SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I knew Dr. Kenneth Hagan and he walked in extraordinary miracles. He found two prayers in the Book of Ephesians and he prayed them for himself over a thousand times, and then do you remember a few years ago there was a big thing from the Bible, the Prayer of Jabez. Do you remember that? Well my guest went on a search and study of the Bible to find the most supernatural prayers in the Bible and if it worked in The Prayer of Jabez, if it worked with the prayers of Ephesians, it’s going to work for you. Would you like to know these prayers? I would. You know, Mike Shreve told me something before we went on the air. He told me about what God has put in his heart about expectancy for this show. What is that?
MIKE: I felt this phenomenal anticipation that there’s going to be an excessive amount of miraculous manifestations globally when this program is shown. And I felt this for weeks. It’s been upon me when I prayed. It has gripped me with a season of fasting. And so I’m looking for incredible things to happen tonight.
SID: Me, too. Now you spent two years researching and studying the prayers of the Bible. What was the catalyst to get you to do this?
MIKE: Well back around the turn of the millennium, there was such a megatrend in the body of Christ of interest in The Prayer of Jabez, which is only 32 words long, one sentence.
SID: Right.
MIKE: It takes about 10 seconds to quote it, five phrases, five requests. All it says is, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, that you would enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.” And I think the thing that resonated with people was how immediate the response from Heaven was. It just says, “And God gave him what he requested.” We’re never told what kind of supernatural things may or may not have taken place, just that God gave him what he requested. So what gripped my heart was this, that if that prayer should resonate with the body of Christ so profoundly, how much more the prayers that got a very intense response from Heaven. And so for two years I searched through the Word.
SID: But let me ask you this. On this Prayer of Jabez, I heard the most supernatural, amazing testimonies. So I think what you’re telling me, there are prayers with even greater responses that are available to us that we’ve never even thought about.
MIKE: Oh I believe The Prayer of Jabez was powerful and it’s something we should implement. But it never states that there was a supernatural response. So if that was important to study, it’s more important to study the prayers where there was a tremendous supernatural response. And when I began to go through those prayers, I noticed what I call power points, certain statements that were made, certain methods of approaching God that seemed to have a greater ability to capture the heart of God and bring a response. It changed my prayer life. I began praying according to those patterns, not in a methodical kind of way where I don’t believe formulas capture God’s heart. This is relational and you can’t get some kind of word formula that you quote and then manipulate God into responding to you. But there are certain kinds of prayers that God historically has responded to, so we need to learn from that.
SID: Okay. Let’s have an example. How about prayers from a famous rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Rabbeinu. Moses.
MIKE: I’m glad it’s Moses, because I wasn’t sure where you were going with that.
SID: That’s okay.
MIKE: I don’t think I studied with that one. But hey, yes, you shocked me, Sid, you shocked me. This was actually a point in Moses’ life where I believe he was crushed, he was disappointed, he was grief stricken, he was tired of people because he had done everything he could to usher them into the presence of God. And given a few weeks’ absence when he’s up in Mount Sinai receiving the extension of the Torah, they give themselves over to idolatry. And he comes down shocked to see them dancing naked around this idol that they’ve created. And so after he dealt with that, he went back to God. And now his focus, I believe, is more on God than on the people. And he says, “God, if I have found grace in your sight, show me your way that I might know you and that I might find grace in your sight.” And at first I thought, well that’s redundant, that’s repetitive. He starts out saying, “If I have found grace in your sight, show me your way that I might know you, that I might find grace in your sight.” And then I realize that he was saying, I need an extra application of grace. I need more grace, more anointing, more glory. I’ve got this responsibility. These people are depending on me. Show me your way, Lord. Show me exactly what you want me to do and I’ll know you, because where I find your work, I find your personality revealed. He says, “If I know your way I’ll know you.” And I believe that’s what we discover the character of God, in the works that we perform in his name. He demonstrates his character to others. But I learned that lesson of the Moses prayer when I was unsaved. I found out that you can ask God what Moses asked. Next he said, “Show me your glory, show me your glory.” And God responded to him and said, “I’ll make all my goodness pass before you and I’ll make the name of the Lord proclaimed before you.” And strangely, Moses says, “Show me your glory.” God said, “I’ll show you my goodness.” Back when I was unsaved, I didn’t know how to pray the prayer of Moses. But I got a letter from an old friend. At the time, I was a teacher of yoga and meditation in four universities. I was very deeply involved in far eastern mysticism. I had 400 students who thought I was their guru. I was spending 12 hours a day in solitude, chanting, doing meditation, doing yoga trying to find this elusive thing they call God consciousness. And then an old friend of mine wrote me a letter saying that you’ll never find God through what you’re doing. He said, you need to be born again and you need to accept Jesus as Lord of your life. So that letter initially, I rejected. I said, I cannot confine my belief system to one religion. It’s not logical. It’s more loving and wise to embrace all religions of the world. That’s what I thought. But that letter weighed on my mind until finally I said, I’m going to dedicate an entire day to Jesus and I’m going to ask him to reveal himself supernaturally. Now I might not have said, show me your glory, but in essence, I was saying, show me your glory. Because for 12 hours that day, all I did was read the Bible and say, “Jesus, this is your day. If you’re real manifest yourself supernaturally to me.” And that afternoon, I was on my way to teach a yoga class at University of South Florida and there happened to be a prayer group in town that was praying for me, 24-hour prayer chain. Somebody was praying for me every hour. Well one of the members of that prayer group was walking in the Laundromat two miles away from where I stepped out hitchhiking to go teach a class. And he said, the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said, “Get back in your van and start driving.” He didn’t know that the person he had been praying for, for over a month was standing there saying, “Jesus, if you’re the answer, give me a sign today.”
SID: Mike really got his sign.
MIKE: I got it.
SID: That guy must be one of the happiest believers on Earth. But I love that prayer of Moses. God, show us your glory. When we come back, oh God, show us your glory.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth