Sid: Now this Friday and Saturday are Shavuot that’s the Hebrew word for Pentecost. You remember the book of Acts the second chapter I mean what timing. Shavuot is when we’re told by the Rabbis the law was given on Mr. Sinai. And on that same date in the book of Acts the second chapter the Holy Spirit descended which allowed us to observe the law and in the power necessary to follow things like the Ten Commandments. And I can’t think a better guest I believe the Spirit of God arranged this my guest this week is Dave Roberson. He’s the Senior Pastor from the Family Prayer Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and I’ve known Dave a number of years. And although I’ve heard his testimony I believe there’s a generation of you that have not. And he moves in a supernatural power of the Spirit of God like we’re all supposed to move like we read about in the Bible but unfortunately most believers are not moving there. And I believe that there’s a key that you’re going to begin to comprehend and understand that will be one of the very very sovereign points in your life that you’re going to look back and you’re going to say “That’s when I moved from where I was to that next point in God.”
Dave I want to take you back as a young man you came from a rough background, you got saved but by age 30 you were one of these very legalistic Christians and then all of a sudden you had a vision tell me about it.
Dave: Sid I’m just I’m so glad to be here with you again and when you said that it brought back memories. You know I can just feel the presence of God come on me but I was what we call ultra Holiness I was a…. We had a legalistic way of looking at things and really we loved God so much that if we thought He said “Take all of your jewelry off” we would take it off, “Dress a certain way” we’d dress a certain way we just loved Him. But at 30 years old the hunger on the inside of me was so strong that kind of thirsting that that just can’t be quenched by men and man’s doctrines and things. I was so so thirsty to know him after His power and since then oh I have found out that a person and I mean you can walk all the way into everything Jesus said you could be and out of everything He set you free from that walk of power. I have found out that you can walk all the way into Him on purpose just because you get up one day and decide I’m going to make this journey. It’s all there for you and you can have it and you can walk in His power. O that particular day I was so hungry I was just so hungry for His power to know Him after His power. And I woke up that morning thinking that I was going to see the bedroom as normal and it was an anointing that woke me up. And when this anointing woke me up I opened my eyes expecting to see the bedroom and instead I saw a vision. And in this vision I was setting in a crowd 3rd row back and the front person who was running the service and leading worship and I knew that it was my service and this was all the vision. And she says or he says “And now our evangelist” and he looks at me and I started to get up and then he turns and looks at the curtain and a young woman comes out from behind the curtain. There were several people there in a wheelchair and this young woman takes the services the power comes in so heavy you can cut it with a knife almost. And the people get out of a wheelchairs and everything takes place. And then she looks at me and the whole crowd disappears and she says “I don’t know why God has given this ministry to me I really didn’t know I was called and she said “One of you must have failed.” And the whole crowd had disappeared there was just me and her.” And that’s when I come out of the vision. And it was that day that I went down and gave a 2 week notice on my job. And then I went down to a little 8 x 8 prayer closet down at the church and I had decided that I was just going to stay in there and pray until I I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t even know what praying in tongues would do at that point. I just locked myself up in that 8 by 8 for about the same hours that I would have normally worked my job. Well it didn’t take me very long to run out of English and so I switched to praying in tongues not because I knew that it would do or I knew the edification process. Or that I knew what Jude 20 said when it said “We build our self up on our most holy God kind of faith.” I didn’t know that it would do all of that all I knew that I had walked myself up in this prayer closet an 8 x 8 room and I had so many hours ahead of me to go. So I only switched to praying in tongues not because I knew what it would do that supernatural language but just to survive the hours that I had committed to. And so about 6 weeks went by and oh the time was crawling by I mean I’d go in there and lock myself up and pray in English until I’d run out of English and then I’d have so many hours ahead of me. So I just switched to praying in tongues not because I even knew that I could anytime I wanted to I found that out later that I switched to praying in tongues just to survive those hours I had committed myself to. Well the hours just creped by I mean they went so slow and a woman found out what I was doing and she beat on the door and she said “Are you feeling any change?” And I said “As a matter of fact I am I’m getting my tongue is getting tired and dry.
Sid: (Laughing.)
Dave: And now she says “Do do you feel any Spiritual change?” And I really hadn’t at that point and so she said “Oh well I got to go.” Well I stayed in oh about 3 months in all and that same woman came back and she began to tell me about a time that a church was going to meet together on that weekend and this church did not believe in speaking with tongue and she asked me if I would like to come over and be part of that fellowship at this lay witness it was just layman?” And so to tell you the truth it seemed like a legal excuse of get out of my prayer closet and I would have taken any reason I said “Oh yes I’d love to go.” So I run home and changed real quick and I got there late because I got there late I didn’t know the woman they set me down next to came in on a crutch see I didn’t know that. See I was so hungry to know Him after His power that’s why I was locked up in the closet. They set me next to her we had a few minutes to fellowship they brought me coffee and I sat there drinking my coffee and we were talking and all of a sudden they said hey “The man if going to speak now.” And a man came up and he had kind of a little pulpit there so he got behind it and he was going to teach the lay witness that was in these peoples home. So I sat next to this woman so he began to teach and I wasn’t used to somebody teaching like him I was used to holiness preaching they shouted, jumped pews. This man began “And we know that Jesus is the great celestial go between the troubled waters of mankind that the only would have called.” And I’m going “Oh brother.” I was thinking “I wish I was in the prayer closet it was more exciting.”
Sid: (Laughing)
Dave: (Laughing) and I was setting there and I had no idea what was about to happen no idea. And just out of boredom as I’m shaking my coffee and watching the little rings work its way to the side. I turned around and looked the woman next to me and suddenly I had no idea what was going to happen. Suddenly it was like a transparency an x-ray was put up between me and her and I’d seen a hip socket. And it’s the funniest thing I could see through this vision and I could see her but I could see the hip socket. At that time I didn’t know that vision materialized in my spirit. But it was suspended there between me and her and it was so vivid that I turned around to see if anybody else could see it. And I looked at it and I sais “My God what do you want me to do?” And it was absolute silence like “If you don’t know.” And finally I leaned over the woman and I said “Is there something wrong with your hip?” And the word arthritis dropped into my spirit and so I said “It’s arthritis” because in the vision it was a dark socket and it was deteriorated. And she said “Young man that’s what the doctor tells me” and I yelled “Glory to God.” And she said “I beg your pardon?” I says oh oh God’s going to heal you I know He’s going to heal you can I pray for you?” And to her and her religion prayer meant sometime in the course of my day to bow my head and remember her.
Sid: Dave because we’re running out of time…
Dave: Yes.
Sid: What happened?
Dave: Well I jumped around in front of her because she said “Yes you can pray for me.” I jumped around in front of her I grabbed her by the leg and held them up and one was 3 or 4 inches shorter than the other. And I said “The name of Jesus” and that leg cracked and popped and came out! She got up and walked just as normal and Sid I wept like a baby because I just dreamed of things like that and now it was coming to pass. And He said to me a little bit later on He said “Son it’s because you have discovered a process of edification from praying in tongues.”
Sid: You know Dave that there are people that their lives are going to be changed.
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