SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Peter Gammons, I am amazed at the gifting God has given him. I had the privileged of meeting Catherine Coleman. And someone received, I mean, this woman, as far as I’m concerned, Peter, I haven’t seen the degree of miracles that I saw under her ministry. I mean, just all over the auditorium there would be an eruption. And I’ve interviewed people, 20, 30, 40 years after they received their healing, and they still had their healing today. But you have been given a very unique sign. Many times he’ll line 45 deaf and mute people up, 45, and many times everyone will be healed. How did this gift start happening?
PETER: I asked the Lord for a notable sign.
SID: That’s notable
PETER: That couldn’t be denied by the unbelievers.
SID: You know, that’s called a Messianic miracle because that’s what Jesus did.
PETER: And I will line them up, and I would tell the people, if they’re not all healed, you don’t have to believe. But if they’re healed, you have to believe. And thousands received Christ in those things. I announce during these Gospel events around the world that on a particular night I will pray for those who are deaf and mute, and sometimes they empty deaf and mute schools and bring the children along and we see them.
SID: What do the schools do after they all can hear? Did they become hearing schools?
PETER: There’s some funny stories. One of the funniest was in Zimbabwe. They brought these five deaf and mute boys, and God healed them. The next day, the pastor comes to me and he says, “They weren’t healed.” I said, “What do you mean they weren’t healed? They heard and they spoke.” He said, “But I keep asking them questions and they’re not answering.” I said, “Well of course they’re not answering. They’ve never heard words before. You got to teach them, like a baby, you got to teach them how to speak. They don’t understand what you’re saying because they’ve never heard before. “Oh,” he said. And I went back a year later and he had taught them all how to speak. He had taken them on and personally trained them.
SID: If you think that’s something, what about someone that had molten lead poured into their ear. I mean, there is nothing, no apparatus for healing. Tell me about that person.
PETER: I would pray along the line. And I always do what Jesus did. What happened to you?
Man: I am a mechanic. I was working on a vehicle and hot lead went into my ear and destroyed all of the inner ear.
SID: That is horrible.
PETER: Yeah. So I told the people, what we need is not a healing. A healing is repairing something. What we need is a creative miracle. And suddenly, my finger disappears inside this man’s head. Recreate the part of this man’s ear that was destroyed. And suddenly it felt like little mice running around inside his head. I felt all this touching my finger. And it started to push my finger out of his ear. And then—
SID: What was pushing your finger?
PETER: God recreated inside his ear. All the parts were missing.
SID: So it was not your finger.
PETER: Yeah. So he ended up with an eardrum, and I couldn’t put my finger back in his ear. It was just like a normal ear. And when I whispered in his ear he could repeat everything I said, and he could hear.
MAN: I could hear! I could hear again!
SID: Now I know that you see all the time, people deaf getting their hearing back. That’s a notable sign that God has given you. But that had to do something, not just to him, to you once you realize what God had done.
PETER: Yeah. Well some people, they’re like, oh, I can’t believe he’s done this. But for me, it’s an everyday occurrence. It’s something that happens as common as more than I have hot meals.
SID: Now in addition to signs and wonders, God has made you a revelation teacher. I have never seen some of the revelations that I hear you teach. For instance, you take the names of God in the Hebrew and you string together, and each one is a progressive revelation of God. Why don’t you teach a little bit on that.
PETER: I have a teaching called El Shaddai, where I show God reveals Himself in the scriptures in the order that we need to know Him. Many theological schools, they come up with these complicated theories that maybe Genesis was written by several authors, the Elohim author, the Yahweh author. But God reveals Himself first as Elohim, the great creating God, and that’s the first thing. We need to know the greatness of God. And then God reveals Himself in Genesis, Chapter 2, as Yahweh, the loving redeemer. The moment man comes on the scene and He creates man and woman, He changes His name and He becomes Yahweh, the redeemer. Even before man fell, God is already presenting Himself as the solution. And so next, we need to know Him in an intimate and personal way as a loving redeemer. And that’s the difference. When the devil refers to God, he always uses the word “Elohim”. When unbelievers, for example, in the discourse between Job and his friends, they all talk about Elohim. And there are many people who believe in God, but they don’t know Yahweh. You have to know him personally. Have you ever said to an unbeliever, you say, they say, I believe in God. Yeah, they believe in Elohim, but they don’t Yahweh. You need to know Him as a loving redeemer. Then He reveals Himself as Adonai, which means Lord. And people need to understand, God is Lord, and surrendering to his lordship is not coming under the rule of a tyrant. It’s closing the door on the devil, because God has no right to intervene on our behalf until we surrender to Him and give Him that opportunity and that privilege. And so the next stage is to surrender to His lordship. And then when we surrender to his lordship He reveals Himself as El Shaddai, the God who is more than enough, the God who will provide for us in abundance. And this is the problem for many Christians. They’re trying to get to know El Shaddai. They’re trying to get God to prosper them and meet their financial needs, and bless them with abundance. But there’s a journey. And it’s interesting. Then when we study through the life of Abraham, he had that journey. He meets with Elohim, then he comes to know Him, and he calls Him Yahweh, and God reveals Himself. Then he surrenders to Hi as Lord and calls him Adonai. And then God says to him, “Now I’m El Shaddai.” And his son Isaac refers to God as “El Shaddai”. Obviously Abraham had taught his son, this is the God, He’s the God who provides.
SID: You know what I think is fascinating? When Peter shares this revelation, it’s not just teaching. He’s lived it. He’s experienced it. And when he talks about the name of God, El Shaddai, miracles break out. Don’t go away. We’ll be right back.
