SID: I hope you’re having as much fun as we’re having here. Steven, at this moment in history I notice people that are really hungry for God.
STEVEN: Yes.
SID: Really hungry for the things of God. They’re really zooming in the supernatural. How important is it for us to be hungry for God?
STEVEN: It’s essential, critical. You have to have that hunger to go after the things of God. So if you’ll initiate the move God will come right alongside and you’ll begin to go into areas of the Glory that you only thought could happen in your wildest dreams.
SID: It’s available to everyone?
STEVEN: Yes, but you have to press in. You have to pursue the Lord in this area.
SID: All right. What if the flesh is causing you to spend more time with your hobby, more time with television, more time, lots of these things and you want to press in, but the flesh is just pulling, pulling, pulling. What advice do you give us?
STEVEN: Just give God your initial best. If you will take that step the grace of God will come and the next thing, you’re going two steps, three steps and now you begin to get momentum. Once you get that momentum stay in it. It will only begin to increase. You’ll go higher in the Spirit.
SID: Steven, God revealed a concept, a supernatural concept about the nighthawk. Explain.
STEVEN: Yes. I found it in the Bible. It’s mentioned in Deuteronomy, Chapter 14, where it talks about this amazing bird called the nighthawk and he’s nocturnal. He flies at night. And then I began to realize that much of the praying that the Lord Jesus did was in the very early hours of the morning when it was still dark outside. And so the Holy Spirit began to show me that he wants the people of God to fly, to soar like a nighthawk because it’s cloaked in Divine secrecy. You actually fly beneath the radar of the enemy. He doesn’t have any clue in the world what you’re doing because it’s just you and the Lord alone in your quiet place, in prayer, receiving revelation from God and walking in very close fellowship with the Lord.
SID: Now I happen to be, because everyone is different, what’s known as an early person.
STEVEN: Yes.
SID: I’m at my best early.
STEVEN: Yes.
SID: I’d rather do it early in the morning than the middle of the night. Will that work for me?
STEVEN: Yes. [unintelligible] biblical because it says in Mark 1:35 that the Lord Jesus arose early in the morning to go out and pray, and he went out to a solitary place and prayed. He did that a long while before the sun ever came up.
SID: How do you pray?
STEVEN: I just wake up and I begin to spend time with the Lord, sitting there in darkness waiting on the Lord, saying, “Lord, what would you like to talk about today?” And he will come. He’s the master teacher.
SID: What if he doesn’t come, what would you do?
STEVEN: Then you pursue him. You pursue until the Glory comes and he’ll lead you into it. He’ll lead you into it. He’ll give you little samplings and he’ll pull you deeper.
SID: You do something else that I haven’t, I really haven’t heard before, and that is, this part I’ve heard of. Actually I’ve heard of both, but I’ve not heard of them together. That is praying in supernatural languages, God talk.
STEVEN: Yes.
SID: And visualizing at the same time.
STEVEN: Yes. It’s what launched my ministry.
SID: Give me a real life example, maybe launching your ministry. Tell me about it.
STEVEN: Yes and it can work for anybody regardless of their career, occupation or calling. For me, there was a strong desire to go out and pray every weekend afternoon on the bleachers of the ballpark. I would just walk back and forth on the empty bleachers. There was nobody there and I would pray in the Spirit for hours because I had the sense God has a ministry for me to the nations and I didn’t even have a passport. But this thing was in me, you’re going to go to the nations, begin to pray into it. So I would pray into it by speaking in tongues and just praying out in the Spirit. At the same while I would do that to emphasize the impact of it, I would visualize myself getting on large jet airliners and going to nations. And it took some time of doing that, week after week. And now that is my life calling of running to the nations. We just back from Europe and God is doing great miracles.
SID: If you hadn’t done that.
STEVEN: Right.
SID: Would you be where you are today?
STEVEN: I would not be where I’m at today. I prepared it and sowed into it, and now I’m reaping that harvest.
SID: Good. Could it be the scripture, “Many are called, few are chosen,” he was called, but most just say, well if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. I don’t believe that. Do you?
STEVEN: We have to pursue. There is the prophetic promise, but we must go after the Lord with all of our energy, all of our strength and we’ll achieve amazing results.
SID: You talk about actually prophetic actions released in the manifestation. Tell me about that couple that needed a Land Rover.
STEVEN: Well there’s many examples that you can do to step out in faith. You have defined some type of specific work to attach to your faith. And there was a missionary that was believing God for a Land Rover. And he’s out in an area of great remoteness, a place where there’s no access to receive help from what we would call the outside world. But yet he’s believing God for a Land Rover. And what he did is decide to wash an imaginary Land Rover. So he got a bucket of water and he got some soap and a sponge, and he said, “I by faith believe that God is going to get me a Land Rover and I’m going to start washing it every day because when I get it I’m going to take good care of it.” And by faith he said, “I’ve got it now.” And to the shock of all the locals who were watching him do this crazy act, to the shock of everybody in the community, God blessed that man. Miraculously, somebody bought him a Land Rover.
SID: Now when you went to Heaven you received a mantle of wisdom.
STEVEN: Yes.
SID: But you’ve received many mantles and he’s prayed for people to receive mantles and they have received them. Tell me a few, just real briefly, two or three types of mantles that people can receive.
STEVEN: One of the easiest mantles to get especially in this anointing that’s here right now is a prophetic mantle. That way you can flow with the Spirit. We had to have a prophetic anointing. Jesus is a prophet. He’s very prophetic and he speaks through prophetic imagery. And when you can pick up on that you can begin to know how Jesus moves and operates.
SID: Okay. When we come back I’m going to have Steven pray for healings, miracles and mantles. Be right back.
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Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth