Hi. My name is Mickey Robinson,
and I'm so glad and honored to be a guest here on
Dreams & Mysteries. Today I'm going to
be sharing with you some things that I would
call divine defining moments. Defining moment,
as a noun, would be an occurrence that would
happen to a person's life that would change the pathway
and direct our lives in a different direction. Most people wouldn't
think that being born is a defining moment. I actually don't remember
that, when that happened. But I do remember where
I was when 9/11 happened. And if you're old
enough, like me, you would remember where you
were when JFK was assassinated. But I'm going to
talk about stuff that touches the strongest
part of our being. That's our spiritual awareness. I'm going to talk about
supernatural encounters, angelic visitations,
paranormal activity that are not coincidental
but actually were divine appointments
set up by God, and visions that occurred that
actually changed and altered various things in my life. And so I want you
to stay and listen, because a lot of our
occurrences, some of them are dramatic, but some
of them are subtle and we have to
sharpen our awareness. So let's hang together
and learn a little bit how our lives can be changed. [theme music] ANNOUNCER: This is
Dreams & Mysteries. What I'm about to tell you
was during a period of time near the birth of my son,
who is now 40 years old, our oldest son, where I knew for
some time I had a call to God on my life. And I had been trained
by the Holy Spirit to learn certain things. This happened when we
were sleeping downstairs in a pull-out bed
that was called-- the room was called our parlor. And I was having a
dream and I woke up in what I call a trance. And on my lap was
a very large volume of, like, a very big book with
gold trim and gold letters. And as I stared at
this book and looked, the room in which I was
sitting began to spin. And it began to
accelerate to the point of about 10 times the
velocity of a merry-go-round. And I could feel something very
strong spiritually happening. And I felt if I let it go, I
was going to fly away somewhere. And so I shook
myself, and I woke up sitting up in bed musing
over this experience. And for a long time I
felt like I chickened out. God wanted to do something,
and I chickened out. And a few years ago
when I was writing a book, The Spirit of God
revealed to me, He said, you didn't chicken out. I was putting from My
library My word into you while you were in a deep
state of consciousness. How do you think you
know the things you know? How do you think you
say the things I say? And I was so relieved
to find that out. Shortly after that, within
that same week, I had a dream. And in that dream,
I was standing on the porch of
our farmhouse and I saw across the street there
was a transportation bus. Like a Greyhound bus
or Trailways bus. And it was stuck in the mud. Suddenly I was transported
over there, and I was looking. And the people were stuck
inside banging on the windows. I could see their mouths
moving like, help. Get us out. Get us out. And as I looked at the scene,
and I felt like somebody need to do something. I looked, and down the other
end of the outside of the bus was a man in a
three-piece suit standing. He was an extremely well-known
Christian TV personality. And I'm like. I was expecting, like, he should
do something, because he's got all the experience. I looked at them. I looked at him. He looked at me. He looked at the bus. And finally I just
said, in Jesus' name-- and before I even finished
the saying the name "Jesus," the windows popped open. The people were laughing,
like, we're free. We're out. And I was stunned by just
saying the name of Jesus, these people were set free. Then I was all of a
sudden in a tow truck. And the tow truck was going
backwards down the road. And it began to go
faster and faster. And I had to stretch out with
my foot and put on the brake to stop it. And when I did, all of a
sudden I was sitting up in bed. And The Spirit of
God spoke to me and said, when I
start using you to set my people free with power
and healing and deliverance, don't take it so
personal that you did it, because you could go backwards. The Lord was teaching me
godly humility and never touch the glory of God. And that was early in my walk,
and I have never forgot it. When someone pays
me a compliment or I have some kind of
significant meeting or someone shares a big testimony
about something happened that I played a part
of, when I say I played a part, the God part is
much bigger than me. Now, I'm not going to
have false humility. I've been honored to serve the
Lord in a full-time capacity for over 40 years, but I really
want Him to get the honor. And this lesson
of moving in power and maintaining your
humility is a stronghold, is a fortress of protection. If you're going to have
power, the stronghold of power is humility. And I learned it
from the One who's the most humble person on
the face of the earth, God, the Holy Spirit. The pilot screamed at me
and said, oh, my god, we're going down. The airplane cartwheeled
wing over wing. ANNOUNCER: Visit
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testimony, including more detailed accounts
of his recovery and his supernatural
experiences. I want to talk about three
distinct angelic visitations that clearly were defining
moments in my personal life. The first one I
want to talk about was I was a leader on a
church in our little college town in Ohio, and I had been
on a fast for several days. And I was on my way to
a meeting at our church early in the morning, and it
was a little bit crisp outside and cold. And I passed a man
who was standing on the side of the road. And when I did, he put
his finger up like this. He wasn't-- didn't have
his thumb out like he was hitchhiking. He just held his finger up. And he had a long coat
on and a floppy hat. And I thought, you
know, here I am fasting. I'm being really nice inside. I better help this person. So he got on the
truck and he sat down. And I couldn't see his
face because of the hat. And I tried to talk
to him, and he kind of wouldn't fellowship with me. He just gave me
one-line questions. And The Spirit of
God spoke to me and said, what are you going
to do if this is an angel? And I thought, on, no. I said, well, have you
eaten anything? -No. So I took him to a
little truck place in this little college town. And, of course, I'm fasting. I'm being very good. I'm drinking water. And he ordered bacon and
eggs and he ate them. And then he took a piece of
bread and went around the plate like this in concentric circles. The plate was clean, and
he popped it in his mouth. He reached down and got
out of this denim bag a little booklet, and he
slid it across the table. And it had a little title,
and it said "stewardship." It was about the
handling of money. Then he gets up and walks out. And I go, oh, no. And I hurry up and
pay for the bill. And he's walking down
this little road, and, like, I better get this
guy and help him some more. And he gets in the
truck and he sits down. And I said, so how long
have you known the Lord? And then everything changed. It's like I was in a giant
echo chamber at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. And he said, a long
time-- ime-- ime-- ime. And I go. And it was, like, really
supernaturally enhanced, and I was just, like, in shock. And I said, where do
you want me to take you? And he said, just take me to
that first next road that's going out of town. And he got out of the
truck and he left. And here I was going
to a church meeting where we were talking about
building a building and money, and I thought it was about that. And actually it was a lesson for
me that the handling of money was going to really be important
in my life, a life that was lived by faith. Another angelic encounter
I had was really helpful. And it was really-- it
was somewhat dramatic. We just had returned from
a ministry trip to Germany. And I sat up in bed, and I
could see the digital clock. And it was 3:15, and
there was a man standing on the edge of our bed,
the outline of a man. And it had this
pulsation vibration that I could actually feel. And I turned, and my wife was
sitting up and I said, Barbara, do you see this? She goes, yes. It's an angel. And when I looked back. It was gone, but this
vibration was still there. And a young woman
who is a ballerina in the Christian ballet
company where we lived was visiting and
sleeping on her couch. And I didn't tell Barbara
anything the next morning, and I didn't say anything
to anybody, and she said, there was a visitor in
the house last night. And I heard him go
from room to room. And we were having
this encounter. And at the same
time, we were trying to sell our house to move
to Nashville, Tennessee. And we had had a
realtor, we advertised, and-- well, actually. We had an experience where
we actually raised the price, and I was going
to sell it myself. And someone came to the
house within two days, looked at this sign, and
said, I will give you full price for the house, but
you have to move in two days. We actually raised the price. They were coming to look
at someone else's house and saw this little tiny
For Sale sign on our lawn. And we moved in two days--
Christmas Eve of 1998. Now, that angel helped
us with our real estate so I call him Homer because
he helps us with out homes. Another time we had
an angel appear to us. Again, we were doing
something in Germany. There must be something
about Germany. We were teaching a
prophetic school in Germany, and our hosts
wanted to bless us, so they took us skiing
to Austria for a week. As a little kid, even
before I was a snow skier, I had looked at the TV during
the Winter Olympics and I said, I'm going to ski on
that hill someday. Before I was even a snow skier. And all these years had gone
by and God fulfilled one of my heart's desires as a kid. And I'm skiing, and it's
beautiful skiing in the Alps. And the last day we
were there, Barb and I head off to the side,
and we're at the top of this mountain looking down at
this beautiful Alpine panorama. And we're just praying. We said, Lord, we just thank
you so much for these people blessing us and
taking us on this trip so we could ski after
we did this school. And we just said, Lord, it
is such a beautiful day. And as soon as I said that, this
very tall, almost seven-foot man, came over in a
bright blue suit skiing. And he came up and he goes,
it's a beautiful day, isn't it? And he took off skiing down
this slope right in front of us. It was, like, another
thousand feet straight down. And I had this weird feeling
that this is abnormal. So I got in my tuck
position, and I raced down. He stopped like he
was waiting for me, and I hadn't said a word to him. And I pulled to a stop and
I said-- and he said to me, I just pulled up to
him and I looked at him and he goes, where are you from? I said, Nashville, Tennessee. And he goes, well,
that's the place to be. And I-- it just began to
become stranger and stranger. I said, where are you from? He goes, oh, I'm someplace
up in the middle of Germany. And I turned, because Barbara
was starting down the hill. I wanted to make
sure she was OK. And she pulled up to me and she
goes, what was that all about? And I looked, and you could
see for well over a thousand feet straight down and
there was nobody there. And, again, we were
trying to sell a house. And at that time it was
in the State of Tennessee, and we could not sell it. And we went on
missions trip right after we got home to
South America, Columbia. And we got there, and that night
a man walked into our house and our daughter actually
showed the man the house. He opened the door and
he says, this is God. And he paid us full
price for a house that we could not give away
for a certain amount of money. And, again, that must
have been the angel Homer. I'm just using that
as a joke name. But these angelic
encounters really impacted and changed my life. And sometimes they're happening
and you don't know it. The Apostle Paul
wrote, be careful when you're showing
hospitality to strangers, because you might be
entertaining angels unaware. Some encounters are
obviously dramatic and they stop you in your
tracks, but some of them you really need to
be sharp to notice, this is not a coincidence. Or that was not just
a regular experience. We're all having encounters,
and you can have more of them. And you can recognize them,
and it will direct your life in a path that will bear fruit. And we can get sharper at this
as we learn to pay attention to the subtleties and to
the obvious things that are divine appointments. ANNOUNCER: The
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DreamsandMysteries.com. I want to tell a story that
really, really shocked me. And I never saw it coming. I had done a conference
to honor a ministry up in Spokane, Washington. And then I flew to Los
Angeles to go all the way to Seoul, Korea. And when I got there, I had the
privilege, with another man, to teach 500 of the best
pastors and churches leaders in South Korea. These guys had little churches
like 50,000, 80,000 people. There was 500 of them,
and they were so hungry. We preached. We laid our hands on people. We gave words to people. It was like an honor, and
it was epic, you know. And so I'm flying back. I have to go back,
and then I'm supposed to go through Los
Angeles back to New York and do another-- do a TV thing
and then do a conference. Like, I must have really
banged my head hard to be flying practically
around the world and doing three events. So my goal on this
airplane was to sleep for 15 and a half hours. To have myself all set up, I
had my little airplane mask and noise cancellation
headphones. And my goal was to be
unconscious for 15 and a half hours. And there was a
person next to me who got real chatty just as the
plane-- this 747-- was rolling out. And he goes, hi. And he's got this cool accent. You know, he's got this
English-type accent. Actually, he was South African. And he begins to
tell me, he says, I just came back through
Bangkok and I was in India. And he says, I got a
business over there. And he says what do you do? And I had my mask on, and
I said I talk to people. And I put it back down. Like, I didn't want
to talk to anybody. I don't want to mess. I just had, like, one of
the most colossal, honoring, fruitful experiences, and
I just wanted to sleep. And, oh, what kind
of talk, he says. Actually, I said, I'm a teacher,
an instructor sometimes. And I was a guest speaker
at this big conference up in Seoul, Korea. Put my mask back down and
put my head back like, no intention of talking to him. And he goes, well,
what kind of people? OK, I put the thing back. Put my Zorro's
mask back up here. I said, look, I was teaching 500
of the best pastors and leaders in all of South Korea. I said, it was such
an honoring event. I said, I just can't believe
I had the privilege to do it. These guys are at these
really wonderful ministries. And who am I to
teach them anything? And he had this funny look
on his face, and he stopped. And he said, Mickey, if you
started with this conversation five days ago, I would have
politely excused myself, because I wouldn't
be interested. He said, but every
day for the last five days in a gigantic
crowded street in India, a different person
came up to me, stuck their finger
in my nose, and said, I don't know who
you are, but you need to do something
about your spiritual life. I'm talking about
a crowded street where there's, like, a
million people in Calcutta or something. And a different person
every day for five days come up and put their
finger in my nose and said, I don't know who
you are, but you got to do something about
your spiritual life. And I went on to share
my personal testimony. I shared everything about
the Bible that I knew. Love of God. The love of God came on. He said, I can't believe
that stuff happened to you, and you're not mad. You're not bitter. And I just felt
love for this guy. He had been in extreme
sports, him and his wife, and the back story
behind this is that he was a fifth
generation Orthodox Jew. He'd been molested by a
rabbi at the Wailing Wall. So he gave up on
the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, or anybody like me. But for five days,
every day for five days, God sent someone to
look him in the eye, point his finger at his nose and
say, I don't know who you are, but you got to do something
about your spiritual life. And out of 400 seats on a 747,
I am sitting arm's length away from him. For the next 15
and a half hours, we laughed, we cried, we hugged. And said goodbye in LA,
exchanged information, and I met some people. They took me out
to eat, and then I had a long layover and a
night flight to New York. And I got there and I
opened up my computer and I was going to
check my e-mail, and I got a note from the man. He said, Hi, Mickey. It's me. I just finished
reading your book, and obviously I've
given my life to Jesus because you made him real to me. I was shocked. I thought the big experience
was this big leadership conference and the
honor and the privilege, but the really big experience
was an ordinary me, no intention to speak to
anybody, speaking to this one man that for almost 40 years
he had been hurt and wounded, and in that time his
life was changed. That was really a
defining moment. I'll never forget the
sound of his voice when I talked to
him on the phone. I had no intentions--
doing stuff special, sometimes you can miss-- I could
have missed that opportunity to touch this life that God
had so carefully orchestrated. I could have just
said, I'm too tired. I need to take care of myself. I just need to eat
and go to sleep. This person God loved so much
he arranged that whole thing as much as He arranged
those 500 pastors. God loves every single
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Breakthrough Faith series. My wife and I, we had all this
long desire to go to Israel. We had a love for Israel. We have friends there. We were blah, blah, blah. And so someone's
going to pay for us to go with his group
of people for Worship and intercession on Location. So we're going to make it,
like, the time of our life. We're all packed up,
we got special stuff, I'm going to meet my friend over
there and do a healing meeting, and Barbara's going to dance
at the Feast of Tabernacles. But we're going
over all excited. We get there. The first people
through customs. We're all excited. And we're on this bus,
which hasn't moved. A Barbara recognizes some
people coming through the gate. She wants to go say hi to them. She's just all excited. And she's going off this
step, and the guy parked next to a big curb, it was
about this high off ground, and her ankle slipped. And she stepped. She went right through
midair and went down and snapped her ankle and
broke it in about 10 places. We're whisked off to the
emergency room in Tel Aviv. And they do x-rays, and the
foot was actually twisted and going the wrong direction. And I'm confused. I'm out there praying thinking,
God, I know that this was you. There was confirmation in it. What should I do? What should I do? And the Holy Spirit
says, you're her husband. Take the best care of My
daughter that you can. And I walked back
in, and Barb had been praying with
a young gal that we had lead them to
the Lord in America, but they were Israelis. And she was an Evangelist. And she was praying
with her saying, Lord, I don't want to leave. I want to be here. I can worship you
in a wheelchair. I can go to the healing
meeting and get better. She says, please,
just let me stay here. You know, the thing was that she
was going to need an operation. She was going to be in
the hospital for a week. They were going to have to
put a metal plate in there. And I walked up to her, and
her face, it was like glowing. Like, she never
looked so beautiful. I said, honey, I've
got to take you home. She was crying. She says, that's the very
thing I didn't want to do. But I told the Lord, I'll
do whatever Mickey says. And so all of a sudden we
go, we take her on a cart, we're going through the airport. She says, we've got to get
some stuff for the kids. We got to go to the gift shop. There she is. She's on this gurney. They load her up on the
airplane on the food elevator. And they took four seats
out of the airplane. Somebody had to pay
over $8,000 for us to go home because they
took four seats out. They had this curtain around
there like a Muppet show. And all of these
Jewish people were thinking that she's
some kind of blond movie star having this luxury place. And she has this
cast on her leg. And we get back to Texas and
take her to the hospital. And I get to a little
hotel-- I didn't even want to tell our
kids that I was home because we were in Israel
for less than 12 hours, and flying back home. Now, who is that? We're either CIA,
we're terrorists, or we're drug dealers
or we're diplomats. And I was, like,
spinning around. I said, this is how
you beat jet lag. You just rewind it real fast. And I wake up and
we have to go home. And she has a keep her foot
elevated above her heart for the next six weeks. They put a steel
plate in her ankle and put nine screws to put
this broken bone back together. And here am I
chasing four children around the house
trying to be Mr. Mom. It was driving me
crazy, and everybody sent in her pictures
and gifts and cards from all over the world. Barbara, we love you. And you were worshipping for
Israel while Israel was too hurt to even worship . Saying all these nice things. I said, pray for me. I'm having a nervous breakdown. I was so stressed out. I was freaking out. And finally she got good enough
that I could go somewhere. And I'm on an airplane flying
to this really cool place that I'd never-- I
really wanted to go to this church and their
very special meeting. And I had been so unprepared. I was so wired. Then I had this vision. And I saw this little man
about this big at a distance, but I could hear his
voice crystal clear. And with this whiny, weaselly
little voice he says, you're not prepared. You're not good enough. And he had a court jester
suit on with the little thing with bells on it. He goes, you're not good enough. You're not ready. You're not ready. And then I saw a-- I
had a vision of this, and then I heard
the Lord say, when you sense the presence of the
enemy, look for the table. For God sets a table before you
in the presence of your enemy. And I saw this
little card table. On it was a paper plate and
a little old toasted cheese sandwich. And that just dissolved,
and suddenly I was sitting at a king's table. And this invisible
guide says-- and it was filled with all these
golden plates and candelabras and the best food in
the world-- and says, he says, whatever
you need, whatever God says before you,
that's what you need. Do not focus on the
voice of the enemy. You focus. You need to be at rest and look
for what God has placed right before you. When you sense the
presence of the enemy, look to see what
God wants to do. If you listen to the voice of
the enemy, it'll get louder, and he'll grow bigger. He is just a fallen angel. He is like a ventriloquist
looking for a dummy to speak through. Don't ever repeat what he says. Look for what God's saying,
and you'll be blessed and you'll be taken care of. ANNOUNCER: Strengthen
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or call 1-800-538-5285. I guess it would be an
honest question about life. Is what we are, what we were,
or can we really change, can these influences from
God transform our lives? It really depends on the source. When the source of the
influence is from God and we would choose
to ask for the grace to cooperate with God, I
believe that transformation is God's desire not just at one
moment at the beginning when we come out of
darkness into light and then we coast
on that experience, but we continue to experience
God, to communicate with God, to recognize. Now, a lot of these-- a
lot of the experiences are very subtle, and you
got to really peer into it and realize, this was
not just an accident. This was a God set up. And then learn from
that experience. You can pray and ask
The Good Shepherd-- and he really is
a good shepherd-- to sharpen your awareness,
sharpen your alertness, and learn how these moments,
whether they're subtle or whether they're really
life stoppers, that you will flow with God and be
changed and transformed until we look and act
and sound just like Him. Whatever God has for
you is preparation. You're not to listen
to that voice. If you listen to
that mocking voice-- the second voice is usually
the voice of the enemy. Like when Jesus was
baptized, the heavens opened and God said, this is My beloved
Son in whom I am well pleased. And when He became hungry
after fasting for 40 days, the enemy, pretending
to be a spiritual guide, said, if you are
the Son of God, then prove it to me by changing
these stones into bread. And Jesus said, I don't
live by bread alone, but every word that only
comes from the mouth of God. My emphasis. God wants to use you. He wants to give
you opportunities. Don't be afraid to step out,
because this small thing could be a great big door to open
up to a new room for someone else's life and yours as well. God loves to use us, and
he loves to surprise us. He doesn't hide things from us. He hides things for us to find. It's been going on in my life,
and I want my defining moments to be the best now
and in the future. I want to finish well,
and God wants you to. And He can use ordinary
people like you and me to do extraordinary things,
because He loves people that much.
