SID: In 1906, one of the greatest revivals the world has ever known in America. It was called the Azusa Street Revival. And there was a young man and he was in trouble. He was an alcoholic. He was a drug addict. He was homeless and some women from the Azusa Street Revival felt sorry for him, led him to the Lord, set him free. And these were elderly people that actually were part of the Azusa Street Revival, and they told Tommy, your job is to tell the next generation when the greatest move of God’s spirit to ever hit Planet Earth just before Jesus comes, to tell these stories. Tommy, why did they want you to tell these stories?
TOMMY: Because they believed the anointing was going to set forth a revival. When I tell these stories now, Sid, things start happening. People start getting healed and people start getting ministries themselves, supernaturally, especially when I pray of prayer of impartation on them.
SID: I’m going to have Tommy do that in a little while. But Tommy, tell me about William Seymour, who started the revival.
TOMMY: Seymour was the son of a slave. He wasn’t that awful educated. But listen, he said when the anointing came on him he started preaching, saying words so everybody couldn’t understand him, but he was so intelligent. Had an anointing on him all the time and he was obedient. I don’t know that a pastor could get away with this today, but he had set on a pew and put a box on his head.
SID: What kind of box?
TOMMY: A wooden box.
SID: Why did he do that?
TOMMY: He said God told him to. And sometimes he’d set there for 10 minutes, and he’d sit there for over an hour.
SID: While all the people were there? How would you like to be, have a wooden box over your head and you sit there praying in supernatural language for an hour while the congregation is just sitting there. Now when he’d take the box off, what would happen?
TOMMY: He would always get up and then everybody would sit down and start listening. A lot of times, he’d just walk around and tell, he’d say, “Charles,” he’s talking to Brother Sines, “play this tune.” And when Charles Sines started playing the tune, he said he wouldn’t be long. And he said, “Brother Tommy, I would just sit back and watch my finger play.” And the people in audience said it sounded like a thousand pianos playing. And he said he was sitting and looking at the people and said, “Now start singing in tongues.” When he sang in the Spirit that meant tongues. When he started singing in tongues, that Shekinah Glory that lingered would start rising and it would fill the whole building. And then a flame would shoot up out of the roof, a big flame, and the fire department got called many times.
SID: It was real.
TOMMY: Yeah.
SID: All right. It would shoot out of the roof. But you told me another flame, a bolt of lightning almost would come from Heaven. Explain that.
TOMMY: Well it would shoot up about 50 feet, they said. And then about 50 feet from that a ball of fire would appear and flames would start shooting down and go through the flames that were coming up.
SID: What were these flames? What was the point of this?
TOMMY: Well I know I had a Jewish rabbi explain to me that there are flaming angels that knew each other in the Bible. This is known. He said those angels, that the flames that were shooting down were angels bringing miracles to Azusa Street and the ones going up were going back to get more miracles. And that’s, during that time, flames, when the great miracles would happen—
SID: They had wonderful creative miracles. It’s going to be hard for you to believe. Tell me about the man that had an artificial arm.
TOMMY: He had had his, even his shoulder blade ripped out at a job. Back then they didn’t have the benefits they have now. He had an artificial arm hanging on it, but it was starting to really give him trouble. And Seymour said, “Well, you’ll need to take the artificial arm off.” And he looked up and he says, “You all want to have some fun like we did about a year ago when the man’s leg grew out?” He says, “We’re going to.” And he laid his hands on his shoulder. Brother Garcia looked down and said, “Brother Tommy, I can look down into that hole in his shoulder and see the bone.” He said he started praying for it, he said, all of a sudden the bone started growing out about four inches. The flesh growing around it. And he said, it took only seconds. For him, it was slow motion. And he watched it as it just grew it. And he said as he watched it, the fingernails appeared all of a sudden.
SID: You know, if that would happen for me, I’d put a wooden box on your head, on my head. Would you do it? I know you would. We’ll be right back. I can’t wait for him to pray for this impartation for you.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth