Sid: I’m interviewing Marilyn Hickey, why? She does what the Bible says she’s supposed to do, to me anyway. As a Jewish believer in Jesus the Bible says you’re supposed to provoke the Jew to jealousy; she does and I have to tell you why she does. She had the opportunity of seeing Branham, I mean he had, as far as I’m concerned, Marilyn Hickey he had one of the most outstanding ministries short of Jesus I’ve ever heard of. Was he that accurate, did he really know so many things about people before he prayed; what was he like?
Marilyn: Branham had an unusual gifting of the Holy Spirit, a visitation of the Spirit of God on him and he would tell you detailed things. Very gentle man, loving, not tall, not a big stature of any kind but oh the words he spoke. And the first time I heard him I had an aunt and uncle here in Denver from Texas. He pointed my aunt out in an audience of 5000 she had on a red hat; he said “You have a grand child who’s injured at birth, she has never walked and when you go home she will be walking.” Well, my aunt and uncle you know jumped up and drove to Dougherty, Texas, you know with 400 miles, and knocked at the door of their son’s house that Jerry had been injured at birth. And the mother answers the door crying and she said, “I don’t what has happened but Jerry has started to walk.” And the doctors said you know she had brain damaged she’d never walk.” She had a normal life, that’s the kind of detailed things he would give. And then my husband and I at 3 years after we were married we went to Dallas, Texas to “A Voice of Healing Campaign.” And he spoke there and a big crowd of people, maybe 6,000 people under a tent, hot, hot, hot in Dallas, and he called me out and said, “You’re not from here, you’re from Denver Colorado, you’re from a mountainous area, you want to have a baby and they’ve told you you can’t have one; go home and receive your baby.” But I had a radical experience with the Holy Spirit because as he’s facing me and saying this on the plate-form and I can’t explain this but it was like a wheel within a wheel turning.”
Sid: Well I’ve heard about that in Ezekiel I’ve often wondered about that, tell me I mean because this is actually biblical but what did you feel when this was happening?
Marilyn: Well, it was low and I knew the scriptures in Ezekiel but it was low and you could heard it and it would go swish – swish and I thought I was so frightened if I step into that I will die, this is the presence of God. And then He said, “Go home and receive your baby.” And that wheel within a wheel whirring came into my feet and it was not till ten years later that I got pregnant with Sarah. When I was pregnant the doctor who examined me said, “You’re not pregnant it’s impossible your going through the change.” So I went home and I had some pretty big changes. Went to another doctor he said “This is a five and a half month pregnancy,” and so Sarah as you know most people know, you see me on television, Sarah’s with me and that was such a miracle.
Sid: But I have to ask you something, 10 years from that word did you give up, did you think that well the guys finally missed it with me? What happened on your radar during these ten years?
Marilyn: (Laughing) Well Sid I’m a little embarrassed to say I did give up but my husband didn’t and we had adopted a child and I thought you know this is it. And my husband…
Sid: Your helped the prophet out by saying maybe he saw the adopted child, is that what you were doing? (Laughing)
Marilyn: I thought, yeah, help God you know so many of us want to help God and so then my husband said, “No Marilyn God is going to give us a natural born child.” So he is the one who really stood in faith. Sid I’d like to pray for people who are listening who would like to have a child, the only prerequisite you need to be married.
Sid: I think that’s wise (Laughing), but you know what, I’m going to have to tell everyone listening right now if you want a child it doesn’t matter what the doctors have said, it doesn’t matter what your experience is it matters if someone believes God and prays according to the word of God. And I have to tell you that Marilyn Hickey has a key word that I read in her literature, expectation. When she prays she expects God to answer. Please pray Marilyn.
Marilyn: Lord, I thank You that you said we delight ourselves in You, You give us the desires of our heart, You told us that the barren would produce. So I pray for everyone whose listening to this program, who would like a child, I pray that they have a wonderful, wonderful child; not a rebellious child a child who will serve God and You give them the wisdom to raise this child in the ways of the Lord. And I thank you that many people, there’s going to be an increase in population, many people are going to have that child, the desire of their hearts in Jesus Name.
Sid: Amen, Marilyn I want to take you a little further, no let’s go back a little bit, I want to find out how God gave you such outrageous, and that’s the best word I can use for it, outrageous faith to believe for miracles. I mean you go into Muslim countries, you have preached in Muslim mosques, for a woman to do this number one I don’t see how it’s possible in the natural, number two it’s got to be exceedingly dangerous. You didn’t just start out by going into speaking to thousands of Muslims advertising miracles will happen in Muslim countries, it started all the way back when you were 10 before you were even saved you used to literally read the Bible as a 10 year old. Why would you do that especially not being saved, especially being a child?
Marilyn: I can only say the Spirit of the Lord. God has a plan and destiny for everyone no one here is an accident we’re made in His image God put a hunger in me to read the Bible and I would pray and I even began to memorize some of the scriptures. Then when I got born again at 16, I mean I was wild over the Bible I couldn’t get enough because I had the Author in my heart.
Sid: But another key thing is as I study your life there are a number of key points that are very very obvious to me. You went to a Bill Gothard Seminar and he talked about the value of memorizing scripture, that had to be a major directive from God in your life.
Marilyn: That turned my life around in another way I shouldn’t say around, but gave impetus to what God had already put in my heart a hunger for His word and Bill Gothard told how he was retarded and you know they just pushed him up grade by grade he didn’t make it but they’d push him. And that he had a Sunday school teacher who began to teach all the boys to memorize scripture and he got into meditating on the scripture. Memorize is really meditating, and how his grades went up, he graduated as valedictorian you know and went through the university always meditating and God just spoke to me and said this is the theme of your life Joshua 1:8, and mediate on the word day and night; if you speak the word day and night; you do the word day and night you’ll make your own way prosperous and successful.
Sid: Marilyn there are many people and by the way and by the way having researched you I see your good in languages means you have a mind that’s easy to memorize. What would you say to someone that says “It’s so hard for me to memorize, I memorize three or four scriptures and by the time I get to the fifth I’ve forgotten the three or four that I memorized so I just don’t bother doing it any more what would you say to that person?
Marilyn: I would say take one scripture a week and your mind is fresh in the morning, mine is the freshest then. Say that scripture out loud ten times, now don’t ask me why ten is so good I don’t know. And when you say it out loud then God begins to move in your spirit and you’re canning the word. So I like Psalm 51:6 it says “Thou God desires truth in the inward man. In the hidden man you will make me to know wisdom.” So you’re canning the word. My mother used to can peaches in the summertime, we hated it, my brother and I had to sterilize the jars, peal the peaches, but we loved it in the winter time, there’s hardly anything better; well it’s almost better than kissing your husbands and eating home canned peaches. And the Lord said, “That’s what’s your doing when you mediate on the word, your canning it, you’re putting it inside and then the Spirit at the time you need it will make it bring it to your mind and make it wisdom. So these scriptures that you say, you know take one, take a promise.
Sid: And I like your idea of once a week and in fact God’s been speaking to me Marilyn that on the radio I should have one mediation scripture per week and I should say it every day the five days and everyone along, and myself included, will mediate on that one scripture per week so we’ll talk about that on tomorrow’s broadcast. But Mishpochah I have to tell you I’ve seen Marilyn for years on television, I’ve heard her teach, but I got a hold of her book “The Pathway to Miracles” and I have to tell you it is so charged with faith. You will have an expectation for miracles, and then her two CDs on God’s authority.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth