God Told Me, “I’m NOT Pleased With You!” Here’s Why…

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My guest says many viewers have
a deep hunger for more of God,

but settle for the scraps.

He says it’s time
to position yourself

for the raging glory revival!
Next.

[Music]

SR: I’ve thought for myself
in every area of life, but one.

I knew nothing,
until I discovered a realm

where the truth
isn’t what it seems.

A realm where the truth
becomes reality.

I’ve spent over 50 years

investigating the world
of the supernatural.

Every moment has led up
to the main event.

Millions of Jewish people
will be saved all over the world.

God’s heart is for all to
believe, for none to perish.

It’s called the “Greater Glory.”

Do you believe?

>> “It’s Supernatural!”

[Applause]

SR: Welcome, Holy Spirit.
[Music]

You’re our most important guest.
Go and flow.

Now, my guest, Dr. Norman Benz,
was raised in a Pentecostal home.

He had a great hunger
for more of God’s presence.

Tell me about it.

NB: I found one of the greatest
things that happened to me was,

I didn’t experience
drugs and alcohol.

I got saved at an early age,
I was five years old.

But inherent in that upbringing
by my parents,

I always wanted more of God.
Now I wasn’t perfect,

but I had a desire on the
inside of me for more of God.

SR: Well, okay.

So from time to time, you
would have experiences with God.

But you wanted it
to be ongoing.

NB: I couldn’t —
people talk about a visitation.

I didn’t want just a visitation,

because visitations
means God comes and goes.

I knew that He was with me.

And I knew that because
of my upbringing and training,

but I also knew there was
a manifest presence of God.

There was a perfection
of His presence

that I wanted to be with,

and I wanted that
to be sustained in my life.

And so knowing all that,

this is where I’ve come,
and where I’ve come from.

And I’m excited to be able
to share that kind of passion,

that when you ask for a passion,

when you want the zeal
of the Lord, like David says,

“The zeal of Thine house
has eaten me up,”

I want that kind of zeal

and I want that kind of passion
with the Lord.

And I want it
to be ongoing, yes.

SR: I do, too. And you do, too.

But let me take you back a little
so we’ll get to know you better.

NB: Okay.

SR: Tell me about your life
at 17.

NB: When I was 17 years old,
I was a senior in high school.

I remember this to be November,
and I won’t tell you the year,

but I remember
it was a November.

And I had been dealing
with a lot of external pressures

about the call of God
on my life.

And people would ask me,
because my brother was a pastor,

my dad was a pastor,

and I had people
all the time asking me,

“Are you going to be
a pastor also?”

I would always say, “No,
I’m going to be a schoolteacher.”

And I said that for years.

And I even went into training
to be a schoolteacher.

But when I was 17 years old,
Holy Spirit came in.

It was a Sunday night.

And on that Sunday night —
I talk about this —

I was the featured pianist
and the featured soloist,

because I was the only pianist
and I was the only soloist.

And my dad began to preach.

And I was sitting in the
background on the platform,

and Holy Spirit came in.

And when He came in, like
He is now,

when He came in,
things changed.

Holy Spirit, many people
say is a gentleman.

That night, because my will
had not lined up with

His, He was not necessarily
a gentleman.

And He came convincingly to me.

And I was speaking
with tongues on the corner,

and my dad was preaching.

And I guess
I became an interruption.

And he turned around
and he said to me,

“What’s wrong with you?”

And I said —
and I began to weep and cry.

“Holy Spirit has called me,
and I have said yes.”

And what was so wonderful
about that, my mother —

he called me down front so that
the church could pray for me.

He called me down front,
my mother was weeping,

I mean, this was a wonderful
time with Holy Spirit —

SR: I feel it.
It’s just as you’re sharing this,

it’s almost like the same
Holy Spirit

that came on you then —

NB: Oh —

SR: — that’s being
radiated right now.

NB: Right now. I sense
the Spirit moving among us.

And perhaps there’s someone who’s
been struggling with the call.

And you’ve denied
the call of God,

but I would say
right now,

Holy Spirit is calling you
and is wooing you

into His presence to fulfill
His will for your life.

And so what was so impactful at
that time that got my attention,

we had a little lady
in our congregation,

and she knelt down on the side,
and she began to pray.

And when she began to pray,
it’s almost like I’m there again.

She began to prophecy,
and I knew it was God.

And I’ve taken that prophesy
with me even to this day,

and where we are right now,

that God’s promise in His
Covenant to me is not fulfilled,

it is being fulfilled,
and we’re in the process of it.

And I believe that
even being with you today,

and with our people
that are viewing,

that God has a Covenant
for each of us that

He wants us to affirm.

And He will continue to fulfill
that Covenant in our lives.

SR: Then in the 1970s,

God really started
moving in your life.

What happened?

NB: In 1974,

we received a call to pastor
a church in Franklin, Indiana.

At that time,
Franklin was about 10,000 people.

And as Judy and I
were moving in,

and we were living in what was
called a parsonage there,

I needed to go
to the grocery store.

And when I went
to the grocery store,

I had this surging passion
and ownership of the call of God,

and I knew God
had called me there to win

to Him 10,000 people
who resided in that little city.

And I sensed that,
and I drove around the square —

SR: You’re talking about
the whole city?

NB: Oh, I’m talking about
the whole city, yes.

SR: That’s what I thought.

NB: Ten thousand people.

And I felt,
God has given them to me.

These, this store is mine.
This town is mine.

I took ownership
of the call of God

to be activated right there
in Franklin, Indiana.

It was a wonderful time.

And it was — this was October.
And we began to experience

immediately a tremendous move
of God in our church services.

And He came in mightily.
It was a tremendous time,

when God was adding to us many,
many people.

I remember one of the businessmen
in the little city

came to me and says,
“What are you doing up there?”

I mean, people were parking
everywhere, the place was filled.

People were hungry for God.

And this move of God
was so great —

SR: When you say — excuse me —
when you say a “move of God,”

would you give us an example,

or paint a word picture
of what is a move of God.

NB: The move of God is when we
have opened ourselves up to Him,

and we’re saying, “What You want
is more important

than what I want.”
And Holy Spirit comes in,

He comes in, in
His manifest presence.

It’s not church
as usual anymore.

Church is highly effected
and accentuated

because of the work
of the Holy Spirit.

People were getting saved.
People were being touched by Him,

and families were being
very moved by Him also.

It was — in fact, the whole
town, from what I was told,

they took notice of what God
was doing at this little church

building that the Lord
gave us to meet in.

And it lasted for probably eight,
nine, ten months.

SR: Why did it stop?

NB: Well, I’ve asked
that question often.

It did begin to diminish,
and I was disappointed,

because I wanted Him more.
But what I realized years later,

I had no mentor,
I had no one to teach me

how to pastor or steward
a move of the Holy Spirit.

SR: You bumped into this
healthy fear of the awesomeness

and the magnitude and the majesty
of our God in Argentina.

What happened?

NB: Well, I was invited
to go to Rosario, Argentina,

Pastor Noberto Carlini.
And on that Sunday night,

he invited me to speak
to his congregation,

and there were probably about
2,000 people in the congregation.

And after I spoke, he said,
“Now go pray for the people.”

I had heard of
the Argentine fire,

but I’d never experienced it.

But on that Sunday night,
I began to minister to people.

I was laying hands on people.

I was doing what I know
and what I have seen before.

And as I was laying
hands on people,

people were receiving
Holy Spirit.

They were falling in the Spirit,

they were miraculously
touched by God,

and I was in the middle of that.
And all of a sudden,

the reverential fear
of God came upon me,

because His presence
was so tangible and so real.

I said, “God, I think
I’m going to die.”

That’s how evident
His Spirit was to me.

I said, “I’m not laying hands
on another person.”

And as I said that, I said,

“I’m not praying
for anyone else.”

And yet God kept showing up
in the lives of people,

and I learned a very,
very important principle

at that point,

and that is to honor and to have
a reverential fear of God. Not

that I’m scared of God, I have
deep respect and love for Him.

SR: That’s why I said
a “healthy fear of God.”

NB: Yes. Healthy fear of God.

SR: The unhealthy is,

I don’t even want
to get close to God,

because He’ll see who I am.
The healthy fear of God.

When we return, Norman wants
to pray that same power of God

that he personally experienced
in Argentina

will come upon you.
Be right back.

[Applause]
[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

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NB: Many of us
have been settling

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of the Holy Spirit,

and the Glory of God
has not been experienced by us.

Sometimes it’s like we put
God and Holy Spirit on a shelf.

Sometimes we don’t
understand the dimensions

of who Holy Spirit is.

The Holy Spirit
will cause you to confront

how you have been in a place

where we haven’t really been
on fire for God.

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in your heart for Him,

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[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

SR: What — what is it
about Father’s Day?

It’s seems some great revivals
and moves of God

have happened on Father’s Day.

I’m wondering if God’s not
making an announcement.

You want a perfect Father?

You want a Father
that’ll love you no matter what?

[Music] Do you want a Father
that is just but filled

with compassion and mercy?

Then why don’t you look
at the Father, Father God.

Tell me about the move of God
in your life

on Father’s Day, 1997.

NB: Nineteen ninety-seven,
that was about three,

four years beyond
my Argentine experience

with the revival
fire of Holy Spirit.

I didn’t know this,
but on June 7th,

and I’m leading up to June 15th,
which was Father’s Day in 1997,

I went out on a Saturday night,
and I was walking my dog,

and great things happen
when you walk your dog at night.

SR: I wouldn’t know,
I don’t have a dog. [Laughter]

NB: And I looked up
into the heavens,

and I said, “God” —
because this was 1997,

we were coming to the year 2000.

And I said, “Would you make
the next two and a half years

exceed the sum cumulative total
of my first 50 years?”

SR: That’s an
interesting challenge.

NB: Oh. And
He took me up on it.

I didn’t realize it at the time.
But then eight days later,

on Father’s Day,
we were worshipping.

We were a good church.
We were a Spirit-filled church.

But we weren’t good enough.
And Holy Spirit had other plans.

In the middle of worship,
we are worshipping the Lord,

and our oldest son is on the
platform with the worship team.

And something happened
that we had not experienced

at Covenant before.

He fell to the floor
and he began to vibrate.

And he was vibrating
on a wooden platform.

You could not miss it.

But we knew it was Holy Spirit
that came in.

In fact, to tell you
how bad it was, Judy,

my wife, said,
“If it hadn’t have been my son,

I would have called
for the ushers to come up

and remove him!”
[Laughter]

But we were experiencing
on that day

a tremendous outpouring
of Holy Spirit.

And we didn’t leave that day

until about 2:00
in the afternoon,

when we finally
were able to leave,

because you know, and you said it

before, Holy Spirit is God.

And He’s huge, He’s mighty.

When He comes in,
I mean, you know it.

It’s unmistakable.
And on that day, He came in.

And it was about 2:00 in the
afternoon when we got to go home.

And I began to practice
a principle

that I didn’t know about then.

Some of the intercessors
came and said,

“Can we come back tomorrow night,
Monday night to pray?”

I said, “Why, sure!”

We came back and there was
another tremendous

move of Holy Spirit.
He came down among us.

I know He’s here,
and I know He’s here today,

His manifest presence
is here today.

But He came on that Monday
night again, it was,

“Oh, this is God.”
It was breathtaking. It was God.

And then they said, “Can we
come back tomorrow night,

on Tuesday night,
and pray again?”

I said, “Why, sure!”
and on Wednesday night,

we came back for our regular
Bible study,

and I asked the Lord,

“Lord, if this is really
a move of You,

on this Bible study night, would
You come in again mightily?”

And He did.
There was a principle

that I didn’t understand
that I understand now,

and it was one that many
of us have talked about.

But we made room for God
to come in.

And that’s what we did
on Monday night.

“God, would You come in again?”

Then we said on Tuesday,
“God, would You come in again?”

And He kept on coming.

This lasted for several years.
It was such an outpouring.

We had people, and people
still say this about us,

and maybe there’s
a little truth in it,

but they said,
“You’re out of your mind!”

[Laughter]. And I said,
“Yes, I am! I’m guilty.”

I found the mind of God, and I
found the experience of God,

and it was transforming me.

And all the people around us
who were experiencing it.

SR: Now, this was a continue
outpouring of the Holy Spirit —

NB: Oh, yes.

SR: — for several years.

And God made a statement to you.
I’m going to quote you.

God said, I’m quoting God, “Do
not allow the fire to go out.”

NB: What He said
on that afternoon,

because our services
usually didn’t end —

our Sunday morning services
did not end until about 2:00.

And when I would leave
on that afternoon,

and on most afternoons,
I would say,

“Father, are You
pleased with today?”

And He says, “Yes,
but not with you.”

SR: Hmm.
>> Ohh!

NB: That got my attention.

I said, “Uh-oh,
I’m in big trouble here, God.”

And He told me,

“I did not call you

to be a superstar quarterback

in this move
that we’re doing right now.”

He said, “I didn’t call you to be
a super anointed MVP pastor.”

He said, “I called you to lead
what I’m doing,

and I’ve called you
to put a guard around

what the Spirit’s fire is doing.”
And then He brought me to [Music]

First Thessalonians, Chapter 5,
Verse 19,

and we say it like this:
“Quench not the Spirit.”

But another
interpretation of that is,

“Do not allow the Spirit’s fire
to go out.”

And He made such
an impression on me.

I still operate —

I put a guard around what
Holy Spirit is doing, even today.

Even in this house right here,

I put a guard around
what Holy Spirit is doing.

I say,
“I’m not afraid of wildfire,

but we will not permit
strange fire.”

And taking that attitude
has kept me flexible before God.

It’s kept me where God can —
I’m pliable before God,

that He can do what He wants to,
and I do my best to follow that.

And we’ve got a great team of
leadership that does that also.

God has been so great to us.

SR: What about you?
Has God been great to you?

Have you made Him your Savior,
to save you from your sins?

There’s no human thing you can do
to get rid of your own sins.

You’re stuck with them
throughout all of eternity,

unless you know
the Blood of Jesus

has washed them away to the point

that every bad thing
you’ve ever done

is erased from your book of life.

There’s a person book of life
with your name on it.

And it’s being erased if you say,
“I repent to my sins.”

But the next step is, you make
Him your Savior and your Lord.

NB: Yeah.

SR: Without being Lord of all,

you don’t know God,
this side of heaven.

It’s time to make
Him your Savior and Lord.

Repeat this prayer out loud,

mean it to the best
of your ability, out loud.

Even if you’ve said it before.

Let today be a fresh,
new beginning for you.

Repeat after me.

Dear God,

>> Dear God,

SR: I’ve made many mistakes.

>> I’ve made many mistakes.

SR: I’m so sorry.

>> I’m so sorry.

SR: I believe Your blood —

>> I believe Your blood —
SR: — washes away my sins.

>> — washes away my sins.

SR: Thank you so much, Jesus —

>> Thank you so much, Jesus —
SR: — for dying for me.

>> — for dying for me.
SR: And I am clean.

>> And I am clean.

SR: And now that I’m clean —
>> And now that I’m clean —

SR: Thank you for saving me
from my sins.

>> Thank you for saving me
from my sins.

SR: I make you my Lord.

SR: I make you my Lord.

SR: Lord, Jesus —
>> Lord Jesus —

SR: — come and live
inside of me.

>> — come and live inside of me.

SR: Amen.

>> Amen.
[Applause]

SR: Okay.

Argentinian revival, you pray —
and I’m getting in on this one.

But look in the camera and pray
for everyone to get the —

hey, studio audience,
this is for you.

It’s not just looking at what
we’re saying, it’s receiving.

>> Whoo! SR: You want the
Argentinian revival?

>> Yes!
SR: I thought so. [Applause]

I know that you do.

NB: Great God Almighty,
Creator of this universe, and yet

You know each one of us
individually. You know us.

And I say today, Lord,
that which

You have poured out upon us
in times past,

do not let it be an experience
that we talk about.

Let it not be a historical
and something

that’s in our history
that we talk about.

But come in today,
baptize us afresh and anew,

with a Holy Ghost and fire.
God, would

You come in on all the people
who are watching

and listening
and participating today,

and Holy Spirit, would you bring
revival fire into our lives

that captivates us,
that transforms us,

that causes everything around us
to become new again.

God, we trust You.
Holy Spirit, come in.

Jesus, baptize us afresh
in the Holy Ghost and fire.

This moment, Father,

You said you would
send the power.

That’s the gift
of the Holy Spirit.

Send Your power today.

Holy Spirit, do not let us
remain like we are,

but change us according to
Your purposes

so that the Kingdom of God
advances and advances mightily.

We partner with You

and we say, come in and do what
You want to. Come in and do what

You want to in my life,
come in and do what

You want to with all those
who are watching today.

Transform us again.
Keep on coming.

Thank You, Holy Spirit.
Thank You, Holy Spirit.

Oh! — in fact,
I would encourage you,

if you’re, where you can,

just raise your hands
in expectancy,

in faith of what Holy Spirit
is doing now.

You’ve been wanting
the miraculous touch of God.

You’ve been wanting
the Father’s heart.

You’ve been wanting
His love in your life.

This is the day that
He has made for you.

This is your day
that you can experience the power

and the might and the revival
Spirit of God into your life.

Come, Holy Spirit.
Come, Holy Spirit.

[Music]