Sid: And I pray that everyone listening to us right now would have the same passion for God as my guest, Lydia Stanley. Lydia is a Pastor’s kid and she never knew what it was to backslide and Lydia, you know I hear a lot of Christians say, I wish I had a testimony like you Sid where you were involved in the New Age and things of the world. You have no idea Lydia how much better it is, your testimony than mine. You didn’t have to get rid of all of that junk!
Lydia: No Sir, I didn’t, but I was touched at such a young age, that all I wanted was the presence of the Lord and…
Sid: And by the way for those that didn’t listen yesterday, Lydia Stanley is the Worship Leader for the Bay of Holy Spirit Revival in Mobile, Alabama; the one that is being pastored by Pastor John Kilpatrick and there having so many major miracles that are going on. But there is reasons for these miracles and I want to tell you I look for keys if you will, you can’t treat God as a formula God; He’s a person. But there are keys to the release of the miraculous and one of the keys to the release of the miraculous is worship. And I want to find out from Lydia as just a young girl you and your friends would go to your Dad’s church and you would just worship, how did you find friends that were interested in worshipping just like you?
Lydia: Well, that weren’t many.
Sid: I would think that there were not.
Lydia: There weren’t many, but that was our, that’s what we did for fun. We would go to the church and my brother, my brother would play the drums and I would play the keyboard and we’d have folks singing and folks playing other instruments and we would spend hours and hours. You know the Lord would give songs, and we were just learning how to write songs and you know, we would spend time in that sanctuary just worshiping the Lord, and He would come and He would touch us and that’s how we spent our time that was the highlight of our week, that’s what we would do.
Sid: Now, a little birdie told me that you’re the type of person that you don’t want the focus on you, you don’t want to be, you don’t even want to up front; all you want to do is just worship God. But after you got hit and hit is the right word by the Kavod the Glory of God was so weighty at the Brownsville revival; you went there as a twelve year old child and you went all the way through their school and interned there. But as you went, you got hit you immediately were transformed, how does someone change from being such a introvert to being the leader of worship and not caring what anyone thinks?
Lydia: Do you know it had to be God because my whole family sings or plays and I mean literally the entire family is musical so I would have nothing to do with it. I didn’t want to be on the platform as a matter of fact I hid behind the pews in the church because I didn’t want anything to do with it. But when I was a little girl at Brownsville, one night in May after we had initially gotten in touch when we first went, one night in May of 1996 Pastor and Steve had actually prayed for me and my family on the platform; and while we were on the platform, Lindell Cooley of the Brownsville Revival began to sing a song and the lyrics was The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon you because He has anointed you to preach good news. I mean it went through that entire passage of scripture in Isaiah and he sang that over me and he didn’t know me, he didn’t know who I was and I didn’t know him; but from that night until today, I mean I got up leading worship that was it; I got up leading worship, it was just a done deal. And I did I went from being completely afraid of being on the platform or anything like that to I just don’t care, I don’t care anymore and I haven’t cared since that night I got up.
Sid: And you know, in speaking of worship, you know what I think is amazing, you hear songs that are down loaded from Heaven and other people hear it too! Tell me, give me an example.
Lydia: Well you know, one night one of the songs that has been powerful in the Revival is a song that the Lord gave us called “Even So Come” and actually I had just been in my home getting ready for getting ready for a service one night just prior to the revival breaking out actually, but I just began to hear the song. I can hear the song in my spirit the first part of the chorus and we wrote that down and that’s actually been powerful in the Revival and we sing that song in the Revival many nights. But then there’s night that we’ll have additional instruments playing with us and people in the congregation have actually sent emails about it. I remember one night that we heard a flute and I looked at one of my co-leaders and I said, “Do you hear that?” And she said, “I do,” and then over the course of the next day or so we were inundated with emails about people having heard the same instrument.
Sid: Tell me briefly about one miracle, there is one in particular that I’m interested in, but you have so many miracles that have happened; and let me tell you a key, most of these miracles take place during worship. Tell me about Juanita from Texas.
Lydia: I would love to tell you about Juanita from Texas, my goodness what a miracle that was. We had just been worshipping one night in the Revival in the midst of that flow, Nathan the Evangelist got up and began to give words of knowledge and he actually called for deaf people to come and join him on platform and he was going to pray for them; and he usually, I mean Nathan has done that many many times and usually we see people that will have some kind of partial deafness and then of course we have seen that healed many many times. But this particular night Juanita came up on the platform; we didn’t know her we never met Juanita she brought her interpreter and Juanita was deaf and dumb and had been deaf and dumb from birth. And of course when you’re born deaf and dumb the part of your brain that deals with speech it’s not even developed; it hasn’t even ever been used. So I mean for her to come and for the Lord of heal her was an extraordinary thing. And while we were worshipping and while he was calling out that word of knowledge, he prayed for her and usually he will ask people, “Are you hearing me?” and they’ve got partial hearing and they will say “It’s improving,” but she couldn’t even do that. So as she began to snap his finger by her ears I will never forget her face, she only stood about three foot away from my piano. I will never forget her face, it looked like a child on Christmas morning, and she lit up and she began to scream and snap her fingers like I’m hearing you. She started signing, “Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus!” She started hearing for the very first time only three feet away from my keyboard and as the night went on it was just like the Lord was turning the volume button up and suddenly she started making all these motions as though she was playing drums, and through her interpreter she started signing furiously through her interpreter and she was signing that she was hearing the drums for the very first time. That was the very first time she had ever heard a drummer. So we of course, we cracked it up and we started playing again, you know Nathan was ministering and he prayed for her again a few minutes later as we sang a song called, “You are Holy” Juanita spoke her very first word, right there on the platform and it was the word holy.
Sid: You know I would like you to hear from this wonderful CD that was recorded live under that tangible anointing that is going on at the Bay of Holy Spirit, where so many miracles are taking place. And the thing that’s so wonderful about Lydia Stanley’s new CD is that it’s the best of the best. You know Kathryn Kulman use to know what songs the Holy Spirit liked and Lydia knows what songs the Holy Spirit likes and so one of the first words that the girl had to say was born totally deaf, Juanita from Texas, one of the first words she said was holy …CD shows the highlights of this great revival and in my opinion, I’ve been to the Revival and I love it, I would like to go there every day. But those DVDs because they caught the highlights of when the Spirit of God descended and throughout the entire Revival, it’s even stronger…I would like you remember the first word that Juanita said, was Holy! First time in her entire life, let’s hear “Holy Are You Lord.”