Sid: Now I’m talking to Roy Fields, Roy is a Psalmist; he lives to worship God. He feels God’s pleasure when he worships. If you’ve been listening Monday and Tuesday you can tell how authentic it is with Roy. But Roy I’m going to take you back your 16 years of age you get a prophetic word that you’re going to go to Africa. Well 2 years go by and did you kind of forget that word?
Roy: Yeah, I did kind of actually. I was just you know a young teenager going through life and yeah. (Laughing)
Sid: And so you find yourself on a trip going to South Africa that changes your life forever.
Roy: Oh yeah.
Sid: Tell me what happened.
Roy: Well, my mother actually when I turned 18 had married a godly man. So a couple of things actually happened at that moment as my mother had a new husband and I had a new father. And there was an opportunity from somebody in the church that’s from South Africa that he was going to Africa to Zimbabwe and I asked if I could come along and they didn’t even know about the prophesy or anything. And then the pastor reminded them about the prophecy. My stepfather actually paid for both of us to go. And when I got there it’s so funny we talked about Reinhardt a little bit because I thought I was going to have these extraordinary meetings you know with thousands of people and when I got there we were in little villages with 50 people in most places. And at the end of the two months of going through Africa and helping people and praying for them and you know worshiping and leading worship and preaching and everything. I missed my flight to come back to America. I was riding on Balkan Airlines, and this pastor called up this other guy I was with and said, “We want to invite Roy to come to our school if he’s here another week, which I was. And I went to this high and while I was there the headmaster which is the principal said “You can have meetings this entire week every night it’s up to the kids if they want to come it’s not going to be mandatory. You might have 8 kids, you might have a couple of hundred and so the first night I had 8 kids (Laughing) they were all saved Sid, they all already accepted Jesus in their heart and I only had two scriptures at that time I preached which was I had John 3:16 and Galatians 2:20. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish he’ll have everlasting life.” And Galatians 2:20 “I’ve been crucified in Christ; it’s no longer I who lives but Christ who lives in me, and the life I live now I live by faith in the Son of God.” And that was it Sid my whole sermon was over with I had already led a little bit of worship and I heard the Lord tell me, I could hear His voice it wasn’t audible I just knew it in my spirit, in my heart “Call somebody up who needs healing in their body.” Well 7 of them out of the 8 came up.”
Sid: You don’t think that young kids need healing, that took a lot of nerve you probably figured maybe 1.
Roy: Well, the fact that I had never moved in healing in my entire 18 years of life was probably another factor, yeah. So you don’t think that about kids, what’s your problem you know what “Do you got a cold or a sniffle you know.” And no they came forward and come to find out some of them was emotional healing, some of them was depression you know for their lifestyle in Africa. And I’ll never forget picking up my hand and putting it towards this kid’s forehead like I watched other ministers before and I didn’t even know what to pray, so I just said “Lord let the same Holy Spirit that descended upon Jesus on the day of His baptism and His ordination let it come upon this man right now, this young man right now.” And this kid flew across the room, I mean went right over the chairs.
Sid: So you were as shocked as he was and the other kids too, you all were shocked.
Roy: I almost didn’t want to pray for the next bunch of people because I didn’t know what that was, I didn’t even and the thing about it is nobody was with me, I was all by myself this other friend of mine was in Malawi. So I’m like “Oh my goodness.” And then I got kind of excited after my fear left me and I went “I want to do this again.” So I went to the second kid and I lifted my hand and said “Lift your hands and close your eyes” and this was because I watched other ministers do this before, and I meant it from my heart. I just said “Lord let the same Holy Spirit that touched Jesus touch this man now in Jesus Name.” And the kid went flying, the third kid and I tell this story this way, the third kid I went to pray for him and all of a sudden I started to prophesy out of my mouth about this kid was going to be in full time ministry as a student leader and that his finances were going to change.” And the crazy thing is that two years later after I had left Africa and came back to America I received a letter from that kid that a church had hired him over 500 students and put him on staff and they were paying him a salary.
Sid: Was that the first time you prophesied?
Roy: Oh yeah, yeah.
Sid: And the first time you prayed… now explain to me exactly what happened, you touched him and he went flying through the air, how far?
Roy: I didn’t touch any of them, didn’t touch them,
Sid: You didn’t touch them.
Roy: No, I was going to but before my hand could even get to their forehead the first kid went flying, the second kid the same thing and the third kid I went to…
Sid: Now when you say “Flying, describe that to me because I wasn’t there, what do you mean?”
Roy: If you were to be thrown back, okay if you were thrown back and just push on a bunch of chairs, that’s what happened to this kid but I never touched him.
Sid: Now, were any people, any of the young kids healed?
Roy: Yeah, well what happened is after I prayed for all 7 that one kid that didn’t come up was afraid, he was a little bit timid and scared, there was only 8 kids in this room. I just went up to him, he was sitting down, and I noticed his foot was turned in a little bit. I says “Are you okay buddy? Can I pray for you?” He said “I was a little nervous I didn’t want to come up front.” I said “Well let me pray for you right here.” I remember watching a minister take a young lady’s legs bring them up side by side and noticed that one was longer than the other. Well this kids foot was, it was kind of turned in, so of course his foot was going to be shorter than the other. I put my hands up underneath him and I said “In the name of Jesus I speak to every bone, every muscle, every ligament; I command you to line up with the word of God right now.” Well nothing happened then I had fear again, then I went “Oh my gosh.” Well maybe if I leave now nobody doesn’t know my name anyway so I’ll be okay. (Laughing)
Sid: (Laughing)
Roy: Then I went and prayed again and the kid went “Jesus please.” And when he did that in my hands I watched this kids foot crunch, snap and pop into place. All the other kids were standing around us now at this point and they screamed and he screamed and he got up and he ran around and we just sat there looking at this. The kid was completely healed.
Sid: Now the first night you had 8 people, how many did you have afterwards for the next meetings.
Roy: This kid went running around the whole campus and when I had another meeting the next night 300 kids showed up because of that one little kid.
Sid: And what happened when the 300 showed.
Roy: Oh, my goodness that’s where things started changing. I was late to the meeting the second night, all 300 of them, I didn’t have my guitar, I didn’t have a keyboard, I didn’t have a sound system Sid it was just my voice. Right before I got to that auditorium, 300, just imagine 300 students rocking back and forth, I think some of those kids knew the song, Hallelujah and all 300 of them were sings “Hallelujah.” You know the old Katherine Kuhlman song.
Sid: I do.
Roy: I didn’t even preach that night I just walked in and said “Who needs healing in their body, who needs prayer?” They all rushed the platform and we had to move out of the classroom into that auditorium because it just couldn’t hold that many kids. And I started laying hands on everybody and they were falling out, I walked by 3 kids and they fell out without me even touching them, I didn’t even lay a hand on them. And all of a sudden it grew again the next night there was like 500, and then it was like 700, and then by the last night we had 1000 students the entire student body and all the head mistress, headmaster, all the teachers were lined up along side of the walls and I was praying for all these kids. It was a revival
Sid: And were many delivered, healed, saved?
Roy: Oh my goodness, yeah, people were you’d see young girls screaming and they would be delivered of demons coming right out of them. And you know they have witch doctors over there Sid so they’d been like involved in all kinds of stuff that’s just really demonic and there were kids that where backs were healed…
Sid: I understand people were actually drunk in the spirit.
Roy: Oh yeah, yeah. (laughing)
Sid: Now, they have no paradigm for that, they’ve never seen anything like that before.
Roy: No, no, no and to be honest with you I don’t think I had ever seen anything like that before. It was all fresh and brand new to me and I was just loving every moment of it because at one point I felt the Holy Spirit say “You know I’m doing this.” And I said “Oh this is blowing my mind.” I mean my relationship with God really started to grow, it really started to grow.
Sid: Well, I mean you never really thought that you would have a healing ministry I would imagine.
Roy: No, I thought I’d sing songs the rest of my life
Sid: Well, speaking of singing sons I was so interesting in what you were saying we didn’t hear your music but it doesn’t matter everyone has heard the Spirit of God upon you and actually someone was just healed. “Someone’s neck was just healed and someone’s back was just healed, there’s such an anointing even on us talking imagine what happens when he worships God with every fiber of his being.” All these CD’s were done during revival the Spirit of revival is upon these CD’s. People report the fire of God touching them, the love of God, breakthroughs they have such a hunger for God that develops within them. Many people when they go to these meetings it’s contagious they develop a deep intimacy with God and that’s what you’re asking for, crying out for.
