Our Guest Larry Sparks & Ana Werner
SID: Larry Sparks is a publisher of a great Christian Publishing House called Destiny Image and I asked Larry along with another group of outstanding teachers to be guest hosts on my tour to Israel. Each bus had a guest host and Larry, you were going to Israel. You are looking forward to it, but something happened to you that was beyond your realm of even understanding. I mean, you are a scholar of revivals in the past, but it’s a little different when it happens to you. You’re minding your own business, you’re in your hotel room and what happened?
LARRY: It was sovereign and it was supernatural. I was just on the computer doing some work. All of a sudden the Holy Spirit, like lightning, God hit me. I feel that even right now, the spirit of God here and I fell onto the ground, started shaking and trembling.
SID: Why did you fall out of the bed?
LARRY: Because I couldn’t stay in it.
SID: That’s a good reason.
LARRY: I could not stay. It was such a weighty presence of God. Fell off about 15 minutes and then I got up and went to breakfast. I said, “God, what happened?” He said, “I was depositing something in you.” And I feel like right now, Sid one of the things that the Lord is saying to us here, but to you watching, when you have a dramatic encounter with God like that, sometimes you might be wondering what happened. Feel like the Lord is saying to you right now, I was actually depositing something in you. You actually felt the hand of the Lord going inside of you and putting something sacred in you. That’s what happened to me. It was powerful.
SID: You say God downloaded information to you.
LARRY: Yes. Yeah.
SID: And in your book you talk about a return to where what is normal. We’ve gotten so away from what is normal. Tell me some of the things God showed you about how we can return to normal state.
LARRY: He’s restoring the power of the altar. Now sometimes we think of the word alter, we think it’s a religious thing. Maybe for some people who have been in church, they think of it as the place up in the front of the church where you kneel. But the Lord said, “No. Two things happen there. It’s a place of transaction where we actually lay down our sins. We lay down our lives.” We say, “God, I’m giving everything of me to you.” But he said so many people, Larry only get one half of that. They lay things down, they empty themselves, they lay down their sins, their struggles but he’s saying, “I’m calling my people in this season, actually pick something up.”
LARRY: We lay things down at the altar and then some people go back to life and it’s just kind of normal. It’s like, “I thought I hadn’t experience. I thought I went to the altar and laid stuff down.” The Lord is saying right now, “I’m calling people at that place of transaction to pick something up.” And what is that? That’s the life of God. He said, Romans 12:1. Offer up your life as a living sacrifice. He’s not looking for physically dead people. He’s looking for people who said, “God, I give all of me to you.” And he said this. He said, “Larry, you know a lot of people, we love three steps and seven keys and that works.” But he saying the greater glory that’s coming, For you who are watching right now, I feel the presence of God.
LARRY: I actually feel electricity in my hands right now and I believe as you’re watching, whether you’re in the audience right now, I just sense waves of the presence of God coming in here and guess what? You might feel unqualified. Isaiah, the prophet felt unqualified. He said, “I’m a man of unclean lips. I’m a sinful man.” And you know what made him qualify to go out and change the world is that Sid he said, “I’m undone. I’m undone before.” Wow, I’m undone before God.
SID: Now in Israel, you’re a non-Jewish believer in the Messiah in history though, you captured the download of God’s heart for Israel and the Jewish people.
LARRY: Yeah. What he said is this, and I actually just got clarity on this really the day before we did this show is that you have Solomon’s Temple and we went to the Western Wall. We were on Israel and it gripped me because I saw so many people obviously praying against the wall going to this place and I said, “God, why is there such interest of the Jewish people in this wall?”
LARRY: And obviously they believe that that is the greatest level of proximity to the Holy Of Holies. And I said, there’s something in their hearts that’s longing for the presence, longing for the glory. And the Lord said, “When my people become living sacrifices, when we, when you and I, when everyone who’s watching, when we say, “God, I want you to fall on me. I want you to fall on me. Holy Spirit, I pray that you’d fall like fire on me.” When we live that way, as living sacrifices, as people given to God, we actually become like Solomon’s Temple. Because when they prayed a prayer of dedication over the temple, it says the fire of God fell. The glory of God filled that place. The priests could not stand a minister and then it said, all of Israel worshiped. And I believe all of Israel is waiting for people who represent, who show the temple it’s not a building. It’s not a sand and stone. It’s people that God inhabits and rests upon. And that will break open Israel. I prophesy that even right now. A people filled with glory will break open the nation of Israel, the Jewish people and Sid, like you said, we’ll see resurrection power release in the Earth. Unlike ever before.
SID: This world has no chance without the greater glory. But God so loves the world that he’s releasing his greater presence, his greater glory. My people, my Jewish people saw that glory in the desert. They saw the pillar of fire that was normal to them. They saw the glory cloud. That was normal to them. My next guess was also one of our tour teachers and she was literally taken to heaven and shown a supernatural timeline for this greater glory. Back in a moment.
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