Sid: Now my guest is red hot for the Messiah. His name if Matt Sorger, and when he was fourteen years of age he was Catholic just going to church every once in a great while. God didn’t mean a whole lot to him certainly, not in a personal way, but he had a problem his mother got very sick. What happened to your mom Matt?
Matt: Hey Sid, yeah my mom had come down with multiple infirmities and sicknesses. She was visiting doctors every week and she had a rack of medicines. She was up to about twenty-four bottles of different kinds of medication and medicines that she had to take every day. By the time two years had passed by and she really was searching for a way to be healed. And she was searching for truth, but she just found herself getting worse and worse and worse. Until one night two years into it she was laying in bed and my grandmother invites her, you know she sees a flyer for a Catholic charismatic healing mass taking place at the Catholic Church near our home here in Long Island, New York. And this was probably about twenty years ago now. So she invited my mom to this Catholic healing service where they were praying for the sick. And my mom was at the point where she had gone the root of medicine, she had gone the root of doctors; her sickness was they could not cure it, they couldn’t help her. They diagnosed her with all these different things and were giving all these medications and nothing was working she just kept getting worse and worse. So my grandmother sees this healing mass, invites my mom to it so they go. You know Sid it’s funny that that night that my mom went to the healing mass she was the sickest that she had ever been in her whole life.
Sid: It was almost as if the devil knew that his time was up and he was giving it all he was worth.
Matt: That’s exactly it and she was determined to get there and she physically dragged her body to that church that night. You know it’s true right before our greatest breakthrough is the greatest battle and that’s exactly what was happening. And my Mom walked into that church and she just crumbled on the back floor of the sanctuary in a puddle on the floor crying, just broken, a very broken person. You know from that place she looked up and she saw the cross hanging there and she just prayed a very simple prayer to God. She said, “Jesus tonight I’m coming back to You, I’m coming to You and I’m putting my faith in You.” She got up off the floor and she started walking down you know the center aisle of the church where the priests were praying for the folks up in the front. The priests went to go anoint her with oil and before he could even get his hand on her to pray for her the Holy Spirit overshadowed her body, and literally threw her body ten feet back through the air across the altar and she landed back on the floor. And you know she had never seen anything like this before, heard anything like this happening to anybody you know it was a very quiet meeting. It was not a very emotional meeting you know it was very quiet and subdued but yet right in that place the power of the Holy Spirit overshadowed her. It was her time it was her moment; she had called out to the Lord and God now was revealing truth to her not only that He was her Savior, but her healer as well. And you know when she was laying on the floor she could feel like these bolts of electricity flowing through her body, and she was so caught up that she thought she was in heaven, it was that extreme of an encounter with God. She didn’t know if she was still here on the earth or maybe she died and went to heaven, but it was, it was an extreme power encounter with the Holy Spirit. And she got off the floor that night she was 100% healed by the power of God. I remember when she came home through the front door…
Sid: Now you are fourteen at the time.
Matt: I was fourteen years old, and I was twelve when she first got sick. Now I was fourteen, and she walked through the front door and I looked at her and I said, “Mom, what happened to you, who are you, you know you look like a totally different person.” She did, she was not only healed on the inside but outside. She looked totally different, whatever oppression or sadness, or whatever it was that was on her with that sickness it was all gone, and she was smiling and she was laughing for the first time in two years. And I remember it so deeply impacted me when she said to me, “Matt, tonight Jesus Christ came and healed me.” And I remember the words she said, “Jesus is God and Jesus is the way to God and I’ve been looking for other ways to get to God and I found tonight that Jesus is the only way to get to God.” And I remember that night suddenly as a fourteen year old kid having this conviction of sin in my heart, and I knew, I instantly knew no one else had to say anything to me, I knew that I had to have forgiveness of my sin. And I remember asking Jesus into my life, repenting of my sin and then starting my relationship with God; in that week my whole family got saved. We learned that Jesus Christ was the only way and that He was also a miracle working God.
Sid: Now when you looked at your mother, if she hadn’t said anything would you have really seen a difference?
Matt: I instantly saw a difference before she said anything to me. As soon as she walked into that front door her whole countenance was completely transformed. She was bright, she was smiling, she was laughing, and she had not done that in two years. So yeah, visibly you could see that she was a totally different person.
Sid: And your grandmother describes, and I guess your mother must have said, but your grandmother said that your mother literally when the power hit her what happened to her?
Matt: She flew ten feet through the air (laughing). She was airborne.
Sid: Now do you think that there is a degree of exaggeration there?
Matt: No there’s not, there’s not my mom actually it’s kind of funny, she got whiplash from the experience. She simply got knocked backwards so hard that she got whiplash, and she couldn’t move her neck. And some people will say Holy Spirit’s a gentleman, he won’t hurt you. But you know what’s funny, because the next day my mom is sitting in her room and you have to understand she doesn’t know the Bible yet, she has not read the Bible, all she know is that Jesus came and healed her. So she was just talking to God and she said, “I don’t what you did to me, but I’m healed but you hurt my neck when I fell down on the floor.” And instantly her neck was healed, and then the Lord healed the whiplash that she got. But it was such a powerful force that she flew through the air and hit the floor.
Sid: Now just out of curiosity with a back ground like that you obviously believe God heals, you have to believe that, but I understand when you first starting praying for people you didn’t have real good result.
Matt: No, I remember as a teenager in church because it was right after that we joined a good Spirit filled church and started growing. I remember you know God was just doing such a work in my, I walked right up to the front row. Within you know, the first time in a Spirit filled church for me, it was all very new and very different so I stood on the back row.
Sid: Was it scary when you saw people speaking in unknown tongues and raising their hands?
Matt: It was different I had never seen anything like it so it was brand new for me. Any type of an expressive worship, lifting hands, clapping, dancing, singing it was very very different so I was observing for the first month or two months or three months. But I remember after the third month God really did something in my heart and I got so hungry for God that I walked from the back row all the way up to the front row by myself as a fourteen year old kid. My parents, my brother at that point they still were lingering towards the back of the church room, but I remember you know I’m hungry for God I want this and I walked right up to the front and that’s where I stayed on the front row. And then you know, I started growing in the church and started praying for people, I didn’t see much results you know, and it really, it frustrated me because I knew my Mom was healed and I knew that God had the power to heal people and that God was a powerful God.
Sid: Well, you know most people are like you accept they maybe don’t know as much as what you knew from your mother’s experience, but most people they read the Bible, they read about healing, they pray for a few people, they have bad results. Then they say, “I guess I’m not supposed to.”
Matt: Right and they get discouraged.
Sid: Yeah.
Matt: They just stop. But I kind of had the opposite affect; what happened with me is that I think the Lord was putting inside of me such a supernatural hunger for Him that I ended up as a teenager really not going with the normal flow of what teenagers do. You know I found myself putting myself in my bedroom, shutting the door, playing worship music and for hours just spending time with God.
Sid: Now, just out of curiosity did someone tell you to do this, or you were directed?
Matt: You know Sid, no one told me to do, it was something that came from inside, it was totally the hand of God working on the inside of me. There was no one saying, no one even teaching me, “You know Matt, you have to press into God if you are hungry for God you can have more.” I was not hearing those kind of things. It was just something of a supernatural hunger in me that I could not ignore. And it was this pulling force that said, “You’ve got to come and be with me.” And so I remember you know just kind of following this dry from the inside and putting myself alone with God, playing the same worship music you know Sid but I heard singing in church you know. I got worship tapes, back then it was Hosanna worship music, and I remember getting my Hosanna worship tapes, putting them in my bedroom and playing them and singing them. And I remember when I was in church I would feel the presence of God and it was, it was wonderful to be in God’s presence. Then I’d go home and I’d be alone with God and it would be dry and it would be dead and I’m like, “God I don’t feel you, I want to feel you here like I do in church.” So I got the worship music and I started playing the worship music and started just worshipping God, all by myself with no one around. And I remember I did it every single day for four months straight and felt nothing. Sang the songs, prayed the prayers, could feel nothing it was just, I was just doing it because I was hungry for God. And then I remember the moment where it happened where I’m standing in my bedroom…
Sid: I’ll tell you what hold that thought we’ll pick up here on tomorrow’s broadcast.
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