Sid: I have on the telephone Rabbi Felix and Bonnie Halpern speaking to them at their home at Wyckoff, New Jersey. And they have a One New Man Messianic Jewish Congregation that is wonderful. I was there and Bonnie you are not aware of this but when I was at your congregation you started talking about your love for Jewish people and your desire to see them come to know the Messiah. And I saw real tears coming down your eyes as you were talking about that. Why is it so tender to you?
Bonnie: Well, because I know truth; I walk in truth and I have family that does not know who the truth…
Sid: And by the way for those that are just tuning in Rabbi Felix are Jewish and both of Bonnie’s parents are Jewish and go ahead.
Bonnie: Yes and I know that the Jewish people are still waiting for their Messiah and I look at my family and family around and friends around. I grew up in a Jewish community and I look around and say “How long are we going to wait?” And the Bible gives us the answer. I live in a time of freedom; I live in a place of hope, a place of peace that Jewish people absolutely cannot have while their still in pursuit and waiting. And it breaks my heart; I know what the truth is I know where my eternity is going to be spent. And to see Jewish people live the way that they live every day of their life waiting and waiting passing through this life and not knowing is devastating to me.
Sid: You have had notable miracles happen in your congregation but even to yourself.
Bonnie: Yes.
Sid: Tell me a few notable things that have happened to you.
Bonnie: Well, I’ve had 3 supernatural miracles one going all the way back to 1980, where I was told I would never be able to have children I had a condition called endometriosis and went to see 5 of the best specialists in New York and as they call them the Ivory Towers and they told me I would never be able to have children. And that was the greatest desire of my heart and so I went to a healing service first one I had ever experienced and then a man laid hands on my abdomen and I felt heat go through my entire torso, my entire body. And with a couple weeks after that I was pregnant with my daughter who is now 24 years old. So I would say I never saw another doctor again, never had a pain and my endometriosis was completely supernaturally on the spot healed.
Sid: And by the way I was watching your daughter worship God and that’s got to get you so excited to see.
Bonnie: It really does; they really love God; they’ve seen the miracles themselves. So they don’t have to question they’re not growing up with a curiosity about God. They’ve had encounters with God and they’ve seen the miracles happen right in our midst; so they’ve known truth right from the beginning.
Sid: What happened with your teeth?
Bonnie: Well, I’ve had two oral surgeries in my life, two root canals and the dentist messed up both of them. One was not properly drilled; the other one was over drilled. They both turned into very bad infections and I went to a specialist who was going to have to do surgery and explained it to me. They were going to have to go from underneath and go through an area where my jawbone was, and it was very traumatic. We went to service one night where there was a man who did move in signs and wonders and out of the entire congregation there must have been at least about 1500 people there he walked down a center aisle right to me when I stood up. I never said a word to him but he grabbed my jaw and he said “In the name of Jesus, Yeshua be healed” and I didn’t even feel anything. I went home with pain as I came and I ate in the morning and it was killing me and I felt like “Well, it wasn’t healed.” But I went to the Oral Surgeon who took the last X-rays and came out and said “I have to do another X-rays.” He took a total of before and after and said to me “I have no explanation, I don’t understand you do not need surgery.”
Sid: (Laughing)
Bonnie: And I gave a testimony of it on New Year’s Eve at a church of 1500 people and they put up the before and after X-rays on the slides that the whole church could see so that was a total confirmation. And to this day have never had surgery, and never had a pain.
Sid: And what was even better than that Bonnie is your whole congregation saw a miracle happen on your foot.
Bonnie: Yes, last February I had broken my foot on Shabbat, Friday night, it was Shabbat on some gym equipment and I didn’t know it was broken even though it looked it. And in the morning my foot was twisted and my foot was completely black from the blood inside of it. I was going to go to service; we have healing services the first Shabbat of every month and I was going to go and wait on the Lord if not I was going to go to the hospital. And people carried me in. In the middle of the service I was sitting down in the front with a microphone and just speaking and I felt the Holy Spirit say to me “Remove your sock.” And I did and I felt a cool breeze go across my foot and without even realizing it people were looking at me; I was standing up on my foot. I couldn’t even put my foot down in that position; the pain was so bad and I was standing up on my foot and in front of the entire congregation my toe was back to normal, it was no longer crooked and the black and blue it never completely went away but it was like a supernatural drawing all went together in a very very small area of my toes instead of my foot. And before the end of the service I was literally dancing around on my toes, I do flags and banners up, on my toes and my feet and never ever wound up going to the hospital.
Sid: Out of curiosity did you feel anything when God was healing you?
Bonnie: I felt nothing, I wasn’t even aware that it was happening but I was also not even aware that I was standing up and dancing around until I stopped and said “Oh, my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.” Because everybody was looking at me and I was so just involved in the service and what God was speaking and doing I hadn’t even realized or felt a thing.
Sid: Okay, I’ve got to ask you a question that’s supernatural but there’s something even more supernatural than that. Here you’ve got a husband that’s a professional you’re living the good life and I mean he’s making a 6 figure income. He’s a Vice President on the Diamond Exchange, he’s called into full-time ministry and that’s wonderful. But then you get a word from God. Was it audible that you were to get rid of your stocks and bonds?
Bonnie: Absolutely, it was in May of 2001 and I’ll never forget it as long as I live. I can tell you the spot on my carpet. I was making my bed and I heard an audible voice of God say to me “Get out of the system.” And I did not understand that my father was a financial man in New York and taught me about finances and where to put them. So for me to get out of the system I didn’t understand that at all. And I went into a fast I pursued God and questioned Him until I had the answer. The Lord had us remove everything out of the stock market. We had mutual funds, CD’s everywhere we had it.
Sid: So where did you put the money if you took it out of all those places?
Bonnie: We felt the Lord just impress upon us that we were to put it into the Kingdom of God; anything that we turned over to God..
Sid: But wait a second; that’s in the Bible people did that, people don’t do things like that in real life.
Bonnie: Yes people do when you hear from God. God’s out to protect us, He’s there for us and we took everything out including Social Security, including IRA’s…
Sid: Are you tell me that you’re 100% dependent on God?
Bonnie: One hundred percent and He’s provided for me every day. I’ve never paid a bill late, I’ve never gone without a meal, my home is almost paid off by the supernatural gifts that God has impressed people to give us to do for us our car. I do as good if not better as I did when my husband was making a 6 figure salary.
Sid: Bonnie just as there is a supernatural key to see greater miracles than we’re seeing today in the churches even those that are having miracles there is something greater coming. Tell me about that.
Bonnie: Well I just believe that we’re in a very prophetic time in these end times and the Bibles clear about God’s heart and He’ll re-gather the remnant. And how we are to as a One New Man work together in the fullness and that in this last days the Bible tells us that Jewish acceptance of the Messiah will be like life from the dead. And we will see unprecedented spiritual awaking and signs and wonders. That as we prophetically walk this out together Jew and Gentile that there will be a great outpouring of signs and wonders and miracles.
Sid: And what about the churches that are having some signs and wonders now but do not see the prophetic call of the Gentile Believer to provoke the Jew to jealousy to be that One New Man?
Bonnie: Well, I just believe that they will not see the fullness but the church that will provoke the Jews to jealousy will happen. I really believe that they will be the churches, they will be the Body that will together see the greater outpouring of signs and wonders and miracles.
