SID: Hello, Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world, where it’s naturally supernatural. Do you realize, just as I’m doing this introduction, God is beginning to heal people in their back and neck and in their hip. God is such a good God. My guest, Don Dickerman, looks like a nice normal person, but you have prayed for approximately how many people that have been set free from evil spirits and curses?
DON: Through our one on one deliverance ministry and corporate deliverance ministry, probably over 25,000.
Sid Roth: You just don’t look like someone who’s set 25,000… Not only that, most of them are in prison. You went to something like 700 prisons, and you would tell people about God, they would have genuine experiences with God, and they’d get out of prison, and you would be happy, and the next thing you’d know, they’d be back in prison. This must’ve been very discouraging for you.
DON: It was. Not that I felt like a failure, but I couldn’t understand why guys would get genuinely born again, fall in love with Jesus, read their Bible, go to Bible studies, get out of prison, and only make it five or six months and they’re right back in the cycle. That became so frustrating. I remember praying about it many times, “What am I missing?”
SID: There was one particular time that you prayed a very special prayer about being a deliverer.
DON: Yeah. I remember that well. I was in Galveston after some prison services. I told my wife I was going to take a couple of days to fish and relax. But I remember one afternoon, coming in from the fishing piers, frustrated. I just climbed up in the motel bed and wept. But I remember, in that prayer I asked, “Why can’t I be a deliverer?”
Sid Roth: You didn’t even know what you were saying, did you?
DON: No, no. But my heart was sincere. Why can’t I get people out of bondage? What am I missing? I didn’t know, when I said “deliverer”, what was ahead.
SID: That it was literal. So you went to a prison, and one of the workers there had a vision about you. Tell me about that.
DON: This was probably six months later. I was preaching in a federal prison, down in Three Rivers, Texas, below San Antonio. There was an officer seated in the chapel, which is pretty unusual. He was with the inmates. After the service, he came up to me and made conversation. He told the officer on duty, who was stationed in the chapel, “I’ll walk him to his car. I want to talk to him.” So we headed across the prison grounds, and just talked about where he went to church and so on, that he was studying for the ministry. That’s why he was off duty and came to the chapel, because he was going to be a Christian counselor, and is now, in the prison system. But after we had prayer on the parking lot, I left to go back to Corpus Christi where I was staying, and he was going back to Beeville. So we’re on the same road without knowing it. I pulled over to a little gas station grocery store to get a Dr. Pepper and some Fritos or something, before I headed to Corpus Christi. Well he pulls up right behind me, and he gets out of his car like he’s T.D. Jakes or something. He’s just bouncing, like “get ready, get ready.” He came over to the side of the car and motioned for me to let the window down. He had so much excitement in his voice. He said, “While you were preaching, I had a vision of a big black pot. You were standing in the middle of this pot, and there was oil bubbling all around you. Not boiling, just bubbling. All around this pot, there was a sea of sick people, and the stench from their sickness was nauseating. It went up into the heavens. Then that oil began to bubble up and cover you. As it ran down your arms and touched the people, they were healed. Get ready brother, God’s fixing to pour it out on you.” And I know. I don’t know how to explain…
SID: But you come from an evangelical, Baptist type of background, so this is kind of new for you.
DON: Yeah, it was real new. Something I’d longed for. I’d seen thousands of people receive Christ in prisons. Literally thousands. But I’d never seen anyone healed. I’d never seen anyone delivered.
SID: Shortly after that, when you would speak, you wouldn’t even pray for them, you didn’t even know how to pray for them, and what would happen?
DON: When I left the prison, I couldn’t keep tears out of my eyes. Part of my prayer was “God, I don’t know how to do this. They didn’t teach me this.” What I felt the Holy Spirit told me was
“You just keep preaching.” Well, I started getting letters from inmates who would tell me “I know you don’t know this, but while you were preaching, heat came all over me. I used to have this, but I don’t have it anymore.”
SID: People started falling. That’s kind of unusual for a Baptist.
DON: Yeah, it was. Sometimes guys would come up for the alter call, and before I would even touch them, they would fall.
SID: The Spirit of God would just put them on the ground.
DON: I knew what it was, but I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know how to make it happen, I didn’t know how to not make it happen.
SID: Tell you what, when we come back in a moment, I want to find out about the first major healing that occurred with Don. Many of you, your back’s cracking into place right now. Necks, bones of all kinds are cracking into place. When we come back, you’re going to find out about such an amazing miracle. There is power in hearing someone else talk about a miracle. You’re about ready to be healed. Yes, you. Be right back.
