Our Guest Daniel Kolenda

Hello, Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world, where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest says constant attempts of witchdoctors trying to kill him, prepared him for slaying dragons. Dragons? Next.

Sid Roth has spent over 40 years researching the strange world of the supernatural. Join Sid for this edition of It’s Supernatural!

SID: When I take a look at the life of a great man of God, that’s recently went to heaven, Reinhard Bonnke, and I had no idea, but his ministry had 80 million documented decisions for Jesus. I mean, that rolls off my mouth, but that’s a lot of people Daniel.

DANIEL: Yeah. It’s over a million people for every year of his life on average.

SID: Now at 28, you’d been working for a while for Reinhard. At 28, Reinhard calls you and your wife into a meeting. Before you tell us what he said, did you have any idea he was going to say that at that meeting?

DANIEL: No. My job was a behind the scenes job. I was carrying his Bible and all these things. And then he looked at me one day and he said, “You’re called to evangelism, aren’t you?” I’d never shared this with him because I never wanted him to feel that I had any ulterior motive for serving him. And I didn’t. My ministry was him, but I said, “Yes. When I was, when I was a boy, even seven years old, I felt called into the nations to preach the gospel.” And he said, “Well then, you need to go do that.” And he fired me. And he sent me away. And then a couple of years later, he invited me to begin ministering with him here and there. But up until the moment he said, the words that you’re talking about, I never dreamt that he would say it.

SID: What did he say to you and your wife?

DANIEL: He said to me, “Daniel, the Lord spoke to me, and this is what he said, ‘The anointed must be appointed.'” And he said, “I believe God has anointed you to carry this ministry on and I want you to do it.” And I think I sat there with my mouth open for what seems probably like five minutes, not knowing what to say. Because as you said, I was 28 years old and still wet behind the ears. And the idea that I could lead one of the greatest evangelistic ministries in the world in history was absolutely daunting for me.

But Sid, somebody said something to me back then, it was a reporter from South Africa. She stood up in a press conference and she said to me, very, in a hostile tone, she said, “Young man, how do you expect to fill the shoes of a man like Reinhard Bonnke?” And I think she called out the elephant in the room, everybody was thinking this. And for a second I felt intimidated. And then the Holy Spirit touched me. And I said to her, I said, “Lady, actually, I don’t intend to fill the shoes of Reinhard Bonnke. I’ve been given shoes by the Holy Spirit. And my confidence is that as long as I stay in my shoes, the grace and the anointing will be there.” And that’s been the story ever since.

SID: Now, you’ve written a brand new book. It’s called Slaying Dragons. For starters, what’s a dragon?

DANIEL: Well, the metaphor of a dragon is used in scripture very often. In fact, Satan himself is described as that old serpent, the great dragon, in Revelation. So that’s the end of the book. And then at the beginning of the Bible, the very first story is about a serpent that’s tempting. So it’s the serpentine monsters that the Bible uses as a metaphor for these demonic forces and these demonic powers that we wrestle with. And the Bible says, something that Christians often lose sight of, it says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. Powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. In other words, what the Bible is telling us is that the real battle, even though we often are struggling and grappling with things before us, tangible things, visible things, what the Bible makes it very clear is that these are not our challenge. The real struggle is the one in the spiritual realm, the war that we can’t see with our eyes. But what happens in that battle determines the outcome on the earth. So it’s very important that Christians understand.