Our Guest Paul Wilbur
Sid: You’ve been listening to the new theme music for a while. I have in the studio the artist of the new theme music Paul Wilbur and his wife Luanne. It’s from their latest album “The Watchman.” Paul, for those who don’t know, we go back a long time.
Paul: We do.
Sid: You showed up in Washington D.C. one day in my office and you said “I heard there is a Messianic Synagogue and I’m looking for a job.” You had a wonderful job for me, lets see, it wasn’t singing, it wasn’t playing the guitar, it was opening the mail.
Paul: Yes.
Sid: Despise not small beginnings. You really had to humor yourself, because you had a tough time. You had a Master’s degree when you got to me, and then you quickly lost that. (Laughing)
Paul: (Laughing ) Misplaced it.
Sid: Anyway, come on just between you and me and Luanne, what did you do to amuse yourself when you were opening the mail, I’ll help you if you forgot.
Paul: Well, I used to enjoy Sid watching and reading all the different people’s spellings of your name.
Sid: You must have really been bored. (Laughing)
Paul: Well it was my job. I believe, Sid, that a word for us for this year in 2006 is the word “Breakthrough”. And for those who are listening to the broadcast this week, I think it is unusual that we start out this way, but I believe it’s right on the Word of the Lord, for many people who are listening; who believe they are stuck in an end, a small little thing, they are not fulfilling their destiny. This is a year for breakthrough. I did start out reading your mail, I did have a Master’s degree in music, I was teaching at the University of Maryland part time in the music department, but my heart was to lead the worship of the world in the songs of Messiah.
Sid: Back then, was that your goal at that time when you were doing that menial job?
Paul: It was, that was resounding in my heart. I had just left a group, with a young man from Texas who had led me to the Lord 5 years before. We formed a singing group together with another guy by the name of Ed Car; the name of the group was Harvest. We had a recording contract with Benson records. I had done some singing with Sandi Patti and had been performing with some of the major singing groups back in the 70s, Christian singing groups. But the call of God to the Jew first was so big in me. I was sitting in my living room one day and someone had heard your broadcast and gave me one of the interview tapes and said you need to listen to this. And I put it on and I remember crying through the whole thing, through the music, through the talking. I don’t even know what the thing was, I found out there were Jewish believers in Yeshua who were living a Jewish lifestyle expressing the love of God as this creation in Him. I quit the group, left this thing that I knew God had brought me to. Brought my family halfway across the country had no job.
Sid: Stop, Luanne, how did you handle that? At the time you had two small sons and he crosses the country, a Master’s degree, and he is opening my mail.
Luanne: I was very excited, because I knew we were in the center of God’s will, and when you know that you are in the center of God’s will you have His grace and His peace.
Sid: But wait a second now. I mean here you’ve got a husband with all these degrees, and he’s really moving up in what is known as Christian music, and he just drops the whole thing and he goes and he opens my mail. Now that had to bother you a little bit Luanne.
Luanne: To be honest it didn’t. I knew we were in the center of God’s will and we were just really excited and full of joy to be doing what we knew that we were supposed to be doing at the time.
Sid: Paul, so you said something about for this year, about not despising small beginnings. Really explain this.
Paul: Well, this is a year, Sid, I believe the Lord has spoken to my heart. I was at a conference with some well-known ministers in Branson, Missouri a couple weeks ago. Their word was “Glory” this is a year of “Glory.” They were also sharing some of the revelation that Brother Kenneth Hagen gave about the last quarter of 2005 and the whole year of 2006, that he had spoken before he graduated to his place in heaven, his word that this was a year of fulfillment. That the last quarter of ‘05 and all of ‘06 was a year of fulfillment
Sid: I’ll take that, because he called me out of an audience once and gave me such a marvelous prophecy. I’ll take that for this coming year.
Paul: Well, the thing that the Lord has spoken to my heart is “Breakthrough”. And I believe it goes right hand in hand with the glory the manifested presence of God. Which is always a “Breakthrough”, whether you’re sitting at your desk, or whether you’re worshipping in your congregation, or you’re driving to your job, or whatever you’re doing, a “Breakthrough.” But, Sid, this is going to be of such proportion that people don’t despise where you are. As you were saying, I was sitting there with my degrees, opening your mail, coding it for the computer.
Sid: So bored, that you had to write down the different ways that people spelled my name.
Paul: That was the fun part of it that kept me interested. But wasn’t it interesting that Marc Chopinski was in your office at the same time.
Sid: Now Mark was part of his original singing group called “Israel’s Hope” when he started in messianic Jewish music, and Marc was working there, go ahead.
Paul: Well, I didn’t…
Sid: Who I might add, who is now in Israel, leading music in a messianic Jewish synagogue, go ahead.
Paul: In Haifa with good friends of ours and very successful. Did we know that these were “Breakthrough” times for us? It didn’t look like a “Breakthrough” it didn’t feel like a “Breakthrough” but I believe, this year there is going to be “Breakthrough” of such monumental proportion, that we will know that we have broken through. It is an Isaiah 45 promise, and we may get to that somewhere during the rest of this week as we share. But Sid there is “Breakthroughs” coming in people’s lives in there health, in there finances, in there ministries that they don’t even know that God has set them aside for. In anointing, in mantles, in word, in provision…
Sid: Why? Will you speculate as to why there will be such “Breakthroughs” this year.
Paul: Simply because, it is the time of the Lord. And when we get to some more of the sharing this week, about the song we’ve been listening to, and others on this project. This thing has been called “The Watchman.” Now what is a watchman? I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but this is going to be a theme, I believe, for the rest of this week. A watchman is someone who is placed in a high place to see what others cannot see; they hear what others do not hear; and they boldly declare what others will not declare because they have seen and heard.
Sid: Is there a difference between a watchman and a prophet?
Paul: Yes there is, but the watchman is a prophetic ministry. You don’t have to be a prophet carrying a card. You don’t have to be a Chuck Pierce, or pick your favorite name of who you see in that office of prophet to be a watchman. You can be a watchman on your job. You can be a watchman over your home. You can be a watchman in your congregation, over your city. It is not necessarily the office of prophet, but it is the ministry it is a prophetic ministry. And God is distributing this ministry like garments over many, many people at this moment. In fact, there are some that are listening to us right now who are being called up as watchman. It is simply because it is the choosing it is the timing of the Lord. And He is depositing ministry in them now to see what they’ve never seen before. My wife is experiencing this in a fresh new way and we may get to some of that later this week. I’m experiencing it in a fresh new way. I’ve prophesied in the past in the music and in word, but all of a sudden there is a fullness coming that is very exciting. It is simply because it is the timing of the Lord.
Sid: You told me, and we’ll get to it later in the week, you told me that when you were singing from your latest album which is called “The Watchman”, literally in Miami, Florida, blind eyes started to open.
Paul: Isn’t that amazing, not in Zambia, South Africa, not in the Philippines in some far away mud hut in Miami, Florida where thousands saw it. Not only blind eyes, but deaf ears.
Sid: All right tell me about this new CD we are making available this week called “The Watchman”.
Paul: I’m very excited about it, Sid, this has come out of a vision of what God has spoken for five years I’ve not made a recording with Integrity Music, since the year 2000 when we were in Israel doing the Lion of Judah recording live, which we spoke about many years ago. For years the company said “Paul we need something fresh from you” and I said “I don’t have anything to say.” The last thing the world needs is another piece of plastic with someone saying something that is not from God. And I told them when I have something to say I’ll let you know. I was in a conference with Don Potter and Jason Upton, months ago, and I heard Don’s song “The Watchman.” When I heard that song the Lord said, “This is the message.” I began to write with other friends of mine and you have in your hands the product of that.
Sid: Of all the things you’ve done Paul. I believe this has the strongest presence of God.
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