It's Supernatural

AUDIENCE:  Yes, Lord!

RICH: Can you raise your hands and say I receive it?

AUDIENCE:  I receive it!

RICH: So here when I came down I couldn’t believe that my hair turned white. And I couldn’t believe that instantly there was I came up from looking like a kid to looking like a man. You know in the presence of God I understood why Moses when he came down from the mountain his hair turned completely white. I understood why Benny Hinn in his early forties when I used to go to the church his entire hair turned white and I used to go why? And he’d, you know what he told me you know the presence of God and I go yeah, right. But the presence of God has 2 elements. It will bring maturity to your life but it will keep you always young. But now being young has nothing to do with your body. It has to do with the state of your mind and your spirits. You see you can be a hundred years old and you can be young or you can be forty-five and you’re ready to go to heaven and meet the Lord. You know what I’m talking about. Now one of the things the Lord taught to me was about prosperity. Now we hear prosperity about money, right? And every preacher you know goes on television says if you send me this God will prosper you. But prosperity goes beyond money. And if you look at Three John, chapter 1 verse 2 this famous verse that it says: “Beloveds I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.” Now I have preached this. I heard it from every TV evangelist            and the Lord revealed to me there are 3 levels of prosperity that belong to every single child of God. Three levels of prosperity. Number one: that you may prosper in all things. If you see it right there it says I wish above all things that you may prosper. Number One, God wants you to prosper. To prosper in every area of your life. God wants you prosperous in your marriage. God wants you prosperous in your relationships. Yes, He wants you prosperous on your money. He wants you to prosper in every area that concerns  your life. Number Two it says: and be in health. The second prosperity that God wants for His children is to be in health all the days of your life. Now this is something that the enemy tries to take away from us but God has released. Now I believe that in these Last Days God is bringing that revelation back to the Body of Christ that God is called us to walk in His prosperity and His prosperity means every area of your life will be according to the will and the provision of God. Number Two: that every area of your body will live on divine health. Somebody say “divine health!”

AUDIENCE   Whooo!  (CLAPPING)

RODNEY:  To get the water to flow again. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! That’s what revival’s all about. That’s what the move of God’s all about. His Word is like a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces. His Word is like a fire that comes and burns. And then the water begins to flow. We’ve got people just sitting in the pew. Single mom. A single mom and her kids have led 45,000 people to the Lord. I mean I can go on and one with stories and testimonies. Just… you’d be sitting in church and next to somebody and that person’s… We’ve seen more miracles take place on the streets than what you see on television with some miracle ministries. That’s why they call me up, can we come by the church? I say not really. Our children are seeing more miracles than what you got on your television thing. Come on, seriously. Since when is this limited to one or two or three? God never did. He poured out His Spirit. His spirit is poured out freely! His spirit is poured out lavishly! The biggest insult you can give me is come to our church to ask me to pray for the sick. I tell ‘em go see the landscaper. His name is Jesus. He’s a Spanish guy. He’s chopping the palm tree. Go see Jesus. He’s in the parking lot. He’ll pray for you. He led two and a half thousand people to the Lord in one year. He’s just working as the landscaper. (silence) It’s like people want to have a proprietary ownership of the anointing. It’s not. It’s His anointing. It’s His power. And all we do is light the fire.      So you know don’t blame me for all of what’s going on. I just go around lighting fires. People catch fire. Listen, do you know the story of Sampson when he took 300 foxes and he set fire to their tails? Do you now about that? How many of you know that he caught 300 foxes and tied them together and put fire on their tails? How many of you know that these foxes were not show-bred foxes? Like perfect foxes. Not a hair out of place. How many of you know that? I mean come on. Do you think that Sampson went into a fox breeding program where they bred pure bred foxes so that he could choose perfect foxes…

AUDIENCE   (LAUGHING)

RODNEY:  …cause you got to have a perfect fox to put fire on their tail to set ‘em loose? NO! He just went out in the bush and caught a fox. Let’s say he caught the first fox and he looked at the fox and the fox had no teeth. He didn’t say oh, we can’t use this fox. Look, he has no teeth but does he have a tail? Yes! He has a tail. Put fire! A fox with no teeth is still going to run when the fire gets on your tail!

AUDIENCE               (APPLAUSE)

RODNEY:  Well first of all let me say what an honor it is to be here today to share with you. I want to read from Luke chapter four. This is the passage I was reading when the power of the Lord come into that meeting on that Tuesday morning in upstate New York. And I have got to share that many times Monday through Friday over the years since ‘89 so I love the subject of the anointing and the touch of God. “And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. He taught in the synagogues being glorified of all. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up for to read and it was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. When he opened the book he found the place where it was written ‘the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me.’” Another word for the anointing would be empowered me. He has graced me. He has enabled me. He has equipped me. “To preach the gospel,” which is the good news, “to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” Now the Amplified says in verse 19 “to proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord, the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.” So here’s Jesus announcing that the spirit of the Lord was upon Him but if you begin a study the ministry of Jesus you’ll see that He did do absolutely nothing until the time when He was really anointed and that happened when He came down to the river Jordan. The Bible says you know John the Baptist looked up and said “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world” and Jesus come down and He was baptized by John, come up out of the water. The Holy Spirit descended like a dove. Didn’t say He was a dove. Said He descended like a dove. So the Holy Spirit’s not a bird, He’s God. Amen! And so the Holy Spirit descended, the heavens opened. Didn’t say they closed up again. The heavens opened, the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and God spoke out of heaven and said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. And from that moment of time Jesus then went about and you could read about all these miracles that He did in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the end of the book of John said all these miracles did Jesus do and all the others that if it were written down I do not suppose the books of the world would contain it. So now we could read through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in a day but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tells us just a small smidgeon of what really took place through the whole life and the ministry of Jesus. Three and a half years of hanging with Jesus it must have been miracles in the morning, miracles in the noontime, miracles in the evening, midnight miracles, I mean if I was there with him I probably wouldn’t have got much sleep. I would have kept one eye open on Him at all time just to see what He was going to do.

SID: Lil, someone told me you basically used to be a shy person.

LIL: I was really shy because being born in the bush I didn’t meet many people. Of course, being a pastor’s daughter, people ask you, would you do something, would you give a testimony. I heard myself saying no, no, I can’t do that. And I got so tired of hearing myself say no. And so I said, “God, the next thing you ask me to do I’m going to say yes.” Well guess what happened? A pastor phoned me and said, “Lil, it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday and I felt the Lord said, I must ask you to come and preach in my church.”

SID: He knows how to set us up.

LIL: You know, in those days we had those old fashioned phones with the wire connected to the desk. I remember putting that wire behind my back so he couldn’t hear, and I said, “God, I can’t believe you.” Then I took the phone back and I said, “I’ll be there, Pastor. Thank you very much.” Because I had said it. If I had said no there, I would not be sitting here today.

SID: God said, “If I can trust you in little things, I will trust you in big things.” 1939, your great-grandfather hears from God, prophesies what’s going to happen in the future. What did he say?

LIL: He prophesied that after the war there would be a healing revival and there was.

SID: Yes.

LIL: And then he prophesied there would be a charismatic revival and there was. Amongst many of the denominational churches, the Holy Spirit fell. And then he said, “I see people going to church with pens and notepads.” And that was the word of faith movement.

SID: The teaching.

LIL: That’s right. And then he began to say, “I see it. I see it.” He said, “I see the greatest,” imagine this, “the greatest revival the world has ever seen.”

SID: And you know what, I see that, too. Now, God spoke to you, to you personally, and said you would have a part in it. What did he tell you?

LIL: He stood by my bed one night and he said, “I’m going to do a work in your day, which even if it were told you, you would hardly believe it.” And every day, I said, “Tell me, Lord, tell me, Lord, I’ll believe it, I’ll believe it.”

SID: Well you and I are going to see it very soon. You are going to see it very soon. So you’re speaking, praying for a group of doctors in Switzerland and God shows up again. What happened?

LIL: They asked me to open in prayer, and as I said, “Father,” that’s all I said, I went into a vision and I saw Jesus sitting in a chair, and we were sitting around him and he looked at me, and he said, “Tell me your stories.” In this last move of God, in this mighty revival that’s coming there will be so many stories. There will be so many testimonies and we need to know when we tell our testimony and when we tell your story, we’re telling him, and his anointing is on that. And when we tell our story in our testimony it brings people to Jesus. It brings people of other faiths to Jesus and everybody must begin to tell their stories. Tell your neighbor. Tell your neighbor your testimony. Tell the people in your street what Jesus has done, the people in the shops where you are, I want to say to you, tell your stories. Heaven is listening to you and the anointing of God will be on you. You will be a soul winner because we are in the days when it’s souls, souls, souls, souls! Miracles are important. God wants you to heal and he wants you well, and he wants you to tell people about it because it’s time for souls, souls, souls.

SID: Lil, you raise up teams of people, and there was a team that went to a hospital ward, and what happened?

LIL: Okay, this was very recent. And the team went into the hospital, and they were just going from bed to bed, can we pray for you, can we pray for you? Everybody said yes. Everybody said yes until they got to one man and he just said no thank you. So they just left him and they went to the next bed and they prayed for each bed, and then they left. Well two days later, they thought they’ll go back and see how the patients are. When they got to the ward it was absolutely empty except for one man in the bed, and he said, “You’re the team that came to pray the other day.” He said, “Please come and pray for me.” He said, “They’ll all healed and they’ve all gone home.”

SID: Could you imagine if everyone there, the ward was healed except you and you’re the only one that said, no, I don’t want prayer. You couldn’t wait for them to come back. When we come back, I want to hear a couple of the many, many secrets of the power of Smith Wigglesworth that you were told, and then I want you to pray for the fire to come on everyone that wants this. Be right back.

SID: Jesse, I am so intrigued by your background. I don’t think man people know about it.

JESSE: That’s right.

SID: And also I’m intrigued by the humor. You tell me, before you became a believer in the Messiah, you weren’t a funny man.

JESSE: No, I was not funny. In fact, when God saved me, the first time I ever preached, people were falling out the pews. And I was so mad, I went home and told Cathy, and said, “What’s wrong with these crazy people?” And she said, “You’re funny.” I said, “This is serious business. What are you talking about being funny?” I mean, I told a joke every once in a while like everybody else. But when the Lord came in my life, I got so happy, Sid. I’m so full of joy, which is the fruit of the Spirit, and I’m so happy, which is an emotional feeling, I’m just a dangerous individual.

SID: Tell me about you. I can’t even picture this long-haired, rock and roll singer that has a bottle of Scotch every day.

JESSE: Every day.

SID: That does everything a rock and roll singer is notorious for doing. How in the world did you get saved?

JESSE: Well I’ll tell you. It’s a miracle. I drank a fifth of whisky a day, smoked a little dope a week, snorted cocaine, PCP, crystal meth, took trips and never left my house. You understand what I’m saying. Now I’m sitting there, but what happened was Cathy, she was watching Billy Graham. God made Cathy tell me something that got my attention. Now I worked on the same circuit as Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk, KISS, Alice Cooper. I mean, let me tell you something, you young people, girls screaming, and that was your mama or your grandma, one or the other who was doing that. But anyway, I was ready to do a rock show in Boston, Massachusetts. I’ll never forget it, Sid. Quickly, Cathy said, “Jesse, Billy Graham is coming on.” And I thought, “Okay, what do I want to watch him for?” And she said this: “He pulls more people than you do.” And it caught my attention. I said, “You know, the guy does fill up stadiums.” So I decided to watch him to get Cathy off my back. I was sitting in a hotel just like this. You know how Billy Graham says at the end, “If you’d like to get saved, write me and I’ll send you the same literature that I send, and go to church next Sunday.” I jumped. I got off that bed. You got to understand how I looked, long, dark, chocolate-brown hair, makeup. I had a good body in those days. You got to believe it by faith, but I did. I had a six-pack. I got a keg now. I had a six-pack, you know what I’m saying. And I got up, I immediately left and went into the bathroom, but I couldn’t close that door fast enough. God got in that bathroom with me.

SID: Why did you go in the bathroom?

JESSE: Because I was told never to cry. I was raised with a bunch of Sicilians. You do what I got to do. My grandfather said, “If somebody mess with you, we don’t fight in this family. That’s what the Mississippi River is for.” I’m serious. When you’re raised on the streets of New Orleans, you do what you got to do. Now what happened was I didn’t know how to pray. I said this: If there’s such a thing as a God, whatever Billy said, then you do that. I got born again. Something supernatural, now I didn’t hear thunder and lightning, and I had to go do a rock show. Are you ready for this Sid? I come out of there, my three-year-old daughter looked at me and said this, Jodi, she said, “Daddy not going to hell no more.” And I said, “Cathy, did you tell her I was going to hell?” She said, “No, she just saw it.” I went down, did that show. Now I walked in there, the night before it was fun. When I walked in, it was an upholstered sewer now. I saw sin for the first time in my life. And I opened up that show with Sly and the Family Stone, “I Want to Take you Higher.” Real quickly [singing] dah, dah, dah… [talking] And I’m supposed to sing, [singing] Feel it getting stronger. [talking] But what came out of me blew me away. I went, [singing] Everybody in this place is going to hell! [talking] That’s a true story. And people smoking dope. They went, wow, babe, we’re going to hell. That’s a true story. And the drummer, he told the lead guitar, “Grab him. He’s tripping. He’s on some bad drugs.” So anyway, I closed out that session, I mean that set, and Jimmy said, “What happened, man?” I said, “I met Jesus.” He went, “Wow, man.” You know, that kind of stuff. From that day I knew something had happened, but I couldn’t explain it because when you’re not taught you don’t know.

SID: But what happened with that bottle every day? What happened with the drugs? What happened with the womanizing?

JESSE: Instantly delivery, completely. I mean, I shut down. I told Cathy, I said “Let’s go to church tomorrow.” This was on Saturday night, Labor Day weekend, 1974. She thought, my God, you’re going to church?

SID: You have such a childlike, simplistic faith.

JESSE: Yes.

SID: You sit down. You have conversations with God.

JESSE: Yes.

SID: Not necessarily, we understand, not necessarily the audible voice, but you know God’s voice, and so many with love to be able to hear God’s voice.

JESSE: Oh yes.

SID: But the problems that you have, do you remember, how do I know that you have problems? I’m a member of the same race. It’s called the human race. Of course, you have problems. But if you knew you could sit down and have a one-on-one with Jesus you wouldn’t have a problem. Am I right? I want to find out how he hears God’s voice and he says what the Bible says. God is not a respecter of persons. So Jesse says anything that God does for him, you can do. You can do it better. Be right back.