Sid: I have on the telephone Michael Kaylor, I have been looking forward to interviewing him because he has a supernatural gift to get you out of the struggle mode and walk as a true son and a true daughter of the Lord. Now Michael you have a wonderful heritage, you were telling me before we went on the air that your hero was your Grandfather and he was a protégé of William Branham. And he must have understood a lot about healing because he lived to about 100 years of age. But when he was ninety-six years of age he was hit by a milk truck?
Michael: Yeah, that’s correct he had been in the ministry his whole life and when he was ninety-six he had gotten ran over and everyone expected him to die like really quickly. And of course his heritage of being in that ministry brought him to a place to where in two weeks he was totally healed and back ministering behind the pulpit again which was awesome. Just an amazing, he was an amazing man.
Sid: Now, why did you tell me that he was your hero?
Michael: Well, he had such a heart for people and such a compassion and he was I mean everyday he would, first thing he would do is that he would spend time with the Lord. Which to me was a great model; and he was one of these guys that maybe at a different culture he totally accepted and loved you and was filled with hope for you. So for me he was just an amazing guy, you know I just am honored to follow in his footsteps by keeping the ministry going.
Sid: Now when you were just twelve years of age you had quite a supernatural experience, tell me about that.
Michael: Yeah, I did when I was twelve our family at that time was going to, we had moved away and we were located and at that time we were going to denominational church and they had Sunday night meetings and when I was twelve the last thing I wanted to do was just sit in a class room all the time. But I wanted to honor my folks so I tried to go, but every once in awhile to be honest with you I played hooky until they finally realized that hey you need to be coming here so I went. On this particular Sunday night I remember sitting there and I was honestly just bored out of my head. And I’m looking around and suddenly out of nowhere the wall that I’m looking at turns into a cross; I mean it’s like a three D cross to just come out of the wall towards me and I was shocked. I mean everything inside of me wanted to stand up and shout “Look at that.” But I was more of a reserved kind of guy so I kept it to myself and the cross just stayed there for several minutes and then finally disappeared and I was shocked. I mean it affected me from that point on, because I began to realize you know that I always read the Bible stories of course growing up and seeing these wonderful men of God in the Old Testament do these amazing like supernatural things and wow, here’s a guy making an ax head float and all this stuff. I really had a hunger for more than what I was getting and I remember standing at my back yard one day and praying and I just said, “God I want the faith that these Old Testament prophets had. Which at the time I had no clue what I was praying, but I was just hungry, you know hungry for just more reality of God. And it was soon after that in this meeting and this cross appears and as I began to think about it…
Sid: So, do you think your God heard your prayer?
Michael: Well, he did and you know I think that it was connected to again, you go back to that family; family is so important and you know I know that my Grandfather and Mom and Dad they were always praying for us. And I think that when you’re hungry like that I think that God’s ear is automatically tuned to the hunger no matter what age because you know even at twelve you don’t get a junior Holy Spirit you get the full Holy Spirit then; it was an amazing event.
Sid: Now, what’s this business of when you were about eighteen you were taken up; explain that to me.
Michael: Well, when I was, this was actually one summer some friends of mine, we were sitting around and to be honest we were like okay, “What are we going to do?” And when my friend said, “Maybe we should just pray, and I thought “I don’t want to pray, I don’t feel like praying, but okay let’s do it. And so he began to pray and then it came around to my turn to pray and I thought, okay here we go. But as I began to pray it was the craziest thing as I prayed I was, I don’t know the best way I describe it was like someone just took me out of my body and lifted me up. And I felt like I was ascending up and it was very you know; I could remember like it was yesterday, the view was very white and it was good but it scared me; I mean…
Sid: You know I heard Kenneth Copeland share a story that something like that happened to him once and he was scared and he was so sorry because he felt God wanted to do even more. I wonder if that’s what was going on with you?
Michael: Oh, I think I totally agree because I think I was so nervous God had grace on me and just stopped you know, and let me go back to the you know the room with my friends. But I was shocked; my friends kept looking after me after that and asking me what’s going on because I was as white as a sheep. But I think God probably did want to do more, but you know He’s so gracious.
Sid: Okay, at twenty you’re part of a Christian band.
Michael: Right.
Sid: And you go to a Baptist youth convention and was this the first time supernatural laughter came on you?
Michael: Oh yeah, it was and I tell you, it was one of the most amazing things because, you know when you go to Baptist Convention for youth, you know they’re focus is a little different. So one night our band’s together in one of the dorms, we all stayed in a dorm room and that night we thought, well let’s pray before the meetings, before we get ready for the meetings in the morning and so as we began to pray. We are just sitting on the floor in a circle and something came over me like that scripture says “Out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Well, that began to happen and I mean I tangibly felt something going on inside of me at the point that when I started laughing I laughed until I cried and I started beating the floor!
Sid: Had you ever seen that before?
Michael: No, I had never seen it. I had no clue.
Sid: And you know when something I saw and I’ll never forget it, a little eight year old kid that holy laughter came over him and he was doing what you just said, he was beating, I mean it was like he could not stop laughing and it was nothing funny going on.
Michael: That’s exactly right! I didn’t know what to make of it it kept going to the point that I finally said, Lord please, please stop I can’t take any more of this, and honestly about five seconds later it stopped and I thought oh no. Wait a minute no, more, you know more Lord, I will take more.
Sid: Ha, ha well, you know it says in scripture it says, “A merry heart is good medicine and doctors have found that you release certain chemicals into your body when you laugh that actually cure you of cancer. And some doctors recommend watching comedies; how much more when God is causing that laughter!
Michael: Well, I agree, I agree totally, that’s amazing attacks and it really revolutionized my view of how God deals with us; that He’s really good and what He has for us is always good. And it was soon after I asked the Lord to stop it actually started back up again and it just kept going on and on until we got a knock on the door and we jumped up and the guy that knocked on the door was the director of the conference; and he said, “Look I know what’s going on in there and you guys had better stop it. And he said I know what this is so you guys just need to stop it right now and we come to find out that this man had been part of a Pentecostal Denomination in the past. But you know now he is with a different denominational group and he wanted things to tone down but it’s sort of hard to do it to tone down when you are just sort of overwhelmed like that. It was amazing encounter.
Sid: Well, you have had so many encounters; you’re provoking me to jealousy. I mean, this is a man that has prayed for the deaf and they can hear and the blind and they can see, people with cancer, tumors, lame walk, pains just disappear. It’s, but there’s certain key points where you learn these things, especially when you had a disease yourself that you should have died of. It was totally incurable disease…Because when people listen to you teach there is a strong impartation, has anyone told you that before? It’s like you cause the faith to grow to such a point that there isn’t even any struggle in that area and their expectancy goes through the roof. Are you aware of that?
Michael: Well, I’ve had people make various comments before and I just, you know I remind folks that you know, when you encounter God that way, it changes the way that you look at reality. And I know for me encountering Him with various supernatural realities you know it brought me to a place of instead of really trying; struggling to believe and you know struggle to have faith. It’s hard to explain, but you have it’s just there I mean you believe different.
Sid: But what’s so wonderful is not that you have it; what’s so wonderful is that anyone that sits under your teaching gets so charged up and receives with the goods that they can do what you do.
Michael: Oh, I totally agree because it’s all the transference of the Holy Spirit and He’s not a respecter of people and what He does through one He does through another. And you know I think that sometimes He wants to do more through us than we even want to do ourself.