Our Guest Mike Shreve

SID: Hello. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. I love the rarified air of Heaven. I can tell you this. I am concerned. There is a diabolical supernatural strategy to stop our children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren from knowing God. It has never been so ferocious as it is out there. Godly children raised in Godly families are being snatched away through the education system. Well my guest is a prophet and through his own family, He showed him a greater supernatural strategy, and he says if this strategy is followed, because it’s supernatural of God, you will not lose your children, you will not lose your grandchildren. You will not lose your great-grandchildren. My guest, Mike Shreve a nice, nice Yoga instructor, I mean, he has 400 students. He’s teaching Yoga in four different universities and there’s a nice article about him in the local newspaper. And a prayer group reads this article and they kept a [unintelligible] to pray him into intimacy with God. And they pray and pray. And one day he’s hitchhiking and guess who picks him up? Not only a member of the prayer group that’s been praying for him and fasting for him, but a former student of his. He has an amazing supernatural encounter with God. And as a result of this encounter, he goes back to these four Yoga groups at the university and he tells them of this amazing encounter. Now that’s the last thing they expected for you, Mike Shreve. But you tell them this and then you tell them they can experience the same power and the same God you experienced. And what happened?

MIKE: Well almost all of my students became Christians as well. And I was running a Yoga ashram at the time, which is a commune where people live and study on a more disciplined level, and all of my students in the community gave their hearts to the Lord. So it was really radical transformation. In one day everything just exploded with the power of God.

SID: So he gets so excited about God he forgets to get married. So he’s 39, he’s not married and he hears an audible voice. Tell me about that.

MIKE: Well I made a covenant with God when I was 20, that I would not date or entertain thoughts of marriage until it was time, and I threw myself into mission work and evangelism. But then when I was 39 years old God woke me up and He spoke to me audibly, and He told me who to marry, and He told me that we would have a son. And that became very important to know a little later on.

SID: Especially because he has this wonderful word from God. He knows who he’s supposed to marry. He marries the woman. He knows about the child that’s coming, and his wife is not able to have children. So what did you do?

MIKE: Well we went on the Word. God had spoken and so we disregarded the negative report. The Scriptures says, “Whose report shall you believe.” And we made the decision to make God’s report as the true one. And the enemy didn’t stop fighting there. Once the barrenness was conquered the next attack came with my son himself.

SID: And let me say this. What you’re hearing now is a prophetic story because what Mike learned with his son and his next child, he then took these supernatural principles and said, whatever God could do for him, God wants to do for you. So you battled through your son. What happened?

MIKE: Well he laid in the birth canal a very long period of time. In fact, my wife was in labor for 48 hours. And I’m sure any mother listening to this can relate to the painfulness of that. And then the umbilical cord was wrapped three times around his neck also. And they didn’t catch that quick enough, and they let him lay in the birth canal too long. And so after the birth was over the doctors came into the room with us and they said, “Now you need to brace yourself. He suffered oxygen deprivation and it’s inevitable he’ll have serious brain damage. He may never talk. He may never function normally as a human being.” But God had told me that I would have a son who was an attractive son, and that was His wording, which I thought was curious. But that didn’t mean that he would be severely brain damaged. And so we began to claim and confess, and speak and decree that my son was normal, and that my son was healed, and that he was delivered. And he just entered into Leigh University a few years ago and was placed in the highest honor society available on that campus.

SID: Listen. I mean, this kid should have been a vegetable, should have been brain damaged. But because Mike tapped into the supernatural words of the living God and knew how to believe, different story, he not only is in the honors program, you told me he had a photographic memory.

MIKE: He’s amazing .He doesn’t even have to hardly read a book. If he just scans it, he remembers it.

SID: I mean, this is normal. This is normal. We’re supposed to be the head and not the tail.

MIKE: That’s right.

SID: And it’s about time we start being normal. Okay. You had a miracle with your son. Now comes to your daughter. What happens to her?

MIKE: Well we were in a meeting with the doctor around the fourth or fifth month of my wife’s pregnancy, and he came in with a very glum look and very, serious somber look on his face. And he pointed to a screen where he showed us the ultrasound, and there was a very dark spot right near the base of the spine. And he proceeded to explain that my daughter had spina bifida, and because of certain chemical things going on in my wife’s body, he said she’ll have cretinism as well, which is a severe form of retardation. And then he leaned over his desk and he looked at us very intensely and said, “There is an alternative.” And we knew what he meant. He meant abortion. And so we took him at his word. We took an alternative. We never went back to him again.

SID: I like that alternative. Don’t you? I do.

MIKE: I didn’t want to be around that kind of spirit. But as we left his office, Sid, my wife was of course torn to pieces emotionally over this. But as we walked out of the door, the Holy Spirit fell on her and she was thrown into this visionary kind of experience where she sensed a little child dancing, and she heard the audible voice of God say, “Your daughter will dance on the streets of Jerusalem.” Hallelujah. He had just told she would never walk with this hole in her spine. But God said she’ll dance. And she still a little flustered. And so we got in the car, and she reached over and turned the radio on, and the first song that came on was that country Christian song, “I Hope You Dance”.

SID: That’s called confirmation.

MIKE: That was definitely a confirmation from God. And so from that point forward, we just began to claim the promises of God. And one of my wife’s favorite promises to claim is Psalm 138, Verse 8, that says, “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me.” And she would lay hands on her belly and say, “Little baby, little girl, you concern me and God’s Word therefore says you are perfect, and I proclaim you are perfect.” And then when we would confess Psalm 139 over her, Verses 13 and 14 says, “For you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works and that my soul knows right well.” And then the psalmist went on to say God had created those inward parts “when as yet there were none of them”. And so we began to claim that the spine was wonderfully made and that God was working a marvelous work, and that she be whole.

SID: You know what I’ve noticed? Is that you can pray for something. But when you have the written word of the Living God, how much stronger is your faith.

MIKE: Absolutely.

SID: And there’s a power. There’s a certain power on the Word of God that isn’t on your normal words.

MIKE: Well Jesus was the Word made flesh, and he was the embodiment of the Word, and of course he was the perfect man. And when he faced off with the devil his strength was to say, “It is written.” And if the one who was perfect who was the Word manifested in the human body resorted to the written Word when he faced a battle in life, how much more should we imperfect human beings do the same thing.

SID: Okay. Talking about a wonderfully and fearfully made God will perfect, what did the doctor say when your daughter was born?

MIKE: Now he didn’t know what my wife had been praying. And when that child came forth from the womb, who by the way months ahead of time we named Destiny Hope because the doctor offered no hope and no destiny, and we counteracted that with a prophetic name. And when she came out of the womb, the first words the doctor said was, “She’s perfect.”

SID: Now I like that kind of [unintelligible]. Thank you God. Thank you God.

MIKE: And she was.

SID: Okay. But what about the dancing.

MIKE: Well at an early age from the time she was about three years old onward her favorite thing to do was to stand in front of the television and watch these videos where there would be a dozen little kids dancing alone with Christian music, and she would dance along with them. By the time she was five or six she was in a dance troupe with young people twice her age, and she could dance just as good as they could. And she’s very gifted, very gifted in that area.

SID: I love the prophetic Word. I love the prophetic Word that we have in writing, the Word of God. Tell me briefly about your son when he went to Heaven.

MIKE: Oh well that’s really based on one of the 65 promises that God has given our children. One of them found in Isaiah’s writings, Isaiah 54 says that, “All your children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace of your children.” There’s only a certain degree that our teaching can take our children to. We can transfer ideas from their mind, but that Divine revelation has to come to God. And God did that for my son when, I guess he was four or five, one morning he came down from his bedroom with this brightness all over him, and he said, “Mommy, Daddy, I died in my sleep last night and Jesus took me to Heaven.” Now I don’t think he actually died. He interpreted the experience that way. “And he took me around Heaven and talked to me, and told me different things about my life.” And we said, “Well what did he tell you?” Well one thing, he said Jesus told him not to watch bad television, and that Jesus told him to always have compassion on all people. And then he looked at his real quizzically and he said, “What does that word mean, compassion?” So that verified to us it wasn’t just an imaginary thing with him. And we told him, of course that means love that feels the suffering and the pain of someone else. But I believe that was a landmark experience in his life.

SID: You know, another promise that you used for your daughter for at least a month when she was, you told me how old, about being filled with the Holy Spirit.

MIKE: Oh yes.

SID: Tell me about that.

MIKE: In Isaiah 44, Verses 3 and 4, God said, “I will pour water on him who is thirsty.” That’s our responsibility to be thirsty for God, thirsty for the things of God. And God said, “I will pour the floods on the dry ground. I will pour my spirit on your seed and my blessing on your offspring.” And my daughter was about five years old and she had not been filled with the Holy Spirit yet. So I started claiming that promise after I found it. Everyday I would confess, now God, you said in your Word, “I will pour out my spirit on your seed, on your descendants.” I was in a revival meeting in Carbon Hill, Alabama, and she was there with a group of young people, and I preached on the infilling of the Holy Spirit. She came forward, fell out of the power, spoke in tongues about 45 minutes. She crawled up in my arms just trembling and weeping, and said, “Oh Daddy, Jesus filled me. Jesus filled me.” Now did that happen because I claimed the promise? I believe that had a significant impact. I believe that made the difference.

SID: But you know what I see when you go through potential tragedy, potential blessing? You’re not pleading, oh God, please. There is a conviction that you have in the Word of God.

MIKE: That’s why it’s so essential for parents to learn this revelation, and grandparents, because you never stop praying for your children. It’s because most parents pray in desperation, like you said, especially when a son or a daughter goes out into darkness. They’ll plead, they’ll beg, they’ll weep, they’ll cry, “Oh God, please move from my daughter,” which certainly does not go unheard in Heaven. But how much powerful it is when you find out what God has already made a commitment to do. Like Deuteronomy 7:9 says, “He is the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love Him to a thousand generations.”

SID: I like that, expect I think Jesus coming back way before a thousand generations. But I’m going to tell you something. Mike operates in the gift of prophet and he has heard some very personal words about President Obama. Don’t go away.