Heidi Baker: Intimacy with Christ

the following program is brought to you by friends and partners of Matt's order ministries today on power for life from the MSM archives we feature an interview with missionary Heidi Baker on her secrets of intimacy with Jesus [Music] somebody we are in need of a savior Oh [Music] and show us apart [Music] hi this is Matt Sagar and I want to welcome you to another exciting week here at Power for life have you ever desired to have such an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ and with the Holy Spirit that God's anointing and glory is just overflowing out of your life on a daily basis well you're just living in the glory of God twenty-four hours a day seven days a week and listen it's not always about what you feel but there is a place in the spirit where you become a carrier of God's presence which causes results to happen in your life and in your ministry and what I want to talk to you today about is how to have a fruitful life a ministry through intimacy with Jesus and with the Holy Spirit we are joined today by a very special guest her name is Heidi Baker now Heidi Baker had a radical encounter with the Holy Spirit several years or years ago that totally transformed her life in ministry today she has over 5,000 churches planted in Mozambique Africa and she cares for over 2,000 orphaned children there in Africa her life is producing fruit for the kingdom of God and in our interview together which we which we took during our last glory signs of wonders conference in New York every year you don't want to miss one of our conferences every year we host in April a glory signs and wonders conference where we have radical worship we have awesome preaching and teaching and you can have a living encounter with the Holy Spirit during those three days but today in today's show we're going to be talking with Heidi Baker and she's going to be sharing with us some of her secrets of what it is to truly walk in intimacy with God how do we are really excited to have you on the program today and I know you've been in you've been serving Jesus and loving Jesus for 24 years in Oh long even longer than that Oh longer you have been serving Jesus for I'm 48 and I got saved when I was 16 so Wow do you the man I've been at it and you've been serving as a missionary and all different nations throughout your your history where Africa Asia and England and now I travel 1/3 around the world I know that you went through a time in your life in your ministry where you were just about to call it quits you were ready to give up and just say this is it but then you got a radical visitation from the Holy Spirit that totally transformed your ministry your life and I know how many churches now in Africa have been planted well there's a lot there like 9,000 like 9,000 yeah now this is it 9,000 listen to the lady right here in the nation of Mozambique as well it's all over now and it's not me I'm the little tiny little piece of the puzzle piece by the tiny God has done something through your life that sparked this whole church movement over 9,000 churches around the world have been planted now by the power of the Holy Spirit and I would probably say your methods I don't know if they would be found in a Bible school textbook or you know if it would be taught in Bible School seminaries but all's I know is that through your life the fruit of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of Jesus Christ being manifested in the earth is amazing is amazing and what are some of the things that you've seen Jesus doing over there in Africa oh the best thing I've seen him do is common wreck us he just comes and gets us and shows us He loves us and he brings home all these wharf uns and widows and the lost and the abandoned I love that it's like oh we have every miracle in the book yeah I mean every see lots of em every miracle in the book but that's this greatest joy is seeing a lost child come home cuz Papa's inviting them all home I mean people watching everybody it's like there's room in my house you can jump on the bed you can be intimate with me you can be in my presence in my glory you can eat at the table with me father says that so my greatest joy is seeing these people actually now all over the world like lost sons and daughters Wow coming home to live in the father's house like knowing who they are in god I love that Wow now I I have to say this one more time because some people watching may be like is that possible that through you yielding yourself to God through your life and ministry I the fruit that's been produced over nine thousand I have to say it again nine thousand changing I'm talking about miracles like people raising from the dead oh yeah over I see people over a hundred people raised from the dead you don't raises them from the dead who raises mostly the little bush people the people who aren't on the video we don't have any name tags okay they just these are our pastors yeah the someone dies from another faith another religion and they just bring the body over to our pastors houses you know it's just fun sometimes I get to participate but hey it's the bush people it's the guys living in the mud huts the little ladies in mud huts and they will just not eat not drink Rock dead babies in their arms and they get up Wow it's happened over a hundred times but that's way underestimated because every Bible class we have like five Bible colleges has raised the dead or who's been dead and got raised you know there could be three yeah in a class of 120 Wow 150 it's like who when they give their testimonies it's my goodness it's just the humble people the humble folks that are just loving Jesus serving God being faithful to the Lord yeah and God is releasing his power through their lives no backup plan nobody you know there's no emergency somebody to call its Jesus call God call Jesus and he'll do what he does and he does it so well it's it's easy we just don't have any backup plans Heidi thinking can we take a few minutes today could you share with me what happened to you that caused this type of movement of God to be released through your life what what happened what oh I you know I would have never given up on God I love Jesus passionately since I was 16 I mean I knew but I just thought some people have heard this but I was tired you tired I was tired and and I had studied theology you know 10 years in university and I was like God you know I'll just like to work at Kmart because I could just be mellow and no stress you know huh that's why God was kind of demonstrating that no stress thing yeah um hope and I just got so desperate and I went into this church in Canada and I say God I'm just a tired missionary you know do something or I'll die and over and over I would find ways to get there like I would go every year I would get there somehow Wow and the first time I fell on the ground and I was completely healed of pneumonia I'd double pneumonia why I'm almost died so anytime and then Jesus appeared to me that'll do it you died of pneumonia Jesus appear see but I don't do it yet he just looked at me hey and when he looks at you you're toast you know you you you can't say no anymore and he looked at me and I saw all these kids and I was the key ah and I was still trying to say no like duh cuz there I already had 320 kids yeah living with me calling me mama and we prayed for food every day and you know now it's grown but back then it was that was kind of more manageable yeah but what I was tired with that yeah 300 honey how many do you have now Oh over 7,000 in our full-time care over seven bills those are just full-time care and then there's well well way more than that that we feed every day but but it's so cool cuz I'm there and God chose me all these kids and then he just pulled his his flesh right out of his side just pulled it out and I thought that's ugly ya know whoa his body's not beautiful in the sense that it was broken it was it was bloody and I thought ooh you know that's some very nice and he just reached out like this oh and and I took it and it turned into bread mmm his body Wow it turned into bread and then I gave it to all those children and they ate hey and he said I died that there would always be enough then he took his cup a cup it was a poor man's cup and he filled it with blood and water from his side and he looked at me hey with those eyes you see that's what gets me he looked at me with those eyes and he said it's a cup of suffering and joy Wow that's another one hey suffering and joy will you drink it and I drank that cup Hey and it turned into drink for all those kids and since that day all of us you know hundreds and hundreds of us we've just taken every single dying child that he's put in front of us every abandoned child every dying child we just said come live with us we'll take you there's always enough because he died that's what happened then I went back I got radically undone Randy Clark pray for me I went I I was like not doing what you should do in church I didn't care I was so hungry I ran forward before the altar call yeah and I'm really kind of shy which a lot of people don't know but I would be kind of hide in the back but I ran forward and I'm screaming in church which shocked me and then he just said he prophesied the Dead will be raised the blind will see the Deaf will hear the crippled will walk the poor will hear the good news do you want the nation of Mozambique and I'm you know theologically I don't get it because I don't get it at all you know we'd planted three churches and two were wobbly and we were just like tired what are we going to do and I just screamed yes and I was stuck to the floor I mean literally stop there first electric shun die power of God went through me and then BAM I'm stuck there it's kind of scary I cannot lift up my head Wow I couldn't move my hands I'm thinking god what am I going to do and it just pay that heavy weighty glory just got heavier and heavier and heavier and then I heard God you can do nothing without me I know that you know yeah you don't know that I know Jesus we can do nothing without you but he said you can do nothing without hey the body of Christ and that really got me because I would rather try to make it happen with Jesus but all the body of Christ and to demonstrate it they had to hear what I needed water yeah like seven days seven nights yeah they had to hear when I needed to go to the restroom they had to carry me around people I didn't know you know putting pillows under my head yeah and the grace of God in that house were they in that ministry house in Toronto where they just said we're gonna let this happen and they didn't know me they didn't know if I'm just a crazy woman yeah not you know how would they know and and some people think I am crazy but hey I've lost my mind I gained his I gained hold it I came Jesus mother so that's what happened I got completely reduced yeah yeah to a place where I could do nothing well and then God said now that's where you're gonna stay Wow not that I can't walk now I mean for three years I couldn't preach standing up yeah in the Western world yeah I said why in the Western world not in Africa he said because they have a little more problem with control Wow in the Western yeah yeah so who's using you to help break that control well I don't know I just this might have set people but I don't have hey I don't have a problem with being a little puppet in his hand yeah I don't have a problem with being God's little fool yeah I I don't I don't claim to be anything but his little lover in the dirt you know I just love him and I say possessed me experience possessed me what and sometimes I'm coherent and sometimes I'm just stuck to the floor but it's it's hey it's all about releasing control to him and obeying whatever Holy Spirit's saying whatever God's saying if he says take every child and its thousands and thousands and feed a hundred thousand people a day you don't say well how we're gonna do that do we need to write a newsletter no you don't do that you just say yes radical love and radical obedience are together Wow Wow [Music] living in the glory so get up today don't hesitate don't wait go to the website order right there online on our resource center at Matt's order comm and you can receive this teaching called living in the glory order your three CD set today with your love gift of $25 or more call 180 77 god 3131 or visit us online at Matt's order com hey guys I want to be able to personally connect with you how can that happen I want to hear your thoughts your prayers your feedback well online I've got two accounts my facebook account and my Twitter account I'm sure many of you are familiar with Facebook and Twitter these days well just follow the the information on the screen there on my facebook I've got a personal video blog that is only on Facebook and I give personal daily updates on Twitter and Facebook that can only be found right 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asked you to do but then realizing that you're not doing it in your own ability but totally by yielding to God he's giving his ability to you to accomplish what he's called you to do absolutely yeah I mean do you look at me could I do something like in the natural realm or could I do what's happening no no that's just ridiculous that's just stupid yeah I'm just a little tiny person yielded to God and and all of us are like these little people but were sons and daughters that's right so Papa backs us up yeah he says oh this is what I want you to do and then you say yes and then he says awesome we're gonna do it and then you he does it it's so much more fun like if we'll stay in the presence holy more will happen in five minutes than previously five years if we'll stay in the Holy Spirit if he will do things like you know he'll open deaf ears he'll open blind eyes and you can't make that happen write it in your schedule you no let's have let's have the blind eyes open you know but as you love Jesus like how you heard him in that secret place that's the life that's the life we live and then he says now I want you to go get my lost Makua bride I want you to go to New York for a day I want you to go to us Becca Stan and hug people I want you to I I mean he'll just talk to you in the secret place and then you obey so it's this intimate love that you have and this might this might week some people but well my goal is not even the fruitfulness my goal is intimacy yeah my goal is that is the presence that intimate love with Jesus and fruit happens yeah it's just there wow it's just there and God likes it yeah so your main objective is not even the fruitfulness your main goal is his face I just I decide I just want to be where he is and he wants all his children coming home so it it's all together isn't it it's just being where he is why do we do as ministers what we do mm-hmm why do we do it it's a good I mean I don't give a rip about a name or a conference to go to you know they'll really really really I would not care at all what I care about is being in his presence and then I care about seeing all these people out there in the darkness yeah or even people who have the name Christian somewhere attached to themselves but they don't know what it is to live in this radical love where they rest yeah see well what was happening when you know you were just being blasted yeah it's like God saying hey it's really this much fun to be a son you know it's really this great it's really this wonderful feel and then you say okay if they want to shoot at me right I've been shot up beat up thrown in jail knifed I stopped counting you know malaria put blood yeah back all this stuff you know and people say well is it hard did you sacrifice me Ivan is present here in his presence I give my life for one child I mean his presence to bring one child home to papa's house I would easily give my life away what would I lose nothing I just gain heaven day and night but it's living in a presence living in his presence yeah you know Heidi a few years back I had a day where I was discouraged about something and I remember the normal joy that I have I just didn't have it that day and there was a pastor this this is actually kind of funny there was a pastor who came up to me and he noticed that I was looking discouraged so he said that I'm really happy to see that you've gotten some more soberness in your life I mean while I'm totally depressed and he's thinking that it's a good thing that now I'm sober oh and I remember thinking Lord this is messed up because you know what it is fun to serve Jesus it's fun to serve God and in his presence is fullness of joy there are some ministers or people or in the body they're serving God and they are miserable doing it yeah it's a chore forum and they don't realize the secret it's his present his present and there's a rest in his present yeah and we could just be refreshed in his presence and then it makes it easy then whatever he says even if he says give your life away in a nation where you know where they're shooting at you or you're starving or they kill your pastors which happens to us you know we stay in that presence we drink the suffering and the joy and we drink of Jesus whatever it is every day and and we know there's always enough now I know that there are some people watching the program today and you desire to be able to have fun in serving God and you desire to have a fruitful life a fruitful ministry you want the anointing of God on your life but as we've been sharing and Heidi's been sharing with us today we've learned a real secret here that even more than looking for the fruitfulness more than ever looking for a ministry or a name or another place to go and preach or something to do for God when you seek his face and you seek his heart and you seek his presence there's a place of rest that you come into where the anointing it's like oil and butter and it babes your feet and and and it causes everything that God will call you to do it causes it to just flow out of his anointing and out of his presence and for many of you today I want to encourage you rather than just being more busy and more active wait on Jesus and do what he calls you to do do go where he calls you to go and you'll see the abundant life of God released from your life Heidi I'm going to ask if you would pray for those watching today that God would bring them into his glory and I know as we've been here to the presence of God is all over this set right now the presence of God is just flow there's intangible anointing and presence in this place right now and and I know that it's going out through the airwaves and there is a there is a special anointing and a special refreshing some of you like Heidi was years ago you're worn out you're tired you've been serving in your own strength God wants to refresh you today God wants to anoint you today God wants to empower you today and it's at his feet so Holy Spirit we just say minister your life to every person watching today Holy Spirit let your glory go through these airwaves father let that anointing be released upon every person watching in the mighty name of G yes thank you lord hey Thank You Holy Spirit of us thank you thank you Omaha as we're receiving the anointing here you can receive it right of your right in your home just just lift up your hands and just surrender your heart and allow the Holy Spirit just to fill you right now thank you them Jesus wound them into your presence woo them into your presence God where they're so undone by love God that they will run out into the darkness as fearless lovers of God though they will never be fearful to give themselves away for you for intimacy god I pray you woo them into your kingdom glory realms Lord where they're so undone by who you are God that nothing nothing Lord nothing would seem tedious to them nothing you ask of them God would be too hard for them to bear Lord but they would so be full of your shun die glory Lord that they would say yes there would be a yes cry inside of yes yes cried impressed Hey yes cried in a run a yes cry to the release God let there be a yes cry in of God and yes to you Jesus oh yes to You Father hey and a yes to you Holy Spirit oh just Rackham Lord just wreck them for anything else but you Jesus yes imagine transforming one person one household one block one community one town and the entire city you live at it's the kingdom of God living within us that will impact every city around the world God desires to visit and transform whole cities and regions with his presence in this teaching series citywide transformation you will see a portrait of revival and obtain the keys to see your city impacted with a move of God's Spirit yearns to awaken your heart your family your neighborhood your workplace in every area of your life learn how to facilitate and Stewart a move of God and begin to transform your entire city order citywide transformation today a four CD teaching set by Matt's order with your love gift of thirty dollars or more also available online in mp3 format call one eight seven seven god 3131 or visit us at Matt's order calm October 25th to the 27th matt is at his house fellowship at MacArthur California November 1st to the 3rd Matt will be at the global presence ministries in Windsor Wisconsin November 11 to the 17th Matt will be conducting awakening services in Switzerland and England come experience the glory and next week we are going to continue our interview with Heidi Baker and I know you're going to continue to learn so much about your walk and relationship with God and how you can be a powerful anointed Christian and make an impact on the world change your world partner with Matt's order ministries you

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Keywords: Heidi Baker, Matt Sorger, Power for Life, God, Jesus Christ (Deity), Holy Spirit (Deity), intimacy, relationship, missionary, evangelism

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Length: 28min 37sec (1717 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 22 2013