Sid Roth welcomes Kerry Kirkwood

Sid:  Now, the job of the gentile believer is to provoke the Jew to jealousy, meaning that Gentile believer has got something that is so much better than money can purchase, so much better than that Jewish person has ever seen that that Jewish person want what that Gentile believer has.  My guest and I’m interviewing this week Kerry Kirkwood has a piece of the puzzle that has been a mystery to you and mysteries are not for believers they are for nonbelievers.  It should not be a mystery to you; it’s called the power of blessing.  I was finding out a bit about him on yesterday’s broadcast he had an encounter with God that he was so caught up in the Spirit he was afraid that his mother was gone, he ran running into the house, but his mother was there; and what did she say to you Kerry?

Kerry:    She said, what you had is an over shadowing of the Holy Spirit and He was letting you sense and know his hand and touch upon you.  So that was the earliest moments that I began to experience. 

Sid:  Now your family was not particularly charismatic in expression so this was kind of knew to you but, I’m amazed that your mother even understood to the degree that she did.

Kerry:  She had read some things in the scripture you know, Psalms 91, about under the shadow of the Almighty God and as I was expressing to her and trying to describe to her as a six year old could what was happening, she related it to like Psalms 91.

Sid:  Now you somehow, it had to be God ended up in a church that understood the prophetic and people prophesized and what did you think when you saw people prophesying?

Kerry:  Well, my background kind of let them believe that they were fortune telling and they were doing kind of things in fact my friend that had invited me there was, I told him, “no I had heard about that church and I just don’t think I would want to go there,” and he wouldn’t take no for an answer and he was a good friend so I went and what surprised me is that they were enjoying worship.  They were celebrating the presence of God with their eyes open, they had smiles on their face which was not my understanding of what church belonged, what being in a congregation was and at the end of the meeting I was thinking to myself, boy if I get out of here alive, because they were doing things that were not strange, but they were strange to me.  And so at the end of the meeting there was someone who came up behind me, put their hand on my shoulder and began to what the Bible says are the secrets of the heart.  Not about sin and not digging up things that would be embarrassing, but began to share things that only God and I would know and talked about that moment that I understood when I was a young boy and the presence of God overshadowed me and His hand was upon me and that I would travel the nations around the world and I would see the miracles of God and so on like that and I was a teenager, when that took place.  And I went from wanting to run out of the church to the next thing; I was on my face before God sobbing because I realized that He was a personal God, He was a God that I had heard about and now it became personalized in my heart because He literally told me that He loved me, not just hearing some message or theological treatise on it.  I sensed that the love of God so penetrating me so deeply that I said, “God whatever you want me to do I know that I can never be able to be able to do without the Holy Spirit.  And that’s when I committed. I was a Christian, born again, but to fully allow him to become, let the Holy Spirit lead and guide my life was at that moment.

Sid:  When was it that you saw this gift operating in others that you started saying “Lord one of these days, I’d like to do that?”

Kerry:  There was a man that came to our church and he was, after he shared out of the word of God he began to just call people out and share things that built them up and encouraged their faith and you could just see their countenance of their face that it lifted them.  And I said in my heart, because we sometime we can make inner vows like, “I’ll never let that happen again” but I made an inner vow that was of a faith kind saying, “One day I would like to do that Lord.”  And then the Lord began to do in very small ways and so what’s interesting was that the very man that did that, that I saw that was years later I was in a prophetic conference ministering with him, which was a real joy for me.

Sid:  But I think the thing that really got your attention was when someone began prophesying over you about the encounter you had at age six.

Kerry:  Exactly, in other words when… to me it was a miracle, it was just as much of a miracle as someone being healed, because in that very moment when I realized that how personal God was and that he knew where I was, though I knew the Bible said the hairs of our head are numbered, it became personalized.  Then that transfixed my heart upon Him and that’s when I said, if I knew that this did this to my life and made me realize how good that the Father is and how I wanted to see other people that their lives changed and that their countenance being lifted in the glory of God then that was what I wanted to do and commit my life to serving him.

Sid:  And today you move in such a strong prophetic gift, it’s so specific you know people’s names, you know situations, I imagine this much rally astound you Kerry

Kerry:  I’m still amazed after years as it was in the earlier days because people ask me, “How do you do it?”  I said, I can’t tell you, it’s not about me doing it, it’s just God so loves an individual that he want to talk to them and sometimes it is just a code language.  I remember ministering over a woman and I just simply said, “You’re a pearl of great prince.”  Well, to me that’s a verse of scripture and I was declaring the word, well it was exciting to her was that morning she said to God, if you are really are speaking to me, then I want you to be able to be able to name my name.  It doesn’t happen with every person, but I was thinking in my mind that the Lord was declaring over that verse of scripture.  Well, come to find out that her last name was Pearl.  Her name was Anne Pearl and so she does fell on the floor and began to declare the Lord God is in the midst of you.  Well, it didn’t mean that much to me because I was just quoting the scripture but it was a love language between her and the Father so prophecy is not about the person getting it.  It’s about a code language if you will, a word spoken in due season that causes that person to connect to the rich heritage that they have in God.

Sid:  You know what had dawned on me, everyone listening to us can prophecy when they understand the power of blessing.  In affect they are prophesying, explain what the power of blessing is.

Kerry:  Well blessing is simply being able to see what God would like to do in a situation, because the Bible says that it’s not God’s will that any should perish that all should come to the knowledge of the Son of God.  So we know that there are things that is God’s will, and so when we a line ourselves with the purpose of God and his will then we are involved in blessing so in essence it is a prophetic.  A prophetic is that we need to say prophesia which means a proceeding word, a word that’s like a catalyst that unsticks us and helps propel us and so when you are blessing you’re saying what is the heart of God.  So if a person is having, you know physical problem and you know that it’s God’s will that to heal.  The Bible says, “Healing is the children’s bread” and Jesus blessed the bread and He broke it and broke off the bread, the lack and began to see the potential that bread brought.  So when we bless we are saying, I bless the name of the Lord, Yeshua, the Anointed One, the Healer that is inside of you, then God arises and let His enemies scattered.  We are simply declaring God’s intention for something, because there’s a big difference between truth and fact. 

Sid:  Wait, you know what on tomorrow’s broadcast because our time is slipping away today, tell me about God’s intention for someone with heart disease and literally grew new arteries.

Kerry:  Oh, yes…

Sid:  No, tell me on tomorrow’s broadcast…