On this episode of Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural, Shawn Bolz is the most amazingly detailed prophet Sid has ever known. He’s ministered to thousands, from royalty to people on the streets. Now he shares his secrets to activate you to do the same! Shawn Bolz teaches you how to hear God’s voice clearly, how to interpret what God tells you, and how to prophesy accurately.
Shawn Bolz is well-known for his prophetic accuracy, and he is passionate about bringing God’s presence and power into the church at large, the entertainment industry and his local community. Shawn lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Cherie, and their family.
Is there a supernatural
dimension?
A world beyond the one we know?
Is there life after death?
Do angels exist?
Can our dreams contain messages
from Heaven?
Can we tap into ancient secrets
of the supernatural?
Are healing miracles real?
Sid Roth has spent over 35 years
researching the strange world of
the supernatural.
Join Sid for this edition of
It’s Supernatural.
[Applause]
Sid: Hello. Sid Roth here.
Welcome to my world where it’s
naturally supernatural.
I’ve heard a lot of things, but
this is absolutely ridiculous.
Have any of you heard of Randy
Clark?
I mean, he is probably the top
healing evangelist word of
knowledge guy in the country.
Well my guest has a gift from
God to increase your ability in
hearing God’s voice.
He prayed for Randy Clark and
immediately his hearing of God’s
voice just skyrocketed.
Anyone want your hearing of
God’s voice? Me, too.
[Applause]
This is so wonderful.
You know, Shawn, your parents
get saved, I mean,
radically saved.
An angel comes and visits them.
I mean, that’s radical.
Shawn: It’s crazy.
Sid: And then you as a young
kid, three, four years of age,
you’re in a home group type
thing.
They get into an amazing home
group with John Wimber.
I guess they were in
his first group.
Shawn: His very
first home group.
Sid: But then they
had something that
they had no
paradigm for you.
You, you get saved at what,
three or four?
Shawn: Around four years old.
Sid: But not just saved.
He begins to speak in tongues of
the Holy Spirit.
The problem is, his parents had
no paradigm.
A kid can’t do that.
So what happened?
Shawn: They asked their friends.
They’re like, “Do you think this
is God?
We don’t want to tell him to
stop, but he keeps praying in
tongues.” And so she asked her
friend and she goes,
“I just wouldn’t stop him.
I’d keep my hands off it and if
it’s not God it will go away.
If it is God, it’s
going to increase.”
And it just
going from there.
Sid: And at age six you have
your first word of knowledge.
How does a six-year-old even
know what to do?
Shawn: I know.
Back then, it’s really
interesting because we weren’t
in an environment where other
people were teaching their
families about hearing God.
And my parents said, we want our
kids to go on the journey
with us.
And so they would ask us when
we’d be praying, are you getting
anything, and most of the time
we’d say no.
But that particular time we were
praying for a lady’s back and I
started, we were praying for a
lady and I started to get a word
of knowledge about her back, and
I could see in my mind’s eye, in
my imagination, I could see her
back had been injured, and I
could see this whole word of
knowledge about her back,
and I said: Child: Do you
have a back injury?
Woman: Yes.
Child: Can I pray for you.
Shawn: I touched her exactly
where the injury was and we
ended up praying, and she gets
radically healed.
I just remember thinking, yes,
God can do anything,
me being six.
And my parents were like, it’s
odd, we’re going to do this
with our kids. We’re
going to bring them with us.
Sid: You know, what happened
with you, can you imagine if a
generation would start getting
their kids saved and filled
with the Holy Spirit
at four or five, six.
Shawn: Absolutely.
Sid: I mean, you’ve lived a
lifetime already as a believer,
whereas most people are just
starting at your age.
Shawn: Absolutely.
I think of Jesus at 12.
It was the most significant age
of his life because it’s an
identity age.
What would it be like if we a
whole army of 12-year-olds who
were like activated
in the Spirit.
[Applause]
Sid: I’ll tell you what,
I have faith for America.
I have faith for any country in
the world that that
happens to us, a revelation.
Shawn: Absolutely.
Sid: But tell me about a
defining moment in your life.
You were dying.
Shawn: I had a parasite from the
jungles of Ecuador.
They had never seen it in
America before.
They gave me all the best
medicine for the parasite.
It wouldn’t die.
And so finally they gave me an
experimental, and I won’t say
which hospital, but they gave me
experimental chemo because
you’re dying anyway, we’re going
to use chemo and a pill.
But I thought if I get healed I
believe I’m going to go in the
entertainment industry and do
ministry on the side.
I remember one day I woke up, it
was January 1, 2001, and I heard
God audibly speak, “I am
welcoming you back to ministry.”
Because I had taken a year off
on this health sabbatical.
“Welcome back to ministry.” And
I thought, ministry, wow,
like wait, does that mean you’re
going to heal me?
Because I wasn’t healed
immediately, and actually it was
six weeks later I was prayed for
by a woman from, I’m sure you’re
familiar with the Spokane
Healing Rooms,
the healing rooms movement.
A woman from the Healing Rooms
came to my parents’ home group
and went over to their home
group and she prayed for me,
was completely radically healed.
Doctors proved, before and
after, the parasite was dead.
Man 1: It’s a miracle.
There’s no sign of the parasite.
You’ve been healed.
Man 2: Thank you, Jesus.
Sid: Or you can say
the hand of God.
But then you had another
supernatural event where
you had a heavenly visitation.
Tell me about that.
Shawn: So shortly after that was
really praying and saying,
“God, we need to see
Heaven come to Earth.
We need to see what you, the
atmosphere around you, your love
come to Earth and I feel so
disconnected from that.” Bill
Johnson, pastor, I know many
people have heard of him,
I hadn’t read his book
yet, but I had the same
thing with how do we bring
Heaven, how can we get this.
And I just began to study people
throughout history who had
heavenly encounters or who had
kingdom encounters with Jesus
and intimacy.
And one day I was invited to go
to a conference in Branson,
Missouri and I was going down
to meet Polkey Davis,
Bobby Conner, James, Jim Bakker,
several other people.
I think Bishop Bill Hammond was
there and I was going down to
meet them.
And on the way down I was
leaving the House of Prayer in
Kansas City, where I lived at
the time, going down.
So I left a group of believers,
got gas and then teleported or
transported all the way down to
Branson in
two and a half minutes.
Sid: Two and a half minutes?
Shawn: Two and a half minutes.
I had a group of believers.
Sid: How many miles was that?
Shawn: Somewhere around three
and half, four hours,
I can’t tell you how many miles.
Sid: That’s my way to travel,
three and a half, four hours.
Shawn: It’s happened many times,
thank you, Jesus.
It happened once, do it again.
But during that time I had a
series of heavenly encounters
that lasted in my mind like
around an eight-hour period,
but it had only been two
and a half minutes.
And in these encounters many
things were shown to me, but I
couldn’t remember them all when
I came back to the earth.
As a matter of fact, when I
landed, most of it was removed
from my mental memory, but I had
walked into situations where I
went, oh, this is where God put
in me then and I’m ready for it,
almost like what the secular
would call a déjà vu experience.
I’m having a heavenly God
encounter where I remember being
in that moment prophetically
from when I was in Heaven.
Sid: Okay.
Your gift is setting so many
people free.
When we come back I want to hear
about the prostitute that he had
a word of knowledge for that
totally changed her life.
We’ll be right back.
We’ll be right back to It’s
Supernatural.
We now return to It’s
Supernatural.
[Applause]
Sid: Now it’s wonderful that
Shawn hears from God so clearly,
but can every person hear from
God?
Shawn: What I love about my life
is that my parents just raised
me to believe and they just
nurtured the atmosphere.
I wasn’t born under a sign.
I wasn’t born like special.
Some of the people you hear who
have prophetic callings, like
the whole world was against
them, the universe was against
them and they emerged in this
victorious sovereign gifting,
and I feel like they were
sovereign vessels.
But I feel like I represent kind
of a new breed of just everyday
people who are called to hear
from God in powerful ways, and
as we pursue him, First
Corinthians 14:1, where it says,
“Pursue love like your love
depends on it and eagerly
desire prophecy.” And
that’s been my life.
I’ve just been hungry that God
would speak because I know what
happens when he speaks and it
causes everything to multiply
and accelerate.
Everything changes.
All our opportunities change.
So for me, I don’t think, like
I’ve been around real prophets
or sovereign vessels.
I feel like I’ve had some of
those demonstrations in my life.
But when I go home at night I
don’t feel like God is pursuing
me like a prophet.
I feel like I’m pursuing him out
of hunger for who he is and it’s
just a beautiful thing that I
think everybody can have that.
Sid: When you prophesy, what is
going on with love in connection
with prophecy?
What are you trying to
accomplish?
Shawn: Well I’m trying to see
someone in the original form
that God created them to be
before the delineation.
I’m trying to see them like the
best version of who they are,
the best version of what God,
Jesus paid a price for this
amazing abundant life.
So what would they look like if
all of a sudden they were
restored to that original plan
if it was all the delineation
was gone, all the sin,
immorality, the character
issues, the family issues, all
that stuff was just not in the
equation any more.
What would it look like?
Sid: We wouldn’t even
recognize people.
Shawn: We wouldn’t.
Sid: Because God has, I guess he
wants to get us as close to the
original man, Adam, as possible
and it is possible.
Shawn: It is possible.
That’s what I’m looking at and
when I see that spiritually,
something happens that connects
inside of me where I start to
see sometimes people’s birthdays
by a word of knowledge because
God thought of us for millions
of years.
He knew the day we were going to
be born.
And everybody loves a birthday,
so if you say, is your birthday
March 15th, someone goes, how
did you know?
How did you know my birth date?
Sid: You prayed for people that
have moved in to knowing dates?
Shawn: Oh yes.
So many people, thousands of
reports now, thousands of
reports of people knowing dates,
anniversary dates, birth dates,
phone numbers, social security
numbers, bank account numbers,
secret information you cannot
research.
Some people say, you can get it
off Facebook.
Not really.
There is so much you cannot
research that God is giving us
right now.
I mean, one of the billionaires
that I met with,
he at one point admits…
Man 1: I’m actually not
a believer.
I believe Jesus was a historic
figure, but I really don’t
believe in God.
You don’t actually believe that
Jesus is like real today,
do you?
Man 2: I don’t even know how to
answer that.
I can’t get into a theological
debate right now.
I have something.
Shawn: I took the biggest risk I
had to take it at that point,
and I started to say a
25-character long thing.
I didn’t know what
it was. I thought it was like…
Man 2: 101-ED#674237654299.
Man 1: That’s our most private
bank account number.
Even you don’t know it.
Woman: What?
Man 1: Only the banker and I
know this.
Shawn: He got saved because I
knew his banking number that no
one could have researched.
[Applause]
Sid: I’ll tell you, I am excited
that Shawn has this gift, but I
have even greater excitement
that did you hear what he said?
Thousands he knows when he prays
get these gifts.
Tell me about the prostitute in
Hawaii.
Shawn: I went, I was walking
down, I was in Honolulu on a
trip and I was walking to get a
Subway sandwich.
It was like 10:00 at night and
they had put me in a beautiful
condo, but it was right outside
the red light district,
which thank God, I’m used
to red light districts.
Our team ministers had them.
So we’re walking right at the
beginning of the
red light district.
Man 1: Hey bud, you want
something?
Man 2: No. I am hungry
for some sandwiches.
Man 1: Want a girl?
Shawn: And he pointed at a girl
who was 16 years old on the
steps with two teenage boys, and
I could tell just from our work
with prostitution that she
wasn’t in the game very long
if at all.
And so I looked at her.
It just concerned me.
I just had this father’s heart
hit me like if that was my
daughter what would I do.
She’s a runaway on the streets.
I just had a discernment of
knowing, you know.
And I walked over to her and I
said hey…
Man: Can I talk to
you for a minute.
Girl: Yeah.
Man: I’m a pastor, a Christian.
I believe God thought of you
millions of years before you
were ever created.
What do you want to do to with
your life?
Girl: I don’t know.
Man: Okay. Close your eyes.
Repeat after me.
God thought of you for millions
of years.
Girl: God, I know you thought of
me for millions of years.
Man: What did you
create for me to do?
Girl: What did you
create for me to do?
Man: That you would find the
most joy in?
Girl: That you would find the
most joy in?
[Scream]
I just heard something.
I’m supposed to be a cook.
Man: Like a chef?
Girl: Yeah.
Man: Do you like cooking?
Girl: I don’t know.
Shawn: Okay. Let’s pray again.
Let’s ask God for one step
towards that you can make this
week so you can change your
whole life.
She goes, okay.
She prays and she goes, “I’m
supposed to call my uncle.”
And I said, “This is awesome.
Why would you call your uncle?”
She goes, “He has a diner.
I think he’ll hire me and he
might give me a place to sleep
and a place to live.” And I
said, “Do you promise to call.
Here’s my phone number.” We
exchanged phone numbers and the
boy next to her was, “I want a
dream!” And we agreed
on something, and he
actually heard,
“I’m going into the military,”
which he did.
So six months later,
she calls me.
Man: Hello.
Girl: My uncle wants to open
another diner with me.
Man: Are you going to college
for business administration?
Girl: No. We’re opening it next
month in the bowling alley.
He’s giving me 50 percent
ownership.
Shawn: Just 17 years old and is
a co-owner of a diner.
She was a prostitute.
Sid: You see the transformation.
If that were you helping that
prostitute who’s going to end up
dead someday and transforming
her to who
God originally intended.
What do you mean, by the way,
your book is called
“Translating God”, what do you
mean by “translating God”?
Shawn: You know, I go to a lot
of countries, and I go to a lot
of translators, and there’s good
translators and
there’s bad translators.
Most of the time I have really
great translators.
And it’s amazing we have a good
translator because they’re
communicating the whole heart
essence of what you’re saying.
They’re almost like symbiotic
with you.
They’re part of your heart in
that moment and they’re not
thinking the whole time.
They’re actually just clearly
communicating the articulation
of your heart and I felt like
God was saying,
“I want you to be my translator.
I want you to translate my heart
to the earth’s right now, not
just my language, not just be a
parrot and repeat the words.”
There was an old school
mentality of the prophetic,
just deliver the mail,
don’t look at it.
God is saying, “Look at the
mail, read it, fall in love with
the people the mail is for and
then give it to them with all
your heart.” And so translation
takes more than just
repeating something.
It actually takes culturizing
yourself into a culture where it
comes from.
Like ours is the Kingdom of
Heaven. So I wrote this book.
My wife actually named it.
But I wrote this book because
we’re called to translate
God on the earth to
ourselves and around us.
We know we’re mature when we
understand what he’s
saying to us.
We know we’re mature in effect
when we can change the world
around us with his voice.
Sid: Can you imagine you can
have the same job as Shawn
translating God.
When we come back, he loves to
pray for people and after he
prays for them they actually see
Heaven.
They actually hear God’s voice.
They actually translate God.
Be right back.
[Applause]
We now return to It’s
Supernatural.
[Applause]
Sid: Now I think you would like
to see Heaven.
Would you?
Would you like to see Heaven?
Would I like to see Heaven?
Tell me about what goes on when
you pray for people
to see Heaven.
Shawn: You know, I feel like we
have an everlasting life and
we’re supposed to be as in touch
with that everlasting part as
we’re in touch with this side of
eternity.
And when you read about the
reports of Heaven throughout
history, people got in touch
with the beauty.
It’s not a thousand-year boring
prayer meeting in Heaven
right now.
What goes on around Jesus is the
most beautiful expression of
fun, adventure and connection
you’ve ever had.
And so I started to explore that
and eventually I thought I was
just doing it theologically, but
eventually I started to
sense that.
Some of us sense it and worship
like you’re in a heightened
state of spiritual awareness and
you’re actually a part of the
heavenly scenario.
But there’s times that I’ve pray
for people and they literally
had a deposit.
They’ve seen into Heaven and
they brought something back, a
revelation, a truth, something
about a resource that they were
going to get a prophetic word
for their life that they got
from God.
And when you get it from God
yourself it’s hard not to
believe it, especially when you
have an encounter with God.
We’ve even had people come back
and they actually brought body
parts back.
They’ve seen what’s available in
the Father’s heart.
They brought body parts back.
It’s been a while since that’s
happened, but we had a woman get
a liver back.
Her husband prayed for her, she
needed a liver,
she needed a liver transplant.
He prayed for her
and a brand new…
Sid: You realize
there are people watching
us right now and
they’re saying, eww!
What do you say to that person?
Shawn: I just say if we pray for
you right now and you receive it
and it happens to you, you won’t
say impossible again.
Sid: I am so glad you wrote your
book and you have those, we put
together your three-CD set.
But I know that there is going
to be repercussions.
There are people that will never
be able to get your book
throughout all the former Soviet
Union.
I mean, I’m amazed at how God
has spread It’s Supernatural.
But I know if you pray for
people they’re never going to be
the same.
Shawn: Absolutely.
Sid: I want you to start out by
praying for us to have the heart
of love, not the heart of
professionalism or the heart of
religion, but the heart of the
Father’s love and
be sure to pray that we
can see Heaven, too.
I gave you a big assignment to
hear God’s voice.
Let’s see, I have another
laundry list.
Shawn: Let me pray.
I just pray for you now that God
would demystify the way you
thought hearing his voice was
that it would feel more organic
like a family member who’s
talking to you, who is loving
you, that you would all of a
sudden notice and become aware.
I pray an impartation of
spiritual awareness, of
spiritual understanding for your
own relationship with God and as
you grow in that depth of
authority, as you begin to see
where he’s speaking.
I pray that you would take great
risk based on what he’s saying.
I pray that you would become so
in tune with who God is around
you, where he is around you that
Jesus would be
so made manifest to you.
I impart every supernatural
spiritual gift I have that’s
transferable right now over the
television, to everyone in the
studio audience.
I pray for deep impartation and
I pray that you would see where
Jesus is.
This is Heaven.
He’s in Jesus right now.
The Throne of God is there, all
the angels around him.
There’s no reason why we can’t
be in touch with it because that
is our everlasting.
We’ll be with Jesus forever, so
I pray that you would right now
somehow, Ephesians 3:2 says, “We
are seated in heavenly places.”
I pray somehow you would feel
part of you is tied to the
everlasting eternal scenario
right now that you would see
yourself, you would see God
there that you would have
revelatory visions and
revelatory experiences that you
never dreamed possible.
I pray that God would expand
your imagination but then take
you past your imagination that
he would give you a love that
would cause you to continue to
hear his voice to the nations.
It’s so easy to focus on what
he’s not doing.
I pray that you would see what
he is doing right now.
It’s so easy to see what you’re
not.
I pray that you would see
through the eyes of love from
the Father who you are to him
and I pray you would have a
revelatory encounter with that
love right now
in the name of Jesus.
Sid: You told me last night over
dinner, and this was, you think
your mind is blown now, wait
until you hear this.
You went to a school, a place
that formerly
was a school of Spiritism.
Explain. Tell me that.
Shawn: One of the owners of the
Hollywood Club called me up and
said, “Can you come
over and pray.
We’ve had a
shaman come….
We’ve had the white witch of
Studio City, Hollywood, come and
no one has been able to clear
out the demons.
This used to be the Paranormal
School of Supernatural Activity
for Hollywood.
It was actually a school.
For like over a decade it was a
school in Hollywood where they
teach people how to do
Spiritism.
Sid: And they could get rid of
these key spirits.
[crosstalk]
Shawn: So all
the nannies were like quitting
the four owners.
They were quitting, only one of
the owners was saved as a
brand new Christian.
The other three owners weren’t
saved.
One was Catholic, but he was
just coming to full belief for
Jesus. The other
two weren’t saved at all.
One of them was the new age
captain of the group who kept
bringing everybody and paying a
lot of money to get this place
cleared and it wasn’t working.
Over months they were losing all
their employees.
So I went ahead and everything
was slowed down, the
construction and everything.
So I went in with a group.
They were all Asian.
So I went in with a group of
Asian intercessors who I love.
I love this group.
And we went in there together
and I said, “Okay guys,”
I had the owner sit down
with me and I said,
“We’re going to do something.”
And I heard the Holy
Spirit say, ” If they will give
me the ownership I’ll drive out
every spirit.” And I had a
little strategy.
I could never have done this on
my own strength.
I was like, I don’t know that
this can’t be redeemed.
You guys are using this for a
club, I don’t know.
I don’t know what we’re going to
do about the situation, but I
heard God and I said to
everybody, “Okay, I want you to
close your eyes and repeat after
me.” I said, “Okay.” I said,
“This is going to be really
hard.” Because they had been
through all this ritual
assignments with all the
witchcraft and stuff.
And I said, “Say this after me:
Holy Ghost!” And they said,
“Holy Ghost!” And I said, “Be
the only ghost here!
Amen.” And one of them looked up
at me and he goes, “No.
No.” And I said, “Okay, is God a
spirit?” And they said yes.
And I said, “If you ask God to
be here can anything else be as
powerful as God?” And they all
said no.
I said, “Okay, let’s see what
happens.
I’m going to leave.
Let’s see what happens.” So I
went back five weeks later and I
asked them, “You guys, how is
your lives?
What’s going on?” And one of the
guys said, “Nothing is wrong.
There’s no spirits.” He said,
“As a matter of fact, I’ve given
my life to Jesus.” The other two
guys were so close.
“This is so crazy what happened
here like we’ve
had no visitation.
All of our nannies are fine.
All of our wives knew.
No one is having bad dreams.”
It was night
and day difference, and now I’ve
gone back years later and it’s
been fine.
It’s like it never happened.
[Applause]
Sid: You know, my peanut brain
says everyone has to be a
believer in Jesus for this to
happen.
That’s my peanut brain.
But I’m going to tell you
something, eye has not seen,
ear has not heard.
All that God has in store for
you, that’s right, I’m talking
about you, all that, I want you
to hold your head up.
I want you to forget what’s
happened in the past.
I want you to tell Jesus be my
Lord.
I want to you to repent of your
sins, tell him you’re sorry.
Ask him to live inside of you
and watch what God
is going to do.
[Applause]
Sid: Next week on It’s
Supernatural.
A stranger, someone she doesn’t
even know, jumps into her car.
Now what would you do?
She leads him to Jesus.
Do you want to know about that
fire? Is that glorious for you?
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