SID: Hello. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest has been number three on the Gospel charts. But that’s not why he’s here. He’s here because he literally hears songs from Heaven. He literally hears not just trumpets, but shofars, rams horns blasted from Heaven. And when he sings these songs, miracles erupt. I protest, and here’s why I protest. Eddie James, at eight years of age, you hear the audible voice of God. I didn’t even know who God was at eight years of age. I mean, and not only that, God tells you you’re going to be a musician, a singer and go all over the world, at eight years of age. Your mother finds out. She goes to this old Bible and she pulls out a little piece of paper she had never shown you. What did it say?
EDDIE: It said exactly what the Lord spoke to me when I was eight years old, what the Lord would do with my life in music, in ministry. The Lord had spoken to her at our church through a prophet who came from Africa, told her when she was just conceived with me, that I would be a son that would travel across the world doing ministry, preaching and doing worship. And she pulled that card out. She wrote the prophecy down, pulled the card when the Lord spoke to me at eight years old and told me the same thing.
SID: And then he gets ready to go to high school, but he knows he needs some extra help. He needs to be immersed in the Spirit of the Living God with speaking in unknown tongues. And he prays for this, and he gets hit, but hit is an understatement. What happened to you?
EDDIE: Oh what a glorious moment it was, Sid. The Lord filled me with the Holy Ghost just before I went into my freshman year in high school. I spoke in tongues all that day, that Sunday, all the next day, for several days. It was hard to talk English at all. The Holy Ghost just wrecked my life. I’ve never been the same.
SID: Well I’m going to tell you something. The Holy Spirit has got to show up in the high schools and where you live, because when Eddie James showed up, because the Holy Spirit was inside of him, tell me one miracle that you remember that happened in high school, in your high school.
EDDIE: Incredible. Okay. So a woman named, we call her Sister Breaker, she helped us establish what is called the South [unintelligible] Gospel High School Choir. It’s a choir that I started as a desire to be a witness in my school. And we would sing several days a week, and we would see signs, wonders and miracles. And one of the most outstanding miracle that I saw, I was fasting for a few weeks because I was accepted in the call to ministry. And my teacher, Mrs. Modinger, she was a chemistry teacher, she, we were coming downstairs and she fell down two flights of stairs, head first, hitting every step. And you know, at this time I’m wanting so bad to be a follower of Christ and a representation of God. I’ve got my suit on. I’m 14 years old. I’ve got my suit on at school every day. I’ve got my big Bible because I’m trying to be holy, you know, walk with God. So I, without thinking about it, I jump down to where my teacher was and I just laid hands on her, prayed for her for her to be healed, for her to be delivered. I didn’t think about what the kids were going to think about this. I didn’t think about what other teachers who saw it, what were they going to say. I just knew the power of God was able to do miracles. I jumped down there. She got up completely healed, completely whole. They took her to the doctor anyway just to make sure, check and see her back, her head. No issues, no scars, no hurts, no pains. She comes and testifies to my chemistry class the next day and says this: “I don’t know what’s in that young man, but it’s real.”
SID: You know what? You know what’s in that young man? The Messiah of Israel. That’s who’s in the young man.
EDDIE: Yes sir.
SID: And I’m going to tell you something. He’s alive. Briefly, tell me about the song, “He’s Alive.”
EDDIE: I was preparing for a conference with Chuck Pierce. And I’m in my hotel, and as I’m writing out songs I’m going to do for this conference, right there at my desk in the hotel, “He’s Alive” just comes into my spirit. But I hear shofars, I hear trumpets, I hear, and I haven’t done an event with Chuck Pierce. I’m not exactly sure what he’s about, not knowing that when I got there, there would be all these shofars, all these trumpets. I mean, he’s really into that with this awesome Jewish expression of worship. And so as I begin to sing this, in our sound check time, it was amazing, because you know, I just got the song by Divine inspiration.
SID: The whole song?
EDDIE: The whole song. I had to figure out the chorus. I had to figure out the verse. I had to figure out the melody. It all just came just like that. And I knew in that moment, that was a song I was supposed to do in that hour.
SID: Well I know in this moment I want you to get to the music set and I want to hear you do that song. Do you want to hear “He’s Alive”? I want to hear that. And I’m going to tell you something else. I am going to proclaim this to you.
EDDIE: Yes.
SID: He is alive!
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EDDIE: Jesus is alive today. God’s not dead. It’s good news that Jesus is alive. Come on put your hands together. Let’s celebrate Jesus today. [singing] Hallelujah, oh yeah. The lamb that was slain, he’s alive. Forever he shall reign, he’s alive. They crucified him at Calvary but he rose in victory. He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s alive with all power in his head. He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s alive with all power in his head. The lamb that was slain, he’s alive. And forever he shall reign, he’s alive. They crucified him at Calvary but he rose in victory. He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s alive with all power in his head. Jesus is alive, he’s alive, he’s alive with all power. The lamb that was slain, he’s alive. This is good news. Forever he shall reign, he’s alive. They crucified him at Calvary but he rose in victory. Oh he’s alive. He’s alive! He’s alive! He’s alive with all power in his head. Jesus is alive today. He’s alive! He’s alive with all power in his head. He’s alive!
