SID: You know, you made a brilliant profound statement. You said if you can recognize a spiritual attack you can conquer it, as if to say, many people don’t even recognize it.
RYAN: Absolutely. This is one of the critical things that I preach on this and teach on this. It’s in the book. But it’s half the battle, Sid, because here’s what people find and they tell me. They say, I’m just going through this thing and I don’t know how I got here. I’m having a blue Monday. I’m having a bad day. But do you know, a spiritual attack is multi-prong. The devil doesn’t just come after your mind. He comes after your mind, after your marriage, after your finances and the ultimate goal is to separate you from destiny. One of the strongest, greatest revelations we can have is what we were put on Planet Earth to do and the anointing, the power of the Holy Spirit is attached to our destiny. So if the enemy gets us separated from destiny, he gets us separated from the power, and if we’re separated from the power we’re empty. So we recognize an attack and that step one to breaking it, it’s not random. It’s coordinated and it’s got an intention to shipwreck your faith, to get you so discouraged you don’t believe in God anymore, to get you so discouraged you forgot about the prophetic words. You forgot about the promises and many people even watching this today, this is what they’re going through. They’re under a cloud of heaviness. They’re under depression. They’ve got fear of leaving their own home. They’re under financial attack. But if they look deeper, they’re also giving up on the call of God. They’re giving up on the plan of God. The devil is not just after your money. He’s not just after your car. He’s not just after your child. He’s after your destiny and your assignment as a child of God.
SID: Well if that man had not gone to the jail and led him to the Lord, what you’re about ready to hear could not have happened. He’s in Belize, Central America, and he’s ready to speak, and he hears the voice of God. What did God tell you?
RYAN: Well the first great miracle I ever saw was in America and it was a blind lady being healed. So I’m in Belize, I’m getting ready to minister, and the Lord says, “Don’t preach. Tell a story.” Now you know, Jesus can do more with a story than all of our revelation, and revelation accesses faith, and faith moves the substance of Heaven into Earth. So faith moves healing into Earth. Faith moves victory into Earth. Faith moves the angelic realm into Earth. But revelation is the stairway into faith. What is revelation? It’s understanding what God is saying. So God says to me, “Don’t preach. Tell a story. Tell the story of the first miracle you ever saw.” So I’m telling the story about this blind lady, and in the middle of it, Sid, out of spirit it hits my mouth before my brain can understand it. I say, “And tonight, God is going to heal the blind.” So that night there is a young lady, she’s blind, she’s never seen in her entire life. She got some type of fever type of thing as an infant. It destroyed her eyes. She’s got an empty eye socket and a white eyeball. She comes to the front to receiver her miracle and the voice of God says plainly to me, “She’s going to see.” So I’m praying, but I don’t close my eyes, Sid, because I want to see God paint a pupil and put in a new eyeball. So I’m watching and nothing that I can see happens. But remember what the Lord said. The Lord said she’s going to see, but she’s still got while eyeball with no pupil and an empty eye socket. So honestly, I’m not sure if she’s seeing or not. And so I say to her, “I want you to follow me.” And we look at her to figure out what is she seeing out of? Do you know what? She saw out of the white eyeball.
Woman: I can see! I can see! Thank you, Jesus. I can see!
RYAN: Then she covers the white eyeball. How many fingers do you see? She props open an empty socket and she’s seeing out of the empty socket.
Woman: I see two. I can see! Oh my God, I can see!
SID: Wait a minute, that’s impossible. You can’t see out of an empty socket unless God is real, unless all things are possible. Guess what? God is real. All things are possible. Now in the Bible, we talk about people, we read about people that have nothing. Our whole world is falling apart. Tell me very briefly about when that happened to David.
RYAN: The enemy has one opportunity with us and it’s deception. He’s been crushed, he’s been defeated, he’s been dethroned and we have been given all power, all authority. But if he can get us to believe he has authority then we give him authority. And so he deceives us. He makes us think, well this is happened to you because you’re out of the will of God. David is in [unintelligible] in the will of God, comes home, family guy, house is burned, and suddenly, Sid, the people turn on him. See, in a spiritual attack the devil hits you on all sides and David all of a sudden says, “Bring me an ephod.” Now listen to this. He says, “I’m not going to forget who I am. Bring me that garment of identity.” A spiritual attack comes to separate you from your identity and one of the things you need to do to get free from an attack is remind yourself of who God said you are. Get those prophetic words out. You keep on preaching. You keep on prophesying. You keep on marketplace ministering. You keep on raising your children, whatever God has called you to do. In the midst of an attack you wrap yourself in that ephod and you square your shoulders up for battle and say, I am who God says I am, and that’s what David did.
SID: Okay. When we come back I want him, this will amaze you. I want him to identify some areas that perhaps you’re under spiritual attack and then I want him to tell us how we can get free. Be right back.
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth