Sid: I have a guest that is red hot for the Messiah, her name is Debra Alderman I’m speaking to her at her office in Stafford, Texas a suburb of Houston, Texas. And Debra has written a book based on an encounter that she had with the Lord in which the Lord literally came to her and made her supernaturally a soul winner. And the name of the book is “You Can Be an Overnight Soul Winner.” The reason is that the anointings are transferable. And after that visitation from the Lord she became a supernatural soul winner. And so I really want you to get this book; we’ll explain later how you can get it but Debra on yesterday’s broadcast you talked about a real character. I mean you’re just in joying yourself and this man all dressed in white comes and talks to you; this was before you were a believer. Comes and talks to you about Jesus. What did you think of him?
Debra: I thought that he was absolutely out of his mind; I couldn’t believe Sid that he had the nerve to walk up to our table uninvited and begin to tell us that we needed Jesus Christ.
Sid: Out of curiosity, what was going on in your life at that time?
Debra: I was enjoying drinking alcohol, smoking pot, doing cocaine. I mean I was just living a very wild partying life and I was having too much fun. And in my mind I always thought that Christians and church people had no fun and so I wasn’t looking to change my life at all.
Sid: So when he shared with you what did you say to him?
Debra: I just you know I kind of looked at him and I said “Well, you know we’re just drinking out beer and having a good time but thanks anyhow.” And so he walked off but you know Sid the thing that really impacted me about this man you know years later when I did receive the Lord and began to serve God is you know I’ve never seen this man since. I have no idea who he is; where he lives. I have no idea where his background is or if I’ll ever see this man again as long as I live. But I know that one day I will see him when I get to heaven. And Sid the thing that really moves me about this man is that his reward is going to be great because he was obedient to walk over to our table that night. And to him I may have just looked like a party another partying college student. But little did he know that he was planting the seed of the gospel in a young girl that would one day give her life to the Lord and then begin to win souls all over the world.
Sid: Again, I’m thinking about the person that witnessed to Billy Graham. He had no idea what he was doing.
Debra: Sure.
Sid: But one of the things that I found out Debra is that sometimes that someone is not quite ready to receive the Lord but you are planting a seed and you don’t even know it by what’s going on. The fact that someone like you you just sloughed it off and nothing “I’m not interested.” But it was seed; it was alive it was living and it was planted in your heart.
Debra: Absolutely, that is what happens and you know that word that he shared that night at the table I never forgot it and I could not get this man off of my mind because I was just still surprised, so blown away by the fact that he had the nerve to walk up to my table.
Sid: Well, let see some of the fruit that he has right now. Tell me about one of the many times you go into a night club to witness.
Debra: Well Sid I’m so glad you brought that up because it is one of the most incredible things that I believe God has ever done with my life. And I attribute so much of that to number 1 the kind of church that I’m in. I’m just in a very solid Bible believing church where my brother-in-law and sister are the pastors. The same ones that led me to the Lord Richard and Tina Ford and you know I just owe my whole life to them Sid because the discipled me; they got my feet on the ground and got me grounded in the word of God. And then on top of that I began to study all of these old soul winners that are in heaven today. And I read about people and studied people like Bill Sunday, the baseball player that turned Preacher. I studied Peter Cartwright and Katherine Kuhlman and all of these soul winners that when they would begin to pray they would begin to hold revival meetings in a certain city and all of the bars, the saloons would close down, the crime rates would go down. And you know Sid every time that I would read or study about one of these old soul winners I would just cry out to God and I would say “God if You did it for them Lord You could do it for us; You can do it for me; You can do it for our generation.” And it really started Sid when I was speaking at a meeting in Corpus Christy, Texas and I was driving with the Pastor’s wife and a young girl that helps me in ministry Dorthy McThurn and we were all on our way to the service and we passed a night club it was actually a strip joint called “Legs.” And when ever we were driving past the club I just you know pointed, I was pointing the club out to Dorothy who was sitting in the back seat of the car. And I could no sooner get the words out of my mouth look at that club and I just broke down and I just began to weep uncontrollably.
Sid: By the way I have your book and in your book is a picture of that club and that is not a nice place.
Debra: No, it was not a nice place it was very evil place in the city of Corpus Christy and you know I was just a guest minister visiting the city so I knew nothing about this club. I had never seen it before; I did not know that the Christians living in that city had prayed for years and years and years for this club to close down. But that day I just began to cry and you know it wasn’t…the tears were coming out of eyes but it was how the Holy Spirit felt about that place to cause me to cry. You know the Holy Spirit Sid He’s a real person and He has a real personality. You know sometimes He wants to laugh and sometimes He wants to cry and that day the Holy Spirit’s heart so to speak was breaking over that club and over the people’s lives that were being influenced there. And so as I began to cry God gave me a vision that day and you know I believe the word of God is true; over in the Book of Joel chapter 2 where God says “He will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. That you know God said “Old man will have dreams, young men will have visions and on His servants and on His handmaidens He’ll pour out of His Holy Spirit.” And that day God gave me a vision; and in other words I had a picture of something God wanted me to do. And I saw myself in this picture that God gave me or in this vision I saw myself laying my hands on the doorway of that nightclub. And so I looked at the Pastor’s wife who I barely knew by the name of Sylvia, Sylvia you’ve got to turn the car around we’ve got to drive into the parking lot of that club because I want to go and I want to pray over that club. And Sid it was about 9:00 AM on a Saturday morning. The club was not even open for business yet and the 3 of us ladies out out of that car. And I just remembered we had our camera with us because we were going to take pictures at the church service that morning. And so I don’t know why I just turned around to Dorothy and I said “Take some pictures of this” And so Sylvia and I went and placed our hands on the doorway on that nightclub. And I’ll never forget the door was green and we just began to pray. And Sid the only way that I can explain to you what happened is that I could literally see with my spiritual eyes all of this darkness and all of these evil spirits coming out of the club and I could see the power of God going inside of this night club. And I just began to pray and to intercede over the strippers, over the dancers that were taking their clothes off in this club. And I just began to cry out to God for those young girls that they would come to know Jesus Christ and that they would not end up in hell but that they would go to heaven. And then when we began to pray over that club when we were through praying over the doorway we jumped up onto this hill where there was this hideous sign of this half naked woman. She was so tall and she was overlooking the city of Corpus Christy, Texas and she was so tall we could only reach the bottom part of her leg and we just began to touch her leg and we began to pray over that sign; that you know that the place would close down and that God would save the people that were associated with this club. And a long story made short Sid 6 months later we received a phone call into our ministry office saying that they had torn down the sign of this you know half naked woman that over looked the City of Corpus and what a miracle of God that was. And 6 months after that we received another phone call into our office saying that the club had been closed down. And so we just know that there is power in prayer, that there is nothing too hard or too difficult for our God to do. And you know today if you know if we’re tired of the sin and the evil in our cities we need to pray because there’s nothing impossible for God to do in our city.
Sid: You know what excited me was that I was actually going for another story that I read about in your book. Because obviously you go into a lot of these clubs to witness, but when you come into a club the presence of God enters there. I mean the atmosphere changes, tell me about that in one instance.
Debra: Absolutely, well one instance is a friend of mine Debbie and I were driving down Highway 90 in our hometown Stafford, Texas located right outside of Houston and the Lord spoke to me to pull into this parking lot and to walk inside of this bar that day. And I had never done anything like this in my entire life and was about 5:00 in the afternoon. You know Debbie and I walked inside of this bar; happy hour was in full swing. And I had no idea why God was sending me in the bar who He wanted me to talk to in there. And I got ready to walk over to a blond headed woman sitting with her man friend at a table and I thought “Well Lord, maybe Your sending me to them.” But as I walked into the doorway of the bar a man sitting on a bar stool turned around, looked at me and I knew this man because he used to be in an usher in my local church. And there he was Sid sitting at the bar stool drinking a long necked beer. And he was shocked to see me walk into the bar.
Sid: I’m sure. (Laughing)
Debra: (Laughing) I was shocked to see him sitting at the bar and drinking his log necked beer. And so I walked over to him and I just said “Ernest, what are you doing here?” And I began to talk to him Sid and I said “You know when Jesus comes back Ernest, I don’t want Him to find you sitting here on a bar stool drinking a long neck beer; Ernest you need to give your heart and life back to Jesus Christ; Ernest it’s time to serve God again.” And I’ll never forget it Sid his bottom lip began to shake and tears began to roll down his face. And he said something to me Sid that I’ll never forget as long as I live. He said “Debra I cannot believe your standing here talking to me.”
Sid: Oh, we’re out of time.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth