It's Supernatural

MICHELLE: For example, every single thing in my life especially as a minister, but in everyday life, we have to yield ourselves to Him. The Bible says in Romans chapter eight, we know the witness of the Holy Spirit. And so therefore, that special witness helps you lead. And I’ve learned to depend on that witness more than I depend on anything in the natural. If somebody tells me something, a certain date, a certain time, a certain appointment, I always ask the Holy Spirit first, “Is that going to happen, Holy Spirit? Is this the way it’s really, really going to be?”

MICHELLE: And if I feel the anointing, I know that’s what He’s leading me toward. If I don’t feel the anointing, I don’t pay any attention to it. And sometimes if I feel a block, then I know it’s not His will.

SID: Well, I do know that the Holy Spirit gave you such courage once you knew He wanted you to do something, you went as a young woman into a very life threatening situation.

MICHELLE: When you love Jesus, when you’re baptized in the spirit, this is one of the greatest gifts of the Holy Spirit. You fall so in love with Jesus and you become so bold for God. It’s what the Holy Spirit does in our life. And I had a burden for souls in China, so I organized a trip in my ministry to go. We were going to the Philippines. So I decided, let’s take a side trip to the People’s Republic and I want to bring in bibles. This is what I want to do.

SID: You know you could end up in prison at that time?

MICHELLE: Oh yes, yes, yes.

SID: With having bibles, bringing it to China.

MICHELLE: Yes, exactly. Especially in Chinese. These were not English bibles. And so I had prayed about it. We organized a group, we worked with a ministry that specializes in touching the underground church. And we decided to take 30 people. They were all going to smuggle the bibles, but when they met us in Hong Kong, this underground ministry, they said, no, these people are not all … Cannot do this, that there has to be about nine of you. So we selected nine individuals that would not mind risking their life, be able to go in, put the bibles in their suitcases and know for sure those suitcases are going to be opened.

MICHELLE: There’s no way they wouldn’t be opened. That they’re going to be opened and trust God to blind the eyes of the guards as they look in the suitcases not to see the bibles. And that’s what we did.

SID: I’m in awe of what the Holy Spirit did there. Do you speak Chinese?

MICHELLE: No, I don’t.

SID: And did any member of your group speak …

MICHELLE: We never did. We never …

SID: But what happened?

MICHELLE: Yes. This very first bible smuggling mission, we did get our bibles through. And by the way, when they opened up my suitcase, they were shocked because the Holy Spirit gave me a strategy. He said, put the cosmetics all on top of the clothes. I had no idea that the Chinese guards in 1980 were not familiar with cosmetics and the way women dressed in the west. And they were talking to one another and it distracted them from looking at my bibles. So I praise God for that. But then when we got to the People’s Republic of China, it was very strict. They ordered a guard with us at all times. We couldn’t even keep the key to our room. So as we were praying, I began to really ask God, Lord, we risked our lives to come in here. We need a way to be able to reach the Chinese people. And we have guards with us the whole time. We don’t speak the language, Holy Spirit. How are we going to do this?

DANIEL: Well, the Bible describes this as familiar spirits. It’s demons, really, it’s demons. And this again is what Paul is talking about. This is what we’re wrestling against. These demonic powers that can’t be seen but they’re very, very real nonetheless. So let me come back to my story with this lady witchdoctor. I’m in the meeting there and she has come to the event to curse me and to kill me. So she’s standing off to my right hand side somewhere in the audience there. I’m preaching, not even aware of her presence. And she’s got these talismans and fetishes and charms. I don’t know what all it is. I don’t even care. But she’s over there getting ready to hurl some curse at me. And all of a sudden, just as she’s about to pronounce that curse, the power of God hits her. She falls to the ground, starts screaming, writhing on the ground like a snake, and foaming at the mouth.

SID: No one touches her?

DANIEL: No one touched her. I didn’t even know she was there. And this is when I became aware of a presence. I see this crazy woman writhing on the ground, screaming hysterically. And what do you think that I do in a moment like that? I keep preaching. And I’ll tell you why I keep preaching. Because there’s half a million people in front of me, we paid for that platform, I’m not going to give it to the devil. He can go find his own platform. So I keep preaching, but we’ve trained the local pastors. See, here’s the important thing. The Bible says, my people perish for lack of knowledge. So we’ve trained those local pastors, what to do when this happens, because we know it’s going to happen inevitably at some point in one of these four or five day meetings.

The local pastors grab her. They take her out back. We have a tent behind the platform. We call it the snake pit. That’s where we cast out all the devils. And the local pastors, this doesn’t have to be some famous evangelist that wrote a book about it, the local pastors are able to cast the demons out of this famous powerful witchdoctor. Because the reality is Jesus said to the ordinary believers, “I’m going to give you power over serpents and scorpions and all the power of the enemy and nothing will by any means hurt you.” So the best part of this… The best part of this, they bring this lady to me on the platform live, this is in real time. The demons have just come out of her. They led her to Jesus. She received Jesus as her savior. And she stands there before me on the platform. And this is how she is introduces herself to me.

She said, “I came here tonight to kill you.” And I thought, “Well, it’s nice to meet you too.” She said, “But instead of killing you, tonight I’ve become a believer in Jesus. Because tonight I’ve seen that your Jesus is more powerful than my witchcraft.” And that’s the great triumph of the gospel.

SID: How old are you now Daniel?

DANIEL: I’m 38.

SID: He has personally documented 21 million decisions for Jesus under his ministry. Is everyone fighting spiritual warfare?

DANIEL: Yes. This is actually the whole Christian life, again, is framed biblically in this worldview of spiritual battles taking place. And when you begin to see this you begin to realize that this is what it’s all about. For example, you read in the Bible, you see there’s Moses and there’s Pharaoh. And so it looks like there’s this showdown between these two men. What you don’t realize is that behind these two men, there are spiritual forces. Really both of them are representatives of a bigger spiritual battle. The war is really not Moses and Pharaoh. It’s not the children of Israel versus Egypt. It’s God versus Satan. And both of them is working through their representative. When you get this worldview, what you realize is that God is working to accomplish his purposes and to defeat the power of the enemy through us, through those that believe in him, through those of us that he saved.

TRACY: For Israel. I would encourage you to know that you’re in covenant and that you’re in covenant nation. In my dreams, God’s going to bring settlement to the government, the prime minister. God’s hand is on the prime minister, so get ready to see a 360 degree turnaround. I done seen this into dream, even where the enemy was trying to cause Israel to be an upheaval, God’s hand is own Israel’s. What I’ve seen in my dreams and certain things, I can’t say, but for what I can say…

SID: Did I hear you say that God’s going to turn things around, the government and maybe Netanyahu will win?

TRACY: We’re going to see a miraculous intervention.

SID: Okay. I don’t want to push it too hard but I do know this—

TRACY: It’s not mandate.

SID: This. I know at Passover, if you had the blood, no matter what happens, your house, your family was safe and there are people watching us right now, right now that do not have… you may love God but you do not have experiential knowledge with God. You see, there’s no other name given onto men in which we must be cleansed of our sin. But the name in Hebrew, Yeshua, in English, Jesus. I want you to say this prayer. I mean, you’ve tried it without Him, so give me a break. See what difference it’s going to make in your life.

SID: Who is God? He’s the difference maker. God is the true Shalom. God is the true God. He has a name, the God Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Say this prayer with me and believe it to the best of your ability. Wherever you’re at, just say this prayer out loud and it’s the beginning of the greatest time in your life. I’ll tell you what, a thousand may fall at your right hand, 10,000 at your left but that will not come near you. Repeat out loud, dear God.

Audience : Dear God.

SID: I’m a sinner.

Audience : I’m a sinner.

SID: Against you.

Audience : Against you.

SID: And you alone have I sinned.

Audience : And you alone have I sinned.

SID: And I’m so sorry.

Audience : And I’m so sorry.

SID: I believe.

Audience : I believe.

SID: The blood of Jesus.

Audience : The blood of Jesus.

SID: Washes away my sins.

Audience : Washes away my sins.

SID: And you remember them no more.

Audience : And you remember them no more.

SID: And now that I’m clean.

Audience : And now that I’m clean.

SID: I want to know you.

Audience : I want to know you.

SID: I want to hear your voice.

Audience : I want to hear your voice.

SID: I ask you Jesus to come and live inside of me.

Audience : I ask you Jesus to come and live inside of me.

SID: Be my Lord.

Audience : Be my lord.

SID: Let me experience your love.

Audience : Let me experience your love.

SID: Amen.

Audience : Amen.

SID: There is a song. I know this is a fact that military people, if they are in battle and every day they say this song out loud, I know as a fact, that they are spared and the whole company could die, God forbid but they will be spared. I’ve put together a personalized version from our It’s Supernatural Bible, of Psalm 91. I want to read this to you from a personalized form. I live in the shelter of the most high. I am under his shadow. This I declare about the Lord. He alone is my refuge. He alone is my place of safety. He alone is my God. He alone, I trust Him. For He will rescue me from every trap and protect me from deadly disease. His faithful promises are my armor and protection.