Sid Roth

Tommy: The blood covenant is for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. It’s for all of us to use, every individual. The blood covenant is for us who accept Jesus as our Savior. We receive eternal life because the blood of Jesus. Sometimes a person is sick or in an accident. You may have been there, I’ve been there. We have to go be op-in an operation, go through an accident time, and we need sometimes in the emergency or in the hospital they have to give us a blood transfusion, a blood transfusion. They need our blood and we need the blood in order to live. So we give blood or take blood because it’s life. These people can receive life from another person’s blood by having that blood transfusion put into our bodies. They receive life, oh, I’ve got to say it again, they receive life from another person’s blood. Oh, will that preach or teach? They receive life from another person’s blood. Jesus Christ’s blood transfusion [laughs] He gives us blood. Receive the blood of Jesus; you don’t need another blood transfusion. The… One time apply the blood to your life, the blood will save, cleanse us, it’s the blood of Jesus. Jesus is on the cross, beaten, nailed to a tree, just for you, and just for me. A sacrifice, totally wounded for you and me. The blood flowed when they put the crown of thorns on His head, the blood flowed. Now listen, this wasn’t no little ole rose bush crown of thorns, these things were that long. They pushed them down, because the first place the devil wants to hit you is in your mind. He wants to get in your mind so when he gets in your mind, he put that blood so those, those thorns crushed into the mind ’cause the Devil wants to play with our mind. “You are no good; you’ll never be any good. You’ll never be saved; you’ve been too bad to be saved.” He comes to steal, kill and destroy. He will lie to you, he is a liar. If the devil tells you it’s raining, the sun is shining. I tell– if the sun is shining, he’ll tell you it’s raining; he is a liar! Any time that he comes, anytime the thought comes, “Just get away from me you liar! I know where you’re going you liar.” Just talk to him. Talk back to him. You ever figure out that these demons that we deal with have been around for centuries? It is not like they were born yesterday. They were, they have been around for centuries, so they knew your bloodline all the way back to your great-great-great-great-grandma. They’ve been around your family for hundreds of years. So they know how to come against us. And we have to know how to come against them. And there’s only one way to properly come against them. The blood. The blood. The devil hates it. The devil hates it when you start talking about the blood. The devil hates it when you walk through your house pleading the blood. The devil hates it when you put your hand on your children, grand children and plead the blood over them. The devil, the devil hates it when you put your checkbook down under your hand and you command money to come in that checkbook and you plead the blood of Jesus and your debts get paid and you didn’t know where they were going to get paid. Don’t tell me it can’t happen, ’cause I know it can happen.

Got a friend of mine in a little church in Tennessee. Not a little church anymore, running 3,000. Man comes to his church, looks to be about 60, I called him a hippie looking man. That’s a word some of you don’t understand, but most of you do. He’s about 60 years old, got on a pair of shorts and flip-flops with a coat and tie up here, you know, worshiping God. Now that, little unusual for me, maybe not unusual in some of our churches, but unusual for me. So the… Most of the pastors I know on Monday, take a day of rest Monday. It’s kind of a day of rest. So he’s at home resting, and the phone rings and it’s one of his elders and deacons and he said, “You know the man that sat up front with his…” “Yeah, we know him.” He said, “He’s here and he wants to meet with you.” And he said, “Well you know, it’s Monday and I really don’t want to meet with anyone uh, still got my PJs on running around the house.” He said, “Well, he is adamant about meeting you for lunch.” So they talk awhile and he agrees, showers, shave, get ready, go eat and he meets the guy for lunch. They get to lunch and he said, “Pastor, I’m driving through, I stop at your church, I’m so impressed, God spoke to my heart…” He said, “I love it, I love your preaching, I love this church. I want to do something for you, and I’m from California, and I’m headed back home, but I want you to take this. I want you to take this and use it for the glory of God.” He slides a check across the table at P.J. Chang or whatever you call it I don’t know what it is. It’s P.F., it ain’t P.J. See that’s how much I know, P.F. Chang. He slides a check across the table, for 4 million dollars. Listen! There, there is some money in this world and God’s going to bring it to you and God’s going to bring it to me when you start pleading the blood of Jesus. When you start pleading the blood of Jesus over your finances, when you start doing right with your tithe and your offering, oh- and you start doing right with your tithe and offering, God will pour that blessing out that you don’t have room to receive it. Somebody give Him praise! Will somebody help me praise Him! Let me tell you what that man did not know. That man did not know this church owed 3.95 million dollars in debt. He didn’t know that, but he wrote the check for $4 million; paid the church off completely. My pastor buddy writes a check for $400,000, that’s the tithe, sends it to another buddy of mine in Mobile, Alabama, and pays that church off. That’s what you’re supposed to do. That’s why we’re supposed to… I’m talking about the blood. I’m talking about the blood. He didn’t know, the man from California didn’t know, this pastor had walked through his church pleading the blood of Jesus over a financial miracle that’s going to pay that church off. He didn’t know how much they’d fasted and prayed for a man to show up and pay the debt off for that church. He didn’t know that, but God knew it and God sent the man. I’m telling you, when you plead the blood over your family, when you plead the blood over your children and grandchildren, don’t forget to plead the blood over your checkbook, over your finances. Plead the blood; plead the blood. Somebody praise Him in the house.

LARRY: Yeah. What I want to do is kind of wrap this section up, because again we do these shows, we just kind of go with the flow of the Holy Spirit. And I love this concept, Ephesians 2:6, I wrote it down here because we’re very, so many of us are very familiar with that statement, of being seated with Jesus, seated with Christ in the heavenly places. But as soon as you mentioned about worship, I just felt like the Holy Spirit wanted us to park on that because that is a way for so many believers, again not just our charismatic friends, but all these different churches and different denominations, I believe we’re moving to this point where God just wants His people to encounter Him. And I love what you were saying because He wants the people to stop begging and start decreeing. So what I’m going to do is I just sense a word of the Lord and I’m going to pass it to you to end this segment and I just want to speak out of what Holy Spirit is saying right now concerning worship. I actually believe, even right now if you’re watching this, I want to encourage you to press into the presence of God. I just want to encourage you to lift your eyes and go up to where God is. And you might ask, “How do I do that,” by faith, by faith. It’s not a matter of ascending a literal mountain, but like Adam was talking about, and Adam I’m going to have you speak to this as we finish, I want to encourage you just to go into His presence with no ulterior motive except to worship and adore Him. Father, I thank you. I come before you right now. I worship You for who You are and I thank You. As a result of that, Your presence would just come and fill this place, fill this room, fill this location where I am. I believe the Lord’s going to do that. Adam, what do you feel like the Holy Spirit is just saying in regard to that? And you can just talk to our friends who are watching.

ADAM: Well, I believe this is a generation we are coming in to, there’s a generation where God is seeking worshipers.

LARRY: Yes.

ADAM: He’s always you know, He always seeks worshipers, but this is a time where there’s a new breed rising. And I believe that the Elijah; when I say the Elijah is coming, I mean it’s a corporate group of people. And there are people that worship the Lord and become intimate with the Lord and then move in power out of that intimacy. And that’s how we access the kingdom, is through worship. And I do believe that there are a lot of people out there who know the Lord, they’re born again, but they’re really going through a time of getting beaten up by the enemy. The enemy’s actually attacking their families, attacking their loved ones. But when you actually encourage yourself, first you encourage yourself in the Lord…When David did, when King David, when his men were going to stone him and then he encouraged himself in the Lord and then it actually disarmed the demonic powers around him. And I believe that what we’re going to do is, that when we worship the Lord, encourage ourselves in the Lord, it disarms the demonic powers in the heavenlies around us and we go straight into that place where we’re seated in heavenly places. See I had a, I had an encounter, of Heaven going back about six years ago. And I was on the sea of glass and as I got closer to the throne room, there were all these empty seats, completely empty seats.

LARRY: Wow.

ADAM: And there was this voice that spoke to me and I thought, “What’s going on here? It must mean an event or there’s about to be an event, but there’s no one here.” And the Lord said, “No, these are the seats of the saints that have been robbed from the revelation of what it is to be seated in heavenly places.”

LARRY: Wow! Wow, my goodness!

ADAM: So there’s so many people that are robbed, from that revelation of what it is to be seated in heavenly places. So really we are, we are the true highlanders. We live in that realm, we operate out of that realm, as sons. LARRY: Well, and the cool thing is, stay right with us, we’re going to go into our next segment, we’re going to actually talk to you about how you can access this realm. [music] We’ve told you about what it is, we told you about worship being a key catalyst that will bring you into that place but hang on there, we’re going to tell you how to access this heavenly realm.

SID: David Hogan has spent over 40 years helping unreached people groups in Mexico. And in fact, you were told the exact city you were to go to, region you were to go to. How’d that happen?

DAVID: A angel of the Lord came. I had a vision, 360 like an IMAX, and I was shown a mountain range. And then it was up to me to find it.

SID: Well, you found it.

DAVID: I found it.

SID: You got there.

DAVID: I made it.

SID: And you got shocked because they were very different than the people you were used to. I mean, witch doctors and demon worshipers. You had no paradigm for that.

DAVID: No sir. There’s not, not where I come from here in America, Louisiana, it’s not there.

SID: I have an idea most people if they weren’t called, and they bumped into that, the first exposure, they would quit. What did you do?

DAVID: Jesus asked me to go. That’s what I did. There’s your answer. He asked me if I’d do it, so the answer’s yes.

SID: So you stuck it out, but what did you do? How did you pray? What did you about … I mean, what do you … For instance, let me give you an example. He’s talking to a witch doctor, and before his very eyes … Most of you, you don’t have a clue about what I’m ready to tell you. It’s never even crossed your radar. What did he turn into?

DAVID: First time it was a bat, big.

SID: You actually saw him, and–

DAVID: There was a man.

SID: Yeah.

DAVID: Turned the flashlight onto himself and went into a creature. I saw that with my eyes, yes sir.

SID: How did you get it into your head you wanted to raise the dead?

DAVID: All right. That’s a fair question. Thanks. All right. I took the Bible apart, put it in notebooks where I could understand it. Each man had his own notebook. Each section of God’s Bible had its own notebook. I made a list of the miracles, of the men’s prayer life, the fasting, their marriages, their children, everything, how God responded to them and how they approach God. And I chose out of the whole list of all the miracles down through the historical events of the Bible, I chose dead-raising. And my wife asked me to, let’s start lower, headaches, different things. But I’m not that kind of a human being. If God can do it, let’s do it.

SID: Well, David, how long did you contend for raising the dead before you saw your first dead person come to life?

DAVID: All right, there you go. That was a four-year fight with these witch doctors. It got really bumpy for me. I lost more than I gained during this time. And then I went out to a really normal day for me. Get up, pray three or four hours, seek God, load up my four-wheel drive, go out to the mountain. And I get out of my truck, and this man asked me, “David, would you please come and pray for my son?” And, “What’s the matter?” “Well, he’s sick.” So I walk with him through the woods. I mean, you got to understand in my world the 25 or 30 pastors were walking through the jungle, the smell.

DAVID: It’s awesome to me. Whereas other people would find it offensive, I find it great. And I start hearing this lady screaming, and we went right to that hut. I get there, and it’s a bamboo wall, house, dirt floor, grass roof. Looked me right in the face, pointed finger in my face, “My son is dead. Now, you do something about that.” Well, look, I’m an eighth generation preacher. My family’s not new to this, but nobody’s ever been asked that question. So I went in the hut, followed him. And when I get in there, it’s not like, there’s not angels. It’s not awesome.

DAVID: There’s a little dead boy with a mama holding him screaming. There’s black magic warlocks. There’s spiritist healers. They’re my enemy. They don’t love Jesus, and they hate me. I turn around and look at the mom. She backs away from her son. This nine-year-old boy’s been dead for five hours. I kneel down over this boy. I’ve never seen it before. I don’t know how to go about it. I know that Jesus, Elijah, all these guys raised the dead. But I have no experience at all. I just have biblical research for that.

DAVID: I laid my hands on this boy, tried to find a heartbeat, put my ear down, normal pressure points. He’s gone. He’s stiff. Pigment of his skin, his coloration is gone. Started praying, prayed in tongues first, because that seems like the best answer. It didn’t work. Prayed in English, of course that’s going to work. It didn’t work. I prayed in Spanish. That didn’t work either. Then I went into Indian, and then I just started weeping and crying asking God for mercy, because it was really hot in there, probably 115 degrees inside the hut.

DAVID: Probably an hour of prayer and just all of a sudden, there was a heartbeat in the little boy’s arm. I had ahold of his pressure point. And I felt a thump, duh, duh, duh. And then it stopped. But what was the most important to me, which it’s all important, and the little t-shirt, I saw that little t-shirt bounce, duh. And I when I did, it really freaked me out. And I look up, and the dad’s sitting there. He had seen also the little t-shirt bounce. And I said, “Did you see that?” He said, “Yes.”

DAVID: I said, “It works. It works. It really, it actually works to trust heaven and believe the name of Jesus.” And about probably three minutes, maybe five, on and off heartbeat, and finally it got steady and strong. And then his coloration came. Then he got flexible again, and then his eyes opened. And he’s raised from the dead.

SID: You know, David, if you have the faith to raise someone from the dead, you have the faith for any miracle in the Bible, anything. Am I right?

DAVID: I believe that’s right, sir.SID: Anything in the Bible. I want to learn how he prayed for the dead, but I also want to hear about some of these amazing creative miracles that are happening when he prays. Be right back.