Sid: We want everyone everywhere to believe that God is their best friend. And if I have any descriptive term for my guest this week, Andre Ashby I would say he is a man that has a friend of God. As a matter of fact I like the way that you put it Andre, you consider God to be your best friend. And that’s what, when you listen to us this week that’s what I want you to be left with, God is your best friend. Andre, you left the Seventh Day Adventist Church and you went into a Spirit-Filled Church, what impressions did you have?
Andre: Yes, it was pretty amazing because I saw the power of God manifested and in the Adventist Church I was always taught that that was the devil, like I said earlier. And I finally went to the Lord and I said, “Lord, if this is the devil, he’s out doing you and I could not see God being out done by the devil. And so I was struck by this tangible personal God, because in the Adventist Church God’s not personal; you never would refer to Him as Poppa or Abba, He’s the great God that created the Universe. And one of my first responses when I went to Kansas City Fellowship where Mike Bickle was the Pastor was I met Bob Jones and he kept calling God Poppa and I’m like, “Poppa, who is his Poppa?” And then it finally dawned on me that He was talking about God, and I was like, “Oh my gosh, he’s talking about God, the great God that created the Universe and he’s calling him Daddy.” And that really struck me because I would never; you would never hear that in the Adventist Church, never.
Sid: Well, I’m kind of reminded of what Moses said, and he said, “God if you take your presence from me, I don’t want to go on, I don’t want to move if I lose your presence.” And most people don’t even know about the presence of God; not just Seventh Day Adventist, most church going Christians don’t know about the presence of God.
Andre: It’s true.
Sid: Andre, there was a moment a very defining moment, a very defining moment in your life where someone I interviewed previously, his name is Jim Goll.
Andre: Yes.
Sid: Prophesied over you, tell me about that experience.
Andre: Yes, I love Jim Goll; he’s one of my spiritual fathers. It was my first Sunday in Kansas City Fellowship. At that time Kansas City Fellowship had six different congregations and I went to one that two friends from college. And I had been to college like several times, and he calls me out and like, you have to understand this is one of the first times of ever being called and out and says “What’s your name, and I said, “My name is Andre” and he said, “Do you know what the prophetic song of the Lord is?” And I’m like, “No.” “God says it’s in you, you’re going to sing it today.” And so he calls me up front and I’m thinking, “Oh God, if you don’t do something this is going to be a big mess,” because I tried to write a song for a year and I couldn’t come up with words. And so he began to sing over me, he said “I was one of the new breed,” and I didn’t understand this language. And he stopped and he put the microphone in my mouth and he said, “Now you sing.” And so, I felt something coming up like from my belly and when it spilled out my friend who brought me from school fell out on the floor, people began to weep all over the room. And we went back and forth for like twenty minutes singing the song of the Lord. And I shook under the power of God which I really had never experienced before and God really tangibly touched me at that time.
Sid: Well, I want to hear a selection of a prophetic song, this is a song that you just sing, you don’t write it out ahead of time, you really live on the edge, maybe that’s what he means by a new breed, living on the edge. Where, if God doesn’t show up you fall off.
Andre: Yeah.
Sid: Okay, the prophetic song that I want from your CD called “Before the Throne,” is called “My Word is Sure.” Tell me what this song is about.
Andre: It’s basically about the Lord, His covenant with us, that if He said it, He’s going to do it, that His word can’t return to him void. And no matter what the circumstances obstacles say, if God spoke it over you He’s going to bring it to pass.
Sid: Tell me about the lady that 24 hours a day 7 days a week she had to have oxygen through a oxygen machine attached to her and what happened to her in the midst of worshipping God.
Andre: This happened in the Hudson Valley Revival, the lady was on oxygen 24 -7 and she was also taking like a hundred pills a day. And it actually wasn’t me leading worship it was another group, but she came to the meeting, I was speaking. She came to the meeting and she was laying on the floor and I’m looking at her and she gets up and walks out with the oxygen detached and she doesn’t come back for a month and I’m like, oh my gosh.
Sid: Andre, she could die.
Andre: Yeah, that’s what I thought of me being a man of faith that I am and I hope she didn’t die and I didn’t know about it. But she came back and the report was that in the midst of worship God completely healed her, took her off oxygen, I think he took her from 100 drugs today at that time I think she was taking four. So in the midst of worship without me laying hands on her or anybody laying hands on her, God came and completely healed her
Sid: That’s because God’s word is true, let’s see what happens when Andre takes that step of faith and he sings the song of the Lord, “My Word is Sure.”
Andre singing “My Word is Sure.” excerpt
Sid: Andre I understand why people are healed and set free of so many different things when they are under the presence of God as you’re worshipping God, but tell me about that person that had had hip replacement.
Andre: Awe, yeah her name is Janice, this happened in Pokipsy, New York. When she came in her, I think it was her right hip, I’m not sure was stiff because she had been in accident and had a complete hip replacement. Her leg was actually an inch and half shorter than the other and so she couldn’t move very well and she was in a lot of pain and I called her up and we prayed for her land literally her leg grew out. But the interesting thing is that her leg is acting like there is no metal in there; I don’t know if there’s still metal at all but her gate is perfectly normal, she has no pain, she went back to the doctor and they measured her leg and they say her legs are absolute level now.
Sid: Now, you’ve had some very, I mean that’s outrageous, but you’ve had even more outrageous things than that happen, tell me quickly about those four young men where one actually flew? Explain that.
Andre: Yeah, that happened actually at a youth camp I do in Seattle every year, and actually there were four guys there who were atheist and one said, “Lord, if you’re real make somebody fly.” So a young man who had just had brain surgery had just got the halo off of his head, literally flew and landed in the middle of the field in the snow.
Sid: Did anyone see this?
Andre: Yeah, everybody saw it.
Sid: Everybody saw this? He flew? You’re telling me, you could see him move that distance in the air?
Andre: Yeah, his feet came off the floor and he literally, the door swung open it was a safety lock that you have to hit to open.
Sid: How did the door swing open?
Andre: I guess God opened the door.
Sid: Ha-ha.
Andre: Ha-ha, I don’t know but literally he flew out and landed in the middle of the field so suffice it to say…
Sid: But bottom line, what happened to that young man as far as salvation?
Andre: He’s no longer an atheist.
Sid: Ha-ha, I would say that would do it.
Andre: Ha-ha.
Sid Roth: Now I won’t promise you you’ll fly, but I’ll promise you you’ll fly in the spirit…
