Sid Roth welcomes Kerry Kirkwood

Sid:  You know my guest, Kerry Kirkwood has been called by God to explain the power of blessing and so few of God’s children understand this and they literally have put their lives, their ministry, their futures on instant pause and once they catch this it’s going to just totally transform and change their lives.  For instance Kerry Kirkwood, tell me about the angry Pastor Thomas.

Kerry:   Yes, I met him one time he actually was coming to my church, he came to my church to meet me.  One day, I was heading into the sanctuary to pray as a custom of mine and I saw this man walking across the parking lot, he was in a pair of overalls and he came to sell me some land that was adjacent to my congregation and the Holy Spirit prompted me in saying after he had mentioned the land, “Saying don’t buy the land and I have another plan,” and that’s all I knew.  He began to talk to me that he was a pastor and had been to Bible school and that he was a millionaire that he had a business oil field business and so in the course of this I said, no I would love the land, but I’m not going to buy it, I’m not going to get into debt.  So we discussed some details and so forth, he came to point and he was talking about his daughter was estranged from him, he was very angry, all she wanted was my money and she never did talk until she wanted anything, and talked about his business partner who had raised as a young guy in the business and now he was stabbing him in the back and trying to take the business out from under him and even some infidelity in the family and so on.  And had another person or business owed him millions of dollars for work down and he was cursing them and saying all kinds of things about them.  So I said to him, “Sir, you are a curser.”  And he again thought I was saying cussing, I said no, you’re a curser.  The Bible says that Satan is the accuser or curser of mankind.

Sid:  But, wait a second although he was a accuser he was just reporting what was going on. 

Kerry:  Exactly, and that’s what happens is that we tend to report the conditions around our lives instead of declaring the truth and there is a difference between truth and fact.  When God sent the twelve spies in into Canaan the ten came back and they reported factually, it is just like you said, the houses we don’t have to build and vineyards we don’t have to plant, wells we don’t have to dig just like God had said.  But when people say but it means disconnect or disannul everything I just said, but the sons of Enoch were there and when we looked at them and the conditions then we became like grasshoppers in our own eyes.  But there was two that came back and declared the truth and that was Joshua and Caleb.  And they said “Yeah, here’s the facts, but God says this is our land we’re well able to go.  And so in John 8:32 says “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”  It didn’t say that you’ll know the facts and so as an old saying says “The devil in into details, the devil wants us to get caught up into the details, conditions and situations.”  And maybe the doctor has said to someone, “You’ve got six months to live,” that maybe a fact based upon science, but the truth is where the Bible says, that “I’ve sent my word and healed you.”  So blessing is declaring the truth and not just the conditions or the situations that’s around our life.  So there’s a difference between truth and fact.  So with Thomas he was just telling me the facts and the more he would tell me the facts, the more angry he would become.  So to change the conditions you have to operate in truth, because the Bible declares that Yeshua is the way, the Truth.”  Truth is not just information, truth is a person, truth is part of the Trinity of the Godhead and so when we speak truth in love, which I believe is declaring blessing from God’s perspective it changes the conditions and the situations that the facts may speak to.

Sid:  So what happened in his life?

Kerry:  Well, when Thomas after he shared all this to me with me I said, “Here’s some CDs go listen to them,”  because I couldn’t convince him otherwise and he told me he had been to Bible school and never heard anything like this in Bible school.  So the next day he was on his way out to the places of the oilfield where he was working and he put some CDs in his truck on his way out there and he listened to them, and he said, “Well, I’ll try it anyway.”  So he started out with his daughter in saying “I speak over my daughter that she’s a gift from God and that children should be taught of the Lord and great shall peace shall be upon them” and quoting out of Isaiah 54 and he does this for a little bit and he realizes that his heart in the processes is softened towards her because actually blessing not only changes the conditions and situations in other people, but it also changes our heart towards that situation.  So he came in that evening twenty-four hours had passed, well in the mean time his daughter who is living in another city had a dream that night and she really didn’t have a background in charismatic worship and so in this dream she was standing before a congregation with her hands lifted and she was leading the singing as she would say.  And in the middle of this she hears a voice say to her call your Daddy and tell him you’re sorry and go home.  So she calls him and tells him and repents to him.  Well, he calls me the next day, I was on the road out ministering and he said, “Preacher, you won’t believe this but that thing you told me about blessing it really works!”  And I said, “Yes Tom, it really does, because it works not because it’s a New Age thinking or some kind of mind over matter thing or to telepathic thing it works because it’s the way God created the universe, he spoke blessing, he speaks life over things.

Sid:  Let me, give you a for instance, let’s take this Pastor Thomas and I’m going to make something up because I don’t know it in his case the same thing might have happened with his parents and he acted the same way towards his parents and then their children before that, and that’s called a generational curse, how does blessing crowd out that generational curse?

Kerry:  Well, one makes the decision to choose life and that’s what blessing is, is deciding that my tongue is going to be used as an instrument of life then it begins to break those cycles those repetitive cycles we called it the Medinite principle; where they come in the same season every year to steal the crops from Israel and they’ll cycle those events until like Gideon in case begin to break that cycle.  And so you do it by sowing seeds of blessing because we know that we can sow seeds of discourse, we can sow seeds of fear and all of that.  So the way that you come against doing evil is that the Bible says you overcome evil with good.  So blessing is the goodness of God declaring what He sees it, not how we view it.  So it changes and you can break the cycle’s generationally off the families, we have seen it in my own family that most of my family operated with a real poverty spirit.  And I would begin to be the first fruits in my family to breakthrough financially and now I see it with my other siblings as well. 

Sid:  What about someone, five me a testimony of someone that is about ready to be fired and how things turned around on their job.

Kerry:  Well, I was sharing this at a Bible school once and a lady was there and she gave we had some copies of CDs and so she gave these CDs to a friend, she had this friend was an office manager of a business and the friend was very angry at the boss, he was withholding raises from her and she began to get pulled into the gossip there with coworkers and they began to basically curse the boss and call him all kinds of names and really was staging like it was an in house cue.  Well, a friend told her about you need to bless, she said no he doesn’t need to be blessed, you know he doesn’t deserve it.  So she began to tell her about it and gave her the CDs and this was like in the middle of the week, maybe on a Wednesday I think it was so Thursday she went in and so early, she was the office manager, she went around and she began to bless the environment.  This is the sanctuary of the Lord God, this is the peace of God, I release my peace and everyone that comes in those doors may they experience the peace of God that rules and captures our heart.  And she went into the bosses office and laid hands on the chair and the desk and said this man is given to us by God as an authority and we bless the authority and that he is a source of blessing to my family and a financial blessing and so though she started out she really couldn’t say that she believed it in her heart.  She was a little bit ambivalent about it, maybe double minded but non-the-less she was convinced that the Word of God said it anyway.  So the next day she did it again Friday morning she did the same thing, went through and blessing and noticing that the Lord was giving her a vocabulary now that it was like a prophetic statements and declaration.  Because the Bible says let it be done on earth as it is in Heaven so she felt divinely connected with something that was Heavenly.  So by Friday afternoon he called her, the boss called her in to the office and in her mind she’s thinking well, he’s going to fire me because we’ve been very logger heads as we say, adversity at one another.  He told her to sit down and he said “I need to apologize to you because I know that you and I haven’t been getting along and I haven’t been giving you raises like you should; I’ve been angry at you quite frankly and so, but any way today I felt like I wanted to change that and I’m asking you to forgive me and I’m going to reinstate the raises that you should have had a month ago and make it retroactive.  She was so surprised that she couldn’t wait to tell her friend and her friend passed the word on to me.

Sid:  You know, what if she had continued complaining, what happens in the invisible world?

Kerry:    Well, complaining operates as prophetic as well, because the dark side, even the demonic realm has a prophetic realm, you declare those things that are self fulfilling.  Job said that which I feared came on me.  So what they’re propagating is the resistance to the will of God so they are going to see those things happen to them.  She may have gotten fired.

Sid:  You know when I read your book and when I listen to your tapes we literally have to crowd out this negative thinking, gossip, and complaining about what we see with our eyes and start changing our world and our families and our finances and our marriages and our destiny.