Sid: I am holding in my hand an authentic ram’s horn that I just purchased in Israel from the manufacturer and he got his from Africa. It really is an interesting process the ancient rabbis tell us that when you hear the shofar blast it’s like hearing all the promises of all of the ancient prophets coming out at once. So get ready for some of the promises; now I’m not promising how good I am on this but let me give it a try in the name of Yeshua “Help” that’s my prayer by the way. Shofar blast…..well I surprised myself that came out pretty good amazingly. My guest is Pastor Benny Perez. Benny let me tell you something else that the rabbi’s tell us that when you blow the shofar it drives the devil nuts. You were telling me about a healing that your secretary had, sometimes I like our interviews before we even get to the interview, tell me what happened to your secretary.
Benny: Well, my secretary Holly Adam has been coming to our church for a few years now; she was diagnosed with two types of cancer, ovarian cancer and throat cancer. And when she was diagnosed we laid hands on her anointed her with oil, prayed the prayer of faith. And I remember her saying this, “Cancer is just a name, but there’s a name that’s above every name.” And when she said that faith was activated in the atmosphere, literally hundreds and hundreds of people in our church began stretching their hands out. We laid hands on her the power of God hit her, she fell out under the power of God, and picked her up. She went back and verified by medical science both ovarian and throat cancers have been healed and so God has been good to her and she’s experienced two types of healing and we got one more healing that she’s believing God for. But if God did it once Sid, if God did it twice He’s going to do it again.
Sid: Tell me a bit about the insights that you’ve learned in praying for the sick and in healing.
Benny: Well, I’ve looked at Jesus and Jesus has to be our pattern; in the Bible Sid I’ve actually found seven ways Jesus healed. Jesus healed one by laying on of hands, and there’s many scriptures in that. Two Jesus healed by speaking the word; three Jesus healed through virtue or power that was accessible in Him and released through Him. Four Jesus healed through the gifts of healing; five one of my favorites Jesus healed through unorthodox means; spitting on the ground, making mud, putting it on his eyes. Six Jesus healed through the faith of others, you know, when they broke through and he lowered the man Jesus saw their faith; He healed the paralytic. And then Jesus healed through empowering His disciples; the twelve that were sent out, the seventy-two in a great commission. And so I base my healing ministry and as I teach healing we always go back to Jesus and see the different ways that Jesus healed because I believe that sometimes it’s not the way that you did it before; sometimes God may want to use you in an unorthodox way.
Sid: You know speaking an unorthodox, one of the things that I find especially with Christians is that they’ve been prayed for so many times that if you do it the standard ways they just don’t receive, but if you do something in a way you almost catch them by surprise the anointing of healing just whoosh goes right into them.
Benny: Absolutely and I think that’s the power of the unorthodox means because it’s not like I’ve done this already, I’ve tried this already. I mean there has to be faith there and faith now once that is ignited and they believe “Yes, Jesus can heal me” and people begin to operate in the kind of healing flow that Jesus operated in sometimes it’s a word. I’ve just given a word, “You know what your healed right now of your infirmity.” Boom they are healed; sometimes it’s lying on of hands and sometimes it’s anointing with oil. Sometimes it’s not even me doing it I will be inspired and the Holy Spirit speak to me “Have this person, this person, this person lay hands on them.” And so I’ve learned that if it’s really a healing flow of God; God is a creative God and I don’t think it’s going to be done the same way with every person the same way as He did before. And so we teach our people to be open to the leading and guiding of the Holy Spirit and to make sure that your listening to that still small voice and that you’re following what He’s telling you to do because that voice of the Holy Spirit will never ever tell you to do something that is contrary to the written word of God.
Sid: Tell me an unorthodox way that comes to mind.
Benny: I was in a meeting and I asked “Who needed healing and there was a gentleman 6’ 8”, his name was Brent Keerly and all of a sudden God told me to bring him on the plat-form. I brought him on the platform; I said, “Do you really want God to heal you?” He said “Yes.” Well, what’s happened with him was that he had incredible back problem, I mean 6’ 8” you could imagine he’s having a real big back problem. I said, “Okay, lift your hands towards heaven” and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and I know that this sounds strange, the Holy Spirit spoke he said, “Run and body block him, literally tackle him.”
Sid: I hope your malpractice insurance is paid up. [Laughing]
Benny: Sid I checked that voice once, I check it twice, and I said “Can I pray for you the way that God said?” He said, “Yes.” I said close your eyes, because I don’t want him to see me coming at him. And literally I ran at him and like the old Smith Wigglesworth of days I hit him as hard as I could. He hit the ground, he yelled out in pain and all of a sudden I’m thinking, “Well, there goes my ministry, there goes my money, there goes everything, I’m going to be sued.” He gets up totally healed by the power of God. I could tell you another incidence I’ve actually thrown fireballs.
Sid: Thrown fireballs?
Benny: Fireballs.
Sid: How do you even hold a fireball?
Benny: God told me Sid, I’m in another place in Oregon and there’s this gentleman and he has no cartilage in his knees and I said, “Do you want to be healed?” He said, “Yes,” and I heard the voice of God say “Throw a fire ball as if I had a baseball in my hand I wound up Sid and I could feel the fire of God in my right hand.” And as if I was throwing it to a catcher, that’s what I did I wound up and I threw it; this fireball hit this man; lifted him off the ground two feet drove him back in the air, the catchers separated, they didn’t even catch him. He hit the ground and he screaming, “I’m on fire, I’m on fire,” as if he’s physically on fire; he is just vibrating on the ground. And man the place goes crazy the power of God shows up, he get up off the ground the man weighs probably about 350 pounds only 5’6” he starts dancing around like he’s a ballerina only weighing 100 pounds crying, “There’s no pain, there’s no pain; I’m healed, I’m healed.” Runs out of the meeting, we were at a camp comes back into the meeting about ten minutes later with a pillowcase filled with junk food. Comes into the middle of the meeting, gets our attention, dumps his junk food out he said, “Now only did I get healed in my knees God healed me in my heart of abuse that took place when I was a little boy, and I don’t need to eat any more of this food to try and comfort me. I am healed by the power of God both physically and emotionally.”
Sid: If you pray for people right now, people will be healed by the power of God physically and emotionally right now Pastor Benny Perez.
Benny: Well let’s pray “Father in the mighty name of Jesus I speak healing both to the physical and the emotional being of every individual right now. In fact there is somebody right now that you’ve been having difficulty with your breathing and your listening to this show and faith has just exploded inside of you and your feeling a warmth on your body begin to take a deep breath and see your lungs now begin now begin to loosen; see as the breath begins to come back into you the power of God is touching your right now if you receive that healing both physical and emotional right now. All you have to say is “I take that right now and God will bring a manifested healing into your body into your emotions in Jesus name.””
Sid: And there is someone whose upper right hip is aching them, if you’ll begin to walk and praise God you’ll see that that pain is gone. Because pain is a name and that name is lower than the name of Jesus.
Benny: Ooooooo yes, yeah.
Sid: I’m just enjoying the anointing, I don’t know if God’s showing you anything else but on radio you can’t have dead time but I don’t care what you can’t have it’s my show and it’s not dead, it’s the anointing of God is pouring through the radios and the CD’s right now.
Benny: There’s somebody right now Sid when I told the story of the knee with the cartilage the Lord just spoke to me he said “Speak that healing again for people’s knees right now with no cartilage to be made whole. I speak sir right now in the name of Jesus, I’m getting this name Steve, Steven; you’re out there right now and your listening to this show and your wondering does God do the supernatural? Steve right now receive it, right now that God can heal your knees in the name of Jesus right at this moment, not later, right now the power of God is touching you; receive that right now.”
Sid: And the Spirit of God is also telling me that to repeat what I said, “Anyone with a hip problem right or left hip you are healed in Jesus name.”
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