SID: Well, I have Rob for the first time on the show, and Aliss Cresswell, who’s been a guest several times, and I see how God has put the two of you together.
SID: When you first saw your wife touched by the spirit of God, Rob, between the two of us, ah, you can listen, what’d you think of? Did you think she went off the deep end? Tell me the truth, c’mon, c’mon.
ROB: Well, I had to be honest. I thought, that’s really good for Aliss, but I didn’t really feel like it was for me.
SID: What ever caused you to join this wild woman?
ROB: I needed my own encounter. I needed my own revelation, and also, Sid, I needed some courage.
SID: Is there hope for all of us to operate the way you and Aliss operate?
ROB: Yes. The love, the power, even the miracle power of God is available to all that come to Him.
SID: And then a lot of people ask, “So what’s the big deal about miracles? I guess if I need one, that’s a big deal.” But why is your emphasis on miracles?
ROB: Well, everything Jesus said is important, but occasionally he said, “No, this is very important.” And this is one of those verses, John 14 Verse 12. He said, “Anyone who believes in me will do the miracles that I’ve been doing.” I think that makes miracles pretty essential for the believer’s life.
SID: I can tell you what my experience, and I’m sure what your experience is. I don’t care whether someone is a Muslim, an Orthodox Jew, a Hindu, a religious Christian, one miracle settles the argument.
ALISS: Yeah, we’ve seen that a lot.
SID: Well you just got back from some ministry trips, tell me some of the miracles.
ALISS: We’ve been to some different places. We’ve been to a Native American reservation in Idaho, been to California, Germany, the U.K., of course, and we saw a lady with multiple sclerosis start walking, she actually walked up the stairs. We’ve seen cancer healed, tumors disappear, metal disappear off people’s bodies.
ALISS: There’s this one guy called Tim that I’ve got to tell you about, because basically he was in the U.S. military in the 1980s, and he had a terrible accident in the military. He was in charge of the tanks. So Tim, he sits there, he goes to start the tank, and as he starts it, he gets this tremendous electric shock and he’s electrocuted. It’s like a lightning bolt that people see, he sees blue arcing from his fingers. He wakes up hours later in the military hospital, and the doctor comes and says, “You should be dead, you can’t take that amount of electricity.” But his whole body was on fire.
ALISS: Now after some time that subsided, but he realized he had no feeling in his whole body apart from his thumb and his forefinger on one hand, but his whole body was numb. He also got tremors, so his hands shook so much that he couldn’t drink from a normal cup. He had to have a lid on. He had brain damage because of it. It affected his hearing, his sight, he couldn’t write anymore, he couldn’t read anymore, and he turned away from God because of that, and other things in his life.
ALISS: Now fast forward to one of our recent trips in Houston, Texas. He came to the workshop there, and as he comes to the workshop we activate people to pray for each other. So, a young guy comes over and starts to pray for Tim, and he describes it like an inner tube of power around his head, and it just works its way down over his body, the Holy Spirit, and as it goes down over his body, the brain damage disappears. His brain comes back to normal, his hearing comes back, his eyesight, he gets all the feeling-
SID: How long was this all taking place?
ALISS: Well, he’d been disabled for 33 years. This took 30 seconds, I don’t know, a minute? It was very fast, and it goes down over his body. He gets all the feeling back in his body, the tremors in his hands stop, everything comes back to normal.
Tim: I’m healed!
ALISS: In the lunch break, he goes and he takes his shoes and socks off, and he walks on the grass in his bare feet, and you know what? He gives his life back to the Lord after 25 years, and now he’s doing miracles. He’s seeing tremendous miracles.
SID: Wow. You have a passion. You’ve written a book on it, you teach on it all the time. Explain what you mean by the three-fold miracle mandate.
ROB: Well, a mandate is an authoritative command or a “go and do it,” like Jesus gave his disciples in Matthew 28. We know that Jesus demonstrated amazing miracles, many different kinds of miracles, healings, deliverance, authority, but they are rooted in the blessings that God gives mankind in Genesis 1 and 2. Now, those blessings very quickly, are the blessing of provision, the blessing of divine healing or wholeness-
SID: That’s all in the beginning.
ROB: It’s all in the beginning, and the blessing of authority, because he delegates authority to us to take care of what he’s given us. Now, we know that this is lost tragically when Adam and Eve disobey God, and these blessings, then they manifest as curses. They become lack, they become sickness, they become slavery to God’s enemy. Hallelujah, Jesus comes as the Messiah to win those and to reverse the curse, to win those blessings back which he does victoriously.
SID: Yet, Rob, most Christians do not act as though the curse has been reversed with the miracles, provision, all of the things that were originally given to us and purchased back by Jesus. Why is that?
ROB: Because we have an inheritance. The Bible teaches that we, as Christians, as sons of God, we have an inheritance, but we have to contend for it.
SID: Hold that thought. Rob and Aliss operate, as you’ve seen, a revelation, not just information, that will solidify the three-fold miracle mandate in your life, next.