SID: I was going to pray for boldness for you but you just did.
JOE: Thank you, thank you, thank you. And so she’s hyperventilating, she’s manifesting a devil. I grabbed her, we bound it, she gave her life to Christ. She took the idol off, got totally set free. Here’s the cool part. Six weeks later she calls me and she said, “Joe, I want you to know that I’ve been in America for two months. I’m from Asia, I’ve been a Buddhist my whole life.” And she said, “I no longer pray to Buddha, only Jesus.” She said, “Several weeks before you walked into that restaurant,” she said, “I had a dream and you were in it preaching me the gospel.” She said, “When you came in that night I knew it was real.” I hung up the phone and the Holy Spirit spoke to me. And I want to tell all of our viewing audience what He said. He said, “I want you to tell every church you go to that I’m doing my job. It’s time for the church to do theirs.”
SID: That’s exactly what I just said.
JOE: Yes.
SID: Joe, what’s going to happen to people you’re not going to be able to lay hands on them but you’re going to pray for an impartation of the same bio that is in you on them, what’s going to happen to them?
JOE: They’re going to get hit by the power of God on their living room sofa. If they’re jogging, if they’re in their bedroom, the power of God is going to fill the atmosphere they’re in.
SID: Well, and what if they’re watching in a bar?
JOE: The power of God’s going to touch them.
SID: Okay, are you ready for the fire of God to touch you when Joe prays? I’m ready. Be right back.
SID: You’ve heard of the 12-step program. Joe says there is a one-step program. What do you mean, Joe?
JOE: Well, for me personally, I was in three different rehab facilities. I spent tens of thousands of dollars on in-house, sitting down with PhDs, suspended from school for selling drugs and it didn’t get me freedom, it didn’t get me deliverance. And when I met Jesus Christ at an altar of a church it was one step, it was one moment to where I was completely delivered from a lifestyle of immorality and addiction in a twinkling of an eye. When I bowed my knee to Jesus and made Him Lord and I was filled with the Spirit, that was the step of my life that determined everything. And I believe that God wants to do that for our audience today. Many people have received Christ in an intellectual way. They ahere to a certain belief system or to a doctrine but Jesus is more than an intellectual system of steps that we adhere to, it is a super natural encounter.
SID: Joe, what is your definition to be empowered by the Holy Spirit?
JOE: That’s a great question. The Bible says in Acts 1:8 that you receive power to be a witness when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Jesus Christ’s first message according to the Book of Luke, He quotes Isaiah and He says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He’s anointed me to preach good news to the poor, for recovery of sight to the blind, to bind up the broken hearted and to set the oppressed free. He was saying, “The Spirit is on me just not for me and my sake, it’s upon me for the sake of the world. It’s upon me to empower my proclamation and set the captive free and move in the supernatural power of God,” that would be my working definition. A lot of people think the Holy Spirit is just for them to feel good, to have a good revival meeting, to help them live their life, but it is an empowerment to break the [hold] of—the hell, death and the grave off of humanity and an empowerment that the gospel would go forth into people’s lives.
