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Lance Johnson Ministries
Have you ever come across a door you thought was locked, but when you tried the handle, you found out it was unlocked all along? Well, that’s a lot like the challenges that you will face in this life. Bishop Lance teaches you today about the friends of
29:30•30 Nov 2025
Faith That Moves Mountains and Breaks Addictions
Episode Overview
- Real faith is expressed through determined action, not just intellectual belief or words.
- God is described as able to heal PTSD, mental illness, physical disease and restore broken marriages.
- Unbelief is criticised as a widespread norm in the church that blocks people from seeing miracles.
- Salvation is portrayed as God living inside a person, producing visible fruit and freedom from bondage.
- Believers are urged to take responsibility for ministering healing and deliverance, rather than making excuses.
“"Faith can be seen. It is not what you confess. It is what you do."”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? Bishop Lance Johnson answers that through a fiery, faith-focused message that grows straight out of his own history with alcohol and drug addiction. Coming from "a life of struggles" and the "unrelenting grip" of addiction, he speaks to people who know what bondage feels like and who are desperate for real change.
In this episode, he uses the story of the crippled man whose friends lower him through a roof to reach Jesus as a picture of what real faith looks like. "When you got real faith," he says, "you're like the four guys that had a crippled friend... faith can be seen. It is not what you confess.
It is what you do." That kind of determined, practical faith is framed as essential for anyone facing addiction, mental illness, family chaos or lifelong trauma. You’ll hear strong, direct teaching on unbelief and how it has become normal in the modern church.
Lance challenges religious comfort zones, arguing that intellectual belief alone doesn’t change lives and that "we have minimized salvation to a get out of hell free card." For people coping with addiction—in themselves or their loved ones—his words about parents fearing the phone call about an overdose or a child "strung out on drugs" land particularly hard, but also offer hope that change is possible. The style is passionate, confrontational, and deeply compassionate towards those who are broken and bound.
Lance insists that God still heals, still delivers, and still restores, including "incarcerating addictions and bondages." If you're wrestling with unbelief, exhausted by relapse, or heartbroken over a family member’s addiction, this episode pushes you to consider what active, surrendered faith might look like in your situation. Could a different posture of faith be the turning point in your recovery story?
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