Our Guest Cleddie Keith
SID: Now when your wife said something has to be done about these kids, you had no idea that today there are hundreds of people in ministry whose lives have been turned around. Tell me about Jacob.
CLEDDIE: Well Jacob was a young man. He was from a broken home. It was like we were thrown into a big lake of dysfunctional people. They were latch key kids. They were 17 years old in the seventh grade. I mean, they were kids that had nobody that really loved them or cared for them. If they did they just had to care for their selves and other family members more, and so they couldn’t give them attention. And I had a bus that we prayed down, it was called “My Brother’s Keeper.” And we had to go pick the kids up and we’d have meeting points where we picked them up. And I picked this kid one day on the bus right out in front of the school. He said, “Mister, can I go with you?” And I want to tell you now, you will never know what the Kingdom of God looks like when it comes. You need to forget thinking that you’re going to know what it’s like. It’s not going to be more church members in the pew. It may be some Mexican boy that gets on that bus. And he got on the bus, and he said, he said, “Mister, can I go with you.” I said, “Sure, son, why not.” He said, “I think I backslid.” He had been sniffing glue. And he got on the bus with us and he went to the meeting that night, and then he didn’t leave. See, what I didn’t understand was he said, “Can I go with you?” He meant Can I GO with you?
SID: Can he live with you.
CLEDDIE: Can I live with you. And he moved in with us, I’m touched every time I tell the story, and he was a part of our family and we raised him. His mother was a prostitute. His father had been married many times, and so he was really from a dysfunctional home. And he went with us, and he lived with us. He graduated from high school. He led like 300 people, young people in his high school to Christ while he was in high school. He went out of that, as he came and became a part of our lives in ministry, and he started preaching the Gospel in the public schools of America. He preached to six and a half million young people in 20 years. Just a kid that said, “Can I go with you.” You never know what the Kingdom is going to look like. Jacob now pastors 50,000 people on Sunday mornings.
SID: Okay. I’m going to get in big trouble if you don’t explain Snap.
CLEDDIE: Well what happened was is that you didn’t need formal prayers. Those kids didn’t need that. They didn’t know that. They would come to us high on drugs and I would just say, “God, give them, snap,” like that. And I’m telling you, God would snap them out of their high. They would get angry at us sometimes because it was such a powerful prayer. We could see them sober up in 30 seconds. But all we had to do during that season would just give them snap. I saw them again about six years. I prayed for a young man, I said, “God, give him snap.” Somebody had laced his drinks and God absolutely gave that man Snap right on the spot.
SID: Pray that Snap prayer right now.
CLEDDIE: What I meant by that was snap out of it and the power of God would come. Heaven would come down to Earth and break the power of that addiction off them. I’m talking about strong addiction. I’m not talking about just taking to many aspirins or Excedrins. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, be healed. Be healed in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Be delivered. God, give them snap. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
SID: Tell me about the phrase, “Give us this day our daily bread.”
CLEDDIE: That’s one of my favorite parts of the prayer, and the reason is, is because we’re dependent on God. When we say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” we mean give us our life, give us our peace, give us our joy, give us our hope, give us our confidence, give us our boldness. We’re believing God to give us everything we need that makes us the person that God wants us to be.
SID: What are you living for? If you just believe in Jesus that’s good. But the Bible says in the original language, “This is eternal life that you might have experiential knowledge of me.” Pray this prayer with me and mean it, out loud, right where you are. Dear God.
CLEDDIE: Dear God.
SID: I’m a sinner.
CLEDDIE: I’m a sinner.
SID: Against you and you alone have I sinned.
CLEDDIE: Against you and you alone have I sinned.
SID: And I’m so sorry.
CLEDDIE: And I’m so sorry.
SID: I believe.
CLEDDIE: I believe.
SID: The blood of Jesus.
CLEDDIE: The blood of Jesus.
SID: Washes away my sin.
CLEDDIE: Washes away my sin.
SID: And I’m clean,
CLEDDIE: And I’m clean.
SID: And now that I’m clean.
CLEDDIE: And now that I’m clean.
SID: I make you my Lord and savior.
CLEDDIE: I make you my Lord and savior.
SID: Jesus, come inside of me.
CLEDDIE: Jesus, come inside of me.
SID: Amen.
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