SID: So, I hate to call you Dr. Bridges. You’re Kynan to me. I’m Sid to you. But Kynan, you’re flying back to the United States from England and the last thing in the world you were expecting happened. What happened?
KYNAN: You know, I’m actually feeling God’s presence right now, Sid. But I was coming back from England and had been there a while teaching on the supernatural, having several meetings, and I was ready to come home. So we’re on the plane.
SID: I know the feeling.
KYNAN: We’re on the plane and I was flying back. We’re 30,000-plus feet in the air and I kind of nodded off a little or was trying to get some rest. I closed my eyes and the most amazing thing happened. When I opened my eyes, I was in Heaven. It was so real. I could feel the atmosphere because the atmosphere of Heaven is totally different from the atmosphere of the earth, and I could feel God’s presence. I could see, I saw the Glory. Everything around me was so real. I looked down at my hands and the first thought I had was, oh no, I got in a plane crash. I thought, I didn’t get to call my wife and my kids. But immediately, that subsided and I just was overwhelmed by the atmosphere. And I felt a rumbling from the plane and it seemed like I was back in my body, but I was still in transition between the experience. And as I was coming back in, it was like a movie fading to another scene. As I was coming back into it, I saw the face of Jesus. When I looked at his face, it was just pure love, pure love. He could see right through me. Every fiber of my being resonated with this love, and I heard these words: “Tell my people there’s so much more.”
SID: What affect did that have on you?
KYNAN: It changed my life. It changed my ministry. And for months after that I began to teach on the presence. I began to teach on developing a heavenly vision and developing heavenly encounters because God had mandated me. That was commissioning as far as was concerned.
SID: Now when you use terms, there are people that really don’t grasp what you’re saying, when you say things like “presence of God”, someone that has never experienced this, what do you mean?
KYNAN: When we talk about the presence of God, we’re talking about three things, four things. First of all, we’re talking about the atmosphere of Heaven. The second thing we’re talking about, we’re talking about God’s personality because you cannot separate God’s presence from his person. Remember earlier we talked about that the truth is a person. God’s presence is a person. We’re talking about the character of God or his nature, and then number four, we’re talking about the power of God. All four of those things begin to work in concert when the presence of God manifests.
SID: I have to believe that every promise of God, all of the healing, all the deliverance, anything anyone has ever prayed, it’s available, but the missing ingredient is it’s available in his presence.
KYNAN: Yes.
SID: And it’s tangible. Someone that’s never experienced the tangible presence, what does that mean?
KYNAN: It’s unmistakable. It resonates with your entire body. It’s literally like Heaven on Earth. You know, the best way I can describe it, God gave me this description of it. I was coming home one day from traveling, I travel quite often, and my children are very inquisitive. So they can hear me outside and then when I come to the door I begin to rattle my keys, and they run to the door. Now, one of the reasons they run to the door is because they know Daddy has some treats that he’s brought from other places with him, and so they run. And God told me, he said, “Why do your children run to you?” I said, “Because they know Daddy is home.” He says, “They are gravitating toward your presence because they know your person, or they know your character.” This is the same way.
SID: That’s why. If you beat your kids everyday they’d be running away.
KYNAN: They’d run the opposite way from the house. But because they know Daddy never comes empty handed and that Daddy loves them, they are always anticipating my presence because they know the person behind the presence. And the same is true of us. Once we understand the person behind the presence, we know that God never shows up empty handed. In fact, the prophet David, not just the King David, David as prophet said, “In his presence there’s fullness of joy and at his right hand there are pleasures.” Everything we need is in the presence of God.
SID: What about someone that says, you know, I’ve heard all this stuff and for the last week I’ve taken an hour every day, and I’ve just been still before God. And I’ll tell you, Kynan, it sounds wonderful what he’s doing to you, but it’s not happening to me. How come?
KYNAN: It’s available to everybody. The key is desperation. How desperate are we? You know, it’s kind of like a marriage relationship. You know, you can have a mechanical marriage or you can have an intimate marriage. The choice is yours. A mechanical marriage is a husband comes home and he says, “You know what, I paid all the bills. I didn’t cheat on you. What more do you want from me?” That’s mechanical. You’re following the rules. But intimacy is, I think about you every day. Intimacy is when I see you, I’m enamored by you. I’m smitten, if you will. Every time I see your face it’s more than a ritual. It goes beyond regulation and rules. It goes into intimacy. It’s when we want to know him. Paul said, “I want to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering.” It’s that intimacy with God that makes all of the difference, wanting not just to get results or not just to get gifts, but falling in love with the person behind the presence. Many people like to feel something and the presence evokes great things in our body. We resonate with it. But when we know the person, I’m telling you, everything else comes along with that.
SID: You know what I also want to find out from you, I want to find out how this man worships God that he has such a hunger for more and more of God. I want to know what he does when the doors close, there’s no congregation there, no audience, just him and God. And you know what? I’m going to have him demonstrate it. And you know what? God is going to show up. We’ll be right back.
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth