SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Retha McPherson. Retha, this is such an amazing story, your son literally died, he went to heaven, he came back with the word of God downloaded in him, he didn’t have it before he went, he knew two young boys that had died and he wanted a message to go to their parents and he knew where they lived, but when he came back to life and you were nursing him at home, what was wrong with him physically?
RETHA: He had a very bad head injury, so with a head injury on the mid-brain, brain stem, the left side, the right side, he couldn’t walk, he couldn’t talk, he couldn’t speak, he couldn’t eat, he could do nothing. He could really do nothing. That’s why we took him home, actually they gave us an address and told us to book him there, but we took him home because I knew what God said to me God said to me, “I’m going to heal this child and this child is going to tell the world that Jesus is alive.” So we took him home and we nursed him and for months he was blind, he couldn’t speak and anything of that. But while we were keeping on speaking life into him, God was healing him day by day by day. And then eventually the one eye opened but the other eye was still blind, and after the nurses left he slept in front of my bed and that night he woke me, he couldn’t speak, he was writing, he woke me and said he wants to write something and he said to me, “Did you see Jesus?” I said no. He said he was right here in the room. I said no I had a dream, like you speak to Jesus in a dream. He said no mommy he was here, he touched my eye. And the first thing I said to him was can you see now.
SID: Of course.
RETHA: And he says, “No.” And I cried out to the Lord, I said “Lord I need a miracle now.” He says, “No, you need faith now.” Faith, and then two weeks later as I came back one night that blind eye was still open because every night you had to put sulph in to close it, and the blind eye
was open and I was just kneeling and praying softly in my spirit to him and afterwards I just gave
him a kiss like this and he did it back. And the blind eye was open and the other one was asleep and I asked him, “Love, can you see me?” And he just showed me yes. And he kept on writing and he said I told you he was here and he touched my eye. And then I realized God’s timing is just different than ours, but what God started he will complete in our lives.
SID: Now he is actually receiving messages from God and he is writing these messages down and you have these messages in your book, give me an example of one of the messages.
RETHA: One of the messages was, well a couple of months ago he woke me, he wrote this morning he said to me, “Mommy Jesus spoke to me last night about his word and he is coming again.” And these letters are on the website, you can see it there, “which is going to be very, very, very soon, do you know that Mommy?” And then he would tell about the bride, Jesus wants to
come and fetch his bride but his bride is not ready.
SID: Tell me about, because this is amazing when he was weeping one day about the golden bridge.
RETHA: Yes, He can’t cry like he normally cries, he would just make noises, and he was laying his head on his arms and crying and I said why are you crying? And he says in heaven there is a golden bridge and after the bridge there is a huge door with pearls around it. He says, “But there are people standing outside and they are crying.” And I said, “Why are they crying?” He says, “They can’t go in.” And I said, “Into what?” He looked at me and said, “Don’t tell me you don’t know.” I said, “No, I’m not sure.” He says, “There is a wedding feast inside and everybody is not ready.” So every day he will journal a whole page and that next morning he only did this, he wrote Matthew 25 and he left for school.
SID: And he should have not even known what was in Matthew 25.
RETHA: Well I didn’t.
SID: So you read it immediately.
RETHA: Yes I ran to my bible and I read it. It was about the Ten Virgins.
SID: Five wise, five foolish.
RETHA: Five were wise and five were foolish, five were ready and five were not. And I tell you this as a bride today, we are all in church, but Jesus did not come to give us religion, he came for an intimate passionate love relationship with a King.
SID: I’ve got a question for you. You went in South Africa to a good, born again charismatic church, the best in the city, you certainly heard the truth, what was the difference between you today, and when you were Mrs. South Africa, and going to the church, what is the difference?
RETHA: The difference is sometimes we are sitting in church and we think the church is the place where we can get everything, but you get knowledge. And the fruit of knowledge is works.
And I think the church today, the church is me and you, you know, I’m not talking about a specific church, knowledge gives you works, the fruit of knowledge is works but the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of a rhema word is an intimate love relationship with a King, and the difference is that we keep ourselves busy with works instead of with the King.
SID: So today, how have you changed? What is different about you?
RETHA: My whole life changed because the night when God revealed himself to me I found out how much he loves me and it is all about love. And because God loves me so much I can walk this walk of faith, and because I know now his character, I can trust my whole life in his hands, and I can just give everything to him and just seeking his presence all the time and not seeing what I can do for him and trying to impress him with my works. It is a different thing, a whole different thing, and now the peace is always there because his presence brings peace. And as you push into God’s presence, there you will find the miracle of signs, the wonders, the broken heart healed, everything that we ever need on earth.
SID: But you had an encounter from Jesus, about this book, don’t go away, we’ll be right back.
