SID: David, people call you the igniter of faith and now that I’ve met you I understand why. But why do people say that about you?
DAVID: It’s because I come into a place and I change the atmosphere, and I think the atmosphere from fear and doubt to faith, I think that’s what every Christian needs to do.
SID: You told me the biggest problem you spot in the United States and even throughout the world is fear. Explain.
DAVID: It is. It’s fear. I was in a large church preaching and we had a prayer line, if you could believe this, all the way through the pavilion, all the way out to the parking lot waiting to get prayed for. And they didn’t want me just to do a mass prayer. They wanted me just to lay hands. Everybody wanted people to lay hands. And as I was praying, everybody I asked what are their prayer requests, they said fear. Almost 80 percent of the people said fear. So I prayed and I learned that, I talked to the pastors and said, you got to start preaching that fear out of your church and out of your people’s lives.
SID: How do you get rid of fear? I mean, it’s easy to say that.
DAVID: Yeah, it’s easy to say it.
SID: Your problem is fear. But how do you get rid of it?
DAVID: You start believing. Whatever you believe, faith and fear can both receive. If you give fear and give into fear, start feeding fear, well whatever fear dictates for your life is going to happen because you’re feeding with your thoughts and your actions. But if feed faith and feeding faith is believing the scriptures. Feeding faith is believing what Jesus said. Anything you ask in my name I will do it.
SID: You know, it’s so simple you need to help to get confused.
DAVID: Yes.
SID: And that’s what you’re known for. You teach simply and you get the same results in the Bible.
DAVID: Absolutely. Absolutely. When we’re preaching out there I try and make sure that I keep it
where the people could just grasp it because there’s a lot of people out there that do fight with fear and fear has other friends that come with it. Fear has doubt. Fear has oppression. Fear has depression. All these things come in and they keep you from being, you have to wake up. I’m not saying you got to jump out of bed and say I’m excited for faith. That’s a good thing to do. But get up and know. The Bible says in Nahum 1:7, “God knows him that trusts in him.” You got to know that God knows you.
SID: When you know the promises of God and you get rid of fear, what’s possible?
DAVID: Anything.
SID: Tell me the truth. You go to a lot of countries and you see some horrible physical conditions. Anyone ever get before you and you say, oh God, I believe in miracles, but this is too much.
DAVID: When I am walking in that anointing, everybody tells me that, when I walk in the anointing, when I’m out there I’m a different person. I’m just walking. I’m believing God for anything. Nothing is impossible. I had a lady come up with a very crooked arm I’m drinking a Sprite after the entire service, cooling off inside the church. She comes to me and she comes after the service all walking slow and just showing me her hand. It was all crooked in different places. And I pop may hand out, and I say, “Put your hand through that.” And she starts putting her hand through it, and as her hand passes my hand you just hear pop, pop, pop, pop until, pow, at the end of where her elbow was it snapped into place. And Bishop Mike that was with me, he said there was a fireball that when I put my hand out, he just seen a fireball glowing in my hand as she put her hand through it. And she was healed instantly.
SID: Now we perceive by faith in the integrity of the Word of God, but you don’t have a clue what’s going on in the invisible world by you just being obedient. What you just said is literally God, because he found someone willing to believe his Word put a fireball in there.
DAVID: Absolutely. If you look at the Bible, you look at Jesus, you look at Paul, those are two men that operate in creativity. If you looked at Jesus you wouldn’t have gotten basins and said, hey, fill those up with water and then you got wine. It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. You don’t know why you’re doing it, but the people believed him, they went and did it, and they got wine. You look at Paul. The Bible says that God brought special miracles through the hands of Paul. He took his apron, tore it up, sent it out to people to get healed inside their own homes. He’s the original TV evangelist. He was able to take all the anointing that we take and put it into people’s living rooms. It was the same thing back then by taking his apron and sending miracles.
SID: Now this guy, he so ignites your faith that when he speaks he’s even had a whole city get healed. Tell me about that, in India.
DAVID: Oh absolutely. In India, in Badapada, I preached there. There’s 500 people in attendance. There’s about 500 people outside in villages: Hindu, Muslim and Christian. We preached there and that was the first place that I preached a hundred percent working power. And I’ve said that everybody can be healed. Jesus had it. Jesus would talk into a city and all villages would be healed, and God honored what I preached. I got home three weeks later, and I only had those 500 in there, and the people that were inside the building, but when I got back home they called me back and said a thousand people got healed because the whole village was healed. They were so ignited in their faith, like we talked earlier, they were so ignited in their faith all the preachers and Christians went out to look for people to pray for. That’s what you want to do. And when I went out there they called me back and they said, hey, there’s no one to pray for. Everybody was already healed because there were speakers around the entire city and village. The church put speakers everywhere and everybody heard the message. Everybody heard the message of God and his miracle working power.
SID: God is healing people right now.
DAVID: Absolutely.
SID: Speaking of his miracle working power, there are people who, your fingers, it hurts when you bend your fingers. That pain is just, I don’t know if God sent in a fireball to get rid of that pain. Frankly, I don’t care. But test and see the Lord is good. David, one of the keys you talk about that most believers miss is delayed miracles. They think because nothing happened when he prayed for me, nothing is going to happen. You find different.
DAVID: Oh absolutely. When people are delayed on their miracles the first thing that happens to them is it compounds it with more doubt. They go to the service, they didn’t see a physical thing happen and they go home and they start getting all sad and get in a pity party, but you know, you got to believing. The Bible says when Daniel was praying that the moment he prayed, the moment he prayed God sent the angel. The second that he put his knee down and said, “Father, I need this,” the angel came forward. But it also says in that same scripture that for 21 days the devil stopped him. That’s a delayed miracle. It eventually got to him. I want to tell everybody this that the devil can’t stop what you’re faith released. He can’t stop it. He can’t stop it. He can’t keep it away from you forever.
SID: So you’re not moved by what you see with your eyes. You’re only moved by the integrity of the Living God and his Word. Tell me about one person that had a delayed miracle.
DAVID: This is a wonderful story of a young boy in India that came running through. All these kids rush me when I’m praying. The adults just go through the line, but the kids are able to run. They have fun in church and they run by. And there was a little boy and I could see that he was walking a little different. I could see that he was a little bit off on some of the stuff. And I just laid a hand on him like this, that’s as quick as I could go, and he took off. Well do you know that two hours later I’m in Badapada. I’m preaching over there 80 kilometers from where I ministered and he’s 80 kilometers from where I prayed for him, and it’s two hours later that he’s walking up the stairs. He has crooked legs. They’re bent backwards in a way and he’s walking up the stairs. He calls his mother crying. His mother thought he fell down again and said, “What happened?” And he goes, “Well mom, I feel Jesus touching my legs.” And then when he got to the top of the stairs she dropped the phone and the mother was frantic, and she said, “What’s going on?” And he goes, “I see Jesus’ hands and he’s straightening my legs.
SID: I’m reminded of the scripture. Jesus said, “Will I find faith when I return to Earth?” I’m going to tell you something, never give up. Never give up. Now it’s easy to preach how wonderful God heals. What happens when you get hit with two physical conditions yourself like David did? What happens then? That’s the real test, where the rubber hits the road. We’re going to find out when we come back.
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