SID: Hello, Sid Roth, your investigative reporter here with Tommy Almonte. Tommy is from the Dominican Republic and as a young boy he saw miracles. In fact, he literally had a dream that showed the future of every member of his family. But he fulfilled those prophesies from the dream, came to the United States, and tragedy hit you. One of your best friends who also had moved to the United States committed suicide. How did it affect you?
TOMMY: You know it was one of those events you never think is going to happen to you. You hear of people committing suicide and it never crosses your mind that it might happen to someone that you love, and someone you know. And when it happened to me, it sent me into a mode of going away from God. I didn’t want to have to do anything with God.
SID: Were you angry with God because your friend committed suicide?
TOMMY: I was. I blamed God for my best friend committing suicide.
SID: You know a lot of you are angry with God, and your anger is focused in the wrong direction. God is love. And his friend committed suicide because there is an enemy of God and you have an enemy in the invisible realm. But Tommy, you didn’t understand this and so you drifted from God for a long time. What changed your mind?
TOMMY: You know I found myself in a place where I didn’t enjoy sinning because there was a voice, which I didn’t know, now I know it was the voice of the Holy Spirit, it would remind me daily, you are not where you are supposed to be. You are not doing the things you are supposed to be doing. But then I would go to church the next day, and I would be very uncomfortable because I was very angry with God. So I was between these two places…
SID: You were almost like in two different worlds.
TOMMY: I was. I was, yeah. And not satisfied. Yes, when I would get together with friends I was happy, and I would put, you know, my face on. Everything was great and was fine, but when I was alone – this feeling of being depressed. Because I wasn’t happy with this God that you know I was taught since I was a kid, and I didn’t want to do anything with Him. And I wasn’t enjoying being away from God.
SID: You must have been miserable.
TOMMY: I was, I was. I came to a point that I was so empty inside that one day I made a deal with God. I said, I’ll tell you what, I’m going to pursue You, and if I don’t find You, this voice, whatever it is, I want it to go away. So I can go and do whatever I want.
SID: You couldn’t live with that bad feeling you had, the guilt you had.
TOMMY: Yeah, yeah. And I do believe that it was the prayer of my parents praying for me. But we made that deal, that day, and it’s funny, I laugh now…
SID: Now did you think that God was going to become real to you?
TOMMY: No! I was sitting Him up. That’s the funny thing. In the back of my mind I said that I am sitting you up, because I know that I’m not going to find you. And this is going to go away, and I can go and pursue what I want.
SID: By the way, in the meantime, while Tommy is trying to find out if God is real, and thinking He really isn’t the personal. God, the personal God just spoke to me, and told me that many of you are being physically healed right now. There are people that have back problems, if you’ll bend over, you’ll see the pain is gone. I mean literally, your spines are being straightened and people with pain in your neck; the pain is gone. People with migraines, they are gone in Jesus name. Even sight, anything in the head area, breathing, allergies, sinus, eyes, you are healed in Jesus name. So Tommy, you made this deal, but you know what, I believe that that wasn’t a deal. What you were asking for was what God wanted. You didn’t even have to make a deal, even though you thought He wasn’t personal because your friend committed suicide but what happened?
TOMMY: Well, the first thing He said, if you are going to do it my way, you are going to do it my way. And He said, I want you to take one day of the week, and spend time with me. Don’t do anything else. I want you to go in that room and spend the whole day with me. I don’t want you to bring books. I don’t want you to do anything else. I said what? Spend a day with you? What am I going to be doing with you for a day? But I did and the only day that I had open was Saturday. So every day from five in the morning to late in the afternoon, five, six PM, I would be there with God, spending time with Him. And in those times
SID: You realize you are really approaching coming to God in a Jewish fashion.
TOMMY: I do know that.
SID: When Jewish people take Saturday to put God first, so to speak, in our life, so God is making you from the Dominican Republic very Jewish. So, I mean were you a little worried? What am I going to do all day?
TOMMY: I was. As a matter of fact, I thought I was losing my mind. What am I going to do? And I didn’t want to say anything to anyone. I didn’t want people to think that I was losing my mind. But I did. I said if I’m going to prove that there is no God, I’m going to do whatever He says. So I went and I spent time with Him. But in those times, I went from being angry, to wanting to know Him. I went from going in that room to prove that He is not there, to going in there to find Him and to meet with Him. And in those times was when I had the most personal time with God.
SID: You’re telling me God showed up?
TOMMY: He did.
SID: Well I tell you something. I tell you that Tommy told me before we started speaking that he is not special. But he serves a special God that you don’t have to make a deal with, this is God’s heart, this is God’s desire, that you would have intimacy with Him. Wait until you find out how the invisible world opened up to Tommy. Don’t go away, we’ll be right back.
