Sid: You know all this week we’ve been talking about this sensational book “Miracles Still Happen.” And I have to tell you of all of the people that I knew I was going to interview this week the one I’ve been looking really forward to I have on the telephone now. She’s in a beautiful place Aspen, Colorado her name is Sara O’Meara. And she was a Hollywood starlet she played in the Ozzie and Harriet television series. She’s done movies with people like Burt Reynolds but the thing that… none of that excites me. The thing that excites me is what God did in her life. And Sara you were diagnosed with cancer your body was just riddled with cancer. The glands on your left side were riddled with cancer, the doctor said you had 3 months to live. Here’s a woman that that’s got everything in the world to live for and I mean that’s supposed to happen to someone else. How did you react to that Sarah?
Sara: When I was told that I had cancer and to get everything in order and it was really shocking beyond belief. I had 2 children to raise, 2 small boys and I was a single mom at that point and I had lost my husband. And so when I heard that news it was devastating I mean I was polarized. I was not expecting such a diagnosis so I was somewhat in a quiet solitude when the television was on in my room in the hospital. Kathryn Kuhlman came on she’s an evangelist and was an evangelist.
Sid: Now that an understatement. I pray in the Name of Yeshua that God raise up 1000’s with that type of anointing I want to see people like that again. But go ahead.
Sara: A fabulous anointing and in fact I might say that she was the closes person to God that I’ve ever known. And I’ve known quite a few very famous people but she to me was the epitome of the love of God. Katherine I did not know, I had never been to a healing service in my life and she pointed that long finger at the television camera and you know she spoke quite dramatically and she said “I believe in miracles because I believe in God, you be at the Shrine auditorium this Sunday if you need a healing from God.” Well it was as if she was talking to me and I decided indeed I would be there, however…
Sid: But wait a second now people especially that don’t understand used to see her use to think “Oh, she’s so theatrical, she must be a phony.” But you didn’t think that did you?
Sara: Not at all, I was mesmerized by it and I really felt that this woman was saying that directly to me and that God wanted me to be there. And so knowing that the doctor would not let me out of my hospital bed for another 8 days and this was on a Thursday and a service was on a Sunday, I was wondering what to do. But I just drove the doctor crazy I told him that I had to be out of this hospital that I had a lot of people to administer to my care and I wanted to be home and after all I was going to die anyway. And to give me that sanctuary of time.
Sid: Did you tell him you wanted to go to a miracle service?
Sara: I did not say that.
Sid: Why?
Sara: Well because I thought he wouldn’t have let me out because most doctors more now than then they don’t believe in miracles like that.
Sid: Had you ever seen a miracle before?
Sara: No.
Sid: I think that this is so amazing that somehow you saw that and the presence of God must have been so strong that you knew, that you knew, that you knew that you had to get there.
Sara: You are exactly right. I just knew that I had to get there no matter what it took. Now I had been brought up… I was a Sunday School Teacher and I had been brought up in church and I was a Christian but I had never been…being brought up as a Presbyterian we were not taught about miracles like that. But remember this was in ’72 so think about how long ago that that was. And anyway I did talk him out of getting out of the hospital. But the only thing is he made me promise that I would not get out of bed at all because the incision had been so deep and the clamps they put in in place of stitches were up and down my body from underneath my earlobe to my kneecap. And so he said that if I moved I could possibly bleed to death because the healing had not been complete as yet for that. And never the less I got out of the hospital I telephone the Shrine Auditorium and said that I’m an ill person and I cannot stand in the mobs like I saw on the television advertisement, is there a special door for terminally ill people? And they said “Yes,” and they put my name on it. However by the time that my friend had dropped me off so that she could go park the car and I would not have to walk so far and I knocked on that specific door the usher came out and stuck his head out and said “I’m so sorry but every seat is taken.” Had you wanted a seat you probably should have been here even an hour before this. And we cannot let one more person in the Shrine Auditorium due to the fire laws.” And “Bang!” went the door, Well I felt hopeless, because I had built myself up to the fact that God was going do something magnificent for me and here I had been rejected. And so when my friend Jan came back to go in with me I had to tell her we could not go in. And at that moment when I was explaining that to her a friend of mine saw me. And said “Sara O’Meara what in the world are you doing here.” And I said “I don’t feel very well.” And I did not want to tell her what was wrong because no one knew including some of my family it had happened so fast. And so she said “You know I came out of the Shrine to get my sweater because it was cold inside and my husband is seated inside and we’re up in the balcony and I’m going to ask him to leave and to give his seat to your friend and my seat to you. Well usually I would have been polite enough to say “Oh, no, no.” But I jumped at the chance and she, they were seated all the way of the top of the Shrine auditorium.
Sid: What’s going on with that long incision?
Sara: What’s going on with that long incision is that I was bleeding profusely and stepping in my own blood. And as I walked up these steps up these seats I literally was making footprints with my blood. And I was exhausted that by the time that I reached the top it was the last balcony in the first row. And she was seated on the end fortunately and I just plopped into that seat. As I did something very interesting happened. I…
Sid: But even before that very interesting thing, how did you really and truly feel?
Sara: You mean at that moment?
Sid: At that moment, yes.
Sara: I felt like that my body was a limp dish rag; I felt that I did not know how I could have made it that far…
Sid: Did you feel you might have made a mistake to even be there at that moment?
Sara: No, I never felt that I just felt that if I could just make it through, I never felt it was a mistake at all. And as I sat down my body… I was lifted above my body.
Sid: Had this ever happened to you before?
Sara: Never, and never since. And I looked down and I could see where I was sitting I could see myself, I felt I either I’m dying or I am hallucinating. It was a very strange thing and I knew that Kathryn had come out on the stage and there was a lot of singing with a huge choir and I knew that she was talking but the words did not digest into my heart and my soul. And so it wasn’t anything that was said.that triggered my faith. It was just that this was going on. And then I came back into my body and as soon as I came…
Sid: I’m sorry we’re out of time will pick up right here on tomorrows broadcast.
Sara: Alright.
Sid: I got on the telephone Therese Marzalek and she is the coauthor of the book “Miracles Still Happen.” Why did you write this book Therese?
Therese: Sid as you have and so many people have, there’s so much in the world that’s so hopeless and the bad news you can turn on the news and see it every day. But God is doing great things in our midst and these stories need to be told. And I had been praying that God would raise up many men and women that could document these stories and get these stories out in fact discovering your ministry was an incredible blessing because you’re doing just that. And people need to know what God is doing in the earth today and within this book is a small snippet of what the incredible things He’s doing across the globe.
Sid: Well you see it’s my opinion that we’re about ready to see the greatest move of God’s Spirit but it’s going to be different than in the past. It will not be the superstar it will be the Superstar inside of just regular believers.
Therese: Absolutely.
Sid: As they go about their normal every day activities they’re going to see more miracles than the quote “Superstars.”
Therese: Absolutely, and that’s the great thing about the stories in these books. These are just regular people just like you and I all in their daily life and God came in and took a hopeless situation and totally transformed it through His love and His power. And every miracle is so unique and it shows the different character aspects of the God that we serve.
Sid: Well there are some 66 different miracle stories; I mean it’s so much better from what you’re watching on television.
Therese: Yeah.
