Sid: Jewish people are open to the gospel for the first time in 2,000 years; it’s the wrap up and we have to do what Jesus said we could do. We could walk in the same power that He walked in and then He makes it even better, He says that even greater. Well, I’m convinced that one of the keys for this greater power is taught by Peter Horrobin. And Peter, most people look at the diseases, but they don’t know the hidden roots of these diseases and that’s why there’s such a mystery involving healing. Explain what you mean by that.
Peter: You know well, the body reflects what’s going on in the inside. If you put a happy smiling face, I don’t look at you and say you got a happy smiling face. I say why are you feeling happy. Because your face is telling me something; and if you got a miserable looking face, I don’t say oh God gave you a miserable body, I say what’s gone wrong in your life? Because you’re feeling something on the inside and your body is telling me what’s going on. Now it is a very simple little illustration, but where the body can be a reflector of what’s happening on the inside. And there are some very important roots which, not that the root of all diseases, but some are key things in some people’s lives where there is resentment and unforgiveness, anger, bitterness and fear. And those things which controls deep on the inside, we then almost have to tiptoe around them so that we live in such a way that those things, we try and avoid them. So if you are afraid of something you avoid circumstances where you are going to face your fear. So your body…
Sid: For instance there’s are a lot of people afraid of public speaking and part of their DNA destiny from God is to speak publicly yet they’re so fearful they won’t do it.
Peter: Yeah, fear on the inside, they might be afraid of flying, they might be afraid of silly things like spiders and things like that and the fears on the inside can so grip us and so control us that we are limited in our potential in God; so that our life becomes smaller and smaller and smaller because the fear controls. Now, perfect love, the scripture says casts out fear. And, but its understanding what perfect love is. Now perfect love is not something soppy. It is not something which is artificial; it’s not something that you can buy in a candy shop. Perfect love is God looking right in our heart and being truthful with us. If He’s really truthful with us and we want Him to be, He will show us the roots of the issues in our life. Love doesn’t overlook things that need to be dealt with. Yes, we might want to bless somebody and we don’t allow the things in their life to stop us loving them. But if you really love somebody and you can see something that needs to be dealt with, you will face them with that in love. And the perfect love of Jesus says to each one of us, look at me and see the differences between where you’re at and where I am. We see in our life we see these resentments, we see these angers, we see these bitterness, we see these fears and things and say that’s not what Jesus is like; and Jesus says I want you to be like me. I want you to come up to where I am. I want you to face these things and I want to deal with them in your life. I want to get rid of your fears. I want to get rid of the things that are holding you back and I want to show you that where the roots of them so that I can heal them and you can know that they are healed.
Sid: Give me an example of someone that went through your seminar, took the “Freedom Series” and what happened to them.
Peter: Well, I’ll tell you the story of what happened in Florida. There was a lady, she was actually a Russian lady and her name was Olga and Olga was a lady with a twisted spine. She had scoliosis of the spine and it was costing her husband often in physical therapy to look after her, but she had been like this for years. And she had issues in her life going way back which made her fearful, which affected her relationships. But she knew that there was a physical thing there and she asked God to heal the physical many times. But you know, He hadn’t done it and it was only as we taught on forgiveness and dealing with fears and things that she remembered way back that when she was being brought up in Russia that she had been abused by Russian army officers and she buried it all and she asked the Lord to give her the heart to forgive what they had done. And the physical damage had come as a result of that. As she forgave, the fears began to lift off her and not only did the fears lift off her and the enemy leave her behind. She forgave and she was physically healed and her back was straight and she came into the conference the following day and said I undressed last night and I looked at myself in the mirror and my back is straight; and her husband confirmed it. See there was a physical thing which was an outworking of a spiritual and fears can be crippling; unforgiveness and bitterness can be crippling on the inside and our body reflects it.
Sid: You know there is a story that you talk about in your series, “Freedom Series” that is so wonderful, the eighteen year old girl who was given twelve months to live because of kidney disease.
Peter: I’ll never forget her, her name was Karen and she was asking for physical healing. She’d been in her local church, asked for prayer for healing and people had laid hands on her for healing but there was no healing. And she had a viral condition on both kidneys. The doctors had said that the only thing that can save your life is a double kidney transplant; and they said the chances of you getting that are very remote. And even if you got it, we cannot guarantee it will work. And she looked at me and said, I’m dying I have less than twelve months to live. And as I looked at her the Lord just spoke into my spirit and said, ask her about her mother. And I argued with God, I said there is nothing wrong with her mother. It is her kidney’s that are the problem. The Lord was persisting and I said, tell me about your mother. And she said, I don’t know anything about my mother. When my mother was sixteen she fell pregnant and I am the result and I was given away for adoption. And I looked at her in the face and I said, in that case you are a product of sexual sin. Have you ever thought to forgive your mother and your natural father for what they did? And she said, no. I said, have you ever thought to thank God that you were not aborted? And she said no. I said, would you do those things? Oh, yes! She thanked God that she wasn’t aborted, she forgave her mother, she forgave her father and as I prayed for her the Spirit of God came upon her and she felt something coming right up out of the bottom of her belly right up through her chest and she coughed this thing out. And I said, “How do you feel?” “Oh, I feel light; I feel something’s changed; something’s different. But her kidneys were still swollen and I got a lady member of my team to just lay her hands upon these kidney’s and pray in tongues for twenty minutes. I went off and prayed with somebody else and I came back twenty minutes later and I said to Karen, “How are the kidneys?” And she stood up straighter and said, “The swelling is gone.” The pain is gone; she bent over and touched her toes, told me she couldn’t bend at all before. She wrote to me six weeks later, she said I’ve been back to the hospital. The doctors said that they can no longer find any evidence of the viral condition. They told me to live a normal life and forget everything that she was told. When Jesus healed the inside, her body responded to healing. Until the inner healing had taken place her body wasn’t ready to receive the healing.