SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I’ve heard a lot of things, but this is absolutely ridiculous. Have any of you heard of Randy Clark? I mean, he is probably the top healing evangelist word of knowledge guy in the country. Well my guest has a gift from God to increase your ability in hearing God’s voice. He prayed for Randy Clark and immediately his hearing of God’s voice just skyrocketed. Anyone want your hearing of God’s voice? Me, too. This is so wonderful. You know, Shawn, your parents get saved, I mean, radically saved. An angel comes and visits him. I mean, that’s radical.
SHAWN: It’s crazy.
SID: And then you as a young kid, three, four years of age, you’re in a home group type thing. They get into an amazing home group with John Wimber. I guess they were in his first group.
SHAWN: His very first home group.
SID: But then they had something that they had no paradigm for: you. You, you get saved at what, three or four?
SHAWN: Around four years old.
SID: But not just saved. He begins to speak in tongues of the Holy Spirit. The problem is, his parents had no paradigm. A kid can’t do that. So what happened?
SHAWN: They asked their friends. They’re like, “Do you think this is God? We don’t want to tell him to stop, but he keeps praying in tongues.” And so she asked her friend and she goes, “I just wouldn’t stop him. I’d keep my hands off it and if it’s not God it will go away. If it is God, it’s going to increase.” And it just kept going from there.
SID: And at age six you have your first word of knowledge. How does a six-year-old even know what to do?
SHAWN: I know. Back then, it’s really interesting because we weren’t in an environment where other people were teaching their families about hearing God. And my parents said, we want our kids to go on the journey with us. And so they would ask us when we’d be praying, are you getting anything, and most of the time we’d say no. But that particular time we were praying for a lady’s back and I started, we were praying for a lady and I started to get a word of knowledge about her back, and I could see in my mind’s eye, in my imagination, I could see her back had been injured, and I could see this whole word of knowledge about her back, and I said:
Child: Do you have a back injury?
Woman: Yes.
Child: Can I pray for you.
SHAWN: I touched her exactly where the injury was and we ended up praying, and she gets radically healed. I just remember thinking, yes, God can do anything, me being six. And my parents were like, it’s odd, we’re going to do this with our kids. We’re going to bring them with us.
SID: You know, what happened with you, can you imagine if a generation would start getting their kids saved and filled with the Holy Spirit at four or five, six.
SHAWN: Absolutely.
SID: I mean, you’ve lived a lifetime already as a believer, whereas most people are just starting at your age.
SHAWN: Absolutely. I think of Jesus at 12. It was the most significant age of his life because it’s an identity age. What would it be like if we a whole army of 12-year-olds who were like activated in the Spirit.
SID: I’ll tell you what, I have faith for America. I have faith for any country in the world that that happens to us, a revelation.
SHAWN: Absolutely.
SID: But tell me about a defining moment in your life. You were dying.
SHAWN: I had a parasite from the jungles of Ecuador. They had never seen it in America before. They gave me all the best medicine for the parasite. It wouldn’t die. And so finally they gave me an experimental, and I won’t say which hospital, but they gave me experimental chemo because you’re dying anyway, we’re going to use chemo and a pill. But I thought if I get healed I believe I’m going to go in the entertainment industry and do ministry on the side. I remember one day I woke up, it was January 1, 2001, and I heard God audibly speak, “I am welcoming you back to ministry.” Because I had taken a year off on this health sabbatical. “Welcome back to ministry.” And I thought, ministry, wow, like wait, does that mean you’re going to heal me? Because I wasn’t healed immediately, and actually it was six weeks later I was prayed for by a woman from, I’m sure you’re familiar with the Spokane Healing Rooms, the healing rooms movement. A woman from the Healing Rooms came to my parents’ home group and went over to their home group and she prayed for me, was completely radically healed. Doctors proved, before and after, the parasite was dead.
Man 1: It’s a miracle. There’s no sign of the parasite. You’ve been healed.
Man 2: Thank you, Jesus.
SID: Or you can say the hand of God. But then you had another supernatural event where you had a heavenly visitation. Tell me about that.
SHAWN: So shortly after that [I] was really praying and saying, “God, we need to see Heaven come to Earth. We need to see what you, the atmosphere around you, your love come to Earth and I feel so disconnected from that.” Bill Johnson, pastor, I know many people have heard of him, I hadn’t read his book yet, but I had the same thing with how do we bring Heaven, how can we get this. And I just began to study people throughout history who had heavenly encounters or who had kingdom encounters with Jesus and intimacy. And one day I was invited to go to a conference in Branson, Missouri and I was going down the [unintelligible] Davis, Bobby Conner, James, Jim Bakker, several other people. I think Bishop Bill Hammond was there and I was going down to meet them. And on the way down I was leaving the House of Prayer in Kansas City, where I lived at the time, going down. So I left a group of believers, got gas and then teleported or transported all the way down to Branson in two and a half minutes.
SID: Two and a half minutes?
SHAWN: Two and a half minutes. I had a group of believers.
SID: How many miles was that?
SHAWN: Somewhere around three and half, four hours, I can’t tell you how many miles.
SID: That’s my way to travel, three and a half, four hours.
SHAWN: It’s happened many times, thank you, Jesus. It happened once, do it again. But during that time I had a series of heavenly encounters that lasted in my mind like around an eight-hour period, but it had only been two and a half minutes. And in these encounters many things were shown to me, but I couldn’t remember them all when I came back to the earth. As a matter of fact, when I landed, most of it was removed from my mental memory, but I had walked into situations where I went, oh, this is where God put in me then and I’m ready for it, almost like what the secular would call a déjà vu experience. I’m having a heavenly God encounter where I remember being in that moment prophetically from when I was in Heaven.
SID: Okay. Your gift is setting so many people free. When we come back I want to hear about the prostitute that he had a word of knowledge for that totally changed her life. We’ll be right back.
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