Our Guest Michael Maiden
MICHAEL: Yeah. We had a beautiful home and we lost that and just every possible, negative thing from death threats to the whole town talking about us. The way the Lord healed me was He told me if I would forgive the people that had hurt me, He would make me forget the pain they caused me. So I made a list. I forgave the people and the Holy Spirit after about seven weeks of praying for people, the Lord visited me. It’s amazing. Not only took away the pain, He gave me love for the people that had broke my heart. But with my son, the moment he could, he moved out of our house. And he’s out running the streets and drug dealers were trying to kill him, and the police trying to arrest him. I just would lay at his bed that he grew up in … He no longer lived there, and just prayed, “God, tonight, don’t let my son die.” The Lord spoke to me and said He wanted me to change the way that I talked about my son.
The Lord reminded me of all the prophetic words over the years He’d give me about my son’s life. So I told my wife, so we started saying our son’s a history maker and a world shaker, a man of God. He’s going to be a godly husband and father, a—
SID: But it’s hard not to talk about what’s going on.
MICHAEL: It’s very hard.
SID: Especially with your wife.
MICHAEL: Yeah. While it’s happening and while you’re in the pain. But the Lord had spoken to me so strongly that if I would change my vocabulary, the outcome would be changed. So I just started repeating God’s Word. Like Paul told Timothy, “Do warfare by the prophetic words you’ve received.” And I started speaking over his life that he would be everything God said he would be. And within seven weeks of doing that, God visited my son, delivered him from drugs. He moved back home, making—a missionary to Haiti with the Bible school, married a wonderful woman. Our executive pastor at our church, has four great kids and is a successful businessman. So everything God told me came to pass when I started saying what God said to me about him.
SID: That was absolute … I mean, you hear teaching like this. But to live it, to see how important what I’m hearing you say is, our words make a difference. Now, there are many things that block the prophetic as you teach, tell me a few of the lies we believe.
MICHAEL: Most people believe that they can’t hear from God. So we have to take that out of the way, because every Christian … Jesus said seven times in the gospels and then seven times in Revelation, “He that has ears to hear, let him hear.” So every Christian has hearing capacity. We need to claim that and press into it. And like the Bible says, covet earnestly—
SID: How did you press into your gift? I’m curious. How old were you?
MICHAEL: I was just a teenager in my late teens and how much—reading, Sid, when Jesus said in John 16, the Holy Spirit would show us things to come. It’s like it leaped off the page and just was branded on my heart and I thought, “Why isn’t the Lord showing me things to come?” I fasted and prayed and pressed into it, and really desired it … like the Bible says, desired with passion and fire. And the Holy Spirit started speaking to me about people and places. That’s been 47 years ago and He’s not stopped speaking to me. God loves to flow through us in prophecy, words of knowledge, and all the gifts.
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