Sid: I’m looking at my brother Jeff Burke and I’m thinking about all the things that he went through. Jeff was called into the ministry at 21; he was a Baptist preacher at 21 years of age. He comes from a family; he father was a minister. But he didn’t see the supernatural; he didn’t see what he read in the New Testament. And he thought; maybe it’s all fake and his father said “Well, but these people called Pentecostals, Charismatic’s they speak in tongues and they seem to have miracles but tongues isn’t of God so we’re going to not touch that.” So eventually Jeff left the ministry; he got involved in witchcraft; got involved in drugs and he thought his power was making him very successful and he did rise up to quite a level of success in the business world. Then his parents get Spirit-Filled and start praying together for Jeff and praying in unknown tongues. Make a long story short the bottom fell out with Jeff he lost everything. He tried to commit suicide he couldn’t even do that. On the same night he took a whole bottle of sleeping pills; his mother was praying for him. And he could not could he not only die, he couldn’t even fall asleep with a whole bottle… he was up for 2 days. And a voice said for him to return home when he had nowhere to go and he called his dad and his dad picked him up and he returned home. And then he got a book on praising God and he started trying to praise God and he heard the demonic voices. He didn’t know what to do about it; he went to his parents his parents set up a deliverance meeting. He went to a place that were supposed to be expert in deliverance. He didn’t know that they had only prayed for one other person before him. And they started praying for you Jeff and what happened?
Jeff: When they sat me down and began to pray for me one of the things I knew the most and remember the most my face changed; it just changed…
Sid: It just got distorted.
Jeff: And out of the corner of my mouth this huge cloud of smoke came. And…
Sid: Did anyone else see this smoke?
Jeff: Oh yeah; both of them saw it and they both said “Wow, did you see that?” And again this is only the second time and so but they took me through the whole thing and there was 26 manifestations that happened during that time.
Sid: So 26 demons left you.
Jeff: Yes.
Sid: That’s a lot.
Jeff: That is a lot.
Sid: There’s no wonder you had difficulty functioning. Now when all of those demons were gone; what was going on inside of you, how did you feel Jeff?
Jeff: Well, they stood me up and they said “How do you feel?” And I said “Well, I fell like somebody scrubbed me with a brush on the inside.” You see it’s like a wire brush and it scrubbed; and I’d been scrubbed really clean. And I said “I just feel really clean on the inside of me and they said “Well, the house has been swept clean so we’re going to pray.” So they prayed for me to be filled with the Holy Spirit and I was.
Sid: Did you speak I unknown tongues?
Jeff: I did speak in tongues, yes praise the Lord.
Sid: You know Mishpochah, that’s the mercy of God. And here remember he had such a desire to move in the power and the supernatural of God. And no one was willing to show him the truth so he ended up in a lie and almost lost his life. I tell you you would have died hadn’t your parents hadn’t prayed for you.
Jeff: I most definitely think I would have.
Sid: When did the real gifts of the Holy Spirit start operating through you? Tell, me the first time you realized that God was using you?
Jeff: Well, praise the Lord we went to a prayer meeting and there was a little girl that was 11 years old that had moved in her life. And my heart something rose up and she had a foster mom; because nobody else wanted her. And I said “Do you mind if I pray for the little girl?” And she said “Oh no.” So we prayed for this little girl that had never moved in her life her mom got up and walked across the room and she picked her head up and turned her head and followed her all across the room. This little girl that had never moved 11 years old; that had been fed like a baby had been fed with a bottle ever since she’s been born. And all of a sudden she had moved for the first time in her life. And my heart was in a place where I’m going that’s the greatest, if I may say it this way, “That’s the greatest high I’ve ever experienced; no drug ever gave me that.” Inside my heart I’m going “Wow, if God can do; if God can do that then there’s other things that He can do.” And so He began to do amazing things; amazing things. One of the things that happened is I had a need for $420 that I had to go to court and pay. But the Lord spoke to me He says “Don’t ask anybody for this” He said “I’m just going to show you I’m going to make provision.” And so I went out and got in the car and when I went out and got in the car and I put it in reverse I felt like I’d gave the Lord plenty of time to do something.” So I said “I got to go.” And I only had a quarter of a tank of gas, or very little gas. And so I’m backing out and pull out of the driveway; the man was running down the sidewalk and he comes running up and knocks on the door on my window. So I rolled my window down and he said “Jeff forgive me God told me to bring this to you this morning.” And so he hands me an envelope. And so he turns and leaves and I open up the envelop and there’s $420 in there. Now I only had $6 in my pocket; so I put the $6 in gas and so I drove 150 – 200 miles to the town where I had to go to. I went in and I actually paid the $420 that I needed. When I paid what I needed to pay and I started back and I look and I’m setting on empty and I said “Lord, how am I going to get home” I said “But you’re the same God that got me here can get me back.” And so I began to pray; I said “What would you like me to pull over and somebody come knocking on my window?” He said “No.”
Sid: Your totally believing now. (Laughing)
Jeff: So He said “Just look at you gas hand.” So I looked at my gas hand it was setting on E and it went from E to a ¼ of a tank.
Sid: There are people listening to us right now and their saying “You’re making this up; because those things don’t happen to them” But you know what Jeff, I believe what you’re describing is normal Bible Christianity. And what they’re describing is nothing more than dead tradition.
Jeff: Amen.
Sid: I have to tell you; you really provoke me to jealousy the way God tells you even specific people’s names. Give me an example.
Jeff: I was in Homer, Alaska and sitting there and I saw a little girl she was about 17 years old. She was sitting by a lady and the lady turned out to be her mother; but the mother was a hold up a child. But God spoke to me and He said “This is her child.” And she’s moved from Oklahoma because the child is born out of wedlock. And she’s come so that her parents could help her raise the child. He spoke to me and I said “Lord I don’t want me to call that out publicly.” And He said “No son, this is what I want you to do; I want you go and tell her that Aaron is not an accident; and He really will thunder.” And I said “Well, Lord it sounds strange but I’ll go for it. And so I went to her and and I said “Mam look, the Lord told me to tell you this that Aaron is not an accident and that He really will thunder.” Now she came to me after the meeting was over and she said “Brother Jeff I moved here from Oklahoma and she said “I really moved so that my parents could help me raise my child because the child that my mother’s holding is my child.” He was born out of wedlock; she said “It’s so good to know that he is not an accident because his name is Aaron. And God said “That Aaron is not an accident.” But she said “Brother Jeff you know what the special thing is; she said I named him a very very unusual middle name.” She said “His middle name is Thunder.” And God said “Aaron’s not an accident that he really will thunder.”
Sid: Now Jeff there’s no way that could be a probability. There’s no the devils going to do that to give encouragement to Christians. It’s got to be so exciting for God to use you like that.
Jeff: It’s always a blessing.
Sid: I mean you literally can change someone’s destiny; their life; everything.
Jeff: Thank you.
Sid: Now when you hear these things are they thoughts or is it like an audible voice. Is it a picture?
Jeff: I call it kind of like a ticker tape. It’s like God will give me one word; maybe a name or one phrase or even sometimes I do see a picture. And when this happens it’s like this tape begins to run and I’m like seeing what God is saying. So I’m speaking what’s on this tape. That’s the closes way I know how to describe it.
Sid: Have you ever done this publicly and it was either wrong or people didn’t say someone’s name was there?
Jeff: I was in a place in Malaysia and I felt like God gave me name called Paris. And so I said “Paris; whose Paris.” And of course nobody responded and so as nobody responded and so I just kind a left it there. And afterwards this man comes up to me and says “Well, I think maybe you just pronounced it differently than I would pronounce it.” And so I spelled it and he said “Well, that’s my name but I pronounce it Parees” and so then was able to minister to him the things that God told me to minister to him.
Sid: Now Jeff beyond that which was that you just pronounced it wrong have you ever been wrong on a name or something like that?
Jeff: At this point I haven’t that I know of.
Sid: Well, that sounds good to me. I want you to open yourself up to minister on tomorrow’s broadcast.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth