SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest had a visitation from God in his home that lasted nine months. The tangible Glory of God came into his home with everything that goes along with the tangible Glory of God and God instructed him principles how anyone can operate in that same manifest presence of God. That’s why Jesus was able to do the miracles. He walked in that Glory and he wants to teach you. Anyone here interested? You know, I first met Shawn Morris, he came to one of our tours of Israel. It is so hard, the person and his wife that I had lunch with in Israel is the same person that I’m reading about. I mean, your family, mostly drug addicts and murderers, and dealers. You were rejected by your birth dad. You were abused and ridiculed by your mother and your stepdad. At age 11, you were into drugs and alcohol. By 16, you were a full blown heroin addict.
SHAWN: Yes.
SID: And as a teenager, a life of crime.
SHAWN: Yes.
SID: Murder, everything. In your early 20s, you’re facing 99 years in prison.
SHAWN: Correct.
SID: So you go to prison and you bump into some Christians.
SHAWN: Yes.
SID: What happened to that heroin addiction?
SHAWN: Well Sid, when I went into prison, this is my first Jesus encounter. They had these guys, they would pray and have Bible study in prison.
SID: Did you know much about Jesus before then?
SHAWN: No, I knew about church, but I didn’t really know about Jesus. You know, I knew about going to church, I had heard of Jesus, but I never really had a relationship or knew anything about him. So I met these guys in prison, Sid, and these guys would have Bible studies and things of that nature. So they introduced me and they prayed for me to receive Jesus. Now I didn’t feel anything miraculous. I didn’t feel any supernatural feelings or anything. But I noticed something was different. The heroin addiction that I usually had, if I didn’t have it in several days I would get sick. I would begin to get nauseated. I would begin to have cramps and different withdrawal symptoms. Sid, as soon as I said that prayer all the withdrawal symptoms left.
SID: Did you realize it was God that did that?
SHAWN: I knew it was God. You know, I was experiencing God, but you know, I wasn’t trying to get free from sin. I was just trying to get free from prison.
SID: That’s called jailhouse religion.
SHAWN: Exactly, definitely jailhouse religion. So in the midst of that, Sid, I was completely healed. I didn’t need a 12-step program, only step Jesus.
SID: Okay. You’re facing a 99-year sentence.
SHAWN: Yes, sir.
SID: And you made a vow to God.
SHAWN: Yes, I made a vow to God. If he was to get me out of this situation I promised I was never going to touch drugs again.
SID: But that’s even too big, for God to get you out.
SHAWN: Exactly. When I got out of prison I stopped using drugs.
SID: So God honored that vow.
SHAWN: He honored the vow, Sid, but the thing is I did not honor my vow.
SID: How did God answer that prayer, facing 99 years in prison, but he answered it. How did he get you out?
SHAWN: Well basically, my mother thought because of her letter to the judge and they didn’t have a witness and they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that I was guilty, but I knew that it was the Judge that lived up above that got me out of that sentence. So you know, the thing was, is I’ve met Jesus in prison, but I also left him in prison. So it was very hard for me to really understand the changing of a lifestyle. I had the introduction, but I didn’t have the relationship with Jesus.
SID: So you step back into that life of drugs and crime.
SHAWN: Yes.
SID: And then a childhood friend comes to visit you one day.
SHAWN: Yes.
SID: And he gave you a challenge that hit you like a two-by-four. What was it?
SHAWN: Yes. Well Sid, the thing is I knew my friend. I knew something was different. He had got saved and I didn’t know what that really fully meant. So he came to my house one day and he read to me Second Timothy, Chapter 3, when it speaks about, “In the End Times there shall be perilous times and the last days there shall be boasters, braggers, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, etc.” So he asked me, Sid, he said, “Show me in Scripture, in that text, what described you.” All of a sudden, Sid, I kid you not, electrical currents came from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I began to weep uncontrollably and I was the whole Chapter 3. And I began to weep and shake on the floor for several hours, and it led to several days.
SID: And so you became a real believer.
SHAWN: I became a real believer.
SID: And then your friend calls you up because you’re a little short money.
SHAWN: Right.
SID: And says, “I have a gift for you. I want to give you a gift.” So what are you thinking? Well all of a sudden I’m thinking, hey, he’s about to bless me with some money. This Jesus stuff really works, you know. I’m used to being a hustler, drug dealer, so I’m thinking, hey, I’m going to get this guy off some money. So all of a sudden he took me to his house, and all of a sudden he began to pray for me. And I closed my eyes and he said, “Just receive.” And he said, “Just receive.” And as he kept saying “just receive,” all of a sudden he said… I felt this overwhelming heat all over my body and I began to babble this verbiage that I had never heard before.
SID: Had you ever heard supernatural languages, tongues before?
SHAWN: I never heard of it. I grew up Baptist, Sid, so this was a whole brand new dynamic for me. So when I began to speak in these tongues, I’m like I didn’t know what I had received. So when I got back home that night and fluent languages began to come out of my, out from me, Sid, and I began to pray in tongues, and every time I prayed this overwhelming heat would come upon me.
SID: Would it come upon your hands, your whole body?
SHAWN: It would come upon from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I mean, I would literally be shaking.
SID: Now I read in the Bible about the baptism of the Spirit, but I also read about the baptism of the Spirit and fire.
SHAWN: Yes, Sid. Yes, Sid. Well see, the thing is right after that encounter, Sid, everyone I would pray for would get instantly delivered, would get instantly saved. I mean, conviction would fall upon them.
SID: Before that, that degree wasn’t happening.
SHAWN: It never happened to me before. I mean, people at my job was getting saved. My managers were afraid to write me up when I’m late because they were afraid God was gonna get them. That’s how powerful the Anointing was at the time.
SID: Hold that thought. It started growing. And I mean, I have heard of people having words of knowledge, but he would literally read people’s mail and people would just come in his presence and they’d be repenting and convicted of sin. We’ll be right back.
