It's Supernatural

CINDY: She said yes and so the person working with her took oil and rubbed it on her skin and asked for the spirit of truth and the creator and the healer to heal her and to cause her to understand the power of God. She went to the bathroom, she came back about 30 minutes later and all of her scars were gone, every one of them. She was hysterical. She was crying and laughing at the same time. She’d never seen anything like that. We said, “This is Jesus. This is Jesus. He is the healer.”

SID: That’s outrageous. She went to these Burning Man, then she goes to these adult pornographic conventions. Tell me about the pastor’s daughter that walked up to you when you had a booth there.

CINDY: Yes, the Lord had said, “If you put your finger on the pulse of culture, I will bring you the encounters.” I didn’t want to go, you need to know, I didn’t want go into, into…

SID: I can understand.

CINDY: I didn’t want to go in there. But God said, “There’s people that are praying for these people, some of the people, and I need a volunteer.”

CINDY: I said, “Well, this is upsetting. I’ve never been in anything like this before.”

CINDY: God said, “I’ve seen it. I’ve already seen, I.” He said, “You’re seated with me in heavenly places, so just look at what I tell you to look at. Look at the person, look at the heart, and I’ll give you the words to say.” We ran into, again, we were directed by God at that time, and we ran into a girl and she was highlighted to me once again. I said, “Have you had a dream in,” and she told us a dream and then she volunteered the information.

CINDY: She said, “I’m a pastor’s daughter.”

CINDY: I said, “Oh, you’re a PK.” Then it hit her. I said, “The unconditional love doesn’t fail. God’s not left you. He’s never going to leave you. He’s never going to forsake you. He loves you right where you are, but you are not called for this. You are not meant to be here. This is not your destiny. It’s not your future.”

CINDY: While I was telling this to my husband, a woman, literally in that moment, pulled in, in real life and to the parking lot and she said, “I’ve hit bottom.”

SID: That was your bottom fish.

CINDY: That was my bottom fish.

CINDY: She said, “I’ve been clean and sober for about a week and I want to know if anything’s here for me.” She was connected to several other people in the town. Her brother was actually diagnosed with liver disease from drinking. He came in, got healed, completely healed, became our drummer.

SID: Hm.

CINDY: Her mother owned a bar in the town and she didn’t believe in God or didn’t know anything. She said, “I can’t deny the change in my kids.” So she came in and she said, “I want to be filled with renewal,” that’s what she said. She didn’t know the language. We put our hands on her. She had leukemia, she had diabetes, so she was very ill, and she said, “I want to be prayed for,” and we got behind her and prayed, our hands heated up, and she said, “I’m on fire.” When we looked around, her glasses were steamed up, and she went back to the doctor and the doctor said, “I don’t know what happened to you, but you don’t need me anymore.”

CINDY: She said, “Do you mean I’m healed?”

CINDY: He said, “I can’t say that,” they always say that. “I can’t say that.” Then she began to be the woman at the well, so when people would come in from logging all day and they would begin to sit down at her bar before they got drunk, she had her daughter who had pulled into our parking lot, put them in her car and bring them to the church.

JENNIFER: Yeah. Fire fast is a new revolutionary perspective on fasting. So many people have a negative connotation of fasting. They have these religious mindsets, it’s a religious box to check off or you’re punished if you don’t do it and there’s condemnation.

JENNIFER: But the fire fast is just a reintroduction to fasting, is an invitation to greater intimacy with Jesus. It’s focusing our attention and affection upon loving Jesus, encountering him, worshiping him. It’s not necessarily fasting to gain something or gain a breakthrough. It’s fasting to gain Jesus. And the three different types of fire fasts I go over in the book is the fire fast of intimacy. I think the most important one where we fast solely to feast upon the Lord and grow closer.

JENNIFER: The second one is the fire fast of consecration, which you really need to have a good relationship with God the Father to do because he might burn away things that are holding you back from all he has and sometimes that’s painful. And if you don’t understand the Father loves you that could be hard, but it’s for your good. He prunes us to make us more fruitful. And the third one is the fire fast of revival. Now we’re praying and fasting like William J. Seymour did to see a move of God in our day.

SID: Jennifer, you say, it’s not what we’re giving up, it’s what we’re getting. You say, fasting is feasting on God. Comment on that.

JENNIFER: Yeah. Fasting is one of the most powerful ways to see Jesus without all the clutter. Psalm 27, King David said, “Though an army besiege me, though war breakout against me, one thing I seek, one thing I ask, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” And there’s something about fasting that helps us focus our affection and attention upon Jesus.