Sid Roth

RICH: You know real quickly I want to take you through the miracles of Jesus. I just feel to talk a little bit about miracles if it’s okay with you. You know there’s four categories of the miracles of Jesus. Okay? One of them it’s miracles cures, which we know a lot in America that entitles the body, the physical body. Number Two: it’s exorcisms or deliverance. We saw deliverance today in one of the rooms back here. Number Three: it deals with resurrection from the dead. And Number Four: it deals with power over nature. Now this is something that many people have not tapped into yet. We all have great faith for cures. We all have seen devils come out. But the Lord is showing me that He’s bringing us into a season where we going to expect that, we’re going to begin to see the resurrection power of God begin to move through your life for resurrection. We’re going to talk about people being raised from the dead when he was playing someplace in Europe.  But Number Two, there’s going to be a revelation that we have power over nature just like Jesus has. And this is something that overseas it happens but in America! You know that in the city of Orlando there was a spot where I used to drive all the time going to church with my wife that just about every weekend there will be a motorcycle accident or a car accident because of a bad intersection. It was a Latino town so Latinos drive like crazy so you know everybody trying to beat each other. And there was three people that died the week that we rent our church building and we had to drive there. And the Holy Spirit says why don’t you stop on that spot and you declare that as long as you live in the city of Orlando not one body will be hurt or die on this intersection. And I stood there and I stood on that spot that had the marks of the motorcycle wheels and the darkness of the dried up blood and I said from this time on there will be no death or accident on this corner as the word of the Lord is being released. I bless this spot and I declare no more accidents. You know it’s been a year and a half not one accident took place on that spot!

AUDIENCE:  (CLAPPING)

RICH: Now Number Two: we have power, and God is going to begin to release this upon us, to speak to nature and to the elements and it’s not your screaming. It’s not your fire. It has to do with that revelation of that area of the miracle power of God that has been unknown to most believers. You can look up to a tornado and you can point your finger and say you’re not going to damage my city. You can look, I mean you can point to a map and say there will be no earthquakes on this place as long as I’M alive. Let me tell you something. God will begin to do it because God is releasing that revelation to His people. The miracles is beyond cure of the body. He deals with casting out devils. He deals with resurrection. And He deals with power over nature. Can somebody say “I receive that!”

AUDIENCE:  I receive that!

SID: There is so much glory in this studio right now Elaine. But I got a question for you. How in the world did you get invited to a dry Baptist church?

ELAINE: There was a lady that had attended one of my meetings and she was hungry for her church to have this Holy Spirit and the glory. So it was ladies day, the ladies got to pick who would speak and they picked me. And they didn’t warn me what I was getting into.

So when I got there that day, it was so quiet and so dead, I was just talking very low and doing the best—but the Lord said, “Nine rows back, I have a lady who has a tumor in her colon and she’s dying. Go back there and tell her.” And I said inside, “Oh God, I can’t do that. I’m in the Baptist church. They don’t even like me. I’m not sure they like you, so what are we going to do here?” He said, obey me. And so I stepped down off this huge platform. I walked back there and I said, “Ma’am, would you stand up?” And she said, “Me?” I said, “Yes.” I said, “You have a tumor in your colon.” And I said, “You’re dying.” And she said, “I’ve had 27 operations and number 28 will be next week to remove this.” And I said, “You also, the Lord tells me you have leukemia.” She said, “Yes.”

She was convinced then. She said, “How do you know these things?” I said, “I hear the voice of God.” And I laid my hands on her.

“Heal her in Jesus’ name.”

I turned around to walk back up this long, long aisle. She felt something moving in her stomach. She ran to the bathroom and in about five minutes she come running back in and said, “It’s in toilet.”

SID: Did the church react like our studio audience?

ELAINE: No, they didn’t even clap. They didn’t do anything. They just looked at me like I was a cow at a new gate. And then, and I said, “What’s in the toilet?” She said, “The tumor, it’s in the toilet.” And a lot of the ladies on the back, she said, “Come and see,” and everybody goes running out of the church. And I said, “I don’t need to see. I believe, I believe.”

And so she was totally healed. Okay. So, they said don’t leave. Don’t, the preachers even said don’t leave. We stayed another night. Seven deaf people were healed the next night. The third night the glory of God came in so strong that there was a crippled walk out of a wheelchair that had been there for 12 years. They rented a larger room. That night there was over 1500 there. And I’m laying hands on people and I’m doing everything because they’re hungry now. They’ve seen the power of God. Once somebody really tastes the glory of God, you will never want to be empty again. When the glory of God comes in, that’s it. You want it. Hallelujah.

And so I was tired. I had ministered and ministered and I went over by the side of the room and I just stood there and God said, “Ask me for something. What do you want?” And I thought, I said, “I want more of the of the anointing.” He said, “You already have the anointing. Ask me for something you don’t have.” And I said, “I want the power.” He said, “You already have the power. You are baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire. You’ve got it.” So I said, “I want all these people to be baptized in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. I want all these Baptist folks, even the pulpit.” And you know what he did? He said, “Watch.” And a pillar of fire came down in that church. It was out of… it was a pillar of fire.

And he said, “Watch.” And it moved over the whole entire congregation. And as the pillar of fire moved, they just started falling out of their seats.

SID: This is a Baptist church?

ELAINE: Yes, they just start falling out of their seats. And as they fall, Sid, they’re going and they’re speaking in other tongues. He got all the way over to the edge of the pulpit and said, “Elaine, watch.” He went and when he did, all the preachers was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

SID: That’s normal. Let the whole world be normal.

ELAINE: Yes.

SID: Normal as written in the Bible.

ELAINE: Yes.

SID: Elaine, you hear from God so clearly. Give me one of the most important nuggets you can on how we all can hear from God like you.

ELAINE: Okay. I pray in the spirit in my hotel room. I live in hotel rooms because I’m on the road constantly and I pray in the spirit and after I pray in the spirit, I sit and listen. 50% of prayer is listening. I know the voice of God that strong, just like I know my husband or my children or anybody else, because I have sat in a room and listened. You learn the voice of God.

SID: I’ll tell you what, when we come back, I’m going to turn the Elaine loose to pray for miracles and release the glory that’s on her life anew. Be right back.

SID: My guest is Ryan Bruss, and it’s kind of a reversal for him because he’s one of our producers, and he’s usually analyzing what’s going on and giving direction rather than being in that chair. But he wrote a book that I am really, really excited about. Carrying the Presence, the presence of God. But you have an approach that is very, very different. But for starters, what do you mean by carrying the presence?

RYAN: Well, Jesus said “Pray this way. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” So whatever is going on in heaven, Jesus says bring it to earth. Bring it here. And because Jesus lives inside us, we carry the kingdom wherever we go, whether we’re at home, our job, work, right in this studio, we’re carriers of the presence. And right now, Sid, the Lord has been speaking to me all day, right now is a time for ordinary people with ordinary lives, doing extraordinary things for God. I mean, now is the time. Two-thirds of God’s name is go, so we might as well just do it. We might as well just go and preach the gospel, heal the sick, cleanse the leper, and cast out devils.

SID: Tell me a bit about the supernatural early on.

RYAN: Well, I was born again 40 years ago. I know I don’t look that old, Sid, but I was born again 40 years ago, and my dad died of cancer when I was 12. And right after he died, my mom looked at us three kids, looked up to heaven, said “You know what, I’m not going to do this by myself. You guys are going to get filled with the Holy Ghost.” And so that night we all got full of the Holy Ghost. He stays—

SID: All of you?

RYAN: All three of us, just like that.

SID: Did you speak in tongues?

RYAN: All speaking tongues. Yeah, we went … I’m telling you, I can remember like it was yesterday. We were laying on our bed, my brother in his and me in my bed. We were just speaking in tongues all night at just 12 years old, 10 years old. And so we didn’t have a lot of money growing up at all, because my father died. The cancer just ate through our finances, and we literally had to lay our hands on appliances and believe for them to work. We had to … True story, we had to pray over the food that it would multiply in our home. In fact, my mom said, I remember it, again, like it was yesterday. We sat on the front of our house, me, my brother and sister, and my mom, saying “You’re going to pray, we’re all going to pray in the Spirit until groceries pull up in our driveway.”.

So we sat there, she said “Close your eyes,” probably because she didn’t know what to expect. But we closed our eyes and I had one eye open as I was praying, [speaking tongues], you know, and sure enough, Sid, a car pulls up in our driveway and brought us a whole car load of groceries.

SID: I don’t know about you, Brian, but seeing that direct, amazing answer to prayer was more important than the groceries. I don’t know. You might have said the groceries.

RYAN: Well, the groceries, that filled our stomach, that was the good part. But I grew up in a house with the supernatural, because you know my mom personally, she’s a seer. And so we couldn’t get away with anything.

SID: What does seer mean?

RYAN: A seer is somebody that has her eyes opened to the spirit realm. But I grew up with my mom seeing angels with us. I could tell you hundreds of stories of the glory angels, because that’s just how we grew up.

SID: As a young man you were a dreamer, and God started speaking to you in dreams.

RYAN: I didn’t have anybody. Because I grew up without a father, didn’t have anybody to mentor me. So the Holy Spirit took over, and he would mentor me on what to do about this, what to do about that. And as a teenager, I had a dream where all these dirt clods were coming down a conveyor belt, and my job was to break them open and get to the center. And in the center I saw a diamond, and the Lord said “That’s part of your ministry, is to help people see their value and worth before me.”

SID: You say we have answers to everyone’s need inside of us. Does everyone have answers to everyone’s need, or just you?

RYAN: Well, I have some good answers. But if you are born again, you carry God with you. And the big revelation that the Lord is trying to speak to me about, Sid, is that you have to … Everybody, if you call yourself a Christian, you have to begin to understand that you carry the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit with you. So everywhere you go, things are going to start happening. God is going to move. Bring the kingdom into your finances and bring the kingdom into your spouse’s life. Bring the kingdom to your kids or any area of your life.

SID: Now, in 1996 you went to Pensacola, Florida. Tell me what that experience brought to you, besides a wife.

RYAN: It did bring me, that was good. And later on, kids. But the beautiful thing about the Brownsville Revival is, because I thought it was already, this is 1996 I went there, I thought I was already on fire for God until I went to a revival. And then you know where you’re at with God. And it totally changed my life. As you know, I ended up working for Steve Hill, but it totally changed my life. See, revival wrecks you. I’m a pastor of our church now. I get frustrated when I don’t see and feel what I felt in revival. We don’t go to the past, but if it’s not at least that, I need something else. I need the glory, I need more of God, because I know what is available.

SID: But you went out in the streets there with … But then you didn’t just go out in the streets witnessing, how many people did you have with you on the street?

RYAN: On the weekends we had sometimes 275 people that would hit the streets and evangelize. It was awesome. And one of the greatest testimonies that came out of that is, there was a man by the name of Chacho. He was going into a bar, and our group of students just said “Hey, can we talk to you?” Anybody can say that, “Hey, can we just talk to you for a minute?” He goes “Okay, I’ll talk to you.” Well, this was over 20 years ago, and to make a long story short, he gets down on his knees, prays a prayer of salvation. When he stood up, he was set free from every addiction in his life. I mean, he was so saved, as we said back in the revival. He was so saved that 20 years later now, I’m talking about right now, I speak at his pastors’ conferences and do missions trips, because he’s planted orphanages and churches all over Mexico. Just because we met him going out of a bar.