Sid: You know in the tumult of your day, day to day life do you long for peace powerful enough to defeat your greatest fears? Strength to overcome your mountains of obstacles you face or the presence of God to fill you with power? I’m interviewing Michael Galiga; he does not speak by theory, he’s not just some teacher that knows how to teach, he is a man that has won every battle. He has found how you can draw into the secret place of God’s presence and power and wisdom. He get’s downloaded ideas that result in $l00,000,000 real estate deals. He has found that whatever the problem, whether it’s unemployment, whether it’s your facing foreclosure or whether it’s sickness or whether it’s broken relationships, whether it’s plain fear, being paralyzed and not being able to make a decision God has something better for you. You can win every battle and Mike you talk about in your book, “Win Every Battle” an amazing experience when God called you to Israel in 2005. But you put out a fleece, what was that and why would you even put out a fleece? I think it’s great to go to Israel, what’s the big deal?
Michael: Well, Sid I was raised in a family that when times got tough and just the year before started my own business and moved back to Oklahoma to take care of my Mom and we didn’t have a lot of money and so the way that I was raised and you don’t have a lot of money you work hard, and if times get hard, you work harder and harder and harder. And so I’m praying one night and journaling and God says okay, I want you go to Israel and I’m going “Well, I kind of wanted to go, but I don’t want to go right now because I need to work hard. But so any way eventually I agreed to go, I said, “Okay, okay I’ll go, period, but I have these two residential lots that my wife and I bought and we don’t want them anymore and it’s very expensive, a lot of money Sid, and so we needed to sell them, we needed to sell them since we didn’t want them. So I said, God, I’m asking you, I’m going on record, I’m asking you, I will go to Israel but I’m asking you to have both of these lots in contract, not closed but in contract before I leave. And then there was another fellow that owed me a lot of money and I’ll say the amount, not to brag, but it was $200,000 and I will name his name Bob in Indiana. You Bob has told me that he’s not going to pay me. And so I would like to be paid before I leave, and he said to both of those things, done, I’ll take care of it, you go to Israel. So about, three or four days before I left something like both lots are still for sale and I don’t have the $200,000 so again it was about four or five days before I left, the phone rang about 10:30 a night that was the broker that had the listing and he said, “Mike I have this offer, can I come by?” He comes by, it was a great offer, it was perfect. My wife and I sign it and we say yahoo, praise the Lord, but we still have another lot for sale and don’t have the $200,000. So I continue to praise the Lord and this is stretching me like big time. And so the night before I left, it was 10:30 at night a broker calls the same song and dance, he calls and he’s got a great offer on the second last lot. Can I come by and he came by and it was a full price perfect offer and we sign it. And so that part of the deal that I struck with God was done the night before I left, but I still don’t have $200,000. I’m still, I’m maxed out Sid, you know I’m walking in ground that I’ve never walked on before. And so I said, “I’m going to Israel” and I went to bed that night, and I said, “I’m going to Israel, I don’t care I’m going no matter what, even if I don’t have the 200,000, but I know God is going to give it to me. So I got up that morning, my wife and my little boy drove me to the airport, I went in the airport and waved goodbye to them and I sat at the gate Sid. Thirty minutes before that plane took off I felt like a quarterback that knew that he was going throw the touchdown pass with twenty seconds left in the Super Bowl. I just knew it Sid, I just looked around at people and said, these people are nice people, but they don’t have a clue of what’s about to happen. I got on the plane, I sat on my seat, there was nobody next to me, suns coming in through the window, and I said God this is the eleventh point nine hour and I know that you are going to deliver me and the stewardess came on and said, hey, if you got a cell phone on, it ought to be off and just then the door shut and you know when the door shut and it compresses and you can hear it?
Sid: Right.
Michael: You’re not getting off that plane at that point, you cannot get off that plane so I’m going to Israel, but the plane had not started back out yet. We hadn’t left, my phone rang and that about ten second period, it rang as I was punching the button to turn it off and he said, “Hey, this is David from Indiana, I just wanted you to know that we just wire transferred $200,000 payments to your account and I know that you’re going on a trip out of the country, have a great trip.” So I spoke to him for about ten seconds and I hung up. Two things, the money was there before I left, but only after the door shut Sid. Second of all, I never told him I was going anywhere.
Sid: How did you feel when you got that telephone call?
Michael: Well, I melted into the seat, you know this is a place that most people dream about going and they never go there because they haven’t taken that step into faith. And I’m telling you, I was a hurting unit, when I got on that plane I was full of faith, but I was thinking either you show up of I go down in flames. I’ve never done this before, ever. And so I stepped out on faith and that’s when it happened. That’s when the supernatural takes over.
Sid: And when you were coming back or maybe even before you found out, you heard from God that the devil had a strategy against you.
Michael: Yeah, very real I’m journaling about a month before I left and I’m journaling, I’m writing down what God’s telling me to do and what He’s up too and He says, Mike, Hey your sensitive point is your wife and child. And the forces of darkness, satan and his minions are going to come after your wife and child and because you’re going to Israel because I told you to and your being obedient, I the living God am going to protect them with my hand, I’m not sending somebody else, I’m going to protect t them with My hand, Myself. And I thought that sounds cool, I love that. So I’m coming back from Israel, I land at the Oklahoma City airport and turn on, been gone ten or eleven days, and my wife is on the phone leaving me voice mails, leaving me voice mails, very stressed out, and sobbing. And so I pull up at the gate and a fireman is waiting at the door and a stewardess says Mike Galiga where are you and she said, everybody sit down, Mike Galiga get up here right now, I run to the front of the plane and she says, “Your wife and son have been hit by a pickup truck in the Will Rogers International Airport here in Oklahoma City. I know where their car is and they’re on their way to Mercy Hospital, come with me. So I did, I got in the car, but Sid my heart rate didn’t even bump any. It was a supernatural sustenance sustaining experience where I knew that God had told me that He would protect them and He did. No matter what somebody told me, I knew that they were fine. My heart rate didn’t increase, I didn’t sweat, I didn’t get excited, I got in her car, drove to the hospital and got there and this is the story that I was told. Mike we were walking into the cross walk and I saw an object, I had the umbrella up and it was drizzling and I saw an object to my right and it ended up being a pickup truck and an arm and a hand an arm, a big one pushed me back out of the way of the truck, but it still hit Michael, threw him ten feet in the air and he landed on his feel looking at the front bumper of the truck and the truck skid to a stop.
Sid: Wait a second, “How old is Michael?”
Michael: He would have been five.
Sid: You tell me a five year old is hit by a car, goes ten feet in the air and lands on their feet?
Michael: Looking at the front bumper of the truck and the point of the story is they couldn’t find anything wrong with him, an hour later or so they released him, he didn’t even have a scratch.
Sid: What did this teach you about obedience?
Michael: Well, it taught me that these are things that happen when God says that I want you to do this or that. And when you do that and you step out on faith with direction that you can’t fail. And what I’ve learned is that faith translated into people’s terms that don’t go to church and they don’t understand this Sid is living as absolutely far into the uncertain as you possible comfortably can every day; because we all value certainty.
Sid: You know what I find in my life, the most exciting times I have with God is when I walk on water. I’ve never really walked on water, but some of the things that I’ve done have been equivalent to it. But it doesn’t happen until I put myself in that position.
Michael: Yeah. That’s exactly right, once you get a taste of this there’s no going back.
Sid: It is like I was telling a few friends, I do meeting where I lecture on the supernatural and I promise that people will be healed. Well, I’m just like you Michael, I can’t heal anyone, but when I put God on the line and unsaved people come, they get healed.
Michael: Yeah, it’s amazing.
Sid: Michael you have battled fear and won, explain what fear is.
Michael: Well, first of all fear is a thing, and unchurched people, people that aren’t use to seeing this and hearing it are baffled by it at first, but fear first of all is a thing. It’s a demonic force, it’s not just a feeling and those things are all, have been conquered by the blood of Christ. I know that that sounds weird, but I’m a businessman, but when you take that blood and say “Fear you can’t be here anymore you have to leave. And you begin to reprogram your mind and ask God to reprogram it from living in the certainty, worshipping certainty to saying I am going to X out certainty on my values list and plug in uncertainty. I want to live in an uncertain world because that is where all the passion is and that’s where all the joy comes from. The Bible calls it faith, when you live in faith, your happy, you’re joyful. No you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, but what happens tomorrow is pretty awesome.
Sid: It’s pretty awesome, again it’s easy for you to teach on this but what to me is what is awesome is some of the experiences you have had where you have literally overcome a spirit of fear. And on tomorrow’s broadcast we’re going to talk about overcoming. But, you know when you were talking about in 2005 when you went into your closet and you literally were saying I’m not coming out of here until I experience the same presence of God that King David experienced. But the issue is that was when you really finally surrendered.
Michael: Yeah, that’s the first step Sid, step number one is absolute total, unconditional, unrevocable utter complete, wall to wall surrender.
Sid: How freeing is that?
Michael: It’s freeing to the extent that it’s hard to believe that you’re that free.
Sid: Well, listen I want you to win every battle; I want you to conquer fear, I want you to be so free.
