Our Guest Dawn Sweigart
Sid: I promise you, you listen to me long enough and some of this anointing of the presence of God it’s going to splash off on you. My guest Dawn Sweigart, I’m speaking to her from her home in Mechanicsburg, PA. On yesterday’s broadcast we found out that Dawn came from I mean who else – who hasn’t from a dysfunctional background a dysfunctional family; and she looked for peace in all the wrong places. Sound familiar, but her life was constant torment. She’s working in a real high quality boutique and a young man that just got saved wanders in starts witnessing to her and she is really set to show him how stupid he is. But by the Spirit of God he didn’t have answers to her questions, but by the Spirit of God he asked her a question “Where is your peace?” And he nailed her, he gave her a little Bible she started reading it; a book about the life of Jesus and she started reading it. She remembered a promise she made to her Mother-in-law on her death bed; did that promise mean much to you Dawn?
Dawn: You know at the time my love for her meant something to me I can also say I often loved her more than anybody else I’ve ever know at that time; because there was nothing that she could get out of me I was this young girl and couldn’t really offer anything. But she showed me the love of God even before I knew what it was; the promise meant something in that it could give her peace as she was preparing to die, but I felt no obligation at the time to fulfill it. I felt like God had let me down; I didn’t understand this God who would allow suffering; I didn’t understand this God who would allow things like the Holocaust and rapes and things like that. So I didn’t feel an obligation but when I came to the Lord that night, and I remember her saying “You need God” I realized that she wasn’t trying to enter me into a contract so that I would have a different lifestyle. She was trying to enter me into relationship where I would have a different life.
Sid: But what about all those questions? What about all those inconsistencies didn’t they matter at that moment?
Dawn: (Laughing) You know at the moment they didn’t I felt love for the first time in my life I felt forgiven and clean. I had felt unclean since I was four years old; I had always felt defiled; I had always felt used and not worth anything and forgotten. I suddenly felt remembered and desired and chosen and loved. I realized then that nothing could take me away from the love that had created me and there was nothing I could do to make Him turn His face away from me.
Sid: But 12 hours a day reading the Bible; how could you do that, why would you do that?
Dawn: I’ve always been a racist reader I just got your book yesterday and I finished it in a couple of hours. I had always been a great studier I would get lost in books. And when I called Scott the next day and told him I’d been saved. He said “Well, you have to start reading the Bible and when I called him back 8 days later and said “Now what?” He…
Sid: (Laughing)
Dawn: He couldn’t believe it he said “What are you talking about now what?” And I’m like “I read it and it’s amazing it’s awesome.” I was just so consumed I mean the Bible my Bible only has 1450 pages it was nothing to read a 300 page novel on the beach I a day that was nothing. And yet this I wanted to find out about the mysteries of this God. When I arrived at the Book of Hebrews and realized that it wasn’t the blood of goats and calves that could have taken away sin or the Son of Man didn’t have to come but it was a shadow. That verse in Hebrews said it was a shadow of the good things to come; it was like a light went on and that God out of His mercy before the Lamb who was slain from the foundations of the world split time and we would all see with our own eyes the One who would come that He had allowed a way for the Covenant People of God to enter into salvation by the sacrifice of life and of blood. That confusion as never been an issue from the moment I knew love; finding out the secrets of God He says “It’s the glory of God to seal a matter and the glory of kings to search a matter out.” I’ve been astounded at His invitation to inherit the glory of kings. So there are matters I constantly search out, but I always find it pointing to the Christ the Messiah. He’s come and there is no inconsistency He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.
Sid: Now, you have an encounter with God.
Dawn: Yes.
Sid: You can’t put the Bible down; you find a good church, a good charismatic church, unfortunately a typical charismatic church; that means they speak in tongues, there might me an interpretation there might be a short prophetic word, but you don’t see a lot of miracles or anything. But you are loaded with the Spirit of God so what’s going on with you in this church?
Dawn: I am well you know on day 7 when I’d read the Book of Hebrews I was baptized in the Holy Spirit on day 7 by myself at home on my bed; I ran out of words to praise Him with because all of sudden the apparent discrepancies were gone and I was just astounded by Him and all of a sudden out of my praising words that weren’t my own came out of mouth and I remember because the day before I had been in the Book of Acts and I said “This is it, this is it!” And I reached on top of my head to see if there was fire and there was nothing hot up there but I knew the Holy Spirit had…
Sid: Are you telling me you felt a flame on your head?
Dawn: I felt heat coming and people can say “Well, that was an emotional experience or this was this or that was that.” But you know I was remembering back to Leviticus where when the sacrifices offered was laid on the altar that the priest would just wait and then the fire would come and consume it. So I likened the Baptism of the Holy Spirit alone I knew He was telling me that He had found the sacrifice in my life pleasing and that He was going to consume me with His presence. So yeah, I felt heat.
Sid: Okay, well your whole walk is very supernatural I have to tell you Dawn. In church you’re not seeing what you’re reading in the Book of Acts even though it’s a full gospel church. But the presence of God is causing people around you to react in different ways, tell me.
Dawn: Well, I went in and it was awesome to be in the corporate setting with worship and having the word taught by a wonder pastor. You know I was kind of frustrated by week 3 and I went up to one of the elders and just asked him “When we got to do the stuff?” And he didn’t know what I was talking about and I said “You know the stuff, we go out into the city and we heal a few people and others are added to the church where we cast out demons, or we prophesy the secrets of people’s hearts, that’s stuff?” They said “Well go to the evangelism pastor” and all the evangelism pastor had to offer me at that time was a community car wash that they were doing to reach out. So out my passion, I’m sure I ruffled a few feathers, some people were offended and told me “You know you have a lot of zeal you’re a new believer come back and talk to me in 2 years” or “Well God isn’t…
Sid: Well, let’s wait until the fire goes out then come back and talk to me.
Dawn: Exactly as they pull out their own hoses to help the process. (Laughing) They were so kind in that but you know would give me scripture verses like “In all your getting get wisdom” and things like that. I think I was just kind of a bur I was kind of like one of those young kids at a circus that says “Let’s do this, let’s do that, let’s do this.” And they say “Well, we’ve been on all those rides we’ll sit here and you do what you want.” That’s how it felt but thankfully the pastor of the church Dave Hess was amazing and he started to plug me into different things. He would say “Why don’t you come to the prayer meetings and if God speaks to you then speak the prophetic word; there’s a Sunday school class on prophesy go to that.” And so there were enough outlets and the mercy of God for me to have the gifts that were in me trained up.
Sid: You know Dawn this has been my experience because I’ve interviewed many prophets over the years. Not all but most of them before they were even saved moved in a prophetic type of vent. They said “I just didn’t understand but I knew things would happen excreta.”
Dawn: Yeah.
Sid: Was that like…we’re you in that realm?
Dawn: It was you know my Grandmother was in Pow-Wow, my father was the youngest of 13 raised in Appalachia. So people having foresight as she called it was just a gift, it was just a gift that they had. There was kind of intermingling of that with scriptures with Native America belief systems. So it wasn’t a strange thing when she would say “Well, do you know who’s coming up the road, coming up the back, who’s coming on the telephone?” And as I would say “I think it’s Aunt Betty or I think it’s this one.”
Sid: So when the authentic gift of prophesy starting operating within you how did you know the difference between what you had as a none believer and what you have now?
Dawn: Well, everything stopped for about 6 months the gift in me prior to my salvation had been fairly heightened. One time God intersected our destiny, warn me of a car accident that Bob would have. I saw the whole thing, he had gone through the windshield; Bob is my husband, and I’d begged him the next day to wear a seat belt. I said “God told me that you were going to have an accident.” He said “You don’t believe in God what are you talking about?” I’m like “All I can tell you is a voice who I think is God said “Have you were your seat belt.” And that afternoon he hit a deer going 70 miles an hour but he had worn a seat belt and he was saved so events like that would happen at least on an annual basis. So when I got saved I was looking for some of those things to still continue right away and none of them did. Everything was silent for about 6 months; I couldn’t discern my way out of paper-bag; the nightmares stopped instantly. All the torment that was mixed in with prophetic dreams were ended.
Sid: Dawn hold that thought; Mishpochah it gets so fascinating when you find out what God did with Dawn; but Mishpochah God wants to do something with you… There is a realm that God lives in it’s called eternity there is no time; He knows everything that’s going on He doesn’t have to guess on a prophesy He’s already seen it happen there’s no time there. And then in our realm there is time and once you understand the difference of these realms you literally I believe we’ll be able… I can see myself doing this and I can see you doing reaching from time into eternity and pulling if you need a part in your body pulling it out. We’re coming into that season right now.
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