, unusual exhaustion, disorientation, hopelessness, discouragement, anxiety/panic, and mental/emotional states that feel “not yours.”
• He distinguishes between:
  • War vs. oppression: war is resistance during advancement; oppression is opening doors through fear/sin/unforgiveness and then needing help.
  • Conviction vs. shame: conviction corrects; shame condemns identity.
• He also argues that after victory, renewed pressure can come quickly, and that people may misinterpret a moment (“what just happened”) by focusing only on yesterday’s spiritual success while ignoring the ongoing spiritual dynamics.

6) Elijah example (1 Kings): after the greatest victory comes despair

• He tells the Elijah story of Mount Carmel and the drought, where false prophets are defeated.
• He then contrasts it with Elijah’s sudden suicidal despair in 1 Kings 19.
• The key lesson: even after tremendous victory, people can come under a destructive narrative—such as “I’m the only one left.”
• He concludes that God’s response includes practical grounding—sleep, food, friends/community, and renewed calling—not only spiritual confrontation.

7) Call to prayer and breakthrough

• He invites those struggling—especially those identifying with panic, night death-fear, insomnia, and similar experiences—to raise their hands so he can pray.
• He prays for:
  • Breaking the Jezebel-related “assignment”
  • Peace, sleep, and freedom from insomnia/night terrors
  • Protection and angelic covering
  • Restoring hope, including the reminder: “I have 7,000 others”
  • Strength to face giants with joy and keep moving forward rather than settling into the “valley.”

8) Prophetic encouragement

• The sermon ends with prophetic words spoken over people in the room, including themes of protection amid danger, restored joy, training/calling imagery, and encouragement regarding gifts and purpose.

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Presenters / Contributors

• Kris Vallotton — preacher/author; main speaker