SID: My guest David Edwards wants to invite you. I mean, that means you, you that are watching me right now to experience the presence of God in the elements of creation. He’s talking about natural elements being supernaturally affected by the spirit of God. David, what do you mean by natural elements or kinds?
DAVID: We’ve seen the four elements of creation, earth, wind, fire, and water. We had the fire of God up here. We had a lightning strike inside of a building. In one meeting, we even felt what was like rain drops or mist coming down. And so all of these elements have combined to reveal something new that God’s speaking today.
SID: Now in 2016, you first were aware of what God was doing, what happened?
DAVID: So me and my wife Allessia were sent out on a ministry trip by our spiritual father. And as we went out, it’s the first time we were sent out as family and going to a church, we’ve had some of these encounters happen in our private life, but this is the first time we felt like the Lord wanted us to share these encounters with some other people. So we’re in the middle of the meeting and I began to share about the wind of God that we’d experienced blowing through the room. And I had everyone put their hands out in front of them to look for the wind of God to blow, and a gust of wind rushed in. Some people’s hair fluttered. Some of the notes that people were taking, the pages flipped over, one of the pages even fell out.
SID: How does the wind go inside of a building?
DAVID: That’s a great question. God’s in control. In these encounters, I wanted to make sure it wasn’t the air conditioner, so I was aware of what was happening in the room. And the Spirit of God really came in there.
SID: Give me an example of the demonstration of God’s presence in your own home.
DAVID: So, one day I was praying and it [was] one of those prayer times when I wasn’t really feeling much and I had to discipline myself to stay in His presence. I was coaching myself, just hang out, you don’t need to go get some coffee. And I thought, what would happen if I just stayed here in His presence and I did it just for Him, not what comes with Him, but just for Him alone? And as I thought those thoughts, all of a sudden I heard bang, bang, bang. It sounded like somebody ran up on my front porch, but by the spirit, I knew it wasn’t the UPS man. I knew her friend wasn’t stopping by, somehow I knew it was an angel of the Lord and the next instant, my entire house began to shake and vibrate in the presence of the Lord.
DAVID: Now, I’ve been in a couple of small earthquakes and this was different. This was like a fine buzzing or a fine vibrating. It was almost as if the drywall, the studs, the foundation, and the beams all began to praise God, by the fact that the Presence of God was in the room.
SID: Well, I understand from friends of mine that have died and gone to heaven and been sent back, that in heaven, everything is alive. It’s almost like heaven invades earth in these instances. That’s what it sounds like to me.
DAVID: Absolutely. One of our favorite verses is Romans 8:19-22. And it says, “All creation groans for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed.” Even it says, almost like you’re standing on tiptoe, like where are the sons? Where is the family of God? And I think we’re the family of God, because God is supernatural, and for His sons and daughters, we are by nature, supernatural beings. It says that we’re new creations, our ktisis. So when we show up the creation itself responds to heavenly family.
