Let Go and Grab Ahold Part 2Let Go and Grab Ahold Part 2
Lance Johnson Ministries
To pass an exam, especially in higher education, it’s extremely important to know and UNDERSTAND the material. If you memorize the answers, you will never truly learn, and it will affect your education and career. In today’s message, Bishop Lance says
29:30•7 Jun 2026
Let Go and Grab Ahold: From Religion to a Spirit‑Led Life
Episode Overview
- Real understanding of God’s ways, like real learning, needs the Spirit of God rather than memorised phrases or one-off prayers.
- If you don’t know what God has prepared for you, you’re likely to accept the limits of your upbringing, addiction, or circumstances as permanent.
- Religion that keeps people merely "visiting" God in church can block them from living daily in His presence and power.
- True change from addiction and destructive lifestyles comes through a personal relationship with Jesus, not laws, politics or willpower alone.
- God becomes optional when you don’t realise what He freely offers; walking in the Spirit opens your eyes to those resources and shifts your priorities.
“You want to change the world, then change you.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? Bishop Lance Johnson brings a fired-up message that blends biblical teaching with raw, lived experience of addiction and recovery. Across this part of his series "Let Go and Grab Ahold", he explains why simply repeating a prayer or going to church once a week isn’t enough to change a life stuck in old patterns.
As he puts it, "The only way you can know the things of God is have the spirit of God... you’ve got to be born again." From his perspective, real change happens when you walk in the Spirit every day, rather than just visiting God on a Sunday. The episode speaks strongly to anyone shaped by a painful upbringing – poverty, anger, broken homes, alcoholism, or chaotic relationships.
Lance challenges the idea that your past or family history has to define your future, warning that if you don’t know what God has prepared for you, you’ll simply live the life your environment hands you. One of the most gripping moments comes when he invites Marsha to share her story. Once addicted to cocaine and meth and stealing just to survive, she now says, "Because I found Jesus...
transformation, change, redeemed." She’s gone from being homeless and taking from others to working, giving to the homeless, and putting her children and grandchildren back into God’s hands. Lance also calls out religious habits that keep people dependent on church systems instead of learning to live in God’s presence at home, at work and even in the supermarket queue.
His message is direct, challenging and often funny in its honesty, but always centred on the idea that a surrendered life can rewrite even the messiest story. If you’ve ever wondered whether your past or your addiction gets the final say, this one asks you straight: are you visiting God, or actually living with Him?
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