Sid Roth

Sid: I am really overwhelmed of the value of this brand new tool Mike Shreve that you’ve just come out with.  It’s a book and 4 CD’s called “Sixty-Five Promises from God for Your Child.”  I believe that it’s a right on book because on yesterday’s broadcast I was talking to you about our school system, education system where there calling black white, they’re doing the opposite of God’s word. By the time someone graduates from college and has gone through out school system they will find systematically everything they’ve taught their children under-minded unless they’re undergirded by a faith that is Bible faith it’s not hope, it’s not struggling, it’s absolute knowing.  And that’s why you’re book, you’ve researched it, you’ve used it on your own family; you’ve gotten so many testimonies of people that have heard your teaching and they’re finding miraculous results going on.  I’ll tell you, share one quick testimony of someone that has used your teaching with their children or grandchildren.

Mike:  Well, I got an email recently from a woman who knows you very well, in fact twenty years ago you witnessed to her husband in an airport up in Baltimore and he came to the Lord.  And because of the kind of life that he was before he got saved it affected the children in that family.  The son became a heroin addict, but this woman became familiar with a particular revelation that God’s given me and she began praying the promises over her son who was a heroin addict and he was all messed up in a lot of ways couldn’t hold down a job just totally rebellious. Now she emailed me and she said “He’s off of heroin completely, he’s got a job a great job,” and she’s just believing God to do even more miracles in his life.  And so but she began claiming promises like Deuteronomy 30 verse 6 where God said “I will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul so you may live.”  You cannot legislate love; you can’t force anyone to love a concept, to love God, to love you.  You can’t make a child love you nor can you make a child love God.  But God said, “You claim this promise Deuteronomy 30 verse 6 I will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed.”  Which to me means that God will cut away the worldly influence, the negative peer pressure; He’ll circumcise the heart, he’ll cut away, He’ll peel away the carnality that rules the fallen nature, and that He will implant within that child genuine love for God.  And she began claiming that promise and it wasn’t I guess it was about a year she kept praying, and it doesn’t always happen overnight, but he got off of heroin, God changed his life.

Sid: Would you explain for those because it’s a brand new book and it’s just literally off the press, would you explain what is accomplished in this book and the 4 CDs.

Mike:  Well I believe it’s a major assault against the enemy on a battlefield that every parent knows very well.  Because there is well, we have history of how for instance the enemy through Pharaoh tried to destroy Moses’ generation in order to prevent the seed that would come to bring deliverance.  And I believe the enemy has an orchestrated plan right now to destroy this generation with witchcraft, perversion, with all kinds of dark agendas. So we have to go to business with warring against the adversary.  The way you wind a battle with demonic forces is the words. That’s how Jesus fought the devil He would say “It is written, you don’t fight with your emotions, you don’t fight with logic, you fight with the word of God and when you find the specific promises, sixty-five promises that God’s given to our children, and you begin to wage warfare with those promises it definitely has an impact in the Spirit realm.  One of my favorite promises for backslidden children is Proverbs 11:21 “The seed of the righteous shall be delivered.”  The whole verse says “Though hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.”  And when a parent who has a backslidden bound, up child that is all bound up in the world and in sin begins to speak that over the their lives I believe that it disintegrates the yoke eventually.  The word of God will prevail in that child’s behalf.

Sid: Well, I have your book open I just opened it at random let me explain what I’m seeing; here is, and these again are 65 verses; you should have one book for your children and grandchildren and in some cases if you have great grandchildren.  First of all you have the scripture for salvation.  “Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”  Then you do very anointed teaching on this scripture so that someone will believe this they just won’t be saying words out in the atmosphere it will be from a heartfelt conviction.  And then you have, you’ve written the prayer for them and then you have a space form them to actually insert their child or their grandchild or great-grand child’s name.  And I can picture every day I’m looking at the gentleman that produces our television show Warren Marcus and I know he has children, and I know that he has grandchildren. I can see him getting one of these books and putting his daughters name, his son’s name, his grandchildren’s name and every day getting up early and sowing into his children and grandchildren something that money can’t buy.  And you know these 4 CDs that you’ve done Mike, God has given you such a supernatural level of belief from seeing what God did in your own family from the thousands of positive feedback from different people from all walks of life and all situations that have done this.  In fact I got to ask you a question, your son who was supposed to have mental damage and had such a traumatic birth.  And your daughter that was supposed…they wanted you to abort her and now you see them today and now you see them better than normal you see children of Godly parents should be way beyond normal. They should be extraordinary and tell me about when your son was 4 years old he had a dream about heaven.

Mike:  Oh yes, that fits in with the promise “All you shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children.”  One morning my son came down from his bedroom and he said “Mommy, daddy I died in my sleep last night and met Jesus and He showed me around Heaven.”  And of course he didn’t die but that’s how he interpreted it because it seemed to him as he had left his body and went to Heaven.  And he used words that were adult words. For instance he said “Jesus told him not to ever watch bad television and to always have compassion for all people.”  He looked at me quizzically and he said “Daddy what does compassion mean?”    

Sid: At four of course he doesn’t know what that word means.

Mike:   Yeah the very fact that he didn’t know what the word meant let me know that it was a legitimate experience and I told him I said, “Well, that’s love feels the suffering of other people.”  And so that was a real transformational experience for him. I had been claiming that passage of scripture.  I’ve always searched through the promises of God there’s 7,487 promises in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, but there’s 65 that belong to our children.  And one of my favorites is Deuteronomy 7:9 where the Bible says “He is a faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him to a thousand generations.”  A generation is either 40 years or a 100 years; there’s controversy on that.  Well if it’s 40,000 years we don’t have that much time but God says for 40 millennia there will be hovering over of covenant and mercy over those that had come forth from your family-line long before you will be forgotten there will be people in this world with a reservoir of mercy hovering over their lives, if you’re in a relationship, a submitted relationship with God.  And so if the impact last that long it’s certainly going to hover over my sons, and daughters my grandsons, my granddaughters.

Sid: Just very briefly you prayed this way with your daughter for a month for her to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. At age 6 briefly what happened to her?

Mike:  Well, actually I prayed a very specific verse or two verses Isaiah 44 verses 3 and 4.  Where God said “I will pour water on him who is thirsty and floods on the dry ground and I will pour My Spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.”  Well I began to confess the promise over her, she was 5 years old at the time.  She was in one of my meetings where I was preaching and that night she fell out under the power of God was overwhelmed by the Spirit she crawled up in my arms and spoke in tongues for about 45 minutes and then she looked at me with tears streaming down out of her eyes and she said “Oh daddy Jesus filled me,” now would that have happened had I not claimed the promise?  I’m not so sure, there is such a power in knowing these promises and claiming them…

Sid: Oh Mike we’re out of time.