Sid Roth

Sid:  One new man, one new species of being a complete dwelling place for the presence of God.  When Jesus people come into the book, Paul is beside himself.  He says if it was a blessing that the Jewish people rejected their Messiah and it was, Gentiles could be grafted in, how much greater and even in unbelief.  Do you see all that the good inventions and things that Jewish people have done over the centuries in unbelief?  If it was a blessing that Jewish people rejected their Messiah, get ready for such a blessing that is beyond you to even fathom when Jewish people receive their Messiah.  It literally, I believe when Paul says this this is what he means.  He says it will literally be life from the dead.  I believe that it will be a release of the miraculous that we will see dead people coming back from life.  There will be such power and such glory, when these two people groups of God become one in Jesus.  My guest is Dean Sikes.  And Dean Sikes is a proven prophet that has learned through life experiences things that have changed his destiny and his greatest desire is for you to learn these things yourself.  And learn the keys to answered prayer and learn how to hear for yourself what your destiny is.  How you can discover it supernaturally.  Dean, what is God telling you right now?

Dean:  You know Sid, I believe we are living in a day where God wants to show up more than any other time throughout all of time and visit with His people.  To love on them, to talk with them and I believe we have to hear from God.  You know its people talk to me all the time, does God still speak?  Well, yeah He still speaks.  I mean he never changes and if I may, I just as I was listening to you, I heard the Lord share a little prompting in my heart that I think it is for a lot of your people to grab hold of.  I was scheduled to minister in a church on a Sunday and the previous Wednesday the Lord spoke to me and said, cancel the date.  I said, Lord your words on the line, you said, let your yes be yes and your no be no.  He said, cancel the date.  I need you in Chattanooga where you live.  I called the pastor and said, I don’t know why but the Lord has told me not to go and not to come this weekend and be here and the Pastor said, you know what, I trust your ability to hear God.  Let’s reschedule and Sid, that was Super bowl Sunday and I was taking a walk that afternoon before the game started and I was in our neighborhood and I heard this still small voice rise up on the inside of me and said, you won’t watch any of the Superbowl, you’ll be at the hospital.  I got an uneasiness in my heart and I went back to my home and when I got home my phone was ringing and saying, get to the hospital.  Your Dad is having a heart attack. 

Sid:  And had you not been obedient you would have missed that.

Dean:  Yep. Yep that is…I often wondered what would have happened during that day had I been down in Florida instead of five minutes away from where my Dad was.  And I believe the reason the Lord wanted me to share that with your audience was simply this, there are people and I know this very strongly and God’s going to whisper something and it’s not going to make any sense, and it’s going to go against everything in your mind.  But listen with the heart, not your mind and obey what you hear.

Sid:  The mind really gets in the way. 

Dean:  It does, it does.  We try to understand, we try to figure out.  We try to reason and God is a Spirit and that Spirit, when that Holy Spirit rises up on the inside of us and comes and tells us something.  He may have to shout it from a housetop; he may have to whisper it.  It may be a gentle prompting, but I’m telling you, there are people in the next seven to ten days in your audience who will hear the voice of God, where they know God or not there will be an instruction that will make no sense but there will be an underlining peace.  Please, please do not ignore that.

Sid:  Give me one more example that was some example in reference to your father.  What happened to him by the way?

Dean:  Well, what’s interesting is that that day, when I met him at the hospital it was obvious that it was very serious and the doctors began to work with him and took him into a lab, Cath Lab where they were going to insert a stent and I was out in the lobby with my Mom and Sister and others and the Lord said the stent is not going to work, it is going to be a process.  Prepare everyone, so I told my Mom what I had heard and a few minutes later here comes the Doctor and he has a very concerned look on his face, he said that the stent did not work, we’ve got to go to open heart surgery.  For the next five and half hours they worked on my Dad and they did six bypass.  I didn’t know that you could even do six by passes but they did and sure enough it was a process but it ended up being nineteen days in the hospital.  Nine or ten of which was in ICU but God, every day was faithful.  We stood in faith, we hung on to the word, and my Dad left that hospital with a new lease on life, doing great today.

Sid:  Out of curiosity did you ever go back to that church and what good came from you postponing by speaking I the church?

Dean:  Actually, I have gone back I have a tremendous relationship with that Pastor, the church had exploded, I mean literally it has just grown by leaps and bounds and I’m scheduled to go back there later on.

Sid:  Tell me a bit about how you’ve been supernaturally protected when you fly.  I mean, you went from a guy that was so fearful you didn’t want to fly any more to someone that flies all over the map.

Dean:  Yeah, we do and what’s interesting when you fly, you learn a lot about God.  If you want to really learn about God, go up in an airplane in a thunderstorm and take your seat belt off; you’ll understand, He’s real.  And you know when I’m flying I’ll sit in the back of my airplane, but I can see a lot of the instruments.  There is a radar there, and you know some of the times when we I know God’s sending us some place.  I have literally seen Him literally move clouds out of our way just big enough to let out airplane go through or around.  Just to make sure that we can get to where we need to be going.  Because, you see when you work for God, God knows everything and He know what we need.  Our job really is just to believe, to stand in faith and just to believe and to love people.  Because that is the heart beat of who I believe Jesus is.  He just loves.  It is not trying to figure Him out, it is not trying to understand everything He did, it is simply going, Jesus is real, he loves us with a love that unimaginable and He’s got a tremendous plan for our life.  And if we just hang on and keep on and not stop doing what brought success and enter into our true trusting relationship with Him our lives can change for the better and we don’t ever have to go back to that old man.

Sid:  How do you walk in this love?

Dean:  It’s day by day.  It is staying in the word.  Well, people go you are in full time ministry, you are supposed to be.  I mean, I don’t read my Bible twenty hours a day.  But, I’m consistently in the Word; the Lord told me a long time ago that if you will be consistent and persistent, you’ll stay in my presence.  I had an encounter with God one day that truly became the conversation of my life with God.  I went to a lake house for a day and half Sid, with no agenda other than to hear God and anybody can do this.  I just began to worshipping God.  I put on music that just worshiped God and I worshipped Him.  And I entered into a place and He said I want you to start writing.  I felt like an idiot, I forgot to bring paper.  He said, don’t worry about it, He said that there is paper, He told me right where to go, into which bedroom and which cabinet and there it was, it was a ream of paper.  And I began to write and I wrote and I wrote and I wrote and I would worship, and I would worship and worship and write and worship and write and worship and when it was over the rest of my life was on paper.  I had fourteen pages from God.  And it truly defined our ministry, our marriage, our children, what’s God’s called me to do the prophetic gift.  And you see, I share that not to tell you what happened to me, I share that to encourage that God will meet you right where you are.

Sid:  Well, when you teach on “Discovering Your Destiny” there’s a supernatural anointing on your teaching.  That’s the key, it’s wonderful that God did this for you, but what about me am I Swiss cheese?  That’s what people are asking right now.  Will He do that for me?

Dean:  Yes, absolutely undeniably yes, God doesn’t love this person more than he loves that person, because God loves people because he put His life into people.  And so why would God create us and then not tell us what to do or show us how to get there?  The Bible says, thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph through Christ Jesus.  Always means, always, triumph means victory.  If we will just follow Jesus, he’ll lead us to victory every single time.  It may not always look like what we think it is going to look like.  But we know if we love him and were called according to His purpose it’s going to work to our better.

Sid:  What do you do when you have a thought that God’s telling you to do something but you’re not sure that that thought is coming from God?

Dean:  Well, I always test it, I share with people when I minister to them, whatever I tell you if I have a word for you, put it on a shelf.  Let God perform His Word with two or three witnesses.  I’m a messenger.  I’m either watering a seed somebody else has planted in your life or I’m planting a seed that some else will water.  I’m going to get out of the way.  When I get a prompting that I think is from God but I don’t know is from God, I wait and I let God confirm it.  But there is a peace that comes with it; I know the difference between waiting on God and moving quickly with God.  And typically the peace is what I’m looking for.  The witness of the Spirit on the inside of me, cause there is a true Holy Spirit, He’s as supernatural as they come and He will show up whenever He wants to.

Sid:  Okay, you’re listening to Dean Sikes and if you like his teaching you’re going to love the two teaching CDs that we’ve picked out.  One is “The Power of Petition” and you will see your prayer answered like you have never seen before and the other is “How to Discover Your Destiny” just as Dean discovered his destiny God wants you, He wants you to know your destiny more than you want to know it.