Sid: Well my guest is red hot for the Messiah, when he was in the 2nd grade he heard the audible voice of God calling Him to teach God’s people. I mean at age 14! At age 14 I wasn’t even sure there was a God. I didn’t know my left hand from my right hand, what a wonderful start. And then when you were actually before 14 when you were 7 years of age you eye witnessed 3 miracles personally?
Don: Yes I did.
Sid: That is what a privilege I mean God was setting you up for what you’re doing today.
Don: Yes He was I have no doubt about that and from the time that I was 7 until today I’ve never doubted the ability of God to perform miracles.
Sid: But I bet you have wrestled with “Why don’t I see more, why isn’t every one healed that I pray for?” I know I wrestle with that.
Don: Yes I have wrestled with that greatly but you know I’m convinced that Jesus didn’t take stripes on His back so we could go on being sick; that it is His will to heal every single time.
Sid: Tell me about those 3 miracles you saw at 7 years of age; before 7 years of age actually.
Don: Well the first miracle that I witnessed was at age 4, and I write about this in chapter 2 of my book, is that my dad was it was critically about most fatally injured in a logging accident in northern California and I witnessed that miracles taking place. I can remember they called my mother and we were on our way to the hospital that I knelt on the backseat of the car and on my way to the hospital I could remember as if it was yesterday praying over and over. “God please don’t let my daddy die, please don’t let my daddy die.” And just a few weeks after his accident he walked out of that hospital on crutches and the doctors did not believe that he would ever leave the hospital. In fact they gave him no medical attention for a week because they thought that he was just going to die and when he didn’t die then they started to try to help him. And he’s 82 years old today and still pasturing a church.
Sid: Well it’s actually a little more supernatural than what you even said because according to the story I read an angel did something that had that angel not shown up your dad wouldn’t even to be helicoptered to a hospital.
Don: That’s right my Dad had cut a tree he was in the logging business at the time and he had cut a tree and it had gone over hit another tree and bounced back and pinned him to the ground across his midsection. And then the tree just for a few seconds bounced up into the air and an angel drug my dad from beneath the tree head first and when the tree came back down it rested flat against the ground. So the angel snatched him I guess is a better word than dragged him; it snatched him out from under that tree and so that he could be transported to the hospital and his life could be saved.
Sid: So in effect the tree was ready to fall a portion of it a second time directly would have hit him the second time which it really would have finished the job if something hadn’t pulled him out of that path that’s what you’re saying.
Don: Yes the tree came down and hit the ground and bounced and when it bounced the angel snatched him from beneath the tree and when it came back down it stayed flat on the ground.
Sid: That had to make…I mean was your dad a believer at the time?
Don: My dad was a believer at the time yes.
Sid: But imagine if that happened to you I mean an angel pulls you out of the path of a tree that just hit you and your in terrible pain and your dying and it bounces off the ground again and is ready to fall again on you directly on your head, and something pulls you out of the path! I mean your father must have had incredible faith!
Don: Yes my father has…my whole life my father’s had amazing amazing faith I’ve seen miracles transpired that my dad has prayed for and it’s just been over and over again through out my life he has he has incredible faith (Chuckling.)
Sid: Well speaking of incredible faith I have just heard someone with arthritis in the fingers if you will bend your fingers right now the pain is gone. In fact, the fingers are going back to normal the knuckle areas. And someone with a pain in their back if you’ll bend over right now you’ll see that pain is gone. And Don God’s told you that before you did this broadcast about someone that was listening to us.
Don: Yes He did I just felt like that there’s someone that’s listening to us today that you have basically been given a death sentence and God is saying to you today “Fight for life. You don’t have to take the sentence that has been passed upon you the word that has been spoken over you I cancel that right now in the name of Jesus; the word that has been spoken the assignment that the enemy has against you I take authority over it and I cancel that and I speak life to you; I declare and decree to you that you shall live and not die and declare the works of the Lord; so fight for life and believe for healing today.”
Sid: Tell me about one of the stories…and every one of them are amazing. Tell me about the Turnbull family.
Don: The Turnbull family attends our church in Houston, Texas and they had a baby born to them Andrew is his name. This was in I believe it was in 2000 let’s see Andrew’s 10 years old I believe so 2004 I believe that Andrew was born. And he had a typical scimitar syndrome that it affects 1 in a million babies. His heart was on the wrong side of his chest and he had severe complications. The doctors did not believe that he would live in fact they had the family to sign a do not resuscitate order and the church began to pray. A lot of people started praying and Andrew not only had some health issues he was born at 5 pounds 6 ounces and it just looked very bleak. On May the 20th the doctors had told them that he would not live and all of the sudden on May the 20th he just took a turn for the better and God completely healed Andrew. And the doctors were convinced that if Andrew lived that he would not have a normal life, but they still attend our church, Andrew’s 10 old, and if you met Andrew you would know that he hadn’t ever had a sick day in his life; he’s in sports, does not take any kind of medications, he’s a picture of health.
Sid: But wait a second if I’m understanding you right there’s one lung missing, the heart is in the wrong place it’s in the place where a missing lung was, did he have any surgery to correct this?
Don: No surgery.
Sid: How could that be?
Don: Well because of God that’s the only explanation that could be.
Sid: All right tell me about “The Audacious Prayer” tell me about that.
Don: There were a lot of people praying, but I remember when Andrew was at his worst we gathered, I think that there was another pastoral staff member there a lot of the family was there and we gathered in a prayer circle in the hallway and we prayed for Andrew. And we didn’t just… we didn’t just give it lip service we became earnest in our prayers and this is a matter of life and death for this family. And when we were finished praying I just knew that Andrew was going to be fine. I mean it was just… God didn’t say anything to me but in my Spirit I just knew that I knew that I knew that Andrew was going to be fine. And within hours his condition completely reversed itself and he was home within a couple of days of that prayer.
Sid: And if I understand you right 2 days before that he was given up for dead!
Don: Absolutely, absolutely the doctors 2 days before that the doctors were convincing the family to sign Do Not Resuscitate Orders and they were preparing for his death, the doctors were preparing for his death but God was preparing for his life.”
Sid: You know I love your brand new book “The Audacity of Prayer” the thing that makes this so unique is this is normal everyday people that have entered into the audacity of belief the boldness, the fearless faith. But you know something for you to be convinced of this you have to hear teaching from the word of God and that’s what Don Norton has done….
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