Iris After Hours - Episode 42 - Shara Chalmers

welcome to iris after hours casual conversations with inspirational speakers off the clock g'day welcome back to iris after hours we are here with one of our favorite people in the world she is family she's been part of iris for like a decade long time um amazing woman she was in my wedding i was in her wedding she's ministering she was in her wedding which is this is an epic wedding we should talk about yes you'll hear about this epic wedding major rabbit trail she's ministered over 35 countries he's a prophet a preacher and the director producer of compelled by love she's on staff at bethel tv come on what else did she do hang on books in spanish no this is compelled by life we just run out of the english ones but yeah with shara pride if you're not australian it's sharer if you're australian you know mommy says no also her name is actually shara chalmers now i'm married because she married danny yes aussie aussie aussies come on wedding of this century yes because you guys were in it come on dancing a bollywood day in a theater i really want to get married in the theater because being serious yeah i know but you did it this is an incredible the cascade theater in reading when was it less than a year ago yes may 28th come on first anniversary coming up it was an epic wedding how many bridesmaids and grooms well i heard 16 means love so i had 16 bridesmaids because i'm a little bit older so every few years i would offer for someone to be in my wedding so when you turn 36 you are not even old at all also you've ministered in 35 nations yes and you're so young when did you meet you've got to get 36 sorry you've got to get to 36 nations because you're 36 every that is so young i'm going to be 50 this year so that's awesome 36 is like baby and young exactly come on we're how long have you been preaching how many years so the first time i ever preached mike pickle um it was a small stadium in kansas city and i was supposed to do like a little testimony for five minutes and i thought i am going to preach my life passage one of them exodus 33 and 34 about showing the glory of god so i got out there with thousands of people it just started talking about moses being god's friend and seeing the face of god and i was 22 i think and then your mom was amazing she sat me down as soon as i was her personal assistant and i had all these notes thinking she's going to want me to help with famine relief and do all this stuff and i was really stressed ready to take notes and she goes i have one requirement and i was like what and she goes i want you to love really well and i was like and then she said and you're a preacher so you're going to learn how to preach with the most beacon pastors so that's how i learned how to preach was teaching song of solomid for a song of solomon intensity that has been the book of your life yes i think in heaven i'll be able to act at the shulamite bride in the productions your wedding was very yes very prophetic in that way yeah well i wanted to do an invitation for the wedding feast to come like i wanted everybody to feel what it's going to feel like when they're the bride of the ages and they're celebrated exactly because that's the culmination of all things is the marriage supper of the lamb yes the bible begins and ends with the wedding so i wanted to actually come in a full-on palaquin so one of the missionaries from irish jeff happens to be a design builder so he made an epic biblical full-on palo quinn and about 16 guys carried me he was one of them indian outfits with gold and silver singing our first worship song it was very understated very i just wanted to humbly you know yeah how many times in your life do you ride in on apolloquind exactly so we keep it on our deck to remember that we're just to you know live life at ease being carried by jesus and your love story is a huge part of your testimony now yeah you've you've shared about it you've preached about it and we need to get into that well i yeah i didn't realize that um my life would give hope to all the singles around the world and there's many out there you're listening today and you're a single we this is for you yeah i once asked patricia king i said there's an epidemic in iris there's all these single women missionaries it's an epidemic in the body so many single women missionaries around the world actually so we're calling out for male missionaries want to be male missionaries come on get to mozambique you're a brave heart get to the mission field call the guys marry those single women do you remember when um heidi had us do that video on mission school the only shoot guys doing um epic like jumps out of the boat to try to attract guys to the mission school got a little funny because it was a bunch of shirtless men jumping into the ocean right we come to harvest school yeah it didn't really work it just attracted more women yes yes i thought i'm not going to go there making a new video well so my um my love story i you know when i first the first time i met your parents it was just the honor of a lifetime to serve them and where was that i was in malawi with todd bent todd bentley and he was feeding like a hundred thousand people for four months and so i was just uh jill lawson's pa i was there for a missions trip and i saw your mom and she was speaking but she didn't want to sit with a speaker she wanted to be with the poor and i was like i mean she sticks out like where's waldo you know a blonde woman in a hundred thousand you know chuckling people and i thought oh that's so unusual and i watched her and she just held this deaf baby and she kissed the deaf baby their ears open i started crying and she walked up to me and she was she's always so sad she's wearing a couple on and a shirt and a jacket it was all matching and she asked me to carry your jacket and the lord just speaks to me i really didn't know her very well and the lord said i want you for a season lay down your life lay down marriage which is my desire lay down your ministry and just love me by loving her like carrying her mental serve and so that was 2001 i think oh my gosh maybe no 2002 i think when you became her pa well when the lord first spoke to me it was a full year after that that i moved so are you still recovering from being heidi's pa well i feel like i i could do anything now yeah one of the harder things you've done in all of the things well she just stretched me i feel like it was like you know it was just such an honor but i learned so many things and i learned i feel like i learned more how to pray from watching the secret of their secret place than when i was a full-time intercessor at ihop you know they're the friendship your mom has with holy spirit is profound in history so it was an honor i'm glad though now i'm making movies i don't miss being a pa come on you're stepping into your destiny but back to your love story you yeah so i thought i'd get you know married maybe two decades ago but so i and i um and a friend of mine ravi um kandel who when we started iris india we passed it to a bunch of the indians he came around my birthday i think it was 2004 2005 and he was staying off base and the lord walked into his bedroom and gave him a word face-to-face encounter with a word for heidi a word for will hart who's leading iris and then a word from me and the lord goes my shera my share of my sarah and smiled and he said there was like an esther call in my life and esther was prepared for king and her marriage was her ministry like it was all one so he was talking about my husband and i i mean i'm a woman of faith i take the word to the bank heidi and i flew to hong kong so in faith at that time in my life i didn't have a lot of friends because i was working a lot so i decided to have my spiritual moms be my bridesmaids and i went out in faith and i bought them each a prophetic mantle to be in my wedding um this is like 12 years ago and i went one by one to like jill and heidi and i gave them a prophetic mantle in their favorite color asking them to be at my wedding in faith and i think stacy was the one i got her hot pink stacy campbell on the board and she goes well do you have a boyfriend i was like no like hello i'm walking in faith and she goes does has anybody asked you out and i'm like no and it was just you know it was just one of those moments so yes oh my gosh so when i was in pembo one of my jobs was i gotta host the speakers in the bush which is so bonding because you know there's not much water it's a little rougher so they would all at the end of it be like how can we bless you do you want prayer and i'd be like pray for my husband so i literally had people pray all these leaders around the world for years yes over ten years and so what was so precious was um when i after i made compelled by love i had some thyroid issues where i had a growth on my thyroid and i was going through cancer testing and it was it was so rough and i was like lord what is going on and he goes you're about to experience mikva and i go what's mikva you know i thought i remembered it from song of solomon so i google it which helps me a lot in the prophetic and it's a hebrew word and mikvah in hebrew is the jewish bridal preparation and it's like a cleansing and almost like baptism and so i was asked to teach song of songs at bethel a home group and a leader in bethel comes in and she's like i want to prophesy over you so i was like so i take out my phone and she's like no no i have a prophetic word i don't know what language it is i feel like this word will mean something to you i hear the lord saying mikvah no way and i burst into tears oh my goodness and um that's so yeah it was precious and wesley and cece campbell wesley had sat me down and been like i want to bless you you know uh you're living as an itinerary i want to help you financially i'm going to do a business with you and i'm like wow i've never done a business in my life that's exciting so i gave him my credit card to sign up to do business and he signs me up for a wrap business which is that it works you know where you put these magic wraps on your tummy and it shrinks your tummy yeah and he wanted me to sell them at conferences like lift up the wrap and you know and i was like it didn't work it did not work for me and so he gave me a rap coach to help my rap business that was non-existent and it sounds like a bad rap yeah and this woman angela um and never made it in the rap business but the lord spoke to her that uh danny was my husband so she set us up on my birthday it was a sit-up the rest of the set up so it was ten years later to the date of the face-to-face visitation that ravi had oh my gosh and he's ozzy come on he's like he's full of life he's greek aussie and he's he's my sliver of heaven on earth come on best thing that's ever happened to me love and you minister together yes he has such a miracle we were just i mean he just i love prophesying i love feeling god's heart and he loves the healing of heart and physical miracles and yeah he's just he's the greatest gift of my life so sarah fully filled her arm popped when he prayed with danny prater for the other day because her arm was broken and it's still not getting straight and it fully went straight didn't it was crazy yeah yeah this just happened in reading wow yeah it was crazy yeah he helps with uh healing rooms and he so he did a 40 day fast asking the lord permission to pursue me and then another 48 day fast asking to move to reading so the poor boy i mean it was a daniel fest it wasn't like lou angle water fast stuff that's amazing but i told him he couldn't propose until he met um your parents and you know i don't always i see him like twice a year so he had he had planned this full-on proposal and reading and invited my whole community and my roommate esther was like i need to take you to get your nails done and i'm like that's weird and i'm not easy to surprise so i had this feeling he was gonna propose and so i was like babe you can't propose till you meet the bakers so we happen to be getting together at rosh hashanah um before we were speaking at your media school your amazing irish global media school and it was breakfast and um i remember heidi goes we're eating breakfast danny's never met her and he goes she goes i have a word for you don't wait 40 days don't wait 40 hours don't even wait 40 minutes the lord says now is the time [Laughter] and so poor daddy no pressure but he proposed and his hand got caked with gold and then there was a celebration we were actually there because it was just like the breakfast that you get at a hotel oh yeah yeah like just kind of like what's happening i think he's proposing oh my gosh you are amazingly prophetic oh yeah a prophet that the first time you met me you prophesied over me and we were at the dinner table [Music] i know at the first time we met shara sarah and i in pemba yes she prophesied california opening up and hollywood over us and guess where we're living now that's why we were living in australia and here we are in california california's opened up we have own a house here you're u.s citizens u.s citizens crazy menace fathering hollywood mothering hollywood come on with diane yeah acting with diane the nora like oh my gosh what morgan asked for so crazy i remember being in toronto and there was young cheryl still all the glitter she still loves glitter she's loved glitter for how many years 12 years 15 years and i had no idea who she was and she was on the second row and the night before was like the only time i'd been like i don't even know if god exists because i wasn't feeling anything and i was finally in toronto and then this girl pulls me over and she's like i just feel like you've questioned the existence of god and i was like never gonna do that again i was like what and then of course she kept going no shame no why she had one little doubt i wanted something yeah i was like never again okay and then do you remember the dream i had when you were you were gonna go to the toronto school of supernatural and i never heard of bethel i never heard of it i mean this is like 2004. and i had a dream that chrislyn was going to go to the toronto school and there was a guy there that wasn't her husband and she wasn't supposed to go to toronto she was supposed to go to reading and i didn't know bill johnson i mean this was kind of before jesus culture so i get this dream and i tell heidi she was a little upset because she had a full scholarship to the toronto school of supernatural tickets flying to toronto within like a couple days oh my gosh and you got a word directional word yeah about a city i didn't know but brock because i would have married the wrong person i felt like there was some guy that liked you there um anyway yeah no she got on the phone and i after i got off the boat i called my parents and i'm like i think i'm not going to toronto and i drove to bethel instead of going in canada goodness and then you met brock who's perfect that was you're both doing the bethel school um that was my one word that i felt like was maybe a little bit um i was so hard on brock when he wanted to pursue crystalline we did have like a lot of fancy food in mozambique so i tried to make something to honor him so i made ramen because i knew she loves ramen and i put an egg to make it special and i just grilled him and i did not like relent on brock till probably like two months before the wedding i mean i was i think i was the hardest person for him to pass through but i love him he's perfect he was made for her but just overly protected oh man yeah a million times you took a lot of fire actually but tell us about your journey in the prophetic and how did that start for you early on and yeah has that changed for you has that are there times when you feel like you have to hold back what you say or that you see something and you you feel to or whereas before maybe you said everything or how has that changed for you in the past it's been just decades of breath saying but i think for me like i'm about to go on the song of solomon school and you know i'm doing my movie on hosea which i want you guys to be part of so for me the prophetic has always flowed from intimacy you know i don't feel like i have some amazing gift like sean bowles or it's just all come through um just like literally being his bride and learning to minister to him because when i was first saved my dad's indian my mom's jewish and they would not let me they didn't want me to be christian they didn't want me to go to church i wasn't allowed to like even go pray at school and so i would get up at five in the morning and i would hide in my closet to pray i mean i wasn't like praying in my closet like to like the bible says too i was just hiding in my closet so by the church was just my bible and time of jesus and so i learned to hear his voice as like a lifeline and i i didn't even know what the prophetic was but in high school people would always cry around me when i talk with them like they would say you're reading my heart how do you know all the stuff about me i thought i was just kind of compassionate because my family has struggled a lot with like mental illness so we've just kind of been there done that with counseling and um and so i grew up just having this ability to see into hearts and not really knowing what it was and when i went to princeton i was trying to lead revival among evangelical kids and so i started speaking in tongues not knowing what it was i and i started taking the kids through deliverance in the in the dorm rooms when it wasn't actually allowed and then i brought lou came to campus and i invited all the kids and so for me the prophetic has always flowed from just this hunger i just want to love him as much as i can and i just want to be as close to him as humanly possible and to me it's one of the highest ways to love people because people have such a desire to be known and to be loved it's like you get to stand under this waterfall of his affection and just splash it i mean you know first corinthians 12 on the gifts 13 is about love and then the summation the climax of love is prophecy so to me it's just been a way of pursuing the heart of god and i was i have this honor of being mentored by jill austin who um yeah he's a prophet yeah she's passed on now yeah and i was i was with her the last few days before she went to be with the lord and she was mentored by lonnie frisbie this catalytic revivalist that started the jesus people movement the calvary chapel i mean he just he brought like he brought the miraculous into the calvary chapel movement didn't he he did and he was like there's so many people being baptized they would go in the pacific ocean i mean it was like jesus was on the cover of times he's doing it again in america and she was mentored by him so when she would prophesy this realm of the presence would come and when i moved to ihop in faith after princeton i had no money i was living totally by faith and she asked me to be her aqua aerobics instructor random that's how i put myself through princeton so and then she's poor aerobics yeah she got us matching some caps and matching goggles have you ever seen uh the muppets take manhattan where miss piggy does the scene in the pool i don't know if you've seen that but she wanted to do all these routines in the little ymca maybe you're probably too young but that's awesome that's how long so she traveled with me uh she had me travel with her for two years and she wanted to raise me up in the prophetic and kind of help you know share her platform with me but the lord so spoke to me when i met your mom i wasn't ready for a western platform that i needed to find jesus in the face of the poor and just literally give up everything and just move to mozambique and so um that's what you did yeah i moved there so i thought missionaries were like women they couldn't get married that were floral skirts and tvs and socks and we're like from b and you know and i have like mac makeup and i've always been i can't even set up a tent this day and i lived in africa for five years i still can't sit up i used to sleep on my land rover because it's simpler um but i just had this supernatural love that i still have for your parents just would take a bullet for them so my call to the mission field was more just feeling called to them you know even more than it wasn't like i was weeping over mozambique though i love the children i want to do movies to help the poor so um so i'm thankful that the lord took me in a season where i was so mentored by your parents because they carry so much mercy and so much love and i used to like in my 20s give words over nations where i'd be weeping and like kind of jeremiah like words of repentance and judgment i mean it was a little bit wrong i didn't know how to yield a gift i had you know and sometimes you you know there has been a bit of a shift for you in terms of the prophetic things you've learned yes about yes by making mistakes a lot of it's been from like i remember one of the first words i got in mozambique is heidi had had me doing her emails and i am there was a donor there that wanted to buy the property in pemba and i got a word that um in the middle of the night that her partner was going to steal our money and go to the bermuda triangle and i told the word to um i think i told it to heidi and i told it to the donor and it didn't go over well like it was not well received i think it even offended i mean i didn't know how to deliver it but about a month later the word exactly happened and so heidi said call this woman every you know all the time so she knows we just love her for her not because she can give anything just love her freely and so i learned how to yield directional words in the place of humility in the place of tenderness in the place of tears in a place of intercession where you know i think paul kane said 90 of what he received he just ministered to the lord but i think bob jones was i said the opposite that he would release 90 to people and stored 10 so yeah wow so there's quite a scope in learning to feel where what your place is and what god's calling you specifically to in the prophetic yes and i feel like my major mouthpiece is through film now i feel like films are my prophecy to the world yeah talk to us about that journey um you've directed and produced compelled by love you have other projects now you've you've developed a real passion for filmmaking how did that happen you were in full-time ministry in missions and now that's a huge part of your journey yes well the lord when i was in mozambique the lord really put on my heart my heart for my generation and so when your parents had a day off i would book them to berkeley or sanford or college campus especially the ivy leagues so while i was going after like reaching this generation in prayer the lord spoke to me and said if you want to reach this generation go into film it's the language of a generation and like 80 of the internet's youtube they say that a child by the time they're 18 has spent 20 000 hours in front of media social media tv but only 2 000 hours in front of their with their parents so media is disciplining a generation like youtube movies or is what's disciplining a generation but i have no real skill honestly and i was living in mozambique where it wasn't like there was movies or billboards i mean you know it's exciting when you get a bottle of peanut butter you know it's like totally fresh off the boat and the lord puts this on my heart and just took me on this radical journey of faith of confirming that word over and over um just getting to prophesy over celebrities and really confirming it and it was um what happened was when you're when i was your mom's pa i used to ask for dreams when she was supposed to go places just because she had so many invites it was overwhelming no i had good she how many points did you get like i think she takes what like ten percent or five percent yeah so i'd ask the lord how do you choose right right because it's you know because so many i mean she's like a global mouthpiece and you want her to be at the right place at the right time for the word of the lord so i didn't always get dreams but she got an invite to minister to um a denver like very wealthy business group and i remember i was so funny i wrote back and i said heidi only has one hour free in the year 2006. she has a tuesday morning free in october october 23rd or something and they wrote back and they go perfect that's when the denver business group meets would you come and i still was kind of like so bold i was like well she has to preach on the east coast that night there's no way to do a west coast meeting with a time difference and fly and so then they said well we've prayed about it we'll send a jet and we'll pick you up and this was not normal like i've never ridden a jet before after and i remember i was trying to clean up in the bathroom because they're like really nice i mean way better than united and i rarely just flew to this meeting and um and heidi it was a very conservative group she just preached the simple message her life message is stopping for the one but the presence crashed in and i went around prophesying after and this asian man just weeping as i was prophesying and he said basically he said i want what's happened in this meeting i want this revival in mozambique this experience to crash into wall street to hit the ivy leagues to hit hollywood what would it look like for the outpouring in africa to actually hit america wow and then he gave like a huge chunk of his life savings to make a movie about heidi and rollin and so they there was an amazing crew like an a-list crew that shot for i think six months or something that's when i did my harvest school yeah it was called holy given school then yeah 2007. that was shooting yeah yes they interviewed me yeah i found the old footage actually it's so cute little naked it's adorable and i wasn't even i was just the production assistant because i was helping with heidi's schedule and they shot all over the world and the producer went through crisis couldn't finish it but it was 300 hours of footage and it was supposed to help the poor you know here's a film he allowed these people into her life for so long it was even when rolling was so sick and it never went anywhere and i um i i just felt like the lord said it was time to resurrect it and your mom such a woman of faith just commissioned me to make the movie when i had no background no experience no budget no team no equipment and so it just started this faith journey of just like putting my hand in papa's hand and trusting him for a journey and making a movie wow so yeah with a lot of help like you guys i just i have an ability of getting people to do things they never would do like the bollywood flashback people volunteer yeah diane venora said it you're a natural producer yes it is an amazing skill well i didn't even have a i worked on the film at diane's house because i had no place to work so i slept over at her house and she kind of coached me and i just the lord would be like have bonky be your narrator and i'm like how do i how do you contact donkey i tried to facebook you or what a killer choice for a narrator that's so powerful when he speaks in the film and he has an authority like the lord spoke to him all in africa and for america the lord had told him from cape town to cairo's africa will be saved and then spoke to him that that was coming to america so i felt like catalytically in the spirit that he carried like a weighty presence for the point of the film like to bring the revival in mozambique to america and so like i remember right before thanksgiving i texted a friend and i've been like i need twenty thousand dollars to finish the film on time and i have no money and i purposely it's not like i'm trying to tell your parents what we need or anything i was like either this works or it doesn't and the lord just speaks to my executive producers the next day like before thanksgiving the lord woke us up and told us you need 20 grand so we're going to send it and so oh my gosh it was a huge faith journey and it was really it was super super fun i even got to bring public love to the white house which was random and fun so yeah you gave a bomb or a copy he wasn't there but i was ready to prophesy i was ready but i did pass out the movie a lot that was really cool so good i don't even feel like i've heard that story fully you weren't in the white house well my friend my precious friend jean had heard that obama was doing an award for asian american leaders which i'm indian and jewish so i'm not even really that's right and so she entered music it's it's considered its own country but she entered me into the not in australia in australia what to do but i was like the only indian that entered this thing and she entered me and i randomly won this little thing and so you had to go to the white house for an awards ceremony and um and when i was going into you have to go through a lot of security to get in there's all these asians it's like an asian invasion there there's all these and i noticed one white person so i was like oh cool they're not with our group i'm gonna prophesy over them because i love prophesying and um i start prophesying over the woman and i am so intense which i can be when i prophesied that i flagged security not me i'm never a debts but and they were like the security was upset and the woman's like she's laughing at me and she said do you know who i am and i'm like no i'm thinking i'm gonna get kicked out and she goes i am president obama's right hand for faith-based initiatives i'm running the white house briefing that you're about to go to would you like to pray over the other speakers and i'm like oh yes i'll give out compo i love dvds and then um they asked a few of us to do a private tour and release the glory of god in the white house so i'm like i got little coasters for your parents and then that night there was the awards ceremony and i didn't enter the competition at all so i didn't know much about it but i donated all these compelled by love dvds to give to the senators and and so when we get there the other speakers had prepared like full notes and quotes and like you know state of the union addresses and i'm like i didn't prepare a speech what am i supposed to do and i felt like the lord said get on your knees at the awards ceremony and worship me and just draw all the attention back to me because i am the hope for america i am the name of every name i'm the king of of kings like there is one hope for america and i was like this is not christian i'm gonna get in trouble but i am right before i got up there i just felt like the lord said to do it and i just started welcoming the presence of god the gala and there's all these men in three-piece suits falling over and it was really gosh yeah it was just random but it was i just feel like when you're you know willing to just love him everywhere you know just worship him everywhere so that was the point of the film was that you know people would encounter the love of the father so and now i'm doing hosea which is for a non-christian audience so yeah tell us about that and and also compelled by love was the start of your film company right yes hadassah hadassah films films and yeah what is that doesn't mean it's um hebrew it means hidden like the myrtle tree it's esther's first it's esther's hebrew name so i have it before yeah so compelled by love started this journey in film yes pretty much yeah so talk to us about the journey after that yeah and what you're working on now well compelled by love i mean it's reached a lot of christians which is awesome and i wanted it to reach billions of people and raise billions of dollars for the poor i wanted heidi to go at oprah but unfortunately that hasn't happened yet if anybody's watching this and wants to promote it i wanted it i just had a dream that heidi wouldn't have to preach that it would make so much money that it should just whatever i had high hopes so now i've decided to do a film that's not for the church that's for um non-christians so great christians pre-christians yes i love the bridal paradigm and so i am it's pretty amazing i'm friends with this emmy nominee scriptwriter sj who's very high at the writer's guild and she normally charges about a million dollars for a spec script and so danny and i decided we're gonna use all the money we got at our wedding and invest in hosea but you know obviously a million dollars that's a little bit above my preaching budget but she found right at my birthday she found a caveat in the class of the wga agreement where she could volunteer basically for a year mentor me with her full ucla mfa script program teach me everything and co-write with me and then she'll get paid on the back end so this whole year we've been um writing hosea together and we had an amazing thing happen where my husband and i loved seeing movies so we were seeing lion the recent you know oscar nominee film shot in india and my husband gets wrecked in the movie theater is sobbing it's like undone by the presence it's all about adoption and he goes hosea has to help the kids in india we have to do something 12 hours later from us being on our knees in the movie theater um sj text me she said i won this i'm i'm doing like a ted type of talk at in the silicon valley with all the google execs and facebook execs and all these indian leaders i feel like part of hosea should be shot in india and i feel like you should come and try to get funding it's normally like a grand but i'll scholarship you will you come and network and so it's like this invite-only group that like goes to the white house and it's like um it's called nexus it's this amazing like think tank and they're their the nexus group they have 600 billion dollars of what they call impact investing so it's all these very affluential influential gen x leaders that are trying to change the world so i go again and i just prophesy and they asked if i wanted to join you know the group to do to prophesy and stuff so really yeah so i'm hoping for the future you know change the world yeah so we're just writing that i want to write a part for both of you guys to be in it come on audition we've done a film with sheriff come on we have tell us about pregas no we don't have to go into that really well you can include it in the video so everybody could see crystalline you should put it if not it's on vimeo.com oh wow there you go you can watch it starring nathan godzilla and crystalline i was literally pregnant yes christmas she wasn't he's my stage wife she's played my stage wife several times yeah it's weird she's such a skinny crater i was like she had a baby and she was pregnant with a fake belly but it looked like another short film oh no that's another oh it was really her belly it was just small my mistake we did previous was all your husband's pre-pregnant pregnant film and then i did it gosh i got my films mixed up sorry yes so you were amazing and diane really chrissy really pregnant it's prayers and the reason i wrote crystalline as the lead is at brock's birthday party in mozambique the summer before i was praying for brock and i saw chrislyn being like a comedian like doing all this humor and i was kind of you know i was surprised sometimes the lord shows me stuff and i'm like i didn't know you know because she's always been like my little sister i didn't see this comedian sign so i decided to write a little short film where she was the star and she was a comedian because of a prophetic word so i love the spirit of prophecy you know i know it's crazy because it's all creative yeah the spirit just brooded over the universe and then god spoke so it's out of prophecy creativity comes it's all i love it i love what you guys are doing in hollywood your school your company you're gonna end up down here we've decided come home i don't even need to prophesy it's just true and crystalline was my maid of honor and my most beacon wedding with all the kids yes it was beautiful yesterday it was a little bit chiller we were all there so yeah you had your wedding here and then we all went to mozambique or shooting different projects and then we had your second wedding in mozambique wedding and nathan actually if you want to watch it he performed psalm 27 at my wedding and reading it's on the same vimeo site as david and as he performed the breaker anointing was released and he was on the ground and dianne couldn't perform but she's like oh the academy for the oscars and she could stand up and people said they felt the presence so strong i wanted to have them perform the bible and um but then the wedding in mozambique was supposed to be chiller just the poor the crippled the blind lame and all the children so that was super fun like that dance party and there was a chicken face afterwards was amazing yes it was so hot but we were dancing our lives away it was amazing and all the kids were like we've been praying for your father they were so cute so they a few of them want to come live with us so did you still pray but you got to have all of your mozambican kids there yeah your family from when you lived there years before that so awesome and i literally would have the kids pray for danny all the time because they'd always want to eat all my food and i thought lord surely you will listen to the prayers of the orphan children so i literally would have the blessed daddy for years before i would let them eat my food i mean that might be manipulative and that might not be the prayer of faith but i had the african kids crying out for him so poor danny had so many kids coming up we were praying for you you know like for years that is so funny yeah it was so fun it was just great it was beautiful it was come on and currently you work with bethel media yes what does that look like so i just work part-time for bethel media because i'm also itinerate with my husband quite a bit and i work on how often do you travel we're trying to do once a month because i'm trying to really i want to write from face-to-face encounters i want you to you're really focusing on writing yes finishing the movie this year i'm trying to get it to investors by the end of the year so um but i love it we do testimony videos for buffalo media so we get a i get a like listen to stories of miracles and marriages being restored and debt being cancelled and god's goodness and celebrate it so i interview all these i literally get to hear people's stories all the time and um and i also do like all the e-courses for buffalo and i listen to all the sermons and do and i get to serve this beautiful producer holly brunson and i've learned a lot because they have a huge bethlehem is huge i'm learning so much about film and yeah that's really good i have a lot to learn that's super exciting shara how did your journey with god begin like did you know god just randomly as a little kid did you have an encounter how did how did how did you walk in yeah no i never heard of jesus i thought he was related to santa claus i mean i grew up in a no i was born in america but my family is really international but um so we we once went to an episcopal church i think no unitarian we went to unitarian church and i i never heard of the lord and um and what happened was when i was 13 years old we moved from massachusetts to texas and i had major culture shock so i just i bet yeah massachusetts and texas very different places i'm very and i was you know in the land of cheerleaders and hairspray and blonde blue-eyed people and i'm like the only indian jew my parents are so liberal they're you know my dad's a professor they're all about like helping the poor and my dad's like one of the most generous people after your parents and papa bill but anyway so i'm in texas freaking out because i don't get it and a friend of mine said what do you believe in and i thought she meant politically so i was like no more homelessness help the poor you know i'm telling her all about equal rights and she goes no do you believe in god and i was so angry i was like how can you ask me if i believe in god that's a private matter you don't talk about that like all the rhetoric my parents had told me but that one question holy spirit used to put me on a nine month hunt to see if god was real at 13. i tried every major religion i joined my jewish youth group and i was a social committee chair i like research hinduism and and holy spirit would wake me up every morning and i didn't know jesus and i felt so lost like something was missing and so she might that same friend invited me to a christian conference in texas and i only went because we did acting together and i thought it had to do with acting i did not understand what i was getting into so the night before the conference i had this weird desire to pray and i'd only seen it on television because i was like oh so i try to like hail mary and literally do what i've seen in movies and never never even i couldn't even spell the word jesus i'd never seen it in printing and i just said jesus if you're real help me to find you wow and um and there's no history of christians in my family you know i and the next day i go to a conference and there's all these young people and they're just calling on the name of the lord and i literally just said oh lord jesus i just cried out his name and i got thrown back and it was not a charismatic group at all they're actually from like asia and stuff and very conservative and i just the holy spirit came into me i started reading through the whole bible by the end of the weekend i'd sent letters to all my parents friends sharing the gospel so i was saved by like an encounter but i went home and my own family who i loved so much really rejected me you know so it was the lord gave me like a significant encounter so i knew it was real so i just learned how to because there was a bit of a bit of a tough journey immediately after yes it was like well my family felt like i was leaving them behind everything they raised me to be and they didn't understand they felt like i was choosing christianity over them and um i mean it was rough at one point my family even wanted to sue you know heidi and rawlind and iris and ihop but it's funny this i mean jesus sort of says that in the scripture anyway doesn't he says you know about your mother and father yes potentially it'll come down to them rejecting you you know yes in the in you know unless you i've come to divide you know a son from its mother parents from his children you know what's that scripture i forget what it is but he usually does not leave his father and mother it's not worthy of me and and i think like i didn't realize how much of an orphan spirit i had until i went to mozambique like i feel like the lord so used iris and the family and the bakers to heal my heart in such an incredible way i remember the first year i worked for heidi she'd have to keep telling me i don't love you because of what you do i don't love you because of anything you give or anything and i would just cry because i was so used to performance and yeah and and and yeah that you do something and you get a reward for it yeah other than unconditional love which is it the center of christianity isn't it yeah the children it doesn't make sense unconditional love doesn't it's not rational no it's not rational and it's god you know and like seeing it's foolishness but it's foolish wisdom of of to the world right right why would you love something you don't get anything out of yeah and it's that's so irresistible so i feel like in mozambique just it was like my toronto experience just the experience of the father's love and seeing the pure gospel through children you know redemptive stories kids that are in trash dumbs that everybody gives up on becoming champions of the gospel you know kids that had aids getting healed and then praying for healing or kids that aren't even healed moving in miracles like i went to mozambique to learn and i'm so thankful for that so the lord really is especially your mom just um i remember one time in uh korea i preached and i think i was controversial because i was this single prophetic and you know preacher and she took a huge chunk of her honorarium and put it in a little bag that said i love you and just gave it to me and i used to when i traveled by myself preaching i used to carry that little bag with me so they've been so kind to me yeah well they really mothered and fathered you in the spirit and because you were saved that you weren't brought up and you were the first christian in your whole bloodline you really needed that you needed that parenting and that that in-depth care and introducing you know discipleship yes and learning to do family you know like because first generation christians it's a tough journey first generation christian is tough yes and my little sister had gotten so sick on the mission field it almost died and so there was just a lot every time i'd go to india somebody near me would almost get hospitalized and died because i helped start iris india so there was just a lot of breaking off generational curses and pioneering and but my whole family came to my wedding and they hadn't been in the same room for 15 years so that was just huge and just um you know watching them just be to be in a worship service like for my wedding i just wanted the glory i just wanted manifest presence so i had the worship team pray in tongues for half an hour before we even worship you know just set the atmosphere of like glory and um and just to see my own family come together you know i know they'll be in heaven one day so and danny and his family got to go and because we no because it's it's expensive from australia so your mom is so amazing she flew in a week early to help because the it was a production and so we were dropping her at the airport it was a full theatrical in a theater in a theater it was and i was the producer at the bridesmaids we were in l.a months before practicing a choreographed dance a bollywood dance yes for you because we were how many times could you do a bollywood flashback come on we did it you did it well so well it was amazing but um and so we dropped her at the airport and danny goes mom dad and i go i need to film this that was literally what i was thinking and my maid of honor sarah burst into tears and i'm like i don't understand what's going on because i've never met his parents and he runs up and they get off heidi's flight heidi is leaving there's like two flights in reading and they flew in from australia and they just had never experienced love like that in the culture of honor and this summer and papa lou and mama tres were at the wedding and papa lou said something to my mother-in-law and so this summer my mother-in-law was trying to watch compel by love on god tv so she puts it on and she hears lou's voice and then she falls asleep and has a dream and she dreams of lou's voice not realizing he was the man from the wedding she gets up puts on god tv it's lou again and she gives her life to the lord and they want to come be with us when we have kids so it was like my big fat greek wedding i mean yes come on denny yeah it was great so he's just yeah family that's all we that's the greatest so god is just doing so much it's incredible yes wow so maybe we'll be pregnant together one day crystalline come on both of us [Music] so you are currently oh we talked about this you're doing the song of solomon passion workshop here to get more inspired for hosea yes i want to i want to make a movie like the shack or blind side that non-christians walk into and they're just wrecked in god so i just want to go deeper where there's so much glory on the film that so i just i i just i'm hungry i'm just hungry for more is there a way for people to keep up with this or we're so not techy savvy or there will be yes eventually we have facebook and twitter and instagram but we're just in incubation we're writing but yes we need help i better do like a hundred billion dollar budget i'm gonna do a film and i wanna give i wanna eat compelled by love is supposed to help the beautiful kids and iris but this next film i want to help get kids out of sex slavery so i want to do a hollywood film but that's not profit so they're actually we're going to give away a certain percentage of it to actually help different ministries that are rescuing kids and sex slavery so is there a way for people to follow where you'll be speaking yeah i was just thinking that because i feel like everyone should hear your [ __ ] ashara and denny like schedule we do have a ministry we started a non-profit love ministries.com yes but i haven't updated this i'm so sorry i was a good pa but i'm terrible at my own stuff you need to be your own pa come on or i need to find somebody help me jesus but yes yes yeah we we're we haven't really i never felt a release to do my own ministry because i was always in the irish family until we got married and then and my husband's just because he um he got saved just six years ago and went to a theater production and christian production and audibly heard god three times so he's an actor and got saved again through his craft but he's like a kid in a candy store when he ministers it's so good for me because he just has awe and wonder about everything yeah and so it's he's the best thing that's impossible for marriage for everybody come on yes yes such a great story yes he's a little bit like you when i first met him i was like sarah i met somebody that's like nathan ozzy and he's really funny which is so good because i'm i'm so intense he he just is like my constant entertainment and he's just he's just by delight so yeah and chair you know so many people oh my gosh i can't believe it if it's anyone in ministry you've probably met them or had conversations with them i just i'm curious about bob jones do you have any bob jones stories now bob jones was one of the original kansas city prophets he's with the lord now but do you have any stories about that loves his bob jones i love bob jones i mean he he fathered so many people but he was like maybe more like a granddad to me um so whenever i'd go to india to start iris india someone near me would almost die and the second time i went that was when heidi was hospitalized like 30 days in south africa in the hospital the lord healed her supernatural in toronto so the baker sent me actually to bob jones because we knew there was some sort of warfare but you know it we didn't know what to do and um i went to his home and i i used to always i mean i met up with him a lot of times it was funny at golden corral which was like wait not golden crawl uh cracker barrel that was his favorite barrel and he's getting you get like chicken fried steaks and green beans and potatoes and gravy and he's like on a health diet and doing like i want to get that bulb john's meal and he'd only eat the blue m m so keep eating those for revelation but when i walked into his home he knew all about me and he knew the warfare that it was going through and he loved me through it with no i no judgment and he knew i liked a guy at that time and he looked at me and he goes well i sure do like you but you're not my wife and i go i didn't understand he was joking and so i freaked out because i'm like 22 years old flying from mozambique like totally like jet lagged you were only 22. maybe 23 or 24. i was young twenties i'm not always the best with age and um and he was just teasing he was like reading my mind so he was just because i was gonna ask him should i marry this guy you know one of my crushes or whatever and um he just he was teasing but i didn't know how to handle it and so anyway that was yeah and then we went to golden knuckles so yeah he was just he was so loving he was just so and i got to spend time with him um right before he passed away so he they did like a little prophetic gathering at moravian falls where he was and so i was thankful i got to see him then and one of my favorite heavenly visitations is you know where he saw the lord face to face and the only question was did you learn to love did you learn to lafayette he died on valentine's day because he just you know he is a prophet of love and i that's just my model to you know i think you know some people like you have extraordinary giftings everything i just want to be an encounter of love you know that when people are ministered to they know how much the father loves them simple wow that's one of your core messages or what's one of the the main things you're preaching about right now as you go out well i just preached to sunday my day and i tried to preach on monday night but we went into heavenly encounters so i'm a presence preacher i was mentored by your mom so i go after but i almost always preach about intimacy i always preach about just yeah pursuing jesus and the song of solomon and um and the presence but i did just on monday i was try i actually had a whole message to prepare and he just instead of even getting to preach i just leading people into encounters because i think i'm just so hungry for more come here no i just just want more of him so did you feel anything significant about 2017 yes i do feel like it's such a year of breakthrough actually um my home church at bethel we're starting a fast i thought it was today but sunday through next sunday we're going to be fasting for seven days because bill had a word about isaiah 54 you know single baron woman like in the place of baroness in your wilderness like giving gratitude giving thanks for a breakthrough and um yeah and my husband and i have been experiencing that a lot we we're terrible faster it's like the worst there are but we've just fasted a little bit i'm still learning how to fast well danny gets so grumpy i'm like it's no fun to fast for them because he's just grumpy but um yes so um i believe it's just a season a breakthrough the hebraic gear is 5777 which is crowned sword so the the triple sevens that only happens like every thousand years um and i think it's a year of restoration of things that were lost being brought back like everything that the enemy's stolen being repaid yeah i feel like it's a scene i've heard that before someone else has said that too yes and even with a sword you think about it of like the cutting away of things that are toxic of things that are negative of things that aren't going for your destiny and a holy realignment so i'm really excited i mean i just even feel in america like just so much hope for this season of you know the next jesus people move in california revival well you guys are leading yeah come on chai was on last week and he was talking about that same thing second jesus people movement yeah it's last year i i was i got to speak a little bit at bethel and they wanted me to share my love story so did it over fasting and the lord wakes me up in the middle of the night and he reminds me about how the welsh revival started in wales in europe and it went to azusa and it went from europe to america and the same thing happened with the first great awakening it started in cambridge you know or oxford six seven men set themselves apart from methods of holiness the holiness club and it went to the east coast up and down the circuit riders and he started showing me about stadium christianity and in europe and in america and just the harvest being so ripe and what was going to happen and showed me all this stuff for europe and so i'm just i just feel so thankful to be alive and i'm so excited about media like i preached since i was 22 and i started preaching in mud high churches but my movie reached more than my whole life of preaching so one film mel gibson you know with a passion film did what billy graham did yeah you know like the shack people are gonna walk into that movie he's a good friend of mine paul young like they're gonna that will reach people that will never step foot into church you know that will be the bible that they never read so for media to just reach this you know six seven billion people on the planet yeah i can't believe you said like 80 of the internet is youtube watching that's crazy that was actually a few years i think that was 2005 15 i got that so it might even be more now that's amazing because youtube is crazy so making content for to disciple people is that's like yeah it's youtube cool millionaires now like what used to be stock market is youtube now you know yeah everything's online everything's shifting it's crazy google bought youtube didn't they i think did google own them i think google on youtube i don't know these things i should avoid we need to have you i'll show you update us on all of these projects on the hosea films yes we're so excited to have you yes we're going to keep you here rock star missionary minister prophet sister big sister filmmaker that's what i'll be known in heaven for christmas and my little sister yes come on we have a few very profound questions yes okay some of these are borrowed from the actors studio interviews okay cool because we're actors and we're artsy types you know yeah um what's your favorite movie yes come on oh it's a hard question i'm starting the clock right now i love movies what i grew up on as my defining movie was anna green gables because of gilbert i remember that so it's a huge part of who i am i even had an anna green gables birthday party at princeton i mean it was like a huge foundation for me college it's amazing is there a couple is it just one or is it more i made daddy watch the whole night hours first birthday i made him sit and watch the whole thing for the way we celebrated he loves it he's more tender than me cries were that i do because i saw that movie as a kid i think oh it's like 20 years old yeah yeah but that's an old classic one i love but for my film school i have to watch a movie a day so i watch so many movies yeah so that's our date we always see movies but right now i love the shack i've been playing that one scene i kind of recorded it in the movie theater just the scene in the kitchen where papa god is just he's where he it's like a sozo in a moment and then the scene with the judge you know because i just i think so many um pre-christians struggle with why would a good father allow pain and suffering and so when you can relate to people and lead them from pain as an invitation to intimacy yeah so i love that movie but yes so you know but i want anointed profound romantic films because god's a lover come on he is such a romantic married supper of the lamb coming up we're going to marry him that's why you had to do a bollywood dance in a turquoise sorry with bubbles and confetti so much glitter yes um if you could explore any other profession what would it be if i wasn't a filmmaker i would love it if someone would pay me just to be a friend of jesus to just minister to him if people wanted to just support me to love god and love my husband yeah sometimes i dream of just going to kauai hawaii danny was thinking we should start a church there i don't know if you've ever been but i'm going to shoot a third amazing oh i'm going to start a shoot jose that's awesome so we'll all go yes yes i had my first trip to hawaii for your birthday right yeah i was stalking you on instagram i was living vicariously but you got like you watched somebody get injured oh no die yeah we watched somebody die yeah we were at the beach this is crazy we were at the beach first day let's go for a walk down waikiki beach and i'm just taking taking my boys in for a swim it's just we've just had cheesecake so it's just it's so beautiful it's on just on dusk and right next to us we're always screaming like help help so i'm putting the kids down and we're dragging we're dragging they drag a guy out with goggles and flippers and snorkels out onto the beach and so we're there we call 9-1-1 a few crowd-gathers we're trying to revive this guy i thought the kid's up to sarah and i'm just praying i've got my hands on him praying over him he's like cold and white and he'd been in the water a long time and all 9-1-1 come you know the ambo guys come and um yeah it was they couldn't revive him we looked in the paper that night but it was yeah it was pretty crazy but then his wife and little boy come up the beach and she starts screaming so sarah goes over to her and just you know and she was talking korean uh he was a korean guy i don't know if they spoke english i think they did but um it was crazy and the ambulance came and picked him up and it was yeah it was pretty pretty nuts um but she left her stroller there and she told us the hotel laureen so we everyone left the beach and we were there with with her stroller and all her stuff because she jumped in the ambulance with him to go you know and so we went back to the hotel back to the hotel down the road and explained what had happened and gave him the stroller so she'd get there and yeah it was just like nuts that's crazy so little israel had a little bit of a i tried to get into snorkel a couple days later to go daddy will i die if i snorkel because it was like he was freaked out but he overcome that fear and he end up snorkeling and it took us a few days to get over that the trauma of that but he ended up when we went snorkeling seeing a turtle a massive big sea turtle and we followed it for 45 minutes out in the water because it didn't even freak out it was just like yeah you can touch me was just swimming around so we're redeemed so he's he's okay with snorkeling now such highs and lows in this story i know i don't even know where to go it's just like slice of life right there i don't know what it means the hands and feet of jesus on the beach i'm sure that woman will remember you guys i know i wish i had been able to we we wanted to try and go and pray for his body and yeah it was just yeah but um he was in the ambulance yeah and it was all sort of taken out of our hands we didn't even know where he'd gone and so i was like yeah but um jesus what can you do you're just there yeah when these things happen you know but you i bet you one nation will be in heaven and come up to you and be like i that instant made me search for god and then someone shared the gospel and i became a christian and it's because you returned the stroller and prayed for me yeah so yeah we wrote we bought a really nice card for and wrote a card to her and put it with the stuff in her room so yeah i know crazy huh slice of life um i don't know i don't really know where to go but hawaii yeah no where do you go from that sorry i'm waiting for you to segue out but yes hawaii is great and yeah with turtles jesus retire in hawaii i thought i could retire here yes the temperature's amazing the water's amazing it's the closest place i've been to to heaven my i haven't been to heaven often i've had a few encounters but it reminds me of heaven the colors and the botanical garden and it's like everybody's worshipping yeah i feel like i'm there a little bit there's been a lot of description and you've got the snorkeling and the coral and then the surf's here as well just a bit further out so but i won't let daddy surf because i'm afraid of sharks i feel like i waited so long i i need to get healed of this i'm afraid something will happen you waited for your husband so long i just have this fear i have irrational fears come on i said i'm just creative so jaws impacted me in a deep and profound way as a small child so i know it's true well when i it is one of my tests i said what i'm out in the water i've got to really go god just protect me from your sharks they're yours and just keep them away from me so i do struggle that when i'm out in the water in the deep sea i you know the sharks are out there so it does cross your mind i think we should do a surf camp all together when we go to bed for and also do you have a favorite sound besides that tractor that's going past the outside um that's all i think i love the sound of my husband's laughter come on nice answer danny boy danny boy we'll have to do another one where he talks yes he's the i can't we have to everybody know what to say you guys both are so directed he's you know what when i was a princeton student i had a vision of my husband and i forgot this but my mentor from princeton contacted me i saw a greek man and when i was writing the description of hosea because he's going to start with jose four years ago when i first started it i described danny oh my goodness super prophetic well this is meant to be come on yeah for the singles come on now last question are we up to the last one yeah it's yours come on now when it's all said and done oh no and your life on earth is through and you are leaving this body behind and going up to meet jesus what are the first words you want to hear jesus say to you you loved the way i love whoa if i could be known for anything it would just be love so a little piece in the puzzle that i just want to be whether it's to my husband or my future kids or through a movie yeah i just want to be known for love come on chara before we leave would you release whatever you're feeling over our podcast audiences thank you god father i thank you that you're the god that makes every dream come true yes you're the god of tropical paradises and happily ever afters and blue m m's you're the god of happy children in africa and worldwide revival you're a good father we celebrate your goodness yes we celebrate father i pray for each and every person watching right now father crash in with your love whoa just crash in with your love father i pray kiss them with the kisses of your word for your love is better than wine it's better than life father i pray right now for a tangible experience of your love and i declare that in the next 24 hours every single viewer will have an encounter with god that they've never had before come on in the spirit but also in the face of a child or in a sale at a shop or in something natural and real god i thank you that you are real and that you're good and that you called us just to be your friend just to walk with you face to face and i thank you for greater intimacy and that you are the dreamer god that you make every dream come true so we speak over the audience the exceedingly abundantly beyond what they ask think or imagine that no i have seen that nobody's heard that no mind can even imagine that this would be the year of dreams fulfilled yes god and elisha's wife in jesus name yes i love it he's filming right now i'll take the applicants i have to go through me sure we love you yeah we love you so much thank you for coming here you're so easy and sharing your incredible story your amazing journey and we can't wait to hear from you and see the continuation of this amazing journey you're on yes we can do it together come on wow it is a little warm in the lift i think i was sweating on the film oh well you're gonna close this out yes okay guys great to have you with us great to hear shara and her amazing journey guys if you have any comments or questions post them on the underneath where do they post it christy yeah i never remember where to post it write it somewhere the comment section under our youtube channel that's the one you can also see the podcast or hear the podcast on itunes come on we hope you've been as inspired as we have been by shara's story if you can ever hear her speak oh my goodness she's amazing and thanks for listening love you guys this podcast is presented by iris global for more information or to support the work of iris global please visit us online at iris global

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Length: 66min 26sec (3986 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2017