SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Evangeline Weiner. When you were 14 years old, you go to Indonesia and someone tries to choke you! I mean you can’t say you’re not living an exciting life, an adventurous life.
EVANGELINE: That’s right, it’s the greatest adventure. I was 14, I was doing a seminar there at a conference, and all of a sudden people started screaming. They said, “This girl, she’s dying! She’s dying!” In the middle, they interrupted me, and I was like “Oh man, someone can’t die on my watch.” In the middle of a meeting no doubt. So anyway, so I got up, I ran over there, everyone’s circling around this little girl who was actually smaller than me. She was very petite. She was lying on the ground, and she looked just lifeless. So I joined the circle and began to pray for her, and as I said “In the name of Jesus…” because I believed it was just for healing, I said, “In the name of Jesus, we command this sickness to go”, and all of a sudden, her eyes went one way and popped the other way, and literally, I saw a spirit come over her eyes, and she started getting up and trying to choke me. And literally it took ten, fifteen people to hold her down, and she’s smaller than me.
SID: It shows me that, if it took that many people to hold her down, how strong is Jesus inside of you? That’s the thing.
EVANGELINE: That’s right, that’s right.
SID: Some people talk about, oh, the strength of these ten men trying to hold her down, but you did it yourself.
EVANGELINE: Yeah, the power is in Jesus. It’s funny, because even this pastor’s wife with us, she stepped back and was freaking out, hiding behind all these people, and I’m like “Hey, I’m 14.” No, it was cool. So anyway, I prayed for the lady, and she threw up actually three drops of blood, and she got up and was normal. She came up to me after and said, “Do you know what happened to me?” And she began to talk about how, when she was little, her grandfather was a witch doctor and had dedicated her to Satan with three drops of animal blood, from a fox, a cat, and a snake. So when she got delivered, she literally threw up three evenly placed spots of blood.
SID: Look how her life was transformed.
EVANGELINE: Yeah, absolutely. She was healed too, of that lung problem, because that lung problem had come in with being dedicated to Satan.
SID: Ok. Tell me about someone else in the book. For instance, there’s a Jewish woman. I believe her mother was Jewish and her father was Indian. Tell me about her.
EVANGELINE: Yeah, Shara is her name. Her mom was Jewish, her dad was Indian. They were atheists, and basically they always taught her to be a good person, have a heart for the poor. They always were raised that way. They took her to see Mother Theresa in India to get a heart for orphans and different people. One day someone in school asked her “Do you believe in God?” And she never even thought about it before, “Do I believe in God?” So she started to question: is there a God? Is God real? And she started to evaluate every role of religion. She would study privately in her own closet of her house because she didn’t want her parents to know. Buddhism, all the different religions. Finally it came time for Christianity, or for Jesus, and she began to say “I don’t believe You’re real, I don’t think You exist. But if You do, show me You are.” She went to this meeting with some friends, and all of a sudden the power of God hit her, and she literally flew across the room. At that moment, she knew that Jesus was real, and that He was the real one she’d been searching for.
SID: When you say, “literally flew across the room,” what do you mean?
EVANGELINE: Well, the presence of God hit her and she literally flew into the wall. And this was at something conservative where this kind of stuff does not happen, and everyone was like “What’s going on? What’s going on?”
SID: What’s going on with her today?
EVANGELINE: Today she works in Africa with Heidi Baker, and she sees the presence of God on a daily basis there. They see provision for orphans, they see miracles of, even as you mentioned, AIDS, people walking, the blind seeing. Even today, if you’re out there and you need a miracle, I believe today God wants to heal you. Even yesterday as I was praying for today, I saw that there was someone who’s crippled by fear and hopelessness, and God wants to give you faith again. He wants to renew your dreams, your vision, and really remove you from just filling off life’s checklist of all the things that we have to do in life and start igniting your heart to begin to fulfill your dreams. So if that’s you, right now there’s going to be supernatural peace that surpasses all understanding that’s coming on you right now, in the name of Jesus.
SID: You know, I can feel that peace right now. Can you feel that peace?
EVANGELINE: Absolutely.
SID: You’ve gone out on the campus of Yale University, and miracles have happened there. Tell me about one.
EVANGELINE: One time we were walking with Jason Westerfield, who you’ve had on the show before, and we were walking throughout Yale’s campus. We were close to the bookstore there, and this guy pulls up and gets out of his car. Right before he pulled up, Jason said, “There’s a miracle about to happen here. God’s about to do something.” So I was like, “Ok, totally. Whatever.” So we’re walking and this guy pulls up in his van and walks out and he’s got crutches and a cast. So he comes over and Jason and I walk up to him and we say, “Hey, can we pray for you? We believe God wants to heal you.” And he said “It’s the weirdest thing. I wasn’t even supposed to come by here, but I literally felt like I was supposed to pull over and come to this bookstore. I never come here.” And so anyway, we began to pray for him, and afterwards he just said “Thank you.” And he looked at me and goes “What are you thinking?” and I said, “Well, I’m wondering if you can walk.” He said “Alright.” So he took off his cast and began to walk. He was healed. And then all of a sudden, I just started seeing this vision of this guy, of his life, and I began to pray it over him. He began to weep. He told me “It’s a vision that I had ten years ago in a dream.” And I don’t even think he was a believer, but that he had ten years ago in a dream of the purpose of his life, and he had never told anyone.
SID: You know, I’m thinking about that young girl that spoke for mostly pastors, 350 pastors. How old were you?
EVANGELINE: 11.
SID: And you were teaching on faith. Why would pastors come to hear you, at 11?
EVANGELINE: I know. That was the wonder. But I think it’s because they want to see the power of God. And a lot of times, if we see someone who we think is qualified, then we can say “Oh, but that’s that person. Oh, that’s Billy Graham. Oh, that’s this person or that person.” But when you see an 11 year old, there’s nothing that they have except for the power of God. It’s just supernatural.
SID: Well it comes so natural for you to understand faith. I wonder if you would tell us some nuggets about walking in faith.
EVANGELINE: Absolutely. I think, number one, you just have to step out in faith. One of the hardest things to do is just to step out. Even with Jason, I asked him. You might be thinking “How can I pray for people?” Or “How is there miracles?” But in reality… He even told me “I don’t even get a word for someone before I talk to them. I just begin to talk to them, and just step out, and God gives me the words as I step out in faith.” I think one of the biggest things is, it’s like a muscle. A lot of us have heard these terms before, but it’s like building your muscle in a gym. With faith, you just begin to step out, and every time…
SID: The opposite of faith is fear, which you were talking about a little bit earlier, and that’s what’s bound most people, so they’re not operating in faith. Because as you were saying, Jason said “Sometimes I don’t have anything, but I see someone that’s hurting, I see someone crippled, and I just walk up to them, and that’s when it happens.”
EVANGELINE: And you know, faith can be for anything. It can be for your finances, it can be for fear, intimidation, for your dreams, health, family. Faith goes into everything that you do. God wants to do miracles in every area of your life. I felt like I was supposed to buy a house, and the crazy part is I saw it, and I knew this was supposed to be my house. I wasn’t qualified for it, nothing happened like that in the logistical terms. But literally I went in there, and the people, the guy was into new age, the real estate agent, and said “We’ve had seven offers on this house, but we just see this aura about you. We see this aura, and there’s something about you, and we really want you to have this house.” The person who had the next highest offer was $60,000 to mine, and the owners and the realtor were like “We want you to have our house. We want you to buy it.”
SID: That’s extraordinary favor.
EVANGELINE: Absolutely, absolutely. And that’s part of the supernatural power of God.
SID: So with the economic times we’re coming in to, are you fearful at all?
EVANGELINE: I think at times you fight with a fear, and just have to go back to the peace that is there. There’s such a supernatural peace that comes when you realize God provides all of my needs. God’s never failed me, ever. You see even in the Bible that, even when a sparrow falls, He knows. So I think sometimes you feel that way, I feel that way, but then I give it to God and I rest in the peace that He has.
SID: Are you excited about the future? Your future, the future of the world.
EVANGELINE: Absolutely I am. I see the light getting brighter and brighter, and I see the glory of God coming more and more to earth. I don’t see it getting… There are certain things getting darker, but I see that His redemption is near, and it’s exciting.
SID: There’s going to be a contrast between light and darkness. Remember the favor that Evangeline had? How would you like to walk in that same favor? It’s available to you. The light of God is getting brighter and brighter upon you. You know something’s going on. You’ve cried out “All I want is peace.” Well there’s only one way you can have peace, and that’s to know God for yourself, not because someone else knows God. Know God for yourself. Take a little baby step, and He’s going to run and put His arms around you and kiss you and tell you that He loves you and you’re so important and there’s a destiny on your life. If you’ll ask God to forgive you in Jesus’ name of everything you’ve ever done wrong, and believe He does it, and He will, then you’re clean. And then when you’re clean, you say with your mouth, out loud, “Jesus, I make You my Lord. Come inside of me.” You say “Sid, that’s so simple.” Well, He made it simple. So guess what? He gets all the glory. That light that Evangeline was talking about that radiates from her, you saw it. You were provoked to jealousy. The light of God is getting brighter and brighter. You know, you could raise your hands, they’re holy right now, and say “Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You for Your goodness to me. Thank You.”
