Sid Roth welcomes Kerry Kirkwood

SID ROTH: Hello, Sid Roth here with Kerry Kirkwood. We’re talking about the ancient power of the Jewish blessing. Kerry, tell me about the man that got ahold of this teaching and what happened. He had a quadruple bypass, and that means his arteries were clogged up. And what happened when he started blessing himself?

KERRY: Well he began to hear about the blessing. And so he said, “I bless my arteries. According to Psalm 139, ‘I’m wonderfully made’ and these are the arteries that God gave me. Thank you, Lord, for these arteries.” And he did that over a period of time. Everyday he’d get up. “Lord, thank you for these arteries that they’re wonderfully made…” So he went back to the doctor to have his checkup. And the doctor showed him, he said, “This is very unusual.” He said, “What’s this?” And he said, “Look here. Here is the bypass that I put in, but you have grown a natural bypass. Your body had grown a natural bypass to go around the bypass that I put in.” He said, “It’s phenomenal.”

SID ROTH: I think that’s phenomenal. But even more phenomenal is the understanding from Scripture when happens when you curse someone rather than bless them.

KERRY: Exactly. When you curse you’re declaring something in the dark side. And then we put ourselves in opposition with what God is really saying.

SID: You were talking about Galatians 3:13. Explain that.

KERRY: Yes. Well Galatians 3, when he talks about that Jesus died on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law; and that curse means that a lower position than he what he really intended for us to be. So if I’m cursing you, then that means that, because Jesus died for you, he will defend those who are under the curse. And so that means that I’m put on pause because I can’t go any farther because of the cursing that I’ve done. And many families have seen prayers unanswered; and it’s like they pushed the pause button to their life; and they don’t see anything good happening because they have a mouth full of cursing; and their opposition to the very thing that Jesus came and died to do.

SID: Tell me about the woman that did not like her boss for beans.

KERRY: Yes. She was sitting in a school where I was teaching this. And she said, “I need to bless my boss, but I really should blast him,” is what she said. And I said, well the principle is true, that when you bless those who despitefully use you, then things can be reversed. So I just challenged her to try it. It’s not how you feel. It’s what the Word of God says. So that was on a Wednesday. Thursday, she went in. She was the office manager. And she went around and she started blessing the place, actually the sanctuary there of where they worked in the business. And so she went to where her boss would be setting and blessed the place, and this is a place of peace and so on. Well she did that again on Friday, and she blessed everyone around her that she was connected with, coworkers and so on. She noticed that the environment began to change somewhat. And so on Friday afternoon, her boss called her in to the office and said, “Sit down.” And she thought, “I’m going to be fired because we haven’t been getting along.” And he said, “I know that we have been confrontive with one another, and I need to apologize to you. I withheld raises from you just simply because I’ve been upset with you.”

SID: Now I believe that Kerry is speaking to you right now. Did you hear what the boss said? I withheld raises from you. What happened after he repented?

KERRY: Well he said to her, “From this day on, retroactive…”

SID: Retroactive?

KERRY: Three months earlier. “You should have had this raise three months earlier.” He gave her the raise retroactive three months. So where she was withheld and her life was on pause; when she started blessing it released what was God’s intention for her to have; which was this raise.

SID: Now briefly, tell me about someone’s marriage that was restored.

KERRY: Yes. It’s an incredible story. I was in Houston and a man came up to me, and he was very angry and upset. He said, “My wife is at the courthouse filing for divorce right now.” And he says, “This blessing, does it work – for anything?” And I said, “Yes it does. I can tell you stories where it does.” And he said, “I’ve been married 32 years, never been in love in my life at all. I’ve been in Iraq, away as a contractor; and I don’t know why I married her in the first place.” And I said, “Sir, you have the wife that you cursed because you created this environment in your home. Or you have the wife you bless. The power of life and death is in the tongue. You choose which one you want.” And so he listened to a CD that afternoon. And when his wife came home from the courthouse, he was standing at one end of the hall and she came in the front door. And when he saw her, he practiced it. He said to her, “You are a gift from God; and the Lord has put us together as a helpmate, and I love you.” And she said that the words became tangible. And as he was speaking to her coming down the hallway, they were tangible; like they were rolling. And she said, “It smote me in the chest. For the first time, I felt liquid love running through me; and I began to see this man in a different way than I’ve ever seen him before in my life.” And when I was back there in a month or so later, he came up to me and said, “Hey, you remember me?” And I said, “Yeah.” I thought this is that angry man. He said, “I want you to meet my wife.” And her countenance was aglow. It all changed by changing the way he spoke, changed his marriage and the covenant he had.

ITS SUPERNATURAL: That quickly while she was in the courthouse! That is phenomenal. And by the way, we’ve checked these things out. We’ve actually interviewed people that were eyewitnesses of many of these things that we’re talking about. Kerry, I love it when you perform a Bar Mitzvah. Explain why you do that and give me one example, quickly.

KERRY: Well there’s an old saying we have, I grew up with anyway, and that is, “You’re never a man until your father says you are.” It’s a right of passage. Of course, in the Jewish culture, they have their rights of passage, the Bar Mitzvah; Bat Mitzvah for the ladies. And so I’ve been in meetings to where, that were ministry, those who have been preaching for a number of years; their ministries have been good, but they felt like there was something lacking there. And so we would do a Bar Mitzvah. One dramatic example I know was a pastor. And he was thinking, as we were ministering to the other leaders there in the room; he thought to himself, “This isn’t necessary. This is just a so outward thing.” And he didn’t think anything about it. We came to him. His name is Bruce. We laid hands on him and said, “This is my son in whom I’m well pleased.” Same words that were spoken at Jesus’ baptism. And we blessed him, began to speak over him that he was a son; created in the imagination and the thought of God. Something happened to him so strongly. He fell out of his chair; he rolled up in a fetal position and began to weep. He told us later, he said, “My father, my natural father, never said anything good about me at all. And when you said that, I felt like I had been accepted.” And since that time, his ministry has taken off. It’s taken on a whole other dimension; simply because of him being blessed.

SID ROTH: In the next two minutes, I want you to bless those that are watching us. Would you do that right now?

KERRY: May the Lord release you to fulfill the very purpose of God; that He’s called you to and ordained you. May you fulfill all the desires that God has for you, and may you sense the longing and the hunger of God for your own life. And may you not be intimidated or threatened by anything. You’ll not be the tail, but you shall rise up, and see your life come into its full destiny, in the name of the Lord.

SID: And God is telling you about certain people right now. Very quickly.

KERRY: Yes. There’s a lady that’s in Atlanta, Georgia. Your name is Barbara. And Barbara, you feel like your life has been, the best spent as the year’s over. And the Lord is saying to you right now, that your best years are still ahead. In fact, the very things that you feel like were mistakes in your life, and you can’t get over them; and that has brought you into a level of cursing; to where you hear things spewing out of your own mouth, that’s very negative and very opinionated. The Lord is giving you a taste of who He is. And it’s going to be like, “O taste and see the goodness of the Lord.” And He’s changing your life right now. That out of your heart, you’re going to be seeing the goodness of the Lord in the land of your living; and things are going to change for you. Let Him change your heart and change your tongue.

SID: If you want to experience the pleasure of God, make Jesus your Lord. With your mouth, ask him to live inside of you. Ask for the forgiveness of your sins because of his shed blood, and begin to use your tongue to bless. As you do that, for the first time in your life, I tell you; I tell you! You are going to experience such a pleasure. You’re going to be like that runner that says, “I was born to run.”