Sid: I’m going to tell you something, God is restoring a lot of what the devil has stolen from by tradition and so many things have been stolen. I believe that when Jesus said “You’ll do the same works that I have done and even greater” He means it. I believe that when says “He doesn’t change.” He means that. I believe that when God says “You’ll lay hands on the sick in the name of Jesus and they will recover” He means that. And I am so overwhelmed over a supernatural sign by my guest this week his name is Jim Barbarossa; I him on the telephone I’m speaking to him at his home in Valparaiso, Indiana. And Jim was instructed by God to blow the shofar. The whole atmosphere in his home changes when he does that, in churches the atmosphere changes people are getting healed. The most miracles are happening, but you were telling me that people are getting set free of fear and tell me a few stories of people that have been set free when you blow the rams horn the shofar.
Jim: Well one in particular comes to mind and it actually deals with 3 different people that were all in the same room and were all set free of different things at the same time. And we were actually at Christian Retreat down in Bradenton, Florida and we were teaching on the blowing of the shofar, sharing some of what we talked about. And towards the end of the meeting I shared a scripture out of Joshua 6:20 that talks about the walls of Jericho, in fact I was just going to read that. “So the people shouted when the Priests blew the trumpet, the shofars.”
Sid: And every time that you see trumpet outside of just a small instance it really should be translated shofar. But go ahead.
Jim: Absolutely. “It came to past when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the shofar and the people shouted with a great shout that the wall feel down flat so that the people went up to the city every man straight before him and He took the city.” And I believe this whole thing is about obedience doing what God has instructed us to do the work you got to do and the walls of Jericho came down because the people obeyed God they did what He said to do. It probably didn’t make a whole lot of sense to march around the walls with shofars and to leave out a mighty shout. But when I look at those walls of Jericho I also the walls that people have in their lives today; walls of fear, walls of depression, walls of inferiority, sickness, disease. And I believe that when we’re obedient to the ordinance and we blow the trumpet we sound that shofar God moves in peoples lives and on their behalf. And towards the end of the evening at this particular church as we taught from Joshua on the walls of Jericho I just had everybody stand and I said “I want you to take authority over those things in your life that has you bound.” And I named a list of different things and part of that list were depression, procrastination, fear and inferiority and about 20 other things. And I said “If you’re battling with any of those things I want you to take authority over them right now in the name of Jesus and I want you as I sound the trumpet and let out a mighty shout and I believe that God is going to bring the walls down and that those walls are going to be totally obliterated, totally gone from your life.” And as we did that and the trumpet was sounded a roar went across the room.
Sid: Excuse me what do you mean by a roar?
Jim: A loud, just the shout of the people filled the house and you could feel and sense the presence of God so strong in the house. Again I didn’t see anything; nothing happened that I could see with my eyes but the next morning I had 3 people come to me. The first one that came to me said that “They had been battling with depression for many years and they were just about to get up and walk out of the meeting and they had driven 7 hours to be there; and they were ready to get up and I mentioned depression and that you would be set free of depression.” And the shout went up and the trumpet was sounded and that person was totally set free from depression that night. And then I heard from another person who had been suffering with procrastination that’s simply disobeying and not doing what God says to do when He says to do it putting it off till later. And this person had been a Christian for years and years but so many times God would instruct them to do something they would just not get around to do it put it on the back burner so to speak. Well they told me that night they got totally set free from procrastination when I mentioned it and called it out and the trumpet was sounded and they were set free and that very morning went and did 3 things that God had been telling them to do for some time and got all 3 or them done and that spirit totally lifted off of them. And then the 3rd one was a man who had suffered from inferiority almost all of his life and he was in his 40’s and he described something to me that was just totally awesome. He said “Jim as the shout went up and the trumpet was sounded I saw something and I want to tell you what I saw.” He said “You know I’ve had inferiority all of my life and what I saw was there was these giant walls and these giant walls were being sucked down into the quicksand and as they were going under the quicksand,” he said “I saw a giant hand and I believe this to be the hand of God and the walls are now down under the quicksand you can’t see them and the hand of God.” And then he stopped there and he said “You have to understand I pour concrete for a living and I believe God talks to me in a language that I can understand.” He said “But I saw this giant hand and it was filled with concrete, the hand tilted and the concrete came out and it covered the quicksand.” And I said “Brother what is that telling you?” He said “ God not only took it away but he covered and it ain’t coming back no more.” He said “I’m free and I’m going to stay free.”
Sid: Free of what?
Jim: Free of inferiority. He said “It totally left him.”
Sid: But you know a lot of people don’t realize that these are… it talks in the Bible about a spirit of fear, these are spirit and somehow there’s I guess an anointing on the breath when you blow that shofar that drives the devil crazy.
Jim: Yes it does totally confused, has to flee has to leave. And the awesome part about this is one of the things the Lord showed me through this is we’ve very often get free for a little bit of time but we don’t stay free. And when the hand of God poured that concrete over the quicksand that was saying to me we can stay free in Christ Jesus. We don’t have to let these things come back but we can be set free supernaturally by God and we can stay free.
Sid: Give me some insights just a few and you have a book of them because you studied this subject on the shofar; give me some insights that would be helpful about the shofar.
Jim: Well in the scripture of course is mentioned many times and you can look in Revelations and find that angels blow the shofar. You can look in…
Sid: Well angels blow the shofar I’m wondering if you blow the shofar angels might show up.
Jim: They may be dispatched I’ve I had people tell me they’ve been in church after a meeting where the shofar was sounded and heard shofars on the outside and around the building.
Sid: I’ve had people tell me that also. Do you find that when you blow the shofar because as you explained it’s almost like ancient prophets prophesying when you blow the shofar that the gift of prophecy gets released?
Jim: Well, I see that many times.
Sid: Tell me one.
Jim: I have seen the shofar sounded in a quiet hush just come. And I’ve seen the gift of prophecy the prophetic just come forth where God would speak to His people. And I’ve seen this many times the gift is just kind of released in the house. That which is like the voice of God is released and people start prophesy and God will speak through.
Sid: Explain to our Mishpochah about why you believe that the shofar is like the ancient prophets speaking.
Jim: Well the prophets were to be the voice of God and the scripture says “The voice of God is like that of a sound of the trumpet.” And God speaks, His voice is released, the powers released, the supernatural’s released.
Sid: Teach a little more on the shofar.
Jim: Well one of the scriptures that really fascinates me is Exodus 19:16 and it says “And it came to pass on the 3rd day in the morning that were thunders and lightnings in the thick cloud upon the mouth and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud so that all of the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God and they stood at the nether part of the mouth and Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire and the smoke therefore ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mouth quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder Moses spoke and God answered him by voice.” So God blew the shofar for the very first time on Mt. Sinai and the thing that really intrigues me about that is that it says “And the voice of the trumpet was sounded long and waxed louder and louder and Moses spoke and God answered him.” So today I believe that the voice of the trumpet under God’s directive is sounded louder and louder. We speak to God we can expect an answer from God.
Sid: Now on tomorrow’s broadcast I’m going to have you blow the shofar; what might people be expecting to happen when you blow the shofar?
Jim: Everything imaginable whatever their need would be that God could meet that need and would meet that need.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth