SID: You know, Steve Swanson’s music, it just flat makes me happy. But you had something supernatural happen and after this happened it was like the supernatural opened in your music. You were at a house of prayer, few people. You were very tired.
STEVE: Yes.
SID: What happened?
STEVE: Actually, nobody was there except for me and another singer, and the prayer leader. And I would play for two hours of devotional and then two more hours of just praying and singing.
SID: For three people.
STEVE: Yeah. For nobody, just us, me and the congregation. But I’m sitting there like this and I’m tired, and I’ve got my head down, and I’m resting my elbows on my knees. And I felt two arms coming underneath my armpits and I heard a voice say, “Sit up and worship me.” And when it said that, it’s like all of a sudden I could hear female voices on my right hand and we were singing “Worthy”. We were just kind of doing this, “worthy”. I could hear the female voices on my right hand, the male voices on the left hand, and they were following what I was playing. So I’m going “worthy, worthy” and they’re doing all that. And I couldn’t tell if they were singing what I was playing or I was playing what they were singing. It was a simultaneous transcription of Heaven. This realm opened up.
SID: Wait. There’s just a few of you. Where is this singing coming from?
STEVE: From Heaven. It’s the realm. There’s something opened up in the Spirit where God allowed me to hear a taste of what’s going on in Heaven.
SID: So since this point you’ve had some very amazing supernatural manifestations. He literally sits at the piano, and it starts playing by itself. What other things happened?
STEVE: Well people get healed. People have visions. People always come up to me and they hear the picture I drew of what I saw, what the Lord is showing me. But people have gotten healed and that. And you know, the more you start singing about that, you more you begin to declare and what’s going on, it gets bigger. What you’re focusing on is being empowered by your words.
SID: The Glory is released. What are some of the things that happen when the Glory is released?
STEVE: You mean like now?
SID: I think I asked the right question.
STEVE: You know, the Glory is a realm of the ease of the Spirit. It’s a wave that we all get into this place where God is manifested in his beauty and his power, and his majesty. That is the Glory of God. God is the Glory, the Glory is God. And when he reveals himself people get healed, people get delivered, people get set free from bondages. It’s the Glory that creates that atmosphere where everything can change for us as we begin to just worship him and that exchange comes from Heaven.
SID: You told me in the Glory you don’t lay hands on people, you don’t pray for people, they just get healed. You were just telling me about someone that was legally blind.
STEVE: Yeah. There was a gentleman, we were, I had, we were going for healing. I had a word of knowledge for arthritis and actually somebody got healed from arthritis during the worship. But this gentleman in particular was on the floor and without anybody laying hands on him, he had been a car wreck where his actual eye socket got crushed and was legally blind in his left eye. And he could feel the warmth of the presence during the worship. And he took off his glasses, and he said, he covered his eye and he could see the fibers in the carpet from where he was laying down and he could feel the presence of God. Another lady had metal in her wrist. And were singing “High Praises” and she came up and testified before the whole congregation. She goes, “I have metal in my wrist. I couldn’t move it, but now look.” And the place went crazy because God is doing it. It’s God gets all the glory. It’s not touched by a man’s hand. It’s all God.
SID: I’m going to release you now to play “Songs of Deliverance” and I’m going to tell you something. The Glory is going to come upon you.
STEVE: Yeah.
SID: And I already know this. People with arthritis in their fingers, as he plays, the arthritis is going to just dissipate in your knees. Any pain in your body, it’s going to just vanish. Ready for your deliverance? “Songs of Deliverance”.
Steve [music, singing] I hear the love song of my king. I hear your song sung over me. The light in your eyes, your heart is set on loving me. And your joy is in my life and your joy is my faith, and your joy is in my worship, and your joy is in my praise.
