Our Guest Steven Brooks
Sid: My guest Steven Brooks, we’re talking about his brand new book literally just off the press, “God’s Nuclear Power”, his two CDs which I am so excited about both areas are so mandatory with the times were living in now, I mean you don’t have to be a mental giant to know that Jesus is coming back quickly, and He wants to do a quick work in your life. And these two tools will make such a difference. Steven in your life and on yesterday’s broadcast we were talking about fasting, and I said, “You started out the first fast that you ever went on was forty days,” and you totally intimated including your truly but then you say, But then you say I don’t recommend that I recommend that only if God tells you. I recommend a three day fast, but you still totally intimated a lot of our listeners right now and so I said, “Would it benefit one meal, for someone that’s never fasted before, let’s start; start real little.” And then we got and then you said, “Absolutely, God is going to be aware of it and it’s going to open something in the invisible world that hasn’t been opened.”
Steven: Yes, I would encourage anybody who’s wanting to experiment with fasting, step into this area of fasting to start step by step and also prepare yourself; if you’re going to fast for one day then get your mind ready. Prepare yourself so that when you go through it, when you enter into it you’re not wanting to back out, you commit yourself to it. You might even want to sign a little piece of paper and say I, and put your name in there, and say, “I dedicate to do a twenty-four hour fast for the purpose of praying for my son or for the purpose of praying for my pastor or praying for this particular ministry.” And kind of lock yourself into that, and then prepare yourself also, also prepare yourself mentally.
Sid: By the way, do you have a purpose when you fast as opposed to just to fast?
Steven: Ninety percent of the time I will have a purpose that way I don’t wander or float around, I stay locked in and I find it more motivating when I have something that I can set my goal to and put my prayer focus on. Now there are the exceptions when I’ll fast and pray just to seek the Lord, just to draw near to the Lord. But the other times I’m usually going after something seeking God in prayer for a specific cause and I’ll have predetermined that before I even start the fast.
Sid: Okay, what about you’re working a job maybe an office job, but you need your energy and you’re concerned that if you fast you’re not going to do a good job, or worse than that, you’re not doing an office job but you’re doing physical labor, how do you cope with that?
Steven: I’ve had experiences with that Sid, you know the Bible tells us you know the Apostle Paul said, “Whatever you do, do it as unto the Lord with all of your might, with all of your strength.” And I believe that our work, our careers we should pour our hearts into them and one of the worst witnesses would be to tell your boss I can’t work very good today because I’m fasting, I have no energy and that’s just not going to fly, that’s a contradictory to scripture. So we want to prepare our bodies so that we can still work as at a high ability. Now one time, when I used to work for a sprinkler irrigation company we were laying sprinkler lines, and this was when I was still beginning in the early stages to learn about fasting, and to learn about the response of God through fasting. And so I determined to drink juice and not eat any food and so I started drinking orange juice and apple juice while I was laying these irrigation lines, and this was when I use to live in Texas and the temperatures begin to rise 100 degrees, 110 degrees, and finally it stayed and held at 117 degrees and stayed there all week long. And so the other guys were working with me in this 117 degree heat and I’m fasting, I’m not eating any food and a couple of the guys said, “You know Brother Steven we’re concerned about you, we’re concerned you might just die or something like that.” I said, “No, I’ll be okay, I said, “Just watch and see.” And after about the second, and the third and fourth day during this extreme heat they began to really slack in their work because of the tremendous heat, but I just kept drinking juice and kept praying in the Spirit while I was working and I just had a grace of the Lord upon me and I worked like a machine, I felt like Samson. And I’m shoveling dirt, laying sprinkler line, doing that for eight to ten hours a day at 117 degree heat, and did five days of that with no food and on the fifth day, I broke my fast with a small salad and when I did something happened to my spiritual sight and I begin to see in the Spirit realm since that time where I have been able to discern angels, I have been able to see the glory, I can see waves of glory flowing in meetings when the Holy Spirit is moving. And that was one the initial rewards that God began to bless me with.
Sid: What is a wave of glory look like? I’m having difficulty imagining this, like a wave in an ocean?
Steven: Well, sometimes when I’m in a meeting ministering, the Holy Spirit will begin to open my Spiritual eyes, my natural eyes are already open, I can see with my natural eyes, but my spiritual eyes begin to open and I can see a certain area of people that the Holy Spirit will be touching. And I can just release the glory of the Lord into that area and I’ll see it go out and it will come from the stage and it’ll begin to go over people and it looks like waves of the sea and it’ll hit the people. And you can see the glory and you see the people shout, some people fall, and some people begin to praise the Lord, different types of responses as it flows. The anointing flows just like electricity or like water, and sometimes it looks like water, it looks like waves.
Sid: Well, because of your prayer and fasting some very unusual and amazing things happen in your life, for instance you went, you were our guest teacher on our trip to Israel.
Steven: Yes.
Sid: Our most recent trip and I got reports that people just walked close to you and something happened, tell me one.
Steven: Well, this is one of the reasons I also begin to seek the Lord more and push back the plate more because I said, “Lord, if Peter can walk in this anointing where this shadow of Peter,” and it really wasn’t Peter’s shadow it was just a measure of the proximity of the anointing coming off of him. If people can get within the approximately of the shadow and get healed, I said, “Lord, he’s a man, if that can happen to Peter, we have the potential to walk in that same level of anointing.” And I began to seek the Lord for that and that’s something that He promised me that would begin to take place in my ministry and we’ve been seeing that. And like when we were in Israel the lady’s she said, “Brother Steven there was so many people around you I couldn’t get to you so I just inched my way closer and closer, and you were so busy ministering to others that I just stood there and suddenly this wave of glory came out and hit me, it came out from you, it was the Lord’s anointing coming off of you and all the pain in my body completely left me and I was completely healed. And she said, “Thank you for being obedient unto the Lord, and I said, “Well, I didn’t even do anything, I was just standing there, it was the Lord who did that.”
Sid: But you used a Biblical reference, people could get under Peter’s shadow and be physically healed. Are we coming into those days?
Steven: Yes, the church is coming to that, not just ministers only but the church of the Lord is coming into that word…
Sid: We need that because the devil isn’t just rolling over and playing dead so we need that type of nuclear power.
Steven: Yes we do, Peter in a sense if we can say this, he was radioactive, something…
Sid: What do you mean radioactive?
Steven: Something was coming off of him, just like the Arc of the Covenant, the Philistines found that out when they captured the Arc. They realized that they had gotten something that was beyond any kind of power that they had ever known before and it terrified them; they realized that we need to get rid of this thing. But we have the ability because we are Believers and we are the family of God we actually have the ability to handle and contain this awesome anointing, this power that the closest reference I can give to it is nuclear power. But that’s what God’s power is like and He’s releasing it and He’s putting it upon His people, and it’s going to begin to flow out of His people just it did for Peter and if you get in areas where that anointing is at you’ll get your healing. The anointing is going to spread beyond even a shadow. There will be churches and groups of Believers that will come together and the shadow will go out and cover a whole block.
Sid: I can picture a group of Christians getting together and that nuclear power spreading, radiating if you will for ten twelve miles, bars closing down, people are going to their computer to do pornography just being frozen, I mean that’s coming.
Steven: Absolutely, that happens the anointing goes out, the glory, the scales become to come off the people and they say “What in the world am I doing” or they think “I have no pleasure in this thing, this sin, this vice that I’m doing and they feel this, they feel God they presence of God. Most people that live their lives that are outside of God, they’ve never felt the presence of God. So for the first time in their life they feel God but they sense God’s awesome presence and they say “What is that?”
Sid: They will never get that, people that have never experienced, and I’m speaking to a lot of people now, God loves you much as someone who has experienced the presence of God. That’s not the issue, but once you’ve experienced that you will never forget it. And real quick, you were praying one day for something like eight hours, your family was gone and nothing, two minutes before you’re family came in you heard from God, and you asked God the question, “Why did you wait so long, you really asked God that?
Steven: Yes, in all day in prayer and fasting waiting for the Lord because my wife and family were out, they had gone so I had the whole time to spend with the Lord that day and I sent all that time with the Lord praying, reading my Bible, mediating and the Lord never spoke one thing to me. Sid there was not enough anointing to lift and feather off the desk, but I kept spending the time with the Lord. And then right before my wife drove down the driveway which takes two minutes to reach the driveway from the beginning to the house, during those two minutes the Lord begun to talk to me. And I said, “Lord, I’ve been here all day why would wait to the last two minutes?” He said, “I didn’t want to talk to you sooner because you may have left, I enjoyed your presence and your company so much that I didn’t want to start talking till the very end.”
Sid: Say that one more time for someone that’s not going to spend this evening praying and now may, what did God say to you again?
Steven: He said, “I so enjoyed your company and you being with me today, I didn’t want to speak to you earlier you may have left so I waited till the very last moment so I could have you with me as long as possible.”
Sid: God really enjoys us putting Him first beyond anything else that this world has to offer.
Steven: It almost made my hair stand up on my head I couldn’t believe.
Sid: Whoops we’re out of time, that I can believe.
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