Richard Roberts shared “The Source of Answering”. Why me, God? Why did You do this to me? Exactly. God is the source of answering the problem. He’s not the source of the problem. And I was coming into this knowledge by a very excruciating personal experience. And as I prayed about it, I came into an understanding of praise and worship that I’d never understood before. I was a classical Pentecostal, raised in the church where people oftentimes raised their voices, said words like hallelujah, praise the Lord, things like that, and that’s common for a lot of the, a lot of things that the Holy Spirit is doing across America today. But those words took on new significance for me.
When I was in the midst of that agony and having to say hallelujah and the devil was on my shoulder saying, “How can you praise God, how can you say hallelujah when you hurt so bad?” And I had to learn to divide in my mind between the hurt that I was experiencing and between who God is. And when I was willing to relate to God and bless Him in spite of the situation, not for it because God didn’t do it.
The devil did it. The devil is the liar. He’s the thief. He’s the destroyer. That’s the one thing I had to learn. But the Lord himself is the one who intervenes. He comes in. He’s the one who’s going to be healing the people, as you’ve been having these words of knowledge on the program today. It’s Him that’s coming and touching them right where they are. But that experience in terms of my relating to God, I had to tie in to Him as being over and above everything else that had happened.
And when I said, “Lord, I praise You, no matter how bad I feel. I bless your name,” something exploded in my spirit. It was like a spiritual timebomb went out. It came out of my innermost being. I began to pray in the Spirit.
Now, Terry, you had prayed in the Spirit many times in (oh yes) in your lifetime but you had, you told me that you had never made it a way of life. (That’s right) You’d never really prayed every day.
That’s right. It became something, it became a tool kit, almost like a mechanism by which I could begin to understand the word of the Lord. And I would begin to pray in the Spirit, I began to interpret back what the Lord had given me in the Spirit. And the Lord began to bring revolu-relation to me.
Right, revolution is right. And it was through that, praying in the Spirit, interpreting back, that God brought me into the healing ministry. And two months after my wife passed away I was praying in my bedroom one morning. The anointing of the Holy Spirit came on me. I began to pray in another language and then I interpreted back out of my spirit. And the Lord said, “I’m going to send you to My people. You’re going to lead them into My presence in praise and worship. You’re going to teach them the sacrifice of praise the way I’ve taught
