
DONNA: And you teach people that God longs for relationships.
NATASHA: Yes. That’s true. You know this is, I think this is also a very important revelation, truth to remember. You know, usually, people come to God, even in the Gospels, people would come to Jesus because they were in need. They needed an answer.
DONNA: Yes. Yes.
NATASHA: And here we see Jesus who is, instead of immediately answering their need, start asking questions, start talking to them.
DONNA: Mm-hmm.
NATASHA: Now I think that Jesus knew that if He just answered their prayer they’ll be gone until the next need.
DONNA: Yes. Yes.
NATASHA: You know, like one preacher said that you know, you don’t give to a teenage boy a million dollars. You won’t see him for a long time.
DONNA: No. [laughs]
NATASHA: You know, so I think that’s why God wants us to keep coming, keep coming. But you know, but also, it’s because God’s purpose for every miracle, of every need that He meets, His highest purpose is relationship.
DONNA: Yes.
NATASHA: You know, we want to come to Jesus and get our healing, and then we go back to our life so often.
DONNA: Mmmm.
NATASHA: He wants us, after we get our healing, stay with Him. Everything that Jesus does, it’s with the highest purpose of relationship, friendship.
DONNA: Yes. Yes.
NATASHA: Just like it was in the Garden of Eden before the Fall. Because this is what Jesus, why He came on the earth, to bring us back to the same status and relationship that God shared with us before the Fall.
DONNA: Yes.
NATASHA: So relationship is the final goal. And so, if you get your healing, if you get your answer today, if you believe in God for Him meeting your need, remember that His highest goal is that you could continue having a loving, intimate relationship with Him. He wants your friendship. You know, by maintaining close friendship and relationship with God we will avoid a lot of problems in the future. You know, we usually go from one problem to another. And then we’re on to Jesus.
DONNA: Mmmm. Right.
NATASHA: He says, “Stay with Me. Stay with Me.”
DONNA: That’s right.
NATASHA: Don’t just get your answer and then leave, living your life just like you lived before relying on your own strength.
DONNA: Right. Right.
NATASHA: Rely on Me every day. Let Me in your routine of life, in the minor things of life.
DONNA: Mmmm. You know, you move in miracles and in the supernatural now, but, three generations of Atheists, Communists — but four generations ago you had a Great Grandfather that had a miraculous, miraculous thing in his life. He was uneducated. He could not read. He could not write.
NATASHA: Um hmmm.
DONNA: But when he would gather his,
NATASHA: Eleven children
DONNA: Eleven children around on Sundays, and he would open that family Bible he could read the Scripture.
NATASHA: Right. Right. You know, the Bible, When my Grandmother told me this story before I became a Christian I thought it was something strange. And she probably was just making it up –
DONNA: [laughs]
NATASHA: It just was fiction.
DONNA: [laughs] She was old. Maybe she couldn’t –
NATASHA: Right. Exactly. And then, the first thing that the Holy Spirit reminded me when the day I was born again, that was the first thing that the Holy Spirit reminded me. He didn’t know the alphabet. If his neighbor would bring him a newspaper with the Stalin speech printed, he couldn’t read it. But every Sunday a miracle would take place.
DONNA: Wow.
NATASHA: He would open the Bible, point his finger, and would start reading.
DONNA: So you actually have a heritage of miracles.
NATASHA: Yes.
DONNA: It’s not like it just started for you, of course, when you became born again and started getting this teaching. But these seeds were passed along through the generations to you.
NATASHA: Um hmmm.
DONNA: I know we’re going to have to say goodbye. So, I just want to say to you. Thank you so much for watching this program every week with us, and our guests, like Natasha, that come and give of themselves, and pour out these wonderful, wonderful messages for us. [music] The faith that she speaks of, the relationship that she speaks of, this irresistible Jesus,