Sid: Now I remember going to a meeting in which Roy Fields was leading worship, and these were people that flew in from all over the world because miracles were going to happen; and there was such an expectancy the air was literally charged with faith. Roy when you do meetings, where the air is charged with such expectancy and such faith that’s got to make all the difference in the world to you doesn’t it?
Roy: Absolutely, because it’s not about me it’s about Him it’s about Jesus.
Sid: Well, let’s before we find out all the wonderful things God is doing when you worship Him; the miracles that are taking place. I want to take you back as a young man. Your mother was watching Christian television and got saved and she was a single mom, was that correct?
Roy: Yeah.
Sid: And so at age 8 you become a believer and what memories do you have your mom after she became a believer.
Roy: I always remember my mother taking me to church, I mean any time the church doors were open she was going whether it began the Sunday morning service or Wednesday night meeting. We grew up in the Assembly of God church. Even when they had special meetings I just remember going to church all the time. And My mom was always a praying woman, I’d always look at my Mom and she prayed all the time because she didn’t have a husband and she didn’t have you know a father for me. I was a handful Sid, I was quite a handful; I had a lot of anger in my heart because my dad wasn’t there. I just remember that all the time she would try to do the best she could but it was a pretty tough life.
Sid: So you got saved as a young child at 8 years old and then at 11 you were filled with the Holy Spirit but you felt a call into ministry tell me about that.
Roy: Oh, I’ll never forget that I was in a house a good old fashion Bible study where people had gone to Sunday morning service, but then there was other churches that came together and they just had this Bible study with different denominations and different people. And they had about 40 or 50 people packed in this living room. There were 5 acoustic guitarists lined up across the front and they were leading worship and they sang this song called “I Lift My Hands” and it kind of went like (singing) “I lift my hands to the coming King, to the great I AM, to You I sing. For Your the one who reigns within my heart.” I mean it got to that chorus part where it goes (singing) “I will serve no foreign God or any other treasure.” And when I heard that all I could tell you is that the presence of God just hit me and I realized I don’t serve some foreign god He’s real and I felt my whole body was just I can’t explain it it was just charged with electricity. And in that moment I didn’t hear God’s voice I felt Him; in that moment I said out of my mouth I said “Lord if this is what I get to feel every time leading worship takes place or your presence comes I want to do this the rest of my life.”
Sid: Now at that point were you musically inclined? Did you play any instruments?
Roy: No the crazy thing is when I was 8 years old my mother wouldn’t let me play an instrument because I wanted to play saxophone, and I had asthma since I was 2 years of age and so she was nervous that I might use up all my breath and not be able to breath. So I couldn’t play anything; when I wanted to play drums in elementary school about 4 different boys had already taken the spot or the position so I didn’t play any instrument and so at 11½ that’s when I turned to one of the guitar players and I said “Could you show me a chord, I want to learn what you’re doing.” And he let me play his guitar for like 20 minutes and that was it I was sold, my mother took me to a Salvation Army the next couple of days and we bought this little student guitar. I put on some new strings on that guitar and like a hippy I wrote “I love Jesus” on the back of it. (Laughing) I played it by myself like three chords for weeks because I didn’t know anything else. I just worshiped in my bedroom and that really started everything for me; it was those moments yeah.
Sid: Well, let me ask you this you said to God “If this is what it’s like I want to be a worshiper all the time.” Is it like that when you worship, I mean, you’ve been worshiping now for years and years and multiple meetings sometimes even in a day. Is it still the same?
Roy: (Crying) It really is Sid, it’s the most precious thing that I have. I really don’t have anything else in my life except this presence.
Sid: You know before we went on the air I was telling you about a movie I saw many years ago called “Chariots of Fire,” it’s a true story about two track stars. And one of the two was a Christian and when he would run he would say “I feel God’s pleasure when I run.” Would you say “I feel God’s pleasure when I worship God?” Would you say that Roy?
Roy: Oh, absolutely, excuse me Sid, yeah I would absolutely say that, when I look out and I see the faces of the people and I see them getting caught up in worship it’s like I’m watching a transformation in front of my eyes. I don’t even think about myself I think about that person or I thing about God and how He touched, how He touched mankind. I can see somebody coming with depression or somebody comes in with pain. And you get the straggler who comes in the back of the room and he doesn’t want to worship at all he’s got his arms folded and sometimes I’ll say “Lord help me with this service I want to reach that guy right back there” And I’ll almost change the whole service just to get that guy so that every single person is engaged worshiping God and I feel that approval from God, I feel that acceptance. And I feel like I have been designed to run this way; that’s the reason I was created.
Sid: But I have to ask you this “You still sound so tender, so sensitive to God how do you stay that way; I mean with all the junk you must have seen being in ministry of humans letting you down etcetera, etcetera. How do you stay so tender before God?”
Roy: You’re going to make me cry, (crying) “I’m sorry, probably because God’s done such a work in me, and He saved me, and it’s overwhelming to me and I just; I don’t know Sid it’s the grace of God I guess I could come up with an answer and try to make it sound all great but It’s just really the grace of God in my life. I’ve got a great wife by my side today, you know I had some backsliding years at 19 to 21. I don’t know at 21 I was at upstate New York and I cried out to God and I said “Lord, I know that You’ve called me and I said “I don’t even what to….” I got to a point Sid where I didn’t want to be in church anymore, it was so fake to me, everybody else was becoming so fake and so religious and it’s like they weren’t being real. And I said to God I said “I can’t take this anymore.” And when I was in the world from age 19 and 21 I didn’t like the world either, I remember walking into a bar one time and these friends of mine who said they were my friends left when a guy picked a fight with me. And I thought “Even they desert me,” And I had a moment with God at 21 and I said “Lord, I don’t want Your church, and I don’t want the world, I just want You.” And He touched me, He touched me and I ended up a series of events took place where months later I moved down to Florida. Within in 2 months I met my wife and things just started to change I can’t even explain it, I was leading worship everywhere. And things were happening extraordinarily in meetings people were getting healed and coming up. And I’m not a typical worship guy who wants to sell CD’s. I am so addicted to God’s presence that that’s all that I care about and you know me Sid, I’ve been in crowds of huge amounts of numbers and even that there’s an excitement but nothing compares to what I feel when I’m in His presence when I worship Him; there’s nothing…there’s no car, there’s no house, there’s no accolade, there’s no title, my life doesn’t mean anything without Him, it really doesn’t.
Sid: Well, it shows when you worship God just like Eric Little when he ran, it showed that he felt the pleasure of God. Your CD’s are unlike most because of your addiction to the presence of God. And you actually get songs downloaded to you during services. One was actually exclusive for “It’s Supernatural” and these are not like normal music CDs these are birthed in the midst of a move of God’s Spirit of revival. It’s not just good music it’s impregnated with revival and people experience the fire of God; the love of God, breakthroughs. As hungry as you are for God still today Roy that’s kind of transferred, there’s a God hunger that is transferred to people which leads to really deep intimacy, signs and wonders; addictions are broken, depression disappears, healings. Now tell me about real briefly in 30 seconds about 4 children in different states saw the same angel.
Roy: Oh yeah and to be honest with you…
Sid: No no I’ll tell you what we’re out of time we’ll pick up right here on tomorrows broadcast.
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