Archive for November, 2009
Sid Roth with Larry Randolph
SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Larry Randolph, and Larry Randolph comes from generations of prophets, people that knew the future. Larry, I am so fascinated not that just you know the future, not that you just hear God, but when people read your book they are going to understand for the first time that God works with us in different levels, and as we think it is just a voice spoken your word, an audible booming voice, but there are so many different ways. Tell me about the time that Jesus visited you.
LARRY: I was a young man, pastoring a church, 1974, and it was a commission from the Lord, to be very short, it is too long of a story, it is in my book, Spirit Taught, but I was lying down to sleep late one night and I heard the noise of someone walking beside my bedroom window, and as this noise turned a corner, I realized that it was a divine being, because the presence was incredible, and the awe was incredible, and it was Jesus. And he stooped over, put his cheek by the screen window and began to radiate the most incredible love I had ever experienced in my life. Sid I don’t know how to say it, it has been that long and I still want to weep when I think about it because he was nothing, anything I had ever done, anything I had ever thought, anything I was ever going to do was just unconditionally forgiven by him if I would ask for forgiveness.
He loved me totally, he loved me unconditionally.
SID: I think most people don’t believe he loves that much. It’s too good.
LARRY: It’s too good, but it was so strong that his love took on form, it took on a red cloud, it was like a haze that hung in the atmosphere, and when I breathed it in I was breathing the liquid love of God, I could hardly breathe, I was suffocating.
SID: But you know what I’m thinking? If someone has cancer in the lungs, they take that, the breath that in and there is no room for cancer.
LARRY: Well what I was healed of in a sense was more an emotional, spiritual thing, a timidity, I was healed of a sense of no purpose because what Jesus did he started talking to me in an audile voice and said to me, “Look at your hands.” And I looked at my hands and he said to me, he quoted a scripture form the beloved King David in the Psalms, David said, “I am fearfully and awesomely and wonderfully made.” And he said to me, “You are fearfully and awesomely and wonderfully made, you are one of a kind, you are an extraordinary human being, there is none like you, I made you just as you are and I love you unconditionally, you have a divine purpose that no one else could do, you have a gifting, but I want you to,” this is what came across to me, “I don’t want you to focus much on your gifting, I want you to focus on the love you feel in this room, because the love of God is bigger than any gifting.” And it has taken me my lifetime to figure out what he meant by that and if I can say this Sid, this is what he meant by that. Some people, a lot of people, psychics have gifts, a lot of people have gifts, prophetic gifts, but their hearts are small their gifts are big but their hearts are small, and it has taken me my whole life to figure out that what the Lord is after is a heart that is big, and, in other words you minister from your heart, you don’t minister from your gift, your motivation for who you are comes from the heart of love for people that he had for me, not from my gifting and I’m learning that if my heart is big and if I love people, my gifting will run hard to catch up with it. On the other hand I see people who have big giftings, psychics have big giftings but their heart is dead and you don’t feel that love of the Creator for the creation.
SID: The only way their heart can have the live of God is to have God in their heart and the only way to have God in their heart is to believe that Jesus died for their sins.
LARRY: Absolutely.
SID: Now there is something you told me the Lord told you about the hands and how they should be used.
LARRY: Yes, well he said to me, “Look at your hands.” And he asked me a question, “Why did I put your hands on your arms?” And in humor I thought to feed myself maybe, I don’t know Lord, to hug? And he said to me, “I put your hands on your arms because your hands are an extension of me, and I’m not in this physical world now, you are, and you are my hands extended.” And he said, “I never want you to shove with your hands, or push with your hands, or hit someone with our hands, or push people away with your hands, your hands are made for healing, your hands are made to embrace, to affirm people, to touch people, to minister to people, to encourage people.”
And he taught me the use of the human hand and how precious our hands are, and then he reminded me how, when blind people came and people that were sick came, he would touch them with his hands, and then he showed me this, I saw this picture of him with little children on his lap as the gospels betray him, this Jesus, he put his hands on them and touched little children and he taught me that the hands are an extension of his kingdom, and the way we use our hands, and of course the way we use our reflective voices, and the manner that we speak to them.
SID: Do you know what that reminds me of Larry? I interviewed, do you remember the serial killer, his name was Son of Sam?
LARRY: I do.
SID: I interviewed him, and this is what he said, he is in prison, he’s got multiple life, he will spend forever in prison, and he is Jewish and he became a believer in the Messiah, and he took his hands and he said you see I sued these hands to strangle people, now I use these hands to love people.
LARRY: That’s amazing, that’s amazing. that’s what Robert Mitchell my old mentor used to do to me, he would set me in a chair, he died at a hundred years old, he mentored me for ten years, an incredible old prophet. And he would put his hands tenderly on my face, very gently, and he would impart to me the love of God and the peace and who he was and his gifting, he did that hundreds of times.
SID: Tell me, can you impart the prophetic gifting to people that hunger for this by praying for them, the way he prayed, imparted to you?
LARRY: I think there is a lot of factors that are involved. One, the person has to be open to that and has to have a propensity toward that and a leaning toward that, and the other person must have a strong gifting, I think there is a measure, it is not an instant, overnight, in other words you had nothing and now you have everything, but I prefer the word stir up, you know maybe that’s a better word that – in other words to stir your spirit, stir your heart up to embrace something.
Yes, there is an imparting, there is a giving, cause with our hands we give away the essence of who we are with our hands.
SID: I want to find out what Larry saw in those newspaper headlines for years in the future, and I want Larry to also pray for a stirring up, a stirring up of those gifts that are inside you, an excitement, don’t go away.
Sid Roth welcomes Darren Wilson
SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Darren Wilson, Darren, you’re commissioned by this angel, God’s been speaking to you to do this film on miracles around the world, how much money did you have for your budget?
DARREN: I started with nothing.
SID: So did you do a big fundraising project?
DARREN: Sort of, I made a deal with the Lord in the very beginning, because I didn’t want to make it, and I made a deal with God, I said I will make this movie for you but I don’t want to have to ask anybody for money, because I hate asking people for money and so I said if you can do that, if you can give me the money I’ll go make it. And I never asked for a dime and he gave me $25,000 dollars.
SID: Where did this trip take you?
DARREN: It took me all over the United States, into Canada; we went to Africa and Mozambique, Bulgaria, Turkey, France Switzerland, all over the place.
SID: Never in a million years did you think you would be putting a video together on the supernatural. Tell me a bit about that dead man; what was his name; Frances?
DARREN: Frances, yeah.
SID: Tell me about dead Frances.
DARREN: Well I had heard of Frances, just because when I was scheduled to go to Mozambique to visit with Heidi and Roland Baker, I heard that there was this guy who has this incredible story, even for them. And so I asked well could I talk to him, and so he came to the airport at Johannesburg during my layover, and that’s when I heard his full story, which was just mind-boggling. What had happened is just about two years before they were having a church service, and he was outside kind of ushering people in and he was going to go lock up the gate and these four men came up to him and they were all drunk and he, you know, was trying to figure out what they wanted and they started to beat on him, to beat him up, they had baseball bats, and he said what are you doing? And they said we are going to kill you today, today is your last day, and so they beat him to death with baseball bats, they stabbed him 27 times.
SID: So he was dead dead.
DARREN: Dead as a doornail. So they took him to the hospital; hospital pronounced him dead, the whole church comes together and they don’t know what else to do so they are just praying for him. And he was killed at around eleven o’clock at night, around twelve-fifteen; twelve-thirty in the morning he came back to life. But when he came back to life he was, he was a total mess, I mean beaten by baseball bats and stabbed 27 times, his face was all swollen, couldn’t speak, and right before they put him out for the night, they gave him morphine, right before they put him out for the night he just was able to croak out, whisper “forgive them,” referring to the people who did this to him and then like he was out. And this got back to the church and that morning the police in South Africa caught one of these guys, and they were very proud of themselves because they don’t normally catch these guys, and so they went to the church, and they called the church and said, “Hey we caught one of the men who beat your friend to death, come down and sign some papers, press charges and we will get them processed. The church knew that Frances had forgiven them so they said no, we are not going to press charges, we want to forgive them. And the police were a little upset that is not really the best way to handle crime in South Africa. And so he said, “No you really need to come down. And the church with one voice said, “Absolutely not, we forgive him.” And the moment they forgave him as a body Frances was instantly healed in the hospital. He was, all of his bruises, all of his cuts, everything was gone immediately.
SID: Now you actually met Frances and videoed him?
DARREN: Yes, he still has the bloody shirt with 27 knife wounds in it.
SID: Now what did this do for your grid of the supernatural?
DARREN: It just took it to a whole new level. I mean you hear, it is one thing to hear stories, it is another thing to look across into the eyes of someone who has had an experience like this and you know that this person isn’t lying to you.
SID: Tell me about the college students in California that for fun they go to the emergency room of the hospital. Is that true?
DARREN: Yeah, yeah. In Redding, California thee is a church out there and they have a school, I guess they call it a School of Ministry, and basically kids go there, they are probably between the age of eighteen and twenty-five mostly, and they go to just learn how to operate in the supernatural, and learn how to just, they hit the streets and they go look for anybody they can to pray for, and one of the things they will do is they go to the ER on Friday Nights for fun and they will look for somebody who is sick and they will pray for them before the doctor sees them and get them healed.
SID: Now what I am wondering, I know the effect that your film had on me, and I am pretty excited to make this available to you, but what I want to find out from Darren is, when he plays this for his own evangelical church that were like him, he believes God can do miracles, but they have never seen any, what effect did this have on them?
DARREN: Well it had the same effect that it is having on literally every public showing that I have heard of, it has the same effect, God shows up in a major, major way.
SID: Describe what happens.
DARREN: Okay what happens, people are being healed, one while watching the movie, but most of the healings and the things that are taking place are taking place after the movie is over and the faith level is kind of at a high pitch. And so the people will just turn toward each other and start to pray for one another. And so we have had healings, we have had salvations, we have had people being set free from depression, from oppression, addictions it is just absolutely…
SID: You know the footage that you had from this underground church in China; I have never seen such glory of God on their faces. What effect did it have on you when you went through that footage?
DARREN: Well yeah, that is the one place I didn’t go to get the footage, a missionary named Dennis Balkam gave me that footage, he had been a missionary in China for forty years, and when I took a look at it, it was, I knew I was sitting on something that was absolutely incredible, I mean it is literally the rarest footage on the planet. It’s culled from years and years of traveling around deep into the heart of that underground church and what it did to me, it showed me for the first time what real, I mean heartfelt genuine faith really looks like and it brought me to tears and it, what I hear is it is everybody’s favorite part of the movie, because when they see that and they see what these people are going through and how they react to it; it is absolutely incredible.
SID: You know what, I think next week I am going to show a portion of that because it is the real thing, I mean Darren can you put it in any other words than it is seeing the real thing, like what happens when a human being sells out a hundred percent and is filled with the presence of God. Are they having many miracles there?
DARREN: It is an everyday common occurrence, it is one of the things that is causing the great kind of groundswell of conversions is the miracles that are preceding the preaching.
SID: Now when you went to Mozambique are many people that are dead raised from the dead there?
DARREN: Yeah the ministry that I went with was Iris Ministries and they have had over eighty people raised from the dead in the last few years.
SID: And by the way, I know it as a fact, that if someone is dead just a few minutes or something, they don’t even count them, they have certain strict requirements. Everything you have ever read in the Bible, I can’t say enough good things about this video, I wish that every young person, every older person in the world would see this video. Darren, one funny thing that happened real quick.
DARREN: One funny thing that happened?
SID: Yeah, in filming it?
DARREN: Funny thing that happened.
SID: I can tell you a funny thing that happened, when you came to interview me on this video and I had words of knowledge and what thoughts went inside of your mind?
DARREN: Yeah I was interviewing you and we were in this little office space and all of a sudden, and this was a good solid year before I am even going to start editing the movie and so you start getting these words of knowledge for people who are going to be watching this as yet unmade movie.
SID: That are going to be physically healed.
DARREN: Physically healed, and it was, I remember the hair standing up in the back on my head when you did it because it was a powerful, powerful moment but at the same time I am like, well I guess I am going to finish this movie and I guess people are going to watch it because you know this was happening, I knew it was very real. And since then, it was actually the first word I think you had was for headaches and that was the first miracle that happened when I showed it.
SID: But I want a miracle to happen with you right now, I want you to know God, I don’t care about your religion, I care about you knowing God and there is no other name given unto man in which we can be cleansed of our sin and righteous, to have intimacy with God, yell the name Jesus I want to know you, I want to experience your Kingdom now on this earth, now.
Sid Roth welcomes Darren Wilson
SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Darren Wilson, what happens when this unassuming college professor who had never done a film in his life, he is skeptical, that is almost an understatement, of the supernatural, he is commissioned by an angel to do a film on miracles around the world. Darren I understand you were coerced by your father and your wife to go to a church in Canada, what was going on there?
DARREN: Yeah, well first of all I have to point out that the Lord had actually given me the idea for this movie about four or five months before and I didn’t want anything to do with it.
SID: Why?
DARREN: Well because one, I didn’t have any money, two, I didn’t have any contacts, and three I didn’t want to make any explicitly Christian movie, I thought it was out there, a little cheesy and a little inauthentic so to speak. I really didn’t want to become a part of that. And so I ran from it and in May of 2006 my father and my wife kind of bribed me I guess you could say to go to this church, it was a big, they were having a big conference, and so I went basically to make my wife you know, happy. And so we were there and I was very, very judgmental of what was going on, and all of the people. It was a very charismatic kind of thing and people were whooping and hollering and doing their little shimmy shakes or whatever you want to call it and just being very kind of wild and exuberant, let’s put it that way. And I remember it was the last night of the conference and I was kind of standing in the back, it was right in the middle of worship and one of the speakers got up on stage and just kind of announced that an angel had just entered the room, his name was Breakthrough. And he had just come here from Nigeria or something like that.
SID: Did you believe him?
DARREN: No, no, no, no. And he is here, he is here with all of his angel buddies and they are just going to come and just minister to us and let’s just keep worshipping the Lord. And so I am sitting in the back thinking yeah, right, okay so apparently there is an angel in the room now and this guy happens to know his name and knows where he had been for the last ten years, and so on and so forth. So I am in the back, you know trying to worship thinking all these unholy thoughts and I have got my eyes closed like every good evangelical should, and as my eyes are closed I see this thing pass in front of my eyes, you know sometimes your eyes are closed but you can tell that somebody just walked in front of you. And I opened my eyes real quick just kind of out of reflex and there was nothing there. And I closed them and the figure is right here, still standing there. And I had my eyes closed but I could see like this outline. And this was very strange to me. I never had anything like this happen to me before. And then the figure turns and he walks up to me and he is standing there, I can see the outline like he was looking at me face to face. And he is literally the most intense individual I have ever met in my life, I mean just…
SID: Are you seeing shadows or are you seeing actually a clear being?
DARREN: It is shadow; it is like a shadow of an outline and he was just crackling with intensity, I cannot describe, like a drill sergeant on steroids, you know really just you know fired up. And he speaks to me; it was just ringing in my ears when he spoke to me, and he says, “Are you ready?” I had no idea what he was talking about. But I know enough because I grew up in a church, I know enough that when an angel asks you a question that you just say yes. So I said yes. And he says again, “Are you ready?” I said yes. And he says a third time, this time I could see his hands reach up for my head so I know he is like grabbing my head, I couldn’t feel anything, and he screams in my face, “Are you ready?” And I finally said, “Yes, ready for what?” I don’t know what he is talking about. And he stops and he stares and became so, so intense, and he says, “Make that movie.” And he starts to move away. And I just thought in my head, wait, because this is probably the coolest thing that has ever happened to me, and so as soon as I think it he is back in front of me, but this time he is not intense anymore, he is literally the most gentle, loving individual that I have every encountered. Just oozing love. And at this point there is no doubt that I am speaking with Breakthrough, it is not a question.
SID: That’s the name of the angel.
DARREN: That’s the name of this angel, yeah. And so he says to me, I can see his hand kind of reaching for mine, and this time he speaks very softly and he says, “What do you want, what do you need, I will stay with you all night if you need me to.” And I didn’t need anything.
SID: How would you like an angel to walk up to you and say what do you want, what do you need, and I will be here as long as you need my help. I mean give me a break. So what did you do?
DARREN: I blubbered, I didn’t need anything, I just didn’t want the experience to end and I realized he wasn’t leaving, and I guess he was waiting for me to release him. And so I said okay well you can go now. And then he just drifted off and the rest of my family got touched immediately after that in their own way. So I came out of it as white as a ghost, my family looks and like what happened to you and I said I gotta go be alone because something just happened to me. And so I went up to a little balcony that they had there, and I sat down and I started to pray and it was like the Lord just, he overcame me with his love. And it was the first time that I truly felt the true weight of his love for me, and I was a puddle on the floor and so I heard clearly, he said, “Stand up.” So I stood up and I walked to the edge of the balcony and I looked down at all these people that a half an hour before I was judging mercilessly, and were you know still doing their shimmy shakes, still doing their hooping and hollering, but this time I saw them through the Father’s eyes you know, and I saw the brokenness and I saw the hurt that is in them and I heard the Lord say very clearly, he said, “Will you make if for them?” And at that point I said yes.
SID: You are going to find out about dead people that came to life, you are going to find out about students that on a Friday night for fun they go to the hospital, the emergency ward just to pray for the sick, and guess what, they get better, don’t go away we’ll be right back.