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Our Guest Warren Marcus

WARREN: Same thing there. I didn’t feel the presence of God. I didn’t feel the glory. I didn’t feel that thing. So I’m saying, “Where are you God?” So I go to school, visual arts for film, to study film, motion picture, and all the people there they’re using drugs. And one guy says, “You

know what? This could open a way for you to really see God.” Well, you see the devil knows the trigger to try to pull us away. So I started using LSD, all kinds of drugs. Meanwhile, I graduate. I wind up on Madison Avenue. I’m doing all these high price TV spots, nationally, crazy stuff.

WARREN: But I was not fulfilled. So I’m sitting in my apartment, 21 years old, and I’m smoking marijuana. And I said, “Oh God of Israel, I can’t take this anymore. I can’t live this way anymore.” I said, “If Jesus is truly who these Christian friends of mine are saying, that He is the promised Jewish Messiah, if He is your Son, the Son of God, then I want Him in my heart. But if He’s not, I don’t want to have anything to do with Him.” You know what happened? The same glory that was in my dream, the same glory presence of God and the supernatural power of God, came into my apartment.

WARREN: Then, I was being filled with that. And what happened was I started saying, “I don’t need this marijuana anymore.” I threw a whole thing of marijuana down the toilet. I just flushed it down. There was alcohol. I just started dumping alcoholic beverages. Nobody was preaching to me and telling me, you need to do this. The holiness of God, the holiness of God was there. And then I started cracking, breaking records. My Catholic wife comes home, she said, “What are you doing?” I said, “Jesus is in the house. God’s glory is here.”

Our Guest Warren Marcus

SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Warren Marcus. And as the rabbis always say to me, are both of your parents Jewish? Warren, are both of your parents Jewish?

WARREN: Definitely. Both of my parents are Jewish. And as far as I know, all the generations were all Jewish.

SID: Warren had an outstanding career on Madison Avenue as a film producer, filmmaker, and then you blink your eyes a few times and he’s working 700 Club, Jerry Falwell, Sid Roth. What’s a nice Jewish guy working for all these Christian organizations?

WARREN: I really believe God really has for every single person, Ephesians the book of Ephesians says that, “He foreknew us before the foundation of the world and has actually a calling and destiny for every one of us. But we need to step into that destiny.” And so for me, I mean God sought me, because I was five years old. I’m playing with my friend outside and there’s this lightning and thunderstorm starts. And he says, “I’m going home. Lightning, it could kill you.” Then next thing, about 15 feet away, a flash of lightning hits right on the ground. Well, I got up and I started crying. I ran into the house, and my agnostic Jewish sister picks me up. She says, “What’s wrong?” And I said, “It’s lightning. It could kill me.” So she looks at me, “Lightning. It won’t hurt you. God will protect you.”

WARREN: So, I never heard you know God? And she goes, “You can’t see him. He’s invisible. He lives in a place called heaven, but yet he’s everywhere.” So I thought, “Is he in my bedroom at night when it’s dark?” she goes “Yes, he’s there too.” So I got more frightened of this unseen entity named God than the lightning and thunder. And I was in that room at night. It was dark, and I was so petrified. And I finally fell asleep and, Sid, I had a dream that I was in heaven, lightning and thunder. I was frightened. And then in a distance, I saw the clouds parting in a circular fashion and the most beautiful golden light. I didn’t realize, but it was the Shekinah Glory of God that I was seeing.

Our Guest Dale Mast

SID: Dale, you say identity is supernatural. What do you mean?

DALE: Well, David was overlooked by his father, that’s the natural, yet chosen by God, that’s the supernatural, but David didn’t know it until there was a supernatural event where Samuel poured oil over his head and changed the way he thought about his future.

SID: And this has to do with identity shift.

DALE: And identity purpose. It’s very important that we understand that there are many identity shifts in each person’s life. I started off as a youth leader, a worship leader, then I was an elder, then I was actually a pastor. And Bishop Bill Hamon looked at me and said, “You think you’re a pastor that prophesies but God says you’re a prophet who pastors.” And God just turned my… He took off my baseball cap of pastor, he put on a prophet mantle, and I started acting as a prophet who happened to pastor, and that’s where I had my greatest fruit.

SID: Now, look, you had the gift of prophecy, you knew you were a prophet, so you never had any doubt about your destiny.

DALE: No, I was prophesying for years and I really did not have the identity of a prophet. I saw it as a gift. And then I saw myself as a prophet, and I would say this, “I’m a prophet but not to the nations.” And one time I heard God’s voice and He said, “Will you stop saying that?”

DALE: Two years later I was in Burma, there was a pastor there, I took a ring off my finger and I put it on his, and I said, “I call you as a Joseph to your nation.” He told me the testimony, he laughed, but after I left a tsunami went through Burma and Myanmar and actually wiped out the nation. It was very destructive. And in it, he remembered the word, not one of his 8,000 members died, he said, “I ought do something for the community.” This is before social media. And it got out somehow what he was doing and over the next six months millions of dollars came to him to get food, and they actually opened up Buddhist temples for him to feed the people. And the Buddhists came to them and said, “If it would have been the Christians, we wouldn’t have helped you. Why are you helping us?” He said, “I never thought I’d be Joseph but what you prophesied come to pass.”

Our Guest Dr. Jennifer Miskov

SID: Jennifer, one more quick story about Azusa Street. I can’t hear enough about what God did in that. It started with a one-eyed African American pastor and a few African Americans and spread worldwide. Tell me one more, quick.

JENNIFER: So I was just doing some tent meetings in Kentucky a few months ago in a place where the Cane Ridge Revival and the Great Awakening was birthed. And I’m sharing about the revival history of Kentucky. And then I decided to add the story of Azusa Street on top of those stories. And as soon as I did that, a guy watching starts to shake like he’s getting electrocuted. People start coming to the front, not even being invited, lay down prostrate and there’s mud. They’re literally on their knees and on their face-

SID: I heard it was raining there.

JENNIFER: … in the mud because they wanted more of God. And these are Christians who are like, “I’m all in,” consecrating themselves. I’ve never seen that. I was marked and moved and it inspired even me just to see their hunger. It was incredible.

SID: How important is fasting in most of the great moves of God in the history of the world? How important?

JENNIFER: Well, I don’t know if you knew this, but Azusa Street Revival was birthed when William J. Seymour and a few of his friends were on a 10 day fast. And that is crazy because a century later, we are still living in the momentum of a 10 day fast that a small group of people went on. That’s incredible.

SID: Tell me some others that you know about.

JENNIFER: Most revivals have been marked by hunger and the way you get hungry is you fast. And so I’m sure you can probably trace most, any revival. Evan Roberts would pray and fast for 13 years for a move of God, until he finally saw a move of God in 1904. And he realized what he was praying his whole life for had finally come when, I think a handful of people got saved.

SID: I understand that one of the people that mentored you, one of the true heroes of the faith, Heidi Baker, what happened when she fasted?

JENNIFER: Oh, she was on, I believe, a five day fast. As a teenager, when God called her to Africa, England and Asia, she got her life defining call on a fast early in her life. And she’s since we know the nation of Mozambique has absolutely changed because she’s given her life to them. And that came from being on a fast.

SID: Fasting is so misunderstood, Jennifer.

JENNIFER: Yeah.

Our Guest Dr. Francis Myles

FRANCIS: Then after the while he said, you know what, I don’t believe in God, I don’t even care about men, but I do care about my peace of mind. And this woman’s nuisance value is rising and I want to deliver myself of this, so he gave her justice and protection from the adversary. Jesus then says, what about your heavenly father? How much more shall we avenge his own elect? So Jesus is telling us that unless something has been dealt with in the court of heaven, you can’t give up on it. That’s where anything else you couldn’t get answered in prayer is answered because the judge now gets to rule on it.

SID: Now, when you’re in court, the person coming against you or suing you, if they don’t show up, the court case is dismissed. How’s this work in the heavenly court?

FRANCIS: The Lord spoke to me, he said, Francis, my children, he said to me, the devil keeps getting default judgments in the court of heaven because my people don’t show up for court. It’s so important for us to show up in the court of heaven so we can silence the accusations of the enemy, because accusations is what gives the enemy legal right to even enter the court of heaven in the first place. Just like in the world of men, unless you are accused, the court system does not begin until there’s an accusation. So that’s why it’s important for believers to show up in the court of heaven and the most, another thing, why it’s important for them to show up is because the court of heaven, unlike natural court is biased in our favor because Jesus already paid the price.

SID: Oh, I like that. What are some of the areas that we have, the evil altars we have to deal with, many people in their lives?

Our Guest Derek Snodgrass

DERRICK: So, I began to walk down this corridor with Jesus. It’s an upscale elegant room. And as we get into this tear room, I see innumerable tear bottles, all shapes, all sizes. They’re crystal, they’re clear. It was a really upscale room. And so once I got to the bottles, I went closer to them and I began to look and I could literally hear the tears crying out.

DERRICK: It was like they had cellular memory. Whatever caused the individual pain or to cry on earth, that was still there and I could still hear it. And so as I began to look closer at the tear bottles, I literally saw a visual timeline. The scenes from the individual’s life that caused those tears to be there.

SID: Was there any one person’s bottle of tears, that we might know of, that made a big impact on you?

DERRICK: Oh, it was many people’s. I saw Moses. I saw Elijah’s. I saw Kathryn Kuhlman’s tear bottle. I saw her bottles and so many others and Jesus was like, “Come on, come on. I got some more I want to show you.” I saw a contraption and I didn’t really have language it for it then, but it was like a portal passageway. And I saw angels ascending and descending, coming in and out of it.

DERRICK: And so me and Jesus looked down, he showed me what the process of collecting the tears looked like. When we looked down, we saw universe, planet, stars, but then the scene switched to a home. There was a single parent mom and she had a lot of stress on her. She was going through a lot of pain. She didn’t have finances or income. She had multiple children and one was very sick.

DERRICK: I saw her praying and crying and she was just weeping, at a breaking point where she really wanted to give up. And so I see an angel in her house and the angel is there to collect the tears. And the angel is also there to give her strength and to empower her. And so it gets to the point where she takes a deep breath in and a deep breath out and she stops crying. And then Jesus says, “The angel is strengthening her.” And just that quick, the angel was back with the bottle of tears that he added to her bottle.

Our Guest Derek Snodgrass

SID: Now, pastor Derek Snodgrass had a praying mother. He was trained, get this, to fast and pray and read the Bible, at seven. But at 17 God audibly told Derek what the name of his church that he pastors today would be, and that it would attract the broken and the unchurched. That same year, he had a life changing encounter with the Holy Spirit. Derek, tell me about that.

DERRICK: Yeah. So Sid, growing up in my family, it was normal for us to fast. It was normal for us to pray. And even though we weren’t saved, my mom really just gave us that training and it started off small, three or four hours a day, but then it grew to something even greater.

SID: You call three or four hours a day small?

DERRICK: Yeah, it was small for us. Yeah. Yeah.

SID: Okay.

DERRICK: But eventually it would grow into something to where she was really just planting that seed within us, to when we truly had our own walk with God, that would be a part of our pursuit of how to seek the Lord.

SID: At 16, you really got serious with the Lord. What happened?

DERRICK: I got serious about the Lord, Sid, and I just asked God to fill me with the Holy Spirit, baptize me in the holy ghost. And so there was a revival coming to our church and I went to the service, completely focused that I wasn’t going to get anything less than what God had for me.

DERRICK: When I went to that service, we went on the altar, in Pentecostal, we tarry. It’s when you go to the altar, you just call on Jesus. And I began to envision Jesus dying on the cross. I began to envision his sacrifice for me, and I began to call on Jesus out of my heart. And I remember for the first time, Sid, I felt the power of what I know now as the Holy Spirit, kind of pushing me back on the outside of me.

Our Guest Emma Stark

SID: Emma Stark was born in Ireland and she became a believer in the Messiah at age six. In fact, she came from a long line of pastors that had no grid whatsoever of anything supernatural. But as a child, the supernatural started operating in her life. Emma, how did you handle the supernatural that was going on when you never saw anything like that in your parents and grandparents, in church, et cetera?

EMMA: We loved Jesus as a family. But you’re right, there was no grid for the supernatural. But when I was a child, I would see in the spirit, but we wouldn’t know that that’s what it was called. We wouldn’t call it a prophetic gift because we didn’t know that existed. I would see faces the whole time in the supernatural realm, in the realm of the spirit, but they were very black and white. It wasn’t until I was baptized in the spirit that suddenly open visions, color, immediate understanding of it’s God, and those are angels and that’s a demon and that’s the face of Christ with the eyes of fire.

SID: At 18.

EMMA: Yes.

SID: That’s when everything exploded in your life.

EMMA: Absolutely.

SID: What happened?

EMMA: Absolutely. It was the time where John Wimber was actually doing a tour in the United Kingdom. I saw him prophesy and I was like, I can do that. What’s that called? He knows things. I know things. And of course, I’d lived nearly 20 years without any terminology. But here’s the deal, Sid. We can talk about my story, but I really believe that it’s going to happen for other people who are watching. That actually, you are not just watching me talk about at my story. My family, wherever you are in the world, I believe that the veil between the natural and the spiritual is going to drop for you as it did for me all those years ago when I was 18. And that actually, God is moving us as a body of believers to be a Revelation 11 prophetic revelatory church.

Our Guest Mike Thompson

SID: Mike Thompson, I can just visualize this. You’re raised Baptist. You and your family have zero knowledge of the supernatural, and unbeknownst to you, your parents get filled with the Holy Spirit, and I’ve never heard this before, ambushed him. What happened?

MIKE: Well my wife and I had just recently married at that point, and so they invited us to their house, my parents did, to come over and have dinner with them on a Friday night. They didn’t tell us that they were having their prayer group there, so we were ambushed. It was nervous at first, but we warmed up to the people. They asked us if we wanted to be filled with the Holy Spirit and my wife said, “Yes, I do,” and so she was first. Then I followed her. We received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, supernatural experience. That was our introduction to the spiritual realm.

MIKE: We’d been saved earlier, but we had no awareness, no situational understanding of what God was doing in us.

SID: Well that night, you got something you didn’t bargain for. You had a visitor that you really didn’t want.

MIKE: Yes, that’s true. We had received the Holy Spirit. That was the good side. The bad side is we went home that evening, and we went to bed. I was awakened in the middle of the night with this presence. It was a dark, fearful presence in the room. I saw a demonic presence at the bottom of the bed. It just was terrifying me at first. It came against my flesh. I wasn’t aware of what was going on, but I’d knew enough that I just, it’s kind of humorous, but in the air I made a cross like this, and I said, “In the name of Jesus I rebuke you,” and it left. But I knew, I became acutely aware at that moment if I had not resisted that, a spirit of fear would have come in, and would have stopped me in my journey in entering the supernatural realm.

SID: I am so glad that the devil didn’t talk you out of a legitimate experience that you had, because after the devil fled because of the cross, the supernatural opened up to Mike and his wife. What was happening that hadn’t happened previously?

Our Guest Mark Taylor and Mary Colbert

MARY: And this is a separate prophecy he got after everything started kicking in. He said one Supreme Court justice was about to die and it’s not who you think. Now he got this word just before Justice Scalia was found dead.

KYNAN: Mmm!

MARY: And the Spirit of God spoke to him and said Donald Trump will not replace one Supreme Court justice but 5!

KYNAN: Mmm!

MARY: And so in order for that to occur that means an 8-year term.

KYNAN: Mmm.

MARY: That he’ll be serving. So we know what the will of God is and if the church gets involved and they get engaged the will of God in a partnership like you had said earlier, we go into partnership with God –

KYNAN: Mmm.

MARY: Then the will of God will be done and that’s part of what’s going on. But part of the influence that Donald has around him he is full of praying people now!

KYNAN: Mmm!

MARY: Around him who are praying continually. Leadership who’s, feeding into him. He is going to be sending out to his faith-based leaders a video, like a 5-minute video every week of issues he wants us to be praying about that he’s concerned about! So he wants to turn this nation into a nation of a praying nation!

KYNAN: Mmm!

MARY: He really is motivated to do this. So he’s got all these people who are pastors and leaders and the evangelical individuals who know the word of God speaking into his life. He’s counseling them on issues!

KYNAN: Wow! Wow!

MARY: Guys, we’ve never seen this!

KYNAN: You know hold that thought cause when we come back we’re going to talk a little bit more about what is happening in the nation, what’s happening in our Presidency [music begins] and the things you don’t know! We’ll be right back! Don’t go anywhere on Something More! [music ends]