SID: It’s like getting Bruce to be your personal trainer in your home to do exactly what he does. And I have to tell you, Bruce, yours is, the miracle that happened to you, embraced by Jesus where he gave you this gifting, it’s all transferable. And if not now, when?
SID: Bruce, you have identified something a lot of people that want to talk about, that is the missing ingredients for sustaining a life of miracles and victory, and every promise in God’s Word being activated. What is it?
BRUCE: Well as I’ve been doing this ministry and praying for so many sick and ministering to people in the emails and the phone calls, and all the different things, what God has shown me clearly is there are lots and lots of people who want Jesus to be their savior. Lots of people. They want him to save their marriage. They want Jesus to save their finances, save them from cancer or some kind of health issue. But they don’t want him to truly be their Lord. And when we do a study on this, and the Lord had me go through a study. It’s all in the Bible and when you do a study on just the word count, Old Testament, New Testament combined, approximately 8000 times the word “Lord” is used, but it’s only about 50 times that the word “savior” is used. So it’s clear from God’s point of view what he considers to be more important. Lord is who he is, savior is what he does. I find people will contact our ministry and say, “How much will it cost, how much will you charge me to pray for my wife who is dying of cancer? How much will it cost for us to pay you to do some of this miracle?” And we’ll say, we have witches, we’ll have people from their cult and they’ll say, they’ll come right out and they’ll say, “Look, I’m a witch, but I’ve got this physical problem. I think what you’re doing is legitimate. You’re tapped into something. How much will you charge me?” See, they want Jesus to be their savior, but they don’t want Jesus to be their Lord. And unfortunately, Sid, I find a lot of Christians who unknowingly have been caught in this trap, too. And what it looks like is this. Jesus said in Luke, Chapter 9, “If you want to follow me, deny yourself, pick up your cross daily and follow me.”
SID: I have never heard that preached in a church.
BRUCE: It’s not popular and when I preach it, I don’t get invited back a lot of times. So he said pick up—
SID: We’ll invite you back.
BRUCE: He said, “Pick up your cross daily.” He didn’t say pick up your cross Sunday morning. He didn’t say pick up your cross when you do your devotion. He said, “Pick up your cross daily and follow me.” And when we do this that’s the whole key. When we truly make him our Lord that means giving him the opportunity. Lord means “master”. Lord means “ruler”. And “savior,” we know what savior is, the one who saves us from all these bad things. But we don’t a lot of times even know what we call Lord, we didn’t even know what word means. It means ruler, master. So we have to give him final say, the full authority over the big decisions, the little decisions, who should I marry, what job should I take. And there’s a lot of people, you know, we think we’ve got our own ideas that we are going to be good, and so we’re like, you know God, I’m going to let you into this area of my life, but not so much here. I might do this, but you know what, I’ve relegated this area.
SID: I want you to pray for us to be so hugged by Jesus that nothing, nothing else matters.
BRUCE: Amen. Lord, I thank you that you know us intimately. You said you know the number of hairs on our head and we know that number changes many times, even throughout one day. So it’s your way of telling us that you know every single little detail about us, even the ones that we don’t know. So Lord, we just invite you in. Every person watching, every person here today, every person that’s going to watch this at some point in the future, Lord, we invite you into our lives. We pray that you hug us and we would have your, not just your omnipresence, but your manifest presence, Lord, your liquid love pouring down over us. Lord, forgive us for the times where we’ve asked you to be our savior and not wanted you or allowed you to be our Lord. Forgive us for the times. Lord, I pray that you open our spiritual eyes and ears, Lord, that you would make us, Lord, just humble, God, and you would show us the places where we’ve closed up you. That Lord, you would show us where we need to repent and where we need to allow you in to be Lord, to be the master, to be the ruler, to have the final say in our lives so that we can live a blessed life, so we can live a supernatural life, Lord, and we can share that supernatural blessed life with everybody in our circle of influence, Lord, so that your kingdom is multiplied. We pray it all even now in Jesus’s name.
SID: Amen.
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Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth