SID: Rob, you are pushing radical obedience beyond this world. Tell me that story.
ROB: Oh my goodness. I will never forget. I was in Zion.
SID: I may never forget that one.
ROB: I was in Zion, Illinois, and I was part of a prophetic conference. It’s a Sunday morning. Service ends, everybody’s on the way out. I was lingering around, saying hi to a few people. In this moment, a gentleman from about 20 to 30 yards away, he waves his hand at me and he goes, bye, prophet Rob. And I go, bye. And he goes, we’ll see you later. And suddenly I was like a bull seeing red. I literally looked at him and begin to shout these words. Never again. You hear me? Never again. And in that moment I did the unthinkable. I ran at him like a bull charging a flag, and I pulled out my fist.
SID: Did you think what you were doing, or you just did?
ROB: I just did. It was a response. It was a supernatural moment. It was spontaneous. I’ve never been in a fight, never been an altercation in my life. I had to get saved and become radically obedient, to do the unthinkable. I ran at this man, and with my hand pulled back, I hit him in the chest. You think once is enough? Two, three, four times, at least. The power God hits this man. He’s kind of doing one of these flounderings and he falls forward. You think I’m done. Something comes over me and I dive onto this man.
SID: You’ve been watching too many westerns.
ROB: I don’t know what happened. I dive on this man, and I begin to squeeze him with the father’s love. And immediately I began to prophesy. I began to speak a word right into his heart, face to face. I’m wrestling with him, and I began to say these words, never again, never again, never again, will you pick up things that are unclean. Never again, will you have dreams of the pain that you suffered as a child. Never again, will you put something into your arm that is destroying your body, for the spirit of Lord says, I’ve come to set you free.
ROB: I come out of this prophetic atmosphere. I stand up. There’s people watching. And the first thought I had is, oh my God, I’m going to jail. And the Holy Spirit said no. And then he said this… I said, Lord, I need a word. Why would you have me do such a thing? And he said these words. Rob, radically, this man’s life was taken away from him. He said, radically, today, I gave it back to him. That very moment, I asked for the elders and the leaders that were there, can I please go talk to your pastor? So we go downstairs and I look at the pastor and say, can I talk to you? He goes, are you okay? My shirt was a mess. My tie was all wrinkled up. I’m hot, and my knuckles are bleeding. And I literally say, well, I would like to say… He says, just say it.
