Sid: Now I have a passion to see people physically healed. Why? Because that’s Bible. When people are physically healed they recognize the Kingdom of God has invaded the natural realm and they become open to believing in God. Now in particular Jewish people, this is what the Bible says “The Jew requires a sign.” And it’s the job of the Gentile Christian to communicate the gospel to Jewish people. You may not have known that but Romans 11:11 says “Salvation has come to the Gentle to provoke the Jew to jealousy.” And the Jew requires a sign and when the Jew comes in then the reason that Jesus came in Ephesians it says “Jesus came to break down the middle wall of separation between Jews and Gentles. And when that Jew comes in there is an explosion called the “One New Man” or the Body of Messiah. And that explosion is about ready to happen when Gentle Christians become mature in the faith. In light… now you understand what makes me tick now that you understand that I have on the telephone Sheri Stone. I’m speaking to her at her home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. And Sheri you developed cancer, at the time you developed cancer you were a believer in Jesus. Did you believe that Jesus heals the way He does in the Bible today?
Sherri: No, I didn’t
Sid: But you yet you had some people pray for you. Tell me about that.
Sherri: I believed that if I was supposed to live I was supposed to die I was supposed to die and these people just chose to pray differently than what I thought. And they prayed for my complete healing and that’s what happened. Through the doctors claiming that the cancer was gone, I was healed.
Sid: Now what type of cancer was it?
Sherri: It was a thyroid cancer.
Sid: When you realized you were healed that you were healed did this just turn your world upside down in your beliefs in the Bible?
Sherri: (Laughing) I always believed in the Bible, I always believed God’s word but at that point I figured God had given me a reprieve.
Sid: Hm. Well what changed that thinking?
Sherri: Ten years later when I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Sid: Now why did that change you thinking?
Sherri: My entire thought pattern changed. I knew that I knew then. I knew what God had, I knew that the discernment’s were real, that the discernment’s were strong. And I just knew that without a doubt what He really wanted for us, what His true plan was for us and it wasn’t death.
Sid: Now you have tremendous faith that if you get sick or if anyone gets sick that God wants to heal them but there seems to be a misconnect with a lot of people who also believe. But you saw not just yourself being healed but members of your family. For instance your husband got cancer, what kind of cancer did he get?
Sherri: It was intestinal.
Sid: And what happened?
Sherri: (Laughing) He was healed.
Sid: What was done? Were hands laid on him, did he just believe?
Sherri: He wasn’t a believer. He was not a born again Christian believer. And the new church that I had just gone to had told me that he needed to be healed. And well that’s great but he’s going to have to go through surgery first. I still wasn’t a believer in healing per say, I believed that God did what He chose to. And he was healed, completely healed.
Sid: So you prayed for him.
Sherri: I prayed for him but I also thought even at that time and I wasn’t… I didn’t have the baptism at that time. At that time I figured God would heal him one way or the other, either through surgery, etcetera, etcetera, or whatever. Actually he’d been given a year to live.
Sid: Hm. Okay, so you get healed from cancer.
Sherri: Hmm, hm.
Sid: Your husband gets healed from cancer and then your son gets a tumor in the brain.
Sherri: The doctor said that it was a tumor, he didn’t know if it was cancerous, but they were going to perform a surgery and he also was healed before the surgery. He had it for 10 years so.
Sid: Well so how come your family gets healed so easily?
Sherri: (Laughing)
Sid: Why is that, explain that to me Sherrie?
Sherri: God wanted me to know what He wanted and what He plans for our lives. And He wanted me to know that…I’m going to go back as a child. I was constantly worried about dying and that’s fear. God determined that dying is not God’s choice for us until a certain age, a certain time. And that’s later on in our life we have work here on earth to do. But I didn’t know that and so I wallowed I guess into that type of self-pity and worry and fret. And the scriptures talks about Job and the fear that he feared the most came upon him and that I was my fear of dying of cancer. And unfortunately several members of my family went through the same thing. Fortunately for us God healed all of us.
Sid: Now answer this, if someone is brand new and just become a believer and they read the Bible and you tell them there is healing by just laying hands or anointing with oil. I believe that they’ll get healed so simply. But it seems as though someone can believe that and then after they’ve been a believer for a long period of time they develop unbelief because they’ve prayed a lot and they haven’t seen people healed. And they literally are walking in unbelief; or they might say a religious statement as God works in such mysterious ways. We just don’t understand He wants to heal one person, He doesn’t want to heal another. Now that doesn’t correspond with the Bible. So what do advice… someone that has experienced the healings as you have and you’re family and the people you’ve prayed for. What advice would you give someone who’s hardened in unbelief and they kind of know it but they don’t know what to do about it what advice would you give them.
Sherri: Well I was in that position some years ago. I said “Okay God “How do I know that that’s really what you want?” And He said “Read Matthew.” And I said “Well that’s all genealogies you know, He said “Read Matthew.” I did, that is what I suggest they do they read Matthew, there is not one place in Matthew it all talks about healing that says “Well because they doubted or because they didn’t do this or because they were a bad person or etcetera they can’t be healed. Every last one of those people in Matthew were healed without exception. And that’s what proved to me that’s what God wants.
Sid: But okay, someone knows that’s what God wants but they’ve been walking in this unbelief for so long. Have you got a suggestion of how they can take this package called unbelief and just throw it out of themselves?
Sherri: Wow! That’s quite a question.
Sid: That’s my job. (Laughing)
Sherri: (Laughing)…Right there, in my case I went to Matthew and read it. I claimed it, I claimed it for myself, and I claimed what God has. And I was a person who had little belief when I was younger. I didn’t believe that I was precious enough or special enough to have any of these things happening to me. And so unbelief was very real and very strong. And God said “Take it as a seed.” The scripture about having little faith as a mustard seed, that’s what I did. Said, “Okay, this is all the faith that I have, make that into the mighty tree” and He did. And step by step, little by little it was perseverance, it was reading the word, it was being in the Spirit, it was rebuking and binding the anxiety and the fear. The fear is the main thing and that’s a spirit.
Sid: I wonder if unbelief could be a spirit.
Sherri: It definitely is.
Sid: Well then, that’s the answer to my question, we just bind unbelief and tell it “Bye, bye no COD we’re not paying for you today.”
Sherri: All of that comes from fear and my whole life was based on fear as a youngster and as a young woman, a young wife and mother.
Sid: And we know from the Bible that fear is a spirit.
Sherri: “For God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, of love and of sound mind.
Sid: Sherri, our times slipping away.
Sherri: Alright.
Sid: Tell me about the book we’re offering “Miracles Still Happen.” Why did you write this?
Sherri: I was concerned, I was actually more than concerned about what was happening in the media and God was performing miracles all over. We knew that, we know it He’s performing through us and people all over the world. And I was concerned the media wasn’t producing anything especially the Christian media. I asked God why there wasn’t somebody out there that talked about miracles, books, etcetera. And in return I heard “Well you have miracles.” And I said “Not enough for a book.” And he said “You have friends.” And that’s how we started the book, we had a coauthor Therese Marszalek. And we got together, wrote letters and sent out 300 letters to people we knew who either had miracles or would know someone that had miracles. Received more than 100 in return and that’s how the book started.
Sid: Now, what do you believe will happen, the title of the book is “Miracles Still Happen.” Subtitle “Inspiring Real-life Stories of Supernatural Intervention.” What is your belief when someone reads story after story after story of God invading the natural realm with the miraculous?
Sherri: This book was intended for crossover market Christian’s and non-Christians because Christians many of us, many of them do not believe that miracles are for today. This is especially for them because these miracles are today. There happening all over the world. And they’re all miracles that have been documented and verified. It’s also for the unbelievers so they know that there is a God and He does miracles and He loves them.
Sid: Well let me tell you something your faith is very contagious…
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth