Sid: Now my guest is Eddie James and I was teasing you a little yesterday to get you to come back but I can’t wait for you to hear this story. Eddie James is provoking me to jealousy, and that’s what the Gentiles are supposed to do, but he’s being equipped he’s being prepared. Literally he saw revival breakout in his high school but tell me the story about the Jewish synagogue.
Eddie: Ah, this is so awesome, so I had no idea Sid that there were those of our Jewish, in our Jewish roots that had questions concerning whether Jesus was the Messiah or not. I had no idea. I just knew that they were the people of God, that Jesus was a Jew.
Sid: Now you probably didn’t even know any Jewish people did you?
Eddie: Never had met one in my life, never knew one at all. And so we were invited to take my gospel choir from my high school during February, which is traditionally known as African American history month, black history month. So they wanted to have some gospel music be brought into the Jewish Synagogue in Phoenix, Arizona where I’m from. They wanted to have us introduce some music to them. So I was excited about the opportunity and humbled by it. I said “Lord, You would give me the opportunity to go and minister before the people who are naturally by birth they’re your people. And so I was so blown away at the privilege that I fasted and I prayed and I fasted and I prayed. I put my entire choir on a fast. We’re talking about sophomores and football players and freshmen; we’re talking about seniors and juniors. We’re not talking about older people we’re talking about 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds. We’re all fasting and we’re all praying that we would love the Jewish people and that we would release to them what God’s put in us and that we were humble as Gentiles we would be able to minister before them. So we went, and remember taking the bus that the school gave us and we’re praying in the Holy Ghost all the way there. Because I told them, these are people you don’t want to do wrong. The Bible says, “If we bless the Jewish people God will bless us, but if we hurt them we’re in great trouble.” So we need to go with a full prayer and intercession on, we need to make sure we do this. And we get there and Sid I preached Jesus, I preached the Holy Ghost, I preached the cross, I preached the blood…
Sid: This is a traditional Jewish synagogue. Did you know what you were doing?
Eddie: No idea.
Sid: (Laughing)
Eddie: I had no idea, I’m from a church concept that you don’t ever go into another person’s church on what they don’t believe in. I won’t go into a church that they don’t believe in tongues because that would be insensitive to that movement. I could be trusted and so had I known I probably wouldn’t have done this but I most likely would not have done this. But I just naturally assumed because they were Jewish people and that Jesus was the Messiah and that Jesus was Jewish I just naturally assumed that they were all on board.
Sid: (Laughing)
Eddie: (Laughing) I still didn’t understand this and so I go in and I’m giving everything I’ve got.
Sid: Are you praying in tongues too publicly?
Eddie: We spoke in tongues, we danced, we shouted, we laid hands, we…
Sid: (Laughing) You laid hands on them?
Eddie: The whole bit, charismatic as Acts Chapter 2 as you can get it. We were… I’m talking about all in and the whole audience every single one of them responded to the altar call. Praise…
Sid: The synagogue? All the Jews in the synagogue responded? Was the altar call to receive Jesus?
Eddie: Yeah, I opened up an altar call for people to get saved, I said…
Sid: Eddied never, never get sophisticated and never get to the point where you’ll never do that again. That’s wonderful, I wish every Christian would do that!
Eddie: (Laughing)
Sid: Go into your synagogues it’s time (Laughing) I’m sorry, go ahead I couldn’t resist.
Eddie: I didn’t realize the gravity of what happened until months later, I didn’t even realize the gravity. We went in and we were crying, I was so humbled. I was just like “God, I want to do this right, it was a set up, it was a Holy Ghost set up my ignorance was a Holy Ghost set up. It was God because when it was all said and done the Rabbi’s all the people that were a part of the synagogue, every single one of them received Jesus as Lord and Savior of their lives. I thought the Rabbis and the leaders there I thought that they were just saying the prayer for the sake of you know how sometime churches will all join in to help.
Sid: Right.
Eddie: No, they were receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior of their lives.
Sid: Eddie, I can’t help but want to hear a song… it’s called “He’s alive.” What’s the story behind that song?
Eddie: Oh goodness, so we’re all… I’m sure your familiar with Chuck Pierce and I was getting for ministering with him in Dallas, Texas. As we get ready to minister, this song just came into my spirit like it just hit me. I was actually in a hotel at the time preparing my song list and getting ready and praying asking the Lord what I would do. And just it was like a visit of the Holy Spirit hit me in my hotel room and this song “He’s Alive” just came into my spirit. We sang it that weekend and it was absolutely explosive.
Sid: Now in other words are you telling me that this whole song was downloaded to you at that time?
Eddie: Yes sir, yes sir. I didn’t have to sit down and try to figure it out, write it out or anything. The only reason he had typed it up was so that they could help to you know copyright the song. But the moment it came to me the music, the lyrics, the whole thing it was a download in my spirit.
Sid: Now you said it was like a shofar blast, explain that.
Eddie: When the song came this… Sid I don’t know why God does this to me but I hear trumpets, I hear really it’s like the rams horn, the shofar. I hear that sound, it blasted into my spirit and this is what’s interesting is that when I got the download and I heard that in my spirit. When I got to the Chuck Pierce conference there were people in there as I sang the song in sound check, just in sound check they started blasting that same ram’s horn sound. That same sound I heard in my hotel they blasted that at that exact same moment in sound check. We weren’t even performing in service yet we were just doing sound-check.
Sid: Hm. Now… let’s hear “He’s Alive.”
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth