Sid: Well my guest has been a guest previously is Pastor Kynan Bridges. And Kynan told me about a new book but more important than a new book is the subject. Why is this subject to important, so critical right now? Because the United States of America is at a cross roads and it appears that unless God does something the society that the greatest society that the world has ever known is about to kind of crack. And if that occurs is it going to happen to you? Is it going to happen to me? Well that’s why I love Kynan’s new book “Supernatural Favor.” Because whether the US goes south so to speak or whether it stays in prosperity I have walked not in the favor of God and I have walked in the favor of God. Favor is a whole lot better. Kynan what would you say was the beginning of this supernatural favor that you teach?
Kynan: Well the beginning for me happened many, many years ago and God introduced me to this message of favor. I was actually a young person and when I got saved Sid and rededicated my life to the Lord and filled with the Holy Spirit. And I share my testimony often how God actually spoke to me with an audible voice called me into the ministry. There was only one problem, I was doing horrible academically; I was told I would not be able to graduate High School. In fact, they said that I had an attention deficit that I couldn’t comprehend; I couldn’t sit still; and I was really just kind of frustrated. I figured that “Hey, if God’s called me into ministry it may be well that I could at least graduate from High School, that might help a little bit.” And…
Sid: (Laughing) So how did you prove the doctors wrong, the school people wrong? Even the doctors told you… what did they tell your mother?
Kynan: Well even when I was young they told my mother I wouldn’t be able to pass the second grade. And I had a lot of behavior problems in school. I fought all of the time; I actually spent more… in middle school I spent more time in school suspension and suspension than I did in the classroom.
Sid: You know the Bible talks about being a new creation; I know you; I’ve interviewed you previously. The person you’re describing to me I can’t comprehend being you.
Kynan: (Laughing)
Sid: A different person that you’re talking about Kynan. (Laughing)
Kynan: Well to Yeshua be all of the glory because it was Him that turned things around. And what happened to me you know I came up under the days of Kenneth Hagen and people like that John Osteen, Marilyn Hickey. And one of the things that God began to do in my life was that He taught me about mediating in His word. In fact the first scripture I memorized was Psalm Chapter 1 verse 1. And it says “That Blessed is the man” or in other words in the Hebrew it means favored. “…empowered to prosper is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.” This is the advice of the ungodly or stands in the way of sinners or sits in the seat of the scornful. “But his delight is in the law of the Lord; the Torah of God. And in His law or Torah does he mediate day and night and he will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. And he will bring forth fruit in his season and whatever he does shall prosper.” And that’s what began to happen; I began to mediate in the word, in the scriptures day and night. I would wake up in the morning, read the Bible and pray. During my time at school between classes I would read the Bible and pray. I didn’t just read the Bible but I meditate in the Hebrew sense of the word which is the word Haga. That means to moan, to speak, to mutter. And so I would literally carry my Bible and read it out loud all throughout my house. I’d turn my television off and my father had to put me on punishment but it wasn’t from girls or party’s to television. He told me I read my Bible too much.
Sid: Now that is a good problem.
Kynan: But you know I did it not to be religious but I did it out of desperation. And something happened to me Sid that changed my life. God began to impart to me supernatural revelation and understanding. I call it supernatural or divine intelligence. And all of a sudden I could understand my class work; I could understand math, geography, history, the Holy Spirit started to bring things back to my remembrance. And I went from a GPA that was so low I could not be admitted to any college that in one year actually supernatural turnaround in my grades. I ended up getting a scholarship and did better in college than I did my entire history in grade school.
Sid: I don’t know how people make it; I made it but I don’t know how people make it that don’t know the Lord. They have a decided disadvantage they’re not operating with the life of God within them. Now you also told me just before we went on the air that you used to sing a song at church “Father Abraham.” Do you remember the words to that song? Sing it if you remember it.
Kynan: Yeah, it says (singing) “Father Abraham had many sons, many sons had father Abraham. I am one of them and so are you, so let’s just praise the Lord.”
Sid: What did the song mean to you back then and how is it different today?
Kynan: Well back then again you know I grew up in church and it was something we just had to do. But I had questions about it; I said “Who was this Abraham guy?”
Sid: (Laughing)
Kynan: And I (Laughing) what does he have to do with me? I don’t know anybody named Abraham. And I’m sure if he’s in the Bible he’s probably dead by now and how can I be his son? And the only father I knew was James C. Bridges. I didn’t know about any father Abraham. I had questions in my heart and I thank God because even sometimes when we’re young He will see things in our heart to really spark our curiosity. And what I realized over the years is what I was doing I was literally blessing myself; I was speaking a blessing and ancient Biblical blessing over myself that would really bless me then and now. And in Galatians 3 it talks about the Blessing of Abraham. Abraham is a father of our faith; he is the father of the Jewish people. And that blessing has come upon the Gentiles those that are not Jewish through Jesus, through Yeshua. And as we place our faith in Him we get to enjoy the benefits of the blessing that was on Abraham’s life. Abraham lived to be 175 years old, plus plus some scholars believe. So I was literally tapping into an ancient Hebraic blessing and didn’t even know it.
Sid: And the thing that I find is key is that it’s not a passive thing. The degree of blessing is based on the degree of knowledge that you have of the word and having faith and action in that knowledge. In other words people think that if God wants to bless me He’ll bless me; but it doesn’t really work that way does it Kynan.
Kynan: No, in fact Hosea 4:6 says “My people are destroyed or they perish for lack of knowledge.” Now that word knowledge is an interesting Hebrew word. It’s not just talking about information but what it’s talking is understanding and comprehension. For example everybody know that they have a heart in their chest. Or they should know by now if they are an adult. But everybody doesn’t what it takes to have a healthy heart, to have healthy blood flow and so forth. That comes from understanding or applied knowledge and what happens is there’s so many people in the world today who they love God, they have a relationship with God but they are ignorant of many of the blessings and benefits that He has extended to them in Yeshua particularly the blessing of favor…
Sid: Now let me ask you this question; I have your brand new book it’s called “Supernatural Favor Living in God’s Abundance.” Why did you write this book?
Kynan: Well do you have some tissue on hand because it may be a sober… it may make you cry. So you may need to get a box of tissues for this one. But no seriously I wrote the book because I was one of those people I just mentioned. I was in God in the Lord and had experienced the favor of God, you know, in many areas of my life before but I hit a wall in my Christian experience. I was frustrated, I was suffering from lack, I was suffering from disappointment in God; I thought that God wasn’t fair. I thought that He loved other believer’s more than He loved me because they would get up and testify about how He would bless them and I couldn’t even pay my bills. Because I couldn’t even… you know a quick testimony. When I got married as a young person you know my wife and we traveled for our honeymoon and we were so excited we still had that honeymoon shine on our face. And we had been eating real good in Orlando and when we drove back to Tampa I heard some devastating news I found out that I lost my job. Now the problem was we had just moved into a house; we had just bought a brand new car; we were living the young married life. We were believers at the time of course I wasn’t in ministry around this time; we had just joined a little small church. And that was a problem because now we had bills mounting, my wife was not working; I was not working and I didn’t know what to do. Well things went from bad to worse actually we lost our house; we lost the car and we moved into… well there was young man in our church who owned an apartment complex it wasn’t in the best neighborhood. And he offered to let us stay there. And we moved in with him, or moved into his complex.
Sid: Isn’t it amazing you even stayed married under those circumstances; but we’re out of time. And you can tell he is a God ordained teacher. And he is not teaching theory; he’s teaching what works in his life and works in members of his congregation’s life. The brand new book “Supernatural Favor” and 3 CD’s in which he declares favor declaration and prays for this impartation you can’t impart what you don’t have yourself.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth