Sid: I’ve been promising you all all this week that I’m going to have Larry Randolph who is my guest share some major predictions that God has told him that came true to the decimal point and then new ones that are about ready to hit planet earth. But none of this would have been possible if he hadn’t had a visitation form the Lord; and the most recent one a year ago it was life changing for him and I know it’s going to be life changing for you. Larry Randolph tell me about that visitation.
Larry: Yes, I’m going to start by answering a question that you asked me; you said to tell me something that will surprise you; you know tell me something that you normally wouldn’t tell that was out of the ordinary. So this visitation was I had what I would call book end visitations by Jesus. The one in my early 20’s and I had one a little over a year ago; around a year ago by Jesus Himself too. So I had two; but it started out with something that I don’t tell people and this is interesting; I had a dream that I was playing the most incredible instrument in heaven; and I was already in heaven before the Lord and I was…sounded like a cello and and an organ and it was echoing off the corners of heaven and it was the most beautiful thing that I had ever heard in my life. And now I had to lay down my music for 40 years for ministry and so I got out of the bed and went on the floor and began to weep and said “God did I lose that, did I waste my time; did you give me music talent just for no reason?” Any way I didn’t get any real answer to that; so I go to sleep and at the foot of my bed this was what I said that I want to surprise you with I don’t know how people will take this but the Lord appeared at the foot of my bed as He has many times and I woke up and He was singing the song by Rod Stewart. “Have I told You Lately that I Love You.” Actually it was written by Van Morrison in ’83 and the song is “Have I told you lately that I love you that there is no one else like you to take away all of my sadness.” It was a song sort of written to the Lord; there’s a love that’s devine that’s yours and it’s mine.” And I’m thinking “Here’s the Lord in front of me and He’s singing this song. And you know what “I was weeping like a baby that the Lord would come to me and visit me and say you know “You’re so unique to me; so precious to me have I told you lately, you know that I love you.
Sid: Hm.
Larry: And I thought, that’s incredible and I thought He sang really well too. (Laughing) And I’ve never been sang to by the Lord; so that’s that. So about I don’t know about the exact time in weeks; a few weeks later I’m awakened again and the Lord is in the room again standing to the left of me and this is what He says to me. He said to me “Larry, (it’s been 40 years now since He visited me in that big way; he visited me 4 or 5 times in between but these are major destiny visitations I’m talking about). And He said “Larry your going to come to see me pretty soon.” So immediately I think “Oh, my goodness I’m going to die tomorrow I guess (Laughing) but then pretty soon with the Lord I’m in my 60’s early 60’s pretty soon you know a day is a 1000 years with God so I don’t know what that means. And this is what He said to me “You’re going to come to see me and when you come to see me I don’t want you to come with regrets in your life; I want you to come with no regrets because I want you to live the rest of your life with a zero regret mindset.” And I go “Lord, what does that mean?” He said this, “I want you in this”…first of all He said to me a little earlier let me back up a second. He said “If you were terminal with an illness how would you live the rest of your life?” I said “Lord, I would love people, I would maximize my talents; I would give away everything You gave me; I would forgive people.” And I even said “I would dance with my wife more and tell her I love her more; I went through this list and the Lord said to me “I want you to live the rest of your life like you were terminal tomorrow.” So now I’m standing before Him and He’s telling me I’m coming to see Him soon and I thought “Oh, my goodness I’m terminal.” And then I realized that everybody’s terminal; when your born your going to die one day. So and He’s telling me “Come with no regrets.” So He’s telling me He says “Larry you have to maximize every ounce of creative space I’ve given you in your life; don’t hide your talents in the sand, in the ground.” He reminded me of the story of the steward is we hid our talent when we don’t become what God is telling us to become; that’s what happens to us when God gives us such wonderful authenticity, such wonderful realness and the original breathe, we hide it. And it didn’t go well with that servant and He said “I want you to come before Me and I want you to have maximized every gift, every talent, every unction, every dream and everything you wanted to do; and by the way I want you to come with not loving one person, you have to love, you have to forgive, there can be no animosity because if you say you love God and you don’t love your brother you’re not telling the truth. Because if I don’t love someone and I have un-forgiveness I’m literally…they’re refection of God no matter how in error they may be God made them, they’re a dream from God’s heart. And so I’m saying to the artist I love the artist, I don’t love his painting; I love him but I don’t love his pottery. And the writer said “You’re a liar if you say that.” So I said “Lord, I want to be able to say to you; “I have lived a life of no regrets.” And I remember the scripture that says “And the Lamb shall take them by the living waters and shall wash the tears from their eyes.” And I realized immediately tears of regret for not becoming what God had called us to become and not forgiving who God had called us to forgive and not loving whom God has called us to love. And not being able to say like Joseph “You might have meant it for evil, but God meant has meant it for my good.” Your hurt, your rejection was really an opportunity for promotion in my life; and the Lord said to me “Larry, I don’t want to wipe any tears from your eyes, I want to be able to look you in the eye and say “Well, done good and faithful servant.” And I’m telling you Sid, I woke up out of that, as I say “I Woke up as I was asleep but I got up out of the bed, I was in a daze and the room was buzzing with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And something happened in my heart over a year ago, I have no conflicts, I have nothing to prove, I have nobody to contend with; I have one thing do and that’s to mobile and exercise every ounce of creativity God has called me. I’m going to be me; when I see Jesus I’m going to be Larry, I’m going to be everything God has called me to be; I’m going to be different than anybody else but I’m going to be different in a way that I fulfill my differentness and have become what Christ has made me to be. And in that I believe I have as all of us so an eternal abiding place with God where we are a unique treasure; only one of us that God can embrace for eternity of eternity.
Sid: So if I’m understanding you right after this visitation something I guess because of the presence of God in the room something changed inside of you. Well, if I’m not being too personnel, what was the first thing that you did that you can remember as a result of this visitation.
Larry: I called my office and I told my secretary “Have I told you lately that I love you?” (Laughing) because I thought she was wonderful but how may times I should have told her that she’s doing a wonderful job and I didn’t because she was; eyes in heart but I didn’t say it. I began to express what was in my heart more because Sid, here’s the deal the Lord said this to me and not at that moment another time that tied right in “Larry your gift and your ministry has become bigger than your heart; so I want your heart to be bigger than your gift; because when you come to see Me you can’t bring your gift with you; you can’t bring all that stuff with you; you have to bring your heart.” That’s what gets into heaven.
Sid: You know what “That’s such a profound important thought; would you say it again.”
Larry: I said “We have come in ministry…I had come to the place in ministry where my gift was bigger than my heart and I didn’t realize that my gift was straining..excuse me my heart was straining because it was so small under the weight of my gift. And that’s why men fall because their hearts are smaller than their gift. I remember that it was said of Jesus “He was moved with compassion; the He healed the multitude.” His heart opened the door to His gift, His heart was bigger than His gift. Paul said “Desire…pursue love, then desire spiritual gifts in chronological order; heart first, gift second. The Lord said “Your gift is not coming into heaven.” We don’t need a word of knowledge in heaven; we don’t need a healing in heaven. What’s going to make it to heaven two things Sid, your talent and creativity; music for me so I’m going to be playing with David. I know that when I get there.
Sid: Hm.
Larry: So my music wasn’t a loss; and I also know that my heart was going to be there because Jesus said to one group of people “You said you cast out devils in your name, we healed the sick, our ministry, our gifts are great; He said “I never knew you or other words “I never knew your heart and you and me weren’t friends.” And I thought “How important is it, gift are important, ministry, you better believe it; all of that is important, but your ministry should not be…you know your heart should not be running after your gift trying to stay up with it; your gift should be trying to stay after your heart. Your heart should be so big miracles will happen and you will not even know it; your just loving people and out of that love people are healed. And your so concerned about the compassion that Jesus was that the end result is the breath of heaven in their life released because love never fails.
Sid: Have people walked up to you and remarked “I see such a difference in you, what happened?
Larry: Yes, a year a year or so people say “You seem more fatherly and warm and open.” And I started calling people and saying “Have I told you recently that I love you and that I think you’re incredible.” And just recently I met with 2 people I had a conflict with; not a bad one you know in the church your…you know that..I used to joke and say “It’s alright you have a conflict with me I don’t have a problem with you being wrong.”
Sid: (Laughing)
Larry: (Laughing) But but I’ve met with him and said “See I no longer have a poverty of soul Sid, now I can compliment; now I can forgive because I don’t have that need in my own life.” I’m totally forgive, I’m totally complimented by God so I can give away you know now; I can be generous; the spirit of generosity for compliment is on me now. So I met 2 people recently that I had conflicts with and said “I’m so sorry about the conflict; I don’t care if it was your fault or my fault that’s irrelevant that was in the past I’m living a life of no regrets; and I want to tell you something you may have some problems or I may have thought you did or it doesn’t matter the bottom is you’re a gift of God and you’re an extraordinary person and I see the gold in your regardless of what you see.”
Sid: Now that’s got to disarm anyone that has an offense. I’ll tell you what “We’re out ot time right now.
