SID: Now, Hakeem, you talk about an atmosphere for healing. And then you talked about your aunt who was in a coma, and she was so bad off, they were going to pull the cord. That’s curtains. Tell me about that.

HAKEEM: Yeah. My family came to me and basically my grandmother and my mother said that our aunt basically fell into a coma and she really had a couple of days to live. The doctors just basically gave up on her. And so for me, I didn’t really feel like that was the will of God, personally, and so they basically said that they were going to pull the plug and the family was the one that’s going to have to make that decision. And I began to create an atmosphere by releasing decrees of healing and just reciting the word of God on healing.

And I said, “Father, I want you to cause in my family to be awestruck of your power, that you are a sovereign God and that you are a life giving God. And so it is not in their decision. It is in your decision. It is not in their will. It is in your will, and prove yourself to them.” And when I began to pray, to intercede, and I thought a release after I prayed, I thought the release, Sid, I was praying all night.

So the next morning, this was a Friday when I was praying, the next morning on a Saturday, my mother and my grandmother came to me and basically said they went to the hospital and when they went they saw my aunt was out of the coma eating applesauce. So what I know was, at the same time that she came out of the coma was the same time I was praying and I thought the release.

SID: Tell me what your prescription is?

HAKEEM: My prescription is the commanding and confessing. It is for 90 days, take the prescription, take the whole thing. And oftentimes, when there’s prescriptions we take one or two and we feel better the next day or three days later. And then it comes back. No, we have to take the whole prescription that is prescribed, even as a doctor gives us. And so [it’s the] same in, spiritually speaking, we have to do the same thing. So, I prescribe a 90 day outcome solution to receive your healing, as you recite, as you speak forth by faith, your healing commands and confession, I believe that you will be healed and you will be touched by the glory of God when you finish the 90 day process.

SID: Now you say it’s really not sickness or disease that destroys us. What destroys us?

HAKEEM: What destroys us is lack of knowledge. And so if we don’t know that we have authority, if we don’t know that we have power to command demons to go, spirits of affliction to go, and we don’t know the authority that Christ has given us, then we will … it’s lack of knowledge that’s caused us to perish. So God wants us to know the word of God. He wants us to know the truth. And so that is my assignment is allowing people to understand the truth of God’s word concerning healing.

SID: Now, you teach a lot, you like to, about the Roman centurion.

HAKEEM: I like that story because this centurion had authority, understood authority, and went to authority. That might sound like a little rhetoric over there, but he went to Jesus who was in authority. And all he said was, “Listen, I don’t need you to come under my roof. All I need you to do is speak the word of God. If you just speak the word of God by faith, he knew that his servant will be healed.” And so oftentimes we have to make sure that our words in faith line up to what we speak.

We have to believe it before we see it. We have the see—usually we think it’s the other way around. We have the “see it to believe it,” but I believe when it comes to miracles and healing, we have the “believe it first and see it.” And so the centurion basically said, “Jesus, just speak the word.” And when he spoke the word, the person was healed instantly. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead resides on the inside of every believer. So if that same power, that same anointing rests on me and it rests on Jesus, then why can I not command? Why not let me operate in the delegated authority Jesus has given us. So right now, every believer, even those who are watching right now, I just even speak right now that this is a season that you arise in authority, and that you arise in power, and you arise in grace.

This is a season that you will not fear, but you will operate in faith. You will begin to be that commander that the Holy Spirit has made you to become in this season. No sickness, no death, no disease, no oppression. We’re no longer bound. You, no more. I say today in Jesus name that you will activate your faith and move in a realm of glory, and you will see people healed. You will see people delivered, and you will see people set free. This is your season, to rise as a commander of the Holy Spirit to release and to receive the healing power that has been given to you. It is your inheritance.

SID: When we come back, I want you to command specifics. You’re a prophet.

HAKEEM: Yes.

SID: Specific people to be healed of specific conditions. And I want you to start with a few that you already testified of, that you’ve had or you’ve prayed for others, but then move into words of knowledge. And I want you to command the people at home, in the studio audience, command of spirit of affliction to leave. Command the pain to leave. Command that disease to leave, and command the glory of God to descend on us. I’m ready. Be right back.

SID: I’m here with Pastor Todd Smith on location in Israel, and I have to tell you something Todd. I’m reminded of something in the Bible. Can anything good come out of Dawsonville, Georgia? That tiny little… how big is that town?

TODD: Our whole city’s 3500 people. Our entire county is only 23,000.

SID: 3500, and how many come to your church of 3500 people?

TODD: On a baptism night it can be up to 2000 people. Yes.

SID: That’s equivalent to almost 2/3 of the population. Why are they coming to this?

TODD: They are coming to our church, Sid, because I had a vision in January of 2018, that as I’m walking across the stage, and I see our baptistry, I’m just in a moment of prayer just walking across the stage, nothing unusual. We’re in a time of fasting with our church. And I look at our baptistry, and I see the baptistry completely empty in the natural, but in the spirit I had my first open vision. And I see the tank full of water and a strip of fire on the water. The Lord spoke to me, “I’m going to baptize people with Holy Spirit fire.” Ever since then, we’ve been baptizing people. After revival hit our church, we started baptizing people and they’re encountering the fire of God in that water.

SID: Speaking of the fire of God, I want to take Todd back. Before you received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the fire of God, what was your thinking about such things as that?

TODD: Well I was raised Southern Baptist. I thank God for my heritage. I was saved as a Southern Baptist, schooled as a Southern Baptist, started pastoring a church that was a Southern Baptist church. So I was not completely open to the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, and even the gifts of the spirit. I wasn’t even open to them. I was more of a cessationist. A staunch dispensationalist if you will.

SID: But you developed such a God hunger inside of you, that led to people praying for you, and tell me about that, for the fire.

TODD: Oh yes, and so Sid I would start reading the Bible. Not that I didn’t before, but I was reading the Bible and I started seeing things in the word of God. Miracles and signs and wonders. How demons were being cast out. How the lame were walking, the deaf were hearing and the blind were seeing.

SID: What do you mean you started seeing that? You’d been reading the Bible for years and years.

TODD: Well I thought that was dedicated to that particular season, you know, when the apostles—

SID: So you kind of almost went over it. That’s old time.

TODD: Yes, I skimmed over it and said, That’s not for us today, that was for them.” And so, but I started reading the Bible and I got hungry. I said, “God what you did for Peter, James, and John, why isn’t that happening in my ministry? Why isn’t that happening in my life?” Now mind you, I was pastoring one of the fastest growing churches in the state of Georgia, Southern Baptist Church. We were seeing tons and tons of people getting saved. We were adding a brand new sanctuary to accommodate the growth, but in my heart I hungered for more of God. I said, “There has to be more.” But I would read the Bible and I said, “I want what they had.”

But here’s what happened. I took my denominational glasses off, Sid, and I said, “Lord, I want to read the Bible as if I just got saved.” Because I was reading the Bible with these Baptist lenses on. And now these lenses that I was reading the Bible through, cost me a lot of money. Private education, you know, seminary education, and everybody in my family and all my friends had matching lenses, matching glasses. But I got so hungry for God and I said, “God, I want to know what your word says.”

SID: So, to make a long story short, you had a group of pastors lay hands on you, what happened when they did that?

TODD: Yes something very interesting happened. You know, a Baptist went to a Pentecostal prayer meeting and that was scary enough for me, because I had never been to that. So, I’m sitting there and I said, “Fellows, I’m ready to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, and they walked around me, prayed, and said, “Be filled with the Holy Spirit.” They laid hands on me. And Sid, my throat tightened. I got… there’s a constriction around my throat, and I stopped the gentlemen and I said, “Listen, my throat… it’s hard for me swallow. It’s hard for me to swallow.”

One gentleman said, “Well Todd, here’s what’s going on. There’s a prayer language that God wants to release through you, but it’s being constricted.” He says, “I want you to denounce all false teaching. I want you to repent of teaching false teaching.” As soon as I did, I said, “Lord, I’m sorry for believing false doctrine. I’m sorry for teaching false doctrine.” Immediately my throat loosened. It relaxed. He put one index finger on my forehead and he said, “Be filled with the Holy Spirit.” And at that very moment, at that very moment the power of God came upon me. The kavod, the glory of the Lord sat upon me, and I fell backwards and began to speak in other tongues.

SID: The Bible talks about Holy Spirit and fire. What is the fire like?

TODD: I believe that the fire of God is the power, the unction of the Lord. An unction not only to do the works of Jesus, but also an unction and a power and fire to walk in purity and righteousness and holiness before the Lord. Because before that, I was striving to be holy. I was striving to be pure. But when the Holy Spirit came upon me, it was another element. It was like it energized me. It was the fuel to allow me to resist sin, and also to walk in an authority I had never walked in before.

SID: You think his misconception on the baptism of the Holy Spirit was major, he found another misconception when he took those denominational glasses off, that most Christians suffer from, that’ll totally transform your life.

TODD: It will.

SID: We’ll be right back.

SID ROTH: Hello, Sid Roth here with Something More, and I’ve got two guests from; they’re the closest I’ve ever gotten to Australian, that’s where they’re from. Adam Thompson and Adrian Beal, and Adam, I found out by just talking to you for a few minutes, you are very, very prophetic. But were you prophetic before that car accident?

ADAM THOMPSON: No, I wasn’t. I was a bit of a wild child, and I was brought up in a Christian home, but I lost my way. I didn’t really you know, I didn’t really know anything about God. But I was, you know I got caught up in the wrong crowd. I was pretty messed up.

SID: Okay, you had this accident, tell me about it.

ADAM: Well, I came home from a party with a friend of mine called John, and I did a stupid thing, drink, and driving. And as I was driving home on a cold night in Adelaide, Australia, driving home, I was pretty drunk where I was seeing two of everything—

SID: Mm

ADAM: In Aussie terminology, I was “Legless”. But when I was driving in the car, it was so cold. I was—

SID: I have to remember that, I don’t think I’ll use it.

ADRIAN BEALE: [laughs]

ADAM: [laughs]

SID: [laughs] That’s an interesting term, I’m pondering it; “Legless”, okay [laughs] how do you drive “Legless”? No, never mind—go ahead.

ADAM: [laughs] It’s just an Aussie terminology, [music] but I was driving, and it was a cold night. The windows were foggy, and then all of a sudden these mud flaps of this big truck came out of nowhere. Bang, I just hit and went under a truck. And we totally road off the car, and we were sort of trying to work our way out of the car. [music ends] but I was so drunk, and the truck driver knew that I was intoxicated, and he called the cops. And there was a scene of police and it was a real mess. So, I knew I was in a lot of trouble, I knew that I probably would be arrested and put in jail. My friend was intoxicated as well. But I went off as there was police everywhere and it was a big scene. I went off a little bit on the side, [music] and I started praying. And my friend John Pedy said to me, “What are you doing?” And I said, “I’m praying and I’m asking God to get me out of this. And if he does, I’m going to commit my life to him.”

SID: If he didn’t get you out what would have happened?

ADAM: Well, if he didn’t get me out of it, I probably would have been arrested, probably incarcerated, in prison for a short time, and then I would have [music ends] lost my license for about two months. And I would have had that on my record.

SID: Okay, so you prayed; and what happened?

ADAM: So I prayed and the police officer came to me and wanted me to breath in the breathalyzer to test my breath. And I was trying hard to not be drunk, trying to act sober. And (music) I blew in this machine and my heart was racing, it was the adrenalin. And he went up to the streetlight the machine, and it was, completely zero, completely negative. And the police officer said to me, “You’re free to go.” And I was stunned, so that following week on Sunday, [music ends] and I went to Church and responded to the altar call. I gave my heart to God.

SID: But I have to ask you just briefly, when did you start having your prophetic gift activated?

ADAM: Well, I had this encounter in my living room, probably 10 years after my decision for Christ. I became a workaholic [music] and I was a businessman. And I had this encounter with the Lord. The Lord appeared to me in my living room, and he asked me. And I didn’t really know the Scriptures that well back then because I was so lukewarm with my faith and coming home late at night. Everybody was asleep, and I was pretty tired, but the Lord appeared to me in the living room. And he asked me, “What do you want me to do for you?” Because I was frustrated and I was angry, and I was doubting God. And he said, “What do you want me to do for you?” And I was speechless at the time, but I was thinking about it, and I said to the Lord, “Give me wisdom, all I want is wisdom.” And I cried out to the Lord for wisdom, but what happened, a long story short. I had this encounter and this impartation of the Spirit of God. I became revived within, and out of this encounter, I started to see things. I started to understand people’s dreams. [music ends] I started to walk along the street, and I could see what’s wrong with a person. And sometimes I knew their name. The cafeteria girl, I would know her name and what’s wrong with their life.

SID: Mm

ADAM: And this just came upon me, impartation when the Lord stood before me in the living room.

SID: That is fascinating. We could talk the whole Something More about this.

ADAM: There’s a lot more to it, yes.

SID: I’m sure. Adrian, the brief story about how you came to the Lord.