Sid Roth welcomes Janie Duvall

JANIE: Hello. I’m Janie Duvall here with Sid Roth, Sid Roth as the guest. You went to sleep full of fear. Did your astral projection help you at all with that? Did your spirit guide help you with the fear?

SID: Let me tell you something. I was convinced the spirit guide was a demon. But what does a Jewish person do? I mean, I knew it was evil. I wanted out. But I didn’t know how to get out. And so I remember I called my wife who was raised Baptist, and when she got to college she became an agnostic, and when we got married she converted to orthodox Judaism. So you might say she was a Baptist, agnostic, orthodox Jew. And we were separated, and I called her on the phone. How can I explain it? “Joy, I have a demon inside of me. I don’t want to live.”

JANIE: She must have thought you were crazy.

SID: There’s no way she could relate to that. So I said, “Joy, pray.” And even though she really was an agnostic at that time, she prayed. And I just gave in the towel. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced fear like that before. But the fear was so strong I didn’t want to live. And I prayed a desperation prayer. Jesus, help. That was my prayer. And I went to bed and I didn’t care whether I lived or died. And Janie, when I woke up the whole room, the atmosphere in the room was just filled with the presence of God. I’ve never, in the New Age, I never experienced anything remotely close to that. And it was, I’ve never, if I wanted to worry I couldn’t worry. I had never experienced such peace in my life. And then I heard the audible voice of God for the first time in my life. And this is what he said: “Return to your wife and daughter. I hate divorce.” And I was so grateful to God. I would have done anything for Him. And so God restored my marriage. I’ve now been married for 43 years. Joyce and I have just celebrated our 43rd anniversary.

JANIE: Congratulations.

SID: And I can tell you this, the presence of God has never left me. It’s not always that tangible. But it’s tangible right now. And so God restored everything.

JANIE: You know, it’s really amazing. Just two words, you said, “Jesus, help.” But the power in that, before when you were in the New Age, you had to lower your brain waves, do all these things, and “Jesus, help,” that’s how powerful he is. Now we have some footage, this is really gonna be exciting, footage of Sid years ago when he was on a program of Katherine Coleman. Katherine Coleman was very famous from the forties to the 1970s. Miracles use to happen. And Sid was on her program just about a year after this had happened to him in his life. And I want you to see for yourself and hear for yourself just the big change and how thankful he was. Let’s look at it.

KATHRYN: When I tell you that the name of my guest is Sid Roth, that’s sterling in itself.

SID: If you invite Him into your heart He’s on the outside. It sort of like you’re driving an automobile, you know, and He has a difficult time driving your car from the outside. But He can do it because He’s God. Look what he did to my life. But you know, when you invite Him inside that automobile, you know what happens? It’s a heck of a lot easier for Him, and that’s where He wants to go. And boy, I’m just so grateful to Him, and I feel like I can’t do Him enough justice for what He’s done for me. Every single day he influences my life. Just a couple days ago I was giving a talk at a junior college for mutual funds. This was an adult education class. And the professor was a client of mine, and he said, “Sid, I know where you stand with God. Don’t give anything about God during this talk because it’s a school, you know.” And I said, “Okay. These are the ground rules. Fine.” But I wore a little pin that said “PTL.” And the very last question from the students was, “What does PTL stand for?” Praise God, you know. He planted that question. And I said, “Well the professor has said that I cannot comment on this until after class. So anyone that’s interested in staying, I’m gonna tell you about the most important thing in my life.” And ten students stayed, and I talked for about an hour about PTL, which is praise the Lord, and two people accepted Jesus Christ. One was Jewish.

KATHRYN: Has it changed you completely?

SID: Well my wife says, “You’re not the man that I married.” I’m a completely new person and I praise God for it, because I didn’t care for the old Sid Roth.

JANIE: You were so radically changed by the power of God. But that’s what God wants for everybody, to be radically changed, every situation, because it looked impossible for you and the situation was radically changed. How did Katherine Coleman find out about you?

SID: Well there was a newspaper, one of the major secular papers in Washington, D.C., where I lived at the time, and it was called the Washington Daily News, and there was a headline: “White Collar Jesus Freaks” and I was on the front page. I mean, I hadn’t even read the full Bible at that point. I mean, just being seen it was very unusual for a Jewish person back then to be a believer in Jesus. Now fortunately, there are many Jewish people that are believers in Jesus. But back then it was very unusual. And one of the biggest regrets in my life is I didn’t realize Katherine Coleman had one of the greatest miracle ministries the world has ever seen. And she wanted to mentor me.

JANIE: Wow!

SID: But I had read enough of the Bible. And according to the Bible, everyone was supposed to do this. So one of my big regrets is I didn’t let her mentor me.

JANIE: Well I can understand. You heard the audible voice of God right away, so you just thought we all could walk in those kind of miracles.

SID: But you know what’s even more important than anything we’re talking about right now is my Jewish family, my entire orthodox Jewish family has come to know Jesus as the Messiah. And I believe it’s God’s will that everyone’s family, your entire family come to know Jesus. And what’s so amazing was my father. He was the toughest one. He was born in Poland and he could not understand how his son could believe in Jesus. And I used reason with him, logic. I got nowhere. But the presence of God that came into my room when I became a believer in Jesus was all over me, 24/7.

JANIE: What did it feel like?

SID: It felt like it’s impossible to worry. It is impossible to worry when someone’s neck was just healed. And as a matter of fact, a back was just healed. And as a matter of fact, almost anything you need, if you take your hand and put it on yourself and just say the name “Yeshua”. That’s Hebrew for Jesus. Or Jesus. That’s English for Yeshua. “In Yeshua’s name you are healed.” But that same presence of God came into a hospital room where my father was dying, and I heard my father say with his mouth, when he was so, his body was so deteriorated he couldn’t even speak, “I make Jesus my Messiah and Lord.”

JANIE: That’s amazing.

SID: Only God can do that.

JANIE: He was such a skeptic. So nothing is impossible with God. Nothing is impossible with God. When we come back it’s time for you to believe even for more miracles in your life.