SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest was taught the most supernatural prayer on Earth. Now millions of people are praying this prayer and this is what they’re experiencing. They hear God’s voice clearly. Their prayers are answered and their intimacy with God is off the charts. Do you want him to teach this to you? Well you know, the Gentile is supposed to provoke the Jew jealousy. You provoke me to jealousy. How does one family have 38 immediate family members in ministry? How is that possible?
CLEDDIE: Well it began with a miracle, Sid. There were people that were praying. I had an uncle that married into, my aunt married an uncle who was backslidden. I believe God moves through families. And so his brother was working on a road crew outside of Austin, Texas, and he got his arm in a rock crusher, and he pulled his arm off, pulled the shoulder blade off. And so they didn’t have the doctors. They didn’t have the medicine and the know-how back in the early 1940s, and so they prayed and God saved his life. And out of that one miracle our entire family was impacted because we had no question it was God. My family prayed. My mother was not a praying woman, but after that, my mother became a praying woman.
SID: You said to me that miracles are an evidence of a greater reality.
CLEDDIE: When God works a miracle, whatever kind of miracle it is, it’s an evidence of a greater reality and then we know that there is more beyond. There’s a supernatural.
SID: One miracle settles the argument, would you agree?
CLEDDIE: Oh, I agree with all my heart.
SID: But at 19 you didn’t feel that way. At 19, you were running from God.
CLEDDIE: I was like a lot of kids in Christian families. I didn’t make a commitment to Christ. I was in Tucson, Arizona, and I ended up one morning in a house, and I walked down the hallway to the bathroom, and I looked in the mirror, and God spoke to me, and he said, “What are you living for?” And at that point I knew I had no purpose in my life, but God gave me a purpose at that moment because my choice was to live for him, and I had faith in Christ as my savior at that moment.
SID: How about you? What are you living for? You’ve even seen the dead raised. Tell me about one.
CLEDDIE: I was over in England preaching in Sheffield, England. It was like probably the revival Bible days of Welsh, the Welsh revival. They were jammed. They were standing at the sides of the building. And I called a song leader, not a worship leader, a song leader, you remember those kind of song leaders. I called him up to pray over him, and when I did a spirit of prophecy came on me, and I said, “You’re going to minister. You’re going to lead worship to hundreds and hundreds of people. I see great crowds.” Well the guy died right under my hand.
SID: No! So they’d better not have a lot of rocks to throw at you.
CLEDDIE: I was in England. I could just see the newspaper the next day: “American Speaker/Preacher Kills the Song Leader in Church”. You know, they’re not really friendly over there in the newspapers. But what happened was at that time I called up some of the old-timers, actually the man that was had died under my hand, Smith Wigglesworth was his father-in-law’s best friend, and Smith Wigglesworth died at his father-in-law’s funeral. Mr. Richardson, he died at his funeral in Wakefield, England. And so I called up his wife, I called up C.L. Park’s wife, who was legendary, and I called up a surgery nurse to come and to check him. What took place was the pastor and I got down behind this big wooden pulpit. I was so thankful for that big wooden pulpit. It was as big as a battleship. I mean, I was never so appreciative not having a little transmitter. And I leaned over his corpse and I said, “Paul, he’s dead.” And he looked at him, and he said, “Nobody can see us.” And he said, “He was no minor. He’s clocked out.” In other words, he punched out and fell down. And we called the ladies up there and we prayed. And I wasn’t God’s man of faith and power. I was God’s man of paste and flour. I’m telling you, at that point I was really totally dependent on God, I mean totally dependent. And we prayed for him and God touched Mr. Park. God touched him, brought him back to life. The nurse was in shock because she had pronounced him dead. We took him over and set him a cane back chair. It was setting up against the wall and he sat there for the rest of the meeting just like this. I mean, he was totally just, it was like he was a stiff. He was alive and he was breathing, but I was never so thankful for an answered prayer.
SID: Okay. There is something that you teach that is so phenomenal and most believers go their whole life and they don’t even realize they’re in a spiritual battle. Comment on that.
CLEDDIE: You know, it’s like this. I tell people that they know they’re in spiritual warfare if they had jet lag and they hadn’t been anywhere. And so it’s like right now we see a lot of that in churches where people, they’ve been thinking, their minds have been working. How are we going to work this out? What’s going to happen in the future? Well I don’t preach to people’s heads. I preach to their hearts. I don’t preach to the church like she’s a widow. I preach to the church like she’s a bride. And so what changed my life was seeing the Kingdom of God differently because where there is a kingdom there has got to be a throne, and where there’s a throne there has to be a king, and where there’s a king there will be petition, and where there’s a king there will be worship, and that’s exactly what transformed my life is I came into the realization that God hears and answers prayer, but I came to him as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. I wasn’t a beggar, I was his son. I wasn’t an orphan, I was his child. I wasn’t defeated, I was victorious. And I’m thinking right that there’s a lot of people that come to God like he is a beggar. You don’t have to come to God another day like you’re a beggar. You’ve been adopted into the family of God. I have an adopted son and he is as much my son as our natural born daughter. And if you will begin to understand he wants you to pray and prayers that include his purpose in your life then your life can be transformed.
SID: So for you, prayer isn’t drudgery or religious, or routine. What is prayer?
CLEDDIE: Prayer is dialogue. Prayer is talking to my Father. Prayer is my Father talking to me.
SID: Okay. I am ready for him to release what God taught him as the single most supernatural prayer on Earth. I know you’re not going away.
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