The Confessionals - 593: Old Demons New Days

Episode Date: October 24, 2023

In Episode 593: Old Demons New Days, Pastor Mike Signorelli discusses his background and the inspiration behind his upcoming movie, "The Domino Revival." He mentions his interest in the paranormal and the supernatural and how he engages with people from different backgrounds. The movie features real footage of him praying for people and witnessing medically verifiable miracles, challenging skeptics, and encouraging conversations about the supernatural. He also talks about his personal journey from atheism to faith and how his experiences and beliefs have shaped the film. Pastor Mike highlights the power of faith and the demand for supernatural experiences, emphasizing that where there's a demand, there's a supply, and shares a story about witnessing a man coming back to life during a trip to Ukraine. This conversation touches on the role of faith and belief in witnessing miraculous healings and personal experiences.Mike SignorelliWebsite: mikesignorelli.comThe Confessionals Members App:Apple Store: https://apple.co/3UxhPrhGoogle Play: https://bit.ly/43mk8kZBecome a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinWatch The Shape of Shadows: https://www.merkel.media/stream-nowWatch Expedition Dogman: https://bit.ly/3CE6Kg0SPONSORSThis episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give onlinetherapy a try at betterhelp.com/yup and get on your way to being your best self.GET Private Internet Access: piavpn.com/confessionalsGET EMP Shield: empshield.com Coupon Code: "tony" for $50 off every item you purchase! Listen to this episode for more information! Link: bit.ly/3YaMD1NGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals60 Promo Code: "confessionals50" for 50% off plus the first box ships for free!!!Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comGET FIRSTLEAF: tryfirstleaf.com/confessionalsCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletterMAILING ADDRESS:Merkel Media257 N. Calderwood St., #301Alcoa, TN 37701SOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaIDiscord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelOUTRO MUSICVanTesla - Agartha (feat. Nergui)YouTube | Apple Music | Spotify

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Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. They basically decapitated. And I look over, and there are two small. It's pushed, and because I know I'm seeing a monster. Welcome to the show, everybody listening to The Confessionals podcast. I'm your host, Tony Merkel. Thanks for being here. If you have a crazy wild experience you want to share with me on the show, go ahead and shoot me an email.

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But after you check out the latest, the shape of shadows. All right, friends, listen, this week we have Pastor Mike Signorelli on the show. Listen, this is a guy that I just absolutely love. He deals with demonic deliverance. He deals with miraculous healings. He's very open about it, and he talks about it very eloquently. And I hope you guys enjoy this. conversation because I certainly did. Let's get to Pastor Mike right now. All right, today we have Pastor Mike Signorelli on the show. Pastor Mike, how are you? Hey guys, I'm here in New York City, the belly of the beast. Tons of great things to talk about. I'm excited. Listen, I just got to let you know to the audience as well. I have been following you on YouTube and you were one of those people

that just hopped in the feed on YouTube. I didn't know who you were. And then I crossed paths with you at a conference a couple months ago, and I just literally passed you, and I was like, I recognize that guy from somewhere. And I look at my YouTube, I'm like, oh, that's the guy. Thank you, algorithm. Yeah. But I mean, you really cover a lot of stuff that hits home for me as somebody who is deeply ingrained in the paranormal community. I talk to people about their experiences. They're coming from all walks of life. And, you know, I built my platform where the years where, you know, me being an outward Christian, but holding conversation with anybody and everybody on my platform, doesn't matter who you are. I like being able to revert back in my own personal time to

people who I feel like kind of get me where I'm coming from when it comes to the paranormal angle and stuff, because there's a lot of people in the church that just want to deny the supernatural even exists. And, you know, you were one of those people that YouTube actually, of all people, all companies, YouTube actually pushed you to me. And I was like, this is actually a perfect fit. Yeah. I really do appreciate it. Before we kind of get deep into any kind of conversations, because I can kind of go off on weird side paths. What I want to do is hit on the movie that's coming out because it's a big deal. It's a big deal. I saw the people that are in the movie and one of my longtime favorite Striscoll is in there. And I just think that's so cool that you guys

work together and that you've done things. I saw the interview you guys did together before. But let people know about the movie, the Domino Revival. I think it's absolutely fantastic. and I think it's a great way to launch this conversation. Oh, yeah, if you're listening to the podcast and you love the paranormal, the supernatural, you know, the other side, and you have a rabid curiosity, you've got to see this film. So what I did was cashed out my retirement,

did a self-funded tour across America, praying for people in parks, praying for people in churches of all sizes, and catching medically verifiable miracles as they happen. There are no paid actors or actresses. This is a movie that shows, real footage that we captured. And as a matter of fact, I've got friends.

You mentioned Mark Driscoll, a great friend of mine. But I have other friends that also have traveled all across the U.S., praying for people and seeing people come out of wheelchairs. What's different, though, about this generation than the previous is we have a high value for verification. We want to know, how do you prove it's real? And so that's also another part of this film is following up with people. It's like, you know, we've all seen the dramatic footage of somebody coming out

of a wheelchair, but then what happens to that person a year later? We've also heard about medically verifiable miracles, but have we actually ever been presented the medical verification? So I also show that in the film as well. And that's, I think, what kind of makes this different. The other thing is, you know, we show demons being cast out of people and we're going to let you as the audience draw your own conclusions. Like, what do you believe? Is it real? Is it not? it's a conversation starter. Here's a thing too, like many of you may not ever go to a church, but you'll go to a movie theater auditorium.

And that's really what this experience is about. And just so you know, I've always been a huge fan of the paranormal. I've had that curiosity. But there was a time in my early 20s where I identified as an atheist because I was like, I need proof, I need proof, I need proof. And so I think the atheistic part of me from my past sort of directed this film, if that makes any sense. And I tried to put myself in your seat to say, like, man, what if I don't trust these people? What if I don't believe what I see? And I tried to, you know,

really from that perspective, make the film. And I'll just put it like this. We had the red carpet event two nights ago. And people were bawling their eyes out. People were screaming. People were laughing. The response was insane. And so if that was any indicator of what's going to happen in America, you've got to get to a theater and see it. It's October 24th. Theaters are already selling out. So if you go to fathomevents.com and type in Domino Revival, you can search. It's probably showing in your town. It's all across America right now. So I'm excited. You should be. You should absolutely be excited. I'm excited about it. I'm going to get myself some tickets to myself to go here in Knoxville. And what I didn't know is that you did the follow-up and the verify.

parts of this because that that is something that, you know, even in me, like my heart is just like, man, that's amazing. But is it real? Or is this somebody who is wearing an earpiece and somebody's feeding lines, right? I actually have an airpiece right now. I don't know if this is not feeding me prophetic information. I'm hearing your voice. I'm keeping some clean audio. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I just, I think that's really cool because, you know, as a kid growing up, and I've told the audience this, but I'll tell you, my grandfather used to go around preaching on weekends. He was a washer repairman during the week. And on weekends, he would do revival services. And he, on his deathbed, spent time with me and telling me these things that he witnessed. And my dad was there for one of them where my grandfather prayed for a woman and her leg grew on stage, people restoring sight, restoring hearing. And, It's my grandfather. And so I believe him, right? But then there's other people that you see and they say these things and you're like, okay, you know, cool story, bro, but there's no way to really verify it. And so you just take it for what it is. So the fact that you're able to go and

follow up with these people and verify the miracle, I think that can be huge. And I really think it's timely, to be honest with you. I think what you guys are going to do with this film, it's going to open people's eyes big time. I'm really excited about it. Yeah, well, it's touching to hear that your grandpa told you those stories because I took my family on tour. I mean, I have two daughters. I took both of my daughters and my wife on this tour. And I think for me, here's the thing, and I'm just going to be straight up, if you go to church every Sunday and you go to a 70 minute service, you're singing some songs, you're listening to a sermon and you go home. I think in that context, you could become an atheist because you're like, this is motivational. it's inspirational, but it's not supernatural.

My kids went with me. I didn't know the people I was praying for. I was going all over the U.S., and they just saw it repeatable over and over and over again. Now, I want to complicate it. In the movie, I talk about this as well. It's not a magic wand. It's not my will.

It's God's will. So I can't just pray. I'm not going to say 100% of the people that we pray for get healed, but I do know 100% of the people I don't pray for, don't get a miracle. And so it's like, I'd rather pray and see what God does. And so, of course, there are people we pray for, nothing happened.

But man, night after night, all across America, deaf ears were open over and over and over again. I mean, here's a dramatic story. I was at this tent revival in Washington State. And, you know, I prayed for people's deaf ears to be open. They brought me this young woman. She's in her 20s, and she's crying uncontrined. and I'm like, well, what's going on? What's going on?

She said, when I was eight years old, I had a surgery that removed the bones from my inner ear, and as a result, I have not been able to hear. I'm now in my 20s, and when you prayed, I was instantly able to hear full volume for the first time since I was a little kid. But here's what's crazy. That is like beyond a healing.

That's a miracle, because there are biologically no bones there. But see, okay, so you would say, okay, that's weird. That's placebo. that's the power of positive thinking. That's, you know, blah, blah, blah. Okay, well, but what do you do with the fact that that same thing happened to another woman on Long Island in New York

who also did not have that? And so we're going to show that kind of stuff. And so it's like there are not these isolated one-off events. It's replicatable, it's repeatable, it's happening. And so you put enough of that together and you're like, man, there is something to this. And obviously as a Christian, I believe it's Jesus Christ still healing people. If you were hurt by the church, listen, I'm not a fan of the stuff that happens in churches,

and I'm a pastor. And so I became a pastor because I know that church is messed up. I know that's a crazy thing to say. That's true. It's just like you've eaten a bad meal and you've maybe gotten food poisoning, but you don't make a vow, I'm never going to eat again. And so it's like the equivalence for me is like, well, I'm going to open my own restaurant so that I can help ensure people don't get food poisoning.

And so I think at the same time, it's like, yeah, some religious fanatics have screwed it up, but that doesn't mean that there isn't this miraculous power that's still in operation. And that's part of what this movie is about. And so I just want to encourage people to check out the Domino Revival. It's going to be a crazy experience. Oh, it's going to be absolutely wild. And, you know, for some people, it might be an introduction to all this stuff. You know, like for me, it's going to be faith building, right?

I'm going to go in there and I know I'm going to walk out being like, let's go. It is time, you know? Like, I'm going to start walking down the streets in Knoxville whenever I get out of there. I'm just going to start, like, touching people on the foreheads in the name of Jesus. I don't need healing. You're going to get healed today. Don't worry. But then there's going to be other people that are just going to be introduced to just these ideas and topics.

And they're going to start them on this journey of understanding and, you know, maybe five years down the road. Their lives are completely different and changed because they went to a movie to see supernatural healing. So I think that's really cool. And I'm really excited about seeing what happens. Just last week, I saw a video. Somebody sent it to me and I posted it on my Facebook. And it was one of the most visually astonishing things I've ever saw in my life. And it was an older video from probably the 90s, but there was a little girl on stage and her leg visually was about

four inches shorter than the other. And she was wearing shorts. So you could actually see her legs and the knees and how they were not the same length. And within a minute of praying, you see her leg very quickly grow and to be that length. Now, in your time of, you know, praying for people and seeing healing, you mentioned about the hearing being restored. Have you ever seen anybody's like limbs grow right in front of you? Because that's like super, like that's supernatural, but it's visual. you know, like people actually... Oh, yeah. Yeah, and okay, so yeah.

I mean, the quick answer is yes. So here's the thing, though, and I just want to make sure I'm clear. I am not a guru. You know, I'm not special. Actually, when you look at like real Christianity, it was never supposed to be what we pretty much made of it. And so it's over time, it's like it evolved to be this like basically manmade thing.

But when you go back to the Bible and you read like first century Christianity, everybody did this. Like when people prayed for each other, miracles happened all the time. And that was kind of like the norm. And so I say that because the story of the leg growing out that one of many, but one I'm thinking about was actually,

I have a 16-year-old daughter and she prayed for someone and their leg grew out and they have it on video. And man, for my 16-year-old daughter, that was such a major confirmation that God is real and that these things are real. And so again, she's not seminary, She's not a minister.

She's not a pastor. She's just my 16-year-old daughter. And this person's leg was short enough to put her body out of alignment. And they really needed a miracle. They had the kind of like the orthopedic shoes that try to close the gap. But, you know, it's hard. And so that not only did my daughter see that, but it deeply affected her. So, yeah, those things are happening all the time.

And, you know, here's the way to understand it because people here are interested in the supernatural. in the paranormal, interested in those types of things. I always put it like this, where there is a demand, there is a supply. So like the reason why you can find drugs in your neighborhood is because there's a demand for drugs. If no one wanted drugs, there would be no drugs in your neighborhood. It's the demand is the problem, not the drugs. Like, because where there is a demand, there is, there is a supply. So in the same way, when you read about Jesus, actually Jesus Christ himself, like in the flesh, there was one particular region where he performed no miracles, not because he

couldn't, but because no one put a demand on him. And because they didn't put a demand on him, they didn't receive it. There was like, and so I think that the way the supernatural realm works is where, where there's a demand, there's a supply. So for years and years and years, I would travel all over the world and I would see these things happen overseas and I have them on footage. Then I'd come to the United States and I'd be like, why does this not happen in the U.S.? And finally I was reading scripture and I'm like, oh, we're so natural-minded that we think we've got to go to the doctor. Or we go to web MD and self-diagnose and let the anxiety train spiral out of control. But it's like in America, God is like our fourth, it's like four,

fifth or sixth resort, not our first. And now, now here's another one. And people might not even believe what I'm about to say, Tony, but I was in Ukraine about eight years ago. And we were in Western Ukraine, and there was like this hospice care facility. And what we didn't know until we got there was that people are hooked up to IVs, but they only have like saline solution because they did not have access to medicine. It was super impoverished. And so basically this was code for you just go here to die. Like you have terminal cancer, whatever, you just go there to die. And so these people are now in this facility.

They don't have access to modern medicine. These doctors and nurses, it's all kind of a sham because there's no money to even provide for these procedures. So people are just basically laying in these beds waiting to die. So we come in and we said, can we pray? Like we just believe God can heal people. Can we just pray, go through the whole thing, top to bottom, every floor? which in America, you can't do that.

So a lot of times people will be like, why don't you go in America and just go to hospitals and just pray for people? It's like, because we can't. Like if you could, I would, literally. Like, if you would let me in a hospital and pray, like I have clergy access here in New York City, but I have to prove like that that's like a whole process legally.

You know what I mean? So like I would go to hospitals in America and pray for everybody if they would let me. Anyways, in Ukraine, I was given permission. They said, yes, you can go through this whole thing and pray for people. They're here to die, whatever. And, man, Tony, I saw miracles like crazy. We captured them on footage, but here's the most dramatic one.

And I think people listen to your podcast because they love this kind of stuff. So we go from room to room to room, guy with throat cancer, cancer, unable to speak. We pray for him. Suddenly he regains his voice and is able to speak again. we were not able to stick around to get the verification of that, and they don't even have the means. All I know is the guy couldn't talk, and then he could talk when we got done praying for him. Then we go down the line, blah, blah, blah. We get to the last, like, sort of the last floor, and they tell us, like, before we go into this one room,

don't go in this room. And we're like, why? And we're like, the guy's dead. And they're telling us through translators, like, why, you know, like, he's dead. Don't go in that room. And so one of my team members is like, no, we want to go pray for him. They're like, you want to pray for a dead guy? And they're like, yeah, we want to pray that he's resurrected.

And I'll be honest with you, man, like, there's different levels of faith. You know, it's like, that's why Jesus said, if you have faith just as a mustard seed, sometimes I'm like, I don't even have that much, you know. And this was about eight years ago. And I didn't have that faith. I'll be honest, like, I was praying for people for other stuff that were already alive. But I was like, man, really, like, can we raise dead people? And so my friend was like, let's do it.

So I was like, how about you do it? I don't even want to touch the person when we walk in. Like, how about you do it? And he's like, all right, I'll do it. So we walk in the room. It makes me emotional. And it's super eerie, weird feeling. This guy, he just looked like a skeleton almost, you know, skin and bones.

And he had been dead for about a day. They hadn't got him out yet. It was like that earlier that morning, now it was towards the evening-ish. And all of a sudden, my friend just walks over and just starts praying for him. Come alive in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. I command you to come back to life, come back to life in Jesus' name. And he's praying. And then all of a sudden, I mean, I see this guy's chest move.

And everybody here who's been to a funeral, it's so not normal seeing a dead person that you, it's like everybody universally thinks they breathed. You know that phenomenon? So I kind of jump back a little bit. I'm like, oh, I'm thinking, you know, this is just like, I expected to see a move. Then all of a sudden it's like, I see it again. And all of a sudden, I scream,

the guy praying for the other guy screams, the nurses run in, and this guy starts breathing again. Now, he didn't jump out of the bed. You know, it wasn't like, I'm not going to, you know, this isn't Hollywood. But he starts breathing again. And the nurse starts screaming. And I mean, it was like an amazing story where she grabs her other people,

the other nurses on staff. Come, come, come, come, come, come. He's breathing. Some of the women didn't even want to go in. And they're like, no, no, no. Like, they were terrified by this. Now, listen, in Western, modern, you know, granola American culture, people don't believe that.

I didn't even believe for it when it happened right in front of me. So I understand if somebody listening right now thinks I'm a raving lunatic, but all I will tell you is that guy literally came back to life and the nurse has verified it and it happened right in front of me. We have pictures of it. We have, excuse me, video of the first part of it. That video actually went viral and this was about eight years ago now. And we posted that video up,

which was like I think one of the first viral videos that we did. So all I'm saying is I believe it's possible. Yeah, well, I mean, clearly you, believe is possible. I mean, you've seen enough now that, you know, it's obvious. Did that, do you know if that guy ever wound up talking about any of his, like, of that experience? I mean, because I mean, if you're dead for a day, that means you might have some memory of what you saw on the other side. And that's, that's an interesting thing that people are always interested in. You hear about the near-death experiences where people have died and they come back a half hour later and they're

like, this is what I experienced on the other side. Did you ever, did they ever follow up on that at all? Yeah, I love near-death experiences. After-death experiences. I actually just preached on that topic last Sunday to my own congregation. This guy, he was not like fully rehabilitated at that time. And so we never were able to like get that level of a feedback. The other thing, too, is like there's a language barrier. And there was just kind of like some red tape we had to work through to get in there. And so then there was like this whole, how do we, you know, we were on a trip. It was like a 14-day deal. And so that was like, that happened. Then shortly after we flew back and just lost touch indefinitely, you know. So I can't say that I did with that guy in particular. But it was just a wild story, you know, just an insane story.

I know that I will say this, though, it marked the nurses that were there. And we did do subsequent trips. And it was way easier to get. back in the next time because the nurses were like, oh yeah, let those people. And actually, and this is where the compassion of Christ comes in, it was like that story spread. And then in the years after when we came back, it was like, it went from, yeah, you can pray for me to like, please, like people begging us, please pray for me. And again, but see, here's a thing, that increases the demand. So where there's a demand, there's a supply, it was like an activation of their faith to now believe for more. And we saw more. healings take place. We actually, I wasn't on the trip. We just sent another group to Western Ukraine

last month. Wow. Yeah. And this is really interesting. I'm really glad you're talking about this because, you know, this is a topic that I just really enjoy talking about, contemplating, praying about, reading about in the Bible. It's just, it gets my motor running. And what you're talking about is the demand, like there's, but the demand is through faith. And, you know, recently I've been kind of reading about things. And like, it feels like I feel like God's been kind of pointing things out to me in the scripture and just little things, you know. But I think it was in Mark 6, I think.

I just remember reading that Jesus said to the man, because of your faith, I'm willing to heal you. And it's like, it's one of those things where it kind of jumped out at my, at me because up to that point, I had been reading a lot of the person praying for healing and their faith. And it kind of all of a sudden in my head, I was like, this is like a one plus one equals two kind of thing. It's not just the person praying in their faith. It's also the person that's receiving the prayer in their faith. And I've been kind of really seeing the power in just the name of Jesus. And like we know about the power of Jesus. You know, the woman touches his robe and she's healed.

And then like a chapter later, they're talking about if you just touch Jesus's robe, you're healed. And they're probably because of what happened to her. But like my pastor was preaching recently about the Ten Commandments and taking the Lord's name in vain. And what does vain mean devaluing the name of God? And when you start thinking about how much power is in that name, like all of a sudden, things start falling in a line for me. So when you're talking about the demand, like that's,

that faith aspect, it's just really been kind of, it's really resonating with me. Now, talking about the faith aspect of miraculous healings, there's a, I'm sure there's a starting point there for everybody. And you even mentioned about how you're in the hospital and they're like, let's pray for this person that raised from dead. And you're like, I don't know if I'm there yet. You know, like, I'm sure at some point you had to cross that line of in your faith walk where you're like, okay, we're going to start praying for healing. And was it just a matter of obedience? Like, I've been instructed through God's word to pray for healing and we're just going to do this.

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Don't miss out on this limited time offer. Uncommon goods. We're all out of the ordinary. So the movie, the Domino Revival, that I have coming out on October 24th, it actually tells the story. So my origin story as a minister is very bizarre. I fell in love with scripture as a kid. I read the Bible, Genesis through Revelation,

multiple times all the way through. And then when I was 15 years old, had this personal Pentecost, I call it, where essentially I read the book of Acts again for like the third time. I saw what happened with Peter. And then I was like, God, I just put, I basically put my Bible down. I sat on the edge of my bed and I said, God, if you could do with me what you did with Peter, you know, I'll take it.

You know, do you have your will with my life in that way? And I just had this crazy supernatural encounter. I actually started speaking in tongues like loudly. and in my bedroom. I wasn't in some crazy Pentecostal charismatic church. I was just in my bedroom. But what I was asking God was transform me through your Holy Spirit. And it happened.

But I didn't tell anybody about it because I had this whole identity as like introverted, shy, Mike. So, you know, we went to church every Sunday, though. And long story short, I came out of church one Sunday. And I was walking across the street. This woman was walking the other way. towards me. She saw me and she pointed her finger at me. It looked like she saw a ghost. I mean, it was like that level of horror. And she was like, I've never seen you in person, but I saw you in my dream. I had a dream about you. And now this is the south side of Chicago.

So immediately I'm like, oh, she's schizophrenic. Like this, you know, that like immediately like, oh, she's a psychopath. And she was like, I had a dream. You preached at my church and revival broke out. Revival broke out. So I'm like, what? And, my exact words back to her were, woman, you're crazy, leave me alone. And she was like, no, no, I had this dream. I had this dream. So I was like, no, get away from me,

like you're crazy, leave me alone. But in the back of my mind, I was like, I just had this experience in my bedroom with the Holy Spirit. Something's calling me. Like, this is deeper. So then this woman, she eventually walked away. My mom kind of heard this interaction.

and within the weeks after that, this woman would come and kind of like time it up to where at that same time she would come looking for me knowing that church was over. And she would basically torment me. She'd be like, you have to preach at my church. I had this dream. And so finally my pastor, this story was kind of traveling around the congregation. And my pastor called me into his office and brought that woman and my mom. and he was just like, you know, you can't do it.

You know, and was trying to explain to this woman. Like, I think he thought he was helping me, you know, like, but you don't know Mike Signorelli. He's 15 years old. He's never preached before. He even said the phrase, he doesn't even own a suit because like back in the day you had to wear a suit whenever you preached. So it was like, you just don't know.

And then he looked at me and he said, Mike, just tell this woman, you won't do it. Tell her you can't do it. and when he said that the words like that, you can't do it. It was like this Marty McFly back to the future moment, where you just get super ticked off. And you're like, now I know it was actually like the boldness of the Holy Spirit. And I just said, no, I will do it. I can do it.

And after I said, I was like, what did I just do? And so I agreed to it. He was silent. My mom was silent. The woman was silent. Like, what? So she went back, solicited her pastor, I'll tell you, because this has to do with this supernatural healing.

So went back to her pastor, was like, can we do a special event and like an evening service type thing? He agreed to it. So then I end up showing up 15 years old. And the first 30 seconds of this sermon, I'm stuttering, I'm stammering. I have no idea what I'm doing. And the only way I explain it, it's like a bolt of lightning hits me. And I just start preaching. And now I know that all the scripture I had been reading got activated by the Holy Spirit and it was like, you know, it was just activated for the work of ministry.

And I just felt like I was listening to myself preach this sermon. And then sure enough to that woman's dream, young people started jumping up. I mean, it was crazy. And the movie kind of shows this as well. But then at the very end of the sermon, and everybody's, I'm praying for people,

people are getting prayed for. All of a sudden, this woman brings her daughter and says, okay, I want you to, this is the last part of my dream. I want you to pray for my daughter, and her daughter was born with a decrepit hand. And I didn't know anything about anything. I didn't know the right words to say. I mean, again, I wasn't trained, but I just laid my hand on her daughter, on her daughter's head. And I just said, in Jesus name, be healed. And all of a sudden, that woman's daughter's hand just stretched out and the whole place went pandemonium. Like not celebration. Because you would think if you saw a miracle like that where a decrepit hand gets stretched

forth and gets healed that everybody would be like, this is awesome. It was the opposite of that. It actually was like fear. It's a bit like it scared people. It wasn't like, yeah, look at it. Like God is real. It wasn't like a cheerleading, you know, hoorah. it was more of like people actually screaming out of fear.

Like, like, it was everybody, it was like, what just happened? Then it surged a whole other moment of just like people, like, I want to be saved. Like I, like, it glorified Jesus. It wasn't like, look, he's a faith healer. It was like, whoa, if that happened and God is real, like, how do I get saved? How do I accept Jesus right now? because that just scared me. It's hard for me to not cry even telling the story every time I tell it because it marked me.

So that's part of like kind of like how the movie starts me telling that story and my mom telling it. So for me, that started. But again, you graduate levels because it was like, okay, I prayed for this girl, her hands stretched forth. But then you keep going. And like now of a sudden that story of the man being resurrected and my friend praying, I think I was like 30 years. old when that happened. So imagine from 15 years old to 30. So it's kind of like, and I think for people listening, I'm challenging you because the Bible talks about going from glory to glory, from faith to

faith. So it's like, I saw God do something, but I had to keep believing for more. And then a part of my testimony was eventually even going to college in my early 20s and having a whole season in atheism. So I've been all over the place. You know, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, think that's possible to go all over the place because it's like you we wrestle with this stuff. Yeah, absolutely. And I find it really interesting how 15 years old that happens to you. You pray for somebody, their hands is healed. And after that, you go through a season of atheism. I think that's actually incredible. And it goes to what I often try to store up in my memory. because I kind of went through a similar thing.

I told you before we started recording, I went to Bible College. I mean, in my early teens, I'm almost 40 now. And in my mid-20s, I went crazy. And I just, I almost sank my marriage, you know, and I'm very open and public about it because I believe that my personal testimony and how God preserved my marriage is something that can help other people, and it has. But, like, I went nuts. And then I had a radical experience in a funeral that changed my life forever.

And when I go, and even now, you go through those valleys, though, spiritually. You get depressed spiritually. You feel like you're distant from God at times. And for me, what I do is I look back at the times that I know God was faithful. I know God was absolutely, apparently ever present real in that moment. And those are the building blocks that I fall back on to say, uh-uh, we're not going down this road because I know that was real. And though I don't feel it right now, I know it's coming again.

and when it comes again, it's going to be even stronger than back then. And so I just, I find that really encouraging, to be honest with you, to hear how it all started for you. You go through that period of time in your 20s, and now here you are. Really, I mean, you're leading the fastest growing church in the country. I think that's incredible testimony. So in the process of these miraculous things that we're talking about, there is, the other side of it, right? And so we're talking about people being healed, but then there's also the demonic side of things. And, you know, I know if you're a pastor and you're praying for

people for healing, you're also praying for people for demonic relief in their life. So what is the other side of that for people to maybe be aware of when it comes to these things? I mean, obviously I talk about it on the show, people have demonic encounters that they share on the show. But, you know, is it something that is very prevalent in today, do you think, when it comes to people being demonically possessed? I personally think that it's, for me personally, I'm looking at the world right now. I'm like, yep, there's a lot more demons than I ever thought. So, like, I mean, I'd like to know what your thoughts are on it, you know? Do you think that there's a lot more people walking around demonically possessed than what we originally might have thought

at one time? Yeah, listen, you can go to my YouTube channel, watch, I'll hours and hours of footage of me casting demons out of people. And it's, yeah, I mean, it's just like looking out in your backyard and saying, I don't have that many bugs. It's like, yeah, you're not looking for them. I mean, like, if you get down on your knees and crawl around, you're going to start and dig it around. You're going to see a whole bunch of stuff. So it's like, people are like, oh, there's not that many demons. It's like, well, think about this. Every military on the planet wears fatigues, camouflage. Why? Because hiddenness gives you strategic military advantage. So if you're the devil, why would you reveal yourself? Because

that's the fastest route to being destroyed in a military sense. So hiddenness is the strategic advantage Satan has. As a matter of fact, even in the Bible, it says he shows up as an angel of light. And so you wouldn't even think you've experienced the devil. You would think you actually were experiencing an angel of light. And so it's not even just hiddenness, but it's also a counterfeit. So you're either not going to experience the devil at all, that's hiddenness, or you're going to experience the devil in a form that is the opposite of the devil. So that's two out of the three ways you experience them. The third way is unveiled and unmasked. And that's when it gets crazy. And so I'll tell you a fun story. Back in the day I used to do house calls because I would cast demons out of people all the time. And I kind of had that reputation. And this is like pre-social. media days for me. And by the way, every time I say, tell this story, people are like, why don't you do house calls anymore? Man, I'm busy. You do it yourself. You know what I mean?

I equip and train people to do the work of ministry themselves. So like, I think there's, I have a problem with like people making me a ghost hunter or making me a guru or making me, like, you know, that's not even the point of scripture. Like Jesus literally trained over 70 people and said, go cast out demons. They came back saying, this is crazy. It's so easy. They listen to us. And then he was like, okay, settle down. Just be thankful your name's written in the Lamb's Book of Life. So it's like this whole idea that you need me to come to your house is the wrong idea. So I'm going to tell the story. But if you need help getting rid of things in your house, just go to my YouTube channel. I have a two million view video that'll teach you how to deal with it.

And it works, like tens of thousands of comments of people being like, my home is finally rid of all this evil. Like, thank you so much. Okay. So now, having said that, I used to do house calls. And I would take my Gopros with me for accountability. So I'd set up some GoPro cameras and just leave them running continual so that I could capture whatever happened and be accountable just in case something weird happened. And this woman, she kept saying like she was having poltergeist like experiences. So in other words, like, you know, the doors opening and closing, the cabinets, you know,

of her opening and closing of her kitchen. just cold bursts of air, disembodied voices, like classic haunting. Now, as a Christian, within orthodoxy, I don't believe in ghosts. So I just say that. I believe in that demons impersonate ghosts. And that's a whole other thing. We probably don't have time to get into. But that's my personal belief.

Again, I explain this stuff on my channel. So I do believe that people are having experiences with, entities, they thank our ghosts. But remember, there's three categories that I'm living within, and one of them is counterfeit. So I go through this whole woman's house. She's showing me all this stuff. I'm filming it. And then we finally get to the end. And I was like, okay, I've got good news and bad news. She's like, what's the good news? I'm like, the good news is you are dealing with an entity. She's like, what's the bad news? I'm like, it's not, because she thought it was a little girl, a ghost of a little girl. And I said, I said, the bad news, I got chills even getting

ready to tell you what happened. I love this stuff. So I said, okay, the bad news is it's not the ghost of a little girl. It's a demon. Right as I say that, she had this, like, this angel cement statue thing that was hanging on her wall. It literally just leaps off the wall and falls in the ground and breaks. Super dramatic, like Hollywood stuff, right? And she's like, she's screaming. I was like, she's like, oh, I knew there was something else going on. I was like, okay, it's even worse. I said, it's even worse than this, okay? She's like, what is it? I was like, the demon's not around you.

It's in you. Right when I say that. And again, I can't even put this footage online because I never did release it. You know, I don't have her. Like, every time the stuff that I have on my channel, I have release forms posted everywhere. You know, like you are being filmed, this event, da-da-da, that we will put this online. And still sometimes people ask me to remove stuff and I do. You know, I'm very, I oblige.

Like, I'm not trying to ruin someone. one's life by putting one of their craziest moments of the life out there for public consumption. But I don't. So right when I say that to this woman, I said, it gets even worse. The demon is not around you. It's in you. Right when I say that, she starts contorting, you know, manifesting. That's what we call it. And I'll be honest with you, listen, the reason why I'm laughing is because I promise you, I want to be normal so bad. Like, I want to be normal so bad. I want to be normal so bad. And it freaks me out. This stuff freaks me out. I'm just telling you straight up. Like, I'm weirded out with this stuff. So I kind of flinched me. Like, whoa. And I just started casting a

demon out of her. Here's the thing. I told her, you have a lot of cursed items in your house. You need to remove all these cursed items, blah, blah, blah. But you need to be free from demons. So she got free. I cast the demons out of her. And there's this phenomenon, especially when I'm in people's homes. When I cast demons out of them, that their home feels lighter. It almost feels like people start turning the lights on physically. It's a weird phenomenon. It's the atmosphere completely changes. She got deliverance, which is a word that we used to denote like demons cast out of her. And we threw away all those items that were, I believe, like, kind of like, the best way I can explain it is, I don't want to use the word empowering, but they're usually

just the result of whatever trauma or pain. A lot of times these objects are like some people are experiencing pain or trauma and then they get these these things, these like talismans or charms or statues like, oh, they're going to help me. Because the demonic is just false help. It's the best way I can explain. Like, witchcraft is just a bad way of helping yourself. It's people going, like, I need to go to a psychic medium. I need to burn this sage. They're trying to help themselves and all these items are usually connected to the evidence of them seeking out help just through another means than Jesus Christ. And so basically when I'm telling people to throw stuff away, it's like throw all this crap

away that was a replacement for Jesus. And so that was part of it. And so do people have demons? Yeah, I think a lot more people have demons inside of them. But to make this kind of go full circle, it's usually me confronting it. And then once I unmask it, it's like, you know, what's that show with Scooby-Doo? You know, Scooby-Doo? Yeah.

Like, it's like the end of the show is always like, you pull the mask off. And I think for me, it's like people come to me. And when I take the mask off, like, hey, that's not your dead relative. That's a demon. As soon as I take the mask off, the demon starts manifesting like crazy. Oh, hey, you know, that, that, you receive this through psychic medium. but actually that was demonic activity and it was one demon telling another demon

to tell you that psychic. The people start manifesting like crazy. It's like the end is always the same ending is me pulling off the mask and the demons manifesting like crazy. So just like I would encourage people like, oh, you don't have that many bugs, just get down on your knees and crawl around in your backyard.

Like the more you unmask and you start going through the blades of grass and digging around, it's there, man. Turn over that rock. You'll see it. Yeah, no, I hear you. And, you know, it's one of those things where the more you look for it, the more you're going to see it because it's the intent there is there. I think a lot of times people live their lives with blinders on and you just kind of get focused in on, you know, your daily life and you're not thinking about all this other stuff.

And I wanted to ask you this because, and this is something I actually wanted to ask you in the beginning, make sure we had time. I just want I'm trying to be cognizant of time because I know you have another recording at the top. of the hour here. But so recently, you probably saw on the news, there was a big kind of riot in Philadelphia. I think it was last week. It was like over 100 people went through the shopping district, breaking windows, robbing everything, and the police arrested 52 kids. I call them kids. They're young adults, you know. Yeah. There was one video on there that I saw, and this woman was filming the kids getting arrested, and she starts laughing. And the more she laughed hysterically throughout this entire video, the more almost sinister sounding the laugh God. And I started thinking,

this woman sounds possessed. And I started thinking about the city of Philadelphia coming from that area and how, you know, I think that there's a big, listen, Philadelphia's got a demon problem, son, you know, 99 of them, you know? So like, it's, it's one of those things where I think about that, and I really do believe that. But when it comes to, because you read in the Bible, about Legion, right? And this guy had so many demons in him. He was breaking chains and all this stuff. And when he cast out, I mean, these demons went in over a thousand pigs. I mean, there was a lot of demons in this guy. When a city is, has something like that going on inside of it, do you think that could be just a specific type of demon that has its hold on an entire city? Or do you think it's like

a demonic playground where these things are just manifesting and just having their way within the people in those city limits? Because it seems like some of these cities, really do in all seriousness have a demon problem. Yeah, well, they do. And matter of fact, each city has a different temperament, and it has a different thing that it's known for negatively, which I believe points to the principalities and powers. The Bible talks about there being divisions.

Like it says we wrestle not against a flesh and blood, so we know, okay, so we're not wrestle. What does this mean? We're not fighting humans, but principalities, powers, and rulers in high places. So there's this division, these ranks, Principality's powers and rulers in high places. So there definitely is a designation of authority

within the demonic realm, and there are ranks. And we know this because Satan is an emulator. He's a copycat. And so even amongst angels, there's rankings. So you have like the archangels, right? So Michael, the archangel, Gabriel, the archangel, Gabriel being a messenger angel, Michael being what seems to be like a warfare-based angel.

And so there's different divisions and ranks of angels. And so Satan is emulating as well. And in Mark chapter 5, which you mentioned, the term Legion also appears in Scripture. And when you talk about Legion, it's not a single entity, but it's like a multitude, a large number that's operating in unison. Because there's a military connotation. So legions built, it was a large unit of Roman soldiers. So imagine when Jesus was walking around,

he was ministering to Jewish people inside of Rome. And so obviously Rome doesn't exist anymore in the sense that it did. It just reformulated. That's a whole other podcast. But, you know, so he's speaking to this audience. So speaking to Legion, commanding Legion out, he would have been saying like this large unit of Roman soldiers, it would typically consist of several thousand men would be a Roman legion.

But they would be unified under a hierarchy of generals, you know. And so I think when you look at cities, there is a designation of legions. There is a designation of a hierarchy. And you see that? Let me give you another quick example to break this down. So there's this term in scripture called Pharmakia, and it appears in the New Testament in Galatians chapter 5 verse 19. And it's talking about, let me just read it to you. Now the works of the flesh are evidence, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, and then sorcery. But the word sorcery

in the original Greek is pharmacia. And what does that sound like? Pharmacy. And what is distributed in pharmacies, prescription drugs. What is abused in most cities, drugs, prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs. So in scripture, and this might be blowing the minds of some people who don't know, like the works of the flesh are evident. And then sexual immorality, what do you see in cities, prostitution, impurity, sensuality, what do you see, strip clubs? Those are in urban settings all the time, idolatry. And then you see sorcery, which is pharmacia. And whenever you have the works of the flesh, they become gateways and portals to the demonic. So I think like with, so there might be some people watching right now that you thought you were doing recreational drug use.

But here's the thing, old demons new days. And so demons, like, let me let me back up, like shaman, whenever you see like rituals in pagan cultures, what almost always coexist with it, drug usage. And that's part of the ceremonies. And so what do we do? We listen to music. We smoke, we drink. These things are ancient demons manifesting their behaviors in modern days. You think you're going out for a night.

I'm going to go to the strip club. After the strip club, I'm going to be drinking, smoking. I'm going to listen to this kind of music, blah, blah, blah. It's like, dude, thousands of years ago, there was sexual out, like within pagan cultures, there was rampant promiscuous sex, nakedness. there was music with the same beat, this low-end 808 sub-level bass hit. It's the same thing.

And so you were participating in this ancient demonic culture, and you thought, no, no, it's Jim Tan Laundry. This is like, you know, this is Jersey Shore. I'm having a good time. No, you're not. You're worshipping. You are worshipping. When you go back to the story of Daniel,

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abindigo, And you know about the fiery furnace, you know about the, what is it, the Lions Den, Daniels, the Lion. What you didn't know is every single time Nebuchadnezzar's God was supposed to be bowed to and worship, they started playing a song. And so the song would be initiated.

That song would go out through the entire land, then everybody would have to bow. So music's always been connected to deity worship, demonic worship. So when you talk about cities, I think my next interview is starting now, but I'm so passionate about this. My whole channel is filled with hundreds of hours of this talk.

And I think, yeah, whether it's Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, yeah, these are old demons and new days, and we got to unmask them. And once you do, it goes from a maniacal laugh to a full-on deliverance service. Yeah, let's go. Listen, I feel like you and I could talk about a lot of different things, the music industry, all that stuff.

I would love to have you back on some time. Yeah, let's do it. I'd love to come back. Can't wait to hear what all the listeners think about this talk. I was trying to give you some good, intriguing things for everybody to chew on and go a little bit deeper down the rabbit hole with me. Yeah, no, it's fun. And we have, like I said, we have so many different types of people on the show.

And I know there's going to be a lot of people who enjoyed this conversation. There's definitely going to be some people who hate you for it. But it's okay. They hated Jesus too. That's right. He said it. So before we get out here, though, Domino Revival. People can check it out.

let them know real quick when it's coming, where to get the tickets. Go for. Yeah, so you go to fathom Events.com. Type in Domino Revival. So fathomevents.com and you find out where it's at. Buy the pre-sell tickets and go see the movie. Well, that's a sure, everybody. I really hope you enjoyed it.

And if you did enjoy it, please share the show with your friends. I don't care where or how you share the show. Just share the show if you enjoyed it. If you think there's somebody out there that could benefit from the conversation, send it to them as well. And, you know, hey, listen, I ain't going to be mad. if you send it to your mother-in-law or your father-in-law that you don't really like. And you're like, hey, listen, I ain't saying you got demon problems, but just check out this podcast.

You might have demon problems and just, you know, drop the text and then walk away. All right, friends, listen, until next week, stay safe, take care, and remember, the truth will set you free, but first they'll piss you off. Bye.