SID: Not man, but God taught Richard Mull step by step how to hear God’s voice, how to operate in the supernatural. For instance, you’re teaching a Baptist college retreat and all of a sudden what happened?
RICHARD: Well I had been speaking from the Book of Acts about normal Christianity. The problem is I had never experienced any of it. I was calling it extreme Christianity, but that was my spin, this is what I believed the normal Christian life was to be. And I asked, how many of you want this? I stood up and I decided to do something against normal for a Baptist speaker, and then began to lay hands on everybody as I went around the room. And one of the girls sat down and she began to pull her hair and she began to lift her shirt to the point where I thought she was going to tear her shirt. She was rocking back and forth and making a hissing sound. And my first thought was, where’s the door, I’m out of here. And but I was like brand new at hearing God’s voice. And I said, “God, would you show me what to do.” I was still in that phase learning to hear God, is this God, is this me, is this God? But I didn’t have the luxury of time to figure out what is God. So I’m going to do whatever I sense the Holy Spirit leads me to do. And I knew at the time to pray something about the name of Jesus. And I’m going, is this coming from my head, my theological background or by the Holy Spirit? I’m not going to argue. I’m just going to pray something about the name of Jesus, because I know there’s power in the name. And prayed something about the authority and the blood of Jesus. I felt impressed to pray in tongues, which is something I had never done publically.
SID: At a Baptist college.
RICHARD: Yeah. And so I began to under my breath, kind of my hand over the front of my face, pray in tongues. And then I felt impressed to shout, “Freedom in Jesus’ name.” At that point, I was pretty sure I had picked something up watching televangelists or something. But I was not going to stop. And so I shouted, “Freedom in Jesus’ name.” And the girl all of a sudden looked at me, very embarrassed, put her head down, covered her face, and all the torment stopped. I turned around and I began to explain to this college group what had just happened. I knew that what I was saying was not coming from myself. And I was thinking, I hope somebody takes really good notes because this is pretty amazing stuff. I really have no idea what I’m talking about. And it was the beginning of the next six months, everywhere I spoke or worshiped, someone would manifest demons.
SID: Okay. There are life-threatening situations by being human. And it seems as though the closer we get to the return of Jesus, the more this late great Planet Earth is being shaken. What happened in a life-threatening situation when your baby son died?
RICHARD: Nathaniel was almost two years old. We had been strongly urged by doctors to put him on steroids and antibiotics. We tried to resist but felt that it was a pretty severe encouragement by them that they would write us up for non-compliance if we didn’t. So we allowed them to put him on steroids and antibiotics. Thirty-six hours later, I was headed back the hospital. I pulled him off my chest and the words that came out of my mouth were, “He’s gone.” You can’t prepare for a moment like that, but I had been preparing for a year believing I would see the dead raised. I had seen most of the miracles of the Bible. But I sit him on that table and I began to pray. And I said, “God, I don’t know what to do to his body, but I know what to do spiritually.” I continued to pray and I watched the minutes inch away, eight minutes, 10 minute, 15 minutes, 20 minutes. And during that time, I was answering their questions, but I was commanding Nathaniel to come back because I knew his spirit was gone. I said, “Nathaniel, you listen to your daddy. Right now, I want you to come back here.” I was rebuking spirits of death from the room. I was repenting of every sin I had ever thought of doing, every sin my family had ever done generationally. I was taking away every right that the enemy had to attack my family and my son. And in about 22 minutes I had a vision. In the middle of that hospital room, the doctors were still working on him. You could see them looking at each other. But I saw in the middle of that room a boat being tossed by the waves and I could see Jesus on the boat, and I knew that was my promise, that the Lord was going to raise my son back up. I knew we had passed the barriers where brain damage begins and all those things.
SID: How long had he been dead?
RICHARD: At that point it was about 22 minutes.
SID: Wow.
RICHARD: It ended up 40 minutes before they found a heartbeat and blood pressure. And they told us that he wouldn’t have the strength to make it through an operation, that he needed an operation. He had an ulcer related to the medicine, we found out later. And the ulcer had ruptured. And so he had been pouring toxins throughout his system into his bloodstream. They said he would be too weak to make it through an operation, that he was gone too long, that he would be brain damaged. And for people that were here this evening, they got see him first hand, running around, full of life, no brain damage, and raised, and, oh God.
SID: That’s how I want you to hear God. I want you to hear God. And Richard has been raised up, and he’s going to supernaturally teach you when we come back what God has taught him as to how you can hear God’s voice. It is normal. Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice.”
RICHARD: Amen.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth