SID: You know, this is totally, totally out of my hands right now. I’m a Jewish believer and you gentile believers are supposed to provoke Jewish believers to jealousy. But this is ridiculous. Keith Duncan, in 1997, you were just a nice normal professional worship leader. You knew your fast, your slow and stopped just in time so the pastor can make announcements, take up the offering, give the message and get people home for their lunch. You’re professional, but something happened different. What happened?
KEITH: I had my whole night scripted out. I knew exactly what I was going to do. My three songs were laid out, my prayer song, my special music. It was ready to go until the Holy Spirit blew into that service that night. And when the Holy Spirit blows in you got to yield away your agenda to His. At least that’s what He’s wanting to teach us. And so what I learned that night was, I finished my three songs and I looked to the pastor, and the pastor was over plastered on the ground. He was just worshiping God and the Holy Spirit, he was so overwhelmed crying before the Lord. So I said, okay, let me look to the second point person. So I looked to my assistant pastor. And my assistant pastor, he was lost in the presence of the Lord. And I’m like, okay, what do I do now? I don’t have another song, Lord. And so I felt a prompting of the Spirit. And so I just began to play a song, and that one song led to another song. And two hours later the Glory of the Lord, Sid, just engulfed the house. I’ve never experienced anything like this. But it was the weightiness, that kavod.
SID: You know, as you’re saying it now, it’s happening to me.
KEITH: Yes.
SID: Is it happening to you?
KEITH: And that glory and that weight just continued and intensified until I was down on the ground. I was just, I could not move my hands off of the ground. I had never experienced anything like this. And immediately it’s like I was immediately in the Throne Room of Heaven. Because I could see on the back like where this screen is here behind us, I could see the throne and the legs of Him who set upon the throne, and I knew it was the presence of the Lord. And I saw the steps that led down from the throne to the Throne Room floor. And Sid, over in the back of that sanctuary this little elderly lady with a little church mouse voice just begins to sing in the spirit.
[woman singing]
SID: This is in the church, but you’re observing what’s going on in Heaven. She starts singing and then what?
KEITH: Yes. And then when I hear her sing, all of a sudden on the floor, I see this sparkly diamond that is just spinning. It just pops up on the floor of the Throne Room and it spins. And when she stops singing the diamond disappears. Well we know that the Holy Spirit moves in waves. And sometimes we catch that first wave and we think, that’s good, let’s get out of here. But if we wait for that second wave of God’s spirit in His glory, it’s no telling what God wants to do. And this particular night as I witnessed this, several waves, and half of the congregation would begin to sing in the spirit, and there were more diamonds appeared. Now this was several waves that took place until at one point the entire congregation was singing in the spirit. It was the most melodious thing I had ever heard with all sorts of harmonies. And it was just amazing. And I noticed the Throne Room floor was filled to capacity with these sparkly diamonds. And it was at that junction I noticed something moving from the throne. And I turned, and I saw a substance being poured from the legs of Him who set upon the throne that looked like milk and honey. And I could see it run down the stairways, and it would move in and out amongst all of the diamonds as they were sparkling and spinning on the floor. And so I didn’t really quite know what to do with that, because at that juncture, you were not on TV. It was not “It’s Supernatural”. So if you start sharing Heaven, and I’ve seen people would kind of ostracize you. I had established a nice career within my organization. And so you try not to rock the boat. So I just kept quiet. I didn’t really know what to do with it until the Lord said, “Keith, there’s a couple of things I want you to notice.” He said, “You notice sparkly diamonds. Now you’ve been studying some of the Hebrew words for praise.” One of those Hebrew words for praise is “hallal”. It’s used probably more than any other time in Scripture and it means “to be clamorously foolish.” Literally the literal translation means, “to spin like a top”. And I thought, that’s exactly what those diamonds were doing, because that’s all I could describe, is like they were spinning like a top. And the Lord just began to show me, that’s your hallal. That’s that praise. As they released their praise a diamond appeared on the Throne Room floor. Now the Lord said, “What was this that you saw flowing from my throne?” And I said, “Well it looked like milk and honey, Lord. What was it?” He said, “That’s my river.” He said, “The church has been praying for my river to flow through their sanctuaries, through their churches, because in my river there is healing, there is salvation, there is deliverance. The church wants that.” He said, “But if you stop and look the sequence of events, the river did not flow until the diamonds appeared.” He said, “The church is the ones who are responsible for withholding the river from flowing.”
SID: So you’re saying that we are not waiting on God, but God is waiting on us. Now listen to this. We played one of Keith’s songs, it’s called “Shout”, for our prayer meeting. And I have never seen our group get as boisterous, as wild like some of the Hebrew words you studied for worship, twirling. But here’s the important thing. God showed up. And when God is present all things are possible. As a point of contact every time you at home sing the word “shout” and you in the studio audience, “shout”, believe you’re getting healing, believe you’re finding destiny, believe you’re getting supernatural wisdom from God. And I tell you that you are about ready to have your visitation from God. Don’t look back. Shout!
[music, singing]
Come on and shout with the Lord for triumph, shout with the Lord for praise, shout unto God. Shout unto God for a victory. Give the Lord a shout of praise. Shout for the Lord. God is most high. Shout with the Lord for triumph, shout with the Lord for praise, shout unto God. Shout unto God for a victory. Give the Lord a shout of praise. Shout unto God!
