SID: How many of you are familiar with my guest Robert Henderson? He’s been teaching on the courts of heaven, which is an amazing, amazing revelation that gets prayers answered for over a decade now. For those that aren’t familiar with it, would you briefly explain what the courts of heaven are?
ROBERT: The courts of heaven is a spiritual dimension that we by faith step into. We by faith take God at His word and step into that realm. The best way I know to explain it is this way, Jesus, when he taught on prayer, he put it in three realms, approaching God as Father, as friend and as judge. We know what it is to come before Him, as Father, most of us. We know what it is maybe even to approach him as our friend, because he is our friend. But then in the book of Luke in chapter 18, He actually said that we could come before God in his judicial system because Jesus talked about a woman who came before an unjust judge and through her persistent presentation of her case she got a verdict. And the issue is if this woman could get a verdict from an unjust judge, Jesus’ point was how much more can we come before God the judge of all and see him render verdicts in our behalf?
SID: What you’ve found was our enemy has legal rights against us from ancestry or from current days in our life. And as long as the enemy has these legal rights, it’s like the heavens are closed.
ROBERT: In fact, the word adversary there is antidikos. And anti means instead of or against. Dikos means rights. But the word together actually means one who brings a lawsuit. So the purpose of the devil as the antidikos, because 1 Peter 5:8 says that’s who he is. The purpose of the devil as the antidikos is to deny what’s rightfully ours. That the new covenant we have in Jesus Christ promises us all sorts of blessings that so often we’re not living in because of the case against us in the spirit world.
SID: Now, how in the world did you jump from all these wonderful areas to finances?
ROBERT: Well, because finances is one of the areas that God wants us blessed in. The Bible tells us we have blessings in healing. We have blessing in family life. We have blessings in our personal lives. But financially, so often people find themselves unable to prosper. And the reason that the enemy doesn’t want us prospering is because God uses us to help finance the kingdom of God and his purposes in the earth. And so the enemy builds cases against us to keep us out of the financial blessing that God actually has for us.
SID: And there is such an awakening coming to the world. I mean, it’s called the global glory. And guess what? It’s going to take finances.
ROBERT: Absolutely. I mean, we’re sitting in a studio that takes finances. I mean, to reach the world requires finances. And what has happened so often is that the enemy or the evil agenda has had the finances to propagate its purposes. But God says, “I need a people who can help finance my purposes in the earth,” because God’s not going to drop money out of heaven. He has to have vessels to channel it through and into the earth. And the enemy knows that. So he looks for legal rights to be able to deny us the right to function in that area.
SID: So do you believe that God wants everyone to have a lot of money?
ROBERT: I believe God wants everyone to prosper. What I usually taught people is this, is that when the prodigal son looked and said, “Look at the condition I’m in. I’m in a pig pen.” He said, “How many of my father’s servants,” and that literally means those that weren’t sons and daughters, they were servants in the house. “How many of my father’s servants have bread enough and to spare?” And so I would tell people, I believe God’s new minimal standard for us is to be able to meet our needs and have some leftover. But that doesn’t mean we’re all rich. That means we’re living a prosperous life.
