Sid: My guest by way of telephone at his home in Lincoln Park, New Jersey is Robert Inguanzo. Robert was a drug addict instantly set free, no desire whatsoever. He went to bed one night and the next morning totally sovereignly set free. He gets married, he has a baby his wife is pregnant with the second baby, happiest man on earth. Goes in for a simple minor surgery takes a blood test finds out that he’s HIV positive, he doesn’t even believe it’s true because here he’s preaching the gospel, sharing his testimony, he’s been set free from drugs, his wife is a pastor’s daughter they love the Lord. What happened next Robert?
Robert: Well when they told me I was infected with the virus that causes AIDS I didn’t believe it at all so what I did was I went to another doctor. I went total to 4 different places to get tested and they all told me the same thing that I was infected and that I had to get my wife tested and my daughter because you know most likely 99% sure they would also be infected. And I remember I would get into my…
Sid: Excuse me did they indicate the 99% that they would be infected where did you get that in your head from?
Robert: No from them they said you know that most likely.
Sid: Huh.
Robert: Of course you know we had a normal life my wife and I and we were married…
Sid: So now you think that your whole family’s got a death sentence.
Robert: Exactly.
Sid: Hm.
Robert: Well I didn’t understand I’m thinking to myself Lord I’m saying to God “How can you permit this why didn’t you tell me this before why didn’t you let me find out before? Here I am my wife is going to die, my daughter, my unborn is going to die. I mean it got to a point Sid where I actually doubted God I was questioning Him so much I didn’t understand why He would permit all of this. Finally we went and we got a blood test and I give God all of the praise that my wife was negative, my daughter was negative which meant that my unborn daughter was also negative. And that to me was a such a…such a miracle you know.
Sid: Yes but it’s a miracle now that your family doesn’t have a death sentence but what about you Robert?
Robert: Right the problem was me, so what I did I went to a special doctor a special disease doctor and they started checking me to see how my immune system was and how my viral load was. And my viral load was very high, high viral load is 5000 it got to a point awhile after that a couple of years after that it went up to 500,000. And when that happens your open to any kind of disease.
Sid: You whole immune system is shot.
Robert: Exactly, exactly and I remember the first thing I got I started coughing one day and went a few days and coughing more and I couldn’t stop coughing. And finally my pastor’s wife tells me “Listen you’ve got to go to the hospital if it’s nothing you’ll be relaxed meanwhile here you are you’re all worried let’s go to the hospital let’s go to the emergency room and you’ll know it might be nothing.”
Sid: Yeah it might be a lot of people with HIV get tuberculosis.
Robert: That’s what I was afraid of and when I got there that’s what they told me I had tuberculosis.
Sid: Hm.
Robert: And after that I started getting this terrible itch all over my body they said that it was some called Yosophilic Folliculitis and there was no cure for that. And Sid that was horrible I remember I was…I had to be scratching all day and even at night I used to wake up in the morning and the sheets on my bed sometimes was stained with blood because even while I was sleeping I would be scratching myself. After that I started getting headaches and they had to do a spinal tap. When they did the spinal tap they found out I had something called cryptococcal meningitis and I had to be on this treatment with this very toxic medication called Amphotericin B.
Sid: Sometimes the medications cause bigger problems than what they’re trying to solve.
Robert: Right, right, right. And it was 21 days I had to be in the hospital, it was a very strong medication and after the 21 days they did an MRI and a CATSCAN and all of that. They found out that because of the medication I had a scar in my brain. The medication left a scar on my brain. After that I was in church I was doing something in church and I remember was the last thing I remember was I held my head and I remember I said “I don’t feel good.” And I just passed out and when they took me to the hospital they told me I had a seizure. Every time I would like bend down one day I remember I was in the hospital in the morning and I’m washing my face and I dropped the towel and when I go to pick it up you know you bend down and the blood rushed to my head and I had another seizure in the bathroom. And I remember crying out to the Lord and saying “Lord I don’t want to die in the bathroom of a hospital” and I’m shaking and shaking and I had no control of my hands or anything I just passed out. And some how I ended up outside of the bathroom and when I came to there were all nurses all around me and trying to inject me with Dilantin. And I went home and I went home and one day in the morning I remember also I’m opening the medication and then I spilled the bottle and I bend down again to pick up the medication and I have another seizure. And one thing that I didn’t want was that my daughter to see me having a seizure. So I remember I rushed and through myself on the sofa because they were upstairs in the bedroom, and I went through the seizure alone for about ½ hour. But I had many seizures after that and I remember that when I would have the seizure I wouldn’t be able to talk or I had no control of arms or anything my whole body would get numb, but that Sid that’s when I felt the closest to the Lord. I remember the Lord would reveal Himself to me in so many different ways. That’s when he taught me how to pray for example I always asked the Lord “Lord how can somebody pray like the Apostle Paul says “Praying without ceasing.” You know I always ever since I read that I always wanted to know how to pray I mean that’s like praying 24 hours a day. And the Lord showed me 3 different ways to pray 3 different levels. The first level is praying in English, or whatever language, human language. The second level He showed me was tongues you know and the third level is the prayer of silence the prayer where you don’t speak it’s like your spirit communicating with the Lord. When I would have a seizure I wouldn’t be able to talk or anything He showed me how to communicate with the Holy Spirit with my Spirit. And Sid it was so beautiful it was so beautiful…
Sid: Out of curiosity while all of this was going on did you try alternative medicine?
Robert: Oh yes oh yes I tried so many different things. I remember I went to New York I found out about this doctor from Switzerland. He would give me all of these vitamin drips, I would go three times a week to get these vitamins drips. After that I also went to a guy that he was a doctor but his license suspended and I went to all of these ozone injections where they would take blood out of my arm, they would put it into a bottle and then they would inject the bottle the blood in the bottle with ozone. Ozone is O3 and then they would shoot it back into my arm and that would clean my body out of any infection or anything. And I would also take ozone baths Sid I would do anything, anything because I didn’t want to die for my family that’s what I kept thinking. But my immune system wouldn’t get any stronger even though I felt alright my immune system wouldn’t get any stronger. Until one day they told me about this other medication that came from Germany somewhere in Germany and it was very expensive over there in Germany it was $200 by the time it got to me it was $2,500 because they had to smuggle it in and they had to pay somebody extra and this and that so it was very expensive, but it started to work. They would shoot it into my veins and it started to work. Every month my immune system would triple and so it got to a point where it was back to normal and I was so happy and I kept telling everybody “See I did it, I did it.” That’s very dangerous when you take the credit for something like that. And I remember one day when I go back to get another shot I noticed that there was a bunch of different cars there and I said “Why because you get to know whose there and all of that.” And I see when I knock on the door I see that there’s all of these cops inside and I asked what happened, what happened and they said the man was arrested and they took all of his machinery he had, all of the medications and all of that and it was like my heart just dropped because I knew that this was my last chance to get well and my whole life just dropped and I came home I was so sad. And I told my wife “Listen that’s it I’m not going to try anything else whatever God wants if I’m going to die that’s it I can’t take it anymore.”
Sid: Well what was going on with your body then?
Robert: Well when I was taking the medication…
Sid: No no after you stopped?
Robert: Oh after I stopped that’s when I really started getting sick that’s when I got something called toxoplasmosis, which is a parasite that will eat your brain up. And…
Sid: I mean it’s gone from bad to worse hold that thought we’ll pick up right here on tomorrow’s broadcast….
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Sid: Now all this week I’ll be talking about exciting news that proves the spiritual scales are off the eyes of Jewish people. This is God’s time to reach Jewish people in Israel, this is God’s time to reach Jewish people in the United States of America. And that’s why I’m so excited about my guest Dr. Paul Gervais I’m speaking to him in Augusta, Maine. And Dr. Gervais is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist. He holds 4 State Mental Health Licenses and none of that counts diddly in reaching Jewish people for the gospel. The only thing that counts is he has intimacy with God and he has learned how to tap into the power of God. And I find this…I have to tell you Paul I find this almost almost unbelievable in the past 3 years have of the people you pray for that want gold crowns get it but not from a dentist they get it from heaven. Tell me about one real person that got gold teeth.
Paul: Well I remember a lady Sid being in our services I believe it was in Vermont and she received a total of 12 combinations of gold teeth and fillings. Went back home to her husband who happens to be a Federal Investigator. Now this lady had a cassette as well as a video tape of my service. He happen to watch it subsequent to her return and when she went into the play room noticed that her husband was anointing gold teeth so this is what we call positive contagion. Just as the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy and that can be kind of contagious especially if you look at the plagues that are going on in various countries. The glory of God is contagious and we reached a point in the Body of Christ where there is dissatisfaction. I like Smith Wigglesworth once said “The only thing that I’m satisfied with is my dissatisfaction.” And that’s healthy because you never rise above the level of your vision. You locate a person by way of their confession and people men, woman and children are crying out for a sign that God is good. I remember being persecuted as a result of just simply saying that, “God is good.” And He is “Every good and perfect gift comes from Him.” And we discussed previously the open vision…
Sid: Even before you get to this open vision I have to ask you a question in addition to gold teeth being a sign in your ministry gold dust is a sign in your ministry. Now recently Paul and I were together in Nashville, Tennessee where we did a television show and I asked Paul to pray for me for a transfer of anointing. And I have to tell you I have not ministered since the TV show however I went to hear one of my former guests on Messianic Vision Dr. Ricky Roberts minister and I was just sitting as a friend of mine says “Minding my own business.” And you know just sitting there in the audience and he gave a wonderful talk and the talk was over and I got up to leave but as I got up I noticed the chair next to me. The chair next to me was coated with gold dust. Now my chair just had a couple of flakes but the empty chair next to me was coated with gold dust. Now it wasn’t there when I sat down. Paul this is what I believe now if you don’t believe it just say, just say something nice to me but I believe the reason there was told dust on that chair next to me was royalty was sitting in that chair. I believe that Yeshua Jesus the King of the Jews was in that chair.
Paul: Absolutely, Christ in us the hope of glory. He works in us to will and do of His good pleasure. And the glory of God again contagious Jesus fully preached the gospel with signs following approved of God through signs, wonders and miracles. And it’s not as though He’s just trying to give us a display of His grandeur I mean He could blow our socks off with it but these are love letters. This is an endorsement, this is a revelation how much He lives for us. You say “We live for Him” but contemplate the fact that if you do away with humanity what is there for God you are the apple of His eye.
Sid: You know most of us don’t appreciate how much He loves us and how important we are to Him. We say “Well we’re just like that little ant.” But no somehow God has enough love for every human on planet earth.
Paul: I’m looking out the window now and perceiving the trees the flowers and the sunshine. Why did He create color or taste? I mean we could have view in black and white then and everything could be bland. It’s simply because He knows what we appreciate and this is only the beginning. The glory of God involves not only His manifest presence but a revelation of who we are in Him and who He is in us. And once we perceive His love Sid disease will not be able to stand in that presence neither than death. “Where sin abounds grace much more gains ascendance.”
Sid: And as you know Katherine Kuhlman was a personal friend of mine and I got to know her as I was a brand new believer in the Messiah. And as far as I’m concerned she had one of the greatest miracle ministries short of Jesus on planet earth. And she use to say “A day is coming, she didn’t say “Sid but she said “A day is coming in which believers will go into hospitals and clear them all out.” Now I’ve got to ask you about that open vision that you had Paul.
Paul: What I saw in my spirit was a rent in heaven getting wider and wider. The very contents of the throne room and its environment falling to earth heaven and earth have never been closer than they are right now. In fact they’re kissing each other and I remember that prayer of Jesus which is yet to be answered. “Father, I pray that they be one even as we are one.” And that’s coming by way revelation of the Father’s love of signs, wonders and miracles. I saw gold, silver representing literally gold, silver gems that are appearing in our services. And then body parts and anatomical body parts that are needed by the people here on planet earth to fix them. I mean you don’t make a telephone or a computer without the ability to restore it if something were to go wrong we’re extremely complicated with various systems as human beings. And our Creator was not laxed in this area and He has the manual which is the word of God but the parts in the warehouse around the throne room necessary to restore us.
Sid: Did you see these parts?
Paul: I did they were descending in this glory cloud and also the word “Yes” representing every good and perfect gift comes from Him but the gifts of the Spirit. There were fruit, the fruit of the Spirit “Patience, long suffering, meekness, kindness.” Just an open display of God’s glory and this was around you know Y2K period when many people including Christians were storing water and foods and actually operating in fear. But the Holy Spirit spoke and said to me “Paul Y2K is going to be the very beginning of this great outpouring of glory.”
Sid: Very quickly by the way “Someone’s neck if you can look in the mirror you’ll see gold dust on your neck.” But 2 weeks after you had this open vision you were a guest on TBN Paul Crouch is interviewing you and what happened?
Paul: We kept losing focus because I noticed that Paul’s face was being covered by the gold dust literally gold, yellow gold. And on his mustache was just casting looking down from there from there onto the table. And such was the case with me we were in the presence of the Holy Spirit. So half way through the program took a break this was a live telecast and Paul said “What do you think we ought to do?” Well the manifestation is for now and it could have happened a half hour prior or a half hour later but we have an audience of millions of people so I think your loss but I think that the Holy Spirit wants us to unveil this and we did. The lines lit up in southern California became congested. TBN had never in 30 year history received so many contacts by way of telephone, fax, emails as it did for that particular telecast.
Sid: Paul, we’re out of time I really would like you to come back on tomorrow’s show.
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Sid: My guest by way of telephone I’m speaking to her office in Tel Aviv, Israel is Shira Sorko-Ram. Shira and her husband Ari are real pioneers in Jewish evangelism in Israel. They have an organization called Maoz, Shira has been there since 1967. And on yesterday’s broadcast we were… Shira you said basically you wished the president of the United States understood Islam, understood really what’s going on in Israel and you were talking about a man that I respect he was a great peacemaker so to speak from the former Soviet Union Sharansky. And he recently made the statement about having peace in the Middle East. Would you repeat that?
Shira: Right he voted against the roadmap in the Cabinet of Sharon our PM Sharon. And he said “The reason he voted against it that when Bush last summer said he wanted democratic state for the Palestinians and he wanted a total stoppage of terrorism. Well Sharansky said “I was very happy about that.” But now the roadmap does not say that and the roadmap is simply putting pressure on Israel to pull her settlements out and before anything else happens. Yes, Abu Mazen of the Palestinians said “He’s against terrorism.” But you see that doesn’t mean a hill of beans in Israel, it doesn’t mean anything. He also said “Abu Mazen also said that he is not going to make civil war in his country.” What does that mean? Read it this way “He will not come against the terrorists different groups.”
Sid: But wait a second Abu Mazen is the new Prime Minister of the Palestian people. Why doesn’t that mean a hill of beans?
Shira: Well because if you do not disarm the terrorist then you will have a terrorist state. Now why doesn’t President Bush say to Ben Laden “Look why don’t you just say that you want peace and we’ll just go back to business as usual” Why is he insistent in finding this man and putting an end to the whole apparatus, why? Because he knows that one of the guys says “Well I’ll have peace or ceasefire we’ll have a ceasefire for 6 months.” What would that mean to the United States? Exactly nothing, maybe worse than nothing, it might just give him a chance to you know get their act together and come with more vengeance later on. And that’s what Sharon and Israel is afraid of… okay if there’s a ceasefire and there isn’t a ceasefire right now because Hamas said they’re not going to have one. But if there were to be a ceasefire with these different groups all it would mean is that they would go and have time to rebuild all of their apparatus to get more ambition, more stuff to come against Israel.
Sid: Shira give me your spin on the fact that the United States and other countries are arming the Palestinians showing them how to build up their military so the Palestinians can go after these terrorists. What is the average Israel think about all of this money going into towards equipping the Palestinians to have a big army?
Shira: Well I could tell you that very easily. In 1993 there was what was called the Oslo Agreement which is exactly what we’re hearing right now the same kind of thing “Let’s have peace if Sharon will move his settlements and quite ‘Terrorizing’ the Palestinians and the Palestinians might agree to let Israel to exist.” Well so you know what Israel did back in 1993?
Sid: What’s that?
Shira: Israel armed the Palestinian forces that were supposed to be Police Forces they turned into terrorist groups.
Sid: Hm. So is that going to happen again?
Shira: Well it’s exactly what happening right now that’s exactly what’s happening.
Sid: So why doesn’t the United States just go out there and rather than equipping the Palestinians to perhaps become the next terrorists of Israel. Why don’t they just go in and knock out Hamas and knock out all of these other places and work arm and arm with Israel. I mean is that too logical?
Shira: Well that’s an easy answer too. There’s 200 million Muslim Arabs; there are rich Muslim countries not that their citizen get the riches but the oil. And because of those two things they have powerful friends throughout the world including all of Europe and it would isolate the United States until she would be absolutely standing alone just as Israel is standing alone today.
Sid: If you had 2 minutes just to speak in the ear of President Bush what would you say?
Shira: I would say “President Bush the very first words that the evil one said to a human being was “Has God really said it, has God said it?” He said that to Adam and Eve. Today people have a hard time believing what the Bible says. The Bible says that God gave to Abraham the land of Israel. And by the way He gave it to Abraham in the very place, in the exact place where the Palestinians are now saying it’s their land. In the Judean and Samarian Hills that is the area that the Palestinians want. I would say “President Bush we’ve got to believe the Bible this is the land that God has given to Israel; He’s given much land to the Arabs He loves the Arab people He wants the Arab people also the know Him. He’s given them I think it’s 482 times more land than He’s given to Israel.
Sid: I’ve recently seen a map of that area it’s absolutely ridiculous when you see how tiny Israel is and then if you take Judea and Samaria out which they want as a Palestian state there’s hardly anything for Israel. And you look how large the Arab land is it’s unbelievable.
Shira: And there’s no Palestinian people accept what had been created in the last 20, 30 years by Islamic extremists and rich oil countries.
Sid: And you mean these people haven’t been there 1000’s of years?
Shira: No they have not they have not. There’s many historic books that will give you tremendous research to show you. Mark Twain was here in the 1800’s and he said “The land was absolutely deserted” except in Jerusalem there were a few Jewish people, a few Arabs but this was not a Palestinian land there were no Palestinians to speak of. A few Bedouins running around the area; it’s a lie that’s been created by the Islamic extremist spirit which wants to take over this land and the whole world.
Sid: Continue speaking from your heart to President Bush.
Shira: “President Bush you are a Christian man you believe the word of God. On this one is the test of your life because the whole world will stand against you. But you stood against most of the world in going into Iraq and now it is time. Are you going to stand for Israel or Israel going to besieged and pay for every day of her life in the blood of the Israeli people?
Sid: Question Shira. Why does a man like Sharon, the head of Israel, who has fought his whole life for Israel not to be divided change his mind?
Shira: Because of pressure from the United States.
Sid: What kind of pressure are we giving them, is it economic?
Shira: UN has threatened sanctions against Israel. Israel is dependent upon Europe and the United States for weapons, for many things that are in the life of a person in the 21st century. And so if they put up sanctions around Israel she doesn’t have oil wells like Iraq does. She has a tiny weenie little tiny nation and a sanction would cause havoc here. So she’s threatened into it that’s the reason.
Sid: So Shira why do you and your family live in Israel you could come to the United States and have the good life why are you there?
Shira: Well tonight my husband and I are going to go to a restaurant and eat. And we live right down town about 3 blocks where several bombings have taken place. So we pray up before we go out and then we kind of choose a restaurant where we think there would not be just a center of a lot of activity. We’re here in the midst of all of this terror because we know that Israel has a destiny with God and the world. God has said many times that Israel would be life from the dead to the whole world when she comes back to God.
Sid: And you know what I see the first fruits of that happening right now Mishpochah I see it happening there’s a rumbling even in the United States among Jewish people.
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SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. What would you do if you heard from God, you’re a doctor, a dermatologist, highly successful. You’ve been doing it for a number of years. You have a good practice. You love what you’re doing. Your husband in the meantime is a career man, but he can’t get a job in his career, so he’s working for minimum wage. You have children. What would you do if God spoke to you and said, quit your job, walk away from your practice and be a stay-at-home mom. Wait a second now. My husband is not making enough money. I can’t do this. Would you say yes to God? It’s easy to have what someone else would say. But would say yes to God? This woman said yes, and God took her to a new school, a school in which he taught her how to pray, and get supernatural answers, and she wants to now impart this to you.
Sid Roth here with Dr. Jane Glenchur. Jane, you’re provoking me to jealousy again. I’m going to tell you why. As I understand it, Michael is supposed to be the angel for the Jewish people, according to Daniel. And unfortunately, he moves on your prayers. Tell me about that friend that called you and the angel Michael.
JANE: Yes. A friend of mine called me one afternoon. She had a desperate situation. She needed an answer within 15 minutes, but she wouldn’t tell me any of the specifics. So we prayed. I did not know how to pray for her. So I said, Lord, how do I pray for her? And I heard an inner quiet voice say, “Ask me to send Michael,” meaning the archangel. Well I dismissed it at first because I thought that wasn’t appropriate to pray that way. But I heard that voice again, the Lord said, “Ask me to send Michael.” I knew this friend well enough to say, “I’m about to pray something I have never prayed before. It’s unusual, but I really feel like God is telling me to say this.” So I said, “Lord, would you send Michael and his angels to her house to resolve this situation for her.” Then I saw a picture in my mind of Michael and a host of angels behind him marching down her street to her house. So we thanked the Lord, we ended the prayer. But 20 minutes later, she calls me back absolutely amazed because God had resolved her situation within that 15 minutes.
SID: Do you know that what you’re telling me now and the other things I know about you would have never happened, never Jane, unless you said yes to God. You see, God asked her something very, very tough, tough, because she’s a dermatologist. She’s very successful. I don’t know about you personally, but I know in my little town that I spent a number of years in, that was the top profession financially. In addition to being successful as a dermatologist, her husband is out of his career. He’s only taking a minimum wage job. He can’t find a job and God says to her, “I want you to quit being a dermatologist.” In addition to that, she has a lawsuit having to do with her dermatology going on. What did you do with all this chaos and God says, quit your job?
JANE: Yes. When God put that burden on my heart, it made absolutely no sense. Because I had said to my husband before I got married, I will never stay home to raise a family. And we had two children. My mother lived with us and cared for them in our home. We were also planning to build our dream house. As you said, my husband was not employed in his profession. So if I quit, I would have lost, we would have lost 90 percent of our income and all of our health benefits. And on top of that with a malpractice suit, I thought this is crazy. It’s the worst possible time for God to ask me to quit.
SID: So what did you do?
JANE: Well I wrestled with God for three months, got a lot of prayer and wise counsel, and I finally quit. And so God used that malpractice suit to compel me to spend more time with Him and to spend more time reading the scriptures. And the scriptures are full of wisdom, but they don’t tell you specifically which health insurance to buy, which college your child should attend or where to find shoes for your child’s narrow feet. And I wanted to make the best decisions. I started to realize that my wisdom is so limited as a human being and God’s wisdom is unlimited. So I thought, I need His wisdom, not my wisdom. And He began to show me how to access His wisdom.
SID: Well actually, she had a medical degree, but she was about ready to get a brand new degree, an AOP. And of course, Jane, you know what an AOP is. No you don’t know. I know you don’t because I just made it up. An AOP is apprentice of prayer. She became an apprentice of prayer. What does that mean?
JANE: Well after I quit my job, the next 16 years as a stay-at-home mom was what I call my prayer apprenticeship with God. So God was drawing me closer to Him and I used what I learned during that time to learn how to access His unlimited wisdom, and it totally changed the way I prayed.
SID: Well I’ll tell you one thing I know that changed the way she prayed. She had to get a stain remover. Tell me about that.
JANE: Yes. I found an orange stain on my green carpet and I was upset about it, didn’t know how to take it out. It had been there for days. So I went to the store and I said, “Lord, would you show me which stain remover would be the best”, because they all sounded great. And then on the bottom shelf of the store, so I knelt down and I put my hand on the first can. I said, “God, is this the best stain remover?” And nothing happens. I didn’t know what I expected, but nothing happened. I did the same thing the second one and the third one. When I got to the fourth can, I hear an outer audible voice say to me, “That is the best stain remover.” And I felt like I was on God’s candid camera because I was shocked and I thought, is that an angel? It couldn’t be God because it was a female voice. Then I heard it again, “That is the best stain remover.” So I turned in the direction of the voice and I saw these two elderly white-haired women walking down the aisle. They never spoke to me directly, but when they walked behind me, the same person said again, “That is the best stain remover.” So I bought it and the stain came out easily, and that totally revolutionized my prayer life. That was really the start of my apprenticeship.
SID: And it taught you really power prayer. What is power prayer?
JANE: Well let me tell you first what it’s not. It’s not a formula. It’s not saying special words to get God’s favor, because I don’t want to treat God like a genie in a bottle. It’s based on a deep intimate relationship with God. Before I learned these principles, I would just rattle off my laundry list of requests, ask God for wisdom and then get up and solve all of my problems using my human logic and reasoning. God was never directly in the middle of my decision-making. If we don’t learn how He speaks, we might miss that He’s speaking to us. So He can talk to us through scripture, which is the most common way. But He can also talk to us by giving us an image in our mind or an impression, or a dream.
SID: I tell you what. Hold that thought. Here’s what concerns me. Two-thirds of college-age Christians leave the faith. Why? Because they’re dealing with head knowledge rather than experiential knowledge. When we come back I want you to teach, Jane, on how the children can do exactly what you’re teaching the adults. Be right back.
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Sid: Do you know something if you don’t understand your foundations, or your foundations are weak, then how can you possibly build a house? And what I’m talking about is the foundations of Christianity. If you don’t understand basic Judaism the festivals, how in the world can you understand a great deal of the gospels, or for that matter the entire New Testament. Because you see Jesus referred to these festivals and didn’t have to explain them because He knew that all of the people He was talking to were Jewish and they understood it. But today we look at the New Testament through really Greco-Roman eyes not through Jewish eyes and we miss our heritage, we miss our roots. Do you remember a few years back the book and the movie Roots came out and for the first time it was like a revolution among African American’s there was a pride in their heritage. But when it comes to the deeper roots of our faith our Jewish roots so few Christians understand. That’s why since Friday night begins Rosh Hashanah I have my friend Michael Lane on the telephone, he’s a Jewish believer in the Messiah outstanding Bible teacher. Especially on the Biblical festivals but for those that aren’t familiar with Michael if you heard my show 25 years ago and I don’t think that there’s too many of you that say “I heard it Sid.” But if you heard my show 25 years ago then you heard my interview with Michael because Michael comes from a Jewish background but what makes him unusual is the same thing that makes me unusual we both come from Jewish backgrounds that’s not what makes us unusual. What makes us unusual is every member of our immediate family our immediate Jewish family believe in the Messiah. But that’s not supposed to be unusual because if you understand your Jewish roots in the book of Exodus in the Passover it says “God requires a lamb for an entire house and when you apply the blood on the doorpost the entire house is saved from the first born being slain. And that’s a prophetic picture a type of what God wants for all of us, a lamb for us. And that means if there’s one member of your family that is not red hot sold out for the Messiah then you remind God of His promise it’s a lamb, The Lamb for a house. Michael, tell me briefly a bit about how you and your entire Mishpochah, family, came to the Lord.
Michael: I was serving a guru from India for about 5 or 6 years during the ‘60s and my sister had a revelation of the Lord a little before I did along that time about a year before I did. The Lord just spoke one word to her and He said “Listen.” And she started praying for me. And I had encounters all through the hippy movement and the 60’s out in the desert receiving Him hitching across the country and sitting on Hawaiian beach. I was in India for 6 weeks, the only thing that I came out of India with was a quite a case of dysentery. The Lord it was on my Birthday 1976 January 14th at the beginning of the year and it was a snow storm and nobody was going anywhere, but I finally made it over to my sister’s house and she had some applesauce cake. And she said “Let’s pray.” The Lord had told her not to fight with me about whose God was better my guru or her Jesus. He told her “Just to be quiet.” And she said “Well, let’s pray before we eat.” I think I held the plate up to my third eye or something Mashuga.
Sid: (Laughing)
Michael: And she just said “Lord thank You that when two or more are gathered in Your Name Your in our midst.” And she looked up high from my eyes and there was a third entity, I didn’t see a bearded robed man but there was somebody, something a being 7’ tall in the room the Lord’s Angel or something just came and just pierced my inners, my kishkah, my inner man and I just knew that He was Jesus and I just knew that everything I was involved with was wrong. I was 8 months later off to Bible school for a couple of years and it’s the beginning.
Sid: So how did your folks take to the fact that you and your sister their children are now Messianic Jews, Jewish believers in Jesus?
Michael: My dad has experienced with finding out he is with the Lord now the last 6 years. When he down south when he was 17 with his 1927 whatever car, he had an experience under a tree supposedly it seems like with the Lord. So when my sister first approached him he said “I know what you’re going to say, you’ve accepted Jesus into your heart.” And he started going to Bible studies kind of in between all of this time; my mom held out she wanted to make sure that it was really true and she held out I don’t know how long it was 6 months a year. But one day my mom came into the house and my dad looked at her and he said “You’ve come to the Lord haven’t you.” And she said “Yes I did.” And so the whole family was saved and my sisters came in fact to of her kids are with us here where we are right now.
Sid: Now I think that our Mishpochah might want to know where I’m speaking to you at it’s at the Pleasant Valley Church in Thomaston, Georgia. That’s Pastor Henry Wrights Ministry and we’ve interviewed Henry Wright because he’s had just outstanding results in people getting healed. And we’re going to be interviewing him again, but just very briefly your wife went there and what did she get healed of?
Michael: She had an incredible peace come across actually a feeling of peace coming through her mind, her brain, her head that she never experienced in her whole life. She came back totally different just because down here they’re teaching you to repent of things that you’ve been entertaining that you thought was you all of this time. Whether it be fear, anxiety, or envy, or jealousy, or depression, or self pity, or any of these things they’re spirits and we’re just learning to repent of entertaining those things and just rebuke them away and start walking in the fullness of the Lord. Because we’re not called to fear we’re called to love.
Sid: Well the peace that she experienced that’s wonderful but she actually got a physical healing when she really got free.
Michael: She did and many people here that people being healed of incurable disease…
Sid: Yeah but what happened to her?
Michael: She, well for her she was on medication for depression and other things, ADD, and she came home and totally went off them. And she’s walking with the Lord.
Sid: Now, how old is your son?
Michael: Eleven.
Sid: And what did he say to you when he saw the change that occurred in his mom?
Michael: Yeah, there’s a bunch of us in our little body of believers that we’ve all been down here at different times and there’s just been incredible healing. Some of them we have one sister she’s 24 she couldn’t even go out and eat different foods or wear certain clothes or breath anything and she just was in her house all of the time in this environmental disease environmental illness. And she was totally healed down here and he was seeing the fruit and he said “You know mom and dad I want to go, I want to go and see what the Lord could do in me.”
Sid: But I’ll tell you what when we interview Henry Wright I want to find out what the Lord did with your son. But let’s go to the theme this week. The theme this week are the Biblical Festivals in Leviticus the 23rd chapter. You’ve probably heard me teach this Mishpochah in the 2nd verse this is what the Lord said to Moses. “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them the Feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My Feasts.” And the word convocation could easily be translated rehearsals, and that actually makes more sense. Because these rehearsals are God’s rehearsals they are the most graphic presentation of the Messiah. And imagine traditional Jewish people are observing these festivals and the perfect pictures of the Messiah. But the thing that gets me so excited is they are rehearsals not of just His first coming, but of His return. And you know Michael there’s no way that someone can understand end-time events without understanding the Biblical festivals. Tell me a bit of what you’ve learned on these festivals.
Michael: Well I think the feasts are you know there’s thousands of festivals and feasts and birthdays throughout the world but only these 7 are God given. And it’s interesting that Leviticus 23 where you first started out “These are My times, My Feasts it starts out with the Sabbath rest. Something we really need to come into if we have Prince of Peace living in us we need to come into that. But that our lives as a believer there’s a progression of our redemption. In other words, if we become a 30 full believer or a 60 full believer or 100 full believer or if we’re little children in the Lord, young men or fathers we can see that there’s a progression that takes us from Passover as we study these whole feasts and we see that Passover, and Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of First Fruits obviously the Lord fulfilled with His first coming. Then 50 days later there was Pentecost, Shavuot the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai. There was span of time we want to go from Passover and come to the Feast of Pentecost that there’s a progression here and then there’s dryness again and the Lord His first rain will come in the Passover time when His latter rain that’s going to come during Tabernacles time that there’s a progression. That we can see how the Lord came the first time in the first three Feasts and then the Spirit was poured out during Pentecost I think it’s Luke 22, or Acts 2 it says “When the day of Pentecost fully came.” Now the Jews were celebrating Pentecost for 1400 years and when Jesus was around all of the sudden they were being filled with the Spirit with tongues of fire just like 1400 years and the same day before there was lightning bolts and thunder and a voice spoke out of heaven it was being fulfilled same thing the day that Pentecost fully came. But now we’re talking about the last feasts that ultimately in preparation for the Lord’s coming we can almost…you can see the 3 major Feasts in Deuteronomy 16 the Lord said “Three times a year all the males over 20 shall appear before the Lord in a place where He shall choose.” Passover, Unleavened Bread, Feasts of Weeks….
Sid: You know Michael the thing that interests me and I like to ask people this well, we know before the Messiah came we were instructed to observe these festivals forever. We know the first believers in the Messiah observed these festivals because they saw Jesus throughout all of them. And we know that in the Millennium we’ll be observing these Festivals, so why did we go on instant pause? I mean that’s a fair question. But Mishpochah most of our Mishpochah are not that familiar with the feasts so I’ve selected one of the best books where it presents the feasts in a very simplistic fashion but you’ll understand the prophetic nature of them and at least have a working knowledge. It’s called “The Feasts of Israel Seasons of Messiah” by Bruce Scott almost 200 pages.
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