Sid Roth welcomes Kerry Kirkwood

Sid:  We want everyone everywhere to understand the power of blessing because when you understand the power of blessing you’re whole world is going to be transformed, your marriages will be better, your relationships with your children will be better, your finance will improve, you’ll literally begin to see answers to prayer that you’ve been waiting years for and as a matter of fact my guest Kerry Kirkwood has a book called “The Power of Blessing” and teaching with tremendous impartation as he blesses you based on the word of God.  And on yesterday’s broadcast, Kerry Kirkwood we were talking about a man that had serious, serious heart trouble that started listening to your teaching, and tell me about that.

Kerry:  Yeah, he’s a friend of mine he pastors and his father had had arterial cirrhosis and so he found himself with the same problem and his arteries were decaying and so he had a quadruple bypass.  So he I began to hear about the power of blessing and as I talked about the Bible says we can speaking to ourselves Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and making melody in your heart and so he began to do this, he began to do this.  He began to bless his arteries, in saying, Oh Lord I thank you that you have given me good arteries and I bless these arteries and I speak to them that they are full of life and they are not decaying and I’m the body of the temple of the Living God and therefore my body is wonderfully made according to Psalm 139 and I receive your faith and your goodness into my body.  Well after he had done that, and he was exercising and doing the things of the natural as well, but he connected the natural things and the spirit of blessing, which a prophetic declaration over your body as God see it.  Then when he went in for his check up, his cardiologist and they were amazed and they started showing him the x-rays and they showed him the bypass and they said, “Look at this, we have heard of this happening a few times, but this is phenomenal, he said that your body has grown another artery and it grew around the bypass that we put in there.  It is grown its own by pass and so they looked at that and Olan gripping as a pastor and he smiled and he said, that’s because I’m blessing my body and when you bless things prosper and when you curse it dies.  And so he began to see that the power of blessing, the power of life and death is in the tongue the Bible says so “Choose life so that you may live” and he wanted his arteries to live and he does it to every part of his physical being as well.  And we have seen miracles of healing by simply just speaking blessing over people.

Sid:  Now, I want you to explain to our Mishpochah what is going on in the Spirit realm when, let’s take an example, a wife decides after 30 years of marriage, “I don’t love this man any more, I want happiness, I’m going to divorce my husband.”  And the husband is believing for a month, two, six months, even a year for his wife to come back and then he starts being upset with his wife and literally saying, which the Bible would define as curses about his wife and they’re true by the way, they’re awful things his wife is doing, what’s going on in the spirit world when he’s taking that position?

Kerry:  Well, we have the spouse the husband or wife that we bless or we have the one that we curse.  We have created in them that image because we were created in the image of God and so when we curse we are literally tearing down what God had intended and when we bless we’re agreeing with God.  And in a situation that I’m familiar with, because I saw it happen with a man in Houston that was doing this.  His wife was at the attorney’s office filing for divorce and he was very angry and I said, you’re cursing your wife and the said, “I don’t cuss.”  I said, “I’m not saying cussing, a four letter word I’m saying cursing, you’re putting things lower than what God intended.”  And he said, “I don’t know what you mean.”  So I gave him some CDs, he listened to it and he began to practice this principal because the Bible, which talks about the prophetic speaking to Abraham he said, “Count those things that are not as though they are.”  So it’s not about being in denial it’s about seeing it through God’s perspective.  So he went home and while his wife was at the attorney’s office and he listened to a CD and so when she came home he was in the hallway, because I was back in Houston a couple of weeks after that and he motioned for this woman to come over and join him and I thought wow, you’re working real fast here got another woman.  And he said, “I want you to meet my wife, we’ve been married thirty some years and he said this is the woman I was talking to you about.”  When he listened to about blessing and he saw her and he was in the hallway, she came in the door and he said to her, “You are a gift from God, God has given us together in covenant and I bless your life and you’re mine.  Now you be a covenant partner with me and that you would find yourself delighted in me.”  And he started releasing these prophetic blessings over her life.  She said to me, “It was like the words were tangible I could see the words coming at me almost like it was a Hollywood production, and these words were moving in slow motion coming down the hallway and it just touched her in her heart, her chest area and she said, although we have been married thirty years, I really couldn’t say that I actually loved him.  The way that she described it she felt like liquid love coursing through her body, moving through her body and she saw him through the different eyes for the first time.”  And it had been a couple of weeks and he said, it is like we have been on a honey moon for the last couple of weeks.  And I thought how quickly God can turn a situation around when blessing is involved.

Sid:  Now you actually teach in an area that’s so few bible believers understand, you teach that if you curse then God will actually defend the person that you are cursing, explain that.

Kerry:  Well, in Galatians 3: and verse 13 where Paul is saying referring to Yeshua that He died on the cross for us to redeem us from the curse that lower positioning that seed of scorn and so what the Lord was showing me when I called that young man an idiot, that we talked about in the earlier show that I was placing him on a lower position since Yeshua died for them that were under the curse and if I’m cursing someone he literally, not that he’s angry at me for that cursing or in terms of that I’m losing my salvation, but I literally my life is on hold because is very just and Satan comes before God daily accusing us and his name is the accuser or the curser of the brethren.  So what I’m cursing I am in agreement with the devil’s dark side and so Jesus came to defend those who are being curse and those that are cursing.  Now Proverbs says “A curse cannot come without a cause.”  So if I’m cursing another individual though Yeshua loves me yet I’m not released in the full benefit of blessing because I am cursing.  I am in agreement with the curser with Satan himself and with the kingdom of darkness.  So when people begin to release one another from cursing we always say to reverse the curse you must advance the blessing, we’ve seen people break generational curses, financial curses, physical curses off their life by declaring what the word of God says about who they are and about what God’s favor and intent for their life is.

Sid:  How does this play out at home?  You’ve now raised your children with this understanding; give me an example of one of your children.

Kerry:  Well, one of my sons has just now beginning to catch on, he’s an adult son and he’s thirty-three years old and he began a business in the Dallas area, a very competitive as a general contractor.  He was just starting out did not know that much about construction so I was talking to him about the power of blessing, so I said, “Kevin when you make these bids or these contractors you lay hands and you bless these people, bless them because they’re not resistant to you, but God will as you bless them then they can become a blessing to you.  So he was doing that and one of his first deals came online and he told me said, “Dad I netted $80,000 on this deal and I never touched the job site, I never even went there we just subcontracted back out and my portion was $80,000.  Well he caught hold of that and now he blesses people, where before I think that there was resistance a defensiveness there like you know I’ve got to convince you you know.

Sid:  You had one son that was very cold to things of the Lord, what happened to him?

Kerry:   Well, we began to speak over his life that you’re a child of promise and that the love of God is in you and so he was a little cold and indifferent towards the things of God though he was raised in church with us and when he began to see the blessing of the Lord on our life that was part of the drawing, talking about God using the Gentiles to provoke the Jews to jealousy that he began to see the blessing and the favor on our life and he began to ask questions about it and so that drew him into that and so he became a blesser before that he was very negative you know that everybody was out to do something or against him or resistant to it in defensiveness, now it’s like he looks for the blessing of God’s favor in the middle of the situation instead of looking and seeing what’s wrong.

Sid:  Now you hear over and over again of testimonies like these I mean amazing of healing and of marriages being restored, of families being restored and people finding their destiny just because people have listened to your teaching CDs.  That’s got to make you very very pleased  but you know what I believe that the more that they listen to this teaching the move they’ll become a blesser rather than a curser and the more that that happens the more they’ll walk in love, and the more they’ll walk in love the more they’ll walk in God.