Our Guest Mike Shreve
SID: Mike, tell me about your revelation of the Throne Room and the authority.
MIKE: The Bible first says that we’re to come boldly to the Throne of Grace, but then that’s not where it ends. The throne is the position of power. It’s the position of authority. It’s the position of decree. It’s the position of dominion. It’s the position of rest. When you’re seated with him, and that’s not futuristic, because the Bible said, present tense, right now, when you’re seated with Christ in heavenly places then we speak with authority as if it were enthroned with God. We speak with the same kind of authority he will speak [with].
SID: There was a time that it wasn’t just theory for you.
MIKE: Right.
SID: It saved your life. What happened?
MIKE: Well many times.
SID: I know. I’ve read your book. I’ll tell you what, if there wasn’t an integrity behind the promises of God I’d be interviewing someone else right now.
MIKE: Oh and really, believe me, I look back and I’m in awe at what God did. I should have been dead.
SID: Are you someone special? Do you have some special authority with God?
MIKE: Absolutely. I’m very special. You’re very special. All of you are very special because the Bible calls us children of promise, which is Galatians 4:28. That means you are a product of the promises of God. They all came to pass. They were like beings of light coming down and striking one spot and that was your repentant heart where you believed, you trusted, you were expected, you acted on the Word of God: “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” It happened, the promises came to pass. But then Hebrews 6 said, “You’re heirs of promise.” So that’s who you are, but it’s also what you have. I have these promises, now what am I going to do with them? Well you mentioned the Throne Room promise. Wow. The time I was picked up hitchhiking, when I first got saved, I was hitchhiking and this guy picks me up hitchhiking. He said, “Where are you going?” I said, “I’m going to Atlanta, Georgia.” He said, “You’re in luck. I’m going all the way there. You won’t have to get another ride.” So I sank back in my seat and kind of whispered a premature hallelujah. And then before I knew what was happening this guy pulled off into a field and was going at a high rate of speed. The car was just bumping. He went real fast out into the middle of the field where there was a big bunch of trees. Now I’m very suspicious. I don’t know what this guy is doing, you know. Well my suspicions were confirmed. He pulls a knife out, he holds it to my neck, he tells me that he’s going to rape me, then rob me, then kill me. I was only a couple months old in the Lord, but I remembered one of my teachers had told me, if you ever have a confrontation with a demon, either directly or in a human being, then take your authority, your Throne Room authority and declare the Word of God with the same authority God would in the same situation. So I started declaring the Word. I said, “Buddy, you’d better right with God. One day you’re going to stand before God on the day of judgment and give an account for every deed you’ve done in your body and apparently you’re going to hear God say, ‘Depart from me you worker of iniquity, I know you not.'” I just kept preaching. I kept preaching, I didn’t even take time to swallow my spit, I just sprayed saliva.
SID: What is he doing with his knife? What’s going on?
MIKE: All of a sudden, I should not have been surprised, but all of a sudden, the guy starts crying profusely and he handed me the knife, and he says, “You sound just like my mama.” I thought, what I am going to do with this knife? I threw the knife away as far as I could. And he turned around and knelt down on the floorboard and started repenting. Then I started casting devils out of him and he got saved. He got saved. The devil sent him to destroy me and God in Heaven smiled and said I’m going to turn it totally around the other direction. In fact, before I got up here, God spoke to me that one of the two promises that were especially for the audience here today and for the audience around the world, God spoke to me that there’s two promises that God is speaking to you prophetically. Romans 16:20, that says, “The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.” Yes. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. And the second promise, Ephesians 3:20, where God said, “He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above anything you ask or think, but it’s according to the power that works in us.” And that is the power of faith, the power of confession, the power of hope-filled expectation. Praise God. Believe it.
SID: What promise would you use if you’re looking for supernatural direction?
MIKE: Oh Psalm 37, I believe it’s around Verse 23, it says, “The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord.” The steps of a good man. And Proverbs, Chapter 3, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will,” not might, not could, not should, but “he will direct your path.”
SID: I want you to pray that prayer the way you would pray it if you were looking for Divine direction right now.
MIKE: Father, I thank you for leading me into your perfect will. I make the declaration out of the Lord’s Prayer: Your Kingdom come, your will be done in this earthen vessel even as it is in Heaven. I am born again and you said the wind blows where it wills. And I would hear the sound of it, but I wouldn’t know where it’s coming from or where it’s going. Catch me up in the wind of Heaven, God, and guide me into my destiny in Jesus’s name.
SID: So he has a problem. He prays such a prayer. He’s in Bombay. What happened?
MIKE: Oh wow. In Bombay, India, I had about a 12-hour layover with the airline I was with, and I didn’t want to spend 12 hours in that airport. Thankfully, the airline I was with had a policy if you had over an eight-hour layover they would put you up in a five-star hotel, and I had never stayed around luxury like that. It was quite amazing. And when I walked in I was anticipating a break after spending a month in the jungles. And then my eyes were captivated by the sign near the restaurant, a very swanky restaurant that said steak and lobster was the special. I had been eating rice for a month. I thought this is God, yes! And I started walking toward the restaurant and the thing I most feared came upon me: the voice of God changing my decision. God said, “Don’t go in the restaurant. Go out on the street. I’ve got a job for you to do.” So I walked out on the street and all of a sudden, all of a sudden this tiny little man runs up to me. Now that’s half the reason I love preaching in India. Most of them are shorter than me. But this tiny little man ran up to me and in a high pitch voice he said, “What is your name?” I said, “My name is Mike Shreve.” He said, “That sounds like a Christian name. By any chance are you a Christian?” I said, “By the way, I am a Christian.” He said, “By any chance are you a Pentecostal preacher?” I said, “I am a Pentecostal preacher.” He said, “Good, there’s a man that needs to get saved right now.”
SID: If you had gone into that restaurant you would have missed God.
MIKE: Oh, I would have missed one of the greatest experiences of my life. It’s one of the things where it looks like a coincidence, but it’s really a God incidence. That night his boss came into work and said, “I don’t know why, but on my way to work I decided what you’ve got is real and I want it.” He was intimidated praying for his own boss, so he runs out of the restaurant hoping to find somebody to help him pray. And I just happened to be walking by halfway around the world from home. He gave his heart to the Lord. We were out in the alley behind his restaurant. Then he said, “Let’s go back to my restaurant.” He said, “I’ve got three Hindus, I’ve got a Buddhist, I’ve got a Jainist, I’ve got a Catholic, I’ve got a Muslim.” He mentioned about six or seven world religions. He brought them all out. He interpreted my message. In five minutes, I gave an invitation and every cook and every waiter in that restaurant got saved.
SID: You have no idea how much is in one promise of God. You have no idea of the power and the destiny, and the purpose God has for your life. But sometimes there are strongholds that stop you. When we come back they’re going to stop you no more.
MIKE: Praise God.
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