SID: Joshua Giles dreamed of playing professional baseball. He’d do anything to achieve it. He said a prayer at 12, but never had a personal relationship with God. At 22 years old, he was about to encounter a curve ball that he never saw coming. Joshua suddenly in your life, the supernatural became more real than the real. What happened?

JOSHUA: Absolutely. At 22 years old, it’s funny that because there’s a thin layer between the natural and the supernatural. One day, God just lifted the blinds. Literally, the supernatural world became so much more real than the natural. I’m like, “What is going on here?” It was terrifying because the first thing that I began to see was what was affecting my life? What I had allowed in my life through sticking my hand into iniquity or sin.

Things that we just don’t think may not have consequences. We don’t realize some of the things we allow into our life. I remember seeing all these demonic entities aligning up every night, coming to attack me. I couldn’t sleep. I remember sleeping with the light on. Didn’t want to go to the bathroom at night.

SID: That doesn’t work out too well when you’re an athlete.

JOSHUA: No, God.

SID: If you don’t sleep, you don’t have your endurance.

JOSHUA: I was tired. I had to go to school and eight hours of baseball. It was tormenting in the sense of exhaustion. That really led me to the point of where I was just done with it. I cried out one night in prayer and I said, “God, kill me or deliver me.” That’s when everything began to change.

SID: What happened?

JOSHUA: I went to a game the very next day when playing a team. Never played before in my life. I’m in the outfield. We’re having our pregame ritual, so to speak, for baseball, where everybody is preparing for the game. A young man from the other team came over and he looked at me and he says, “You had a car wreck five years ago. The devil tried to kill you.” In which, I did.

I hit a guy head on at 80 miles an hour when I was 18 years old and walked out that night from the hospital. One of the first times that God began to protect me. He says, “You’re being attacked at night by demons. God wants to deliver you.” I’m sitting here like, “What in the world is this?” I felt it and I had to pray the prayer [like] the night before. Next thing you know, he lays hands on me.

I feel that, the presence and power of God touched me. I’ve never felt that free and uplifting, like a weight had been lifted off of me. I go back to the dugout and I’m just rocking back and forth like, “God’s called me. God’s called me.” My teammates look at me like, “You’re crazy. What are you doing?” All I could focus on was there was no more baseball. I was focusing on what just happened here.

JERAME: I actually looked over like this. I could see his headlights coming at my door and I just yelled, “Jesus.” When I did, the car went right through my car physically. I looked in the rear view mirror and it almost hit the guy behind me, but that guy swerved out of the way. I was so shook. After that I said, “God, what was that?” He said, “That was me saving you because you have way too many souls to win in your calling.”

I said, “Well, where’s that at in the Bible?” He said, “Jerame, remember when they took Jesus by the scruff of his neck to throw him off the pinnacle of the cliff and he said that he just walked right through them?” He said, “I caused that car to go through you, because I still have a calling on your life.” I’m telling, he said if you have a calling and you are fulfilling that calling God will protect the anointing of God on your life at all costs.

SID: Could you catch that? He did one thing that caused something in the invisible world to be activated, to save his life. He only did one thing. Do you know what he did? He cried out the name Jesus.

JERAME: That’s right.

SID: Now, Jerame will teach you the major key in his life that released God’s presence, and it’s available to you. Be right back.

SID: I’ve been to many Resurrection Sunday services, but guess what? When Jerame had a Resurrection Sunday, people that died came back to life. What happened?

JERAME: Yeah. We were doing a Resurrection Sunday service at the revival and God had spoke to me right before the service, and he said, “I want you the week before to declare that power is going to come to raise the dead and that even if someone died, bring the dead.” I’ll never forget because I was really excited and I was halfway terrified because I thought, “Wow, what if someone brings a dead person? Long story short, we get to the service. No one brought anybody that was dead. Then I was disappointed and at the very end of the meeting, I decided, “Well, you know what? We’re going to pray resurrection over everything we can. Finances, people’s bodies, whatever.” I said, “If you have a need, just write it down on a card and bring it up.”

This lady came up with a card and she actually had a letter. She said, “I want you to pray for my friend in Egypt.” Well, she forgot to tell me an important fact that she had died just that day before. I said to her, “Well, let’s pray. I release resurrection power and we command this dead situation to come to life.” What was amazing is that in Egypt, this woman rose from the dead. Right when we made the decree.

DONNA: that goes like a seed into the hearts of people. Faith comes alive, and that opens them up to the supernatural.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: And that night, I waited for 2-1/2 hours while people gave testimony of how they were SNAPS FINGERS instantly healed.

LARRY: Wow.

DONNA: from AIDS.

LARRY: W-well it’s interesting; as you’re talking about his words being cloaked in this dewdrop, I’m thinking of the words of Jesus where Jesus says, John 6:63, My words are spirit, and they are life.

DONNA: and life. Exactly.

LARRY: And I think to myself, Jesus is announcing that His words are spirit.

DONNA: Yes.

LARRY: which makes me think it’s like you’re saying it’s more than when we’re speaking; it’s more than just syllables coming together.

DONNA: Yes.

LARRY: it’s more than just words of grammar. When we’re saying what He’s saying.

DONNA: Exactly.

LARRY: about those who are in captivity, or those who are sick and demonized when we’re saying what Jesus says about those people, I believe our words actually carry presence.

DONNA: Absolutely. And Jesus actually, you know, when He came up out of the waters of baptism, and He was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: actually as Jesus taught, He went into the waters, but the waters went into Him.

LARRY: Yeah; that’s good.

DONNA: it came out of Him.

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: But the first thing that He did is He went to Nazareth.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: and He began to PROCLAIM, I am the Mashiach.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: I am the One Who is anointed. The Spirit of God is on Me.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: But it’s on me for purpose.

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: And sometimes I feel like we make it so complicated. We think that we’re going to, you know, walk around in this aura, or a cloud of glory.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: But really what it’s about is the mission that the Lord.

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: sent us on. He said He sent me, to proclaim the good news.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: to the poor.

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: What does that mean? That He wants to change their situation!

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: He came to heal the brokenhearted;

LARRY: Yeah.

DONNA: He came to set the captives free.

LARRY: Yes.

DONNA: Not just be concerned about them, but CLAPS HANDS do something about their situation. And in order to do that, He had to have that mantle that anointing.

LARRY: Yeah; yeah.

DONNA: and that’s what we covet.

LARRY: That’s awesome. Well in the next  segment, we’re actually going to talk about the difference between spiritual authority, and anointing, and how you can actually cultivate a lifestyle of the anointing being SATURATED in the presence of God and then ACTIVATING the AUTHORITY that Jesus has already given you. I am just so excited, because again what Donna is sharing, these are things that she gleaned from her dad, R.W. Schambach. And she was mentioning T.L. T.L. Osborn; I start thinking. of people like Kathryn Kuhlman, and that great ERA of healing evangelists. And you know what? The wonderful thing is. that they were wonderful people, and we look up to them; but I believe so much of their lives, and so much of what they learned, is transferrable to you, and to me. And they actually set an example for us of how for us o-our lives today, to be SATURATED in the presence of God, and operate in that same spiritual authority that Jesus has given us. So d- w-we’ll see you when we get back, and we will learn about how to actually start FLOWING in these things, in the anointing and authority.