Sid: One new man would release the greatest outpouring in history and I believe, you know every time I say that God must be so blessed I hear about people being healed. I know that there are people right now that if you have pain in your neck; if you have pain in your back you do not need it any more. If you will just exercise faith and trust in the word that I have just heard in Jesus Name and move your neck or bend over you will see that that spine is totally straight, and that pain that you had in the neck it is gone. And there is someone that’s saying, “Well, what if I just have one of those things.” That’s okay it’s for who-so-ever, and a little trade secret once the anointing of healing starts you could be healed of anything. My guest Graham Cooke he was as he likes to say “He was the first white sheep in his family.” He was raised in Northern England. He had an encounter with the Lord and he thought normal was what the Bible says, imagine that. He thought normal was hearing God and people just wanted to put him into a religious box. So he goes to his first church service ever and all of a sudden God’s not there and he looks all over he runs into the men’s room he wants to know if God’s okay. He goes out of the church and he finds that God’s there and God said that “He wasn’t welcome in that particular building.” Then Graham has a dream and in the dream he had several dreams and it was a street he had never heard of he looked it up on the map, it wasn’t even on the map. It was the map was too old; so he finds this house and in this dream he put his I guess Graham what did you do, put your hands on the washing machine so that it would be fixed, is that what happened?
Graham: Essentially that’s what happened.
Sid: Okay in the dream.
Graham: Yeah.
Sid: But you don’t know at this point you’re still testing is this really God, so you knew what the woman looked like, you knock at the door and did that woman come out?
Graham: She did, she was wearing exactly the same clothes as in the dream.
Sid: Okay, so far so good.
Graham: So far so good and then I just have to get her over the kind of hump on initial embarrassment and so I just “Hi, my name is Graham and I’m a Christian and I believe that God speaks today and I believe that God spoke to me in a dream about you and this is what he told me.” ‘I know that this is going to sound strange to you, I’m not asking to come in or anything else I just wanted to tell you what I feel the Lord says and you can do with it what you want.” So she looks at me and then there is a voice behind her saying “What is it, who is it?” And she says, the lady in the door says “It’s some weird guy he had a dream about me.” And so she looked at me and said “Okay, what’s this stupid dream then.” I said, “Well, in the dream the Lord told me that you have a 6 year old son who wets the bed constantly, and you have a small child, your husband’s left you, your short of money and your washing machine is broken down.”
Sid: Well, you weren’t taking any chances if it wasn’t true you are ready to find out.
Graham: Absolutely, yeah “So He sent me here to pray for your washing machine so you get it working.
Sid: (Laughing)
Graham: Her mother comes to the door and says, “What’s he saying” and so she said, “I don’t know he’s really weird but he’s told me that Dan’s left, and you know Stevie wets the bed, and my washing machines broken down. And so her mother looks at me and says “Can you fix washing machines?” I said, “No, but I know how to pray.” So they look at each other and the daughter says to her Mom “What do you think?” And she says “Well, get the idiot in.” (Laughing).
Sid: Daniel in the lion’s den.
Graham: So I’m walking into the house is the local idiot you know that has dreams so, I walk in and there’s the washing machine and it’s broken. And so I just say “Well, put some washing in, put some powder in.” You know Sid, I didn’t even check the wall socket, the plug was in the socket but the socket was, the switch was in the off position, I didn’t see that until afterwards. So I laid hands on it and I’m thinking okay, I’ve never done this before but what do I pray? And I hear this, just voice in my heart say, “Keep it simple.” I just say in the Name of Jesus I command this washing machine to work.” And it started, and it did a full cycle of wash, but the switch was still in the off position in the socket on the wall.
Sid: How do you explain that?
Graham: I think it was just God being mischievous.
Sid: I mean that’s a double miracle as far as I’m concerned.
Graham: So they’re both looking at the washing machine that works, they both looking at the wall socket and then looking at me and they’re saying, “This is weird, umm but thanks.”
Sid: So you’re no longer the idiot any way.
Graham: No longer the idiot but no longer welcome but let’s get this guy out of the house as quickly as possible. (Laughing)
Sid: (Laughing)
Graham: So here’s the thing though the next day. I wake up and the Lord say’s I want you to go back and knock on their door.
Sid: The same door.
Graham: The same door and so I went and rung the door well, her mother opened it, her daughter says “Who is it?” And she says “Oh, it’s the idiot who fixes washing machines, you better come in because the washing machine doesn’t work.” So I walked in, did the same routine this time I flicked the switch on the wall, did the same routine and prayed, the washing machine worked and they basically almost threw me out of the house. The next day, the same thing, I go back exactly the same routine another load of washing, pray for the washing machine and I’m saying to the Lord, “I can spend the rest of my life healing this woman’s electrical appliance.”
Sid: Now, wait a second you’re getting a dream a night to go back to the place, is that – or why did you go back?
Graham: The next day the Lord said, “I want you to go back.”
Sid: Oh, okay.
Graham: So it’s the next day and so the next two days afterwards after that first encounter each day the Lord says “Go back to that house.” And so I go back and the same thing I pray for the washing machine, they throw me out of the house. And so I’m saying “Lord, I could spend like years just healing this woman’s washing machine.” And He says, “The next time you go tell her to pray and you lay hands on her so she can feel the power of God.” So I did that I knocked on the door and she said, “Oh, here you are again my washing machine.” And I said “Okay, this time I’m going to teach you how to pray so you don’t need me to keep coming.” And she said, “But I don’t pray,” and I said “Well, I’m kind of new at this stuff myself, but this is what you do you lay hands on the washing machine.”
Sid: Now, how old were you?
Graham: I was then 20, so here you are “I’ll lay hands on you, you pray and you’ll feel the power of God go through you and it will hit the washing machine and then after that you’ll be able to pray yourself.” And so she said, “What do I pray?” And I said, “Just keep it simple, say in the Name of Jesus, I command this washing machine to work.” Okay so she prayed. I felt the power of God go through me, she jumped two feet in the air and washing machine came on and worked.
Sid: So now you’re out of the washing machine ministry.
Graham: So I’m out of the washing machine healing ministry, yeah which is great and she of course she and her mother both get saved. And what was interesting, she prayed for her washing machine every day and it worked until the day she could afford a new washing machine and then her washing machine packed up and never worked again. (Laughing)
Sid: That reminds me of the children in Israel that for 40 years they get the manna, the minute they entered the Promised Land …
Graham: Exactly.
Sid: …the manna stopped.
Graham: Yeah, yeah.
Sid: How in the world did you figure out where to go to church because the church you went into God didn’t even want to walk in there?
Graham: Well, I started one.
Sid: Well, that’s a good way to do it, tell me how you started it.
Graham: Well, you know I went to the next house had an encounter…
Sid: Now, why did you go to the next house?
Graham: Well, the next house I saw in my dream.
Sid: Oh, that’s right there were two houses.
Graham: There were two houses so…
Sid: You just thought you’d be stuck at the washing machine forever, okay.
Graham: So I walked into, I walked along the street to this other house and so I rung the doorbell. And the Lord had shown me in the dream there was a man there who was unemployed who was in his mid to late fifties who was just despairing that he would ever have another job. And was just really just letting himself go and was really in a real place of depression and desperation. So the Lord just sent me with a message for him, so I rang his doorbell exactly the same guy in my dream answered the door. So I went through my routine, “Hi, I’m Graham Cooke you know I’m a Christian and I believe God speaks and I had a dream about you and this is what the Lord said, in the dream.
Sid: I’ll tell you what Graham let’s hold that we’ll pick up here on tomorrow’s broadcast. But I have to ask you this question. Here you’ve got a book your latest book called “Approaching the Heart of Prophecy” in which step by step you go over the lessons you’ve learned by the Holy Spirit, “How to have this great intimacy with God; How to hear God’s voice, What to do with it when you hear God’s voice.” Things that you only wish you had known when you were first starting, but do you really believe Joe Q. Christian can have as exciting a life as you have with the Holy Spirit?
Graham: Oh yeah, I don’t think I’m anything special I just think I’m normal, I don’t think there’s anything outrageous about my life at all, I think this is the norm; this is what Jesus died for. He didn’t die to give us an encounter with someone’s ministry He died to give us an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ in all of its Glory.
Sid: Then why is it that most Christians aren’t tuned in they’re on AM and God’s on FM and it appears?
Graham: (Laughing) That’s a good way of putting it. I think a lot of it is that people get saved in their heart and then try to live their Christian life from their head. A lot of what the Lord does isn’t logical it isn’t reasonable. And you can’t access God with your head you have to access Him through your heart which is the way that you got saved. So for me life in the Spirit is about living from the heart, it’s about thinking from the heart, it’s about seeing with your heart because that’s where God connects with us in salvation. So much of what people are receiving in terms of church is often very cerebral very logical, very reasonable, but it’s not God because God is not logical or reasonable. He’s intuitive, He’s creative, and He lives from His heart.
Sid: Listen, I come from a Jewish background and I was so excited to be free and know Jesus, and then I went into the church and I found out Christians have caught up with us Jewish people. Listen we’re out of time but it’s time that you catch up with the Word of God so that you become normal; the Word of God is normal.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth