Sid Roth welcomes Leif Hetland

Sid: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I want to welcome you here because we have something to impart to you that will change your life. Some of you have lost your vision. Some of you don’t even know what it’s like to dream with God. You see, God wants to dream with you. God wants you to have a vision for your future, a hope for your future. God wants you to have a vision for your marriage. I know what it looks like right now. But that’s not God’s best. That’s not God’s heart. God wants you to have inventions so that you’ll be the head and not the tail. And that’s not just good proclaiming. That is truth. I pray that you would hear what my guest Leif Hetland has to say. Leif, it was in the year 2000 that you had an encounter with God and he explained about the orphan spirit. Explain that to me.

Leif: Well in year 2000, I had this baptism of love experience where actually the orphan spirit in my life was actually totally transformed into a spirit of sonship. God became my papa. He became my daddy.

Sid: That orphan can’t live in the love of God, can it?

Leif: No He can’t. He can’t live in the home with Father God. So that’s the amazing thing is when you are living your life having a home and that’s also where there is creativity, there is where everything is happening, is living a life where you’re a hundred percent secure. You are loved, you are valued and you have a purpose. And out of that purpose you start to get passion and you start to dream again. So that’s kind of a foundation to dream with God. And now I have the opportunity to live my dream.

Sid: You know, when you say that, I think of a teaching I heard of yours where you talked about that amazing true life story of Susan Boyle when she sang on national television. Tell me about that.

Leif: Well I just watched on YouTube many years, well actually several years ago, and Susan Boyle, I think she’s probably touched most of the American homes. Today you would travel all over American and she’s filling up coliseums of people hearing her. She was on an audition for something like American Idol over in England. And when she came there she probably looked like a good old country girl. She was in her middle-40s, maybe don’t look the best. So everybody literally was judging her. Even the judge, Simon, he kind of rolled his eyes. They made mockery out of her, and they thought, what do you want to do? Why are you here?

Sid: You know, I was watching that and I thought that was awful. I felt my heart went out to her.

Leif: It did for me. But I think also because we all can identify with Susan Boyle with all these odds against us, and that’s what she had. But she said it: “I have a dream.” And she even mentioned that what her dream was, she wanted to be actually a worldwide singer and everybody smiled, laughed when you looked around the audience. And then when she started it was just in a matter of a few seconds we could sense the whole environment changing. And to see each one of the judges, the whole transformation and the audience, by the time she was half into it, they started to weep and they started to applaud. There’s somebody that had found her dream, despite all the judgmental attitudes, and when she was finished, there was a standing ovation. They had never heard anything like it.

Sid: You know, when I was listening to that, something in me just leapt. This underdog that had no chance of fulfilling her dream. Can you relate to that? No chance. None. I mean, how could she become a top singer? And when she sang all mockery turned to raves. That’s what they were doing. They were raving about her.

Leif: Yeah, oh yeah.

Sid: I had almost goose bumps when that happened.

Leif: We started crying. I just felt I wanted to tape this Susan Boyle and wanted to start watching it. And I watched it again and again. Then I started to show it other people. I took a group of a thousand people in Houston and showed it, and the whole atmosphere just changed. And I recognized that the dreams that was in people’s lives, it started to stir up something. And then I heard God says, “Leif, I want you to be dream-releaser because within each one of these people there is a Susan Boyle. There is something. There is that song that never was sang. There is that book that never was written, that business that never was started.” And that started my journey towards I wanted to release people into their dream, because I am living my dream today.

Sid: But when you were nine years old, you had a dream from God. What did God say to you?

Leif: Well I was sitting under a tree in Sandnes, Norway as a little boy. I was actually very shy at that time and many times, I put my finger in my mouth and sucked my tongue, even at that age. But as I was sitting there, there was a wind that came into that tree. There was also a house. And there was all this tingling. I didn’t know what was going on or what had happened. All I knew there was a voice that spoke inside my heart. Well I knew I was called to go to the nations of the world.

Sid: But when you were a Baptist pastor and it looked like you burned out, you’re having problems in the home front. It looked like your dream was dead. Some of you, it looks like your dream and your vision is dead. Well God has given Leif the ability to resurrect that dream or vision, the anointing. And some of you have never even dreamt with God. This is your time to dream with God. This is your moment. Don’t go away. We’ll be back right after this word.