Sid: Now my guest literally is provoking me to jealousy because when I hear some of the experiences she had as a young child. For instance, LaDonna Taylor your grandmother was quite a woman of God she prayed for dead people that came back to life. And as a young child you’d to out on the streets with her and pass tracks out. Tell me one of your fondest memories of your grandmother and you out there on the streets.
LaDonna: Oh, it was wonderful it was on the corner of Travis and Houston Street in San Antonio, Texas. We would ride the transit bus half way across town to get there. We would carry her guitar and her accordion and we’d always make sure we had the tracks with us, little bundles of salvation tracks with us. My, I called my grandmother Nana. Her name was Magdalena Lot and she started fifty-two churches in the south Texas and north Mexico area. She would preach in Spanish and English.
Sid: What a great heritage God gave you, go ahead.
LaDonna: Oh, she would she would play her accordion or her guitar; I was seeing my Nana was about 4’8” tall. I remember as a tiny toddler just able to understand to carry the tracks with me you know to the place, you know to the place where she was going to preach in Spanish and English. And I remember holding those tracks up, some people would take them, some wouldn’t but my grandmother would get in there faces and present Jesus to them and talk to them about the Lord. Then, oh my goodness we would go across the street, we walk a couple of three blocks to a public park downtown San Antonio. My grandmother would wake up the bums, the homeless.
Sid: Now, we Jewish people would call that chutzpah, nerve. Ha-ha-ha.
LaDonna: Yes, little, little Mexican woman and with and in those times, this was sixty years ago. In those times the prejudice against the Spanish people in San Antonio was tremendous. And but yet there she was called of God to preach the gospel and to wake up those homeless people on the park benches and I’ll tell you what, she prayed for them, she loved them. She taught that compassion to me.
Sid: Well, I also admire something else. As a young child you would worship God for hours and hours. How does a young person do that? I mean it’s hard for an old person to do it. How does a young person do that?
LaDonna: It’s the most amazing thing that from a tiny, tiny child I was so taught about Jesus and my grandmother, my parents both worked and so my grandmother kept me and it was her spirit that was with me all the time that taught me to worship. That taught me as I watched her sit and read her Bible all day long. I’m so thankful to God of that heritage, I’m so grateful.
Sid: At age twelve you literally heard the audible voice of God, it was really your call to serve Him.
LaDonna: It was my call, my parents that evening and my grandmother were taking me to a prayer meeting before the Wednesday night service. And we walked through the empty sanctuary back to the prayer rooms; the woman would pray on the right side; the men would pray on the left side before church. And walking through the…
Sid: Sounds like it’s an orthodox Jewish congregation, but it’s a church, but go ahead that’s just a little in joke but go ahead.
LaDonna: That was your full time Pentecostal old time Pentecostal Full gospel church and and on my way back I heard the deep, deep male audible voice call my name. I turned around and I thought that it was my Dad. Yes Dad. Oh, there was not a soul in that semi-dark auditorium and I knew that it was the voice of God, I knew it was.
Sid: And you at a young age, you had visions and you would worship God for hours. You were even taken to A.A. Allen meetings. Did you actually see some of those miracles, I just read about?
LaDonna: I did, actually the A. A. Allen, Oral Roberts meetings were the same thing that was happening in the home church that I was born into here in San Antonio. That was, when I was born, an eleven year revival three meetings a day, two hours on the radio was, we were in the midst of that revival when I was born. I, it was very ordinary, I mean extremely ordinary, everybody that would go up would be healed. I actually saw the left bench, I remember as clear as anything, even though it was probably fifty-five years ago, I actually saw people come up off the bench and go back on as we worshipped God. It was amazing.
Sid: I’m not understanding you, what do you mean go, go, go off and go on?
LaDonna: They in there worship they actually lifted up off the bench.
Sid: You know, that’s never happened to me, but sometimes I feel like it because I’m so filled with the Spirit of God. I guess you can get so filled that you actually elevate.
LaDonna: Other people in that service saw that, but I saw so many physical miracles, so many things I just always believed that God could do anything.
Sid: Well, you know what, when I read the New Testament coming from a traditional Jewish background for the first time I was in a state of shock when I found out that what went on in churches and what I read about they weren’t the same. It was almost like a different gospel!
LaDonna: It’s so true!
Sid: By the way, our time is slipping away, how did you find out that you were so anointed on the violin?
LaDonna: Well, I was, I thought that I was going to be a pianist that would tour the world. By the time I was twelve years old I was playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. But at school I was asked to be the pianist for the school orchestra. And the violin just fascinated me, it just fascinated me. And I took it home and immediate it was just easy for me, it was in my heart. Now I have studied, I’ve paid the price, I actually hold to doctorates in music and blessed be the name of the Lord for excellence. But it just fascinated me it was in my heart and the moment I played a little offerorate at the church when I was twelve years old people would come up and say, “I was healed when you played.”
Sid: You know one of your songs, one of your songs and we have two of your CDs and let me tell you Mishpochah, they are so anointed. The, I don’t know if anyone has ever told you this LaDonna, but they are bringing, they usher in peace and tranquility. Tell me about this song, I’m not that familiar with it, “Be Thou My Vision.” Where did that come from?
LaDonna: This beautiful ancient Irish Hymn from the Eighth Century is actually ushers in the presence of God in such a tangible way. When I go to Ireland especially because this is an Irish Hymn, when I go to Ireland especially at the beginning of every service and at the end of every service and as background music, the laying on of hands, the Lord just and His presence comes close, during this beautiful “Be Thou My Vision.”
Sid: Do you see many miracles when you play this song?
LaDonna: I see a lot of miracles.
Sid: Tell me one.
LaDonna: I saw a lady that had a cancer brain tumor, two of her sisters died of the very same thing, and the tumor was about the size she told me, of a plum in her brain. When I prayed for her, she fell out, I came back six months later and the tumor was gone.
Sid Roth: Wait till you sense what I sense on this music. “Be Thou My Vision.”
LaDonna Worship excerpt: “Be Thou My Vision.”
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth