Sid: Well, I’m speaking a young woman that’s red hot for the Messiah Misty Edwards. She spends a minimum of a couple of hours every day just worshiping God and leading people in the ministry in Kansas City the IHOP ministry in worship and prayer. And she has just literally has a spiritual DNA that will cause you to hunger for God more than anything you’ve ever done in your life. Misty if there’s ever been a time to hunger for God more than anything you’ve ever done in your life it’s now. Tell me about the dream you had about the oil.
Misty: The dream I had about the oil – yeah I was full time in the ministry; I was going 100% full steam ahead, but I was feeling just an empty on the verge of what people would call burnout. This was just a few years ago, and I was showing up and trying to lead worship but disconnected I was reading the word of God but I wasn’t feeling the anointing I didn’t want to cry. I wasn’t feeling the tenderness on my heart. And that’s a scary place to because that opens the door for sin, that opens the door for bitterness, anger all kinds of hardness of heart. So one night before I went to bed I just got on my knees and I said “Lord, Lord I don’t understand what is going on in my heart You need to help me; tell me where I am and how I got here.” That night I had a dream and in the dream I’m in my car and I’m speeding down a highway you know it’s pitch black, it’s the darkest night and I am going 100 miles an hour down this highway feeling completely out of control. And suddenly my car begins to rumble and I looked down and I see the oil light is flashing and I instantly thought of Matthew 25. I instantly knew what the Lord was saying to me that I did not have the oil of intimacy on my heart and I had put my ministry and I had put you know everything that I was doing for the Lord ahead of my relationship with Him. He warned me if I didn’t take the time to actually connect with Him at the heart level and even say “No to a few opportunities, say no to a few things that seemed good in order to have more time or just that heart connect less distraction because the hours was dark and I wasn’t going to make it if I didn’t have a deeper connection.” So I would link that with the Matthew 25 when He tells the parable of the wise and the foolish. And I believe…
Sid: But wait a second Misty, you’re doing some wonderful things for God doesn’t that have a priority over just you worshiping God?
Misty: Yeah, I believe it does have a priority, but I think it’s the order the order of priority. I was doing things that even that even would have looked like prayer but my heart was so far away because I was distracted. It was actually anger, it was bitterness, it was you know things weren’t going the way that I thought they should and it was…you know with bitterness and that jadedness kind of…
Sid: Well, you slipped from being Mary to Martha that’s what you’re telling me.
Misty: Yeah, and I don’t think that Jesus was telling Martha that she should never work, He wants us to work obviously, but it’s the posture of our heart and the order of our priority.
Sid: And you know in Matthew 25 that’s one of my favorite chapters; everything in Matthew 25 but the ten virgins, five wise and five foolish. The thing that jumps out at me every time I read it is you’ve got to get your oil for yourself you can’t trade on someone else’s oil.
Misty: That’s right and I think I live in an environment of fiery people and it’s very easy to pick up on the rhetoric and the language and you know we are a people of one thing. But am I a person of one thing; am I connected to the Holy Spirit you know am I going deeper in His word and deeper in understanding? So it was a real pivotal time in my life when I had that dream and you know I began to study Matthew 25 and it’s actually my life passages because of that. I continually go back to that.
Sid: When you were a young child you had a favorite song it was called “Resting Place” tell me about that song.
Misty: Oh, I remember singing this from the time I was little I don’t ever remember the first time I heard it where it speaks of Heaven is my throne earth is my footstool from the Book of Isaiah. “You know where is the house you will build for Me?” And He basically says I’m not going to dwell in your house that’s made of hands I want to dwell with the hearts of men. And I believe ultimately He’s actually going to dwell in Jerusalem but for now it’s in our hearts primarily. I set my goal to become you know Jesus’ so to speak favorite place. His resting place which means to not strive against Him, to not be in disagreement with Him to actually line up my heart. If we’re in agreement with Him to where we’re at peace and we’re at rest and not only are we His resting place He becomes our resting place; He becomes my favorite place; the place I go for refreshment. Not the place I have to kind of gear up and face Him you know because I’m at peace with Him. That’s become one of my greatest life goals and I’ll get rid of everything that gets in the way of that; any sin, any immorality, any distraction, anything to get rid of that keeps me from being His resting place.
Sid: Well, one of the things I interviewed Steve Hill recently and one of the things he was very concerned about he had his vision of the avalanche of false teaching in the last days. And one of the teachings he was concerned about was counterfeit grace.
Misty: Yes.
Sid: What’s the difference between the two?
Misty: Oh, I have a lot of energy right now on the counterfeit grace message. I believe it is one of the biggest crisis’ in the church today. You know I interact with a lot of young people in the worship movement and there’s this doctrine that defines grace as a Jesus did it all for us and so we don’t have to do anything it’s more of a mind game. We just believe that He did it and it doesn’t matter what we do with our daily life. I mean I’m making it too simplistic but that’s what it comes down to. And I believe Jesus did it all as far as our salvation; but there is so much required in walking out that salvation and being transformed into His image. My pain is that we have lower that the vision of what life in God looks like and the joy and the pleasure and the freedom of holiness. You know the freedom of transcendence and this dark message of his false grace; I believe it’s a dangerous lie that is hurting specifically our young people and beyond.
Sid: It’s sort of like the scriptures say without holiness we can’t see God. So when you die you’re not going to see God you’re in big trouble.
Misty: Yeah.
Sid: But I like the line that you had and that is that the human heart was 100% holiness.
Misty: Yeah and I think of holiness is another word for transcendence and it’s actually freedom the ultimate freedom. It’s freedom from greed, from self-centeredness, from bitterness from where we wage war upon our sin it’s about freedom. So what I want to do is I want to give young people a vision for holiness. Not what the paradigm of what they have of a …
Sid: Some of these Bible schools Misty and you may know it the kids are taught this counterfeit grace message and they’re sleeping with each other and their having babies out of wedlock and what kind of generation if this is the believers are we having?
Misty: Yeah, I know it breaks my heart, it breaks my heart because there’s so much more in life in God. You know we don’t have to live this way, I believe in mercy you know there’s forgiveness and mercy but we must line up with the truth.
Sid: Okay, your favorite song as a child “Resting Place.”
Misty: Misty “Resting Place” excerpt.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth