Sid: I’m speaking to my friend Gary Whetstone who has been a guest on Messianic Vision and It’s Supernatural before. I have to tell you Gary your testimony of you coming to the Lord and what God did in your life should be a movie. I’m sure I’m not the first one to tell you that.
Gary: Absolutely Sid there is such a tremendous demonstration of God reaching the lost today if only the church could know that God’s grace has been poured out to the lost world especially those who are out of reach of humanity.
Sid: As a matter of fact I asked you before we went on the air “Did God show you what is going to place this year; how would you phrase that?”
Gary: The Spirit of God has revealed in my Spirit that there is an awakening in the Body of Christ of the supernatural person of Jesus Christ and the power of His resurrection. That today the church is experiencing a freedom from all the religious overtones, all the quagmires of human manipulation and they are coming with a passion to experience the life of Christ Jesus. And that anointing Sid is pouring out through the Body of Christ and the world because the Spirit of God has been poured upon all flesh is at a place where they are ready to be harvest. This is the time where the church is in its finest hour to speak a word, bring darkness to banish and light to bare in the power of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. I am so excited Sid I can’t stand myself.
Sid: I wouldn’t make that statement but I would say I’m as excited as you are right now. I understand what you’re saying because I believe that we are going to see the greatest, greatest turnaround really in America. President Obama at one point made the statement that “We’re no longer a Christian nation,” and I am believing that we’re about ready to see the greatest move of God Spirit in history in America, and he won’t be able to say that anymore.
Gary: Absolutely you know this is not a time for the church to look at what the world has done; this is a time for the church to look to who Jesus is within them. There is greater grace available in the resurrection of Jesus then through His death, oh that’s an awesome unveiling in the Body of Christ.
Sid: Well the same Spirit that rose Messiah Jesus from the dead it dwells in you, it dwells in me. I mean that if that, if Jesus could be risen from the dead with every sin that the whole world’s committed; with every sickness the world has committed that is power and that same power resides in you.
Gary: Sid there is nothing that the church, the believer is limited in; they are limited with abounding grace penetrating. They walk into a room, Jesus is made to them wisdom, righteousness, redemption and sanctification. Jesus walks into any room and He is there as the ransom for every man’s sin. Delivering them whether that believer knows it or not Christ is them doing the work. All they need to do is say “Lord what are You doing now?” And they will move with Him, they’ll speak with Him, they will do with Him what they could never do before. This is an hour for the church to rise and acknowledge the greater one inside than ever before.
Sid: Now we’ll talk a little bit about your series we’re making available called “Make Fear Bow.” And there are many Christians that say “Well, I’m not that fearful, that’s not one of my problems.” Oh, “Are you stepping out in what God has for you, are you willing to take risk, is something crippling you from fulfilling your destiny?” Yes, it’s a powerful enemy and there’s a way to make it bow in your life. Now Gary I’m going to take you back you’re a young person you’re in school, you’re grades are good, your and athlete and your whole world turns upside-down when you had an accident with an auto. Tell me about it.
Gary: Fifteen years old I am captain of the football team, President of the Student Council, I’m second seated in the State of Delaware at lawn tennis, held State records in swimming and I drove my right arm right through my back. My shoulder bone was sticking out my back about 8 inches. The next thing…
Sid: I was sledding I was going down a hill sledding as a 15 year old enjoying the day and the next thing you know a car pulled out and bam I ran right into the car. I went to stop myself by putting my arm out and that drove the arm right through my back that was the end of tennis, that was the end of football, the end of swimming, the end of everything in my life.
Sid: And that was his world he was an athlete that was what people knew him by and it’s all out the window and your brother at the time was involved in a motorcycle gang. You go as rapidly as you were being an all American boy you went to almost a gang member. You had drugs, and dealing guns, and sex.
Gary: The next thing I did Sid I found my identity shaken and crashed. You know so many people today they find their identity by what they do, who they are, how other people interact and relate to them. That was my life as a teenager, it was by grades, by my popularity, by my successfulness and my achievement and the next thing I knew everything was gone. My brother was running the pagan motorcycle club in the region here and I just said I mean I just gave up on everything. Sid I went down crash burn flat out into drugs, drug dealing, drug using, and I went insane; I was like a mad-dog I used to carry a 357 magnum in the back of my pants, and a Derringer in my boot. We had hundreds of thousands of dollars in our car. I mean we were making serious money but my mind Sid was gone; I was like a raving animal there were no morals, no values, nothing. I know what it is like when we talk about the gun violence and the shedding of blood on the streets of our nation. I know what it’s like for a kid with no attitude no heart of all and say I’m going to pop you and just pull a trigger and blow another person apart. I’ve seen people die at the end of gun violence in my life and I saw in my life Sid the most heinous life come crashing into my life; I became I can’t say I’m a victim but I became the product of the drug culture the torment culture, the violence culture, the self- seeking culture and my mind ended up being totally demonically possessed.
Sid: Tell me real briefly about the time you barged into someone’s house and you were so confused in your mind you thought this man’s wife was your wife, explain?
Gary: Yeah, I’m walking by this street and I’m hearing these voices rage in my mind so I bust in this house and I said “She’s my wife!” Now you’ve got to realize I’m 17 years old, I’m not married but these voices in my body and my mind were speaking so powerfully. So I go and I go to grab this woman. Her husband fights with me, I kick him, knock him across the floor, knock over their fish tank, throw over their things, next thing I know I’m running out the front door again after I beat the guy up. And I’m up against the fence with a cop and he’s got a shot gun in my mouth and I just kick him right between the legs I just said, “Go ahead kill me, just kill me!” I just raged within me wanting to die because of the vile torment that was going on in my mind.
Sid: Well, needless to say they institutionalized him. At that point they had banned lobotomies but they had a more sophisticated way of doing it an electronic lobotomy it would have made him, it would have literally reduced his mind to a 3 year old. But 2 days before you were ready to have your mind permanently reduced to a 3 year old; I mean in this day and age it’s so hard to believe that they ever did this, what happened?
Gary: Nineteen Seventy One here I was here in the hospital and I’ve got long hair down my back, long beard, I’m going to the bathroom in the same pan I’m eating out of in the isolation ward. And they let me out of the isolation ward and I went into a solarium area they had hind restraints on me, feet restraints you can kind of get the picture with a shuffle that mental patients have with their head to their chests. And they led me into the isolation area and out of it into a solarium area where another person was sitting. And I remember the guy saying to me he said, “Gary the power of sin is going to kill you.” I thought he was talking about the procedure they were going to do, my parents had signed a waiver from the State and the Federal government that if they killed me or permanently maimed me they held no legal recourse against any legal recourse against any organization. I was a complete guinea pig of the government; at that point I thought he was saying “Sin was the procedure they were going to do on my brain, because every person in that mental hospital that ever had that electronic penetration the front lobal region where the electrodal probe goes in and fries that part of the lobal front region, every one of them died of brain infections and I knew it, I knew my sentence was there. And when he said “Sin is going to kill you” that’s what I thought he said. I thought he was telling me and giving me a prognosis, a declaration I’m about to die; but something happened he said “If you’d repent and receive Jesus Christ.” I didn’t understand who Jesus was I thought it was a cuss word growing up, and I mean I had no religious anything in me. The next thing I know I’m on the carpet, I’m crying and I remember picking my face up off the carpet. My mind was back like when I was 14 years old, before I had the shoulder accident. And I looked through my drug glazed eyes and all the torment that was going on that was now ceased and I said to myself, “What happened to me?” And he said “Your saved.” And I said, “What’s that?” He said “Your born again.” And I said “What’s that?” He said “Oh, I’m sorry I don’t have time I have another appointment I have to go.” I said “You can’t leave, you don’t know what happened to me,” I… what… I…” he gets up and leaves. Sid I had no idea what took place I did not know what saved meant, I did not know what born again meant and I wasn’t too sure who Jesus was.
Sid: But then you go to the doctor you know you don’t want your mind reduced to a three year old, you know you don’t want them destroying your brain and you know that now you have your mind back. What did the doctors say?
Gary: Oh, I banged on the window of that isolation ward until blood ran down the window and they finally let me out the next day. And as they led me into the chief psychiatrist I sat in the chair, they took my hand restraints off and ….
Sid: Hold that thought we’ll be back on tomorrows broadcast right here. But Gary has a book and four CD’s it’s called “Make Fear Bow.” You have no idea how fear is stopping you from fulfilling the destiny God has for your life. And no more fear is going to bow in your life….
