On It’s Supernatural: Wherever this man goes, unusual things happen to people as supernatural waves of God’s glory fill the room.
Do angels exist? Are healing miracles real? Is there life after death? Can people get supernatural help from another dimension? Has the future been written in advance? Sid Roth has spent 25 years investigating the strange world of the supernatural. Join Sid on this edition of It’s Supernatural.
SID: Welcome to my world, where it’s naturally supernatural. I’m Sid Roth, and I have a guest that has had such an encounter with the Living God that, literally, when he speaks, waves of God’s presence just come on the congregation. And when God’s presence comes upon you, as I believe it’s going to come upon you as you’re watching, the body just doesn’t know how to react. Let’s take a look at what happens.
(wave and water sounds)
PETER: Woo!
Ha ha!
And so Jesus stands up,
and He says, in a loud voice…
Somebody say “Loud voice.”
“Is anybody thirsty?”
(cheering)
Thank you Lord! Ha ha!
Rivers of living water!
(waves and water sounds)
“Then let him come to Me and drink.”
And drink, and drink, and drink…
He didn’t say “Come to Me and think…”
and think, and think, and think… Thank You, Lord!
Rivers of living water!
I love water! Ha ha!
He sends rivers!
Woo!
There’s only one name that’s able to save
people from their sin!
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa!
SID: I’m Sid Roth here with Peter Jackson, and Peter, what is going on with those people? What is going on with you? I think we have to go kind of back to the beginning. You had a nice alcoholic father who manufactured a nice alcoholic son. And you went to an AA meeting, and you’re not particularly a believer in Christianity, the Bible, or anything like that. And someone has a little conversation with you. What did he say to you?
PETER: He just basically said “You know God, but you don’t know Jesus. And you need to know Jesus in order to know God. Why don’t you just ask God to show you His Son?”
SID: Well in AA they say “higher power”, but this guy was taking it to the next step.
PETER: Yeah, he’d become a believer about three years before, and I had really seen a big difference in him.
SID: So what did you do?
PETER: That night, we were up all night as he was sharing his story with me. And that night, about 5:30 in the morning, I got home. My wife was sleeping, and I was brushing my teeth getting ready to go to work. And I just felt “I can’t put this off. I need to ask God if Jesus is real.” And as I did that, the glory of God just came into my bathroom, and I fell on the floor, and I was…
SID: Why’d you fall?
PETER: Oh, I was just completely overcome. The weight of His presence, it was powerful.
And so I was lying on the floor, just sort of laughing in joy but also crying in repentance. I was kind of going back and forth. I didn’t know what was happening to me, was I having a nervous breakdown, or what’s going on.
SID: Sure. I mean when the presence of God comes on you, it’s like nothing you’ve ever had before. You have no world view, no point of reference.
PETER: Yeah. So I’m going sort of back and forth with repentance and joy at the same time. About half an hour into this, I could get up again, and I go into the bedroom to wake up my wife to tell her what’s happened, and I said “Honey, Jesus is in the bathroom!” (laughing)
SID: Oh, that’s a nice way to put it! So how did she react?
PETER: She thought I was on drugs or something.
SID: Sure. I feel you think that too right now!
PETER: But the truth was I… It just didn’t wear off. I was full of joy for several days after that.
SID: But what about the addiction?
PETER: Yeah, it was broken right there.
SID: Ok. You have this encounter with God, and it was a marvelous encounter with God, but there was still something missing. And you went to a cabin and you had a revelation which has profoundly changed your life.
PETER: Yeah, that was 1978 when I came to know Jesus as my Savior. But then five years later, I was working through a lot of bitterness towards my earthly father, who I had kind of blocked out of my mind. And I started to read the Bible, especially John 14 through 17, where Jesus refers to the Father, especially John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Me.” And when I saw that word “Father”, it just jumped off the page, and I realized that I didn’t see God as a Father, I saw Him as a Savior, but I didn’t see Him as a Father. That began to bring up a lot of hurt and bitterness that I still had from years of living with an alcoholic father.
SID: In other words, what you’re saying is that he related to God as he related to his earthly father, as opposed to relating to pure love. He didn’t understand. Many of you don’t. You think you do, but you really don’t. Don’t go away, we’ll be right back.
