SID: Okay. What did you think when Bob calls you and said your scripture is Song of Solomon? What did you think?
MIKE: It was five years later after my first time I met Bob, so now we’re good friends. I’m in my office, I’m pastoring now, and I’m reading a wedding invitation and in it, it says, “Song of Solomon 8:6.” I didn’t know it. It says, “God will set a seal of fire of love on the human heart.” And I read this first and instantly, by the Holy Spirit, I mean, it just came out of my mouth, I never thought these words, I prayed, “Jesus set a seal of fire on my heart that I would love you.” And I’m instantly weeping like a second or two. I never had that happen before and I’m weeping and the power of God is on me. I go, what is happening. So this goes on for a few minutes. I grab my telephone, call my receptionist at the church office. I said, “No matter who comes by, don’t let anyone interrupt me, please. Something strange has happened.” So I’m weeping, Song of Solomon 8:6, kneeling on the ground going, “Lord, seal my heart with fire.” The phone rings five minutes, ten minutes later.
I pick it up, “Hello?” And the receptionist says, “Bob Jones is on the phone. He’s heard the audible voice of God for you right now.” I said, “Okay.” And he says, “I’m kneeling, reading Song of Solomon 8:6.” He goes, “Mike, I heard an audible, Song of Solomon 8:6, the Lord is going to visit you with this passage and he wants you to know two things. He wants you to know he’s going to anoint the body of Christ to walk in this across the earth. And really it’s the first commandment, loving God with all their heart, our strength by the fire of the Holy Spirit.” He goes, “There’s going to be an anointing that’s going to be in the great End Time revival, there’s going to be an anointing to love God with all their strength, all their mind, not just moving power outwardly, that for sure, but experience power inwardly, so it’s the both/and.” And he says, “He’s going to do this worldwide. And second thing he wants you to know,” he goes, “whatever this passage is you’re to focus on it the rest of your ministry.” And I’m thinking, “Oh my goodness.” It’s 45-second conversation. I just said, “Hello.” He said, “This is Bob. I heard Song of Solomon 8:6 audibly, dah, dah, dah, dah.” I didn’t even say yes or no. I just groaned and he hung up.
I didn’t even tell him for another week or two what happened. I was so overwhelmed. And then I called my wife, and I said, “Sweetheart, Song of Solomon 8:6, Bob Jones, wow, wow.” And so then I read Song of Solomon, like for the first time, I read it seriously. And then it says, “Eighth Chapter, Love Song of King Solomon: To the Shulammite My Maiden.” It’s a natural love song that extolls the beauty of married love, that’s what it’s about. But the Holy Spirit uses it spiritually for King Jesus wooing his entire church. Well and so it is a natural song, but it’s not only that, it’s a spiritual application of how God’s heart feels towards his people, awakening them to love him with all their heart and strength, and mind, and soul, etc. So I read the book that day. I’m horrified because I never really read it. I read Chapter 1, 2, 3, body parts, gardens, flowers. Next one, flowers, embrace, body parts. I went, no, no.
SID: Song of Solomon.
MIKE: Song of Solomon, eight chapters. I go, “Lord, I can’t do this, no, no.” I’ll do first commandment. I’ll do Chapter 8, Verse 6, but I’m not touching that book. That’s not me at all because my father was an international champion as a boxer. He boxed in the Olympics. He was an amateur and a professional. I was raised in a boxing home. I was trained to be a boxer and I told the Lord, “My father is an international champion boxer. I’m the son of a boxer. I can’t do Song of Solomon. I can’t!” And I joke, the Lord whispered back at me, he says, “Yeah, but I’m a world champion wrestler and I’m going to pin you to the mat. You will do this. And it will surprise you how much you love this because it’s a revelation of God’s emotions. Because God wants us to love him with all of our heart and our strength, and our mind, because he loves us with all of his heart, all of his strength, all of his mind. That’s the power of the End Time church. The revelation that he’s in it with all of his heart towards us and all of his mind. Can you imagine God loving you with all of his mind?
SID: It’s hard to believe.
MIKE: That’s what the message of Song of Solomon is about and that’s the first commandment of which Jesus called the first commandment in Matthew 22, “Love me with all your strength, your heart, your mind.” He goes, “This is the first commandment to God and this is the great one to God.”
SID: You know where that first commandment comes in, we read that and we say, well I don’t know if I can, but I’m going to give it a try. But we never think of the reverse, which you just brought out. That’s the way God feels about us.
MIKE: Yes, right. The reason he says, “Love me with all your strength” is because I love you with all my strength, first. And I’m going to waken it in you when you see that in me. So I tell people it’s the first commandment, it’s the first priority to the Spirit, it’s the first prophetic word for the church, it’s the first mandate over anyone’s life and ministry. I mean, I call that verse, “Loving God with all your heart,” God’s mission statement for the human race.
SID: What happens, because you’ve trained thousands in this, and you really have revelations, word by word, from the Holy Spirit, what is the repercussion on people?
MIKE: It gives people confidence, confident that God loves them and confident that their love for God is real, because you know, some people think that our love is only real when it’s strong. Did you know our weak love is still real love? It’s not only real when it’s more mature than Paul, it’s real even when it’s weak and small, it’s still real.
SID: Listen, everything that comes out of your mouth is such revelation, yet so simple. We have so much more that we want to talk about with Mike. For instance, there are prophecies that were told directly to him by Bob Jones. I mean, these are blockbusters that have never been publicized. Many are about to happen now. So after the show, go to SidRoth.org for this exclusive interview, at the end of the show. And when we come back, I’ve got to hear you pray with every fiber of your being that we get our first love back. Do you want to get your first love for God back? I want that. Be right back.
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