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]
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth