SID: Sid Roth here with Steven Zarit, and what’s happened to Steven is this nice culturally Jewish man that is out to make a million dollars, he has a top executive job in publishing a meshugah, a former alcoholic, one of these born-again types comes into his office, puts his hands on him, prays for him, a fire literally goes throughout his body, and I tell you that there are so many people like Steven Zarit today, that are waiting to hear the truth. I had a dream a number of years ago and in this dream God spoke to me and he said more Jewish people would come to know him through my book of Jewish stories than anything that I had ever touched. And history has shown it is true. Over three-quarters of a million have been printed, over a half a million in the Russian language alone. It is ten Jewish people from different, diverse walks of life, a Jewish stockbroker, a Jewish person in the New Age, a Jewish concert pianist, Jewish people that all came to the same conclusion, Jesus is the Messiah. And because it is a story, not a preaching type of book, Jewish people read it cover to cover and then at a point of desperation say what Steven Zarit said, his desperation was the heat of God was so strong he yelled out Jesus’ name.
STEVEN: Amen, amen, what I forgot to say is in 1975 I would go to a Messianic synagogue and I would memorize the sermon and I would go home and I would tell it to my Mom and Dad.
SID: They must have loved that.
STEVEN: They listened, they were nice, but they listened and six months later my dad said you don’t have to tell us anymore, your mother and I got down on our hands and knees and accepted Yeshua Hamashia into our lives.
SID: Steven, when a Jewish person like you or I have experienced what the fire, the reality of the living God at work, did you tell any of your employees of your belief in Jesus?
STEVEN: Yes I did, I told, as a matter of fact we had a big drug problem at work, a cocaine problem, and it turns out, I didn’t know who the dealer was, and the Lord led me to the Jewish couple that were the dealers and led them into the Kingdom and so there was no more cocaine in the company anymore.
SID: How many of your employees received Jesus?
STEVEN: About seventeen of them.
SID: Did you hear that? That’s normal. Seventeen, and I imagine a lot of them were Jewish?
STEVEN: Yes they were, and I also in 1979 I had a lady that worked in my bookkeeping department took a two-week vacation, called me up on the telephone after the end of the two-week vacation and she said, “Steve would you come to the hospital in Anaheim and pray for me,
they found a tumor the size of a small peach on the right parietal lobe of my brain.” And I said, “Sure, I will come and pray for you,” knowing that even though I said that I would come and pray for her, I had never laid hands on anybody before in my life and so I hung up the phone and I went over to my girlfriends house and I said hi, how are you doing. And she said, “What are you doing here, you are supposed to be at the hospital praying for Pat?” And I said, “Yeah, but it is getting late and it is another 20 miles away.” And she said, “You are not coming in here until you pray for Pat.” And so thank God for pushy women. She’s my wife now, so thank God for pushy wives. But I went to the hospital and all the way to the hospital I prayed, I said oh God, please don’t let there be anybody in the hospital room, because I don’t want to embarrass you, I don’t want to embarrass you Lord. And so I get to the hospital room and I walk in and there are fifteen people in the hospital room. Pat’s head is shaved bald and there is an X right where they are going to cut her open. And the Lord spoke to me in my heart and said, “X marks the spot.” So I walked up to her and I rebuked the tumor, the next morning her husband called me up hysterical and said, “You aren’t going to believe this, you aren’t going to believe this, the tumor is gone.” And with all the faith I could muster up I said, “It is?” It’s gone; it’s gone?”
SID: You were more surprised than the husband.
STEVEN: I was amazed, and then I was just so filled with faith, everybody, they were waiting in line at my door for me to pray for their headaches, their backaches.
SID: Were they getting healed?
STEVEN: Every one of them was getting healed.
SID: What about that person with leukemia that had just a few days to live?
STEVEN: There was a lady, one of my salesman said that a woman across the street from his house had leukemia and the doctors gave here a week to live and he wanted to know if I would come and pray for her and I went on my lunch break for five days, at the end of five days the leukemia was totally gone. And then we had a lady named Milna, I will never forget, a little Millie, and she had throat cancer, and they were going to give her a mechanical throat box, a mechanical voice box, and she knocked at my door and I said can I help you and she said I work out in the warehouse and she said, “God told me,” a little Catholic lady, and the Catholic people just believe in faith, they have a lot of faith, and she said, “God told me that if you pray for me
he is going to heal me of cancer.” And so I said okay, and I just touched her throat, she flies against the wall and hits the wall and falls down on the ground, cancer totally gone. I was blown away.
SID: God gave you a marvelous gift.
STEVEN: It’s wonderful, it is wonderful, I have been doing it for thirty-five years.
SID: Well, but guess what happened, there was a rock group called The Righteous Brothers and one of the members of this particular group was a man by the name of John Wimber. Now Steven hears about his church and he is blown away because instead of as you explained, the music how was it?
STEVEN: Oh the music was wonderful, they did 45 minutes of praise and worship music, it was…
SID: What were you used to?
STEVEN: I was used three 19th century songs.
SID: Okay listen, when he bumps into this former member of The Righteous Brothers, the power begins to increase, don’t go away, we will be right back.
