Sid: My guest by way of telephone her name is Dawn Sweigart I’m speaking to her at her home in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Dawn came and it’s an understatement from a dysfunctional family. She did everything that nonbelievers do but one moment in her life she was challenged and she knew the truth repented of her sins came to know the Messiah. Before she was a believer in the Messiah she moved in the psychic realm if you will. She read in the New Testament about all of these supernatural things so she figured it would happen to her. But Dawn you told me for about 6 months none of this happened, in fact the other unknowing that you had just kind of disappeared; why do you think God did that?
Dawn: I think He did it to present a clear line of demarcation in my life that the former things have passed way and to forget even the way that the gift had operated before. You know before it made me feel important; it made me feel powerful, it made me have a sense of control over people I was with. I felt like I knew something that they didn’t know. But one thing that became really clear to me was that I had to like Paul even though he had to completely godly and the realms of the law background that he forgot the former things the things that were behind and he reached forward to the things that were ahead so he could obtain the prize of the upward call in Christ Jesus. I felt that call on my life that okay if that was for that season, if that was the natural gift that was pushed down through the generational lines from my grandmother to me then I have a better call in Christ. But when I began about 6 months into it just really feeling just the fire of God on me to know His heart and to speak His heart to others the pastor of my church put me into a prophetic gifting class and things just started to open up right away.
Sid: Do you remember the first prophecy that you had?
Dawn: I do I had left the class the very first day come home and was about to lay down for a nap I had a young toddler at the time. As I was lying down literally mid recline I was somewhere else and I saw a vision of one of the woman in my class and she was in a room that was wood on the bottom glass on the top with 2 wood strips separating the glass. And inside that room and I was on the outside she was on the inside she was dying, she was literally wasting away before my eyes and she kept saying “It’s all for You Jesus, it’s all for You.” And everyone else outside the glass thought she had lost her mind. I knew all this and wanted to cry out to her “He didn’t want you to do this He did it for you, He died for you.” As I went to speak in this thing that I called a dream for a long time because I didn’t have another word for it my head hit the pillow and I woke up. So all this had taken place and just in the reclining process I called my Sunday School Teacher and they had a meeting with the woman and myself and she said “Maybe you ought to see something, she walked us out to the parking lot and she was in an old wood sideboard station-wagon wood on the bottom glass on the top, two strips of wood separating the three glass pains. She said “She felt like the Lord had told her to stop eating, to give up everything, every worldly possession and move into her car as a sacrifice. Her family had completely cut themselves off from her because they thought she had lost her mind. She did need some counseling and she did need some spiritual guidance through the season. But God used that word to rescue her out of a place that was leading to death and seeing the power of God’s eternal and perfect and sovereign knowledge of everything and all who live and seeing Him intersect that knowledge with His love into people’s lives. I…
Sid: It gets you pretty excited when God tells you to do something and you see that vision being played out before your eyes.
Dawn: Yes, it is pretty exciting.
Sid: I don’t think there’s anything more exciting than to have God communicate with us humans and the creator of the universe is interested in using us.
Dawn: (Laughing)
Sid: There’s nothing Dawn.
Dawn: Absolutely I mean I think the one that God has so put into my heart is you know “Those who are forgiven much love much” and I while I never had any doubt of how much I was forgiven of from the moments I came to Christ I also never carried shame about it. I was lost, I acted like I was lost; I was raised in a godless house hold, I acted like I was raised I a godless household. But from the moment He revealed Himself to me I wanted to be like Him. God doesn’t judge the outward he judges the heart. I think that our pursuit of wanting to know Him and to be like Him and reveal Him to the world. You know He says “The knowledge of the glory of God will cover the earth as the waters over the sea” but He says that He’s given this call to reveal His glory to His bride to the church, to you and I as believers as the Spirit dwells in us. That at any time He gets to minister, He gets to reveal Himself; He gets to prophesy, He gets to declare a Word of Knowledge and to reveal discernment of spirits and raise the dead or heal the sick. It’s awesome to be counted not as a servant but as co-laborers.
Sid: Now does God ever direct you to go in a secular place like for instance go somewhere and talk to someone and you’ve seen how it’s dramatically changed that person’s life? Give me an example.
Dawn: Yeah, I actually just saw the woman from one of the examples on Wednesday night at that conference that you were at. Her name was Debra Hughes. I had gone to the grocery store just to pick up a couple of items I had a head ache and was in a rush to get home. And there was an aisle 3 was empty so I was going up to that cash register and the Lord told me go to the express lane. Well I glanced over the express land and this woman would a crew cut tee shirt on, no makeup very hard, slamming items through trying to get the scanner to work. And 3 people in her line and I just kind of gave that hesitancy look to the Lord like “Do I have to God? I’d just gone to aisle 3 and He was silent but you know He said “Today I will direct you with my eyes.” And I felt Him direct me with His eye and the fear of the Lord came so I went to the express line and as I did I walked up and I just felt this overwhelming compassion for this woman who was showing so much anger and so much rage and frustration. So when she grabbed my items I looked at her and I said “Hi” she didn’t answer, “How are you doing?” And she looked up and said “Like you care.” At that point the man behind me began to clear his throat to rush me through and I said “You might want to go get a drink of water, or go to aisle 3 it’s open I’ll be a couple of minutes.” And when I did that she looked at me because I don’t think that anyone had defended her that day or that week or maybe her entire life. And I said “If I didn’t care I wouldn’t saying “How are you?” And she went on to tell me that she was scheduled for a colostomy, that she had advanced Crohn’s disease, she wouldn’t be getting sick leave because of lifestyle choices; her family wanted nothing to do with her. I asked her if I could pray for her. And she just looked at me and shrugged her shoulders and she said “Okay.” And I said “Have you ever heard of Jesus?” And she said “You mean the Son of God right?” And I said “Exactly who I mean.” And I said “I’m going to pray in His Name that you’ll be healed because I believe that Jesus the Son of God is the Messiah, He’s the way to God and that He’s a healer who’s still healing.” And so I took her hands and she bowed her head and closed her eyes and I just asked God to reveal His love to her. That in His love that we would experience complete healing in her body; and out of that healing she would come to Him and be His for eternity. Then I said “Amen” she lifted her head up tears streaming down her face and I said “Do me a favor I want you to have the doctor just do another lower GI, have him do one more test before he does the surgery because I believe you’re healed.” And she just kind of nodded her head silently and I said “God bless you” and I left. I was out in the parking lot and the automatic door swished opened and she was yelling “Hey, hey and I turned around and I said “What?” And she said “Are you an angel?”
Sid: Hmm.
Dawn: And I said “No, I’m not an angel my husband’s probably going to find that out in about an hour but I’m just a believer in Jesus.” And she said “I could have sworn you were an angel.”
Sid: But 9 months later.
Dawn: Nine months later.
Sid: You saw her again and what report did she give you about her Crohn’s disease?
Dawn: She had gone to the doctor – had him examine her and she was completely healed. I said “So what’s going on with you now?” And she said “What do you think I am I’ve give my life to God!” There she is and I go to Life Center and she was actually at the youth conference that you were at in Grantham, so she’s doing very well still pursuing the Lord.
Sid: Now out of curiosity when you prayed for her I know you felt directed to her you really wanted to go somewhere else. Were you praying by just faith in the integrity of God’s Word or did you have a Rhema word inside of you she would be healed?
Dawn: You know I think it was a little of both I can’t even in retrospect saying I knew she was going to be healed. But I can tell you that faith the substance of the faith, the substance of the unseen I felt in me. I felt at that time that the faith I had that God loved her enough to reveal His love through healing her body that she would be healed. And I think he wants to take us from a place of faith in His eternal word that there would be faith in the Rhema Word that God is speaking that now, He’s speaking it now to the hurting; He’s speaking it now to the bound; He’s speaking it now to the brokenhearted. It was definitely intersection of that at the grocery store that day.
Sid: I’ll tell you what Dawn we’re out of time again, the presence of God is really pouring through on this show I’m expecting the next two.
