Sid: My guest is red hot for the Messiah. His name is Mel Bond, and I’m interviewing him on his book “Understanding Your Worst Enemy.” Now one of the things that impressed me is that you had miracle children because the doctor said that you couldn’t have children when you got rid of the spirits that were the demonic spirits that were stopping your wife from being pregnant and carrying the children to full birth. But the thing that I’m overwhelmed with is when your children were at a young age you taught them to rebuke evil spirits.
Mel: Absolutely, I think that it’s so simple that even Jesus made the statement in Matthew Chapter 18 right around verse 3, he says unless you become like a little child you can’t enter the kingdom of Heaven. And the kingdom of Heaven there, that particular teaching he wasn’t talking about the abode of God, but he was talking about the blessings of the Kingdom of God on this earth. If you remember in Matthew Chapter 6 just a few chapters before that the disciples came to Him and asked Him how to pray; and He says pray “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven.” And so if it’s not so simple that a child can’t do it then it’s just not God. And so children can and I started teaching our children oh, as soon as they started talking. I would go into them when they would have fevers laying in their bed, I would just tell teach them that’s a spirit and you rebuke it. And I’m hear them in their bedroom just saying, “In Jesus name I take authority over this fever that by the stripes of Jesus I’m healed and that I can have what the Bible says I can have and you have to leave.” And those spirits would leave and those children as little children they would be free from colds and from fevers.
Sid: Well, you make this whole thing so simple. It really is isn’t it?
Mel: You know Sid, Jesus made it simple for us. He is just a good Jewish man.
Sid: Tell me about that heart surgeon that was healed at Wilson, North Carolina.
Mel: That was right around 1995 and I was preaching and while I was teaching and preaching and this is my custom I’m always looking at people just to see how I can be a blessing to them and get rid of problems and bless them. And I just happened to look and I had seen this guy and he as a guy probably about six foot, six foot one and probably weighed about 200 pounds 220 pounds and I had seen inside of his chest and I had seen and I can see it now; I had seen this demon up on the upper left hand artery and it was a small demon probably only four inches tall, basically had his arms and his legs wrapped around that upper artery on the left hand side and two major arteries on the bottom and there are two similar demons and they had their arms and legs wrapped around those arteries. And so I didn’t tell the man that I’d seen demons, cause a lot of time people that frightens them, I just told him I had seen a problem and I told them where those were at. And I said, I’m going to take care of that with the Name of Jesus, and so I did, I commanded it to leave and I commanded his heart region to surrender to the power of God, to the love of God. And he did and then he started speaking out and he started jumping and got pretty excited and it wasn’t a real large church, but there was probably three hundred people there and all the people got excited. And the reason was this man was a surgeon, I believe that he was a heart surgeon and he made the statement; he stood and told me he first of all he says, “I want to know where you got your medical training?” And I told him I said, “Well, you know I don’t have any medical training at all I’m just telling you want I saw.” What the Lord allows me to see in the spirit realm and to see and I just described what I saw. “Well, I’m a doctor and I think he said he a surgeon and he said, I have got x-rays describing exactly what you said and he said, I felt a relief in my chest and he says I was scheduled to have heart surgery in two more weeks and he said but the reason I came here was to prove that you are a fraud.” But he said, “Now I know that there is healing and that God is a miracle worker; and he said, “I feel it I’m free, I’m not going to have to have that surgery.”
Sid: Tell me about the service with the Lakota Indians on reservation.
Mel: Okay, this is one of the first times that I really learned that demons are not permanent, they move around. They are entities and so here I am at Par Melee on the Rosebud Indian Reservation where my family is a part of and I was doing a miracle service and there was probably 200 people there 250 something like that; and while I’m preaching all of a sudden I see, and I can see it right now, I see this man and on his back on the right hand side of his spinal column up towards his shoulder. Just a little bit lower than his shoulders and I’d seen a spirit and it sort of looked like it was sort of round but not totally round, but you know in other words it had a form and it had just like a whole bunch of legs like centipede legs that type of a thing; but it was pretty well flat like a leech and so I ask him. “Do you have a problem in your back right there?” He said, “No I don’t have a problem at all.” And then I said, “Well have you ever had a problem.” He said, “Never had a problem in that area at all.” And I said, “Well you know, I see something I need to take care of,” and so I commanded that spirit to leave; that spirit dropped to the floor and I could still remember dropping to the floor and crawling out the building and leaving and before it even got outside the building the man had a big smile on his face and he lifted his right arm all the way in the air and he says, “I don’t have no pain.” And then he told the story, “He said ten years prior to this I was playing football and I tore my rotator cuff, I had to have surgery and I could never raise my arm above my shoulder. I could never do that. Plus, I have lived with pain for ten years.” And he said, “Look at this.” And he raised his arm straight in the air as high as he could get his arm as high as humanly possible and he smiled with relief and he said, “I have no pain.” And so the Lord showed me many times when you start seeing in the spirit world that if you get rid of the root of the problem you can rid of the problem. And that spirit was the root of that problem and so sometimes you know that I have dealt with people that might have other problems, but I ‘d see a spirit maybe someplace in their stomach and I get rid of that and then all of a sudden it’s someplace else in their body they have relief.
Sid: Tell me about the time that the Lord showed you, it wasn’t based on how long you studied or how many days you fasted, to have the power for deliverance.
Mel: Many years ago it was in the middle ‘80s and I was really wanting more of God’s power wanting more of God’s influence on my life and so I perceived this voice coming to me and telling me Mel, what you need to do is you need to double up on your Bible reading. So I doubled up on my Bible reading and after a couple of months instead of things getting better things were worse. Then I perceived that same voice come back to me and said, Mel what you need to do is double up on your prayer life. So I doubled up on my prayer life after a month or so things were even worse than ever before. Then I perceived that voice telling me, Mel what you need to do is fast and pray. And if you fast and pray, that’s going to do it. So I started fasting and praying and after about a week things were worse than ever and the only thing that I had was hungry. I was hungry and I was depressed, so extremely depressed, frustrated, disappointed, and so many times people in this world, the same thing Christians pray and we don’t get results and we wonder why. So any way I got angry and I got angry at God and I said, I’m not going to pray no more, I’m not going to read my Bible no more. Now, I’m a pastor I’d been pasturing for several years. I said I’m not doing these things; in fact I’m going to go eat and eat anything I want. And so that’s the way that I lived and I did that for about a week and then during the night session I heard this heavy heavy footsteps in our living room and our bedroom was all the way down at the hall; and I heard these footsteps going down the hallway and it sounded like somebody that had scaly feet, scales just like an alligators’ back or something where you could just hear it and I heard it and it sounded sort of like, shoo, shoo, shoo coming down the hallway. And I’m thinking what in the world is that? And so I sat up in bed and I called our oldest daughter whose name is Cherish, “What do you want?” What are you doing?” And then I watched and I could still see that round doorknob in that house, the doorknob turned and the door opened and in walked satan. And just to see him was extremely horrifying every, you know I’m not a very hairy person but every hair on my body and on my body, but every hair on my body and on my arm absolutely stood up. I had sweat that secreted out of every pour in my body and I was soaking wet within two seconds. Just soaking wet with fear and with perspiration and I rebuked him. I said I rebuke you in Jesus name you have to leave I have authority over you and he just laughed and he said no you can’t rebuke me you don’t have authority. He said, God told you to double your reading, double your prayer, fast and you’re not doing any of those things. I thought in my mind, he’s right how did he know that? So I don’t have authority over him, because I haven’t been doing what God told me to do. And then he just laughed the most hideous laugh and it drove like horrible defeat in my spirit, I felt like a maggot was now my god, my lord that’s the way that I kind of felt, like a maggot was my master and then he just disappeared. And so I was extremely depressed. More depressed than you could imagine, even suicidal and this went on for about a week or two and then I crawled out of bed one night, because I couldn’t sleep at all. I went into the other room, laid on the floor, I began to pray, forgot all my Thee and Thou’s and trying to quote scripture perfectly and I just cried out to God like a little child I said dear God, if you’ll just tell me what you want me to do, you know I’ll do anything you want me to do. I don’t care what it is, I just need to know. I need to know what you need me to do. I didn’t hear audibly, I’ve heard God speak to me in audible voice before, but this time I didn’t hear God speak in audible voice, I didn’t see anything and I have seen in the past, but I knew that God was there in all His fullness and I perceived Him saying, “Mel, I’m here and I want you to know that you’re my child based on what I’ve done, not on what you’ve done or what you could ever do.” And he said, “Mel, I want to you know you have authority over the devil based on what I’ve done not based on what you’ve done.”