Sid: Remember I told you on yesterday’s broadcast that we were going to talk about an amazing sign and wonder. And it involves the shofar, the ram’s horn, a very unusual Biblical instrument. My guest Jim Barbarossa, I’m speaking to him at his home in Valparaiso, Indiana. And we found out of yesterday’s broadcast that he had a very rare blood disorder a form of Leukemia; he was sent home to die. And to make a long story short he not only came to the Lord but he heard a voice that was almost audible that said the he would be healed. He went back to where they tested him, Mayo Clinic, and they said “Tests have come back completely normal and you… I’ll tell you what you were so aggressive when you saw that God is real and God can heal. In fact one time you were with your father-in-law and you picked up a hitchhiker who had a stiff leg and what happened?
Jim: Well we were going down a country road and saw this man hitch hiking. I was on vacation and really didn’t want to do this but I heard the Spirit of the Lord say “Pick him up.” And I pulled over to pick him up and I asked him where he was going?” He told me he was going to a bar and I thought, this is crazy why would God have me pick up a man and have me take him to a bar? And I said “Well why don’t you get in,” and we had one of those cab and a half pickups and you have to crawl behind the back seat and he said “I can’t get back there my leg doesn’t bend.” And at that point my father-in-law said “Let me crawl in the back and you can just get in the front.” So he climbed in and I could see he was favoring his leg kind of dragging it when he was getting in. And when we were going down the road he told me a little bit about his leg being hurt 18 years ago. The Spirit of the Lord said “Share your testimony with him, tell him how I healed you, tell him what I’ve done for you.” And I was talking a mile a minute and I was trying to get everything in that I could possibly get in while I’m taking him to this bar. And as we go down the road we’re getting closer to the bar and he says “Well, this is where I get off.” And he went to get out of the truck and as he went to get out ot the truck I said “Can I pray for you?” No I said “I will be praying for you.” And he closed the door of the truck and started heading for the bar he got partly there and turned around and he came back to the truck, he opened the door and stuck his head back in and said “When you pray for me, pray for my lower back because that’s where the nerves were damaged and that’s why this leg doesn’t bend today.” And closed the door of the truck and he headed back to the bar and the first thought that went through my mind was “As I go down the road on my merry way I will pray for him and the Spirit of the Lord said “Now!” And I moved and I had never done anything like this before and I was only a baby Christian about a year and half in the Lord and I jumped out of the truck and ran around the backside of the truck and I hollered for this man and he looked at me and said “What do you want?” I said “I want to pray for you.” And he said “You mean right here right now in front of this bar you want to pray for me?” And I said “Yes I do.” And he was a big fellow and I had to kind of look up at him and the fear started to rise up in me and then I realized he was more afraid than I was and he said “If I let you pray for me what are you going to do to me?”
Sid: Hm.
Jim: And I looked at him and I said “I’m going to do what the Bible says I’m going to ask God the Father in the name of His Son Jesus Christ to set you free.” And in a deep southern drawl he had his arms crossed just staring straight ahead he said “Do it.” And as he said “Do it.” I started to pray for him and I felt the power of the Almighty Living God everywhere it was all over me. I’m looking at him as I’m praying and he’s like a piece of stone he’s not blinking an eye, didn’t have his eyes shut wasn’t crying there was absolutely zero emotion. God taught me about emotion that day there doesn’t have to be any for God to be working. And when I got done praying for him I simply stuck out my hand and shook his hand and I said “I believe that God is going to do something for you.” And I left him and walked around the back side of the truck and I’m getting ready to get in the truck who was younger in the Lord than me had been waiting in the truck all of this time. And I had no idea how long it took but it seemed like it was awhile but he waited. As I’m climbing up in the truck he said “What did you do to him?” And I said “What do you mean?” And as I looked up into the rear view mirror this man is now walking past the bar and he’s going down the street he did not go in that bar. As I watched and as I watched he took that leg that had not bent in 18 years and he shook it and he took another step and he stuck it out and he shook it some more. And I watched him for about 2 blocks as he shook that leg and went down that street totally healed.
Sid: But you know something Jim this supernatural sign that your involved in right now that as almost a foretaste of it. You were actually went to Israel and met a friend of mine Israel Arabaugh. And in Israel my friend who’s name is Israel started blowing the shofar and what happened when you saw him blow that?
Jim: Well we were in a market place and he was blowing shofars for someone else who had actually purposed that they were going to buy one, they were there to buy one. I was on a trip but I had no intention to buy a shofar. I didn’t even have a clue and as he blew this one particular one I said “That’s mine.” And I knew that it was mine.
Sid: So did you buy it so that you’d be able to blow it?
Jim: No, no absolutely not I…
Sid: You just bought it as a souvenir.
Jim: Yeah, bring it home set it on a nice table with a pretty cloth and when people come over to visit we can tell them about our trip to Israel.
Sid: But then your wife started having some prophetic dreams tell me about them.
Jim: Well the first thing we were going to Africa in October of 1996 and we had gotten the shofar in May of 1996. And I had been dealing with “Should we take the shofar to Africa?” I kept feeling we were supposed to, but intellectually I was fighting it “Why would we want to take it half way around the world this just doesn’t make any sense to me.” And we were invited to go to Africa with another ministry and we were invited to lead the worship when we got there. And she had a dream and she came to me 2 weeks before it was time to go and she said “You know I had this dream and I think I need to share it with you, but in this dream I’m pregnant and we’re in this tiny little car and you’re driving it and you’re taking me to the hospital and I’m going to have a baby; and as you’re driving this car you reach under the seat and you pull out this giant shofar. As you pull it out you make this announcement “I will blow this during the birthing process.” And man when I heard that I knew I had to take my shofar to Africa, I didn’t know why but I knew I had to take it.
Sid: But when you got to Africa you were shocked to find out that you weren’t just leading worship they had you advertised to be a main speaker and at a healing campaign.
Jim: When we saw these posters we were shocked, but after talking to the leadership who had taken us we really believe that God was in it and even though we were totally unprepared we just obeyed and he went one way and he went another way.
Sid: Had you ever given a message before?
Jim: Ah…. no.
Sid: This was interesting and so how did you start?
Jim: Never had preached before or shared before in that manner and basically just tried to hear the Lord and obey and the first thing of course that he had us do was to blow the shofar at the start of the meeting.
Sid: Anything unusual happen when you blew the shofar for the first time at the start of a meeting?
Jim: A very awesome powerful presence of God more so than I had ever felt before. I didn’t understand it because it was an instrument that I knew anything about. All I knew is that God said “Use it.”
Sid: Well tell me some of the results of your meetings.
Jim: Well I think probably the easiest way is I’ll read to you a letter we received from a lady who was in the meeting when we were in Kenya, Africa her name was Sister Fanese. And it says the blowing the shofar trumpet you brought here did not just make a noise it declared victory, demons were cast out, captives were set free. It had revealed that God is reigning in our city in a mighty way. Since you have left we have been having wonderful testimonies about healing, deliverance and people being set free of evil powers.” And that was the first letter we got and then we received another one from a Pastor Solomon and it says “Just to mention the fruits of your labor, there was a woman with a limp problem and her daughter was paralyzed; after you had prayed for her told you her to go home and lay hands on her daughter. As she prayed the miracle healing met them both. The daughter got up and walked and mother was healed, the daughter came on Saturday to church worship and just as you departed our country she was saved and won and she continues with Jesus.”
Sid: What about people that are blind or people that were deaf any reports around those lines?
Jim: We received a letter from a pastor and I don’t have that one handy but I’ll give it to you the best of my ability as I remember it. And basically it started off that we want to share a notable miracle with you. And it was a mother who was in that meeting who was also instructed to go home and go to the hospital and pray her child and the child’s eyes, ears were closed and immediately upon laying hands upon the child the eyes and the ears were opened.
Sid: Now you’re a baby you probably haven’t seen miracles like this let alone prayed for people with miracles like this what are you thinking, what’s going on with you?
Jim: I didn’t have a clue, all I knew was the same voice that said “I’m going to heal you” was directing everything we did on that trip.
Sid: Jim, we’re out of time right now. Mishpochah let me explain something to you when Jim blows the shofar so many signs and wonders happen. I believe that it’s an end time sign and wonder but I also believe that it’s a transferable thing and when he teaches on the shofar and blows the shofar miracles take place. Somehow it’s go to do with this One New Man the knitting of the Jew and the Gentile Christian together. I believe that when he blows the shofar that it’s going to be a knitting of the One New Man don’t you dare do anything but tune in to the broadcast on tomorrow.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth