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Heidi Baker grew up in Laguna Beach, California.

While she was surrounded by privilege,

that's not what she truly wanted.

Heidi wanted to see the miracles of God in action.

And after spending the last few decades of her life

on the mission field, that's exactly what she's seen.

Take a look.

NARRATOR: In 1980, Heidi Baker and her husband Rolland

became missionaries and founded Iris Global.

Together, they've ministered to the poor in Asia and England

before following God's call to Mozambique in 1995.

HEIDI BAKER (VOICEOVER): I had a vision.

I had a vision that changed my life.

And I'll never be the same.

NARRATOR: She faced incredible challenges,

like feeding thousands of poor children each day.

Yet Heidi has also experienced God's favor

and seen many miracles take place.

In "Birthing the Miraculous," Heidi shares true stories

from her life, which also show how God can

do the miraculous through you.

Heidi Baker is here with us now,

and we welcome you back to "The 700 Club."

Thank you.

It's always a great treat to have you.

I want to go back, if we can, to just a little bit

of the beginning.

Within two weeks after you and Rolland were married,

you had $30 in your pocket and two one way tickets to--

Indonesia.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: --far far away.

Tell me what was happening in your life at that time?

Well I got called, powerfully called at the age of 16.

I saw the Lord.

I really saw him.

And I was caught up in this white light.

And he said go to Africa, Asia, and England.

So we knew.

And I just met Rolland.

We went to lunch once and got married.

So that was-- it was a set up.

God just set us up.

That's another story.

That's another story.

And so we just went off.

We knew we were going.

So Asia was first.

And we were 12 years in Asia.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: Wow.

Yeah.

In the end, you wound up being drawn to Mozambique.

How did that happen?

My husband was telling me they were blowing up

Red Cross trucks in Mozambique.

And we always prayed to go where no one else wanted to go.

And back then-

TERRY MEEUWSEN: That's a dangerous prayer.

HEIDI BAKER: --we'd been there 21 years.

And back then they were blowing up trucks.

And nobody wanted to go in there as a minister, a missionary.

And we just wanted to go to the poorest nation on the planet.

God had already said Africa.

So we researched as well.

Sometimes you can research.

So we researched, where's the poorest place on the planet,

and where are the poorest people on the planet?

And that was Mozambique, so.

You wanted to witness miracles firsthand.

You wanted to see God at work, in action.

You began to pray that the blind would see.

You know, one of the things that was

some encouraging in your book, "Birthing the Miraculous--"

I'll tell you how you can get that in a little bit--

but you prayed for a long time before you actually

saw it happen.

I did.

But you kept hanging there.

Yeah.

Tell me about it.

Well when God speaks to you about something,

you have to carry it.

You don't give up if it doesn't work the first time.

So Mozambique, we had a lot of blind people.

And I would pull my truck up.

And I'd just jump out.

They can't see you, you know.

Jump out of my truck, and I would just put my hands on him.

I would lead them to Jesus, but they'd say, give me some money.

I can't see.

And I would give them money.

I did this for one year.

I can't even remember how many blind people

I prayed for one year, after I got a massive impartation.

Randy Clark prayed for me.

God just crashed down on me.

I knew the blind would see, the deaf would hear,

the dead would be raised, the lepers would be healed,

the poor would hear the good news.

So I'm going out there doing it, nothing.

And then finally, in the center of Mozambique, Sofala Province,

a little blind lady came in, just bent over a little boy

pulling her by a stick.

And Jesus just did it.

He did it, after a year.

And her white eyes turned brown, right in front of me.

She was on the dirt.

You know, she fell out in the spirit.

All those things you listed you've seen.

Yes.

I mean, things that people would say,

well, I don't know if that can really happen,

like raising the dead.

But you've had pastors that have had

that happen in their church.

Oh yes, quite a few.

Even our last mission school, we had two mission students,

I mean, with some of our Mozambican pastors,

and two were raised up.

Heidi, why don't we see more of that do you think?

It seems like God works most amongst the poor?

And yet I think people that have-- people that live in

not just luxury, but comfort-- which

is far from where most of the people you minister to live--

would love to see those things.

But why don't we see them?

Why does it happen in the poorest country in the world

and other places of want?

I often hear that question.

It's a good question.

But we read the Word.

It says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit,

for theirs is the Kingdom of God.

Blessed are the children, for theirs is the Kingdom of God."

So it really has to do with an attitude of your heart.

You can be a billionaire, with mansion after mansion,

and still see the kingdom of God break forth.

But your heart has to get poor before hand.

Do you understand?

You have to know that you're needy, know that you need him.

TERRY MEEUWSEN: You say you have to get low.

Go low and slow.

And you have to know you need him.

Because if you become rich in your own strength--

I'm not talking just about finance.

I'm talking about the attitude of your heart, no backup plan.

I have to have God show up or I'm dead.

If God doesn't show up right now, I'm dead.

We live like that.

But people with provision can live like that too.

It's not impossible.

It is more challenging.

It's that control-surrender thing, isn't it?

Yeah.

You know, you use the book, "Birthing the Miraculous."

I just love this.

You, for the first several chapters,

use Mary as your example and her willingness to say yes.

You know, we don't often think about

that when we think about the mother of Christ, you know,

what she must have gone through in her surrender

to say yes to things that were so countercultural for her.

Absolutely.

It was scary what she did.

If you think about it, a teenage Jewish girl, a virgin, and God

shows up, an angel shows up, and says,

you're going to carry Jesus.

You're going to carry the Christ.

And I was like, well, how?

How is that going to happen?

And then she has to struggle with what's that

going to cost her-- everything.

You're not going to be able to hide that promise.

That promise is right out there.

God puts promises in all of us.

But in this generation especially, they abort

and they miscarry.

They just say, hey, you know, too hard.

I want fast.

I want God to touch me, but I don't want

to carry what he put inside.

And we presume, just as you could have,

if God's not doing it today when I expect

him to on my timetable, then he must not be going to do it,

like healing the blind.

That's right.

You got to hang on to the birth.

Yeah, and it was longer than nine months.

I waited over a year after that major prophetic word

before I started seeing the blind see.

It's such an encouraging word.

You know, we live in a world that's just so filled

with a need to control.

And getting low and surrendering and hearing

is just so countercultural to where we are today,

but it's the answer--

It is.

--to connecting with God.

And the river of God flows to the low place.

So the more that you want his presence, the low and slower

you get.

And then he just crashes in on you.

And you can be carried by the river, by his glory love,

out to the ends of the earth-- surrender.

It's an invitation and it's for everybody.

He'll say yes.

Yeah, pretty wonderful.

Heidi, thank you for being with us.

If you want to hear more-- you need

to hear more about the miracles in Mozambique--

check out our web exclusive interview

with Heidi on Facebook.

Just go to facebook.com/700club.

And don't forget, her latest book

is called "Birthing the Miraculous."

It will bless you.

And you can get a copy by going to cbn.com.

Well worth your time and the read.