It's Supernatural

SID: So the prophet Malachi says, “Just before the Messiah returns, Elijah is going to show up.” And I believe it’s the spirit of Elijah is going to show up. But tell me about the supernatural prayer of Elijah.

MIKE: Well Elijah stood on his own against 850 false prophets, and it was God’s time to bring revival in Israel. He prayed a prayer, again, that didn’t take a minute to say. But he said, “Oh Lord God, of Abraham and Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel. Let it be known that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant,” and this is key, “and that I have done these things according to your Word.” And then he said, “Lord God, let it be known that you are God, let these people know that you are God and that you have turned their hearts to you again.” Well a number of years ago, I was confronted with a situation where I was outnumbered, too. I was in India and preached to an audience of thousands and thousands of Hindus that, for the most part, had never heard the Gospel before. And I felt this tremendous pressure on me. In fact, toward the end of my message, it was almost like invisible hands were choking me, demonic hands, and I was having to force every word out. Right at the critical moment, a word of knowledge dropped in my spirit and God said, “Call for the deaf and tell them if what you preached is true, every deaf person will hear again. If what you preached is not true, they will not hear and they can throw you out of their city.” Well I didn’t know how critical it was that I respond to that word of knowledge. I didn’t know that behind the stage there were six Hindu men, radical Hindus. Now let me insert here that most Hindu people I find to be the most gentle, loving, tolerant people. Of all the cultures of the world, they’re one of the most gentle and tolerant cultures. But there’s radicals in every culture. And they were creeping up the stairwell with a sledgehammer. There was a big gate with a big padlock preventing break-ins. Well right when I made this call for the deaf, they brought seven deaf persons. Four were totally deaf, three were deaf in one ear. And immediately I got angry at any thought of easing my way into a miracle by praying for one of the ones with one deaf ear. I said, bring me somebody totally deaf. And they brought a 23-year-old young man who had been deaf for five years. I laid hands on him and started to pray, and as soon as I did that, I hear this crunching, crashing sound behind me, and it’s that sledgehammer hitting that padlock that finally clatters to the concrete. Six Hindu men come running in my direction with this fierce angry look on their faces. And I’m looking at them while I’m praying for him, and all of a sudden he jerks out of my hands and starts screaming, “I can hear! I can hear!” The crowd goes wild.

SID: Did you have any thought that he might not hear and that would be it?

MIKE: To be honest with you, yes. There was a war going on my mind, too. But all of a sudden, this group of Hindus stops dead in their tracks. Now remember, I had used an Elijah-like tactic. I said, “God has spoken to me. I’m doing this at his word that if the Gospel that I’m preaching is true, just like Elijah said, if the Lord be God and not Baal, then fire is going to fall from Heaven.” Well I said, “If the Lord Jesus Christ is your true savior, then these are going to be healed.” Now you’d better have a true word from God before you do something like that. But God had it set up so amazingly because the head of the Hindu radical group, the leader, was the next-door neighbor of the man that God healed.

SID: Now is God brilliant or what? We serve a brilliant God.

MIKE: Amazingly. What a genius. I couldn’t have done it any better myself, Lord if I had planned the script. So they stop in their tracks and the leader walks over and starts whispering in his ears, and he repeats the words back. And he shakes his head marveling, and he calls his men over and they all start whispering, and he repeats to them, and they’re all shaking their heads. To be honest with you, I thought it was a pastorally appointed checking committee to verify the miracles.

SID: Not there to kill you.

MIKE: I didn’t know they came to beat me up. Their plan was to beat me up publically then tie me to the bumper of their car and drag me through the city until I was dead. And I asked them the next day when I talked to them, I said, “Why did you want to do that?” And they said, “We wanted to discourage missionary activity.” I said, “Well you would have discouraged me, I guarantee you, if you had done that.” But I didn’t know that’s their motive. So I prayed for the second one, and the second one hears. And in my ignorance, I sent the second one to the checking committee, and they verify, this one is hearing, too. And we went on to the third, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, they all got their hearing. I gave an invitation. Now they’re not just being reached intellectually, they’re being reached supernaturally. And that’s what the early church did.

SID: Now I have a question for you. Can anyone use these supernatural prayers that have supernatural results that you have researched in the Bible? Can anyone use them?

MIKE: Absolutely. It’s the inheritance of every child of God. Now you may not get, when I say you, I mean in general, you may not get a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom to act on, but we can still act on the written word, because that’s power. But Jesus, the Word made flesh, resorted to the written word when he faced off with the devil. And so any believer can say it is written, it is written, it is written.

SID: There is something about these New Covenant prayers that Mike has researched. Tell me about the Hosanna Prayer.

MIKE: Well the Hosanna Prayer ushered in the New Covenant. Actually, the word “Hosanna” is only found in one place in the Bible, and that’s the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. However, it’s drawn from a traditional Hebrew response that is especially shouted during Passover and Tabernacles, “Ha shana,” which means, “Lord save, we beseech thee.” [who saves we beseech thee] So as Jesus is entering into Jerusalem, the crowd comes around him and hundreds of voices shout, “Hosanna! Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!” Well when you shout Hosanna to God, you’re saying, Lord save me. But really in your heart of hearts you’re saying, I believe you’re going to save me. And if you add those words, “in the highest” to it, you’re saying, Lord, I believe you’re going to save me to the highest degree possible for God to save a human being. Save me from sickness, save me from sin, save me from Satan, save me from death, save me from Hell, save me from the grave. He did it. He responded to that prayer. That one word prayer changed the world forever.

SID: Let me ask you something. Kenneth Hagan prayed over a thousand times from the Book of Ephesians, two prayers, Ephesians, Chapter 1:17-20, Ephesians, Chapter 3:14-19. I told you about that and you started praying. What happened when you started praying them?

MIKE: Well what God showed me, and I’ve got to preface it quickly with this, is that those prayers are not just Paul praying for the Ephesian church or another Bible writer praying for some church or person that they’re addressing. But all the scriptures God breathed, the Bible says it was written by the Holy Spirit that holy men of God wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So while Paul was writing that prayer to the Ephesians, that was not just Paul praying for the Ephesians that they would receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation, and the knowledge of God, that they might know the hope of his calling and the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of his power toward those who believe. No, that was the Holy Spirit venting that prayer through Paul and then fanning it out to the entire body of Christ who was going to come into being in that century and yet many centuries later, those of us in the audience here tonight, we are recipients of that prayer. So what God showed me, and I didn’t realize until you told me about Brother Hagan’s revelation, what God showed me is I needed to start accepting those prayers as a done deal. And I started saying, Lord, I receive the spirit of revelation. I receive that power. I receive it right now.

SID: You prayed, quickly for someone right after you had that revelation. What happened?

MIKE: I went to a teen challenge where someone had his face smashed in. He was blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, and I had been praying for that exceeding great power to be manifested. I just barely laid hands on him and he started seeing and hearing again.

SID: Pray right now, right now.

MIKE: In the name of Jesus, I’m going to show Hosanna over every person that is watching this telecast. You shout it where you’re at right now. We’re going to shout Hosanna right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you on the basis of what has already been written in your word. You’ve already said, it is written, I give you power over all the power of the enemy. So we shatter the whole of the enemy right now. We take a authority over strongholds. Cripples are being healed and getting up out of wheelchairs and deaf people are hearing again. Blind people are seeing again. And I feel that radiance of the anointing, Lord. I speak it, that the anointing destroys the yoke. I feel it radiating through the audience. In fact, this audience ought to be praising God with the word “Hosanna” in the highest. Lord, save us. Hosanna in the highest!

SID: Hosanna! Hosanna!

MIKE: Lord, we believe in you saving us, saving us from sin, saving from sickness, saving us from bondage, saving us from mental pressure, saving us! Lift our hands up. Hosanna to you right now, Lord. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

SID: I tell you what, I don’t know how to close it, except the most important supernatural prayer I know, the most important, Romans 10, Verse 9: “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus rose from the dead and believe it in your heart, you shall be saved.”

Sid: My guest by way of telephone I’m speaking to him at his home in Tiberias, Israel is Eric Morey. Eric Morey 19 years ago made Aliyah to Israel from Denver, Colorado. He’s from a non-Jewish background with his wife Terri who is from a Jewish background, they’re really representing the One New Man. This past Passover my wife Joy and I were in Israel and we got together with the Morey’s and he showed me his brand new Zechariah Prophecy Calendar. It’s a 16 month calendar, a Jewish calendar but also a regular calendar too. It’s large it’s 13.5 inches by, and when it’s open, 26 inches because half of it is a beautiful artwork by a Russian Israeli that… but the thing that is so unusual Eric is the… whatever process you used the vibrancy of the colors you don’t expect to see this in a calendar.

Eric: Well we’ve… Sid there’s some very good printers here in Israel and we use one of the best. We’ve watched the process very carefully and it really is gorgeous. The paintings are gorgeous but the printing and the reproduction of them is really outstanding; they just did excellent job and I’m so pleased about it, I’m just very pleased about it. Something that’s really shocking to me too actually the calendar page itself you think well “What’s a calendar page it’s a bunch of squares?” But this calendar page is actually beautiful and it has a beautiful beige background with the normal days of the week, then for the Sabbath which is so important here in the land is a darker beige color so it stands out because the Sabbath is another day, it’s a different day, it’s the 7^th day of the week. Then the holidays are yet another color. Some months like if you look at September, the first month of the calendar, or April 2003, they’re filled with this bluish-purple holidays and filled with scriptures that they read on those holidays in all the synagogues in the world.

Sid: I’d like you… I mean the artwork is so beautiful people should buy this just for the artwork. I would like you to teach a little from the book of Zechariah in reference to some of these paintings.

Eric: These paintings have been selected from the whole book going back to chapter 4 and it starts actually in chapter 2 where the Lord says, quoting Zechariah but he’s quoting the Lord. “For I sayeth the Lord will be a wall of fire round about will be the glory in the midst of her. For he that toucheth you Jerusalem, Israel, the Jewish people, touches the apple of His eye.” That’s where it begins. It goes through the whole book of Zechariah and when we get to chapter 12 it gets more intense because we’re talking about current events here, we’re talking about the nations of the world coming against Jerusalem we see it happening before our eyes. Then shortly thereafter, as the nations of the world actually attack and conquer Jerusalem. Then the Messiah comes and He is standing on the Mount of Olives and the Jewish people are coming out of the pouring. The city is burning in the background because its been destroyed, it says it in Zechariah 14 but the Jews are coming out and Yeshua is standing on the Mount of Olives and He’s got a sword in His hand because it says “He has come to defend His people.” He’s got a crown on His head because He’s their King and they’re recognizing Him. He’s got the 5 wounds in his wrists and His ankles and His side you can see the blood on His robe. It says “They shall look upon Me” God is speaking. “Me whom they have pierced they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth for His only Son.” So this is the great climax of our life here in Israel is to see this happen. We are looking forward to this day…

Sid: I have to ask you, do you believe that you’re going to see this with your eyes? What do you really believe in your heart of hearts Eric?

Eric: You mean in terms of the rapture and all of that?

Sid: In terms of these end time events we are reading about in Zechariah.

Eric: Well I believe we are quite close, you know I’m not naming dates or anything but I believe we are quite close because specifically because you see Israel has been rebirthed as a nation, that’s a unique historical event. You see that the nations are gathering around Jerusalem they cannot ignore… why does CNN care so much about what goes on in this ridiculous dusty little place called Israel? Six-million people, twenty-thousand square miles of nothing and they can’t take their eyes off of it. Every headline of every news program has to do with Israel. Why?

Sid: Look at all the time the White House is occupied with this little dot on the map.

Eric: Hmm hm.

Sid: Israel is the size of Rhode Island.

Eric: It’s all the United Nations can talk about. They can’t talk about anything else.

Sid: I mean that alone would have to intrigue a non-believer. I mean that’s a good apologetic question, why?

Eric: Why? Exactly.

Sid: I mean look at how many people have died in the Sudan, you don’t see so much talk about it, so much outrage of all the… what over a million Christians have been massacred by Muslims there and you don’t see the same outrage. I mean you’ve got to say “There’s something supernatural about Israel.”

Eric: Exactly, something incredible supernatural about Israel, something totally obviously supernatural about Israel. How can you positively ignore it?

Sid: Well teach a little bit more from Zechariah.

Eric: As they begin to recognize in Zechariah 14, Jews are coming out of Jerusalem, and this is an amazing scene. It’s all in this painting this painting is exquisite. You saw it in our home hanging on our wall in our dining room, that’s Zechariah 12:10. Then we link it with 14 because we believe it happens while He’s standing on the Mount of Olives. Then in 14 goes on 5, 4 and 5 and it says “The Mount of Olives will cleave in the midst,” this is a famous passage we know it’s going to happen and as you pointed out earlier there’s actually a geological faults on the Mount of Olives that would allow this to happen. Some cataclysmic event will set it off but the fault lines are there on the Mount of Olives. The mountain splits open to the north and to the south. The refugees coming out of Jerusalem will flee through the Mount of Olives through this crack in the Mount of Olives to the valley, it calls it the Valley of the Mountain, to a place called Azahela. Now there is no historical place called Azal and there is no modern place called Azal. Fact is in Azal in Hebrew means the strength or the power of God.

Sid: Hmm.

Eric: Hozel, they’re fleeing toward the power or the strength of God. Then the very next verse says “And the Lord will come and all the holy ones with thee.” It’s the second coming of Christ all of this is happening very very rapidly. It’s like fast forward it’s all happening very rapidly. Then it all slows down and you get this incredible millennium scene and it says “It shall be in that day” this is Zechariah 14:8. “In that day living waters show go out from Jerusalem, half of them toward towards the former sea and half of them towards hinder sea.” In other words they’re going to flow east and west, the former sea one of them being the Mediterranean one of them being the Dead Sea. Toward the hinder sea and summer and winter shall it be. So we’ve got this incredible painting of the Mount of Olives is split open, you see Jerusalem and the waters are coming out from under the eastern gate flowing down through this valley made in the Mount of Olives and on down towards the Dead Sea. So the Dead Sea will actually become fresh water there will be fish down there. You know today I don’t know if you’ve read the last few days… you know I always take these things with a grain of salt. I like to check them out about 15 times because there’s so much hysteria that goes… but there are actually water coming out of the Wailing Wall.

Sid: Hmm.

Eric: Started a few days ago. There’s water seeping out between some of the Herodian stones in the Wailing Wall. You can imagine what the Jerusalem syndrome prophetic types are saying about that. The archeologists are saying “Well probably some pipe broken in there and we better stop it up fast.” It’s actually water leaking out now on the face of the Wailing Wall on the Temple Mount. Well this is going to happen water is going to come out from under the Temple Mount, huge amounts of it and it’s going to flow towards the east and it’s going to flow towards the west. Then… this is such an idealic scene, and then finally in Zechariah 14:16 very very last verses in the prophecy of Zechariah. It says “And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem.” Whoever is left, I mean you think Israel is… you think Jerusalem is left is left defenseless? No, the Lord Himself will defend Jerusalem. Whoever survives that shall even go up year to year to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Sid: This artwork is so magnificent Mishpocha.

Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Anna Rountree I’m talking to her in her home in which I had the privilege of being in with her husband in Moravian Falls, North Carolina. When I was there the snow was coming down and the trees were there and the air was clean and it was just so enjoyable. Anna’s been blessed to go to heaven 100’s of times and she’s recorded it in a book “The Heaven’s Opened.” Now Anna I promised on yesterday’s broadcast that I have so many questions. You know anyone that’s been to heaven hundreds of times I’ve got lots of questions for but one thing that I’ve heard from others that have had visitations to heaven and it kind of intrigues me and that’s the parts room.

Anna: Hmm hm.

Sid: Did you actually see this?

Anna: Yes I did.

Sid: Tell me about it.

Anna: Well it was very bright in it and it and there were different parts of bodies there! You would think that it would be gruesome but it wasn’t it was like a hold a place of holding it a distribution center I guess you might call it something like that a distribution center. And they were preparing to make these parts available to people.

Sid: And like you also told me that you saw angels in schools, so to speak, for the next move of God’s Spirit of the miraculous tell me about that.

Anna: Yes they were training to accompany believers on earth for the next move of God in a healing revival. And they said that there would be 2 angels this time with each person who would be receiving this gift. And there were 100’s of maybe 1000’s of angels that were training and that was only one training that I saw I’m sure that there were other trainings going on, or there had been those that had already graduated you know and were with the people then.

Sid: You say in your book that the Lord was really sad over the say the last healing revival because the people that had this gifting didn’t disciple others and just kind of used it for their own benefit.

Anna: Yes, yes Sid the angels were some of those angels that were with those particular ministries told about that they were sad, that they were very saddened. And for this reason the Lord was going to give 2 angels with each person this time and they’re were going to be many more. Because there were not that many in the last move of the Spirit for healing I mean a great move of God not just…

Sid: Well let’s fact it even today there are not that many that move in the miraculous in the United States.

Anna: Oh that’s right because it really takes the Lord initiating and we can have people who move in power here and there and who have gifts of healing when they’re under the anointing and their here and there but for a great move of God only God can do it. (Laughing.)

Sid: I’m reminded I had the privilege of knowing Kathryn Kuhlman and she used to tell the story of she said “I won’t be here but a day is coming in which Christians will go into a hospital and clear the whole hospital out.” Do you see that?

Anna: Yes I do I think that things are going to be completely so extraordinary miraculous but we must prepare now to be containers to hold that glory you might say. Because everyone just sort of waits and hops like bunnies or something from one move of God to the next but they’re unwilling to go through the cleansing and maturing the Lord needs to truly hold the greater anointing.

Sid: Anna I consider myself a great cheerleader for God and an encourager and I want people to know how to get from Step A to Step B. One of my big problems in life is that I have a very logical type of mind and in faith that sometimes is a problem, but be a coach right now and tell me how to get to that next point and we’ll let our Mishpochah ease drop.

Anna: (Laughing)

Sid: How do I prepare? What should I be doing?

Anna: Well I think a lot of people ask that Sid when the answer is just painfully simple you know. It’s seek God and be obedient. It’s do what He says in the word and desire Him more than life itself.

Sid: Well let me ask you a personal thing.

Anna: Yeah.

Sid: I didn’t happen to notice I wasn’t looking for it but do you and your husband watch much television?

Anna: No.

Sid: Is someone that say gets home at night and as a form of unwinding watch sports or listens nothing bad you know news and spends a few hours every night just relaxing before the television. Is that something God might want us to put down?

Anna: Well you know each person is in an individual place before God. We actually got digital television up here and we thought “Oh this is wonderful” And we got it and you know had it connected here because we’re interested in it for the news. And as we looked at that even the news it was the visual part of it you see that visual it… oh we used to hear radio a lot especially those of our age growing up and it did not consume you as the visual and the audio can, it can consume you. And we disconnected it we didn’t have it even a month and that was for the news but that’s us that’s where the Lord has us. We don’t feel that we’ve got time for that. You know we’re down here not for ourselves but for Him.

Sid: But wait a second you’re not running all over the country speaking at conventions, you’re not doing television. I think that it’s even miraculous that I have you even on radio. So what are you doing with your time you’re not watching television, you’re out in the woods with (Laughing) you were snowed in for a week what are you and your husband doing with your time?

Anna: Oh my God we barely have enough time. We have we must be with the Lord and we have to pray. Many people want us to pray for them and we do and we don’t just say I’ll pray for you and walk off at the supermarket. We actually put that down and we listen for God and we study the word; my gosh there’s almost not enough time to do what we’re doing now we don’t know. We say to ourselves “How did we have the time to pastor that last church I mean we’re just blown away that we had the time.”

Sid: When you go to heaven is it a dream, is it a vision, is it you’re just in prayer, explain to me the last time you went to heaven what you were doing and how and the circumstances?

Anna: Well it’s all so different I would say I believe that it was John that said “I was there” you know and Paul said it also “I was there.” You are there and…

Sid: I mean you just close your eyes and your there is that what your saying?

Anna: No, no, no I wait for the Lord to let me know that He wants me to come up.

Sid: Alright the Lord says…

Anna: I pray and worship him and if He wants me to come up then He will tell me to come up and He provides the way and there are many ways in going up. One of them is just through a tunnel and sometimes He just lifts you up. Sometimes you’re going different ways you know stairways and things of this sort. I have a theory and it certainly not told to me by the Lord, but there are 15 ascents in the Bible and I think that there are probably 15 main ways of going to heaven. I think that they were really…what was given there in the Psalms was much more supernatural with a greater knowledge of the Lord and then you know of what we have than what is there today.

Sid: When you go to heaven how long might this take?

Anna: Well you mean just traveling there?

Sid: No not the time to travel but the visitation?

Anna: Well sometime they last 5 hours.

Sid: Is your husband ever in the room when you go to heaven.

Anna: Well he was the first time now not because I set aside the time to do this but he was actually there the first time I was actually there the first time I was taken up into heaven.

Sid: On tomorrow’s broadcast I want you to tell me a bit about the first time you were taken up into heaven. Was it scary?

Anna: No no it’s just that I was not sure that it was what I thought it was I just…it was very different I had seen angels down here intermittently I wasn’t seeing angels all the time. You know and I didn’t address them and they didn’t address me and you see them. And this was one who an angel who addressed me and required me to do something you know.

Sid: What did he require you to do?

Anna: He said “Come forward.” And there were these curtains that were I could only see the first one an angel standing beside the opening in the curtain. They were very thin and there was light coming through them they were blue but they…

Sid: I’ll tell you what hold that though we’ll pick up right here on tomorrow broadcast Mishpochah.

Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Dr. Michael Brown President of Fire School Ministry in Pensacola, Florida and New York City. The Pensacola branch will shortly move in the fall to Charlotte, North Carolina. I’m interviewing him this week on his latest book “Revolution in the Church.” And on yesterday’s broadcast you were talking about a school and I had to interrupt you would you pick up there and explain.

Michael: Well we were talking about the authoritarian control and the whole view of competition instead of looking to just expanding the kingdom. And there’s one school and I’m sure they do a lot of good there and there’s a lot of teaching and preaching and training but if you graduate from this particular Bible school you have sign an agreement that you will not plant a church within 100 miles of that school because it’s in conjunction of another church and they don’t want any competition.

Sid: Well wait that’s standard in business to have a non-compete clause, that’s very standard. What’s the matter with you Mike?

Michael: This world it’s not the Kingdom of God we’re fathering another generation to go out and continue the work of God, we have no competition, we have only colleagues in the Kingdom.

Sid: Yes but they may steal some of MY Sheep!

Michael: That’s the treacherous thing and listen we’ve have been in involved in churches and leadership for years I don’t go into any city…

Sid: I thought we were God’s sheep by the way.

Michael: Yeah.

Sid: (Laughing)

Michael: It’s the flock that was purchased with the blood of Jesus it’s His we are under shepherds in His flock. And I don’t go anywhere normally to minister but I get invitations from leaders in that particular city, pastors, and leaders. I work with them around the world I honor them but I know that I know that I know that there’s so much junk and cardinality and competition and worldly political ways of thinking that infiltrate the church that that’s so dangerous, that’s so detrimental. And you see we’re in a state were in today Sid because there was a counter culture revolution in the 1960’s with the sexual revolution and rock music and the rebellion and drugs and some good things like civil rights for most part the nation was trained in a detrimental way. And the church basically slept its way from the counterculture revolution. I document this in kind of shocking terms in the second chapter of “Revolution in the Church.” And I believe we’re in revolutionary times again I believe that society is bubbling with change and boiling with upheaval that can go either way. And either there’s going to be a heaven sent revolution, or there’s going to be a hell bent revolution. But we cannot afford to sleep our way through another revolution we’ve got to have radical dramatic sweeping change in the church going back to the word of God if we’re going to see any type of revolution and radical dramatic and sweeping change in society.

Sid: Well but you point out in your book that historically the old move of God always persecutes the new move of God. Why is that we all want God what causes us people that are pioneers in the last move of God persecute those that are involved in the next move?

Michael: Here’s what happens, we basically we in the word, we’re praying, we’re seeking God and we see something’s wrong we see something needs to change but we begin cry out it happens in every generations it happens with every group. Generally in the early stages there’s movement we’re moving forward we are making change. Then in a certain point the main group will tend to be threatened by it threatening my kingdom I’ve become established. Once we become established by our very nature we don’t like movement any more. You know it’s one thing when you live in a little tent and every 6 months you have to pull up that tent and move, it’s another thing when you build your headquarters for 50 million dollars you’re not exactly interested in moving. It’s one thing when you’re in the infancy stage is to be forming beliefs and doctrines it’s another thing when you’ve got it all canonized and in writing and this is the official statement change is a little harder. And so once a personal kingdom or a denominational kingdom or a group kingdom becomes established, once the movement is no longer moving but becomes established it’s threatened by movement. So what will happen is that people within an organization be it in the Methodist, or people in the Baptist, or people in the Pentecostals, or whatever it is or one particular denomination within that they say “We’ve got to get back to the word we’ve gotten lazy, we’ve gotten compromised, we’ve gotten stuck in tradition, we’ve gotten cold, we’ve become political, we’ve lost our cutting edge the powers not with us. And people begin to agree and they begin to seek God and that is tolerated as long as it does not threaten the system itself but once the very system, once the hierarchical structure of it is challenged by the word it now becomes a threat and rather than being allowed to bring change within the thing those people generally get put out. Whether it was the Wesley’s getting put out of the William Booth getting put out or the early Pentecostals getting put out those people get put out and once they’re put out they say “Wow there’s a lot I didn’t really agree with, there’s a lot I see differently.” They kind of go through this new discovery period (chuckling) but after awhile they tend to make the same mistake they have a Kingdom, they have an organization, they have a financial base that they have to preserve, they have leadership that’s been around for years that is its own position etcetera etcetera. If we’re not careful with all of our claims about being the new wineskin we can just become the old wineskin. And so somehow we have to cultivate a spirit of humility within us honors the rest of what God’s doing in the Body. I do not set myself up as the judge and say “You’re the established church, you’re the institutional church, you’re the old wine skin.” My goal is I’m going to pursue Jesus and see to be faithful in what He’s given us to do in the great commission as long as there is a dying world out there, as long as the lost sheep of the House of Israel are not saved those there a billions Muslims that don’t know the Lord, as long as people die in sickness and disease without the power of God let’s throw ourselves in and make a difference. The moment we think that we have become it, the moment that we make the distinction between us and them we are now Pharisees just the same as the New Testament Pharisees were and that’s the danger. It can happen to any of us and as his history goes on and on its repeated itself over and over and over. And Paul writes about it in Galatians 4 “That which is born of the flesh will persecute that which is born of the spirit.” And we must avoid becoming established to the point that we no longer embrace movement in God and movement in the Spirit.

Sid: So what does someone do that is caught up in for lack of better words the last movement of God’s Spirit which in my book is dead religion a form that’s all just a form. We don’t see what the new is yet yet we do see some of the things that we want in the new and we don’t want to be rebels in the church so what do you do?

Michael: First thing is deal with your own heart, make sure that you haven’t been burned to the point of getting skeptical or accosted. Make sure that your own heart is humble before the Lord, make sure that you don’t turn to gossip or divisive towards that which you’re been part of or to leadership that you’ve worked with. And if you cannot with your whole heart throw yourself in with the people that you’ve been part of honor them, bless them, don’t fight them, to opposed them, don’t malign them but ask God to connect you with a group of other believers and other leaders who have the same heart to make a difference for Jesus. And if you feel more secure staying in one place until you know the next place to go that’s fine, but recognize you are not just by yourself you’re a part of a large worldwide army of hungry and thirsty people that are saying “There must be something more.” And there are leaders listening to me now it may cost you everything.

Sid: Pension, income, money, money, money isn’t that the bottom line with a lot of people Mike?

Michael: It can be a trap and it’s not always just carnal because we are supporting missionaries and we’re feeding the poor and we have the church staff and we need the income of the people to keep these good works going but either it’s God or it’s not. And there are leaders listening to me and you know that you just need to do what God is telling you to do. There may be approach there maybe misunderstanding which is why you walk in humility and you bless and not curse. I’m telling you something is happening and is radical revolutionary and biblical. And we can be part of the greatest move that any of us ever dreamed of I believe God’s heart is bursting to do it in the earth today and He’s waiting for us to say “Here I am Lord count me in.”

Sid: And how does humility play with someone that wants to be a pioneer?

Michael: Well you see God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble and we have to recognize that Lord I’m not your answer to the entire world I am not the elite spiritual remnant of the last days Joel, Gideon army no no here I am Lord just a servant but I want to be faithful and this is what I see in You word and this is what I’m hearing together with the other leaders and this is what I have to do. If you’ll just do it and run your race, if you don’t…you don’t have to judge everybody else maybe they’re doing what they’re called to do maybe they’re not but I’m called to do. That’s why humility is an essential quality for pioneer to the extent I’ve got self will, rebellion stuff in it to the extent I just want to pull away and do my own thing I get out of doge thing to the extent I say “Father here I am however this looks to other people, whatever the cost, whatever the consequences in my own life I’m going to simply run the race You’ve given me to run.” And you do it in a way not as if you’re discovering the whole secret of the universe but just you’re obeying Jesus and there’s no limit of how God can use you. And you may end up being a pioneer that history books write about or no one may know your name but either way you’ve been obedience you’ve been a world changer, you’ve been a revolutionary, you’ve been a disciple.

Sid: Very quick tell me about 1 pioneer, less than half a minute.

Michael: Well John Wesley lived 1703 to 1791. The French revolution swept through France and brought all kinds of destruction, violence, anarchy and it didn’t touch England because of Wesleyan Methodist Revolution. As the fruit of his ministry there ended up being others raised up like Wilberforce that abolished slavery and not just in England but that led to the abolition of slave trade in America. People say “You cannot understand 20^th century England or America without understanding Wesley of the 1700’s.”

Sid: Sid Roth here with Kynan Bridges. Kynan I promised people that and this is so important that you would address the question “Who do you think you are?”

Kynan: You know Sid several years ago when I was a very young believer and I was not as proficient in spiritual warfare and deliverance as I am today. I had an encounter that really reset my life and rocked my world to tell you the truth. And I was in school and a friend of mine called me and said “I want to come talk with you.” And I had another friend that was staying with me at the time and when this friend called me his voice was different something was wrong I knew I discerned that something was wrong. It was a dark a darkness that I perceived over the phone and shortly after he arrived at my home my apartment at the time and of course I’m single and I met at this time and I want to talk with you and there’s a darkness I feel all over him. And he begins to manifest and if you ever seen the movie “Alice in Wonderland” there was a person called a Cheshire cat. And he literally began to contort and his face turned into the grimace of a Cheshire cat that was the most disturbing thing you’ve ever seen. And he looks at me and he comes close to my face and he says “Who do you think you are?” You know Satan is a liar but even his lies his lies that he tells point to a greater truth a question behind a question and that question changed my life Sid. He said “Who do you think you are?” Or the spirit inside of him said “Who do you think you are?” And that question sparked something inside of me and all I knew to respond with is these words “I’m a child of God.” And he comes closer and he says “I can rip you apart but this guy was about 250 pounds a martial artist I mean he really could accomplish his threat. And instead of fear something inside of me rose up because I wanted to run but something inside of me rose up and I said “Satan you can’t hurt me I’m a child of God in the name of Jesus I command these wicked spirits, these demons to come out of you right now in Jesus name.” And after a few moments he began to shake violently and hit the ground boom! It’s almost like an earthquake underneath my feet. Seconds later he got up and he was completely free and back into his right mind but that question changed my life because that is the key to experience breakthrough knowing who we are in Christ our identity. The problem Sid is that the majority of church is in an identity crisis. Most believers or most Christians or people that go to church believe they are their circumstances, they believe they are they’re addictions, they are their struggles. And it is that identity crisis that gives rise to demonic oppression, but the moment that we realize who we are in Christ is the moment that we can begin to release the Kingdom authority God’s given us. Why? Because who we are or our identity is the carrier of our authority.

Sid: You know what comes to me the scripture “How can two walk together unless they be agreed.” Are you agreeing with the identity that’s put upon you by the devil or are you agreeing with the identity that Jesus is living inside of you?

Kynan: That’s why I mean think about this for a second. Homosexuality, sexual perversion what is the deception there? Even embracing the term homosexual as a part of the enemies plan because he wants people to believe that they are desires instead of putting the desires under the blood of Jesus and allowing our spirit man to take control verses our flesh. This is the key I have ministered to 1000 of people and have seen 1000’s set free of things that society said, psychiatrists said, doctors said they could never be set free of Sid. But I’m telling…in fact I feel this I need to share this. The Lord gave me a in fact I don’t know if it was a vision or not but we were praying one night and I had this encounter where it was as if I left wherever I was that church sanctuary. And all of a sudden instantly as I closed my eyes I was in the courtyard of heaven. It was actually a beautiful courtyard with golden pillars, a floor made of pearl the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. Now adjacent to this courtyard was a throne room. Now I didn’t see Jesus in this vision and I didn’t see God but there were other people there with me other angels or so forth and all of a sudden there was oil that began to run down from the throne and it saturated the courtyard and my feet were covered. And I heard the Lord say “I am purifying my church.” And instantly boom I’m back inside of my body, I’m back in that sanctuary and I begin to ponder that and I was speaking with a friend of mine and we were talking about what this really meant. Through this conversation the Lord revealed to me is that what God is doing Sid is that He is releasing from His throne an anointing that is going to restore the foundations of the body of Christ and bring the church back into her Kingdom identity. And once that happens Sid we’re going to see miracles that we’ve never seen before, we’re going to see the church return to the Book of Acts. And what happened in the Book of Acts? The blind eyes were open, the lepers were cleansed, demons were cast out this is what Jesus commanded us to do but we can’t do it unless we know who we are and whose we are.

Sid: You know I believe that there’s an identity crisis among Christians and therefore an identity crisis even in the church. What does our birthright as born again believers entitle us to?

Kynan: You know this is an amazing thing. If you study the book of Ephesians one of the most beautiful books in the Bible. Sometimes the most difficult to understand but packed with more revelation than you can imagine. And Ephesians l tell us we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. The Greek word Eulagia which is analogist and synonymous with the birth right with the Hebraic tradition. You know I love studying Hebrew roots Sid and understanding the foundation of our faith in our Messiah Jesus. And one of the things that was prevalent throughout the Old Testament, and even prevalent today, is the idea of a blessing and oral blessing. You know the birth right was given to the eldest son in the home to carry on the linage, the covenant and even the physical resources of the home. You know even in the Jewish custom today we have Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs that are designed to bless it’s a coming of age it’s a coming into your manhood or your womanhood and receiving the blessings of the elders of the community. Well guess what Sid the same thing happened through Jesus Christ. You know when Jesus walked the earth the Father spoke to Him and said “This is my beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased.” He started his ministry with the birthright blessing of the Father. And when Jesus went to the cross died and resurrected He gave the church a birthright He blessed us He spoke well of us and this is our inheritance. In other words this birthright Sid gives us access to all of the heavenly resources that God has made available. We are coheirs or we are joint heirs with Jesus we literally have heaven waiting at our beckoning call. Now I want people to let that sink in. The next time that they have a nightmare or the next time they feel sickness in their body or the next time they’re tempted to fear I want them to think about the magnanimous birthright that God has given us. It is mind boggling to think about the fact that the Father in heaven calls us blessed, the Creator of the universe calls us His blessed sons and daughters. Which means there is nothing that we don’t have access to that there is nothing that we can’t walk in. God wants to give us all that He has everything that we have, everything He has is ours in Christ as we surrender ourselves to this Kingdom identity. I tell rights that you don’t know you have Sid the rights that you don’t know how to fight for. Before you can fight for something you’ve got to know what you’re entitled to and it’s time for the church to realize what she is really entitled to.

Sid: You talk about four strategies of the devil, tell me those four.

Kynan: Now this is so important for people to understand because if you don’t understand the strategies of the enemy…you know I’m often reminded of Napoleon Bonaparte and nothing against him, but he was a brilliant military strategist late 1700’s 1800’s and he was able to conquer so many nations and kingdoms. That little small island of…that little land mass called France was able to be a powerhouse because of military strategy. And the same way Satan, though he is I call him a wimp. He is extremely intelligent in terms of military strategy.

Sid: But aren’t you fearful to call Satan a wimp?

Kynan: You know I’m actually not I’m going to tell you why I learned this from Smith Wigglesworth. You know the story goes that Smith Wigglesworth late one night he heard a rambling one night in his apartment or his flat in England. You know he felt that something was going on downstairs so he walked down stairs. And literally as the story goes Satan was standing in his living room. And so Wigglesworth kind of moved some of the cold from his eyes and he looked at him and said “Oh it’s just you I’m going back to bed” and went back to sleep. And I believe it’s the same thing you know he only has these….

Sid: Is that what the Bible means “Give no place to the devil.”

Kynan: Give no place to him. You know I want you to think about something Sid when Jesus walked the earth and demons were present for example the Gadarene demoniac. This man was said to have a legion of demons inside of him. A legion in Roman culture was between 7 and 10,000 Roman soldiers. So I want you to think about this this man had up to 10,000 demons inside of him at the same time. And yet the Bible says “Immediately when the man saw Jesus he fell to the ground to worshiped him and said…and the demons said ‘Have mercy on us…

Sid: Hm.

Kynan: Have you come to torture us before the time?’” Now when’s the last time you’ve seen that in the church service? When’s the last time…

Sid: Well when’s the last time you saw deliverance period in a church service.

Kynan: (Laughing) And that’s the paradigm we’re returning to. Sid I want to release and impartation of the power and the anointing of God the authority of God to where Satan can take the backseat that he deserves. We need to put him in the outhouse and drive him out of our family, our finances, our fellowships, our ministries, our lives our minds, our emotions our physical bodies. And I believe this is the key you know Satan can only do four things. The first thing he does he tries to tempt the people of God. Now temptation means that he tries to take desires twist them and draw us away into sin. That’s the way he did to Eve in the Garden of Eden, that’s what he tried to do to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4 when Jesus was being tempted in the wilderness. But the way to overcome temptation is the same way that Jesus overcame temptation with the word of God. The Bible tells us in Revelation that “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.” Number 2 the second thing that the devil tries to do is deceive us. You know Jesus understood this He said “You shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.” In other words what does truth do? Truth breaks the power of deception. You know I was traveling to Sierra Leon I was in Freetown and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and Sid this was amazing He said “Kynan I have granted unto you the mantle of truth” and He said “The mantle of truth is the key to releasing miracle anointing.” I said God “What do you mean?” He said “When Jesus walked the earth He was releasing truth to My people and it was the power of the truth that set them free. And in the same way is it’s the power of the truth that breaks the power of deception. Every area of bondage in a person’s life is connected to a lie they have believed about God themselves or others. So the key to freedom is receiving the truth. Once you know the truth, once you intimately are acquainted with that truth and that truth becomes revelatory becomes experiential when that happens Sid it drives out the lies that keep God’s people bound.

Sid: Tell me the other strategies of the devil.

Kynan: Number 3 is distraction. You know Satan is interesting if you remember when Moses went to go see Pharaoh which was a type of Satan Pharaoh represented Lucifer, or a Luciferian spirit, and when Moses confronted Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus the Bible says that he came to Pharaoh and said “Let my people go.” And when Pharaoh really refused Moses put his staff down and his staff became a serpent, this was the sign God gave Moses to give to Pharaoh. After this Pharaoh tried to imitate that miracle and put down staff that also became serpents through his musicians. Well guess what “The serpent of God or the staff of Moses consumed or devoured the serpents of the enemy.” Now what’s the point of that? Those serpents manifesting from Pharaoh were a sideshow to take the attention off the power of God. And this is the same way that the enemy operates he’s always trying to take our mind and our attention off of God. He does it through anxiety, he does it through sickness. These are all distractions and that’s why the Bible tells us to give him no place. And the forth areas if oppression. And you know once Satan can’t affectively tempt a believer, once Satan can’t affectively deceive a believer and he can’t distract a believer he throws a temper tantrum and he tries to oppress the believer. Now we see this in the Book of Acts where Herod began to stretch forth his hands and to vex the church. He actually killed a James the brother of Jesus and was attempting to do the same thing to Peter he put Peter in prison. But the church had enough revelation to understand that we’re not going to tolerate the oppression of the devil, we’re not going to allow the enemy to control us and they stood their ground. You know Satan is a bully and I’ll tell you the only way to get rid of a bully is to stand your ground don’t give in to him. And when you show the devil that you’re not going to lay down and play dead he realizes that he needs to find another party to go to because this party is no longer happening anymore.

Sid: You can tell as Kynan Bridges is teaching you right now he’s not a normal teacher he has such deep insight. He studies the Hebrew roots of the scriptures and his insight of the scriptures is I believe very supernatural…It’s going to dramatically impact your life. Why? Because he not only teaching from scripture but he teaches from first-hand experience. He talks about the difference of your own thoughts and the devils thoughts. He shows how the devil plants these thoughts inside of you. He’ll teach you how to develop your spiritual skills so that you’ll be a winner in every arena. And then perhaps the best part of your book Kynan is the powerful prayers over darkness that are biblical. God doesn’t want you to just coexist over those what you consider those things that you’re stuck with as a human. No, no, no! I just wish I had this book 40 years ago when I was tackling the demonic realm I didn’t know where to go, who to talk to all I knew was that there’s greater power in the name of Jesus than all the demons in hell. But I could have avoided years of struggling….Let me tell you something that I just got a text message a friend of mine that lives in Israel is going to a major gathering of Jewish people. He said that there’ll be 10,000 Israeli Jews there and he’s going to pass out a flyer about our television show “It’s Supernatural.” Now “It’s Supernatural” is not just in English it’s in English, it’s in Hebrew, it’s in Arabic and it’s in Russian. And we’re on the air literally we’re taking over the airwaves of Israel. Because I believe the greatest revival the world has ever seen is about ready to happen in Israel. And I believe the scripture that says “The word of the Lord will go out from Zion.” That’s the way it started and that’s the way it’s going to finish. Now when we come back I want you to get more of this teaching and understanding from Kynan because the more you understand your Kingdom identity it’ll be impossible for the devil to put any foothold and lying symptoms upon you. You’ll just start laughing be right back.