SID: I’ll tell you what, I’ll tell you what I want you to do LaDonna. I believe that if you pray for those who have children that have not sold out to the Lord, that I believe we’re going to have more answers to prayer from this prayer at this moment—

LADONNA: Yes.

SID: that you have ever had in your life, LaDonna.

LADONNA: Yes. Yes, I want to pray. I want to pray for these parents. Now, listen to me, Folks. Some of you who are listening, you raised your children in the faith. You took them to Church, you read the Bible to them, but they’ve gone astray. But there others of you that you’ve raised your children while you were not serving the Lord, and you look back with regret over the things that happened in the home, the influence you were on your children. I want to tell you, nothing is too hard for God. So I’m just going to pray for you, that you will have faith to believe that God can reach your child, it’s never too late. And we’re going to just agree together that these children are going to encounter God. He knows how to reach them where ever they are in a way that gets their attention. And this is a breakthrough time. Let’s just agree together. Heavenly Father, I lift my voice to you on behalf of these parents. Some have raised their children the way they were instructed by your word, others have not. They didn’t know to. But together as parents trusting you as the Lord, the One who woos people, the One who by Your Spirit can convict hearts and bring our children home. Thank you that right now young men, young woman whether they’re in prison or they’re out on the street. Whether they’re just living rebellious in the home, it does not matter. We stand on the Word of God, that the children will come back. Thank you, Father, we can cast our impossible cares on you; You come through with Miracles. So we say, “Thank you in advance.” Give courage to these parents. Give them faith to believe that nothing is too hard for You and may they begin hearing from their children. Thank you, they’ll be reporting into Sid’s program, they’ll let him know about the Miracles. We’ll hear the testimonies, because You are faithful and we say, “Thank You in Jesus’ Name!”

SID: And don’t you dare forget something that LaDonna said. After she believed that her son would be restored, she didn’t walk around saying, “Oh please, God.” She walked around saying, “My son is restored—.”

LADONNA: Amen.

SID: “My son is whole from this moment on. My daughter, my son, they are serving God!” You got it? Okay, now, I need you to do something LaDonna, because it would be a tragedy not have you pray for the sick with everything that happens in your ministry. But would you talk for about 5 minutes of whatever the Holy Spirit shows you to build our faith for a Miracle, and then I want you to pray for one.

LADONNA: Mm-hmm, wonderful. You know everyone has a need in their life. You’re listening to me now, you’re thinking. You’re actually beginning to think about things that only God can do. There physical problems, financial problems, relationship problems; you see we seen so many physical healing Miracles that it’s easy for me to agree with you, that God can do what you need. We see something very wonderful in the Scripture. There’s a story of a Leper that came to Jesus. Now, I want you to think about this. A Leper is a person who in Jesus’ day had to live isolated. They were considered unclean. According to Jewish custom, if they came near people, they had to cry out, “Unclean, unclean, unclean!” Imagine, if all of your life was surrounded by that psyche, by that idea, that self-image, that you’re ‘unclean’. You could never be around people, no one wanted to touch you. You were not welcome in society, your life was not able to make a contribution to the community. Imagine. When the Scripture says that, “—a Leper came to Jesus”, we’re seeing the display of a desperate man. And I think sometimes when we receive a Miracle, we have to come to that place of desperation. Where we’re not willing to look anywhere else, but we just come to the Lord, and say, “I’m coming to you in faith; Have mercy on me.” Well this Leper came, and we don’t have a record that he called out, “Unclean.” Maybe he had heard that Jesus was a healer, or gracious, but he came and he said, “If you want to, you can heal me.”

SID: Hello, Sid Roth. This is our first show of Something More. Now, I have to tell you how we came up with the name and I also have to tell you I didn’t. One of my staff was more brilliant. They came up with the name. You see, when I was in college, I use to write songs. And one of my songs was “There Must Be Something More.” And so I also did my testimony book and I talk about the song, “There Must Be Something More.” And so they thought, well that is kind of, that kind of fits. With you Sid, but then I thought, well we do a half-hour television show, It’s Supernatural. What if we did an hour interview with the same guest, then guess what you’re getting? [laughs] Good guess! You’re getting Something More. Well, for our first show, I have someone that I have not personally met, but I have admired her and her family from afar. You probably heard of T.L. and Daisy Osborn. And I have her daughter, Dr. LaDonna Osborn. And LaDonna, I have so many questions, I might get tongue-tied trying to get them all out at once. But for starters, I want you to just start with you. What is your favorite Miracle, that you saw under your Parent’s ministry?

LADONNA: Mm, that’s such a hard question to answer. But one that really comes to my mind is the Miracle of Karimu. He was a Muslim beggar who was healed in my Folks Crusade, in Ibadan, Nigeria, probably back in the 70’s. We had an enormous—.

SID: What was wrong with him?

LADONNA: He was crippled, he had had polio and it left his legs very shriveled. He walked around with car tires wrapped on his knees and wooden blocks in his hands; so he walked on his knees and his hands. And you could call him a professional—.

SID: Talk about, talk about a horrible life. A horrible predicament.

LADONNA: Well, we would call him a “Professional Beggar” because he had, this is very sophisticated. He had a circuit that he would go around every day for 30 days, and then he would repeat that circuit the next month. And this is significant to his Miracle story. He had been paralyzed or withered in that way for 38 years, 4 months, and 3 days. This man—.

SID: So I imagined a lot of people that were in the path of his circuit for all of those years, they knew [laughs], what was wrong with him.

LADONNA: Yes, this man was, it was a notable Miracle. Exactly, because everyone knew him. Now what was funny, he was a very devout Muslim. And he did not want to come to our Crusade, but one of the people on his circuit happened to be the King of Ibadan who was a wonderful Christian, and in fact, the Chairman of our Crusade. And so when Karimu came around to get his alms or his little gift from the King, the King walked out and said to him, “Karimu, go to the Crusade.” And of course, Karimu, “Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Yes Sir!” [laughs] He had no choice but to go. So he stayed way in the back of the crowd just respectfully being there, listening to the message. My father preached on, “Jesus Alive.” Karimu listened, and he was disinterested.

SID: [smiles]

DONNA: So you went on a bit of a search.

BRIAN: I did. Actually, the same guy who had brought me onto the camp said Brian, I want you to go on a conference with me and he said I believe it’s going to change the course of your life! Now that’s a huge statement to say. And so it happened actually to be a Vineyard conference. And you know, Donna, as I walked in the presence and power of God hit me so strong I literally fell to the ground! And I’m like what is going on? And then I’m around these people that are experiencing the presence and I’m watching ordinary people. They’re praying for one another. People are getting healed. And it was like a people that were hungry for the presence! And it was like this feels like home!

DONNA: Yes.

BRIAN: Yeah.

DONNA: Yeah. So that felt like a place where you could belong and that you could serve. So you started serving. You got involved in that and you actually found out that there was someone that was doing exactly what you wanted to be doing. 

BRIAN: Yes.

DONNA: And so you set out to find this person. What happened?

BRIAN: Yeah, absolutely. So as I started learning how to hear from God and that believers were called to do this stuff for the kingdom, do what Jesus did, I saw this guy named Blaine Cook from some old VHS tapes.

DONNA: [Laughing] VHS! 

BRIAN: Right. That is dating me a little bit, right?

DONNA: Shush! [Laughing]

BRIAN: Yeah. And it was a thing called “Signs and Wonders.” It was John Wimber and Blaine Cook. And what I loved about Blaine who was just an ordinary business guy and he had the most extraordinary stories is he was just doing life and he was saying people were coming into the kingdom. People were getting healed and I thought I would love to be around someone like that!

DONNA: Yes.

BRIAN: And so, later on, I found out that he was going to be in Chicago and I live in Oklahoma City so that’s about a 15-hour drive. And so I jumped in the car with two friends and we drove 15 hours and all on the way I’m praying, “Oh God, would You touch me! Would You put on me what You put on Blaine? Would You put on me what You put on John?” Because I wanted to see this same stuff happen outside the four walls of the church!

DONNA: So for 15 hours —

BRIAN: I’m praying!

DONNA: You’re praying.

BRIAN: I’m asking God. Right? My friends are sick of me! Right?

DONNA: [Laughing]

BRIAN: So we get into the meeting and it’s electrifying! I mean it is unbelievable! And I see Blaine. He gets up and he starts to like scan the crowd for a moment. And he looks and he points directly at me and says, “You, young man! Stand up! The power of God is all on you for power evangelism!” And Donna, this electricity hit my body and literally it was so powerful that it propelled me back and I flew back. Hit the ground. Took out about 8 rows of people 

DONNA: [Laughs]

BRIAN: And laid there and shook violently in the presence of God! But it didn’t hurt. It was just power! And I remember at that moment saying, “God, thank You for touching me!”

DONNA: Mmm!

BRIAN: “Would You give me an opportunity now to see Your power outside the four walls of the church?” And so God really encountered me in a deep way there! And so, well I got my prayer answered. We had to go to lunch so I went to Popeye’s Chicken of all places.

DONNA: [Laughs]