Our Guest Rich Vera

SID: Now Rich Vera had six hours in Heaven. But he says, although it was six hours, there’s no time in Heaven. And so it was unlimited teaching was downloaded into his spirit. Tell me about what happened when you went to Heaven.

RICH: You know, I was grilling fish in Hawaii with friends and I passed out. And so instantly when I fell to the ground I was taken out of my body and it was right in the presence of the Lord. Now I always have the idea when I see Jesus and when I jump on him, kiss and love him. But because I wasn’t living up to his expectations to what I knew was best, there was a sense of failure on the inside. There was a sense of so much to do for God. I’m calling God. I’m here. I’m wasting my time being selfish allowing bitterness and what people did to me, keep me away from the living God. I spent what it seemed to me 45 minutes or more begging the Lord for his mercy. I felt that at any time something could open and I would go right to Hell. And I begged the Lord from my whole being asking, “Lord have mercy. Please send me back. And if you send me back I’ll do anything you want me to do. I’ll preach for you. I’ll live my life for you.” Was about a time when begging with such a force that I heard at a distance, way at a distance that the sound of the ambulance pulling over to the house. And I began to see way down there, opening the door, coming out, coming down the driveway. And when I saw them I opened my eyes back on the backyard. And I told my friends, “This is not a sickness.” I said, “I’m not dying.” I said, “This is a visitation from God.” They had no idea what I was talking about. They told the paramedics that I was okay, that it was a visitation from God. I don’t know how they took it. So when they were gone, I told them, “Pull me in the house,” because I was in the backyard. Neighbors heard me screaming. They were coming out the windows. They dragged me in the house, threw me on the couch. The moment I hit the couch I was taken up my body again, and this time I was in the presence of the Lord. But I wasn’t begging for mercy. Now I knew that the Lord gave me a chance. I knew that the Lord allowed me to return, and that I wasn’t going to die and go to Hell. Now walking with the Lord, the funny thing is my mind that I have down here, it works perfectly up there. So I remember everything down here and I always say if I see Jesus, I’m going to ask him every question I can ask. I’m going throw a thousand questions.

SID: How would you like to ask Jesus some questions? I have an idea you would. I have an idea you would, too.

RICH: And I began to ask him questions. I said, “God, tell me about the healing ministry and the prophetic ministry, and the working of miracles.” Because these are the gifts that God has given me as a minister. And the Lord answer my questions. And I go, “Lord, am I going to raise the dead? What’s going to be this? Am I going to preach? How big is going to be my audience?” And the Lord was not paying attention. So I got frustrated and I said, “Fine.” And I thought to myself, somehow, I’m going to get the answer from you. And the Lord says, “I want you to see something and meet some people.” And He’s walking me down, and suddenly the Lord, before He walks me down, He looks at me and says, “Why did you allow what people said about you and things that happened, and the accusations, how mean people, why did you let this turn you away from me? Don’t you know that I’m the one.” And he took me back since I was little boy, incidents that in my life that He was with me and I had no idea. Now when the Lord is telling me this, I’m listening to his voice, but I’m having a visual like a TV screen of the events. And as the Lord is talking to me, up to the say I was 18 years old when I got born again, and the Lord says, “I was with you this event and I’m the one that visited you and saved you.” When He’s talking to me His voice and His words are coming to me with such a force that they started cleansing me from all the bitterness and all the anger. And instantly, by Him talking to me, I was filled with His love and I was delivered from the hatred, the bitterness and all my rescindments. And I was filled with the love of God to the point that I wanted to go to every person that did me wrong and hug them and kiss them. It was a love that it was beyond my way of expressing love. And I learned one thing. The voice of the Lord carries power to deliver us, to change us, to heal us, just His voice.

SID: You know, here in America, we have, what, maybe eight Bibles per Christian. We’re fat with Bibles. And we’ve heard the stories since we were in Sunday school, little kids. And we kind of take it for granted. We forget how powerful every word of the Word of God is.

RICH: Well Jesus said, “The words that I speak, they’re spirit and they carry life.” So words are not just noise, you know, like you hear a voice and go, you’re just making noise. But when Jesus talks, there’s two elements to his voice. His voice is an audio and his voice is visual. And my experience is because everything He will talk to me, I will see it. That’s why you hear prophetic people say, I see this and I see that. You’re hearing something from the Lord. So when God talks to us, and actually words that are spirit born, spirit led, are words that will carry vision and will carry audio. And this is the power of God. Because the Bible says, without vision that people perish. But the Word of God brings vision to us. There’s a need for us to hear the voice of God, not just through a prophet. One word of the Lord can carry you for a whole life, one single word.

SID: Now God told you, when you came back and He taught you about the gift of prophecy, but what did he tell you, you would be able to see?

RICH: You know, He showed me some people. And He says, “Look up.” And He told me, “What do you see?” And I see, “Well I see,” and I described people. He says, “Look again. Tell me what you see.” And I see, “Well I see,” and I described different bodies. He says, “Look again.” So I began to describe blue tie, red this. And then suddenly an angel turned the group of people around, and an angel came and peeled in from the back like if it wore a banana. So when he peeled them instead of seeing their brain or their body organs, I could see them what happened to them when they were children, things in their lives, what they were thinking, incidents in their lives. And the Lord says, “Look now.” And when I saw it, something right away was downloading in my spirit. And the Lord says, “From this time on when you see people, you will know. And as you speak by my spirit I will heal them, I will deliver them, not only physical, but from things that are happening in their lives.” So that’s really what released me to another level of the prophetic in my life.

SID: Let me tell you something, I was with him and I just talked a bit about backsliding, and I don’t understand someone backsliding, I said, because I had such an experience, I could never even fathom that. And he began to tell me the experience that I had. He said, “I see it.” And he began to say the words, but he had no knowledge of this before the fact. So I’ve already tested this gift. But what excites me even more than that gift, I have to tell you, is the revelation you got from Isaiah, from Peter, from Elijah, from Moses. Oy vey. I wish I had those revelations. I want to hear it in the next segment. Be right back.

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