Sid: We want everyone everywhere to operate in the miraculous, that’s the name of the latest book of my guest, he’s been my guest all this week Senior Pastor of Heartland World Ministries Church in Dallas, Steve Hill. Most of you are familiar with Steve because he just happened to be speaking on Father’s Day 1995 in Brownsville, Pensacola, Florida Assembly of God Church. And there was an outpouring of God’s Spirit over a half-million people made professions of faith, how many people came to your services after Father’s Day, would you say?
Steve: Sid we had 4 million people come through those doors, but they represented millions who could have never made it.
Sid: And they came from all over the world, they were hungry.
Steve: Absolutely, 150 nations of the world.
Sid: Is what you had there is that going to be normal for pastors and believers that are really hungering and thirsting for righteousness this moment?
Steve: Sid, yes it is and the book “Operating in the Miraculous” is all based on a scripture that really bothers me and that is “And these signs will follow those who believe; in my name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents and if they drink any deadly it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, it doesn’t say they might, it says they will lay hands on the sick and they will.” It doesn’t say they might “They will recover.” Mark 16:17-18. And so my friend if you are a believer, if you call yourself a believer and if you’re not right now you can become one by asking Jesus Christ to forgive you, to wash you, to cleans you, to make you brand new. Repent of your sins and I want to pray with you right now, and say “Jesus, thank you for your blood.”
Sid: Jesus, thank you for your blood.
Steve: Thank you for the cross.
Sid: Thank you for the cross.
Steve: I confess my sins.
Sid: I confess my sins.
Steve: I’m sorry.
Sid: I’m sorry.
Steve: I repent.
Sid: I repent.
Steve: Be my Savior.
Sid: Be my Savior.
Steve: Be my Lord.
Sid: Be my Lord.
Steve: My very best friend.
Sid: My very best friend.
Steve: In Jesus Name.
Sid: In Jesus Name.
Steve: Amen.
Sid: Amen.
Steve: Now, if you were sincere and you prayed that prayer listener you have become a believer in Jesus Christ. You say “It’s got to be more difficult than that.” No, if it were more difficult it would be religion, this is Christianity.
Sid: Steve, you know my prayer was even shorter, as a Jewish man 35 years ago, just like you at the end of the rope, nowhere else to go just like you at the end of the rope nowhere else to go some Christians had said “There was more power in the Name of Jesus than the devil.” And so before I was ready to just die, I said, a two word prayer, and you know what. He heard it, the two words were Jesus help; that was it.
Steve: Fascinating; you know that needs to be a book called “Jesus Help!” Because that is the bottom; when I got saved I just cried out to the name Jesus. See the Bible says “Man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart.” But Sid one of the things I want to share today is once you become a believer and Jesus Christ lives in you you have authority over demonic forces. And it’s by the very nature of becoming a believer, it’s not something you did it’s something He did 2,000 years ago on Calvary. So now you are a believer but you have authority just like when you and God forbid that any of us get pulled over by the police but when you get pulled over by the police and they give you a ticket, they can give you the ticket because they’re wearing a badge and there’s a sign on the road that says speed limit 55. And now you’re going 80 and so they have the authority by the state of whatever state you’re in to give you a ticket. Because Jesus lives in your heart you now have the authority over demons, devils, sicknesses to do what needs to be done.
Sid: You know Steve something I’ve often wondered and I have to ask you this question I’ve heard you speak many times at the Brownsville Assembly of God and every time I’ve heard you speak you’ve had a new message and it was really it was ingenious the way the message was put together. Where did you get all these messages from?
Steve: Well, I would get up in the morning and I’d say “Jesus I’m in trouble” because you know I preached every night when the revival first broke out it was seven nights a week.
Sid: I know, that’s why it was so fresh every night it was so different, you had some people would come after they got saved they’d be there. You would tell them you’ve got to come here every night and guess what they did.
Steve: Oh, they would some of them would go out the building at 1:00 in the morning and stand in line and get ready to come in the building at 7:00 the next evening. And the lines would stretch out, I mean it was just amazing but I got the messages from the Lord. I know that that sounds sort of super spiritual but there is no way you can hold up under that kind of pressure. And in the mornings I would always spend time with Jesus, I would sleep a few hours and then get up and go into my study and I would say “Jesus you know tonight thousands of people are going to come from all over the world and I need a fresh word from You.” And the Lord was never, ever, ever late He always arrived on time and He put a word in my heart and we prepared it together.
Sid: Did you just out of curiosity with all those years of messages and each one different were there ever times where you just didn’t have a word and you got out and started speaking and God showed up? Or did you always have the message just before you started?
Steve: You know I always had the message just before I started but there’s time I got up and I preached a different message and that was because you know God just right in the instant changed it, and then I would preach out. I still have messages in my archives Sid that were prepared seven years ago, five years ago, two years ago, that I still haven’t preached okay and it’s because God’s got them on hold for awhile.
Sid: There was such a Spirit of repentance I mean when we did our television show I aired a tiny segment of someone that was being baptized and he said, “I’ve messed up everywhere, I was unfaithful to my wife,” I mean I couldn’t believe that he was saying these things publically with cameras on him but he didn’t care.
Steve: Sid, I would have them, this is going to be hard to believe for some folks listening but as I was preaching I would have to hold people back from coming forward. People would start getting up coming forward, I would say “Sit back down, I’m going to give the altar call in ten minutes.” People were so convicted under the power of God of their sins they wanted to get right with God, it was just a fabulous, fabulous time.
Sid: In the invisible world what was going on, do you think there was a special salvation, repentance angel that showed up when you were preaching?
Steve: Absolutely but the Holy Spirit is one who convicts of sin and Holy Spirit was there strong and I mean in our church right now He is strong as ever. But He convicts men and women of sin and once you’re convicted see the word convict means to be found guilty and once you’re found guilty man your popping sweat, you know you’re under the gun. You want to do something about getting that guilt out and at the altar is where it all happens.
Sid: I’ve asked you before but I have to ask you again, what is the feedback that you’re getting from people that are reading your latest book “Operating in the Miraculous?”
Steve: Feedback like “It changed my life,” “I don’t know what I’d do without this,” “This has taught me that I can be used of God too.” And the feedback like that because you know this is not some type of theological thesis that’s difficult to understand. “Operating in the Miraculous” is for the lay person, for the pastor, and of course theologians love it too, but it’s just for the man or woman who wants to be used of God in the miraculous.
Sid: Now you also talked earlier this week about an atmosphere for the miraculous, “What do you mean by that?”
Steve: I mean whenever when you step into a situation when there’s someone in a wheelchair, someone in the hospital, usually the atmosphere that means the climate can be negative. Maybe somebody was arguing, maybe somebody just said, “You’re going to die.” Okay maybe it’s that you got to change that just like in the Book of Acts when Peter and John went up to the man at the Gate Beautiful, wonderful story. He was begging, he was asking for alms; Peter and John said, “Silver and gold we don’t have, but what we have we give you.” They changed the atmosphere from the begging, from the carnal world to the spiritual and then the miracle came.
Sid: Very quickly, pray for miracles right now.
Steve: Lamb of God I’m believing You in this moment and I see someone with your eyes have been glazed over, and it’s happened over the last week. I pray right now for clear eyesight in Jesus Name right now. Arthritis, blood sickness, blood disease, high blood pressure, heart disease in Jesus name right now, paralysis in Jesus Name I speak healing in Jesus Name Amen.
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