Sid: Now my guest is a prototype of what is happening to Jewish people all around you; his name if Steven Zarit. He was a Reformed Jew that was interested in the supernatural and I’m amazed that what a high percentage of Jewish people are interested in the supernatural; are leaders in the New Age movement. Why leaders in the New Age? Because Christians have their mouth zipped and they’re more interested in their relationship with their Jewish friend. They have a fear of rejection and that some of them are so meshugah, that’s a Hebrew word for crazy, that they think that there must be another way. Maybe when a Jew dies they’ll come to know Jesus if they were Godly; the only problem is “There is none righteous no not one.” So forget that excuse, but my friend Steven Zarit was; he even watched people that were healing evangelists on television and he said, “I’d like to do that.” And so he’s minding his own business, a brand new believer comes in lays hands on him; he feels the fire of God, he gets radically saved; he leads most of the people in his office to the Lord. Then you started praying to God that He would use you to pray for people and they would be healed. Tell me about the first person you prayed for that called you from your office.
Steven: Well, actually what had happened to me was I had been reading the Word of God and this was I had been reading in the word of God and this is like eight years later and I hadn’t prayed for the sick at all one time. I had a desire to pray for the sick but I thought “Oh no the enemy was coming in and telling me that “You know you’re a businessman; you run a corporation, God doesn’t want to use you to heal the sick.” And God took me to a scripture that I must have read five or six times, but this time it stood out in like three dimension and it was Mark 16:15 “He said to them go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation, whoever believes and is baptized will be saved and whoever does not believe will be condemned; and these signs will accompany those that believe. And in My name will drive out demons, they’ll speak in new tongues, they’ll pick up snakes with their hands.” And this is what got me; “And they will lay their hands on sick people and they will get well.” And I read that and I thought, “Well, Lord you know I’m following after you the best way I know how, I’m studying the Word of God day and night; I’m going to Bible studies but these signs aren’t following me after my life. And just as I said that I got a phone call from Pat, who was our CPA of our corporation that I was working at South Coast Shopper and she said, “Steve remember I was telling you I was having migraine headaches?” And I said, “Yes, she said they found a tumor on my right parietal lobe of my brain about the size of a small peach, and I’m scared to death that they are going to operate on me tomorrow morning, will you come and pray for me?” And I said yes I would but in my heart of hearts I wasn’t going to pray for her, I was scared to death; I thought “Who am I to pray for somebody that has a brain tumor?” And so I went over to my fiancés house who’s now my wife and she said, “What are you doing, here?” And I said, “Oh, Pat wants me to go to the hospital to pray for her, she’s going to be operated on tomorrow morning and my future wife said, “Well, you can’t come in here until you go to the hospital and pray for Pat.” Thank God for pushy women. So what I did was I got in the car and I all the way there I’m going, “Lord, Lord please don’t let there be anybody in the room when I pray for Pat because I wouldn’t want to embarrass you Lord.” So I get to the room and there’s fifteen people in there and they’re all Jehovah Witnesses.
Sid: Oh, no.
Steven: And they’re all standing around and I had thought to myself, I thought how am I going to pray for Pat, I’ve never laid hands on a person in my whole life.” And God has such a wonderful sense of humor that Pat’s head was shaved bald and there was an X right where the tumor was and the Lord audibly spoke to my heart and said, “X marks the spot.” And so I laid hands on that X and with all of the faith that I could muster up I said, “I rebuke that tumor and I command it to go.” And then I said, “God bless you, all of you and I left and I got in the car and I started crying and I said, “Oh God, oh God, I let you down, I let you down.” And the next morning I get a call at the office at 8:00 in the morning and her husband’s on the phone who was a nonbeliever, he’s hysterical, hysterical he says “you aren’t going to believe this, at 6:30 they cut my wife open and there’s no tumor.” And I just said, “Hey Lord, this is great, this is fun, this is just miraculous” and the word spread throughout the company of all of my employees that Steve walks on water and he can heal the sick. And so I got a knock on my door and it was a little 78 year old Catholic lady named Millie and she said, “I heard what happened with Pat, she said, “I’ve got throat cancer and she said “God told me that if you laid hands on my throat He would heal my throat cancer. And I said, “God told you that?” And she said, “Yes.” And I said, “Well, okay” and I’m going Lord you better do this, you told her that You would do it. So I put my hands on her throat and she flies against the wall and falls onto the ground; and she goes to the doctor and the throat cancers gone.
Sid: Steve, when I’m remembering this young man that’s mixed up in the New Age that’s watching these Christians on television pray for the sick like Ernest Ansley and one person after another that’s death is getting their hearing back and you said, “I would like to do that.” Not even knowing what you were saying, not even knowing why you were saying it; and then all of a sudden in Jesus Name it starting now that you’re born again and Spirit Filled; did you put the two together and remember that you had asked to do this?
Steven: Oh yes I did, heah I put the two together and then I realized and I said, “No wonder You gave me such a desire to heal the sick; because that’s all I want to do the rest of my life.” At one point in time before I was a believer I wanted to be a millionaire at thirty years old and retire. After my conversion experience all I wanted to do was to pray for the sick for the rest of my life. Especially those that had cancer, that was it I just had this desire…
Sid: Tell me one person you prayed for that had cancer that God healed.
Steven: Millie had cancer of the throat; they were going to take out her voice box and give her a mechanical voice box and I went to the hospital the next day and she had a big grin on her face, she said, “Guess what, no cancer, no voice box.” And then the salesman where I worked started telling their clients that they got a guy at work that prayed for the sick and their all getting healed. And so I got one of my salesman came into my office and he said, “Steve he said, “There’s a lady named Carmen and she lives across the street and she has terminal leukemia, they’ve given her a week to live, would you go over there and pray for her.” And I said, “Your darn right I’ll pray for her, so every day at lunch for five days I went over to her house and I laid hands on her and I prayed for her, but there was no manifestation of the Holy Spirit like the other people either fell on the floor or flew against the wall, or some sort of a manifestation, with Carmen there was no manifestation. Well she called me up the next week and she said, “Guess what, I’m at my doctors office, my doctor says I don’t have leukemia any more, I don’t have anything in my body; I can’t say that your healed, I can’t say that you’re not healed, all I can say is that you’re in remission, but you don’t have any cancer in your body.” And it was incredible.
Sid: You know what I find fascinating is I look at how the Holy Spirit has worked in your life, the moment you really got born again you had the gifts of healing within you but it took a while to come out and then you saw you had gifts of healing. And God saw fit to put you with a man that was a member of the Righteous Brothers, the Rock and Roll group, his name John Wimber. I believe you have got on you, not just that healing anointing that God gave you but the same healing anointing that John Wimber had. But I want to find out about that connection with you and John and some of the things you observed with John Wimber because you were his main assistant for how many years?
Steven: Fourteen years.
Sid: So you really saw how John evolved into this great father in the faith especially of signs and wonders. But Mishpochah there are so many Steve Zarit’s around ready to find out that they’re children of the living God that Jesus is their Messiah and God has destiny on your life. Destiny that you would be able to share the gospel with Jewish people and these Jewish people would lead 10’s of 1,000’s of people to the Lord.
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