Our Guest John Kilpatrick
SID: Okay, we’re going to deal with some basics right now. But if you don’t take care of the basics, don’t look for the other stuff. You got a house built on a faulty foundation. What is a blessing and what is a curse?
JOHN: Well, the way I came into it, I was 44 years old, pastor in Brownsville before revival broke out. I had just built an orchestra pit, and it wasn’t functioning. People weren’t coming into it, we built it, paid $40, 000 for the technology, I announced, “If you play a brass instrument, bring it in for our dedication Sunday.” Nobody came. It embarrassed me after we put that kind of money in it, and people just didn’t come. Well, I began to call it names like, “You stupid hole. You expensive $40,000 hole.” And all that kind of stuff. One day after the dedication was over … and I had one person playing the trumpet and I had to pay him to come play the trumpet. After it was all over, and I was in the church praying one Saturday night, I was up there. I’d call myself praying, but I was whining, I’d say, “Lord, there’s no playing in the orchestra pit.” I was just crying out to Him, and the Lord spoke to me boldly. He rebuked me … He didn’t humiliate me, but He rebuked me.
JOHN: He said, “Well, stop cursing it.” And that’s the first time it ever entered into my mind that I as a Pentecostal was cursing anything, because I always thought about cursing as witchcraft. Like stigmata, white magic, black magic. So I said, “Lord, let me get through tomorrow’s service, and I’ll get up first thing Monday and I want You to teach me what You mean by cursing.” Because I don’t curse, and I didn’t understand curse because I knew only witchcraft. When I got to studying the Lord said this, He said, “You got to understand that a blessing is speaking out of your mouth anything that you want to see come to pass over a person, place or thing. A curse is releasing out of your mouth anything upon a person, place or thing that you don’t want to see come to pass. Blessings … and as I began to pray I said, “Lord show me.” I was in prayer and the Lord said, If you’ve cursed something you need to do three things …” and He said, “You need to repent, that means to turn around and stop it. Don’t do it anymore. Second thing is you need to renounce it.”
JOHN: What does renounce mean? It means to ask the Lord to let you withdraw off of whatever you’ve cursed, withdraw that, and to resay it. Then the third thing is to revoke means to snap the spine of a thing, pop it where it can’t wiggle against you. I called my son’s home, and I said, “Boys …” I said, “The Lord showed me something through that orchestra pit, and that thing turned around when I repented, renounced and revoked. It was full of musicians, and it happened almost overnight.”
SID: Well you know, if someone were to do those three things, and then the glory of God comes, do you know how fast those things can be reversed?
JOHN: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Whenever I call my son’s home I said, “Boys, I’d like you to forgive dad.” I said, “I have spoken things over you that I did it out of ignorance like I did on the orchestra pit.” I said, “I’d like to ask you to forgive me.” “Well dad, you’ve been a good dad.” I said, “Well, I ask you to forgive me.” And I said, “I want to renounce some things that I’ve spoken over you.” And I did it in fear. I asked the Lord to let me take what I spoke on them off of them, and to resay it and put a blessing on them. Then I asked the Lord to, “Let’s revoke this thing, and snap the spine of it so it can’t affect them anymore from this day forward.” So I stood there in my house, and I as their father laid my hand on their face, and I … that was the first time in my life I blessed something, I blessed my children. Now when you say to somebody, “God bless you.” It’s good to see that’s not it, that’s not a blessing, it’s a salutation.
JOHN: You’re not really blessing somebody when you say, “God bless you.” It’s just a salutation. But when you lay your hand on somebody, and you say, “I bless you son in the powerful name of Jesus. I speak that everything that has been placed upon you in fear, anger, or ignorance, I speak that that be broken off of your life. I speak that the Lord take the low places and bring them up, take the high places and bring them low. Make straight the path of the Lord in your life. I speak that anything that has caused you to feel less than the fine young man that you are, anything that makes you feel less than the called young man to do the work of God that you are, I speak that those things slide off of you like a dirty garment, and fall on the floor.
SID: You know in a way it occurs to me John is … I didn’t mean to interrupt but it’s important, there are many that are in our studio audience, or viewing us right now, that their parents have never blessed. I believe that you can stand in their parents’ place right now, and you can bless them. Would you … our studio audience would you like to be blessed? You’re a spiritual father, you bless them as a spiritual father.
JOHN: Those of you that are watching, those of you that are here in this room, so many have been spoken, so many things have caused you to be handicapped, so many things have caused you to halt in life. But right now, I reverse in the name of Jesus. As a person anointed by God, part of the fivefold ministry, I speak a reversal of those things that has caused you to halt in life and to be handicapped. I speak over you, and I bless you now that the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and that the glory of the Lord will rest upon you. I speak that health will break forth speedily in your body. When the Lord told Abraham, because Sarah couldn’t have children, He didn’t say, “Tell Sarah I’m going to heal her.” He said, “Tell Sarah, I’m going to bless her.” I speak right now that those of you that are suffering in your bodies, physical maladies because of word curses that’s been speak over you, I break that off of you in the powerful name of Jesus.
JOHN: I speak over you that the blessings of the Lord cause your body to rally, and make up for lost time. For the blood to flow where the blood has not been flowing, for life to come where death has been trying to take over. I speak where trouble and worry has been, for the peace of the Holy Spirit to come. I bless you physically, spiritually, and soulishly in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
SID: John, I want to release you now because you’ve got to speak on the glory. I mean that people … it’s going to change their life after saying this prayer. You can go to the speaking area right now, and I’m just going to turn John loose and let him … because the more he talks about the glory, the greater the glory will come. I won’t be surprised if many of you, it comes on you so strong that you will be drunk on the Spirit. Meaning it’s almost under anesthesia, and God’s going to do some deep surgery. A spiritual surgery and physical on you, and the more … remember, the more he speaks about the glory, the more the glory will come to sit under the glory of God with John Kilpatrick. After this program ends, go to sidroth.org for this exclusive teaching after the end of this show.
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