Sid: Boy is my guest red hot for the Messiah his name is Gary Whetstone Senior Pastor at Victory Christian Fellowship in Wilmington Delaware. He found himself having a gigantic evangelistic crusade in Nairobi Kenya. Gets a knock at the door and they say “We don’t think you should do this crusade because there’s 1000 armed men dedicated to kill you to prove that Jesus didn’t rise from the dead the only way they would believe Jesus rose from the dead is if they kill you and you rise from the dead. Now we only have a couple of policeman to protect you it’s impossible they’ve already beaten up guards and they’ve wrecked your car and we recommend you not go. So Gary what did you say?
Gary: Well I just said to my front man the one that was coordinating the crusade I said “I want you to leave me alone for a few moments” and I went to prayer. And I said “God is this the way I die, do you want me to go?” And the Spirit of God spoke to me “I called you here to preach not run.” So I went back to the door and I said “I’m going prepare another car.” Now I had a team of American’s with me and I met with them and I said to them “Everyone of you are free to stay in the hotel I don’t know expect any of you to go with me because this is the reality.” Well half of them did stay back the other half went with me and we came in through the back of this huge field area down like a stream bed on a four wheel drive vehicle came up behind the platform and saw encircling the entire platform area literally 100’s and 100’s of men with rifles and with pistols standing there. The platform had been burned with fire they had poured gasoline on it. There was a goat head cut off and shoved on the top of one the microphone stands. They had made an animal sacrifice on our platform. There were no band, no choir, no churches, not Christians anywhere that I could see and there was beginning to grow 1000’s of people behind this people with guns. And my interpreter came with me in the car and I said “This is it we have come here to preach.”
Sid: You know Gary I mean you knew God’s voice I mean God’s saved your life from a mental institution but you’re human didn’t the thought cross your mind “Maybe I misunderstood God, maybe that was the devil telling me this.” I mean you’re in a critical situation.
Gary: You know Sid when you know that the God that is in you is greater than fear and any god that is called a god in this world. And you know how to defeat the fear you can cripple that thing and break its power so when you stand up you have literally ruling authority over that fear of death that grips so many people.
Sid: Wonderful you have ruling authority over that spirit of fear but what about the 1000 men with rifles that are ready to shoot you?
Gary: Well I guess it comes down to one or two things either I heard from God or I didn’t.
Sid: Obviously you did I’m talking to you right now (Laughing).
Gary: (Laughing) Yeah because when the interpreter and I got up on that platform and looked out I looked at my interpreter and said “Are you ready to go?” He looked at me and said “I don’t know.” I pray and out of my mouth came this decree “No man called by God will die by an assassins bullet tonight pull the trigger if you can.” So I look at my interpreter and he’s silent.
Sid: Are you sure this isn’t 29th chapter of the book of Acts? (Laughing)
Gary: I’m telling you this made a country change this confrontation with the enemy.
Sid: You present this challenge is that what stuck what happens?
Gary: Well my interpret it he said “No!” I said “Why?” He said “They are not that good of a shot if I stand here they’re going to shoot me too.”
Sid: (Laughing)
Gary: So we’re arguing on the platform in front of all of these people they speak Swahili most of them had no idea what I said. So I said to my interpreter “Get on that side of the platform and as soon as you interpret it jump and get on the ground and hide and I’ll stand here and see God and see what He does.” He looked at me and said “Are you serious?” I said “I’m serious enough to stand here I’ll do it again.” And he said “Alright.” So I walked to my side of the platform, he walked to his and I said it again. “Tonight no man called by God will die by an assassins bullet pull the trigger if you can.” And here comes the Swahili translation he jumps off the platform there is a shockwave in the atmosphere and you see these men breaking and crying and sobbing many of them probably 200 running to the front to me having dropped their arms back 10 yards, 20 yard, 50 yards. Other man gathering up their guns and running this way and running that way and literally they just came by the 100’s and 100’s and repented and received Jesus. That a rat moa in the morning found out what happened and this cult had been sacrificing children to their demon gods in the villages round in Kenya. And a rat moa made a decree that this cult that this cult that existing then was to be absolutely outlawed and any members are to be in prison. The members that did not repent and believe and receive Jesus were put in prison and today that cult is gone it does not exist. That God that lives inside of every believer Yeshua the Living Jesus His presence and power can change a nation.
Sid: What happened in Nairobi as a result of that campaign?
Gary: It literally blew the city open. Do you know today in the same field one of the ladies that we trained in our Bible school holds a prayer meeting once a month with over a quarter million people every once a month in prayer.
Sid: And just think you almost missed that meeting, you almost went home.
Gary: That’s right short of a word from God.
Sid: Now listen if there’s ever been a man that understands real fear, I mean absolutely paralyzing fear. If there’s ever been a man that has compassion for people with fear it’s got to be you. What kind of feed back because it’s a new book but what kind of feedback are you getting on your brand new book “Make Fear Bow” that’s a directive you’re not saying compromise you’re saying “Make Fear Bow.” You don’t bow you make fear bow.
Gary: The stories Sid have come from every walk of life. We have stories of people who afraid to work at a promotion because they were of a different race then of those that are believing that there was a predetermined prejudice in their workplace and they broke the fear of identifying with that prejudice. Because it was a fear and it wasn’t a reality and they got the promotion. We’ve had testimonies of woman who were afraid to conceive because of the pain and they read the scriptures and prayed the prayers and have normal children now. And just the joy of seeing the families free but we have a couple testimonies that are absolutely incredible that one individual and this is a response of this who in her vocation she was a real estate sales person. She was not making any money at all she read the book “Make Fear Bow” and there was a thought in the back of her mind that was sown there from a child that said to her “You will never amount to anything, you will not graduate from college” and she didn’t “You will not succeed in business” and she wasn’t “You will be nothing in your life.” And that’s how she grew up; then she got a hold of the word that literally gave her a perspective she does not need to live under the gripe of those words. You know when David went into combat with Goliath what Goliath used was a terror decree that by his gods he will take the flesh of David and see him just killed. And what did David do? He said “Oh the birds of the air will eat your flesh” so there’s a fear confrontation here. And this woman broke that thing and just last year her earnings, personal earnings exceeded $200,000.
Sid: Speaking about breakthroughs because fear that paralyzes you stops the vision of God from operating in your life.
Gary: Absolutely.
Sid: I mean you’ve got endorsements in this book from some really amazing people, incredible endorsements by Bishop T.D. Jakes, Marilyn Hickey, Morris Cerello, Billy Joe Daugherty, Charles Blair. I mean this is probably one of the most significant books for the time that we’re living in right now. But I’ll tell you what my burden is there are people that are listening to us right now Gary that have God calls on their life but because of various degrees of fear they have not been able to have their breakthrough. Will this give them their breakthrough if they apply the principals and receive the anointing in your book?
Gary: Sid the word of God cannot be broken fear is literally a lie of the enemy and the dream of God that is locked up in the heart of every one of our listeners is the purpose of God. By reading this book they will identify the origin of the fear, the influence of the fear, the forecast of the fear because the fear gives you a picture of your future and they will get the answer to how to make it bow. Their lives will activate that dream and bring it into reality and take them out of the torment of fear that’s gripped them.
Sid: You know on tomorrows broadcast I want you to cover how fear is really rooted in 4 major factors which you talk about in detail in your book.
