SID: Hello Sid Roth, welcome to my world where it is naturally supernatural. Strap on your seatbelt, we are going to have fun on this show because God is going to invade our presence. I mean he is going to go right through this television screen into wherever you are right now. My guest Steven Zarit, like myself, is a Jewish person. Steven, though when I think of you I think more as a culturally Jewish person, and you were like me, you were fascinated with the supernatural, Edgar Casey, you watched healing, you watched healing evangelists, I never went that far. But tell me about one you saw and what you thought about him.
STEVEN: Well, I actually saw Kathryn Kulman and I watched her on the television set and I just thought boy I would like to do something like that someday. I would be able to walk in to a hospital and pray for all the children.
SID: Yeah, but you would have to pray in the Name of Jesus, did you ever think about such a thing?
STEVEN: No, no, didn’t think about it at all, didn’t think about it at all.
SID: Okay, you are really successful, you are in publishing, and some meshugah, that’s a crazy person, wanders in, he used to be I believe an alcoholic, a friend of yours, and what does he say to you?
STEVEN: Yeah, he was an ex-alcoholic, six months old in the Lord, and he walked into my office one day in 1971 and he said to me, “I was driving in Anaheim and God spoke to me and told me to come and pray for you.” And I said, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you mean the God who spoke the world into existence, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Moses, the God of the prophets?” And he said, “Yeah that God.” And I said, “He told you to come and pray for me?” I said, Forget about it.”
SID: Did you think he was meshugah, between you and me?
STEVEN: Yes, I thought he was a little nuts, a little crazy. So he came in two or three times and asked if he could pray for me.
SID: So why didn’t you just get rid of him? Just say pray.
STEVEN: Well one time after the third of fourth time I watched him walk out to his car and I looked at him and he seemed so happy and so excited. And I looked up to heaven and I said, “You know what God, I just want to know you and I want to know all about you and I want to know just who you are, everything about you, everything about you.” And the next thing I know, a week later he walks into my office and he says, “God told me to come pray for you again.” I said, “Okay, okay, pray for me.” So he puts me in a chair in the middle of my office, I had a big office suite and I had a sofa there, and he starts praying in tongues and I started to get a little weird with that.
SID: Well this is a supernatural language and we Jewish people are not quite used to people praying in unknown tongues, I can imagine, okay.
STEVEN: I was very, very nervous.
SID: You were real freaked out.
STEVEN: Really freaked out, and I had gone and looked into supernatural things, I had looked at Edgar Casey, I had read everything I could find on Edgar Casey, and I ended up talking to this man and he said, “I am going to lay my hand on your foot if you don’t mind.” And I said, “Lay your hand anywhere you want.” So he lays his hand on my foot and all of a sudden this power, this enormous heat came through my body, that was just so supernatural that I was frightened, I was literally frightened to death, because I…
SID: Had you ever felt anything like this before?
STEVEN: Never, and I had tried drugs, I had tried smoking marijuana, I had tried, you name it I had tried it, tried to find the meaning of truth, and the meaning of life. And this power just went up through my body, I started to perspire and sweat, and the next thing I know the fire dissipates and this love just overcomes me and it was just overwhelming, this love. And I couldn’t grasp the significance of this great love that I was feeling and the next thing I know, I see this hand, this literal hand in front of my face and I heard a voice and the voice said, “That’s as much of the love that I am giving to you right now, if you were to get any more you would surely die.” And I lay on, and the next thing I know I am laying on the floor and I am laughing, and I am getting cramps in my cheeks from laughing, and I am saying, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus…
SID: Thank you Jesus?
STEVEN: I am saying thank you Jesus. And I’m going wait a minute, do you realize what you are saying, you don’t even know Jesus, Jesus is the Messiah; he is the Son of God. And so I told Jim, I said, “Jim, something has happened to me.” So I told him exactly what I just told you and he said go home and read the gospel of John and the Book of Acts and I read it and when I got to the second chapter of Acts I said oh my gosh, oh my gosh, two thousand years ago this happened, two thousand years ago and it just happened to me Yeshua Hamashia is the Son of God. And I was just, totally blown away, just totally blown away.
SID: But you know this power that came upon you, this power that came upon Steven was power not just for the sake of power, it was power for a purpose. do you remember that young Jewish boy that would watch the healing evangelists like Kathryn Kulman and Earnest Ainsley and others on television, well he was being prepared to pray and miracles would take place, don’t go away, we’ll be right back after this word.
