KYNAN: Hello friends! This is “Something More!” And I’m Dr. Kynan Bridges and we have a very special guest today seen by many as a pioneer and father of the prophetic movement and really an apostolic leader in the prophetic. We have Dr. Bishop Bill Hamon.
BILL: Amen!
KYNAN: God bless you!
Good to have you today.
BILL: It’s good to be here. Amen!
KYNAN: I’m so excited!
You know you’re someone I’ve looked up to for years and read many of your
materials and you’ve activated thousands of people in the prophetic. You’ve
planted churches and ministries all around the world. Over 900 ministers in the
United States and four or five or six thousand.
BILL: Four thousand around.
KYNAN: Four thousand
around the world! I mean that’s amazing! You’ve seen great things! And I want
you to just tell our viewers today some of your backstory. You know you talk
about getting saved and you talk about how the Holy Spirit took you through
that process. Just share a little about that with us.
BILL: Well you know what I say to some
people my first 30 years of ministry was preparation for my next 30 plus!
KYNAN: I see.
BILL: And the reason I say “30
plus” is cause I’m already in 62 years of ministry!
KYNAN: Oh wow! Wow.
BILL: So I’m not running out yet! I’m going
to preach till I’m 95!
KYNAN:
Wow! Wow!
BILL: And I’m only 82 right now.
(LAUGHING)
KYNAN: Okay.
BILL: So I’ve got a plenty of time to
go!
KYNAN: You look great!
You look great!
BILL: But you know to try to cover it
all this is what I say. I just try to tell people I got saved when I was 16
years old. My religious background was American heathen.
KYNAN: (LAUGHING)
BILL: I was never inside of a church
before I got saved in an old Brush Arbor meeting down in the hills of Oklahoma.
But a lady came from 200 miles away in Oklahoma City down and preached way out
there 5 miles out in that little ol’ community and God sent her all the way
down there I think just to get me because I was the only young man that got
saved through the whole meeting.
KYNAN: Wow!
BILL: But from that launched me. And I
was second night I went to the altar and got filled with the Holy Spirit. Spoke
in tongues. And then I attended my little Assembly of God churches for the next
2 years and then I moved down to Amarillo Texas and started attending a
Restoration Church and a prophet laid hands on me and prophesied over me cause
I had a desire to be in the ministry.
KYNAN: Hmm.
BILL: You know when you think of being
a prophet people think you got to have a vision of Jesus or an out-of-body
experience. All He did to get me was to have a divine desire to be in the
ministry. Well this prophet said stay where you are right now but I’ll open a
door and you’ll be in the ministry. Well that was in ’53 and in February of ’54
I had gone to Bible College for 6 months and it split down the middle and I
went out and started pastoring a church.
KYNAN: Now let me ask
you something about that experience. You talk about, you talk about this
experience with the Holy Spirit.
BILL: Yeah.
KYNAN: And that really
stood out to me and I want to talk about that because that leads into a very
powerful revelation that the Lord gave you. Tell us a little about that
experience with the Holy Spirit.
BILL: Well I’ve realized that my
calling really is establish people in the restoration and the Holy Ghost. My
years are 1950, 60 and 70. My main mission was getting people filled with the
Holy Spirit. And so then He involved me in the restoration teaching so my
ministry’s been knowing the restoration
movements. But to get me there I went to Bible College in Portland Oregon in
1953 and they announced that they was going to have a prophetic presbytery on
October the 1st and so they wanted everybody to fast 3 days to be qualified to
be a candidate and I was already on a 3-day fast so I extended it to 3 more and
went 9 days water only. And that night they called out an old man, about 41
years old.
KYNAN: (LAUGHING
BILL: He had already been a missionary.
We were 19, most of us were in our teenage and early twenties. And then
they had him kneel to a chair and they
prophesied over him and then sent him back. Then they called me up and then had
me kneel down and prophesied over me. It’s in my book “Prophets and
Personal Prophecy.” I put it in there. And they gave me a prophecy. Now
they didn’t have faith in those days just to call anybody a Prophet or
Apostle.
KYNAN: Right. Right.
BILL: Nobody took the title Prophet or
Apostle back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.
KYNAN: Right. Right.
BILL: And so they just described all of
the characteristics of a prophet.
KYNAN: Right.
BILL: It was about 1956 before a couple
came though and prophesied to me I’m calling you to be a prophet.
KYNAN: Wow.
BILL: But they laid hands on me and
gave me a prophetic presbytery. And then after that I moved in prophetic
presbytery and prophesied over different ones during my years of evangelistic
travel and then I taught in a Bible college 5 years. Prophesied over a lot of
the students. But the most I’d ever seen prophesied over in one setting was
about 15 to 20 people.
KYNAN: Oh wow!
BILL: Even in prophetic presbytery or
individual.
KYNAN: Wow.
