SID: Now David heard God’s voice and went away for like a retreat in a tent for eight days to seek God’s face. What did you take away from that experience?
DAVID: Well this isn’t brand new. I did go back a couple of years ago. This just happened. And literally the takeaway from eight days in the forest with my dog, but most importantly with God, God said to me, Sid, we’re coming into a short season of blessing and prosperity. But those that are going to enjoy it the most are what you would call normal, red hot for God. And those people that are pressing in, they’re living the life God wants them to live, they’re going to hear God in a more clear way. God showed me, going back to the vision that I had, the open vision where I saw the beams of light.
SID: Yes.
DAVID: He took me back there and said to me, “This connection is there for everybody. But those people that are dying to themselves, living for me, walking in holiness, I’m increasing their bandwidth. It’s like when the computers came out 25 years ago, you know, we can do data message and do texts. But now we have high bandwidth. We’ve actually got streaming video. And it’s like right now God is opening the windows to Heaven. For those people that are pressing in, there’s an increased bandwidth and they’re literally receiving and going to receive so much more high definition video from Heaven like Branham did. Branham who did, I heard it said in his life time, in his miracle ministry like in the late ’40s and ’50s, more miracles in his ministry than all the other great healing revivals together.
SID: David, another supernatural key is knowledge, and knowledge of the name of Jesus saved his life, his family’s life. Tell me about that.
DAVID: Well it all happened because I chose to meditate on the Word of God to renew my mind. And when you do that, Sid, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. And in this particular case, my wife and I, and our two children were in literally a killer tornado that took other people’s lives. And we were coming to a stop sign and two trees right in front of us 60 feet away, literally took off, one from the waist, one from the roots. My wife said, that wasn’t normal.
SID: Of course it wasn’t.
DAVID: Same time, about eight or 10 trees, 100-foot trees lay down across the road and I recognized I was out of control, couldn’t steer, couldn’t stop the van. And at that moment there’s no time to pray. But you know what’s in your heart. And out of the abundance of heart I said, “Jesus.” At the name of Jesus, the tornado had a [unintelligible], dropped us onto the ground and we drove south.
SID: Now David, my wife’s favorite key is humility. And I don’t have to worry about humility. That’s her job to [unintelligible]. However, my favorite key is the next one, compassion.
DAVID: Compassion is a real. If you look at the miracles of Jesus, before many miracles it says, “He was moved with compassion.” And literally this goes back a number of years. My wife was pregnant at the time with our daughter. We were driving to Wisconsin. We had just moved to Oklahoma the year previous to go to Bible school. And it was Christmas Eve, Sid, and literally the coldest day in history. The wind chill in northern Illinois, we were going from Tulsa to the Milwaukee area, the Illinois the wind chill —
SID: That’s quite a mouthful, the coldest day in history. Go ahead.
DAVID: It was like 70 below zero wind chill. They were saying, do not drive, do not go outside. It’s dangerous. Cars can’t run in this cold weather. I had just gone to Bible school, being a great man of faith, I said to my wife, “We are full of faith. I’m a man of faith. We’re going to go and we’re going to do just fine.” And literally, there was no traffic on the road. People had more sense than I did. And when we were going along the highway and seeing cars stranded because a car can’t run in that cold weather. Gas lines were frozen. And we got through Illinois, in the middle of Illinois and our car started to do like all the others, stopped running. Went over to the side of the road. And it was cold. I mean, the car, the engine heat couldn’t keep up with the cold outside. We were already chilled. But when the car stopped running it got very cold. And I got out of the car, opened the hood as if I knew what I was doing. But I opened the hood. I prayed a prayer and it was a good prayer. I mean, it was a good faith healing prayer. And I felt pretty proud about it. And I got back into the car, sat down and the car started right up. And praise God, this prayer stuff really works. We drove about a hundred feet and the car stopped again. And literally what I was told is that the engine heat, there was enough there to melt the little bit of the gas line. So we ran for another hundred feet or so. Now when we stopped, I see a [unintelligible] in the car. Again, I got out of the car and I looked at my wife first and said, “This is the worse memory of my life.” And my wife had the look of fear of death because there’s nobody out there.
SID: And you said she was expecting, too.
DAVID: Yes. She was six months pregnant. And there was no cell phones at that time. This is in 1983. And literally I got out of the car and I can’t get her face out of my mind. I opened up the hood. I can’t see her, but it’s all I can see, is that look of hopelessness. And I recognized it. I wasn’t a man of faith. I was operating out of foolishness and [unintelligible]. Even being proud of my faith, I mean, I was learning. What I’m learning today is compassion, and recognizing compassion defined by the dictionary is “the awareness of the suffering of another.”
SID: But when you were aware of the suffering of your wife and you prayed again with compassion, what happened?
DAVID: A miracle, absolute miracle. I prayed. I wept. Asked God to forgive me for my foolishness and pride. Sat down in the car and it started right up.
SID: David that was a great miracle. How great a miracle was it?
DAVID: Well, we would have died, Sid. I mean, there was no hope. There was absolutely, mechanics have told me, there’s no way a gas line once frozen can, outside of being in a warm garage or something. But literally God melted the frozen ice, started, like the water to wine, a molecular change. The car ran fine the rest of the trip.
SID: How many miles?
DAVID: Well from that point, it was 250 to 300 miles.
SID: Whatever God is doing for David, whatever God is doing for me has nothing to do with us. It has to do with the fact we chose to make God, our God, to believe in Jesus, to repent of our sins, believe his blood washed away our sins, believe that God remembers our sins no more and believe that Jesus lives inside of me, inside of you. I want you to pray that prayer right now and mean it, and have it count for eternity, and start doing the destiny that God has called you to. That’s the first step.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth