Sid: We want everyone everywhere to be red hot for the Messiah. I have my friend Steven Brooks in the studio today and Steven was telling me about a new teaching that he has on how to be aware of your angels how to operate and work with your angels. And he not talking from theory he’s talking about personal experience and we’re also interviewing him on his amazing new book it’s something that has been hidden too long it’s called “God’s Nuclear Power.” It’s something the first believers in the Messiah totally understood. Steven tell me the first time you encountered an angel that you could remember.
Steven: The first time it happened Sid was in the year 2000 when I was praying and seeking the Lord, I was actually out of my garage on my knees, the garage was right next to the house and I was in prayer. And the next thing that I knew I had been caught up to heaven and I saw the throne of Jehovah God.
Sid: Wait a second, had you ever been caught up to heaven before that? I got to know this?
Steven: Sure, this was the first time, this was my how can I say my baptism by fire, I had heard this type of big experiences, but I had never had one like this myself.
Sid: As it was going on were you just so preoccupied to not be fearful or were you a little fearful?
Steven: Well, at first I was wondering what’s going on because it seemed like I had somehow got placed in an elevator and I was getting sucked up. It looked like I was getting pulled through white clouds going at some type of phenomenal speed and I knew that I was going up, but I didn’t know where I was going. All I knew was that I was not in that garage anymore I was literally taken into a different realm.
Sid: What was the first thing that you saw in this different realm?
Steven: Well, my feet came down on a solid substance and I looked up and I saw these most beautiful colors swirling together. Colors…
Sid: But there was no room for fear or was there?
Steven: No fear, just a deep peace and an awe, I knew that I was in the Kingdom of God.
Sid: Okay, you know what it almost reminds me of the day that I got saved in a revelation of Jesus. I went to bed so fearful I didn’t want to live and when I woke up, and if you would have said, “I’ll give you a million dollars if you can be fearful,” I could not be fearful, I was encased in such peace. So I understand what you’re saying.
Steven: Right, and so it’s such a completely different realm and fear is not allowed there. And I saw these amazing colors swirling together; it appeared to be predominately an orange a soft orange type color. And then as my eyes began to kind of look forward I saw the most gigantic and awesome throne I’ve ever seen in my life before and it was covered with white, a glistening white cloud. And I saw these arm rests jutting out way up high and down at the bottom I saw these enormous feet and I was completely overwhelmed, I knew that was the throne of Jehovah God. And I also could see angelic beings and that was the first time I had seen these holy angels and they all were worshipping the great God Jehovah.
Sid: Did they look different than your imagination would have said angels look like before that experience?
Steven: They look a lot like people but some angels have wings, not all angels have wings, some angels had different types of garments on with different colors. I began to understand later in my walk with the Lord that the different colors of clothing that the angels wear can represent different levels of rank or authority, and also different classifications of jobs that they do.
Sid: Huh, that’s interesting I’d never, heard that before.
Steven Just like on the earth, you can have a fireman where he’s going to wear fireman type clothing and policeman wear policeman type clothing. And these angels, depending on what their assignments are they will dress according to that, and even not only the type of clothing but the color of their clothing can also indicate the type of work they do.
Sid: Alright did the Lord, was the Lord on His throne?
Steven: Yes He was.
Sid: And you could see Him?
Steven: I could see, I could see this gigantic throne and just the outward identification of the throne, but after a few minutes of looking at this overwhelming sight the two most largest hands I’ve ever seen in my life came out of that cloud and picked me up and pulled me into that cloud. And God the Father actually sat me on His lap and I was there about three minutes and it was the most overwhelming, most awesome overwhelming experiences of love I’ve ever had in my life. I heard the heavenly Father speak three words to me that I had never heard from my natural Father. My natural Father is a wonderful man but he just never had the ability, some of the men in the older generation didn’t have the ability to release sometimes their feelings. But I heard God the Father tell me three words, I love you, and when He said that, it felt like every short coming, every time in life, everything has never worked out, every failure was just instantly wiped away and I felt complete, I felt peace overwhelm me, I felt love overwhelm me. And then He picked me back up and set me back outside of that throne area and I just looked at that amazing spectacle of the glory of their throne room and it took me, it took me a little while after that experience to get back into our normal mode, I could hardly eat or talk for the next three days.
Sid: Well, let me ask you a question because you sparked an idea when you were told that God, when God said to you, “I love you.” And that amazing love that you felt, I was reading in John 17:21 this morning “I pray that they might be one as Jesus is with the Father that’s how you and I and any other believer are to be one.” Do you think that it was that love that you experienced there believer’s are to experience to one another on earth?
Steven: Yes, we’re all looking for that love, for that affection and this is why people sometimes get off into certain areas of sin because they’re trying to fill that void with something beside God. They’re trying to fill it with drugs or trying to fill it with sexual immorality or their seeking something to fill this longing that they never received and so I felt the love of God, I felt like the Father loved me just like He loved Jesus. And I felt like I belong to this family, God really does love me, I actually have a Heavenly Father who cares for me, who watches over my life.
Sid: But you knew that intellectually before this experience but you experienced it.
Steven: That is correct, it just touched me, it somehow it made up for some things in me that still felt a little bit missing in my life up to that point. And I could say that I’m complete in Christ but there’s a point where you know that your complete in Christ. It’s more than just a statement out of the Bible.
Sid: Out of curiosity, did He say anything else to you besides “I love you?”
Steven: As I stood there looking at this scene of this gigantic throne, the hand came out again and this time the hand was closed and this gigantic hand of the Father came right up to me, I could see the robe, this gigantic robe coming all the way down to the end of his wrist area. This lush beautiful robe and He slowly opened His hand up and inside of His hand was the most exquisite looking necklace I’ve ever seen and the necklace, and the center piece was a diamond and the Lord, the Father spoke to me and said this is the diamond of hope, He said, “Your hope is very pleasing to Me. And hope is a Devine expectancy that what I promised to you can come to pass at any moment.” And so ever since then I’ve always love the subject of faith and hope, but in order for your faith to really get in gear your hope and expectancy has got to be there.
Sid: And when the vision was finished, tell me what happened when you snapped out of it so to speak.
Steven: Well, this necklace was placed around you and it was somehow like a spiritual adornment that God had placed upon me and the Apostle Peter talks about the type of adornment that’s pleasing to the Lord.
Sid: It sounds to me like it would be in the same classification as a mantle.
Steven: I believe so, there’s different graces that God can impart to His people and once this necklace of hope was placed on me the next thing I knew I was back in the garage in the kneeling position. I had gone into a trance just like Peter did when he was on the house top waiting for a meal to be cooked for him; he fell into a trance. And what had happened I had fallen into a trance and I had no knowledge of my natural surroundings. I had had a wonderful experience in the heavenly realm in the very throne room of God.
Sid: You know what I often wonder Steven, is someone like you, someone like you read about in the Bible that have had these wonderful experiences, someone like Jesus why was it necessary for them and you to pray and fast? It seems to me that you already had arrived, why would Jesus have to pray and fast? It doesn’t make sense to me Steven.
Steven: I think that what it is, is a sense where physically and mentally you know that there’s something more. And the only way that you can touch that is something spiritually. And this spiritual hunger like David said its deep calling unto deep. It’s going deep within you, going beyond even your mental abilities to grasp it. And fasting is a response of your spiritual hunger actually overtaking even your natural hunger. And you’re so hungry for the things of God you’re like I’m so hungry and so in love with the Lord Jesus, I’m going to skip a meal to try and spend more time with Him and that’s how you begin moving into it out of a spiritual hunger and desire just to get closer to the Lord. And it can overwhelm even natural hunger.
Sid: The first fast you had how long was it and why did you do it?
Steven: This might not be the blueprint that I would suggest for everybody, but the first fast that I ever did was a forty day fast.
Sid: I’m glad that I wasn’t drinking at that time I would have choked. Ha-ha. A forty day, how did you do that?
Steven: It was a little bit of frustration in a sense that I was not happy, I felt like I was supposed to be at a different level a different anointing, a different place of understanding, and I thank God for everything that He had done in my life. I had no reason to complain. I had a nice home, a beautiful wife, a wonderful family but I said, “Lord there has got to be more, there was something that I couldn’t touch unless I knew I began to dig deeper and I decided I’m going to solve this mystery of this great hunger I have and I’m just going to seek the Lord and I just said, “I’m going to do a forty day fast and I somehow by God’s grace, it must have been His grace I did the whole forty days no food at all.”
Sid: Today would you advice people to do a forty day fast if they want a breakthrough?
Steven: I think that it’s more of a rare situation when God would call a person to do that, particularly a beginner. That would be a very rare one in a million type case.
Sid: What would you tell someone that has never fasted before, what would you advice be?
Steven: I would say, start small, work your way up.
Sid: What is small?
Steven: I’d say three days would be a tremendous accomplishment, for a person to eat no food for three days and maybe drink juice and maybe just drink water or some vegetable juice…
Sid: I have to tell you I did what is known as an Esther fast one time with just water, and it wiped me out; I found that I needed juice when I fast.
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