Sid: I recently heard a sermon on evangelism and it was a wonderful sermon and the pastor was from the deepest part of his heart was saying that “We got to tell people about Jesus.” And I wanted to get up there and shake that pastor and say “Amen brother, but it’s not the apologetics that are going to win those lukewarm people who think their Christian’s that are not; or those who are from another religion. It’s the way Jesus did it; it’s by signs and wonders.” My understanding of the New Testament is the least believer walked in such awesome power that today the Catholic Church would make them saints. And of course the Bible says “We’re all saints.” But the truth of the matter is every one of us is destined to walk in that power; why? To see a miracle? No, no, no, no, no, to see the miracle. What is the miracle? People’s lives being transformed from the kingdom of darkness and translated to the Kingdom of the Son of His love; that’s the greatest miracle. But it takes an intervention of a living God in the miraculous to grab the undivided attention of the nonbeliever to make them open to proclaim the gospel and get them saved. It’s that simple; and that’s why I’ve been so looking forward to my interview with Michael Hinson. If you have been listening this past week I interviewed his associate Joan Hunter, whose the daughter of Charles and Francis Hunter. Both of them coauthored this book which you should have written for already but if you haven’t this week I’ll be offering the book. It’s brand new it’s called “How to Heal the Whole-man” it’s a handbook with the most supernatural prayers for body soul and spirit and I have Michael Hinson on the telephone. I’m speaking to him at his office in Gainesville, Florida. Michael I’m looking at your background and this is a pretty interesting background that you had you’re just basically minding your own business and you go to a Happy Hunter’s meeting 25 years ago and you hear an audible voice from God; tell me about it.
Michael: Well, I actually was drugged to the meeting by a zealous roommate who was on fire for God and was drugged to the meeting. I didn’t want to go there I had heard all sorts of things about healing meetings and was taught by my mainline denomination that it wasn’t necessarily of God. But I did go hoping to find, see maybe somebody healed and that way it would enhance my belief. I was hoping to see something that made God tangible and real. Because all I’d done is heard about him and hadn’t seen Him.
Sid: You know most Christians are in that boat, most Christians that are good church going Christians they don’t see miracles; demonstration of power, they hear about it, it’s history not reality.
Michael: And that’s exactly what happened to me, I was drugged to the meeting actually fought it the whole way and there encountered God in a way that I’d never seen Him before. Not just with the miracles, but Jesus became real in every part of my life. Actually energized who I was and I no longer started living for myself. So it was a dramatic change that took place in my life. And I didn’t just see God move in me, I watched Him move and there was 10,000 people in the meeting, there wasn’t anybody that wasn’t dramatically changed there from 25 years ago from Lakeland, Florida.
Sid: But tell me about that audible voice.
Michael: Well, I was at the meeting I didn’t know very much about God and I was at the meeting and I was actually the meeting was over and I was with my friend who drugged me to the meeting. I turned to him and said “Were going to be headed up to Jacksonville healing explosion and God’s going to send us to Denver and he’s going to take care of it.” And my friend looked at me with big eyes and he said “What are you talking about?” I said “I just heard that and I don’t even know why I said it out loud.” And he started laughing at me; the meeting went on and it was over on a Saturday night. And Charles Hunter came out of the crowd of 10,000 and he came up to me and he said “Are you from Jacksonville?” And I said “Yes I am.” And he said that “We prayed and found out that we prayed and heard that you were going to head up to Jacksonville Healing Explosion.” And my response was “Charles I don’t know anything Healing Explosions, but I did hear from the Lord and I’m your man. And he turned and said “See you in Denver” and turned and walked away. About five minutes later as my friends jaw was on the table and mine was as well because I’d never experienced anything like this a woman who saw us at the conference came up to and said “The Lord told me that you were supposed to go to Denver, are you planning to go to Denver?” And I said “Well, I am now because I heard the same thing.” And she handed me a check; back then it was enough to pay for 20 airfares to Denver and she said “The Lord told me to give you this to take care of you and launch you in what He’s called you to do.” I went to Denver to learn from Charles and Frances how to set up the Healing Explosion and…
Sid: Did they realize that you were barely saved?
Michael: Absolutely they saw what God had done to me at Lakeland. I had been saved technically for a day or two and already started leading people to the Lord. I had to let them know about the experience of what had taken place in my life and they saw me lead other people to the Lord. I didn’t even know what I was saying, but I was telling them about my life experience and they wanted that and they came on. I didn’t know enough scriptures to be saved according to a lot of people I didn’t know the Roman Road at the time. I was just telling them about a life with Jesus and what had happened to me and they wanted that, and I lead them in a prayer and they started coming to the Lord. Charles took me under his wing and I literally became a son for 3 ½ years I lived with him. He raised me from a pup is the term I use and taught me the things of God and just launched me from that point on.
Sid: Now something, and you didn’t know this, but there was one thing in all these amazing things that God has used you in over the years but there was one thing that really hit me and it hit me hard. If there’s one reason I really wanted to interview you is for the next thing that I’m going to ask you. Because I believe it’s a key to your life and a key to many people that are listening and this happened about 10 years ago. God spoke to you for a three day period and showed you your heart. Tell me about that.
Michael: This is something I don’t talk about very often so this is the first time I’ve ever done it publicly other than in a few services.
Sid: But let me tell you a story then before you tell me about that. I was recently ministering in a church near the Pennsylvania New York border and the Pastor said “I had been a Pastor for many years and one day God came into my room and He said ‘I want to show you your heart.’” Now this was not just a carnal Pastor this was a Pastor that loved God and when he saw his heart he begged God to say “Stop it I can’t look at my heart any more it was so evil.”
Michael: Well, that is what happened to me. I was Pastoring at the time and serving God; I believed I was living for the Lord. I was dedicating my life to the Lord I guess I was serving Him every way that I could possibly knew how to do it. I mean I woke up in the morning eating and breather Him and going to bed at night. He came and He did come it was Jesus that came for 3 days, and in 3 days as much as a man could stand it at one time and there were many times I just cried out for mercy he showed me my heart in comparison to His.
Sid: See that’s the problem we compare our heart to other people, but that’s not how God looks at it.
Michael: When he showed me my heart it was more than I could bear. I can openly say and have said in the meetings before at the end of that I can’t tell you how incredibly intense this was and how crushing this was, and how small I was in comparison to what I was standing next to as far as His heart and His love and his capacity for people. My self-centeredness, my own heart condemned me before Him. If He had said Mike you need to go into the lake of fire I would have considered it merciful as opposed to continuing to be in His presence with the sin and with my own wickedness that pervaded my heart all these years and I haven’t had an idea that I was living for myself and not for Him: I didn’t know. When He showed it to me it gave me the opportunity to repent. From that day on I’ve been able to see God in absolutely everything everywhere.
Sid: Question, I think I know the answer but question why did God choose to show you your heart and not someone else?
Michael: I was crying out to Him every day for that.
Sid: Exactly what were you crying out for?
Michael: I was crying out for God to show me my own heart after reading the Psalms and understanding….
Sid: You didn’t know what you were asking for did you? (Laughing)
Michael: Absolutely not a clue and to show me my heart and maybe give me a pat on the back or a slight course direction. I had absolutely no idea that I was going to see what I saw; I am so thankful now that I did but it was 3 days if I could avoid ever going through again I would, but I would get everything that I own to go through them if it’s needed.
Sid: And what would you say if someone that says to you “Well, most people have a good heart?”
Michael: That’s a simple belief system; if people believe they have a good heart, but when you compare your heart to the heart that’s spoken about in the Bible; when you compare your heart to what Jesus said “A heart for Him really is.” When you get the opportunity to see the difference then there really is no comparison.
Sid: And from what I know after this happened to you people not even knowing it recognized the difference, miracles started breaking out. Tell me basically what people are saying that are reading this brand new book by you and Joan Hunter “How to Heal the Whole Man Handbook.”
Michael: We get responses and testimonies every day through the mail and email of people who say “I did not know that there could be this much joy in my life; I did not know that I could be healed this easily; I had absolutely no idea that there was such peace available; I didn’t know.”
Sid: Now I’ve read many books on healing but this truly is unique; what makes it so unique?
Michael: Well one of the things about it is very scripturally based but it deals with the root causes of the illnesses that are involved. It deals with the root issues that’s at the bottom of everything. There is a spiritual issue at the base of everything in our existence and we start at that point and work our way out. And when you get through it you’re absolutely totally free in every way.
Sid: And that’s what the Messiah said “I’ve come to set the captives free” it’s about time as people are free.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth