Sid: I am so excited to say that a number of years ago I had a dream in which God Himself came to me and instructed me to write a book; I had no idea that God would use to this degree. The book is called “They Thought for Themselves” over 850,000 of these are in print, mostly in the Russian language. Distributed to Jewish households throughout the former Soviet Union because this book has ten Jewish testimonies; Jewish people will read fascinating stories, they won’t read scripture, but they will look read fascinating stories especially the supernatural. And only heaven records how many Jewish people have come to the Lord through this book. I believe its hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Jewish people, especially in the former Soviet Union. But the book is literally untouched in the United States and we’re just starting, this is God’s time, this is God’s moment, this is God’s book. Here’s why I want you to read the book; first of all it will allow you to understand my Jewish people in a deeper way than you ever have before. In this book we have a Jewish PHD, a Jewish millionaire, a Jewish concert pianist, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, a Jewish person from the New Age, Jewish people from every walk of life. Also after you read the book, God will have a Jewish person cross your path and you’re to give this book to them. Also this book, although it’s written for Jewish people, I can tell you as a fact, when non-Jews read this book that are not believers in Jesus they see so much evidence of the reality of God, they have to receive Jesus…The very first story in this book is by David Yaniv and the title is “Paralyzed, Learn to Live With It” and I have David on the telephone right now. David, tell me about the time you were paralyzed; you were living in Israel on a Moshav, that’s like a Kibbutz and you’re doing your job milking a cow and you slip on the floor, what happened?
David: Well, I severed my spinal cord and I was taken to the hospital and operated and after the operation they realized that they made a mistake and they apologized and they left me paralyzed from the waist down.
Sid: Now you tried everything, what was the prognosis of the doctors, what did they say? Would you eventually get better after the surgery that you had and everything, what was the prognosis?
David: Well, the prognosis was, “Learn to live with it because you’ll never get better.”
Sid: But you weren’t satisfied with that, you went into the.., you tried things in the New Age, did that help?
David: Everything, I tried everything and nothing nothing worked because let’s face it, I had terrible excruciating pain, but I still somehow walked into the hospital. And after the operation they told me that I would never walk again. And they sent me to a convalescent hospital, a home where they taught me how to walk with shoes connected to iron characters with a catheter.
Sid: That is like a brace.
David: It was seven and a half years.
Sid: Well, and then you are bored so you start watching TV and you find a Christian Television Show. Why did you watch a Christian Television Show, you’re Jewish, you’re living in Israel, why?
David: Amen, well this is a miracle, that’s a miracle in itself, you see when you are paralyzed and you sit at home and you’ve got nothing to do, you just play around with the dial. You know today you’ve got these pictures, in those days you had the dial. So I set there in front of the television and picked and there a woman came and she shared the testimony how she was healed and she was healed by the power of God. And I thought that this is nonsense these people are all actors, you know but I still watched this program every day came 1:00 I switched it on because you know I thought I had nothing better to do. And I thought why should I feel sorry for myself; let me watch other people feel sorry for themselves. So I watched this program and I watched it for over a year.
Sid: But you actually every time Pat Robertson or one of the hosts would say a prayer of salvation, you would say the prayer right along with them, why?
David: Why because I believed that there is something more to it than just actors. I thought that well there must be some truth to it; I thought well, let me try, what have I got to lose?
Sid: And then, one day, someone had such a precise word of knowledge (This was the 700 Club by the way if you hadn’t figured it out.) Someone had such a precise Word of knowledge, tell me about that.
David: Well, there was a lady, an evangelist that came on and she said that, “There is someone whose has been paralyzed for many years and as I’m speaking now, he will be healed.” And I said, “Well praise God, let it be me.” But nothing happened that day, I went to sleep.
Sid: Now, were you real disappointed when nothing happened?
David: I must admit yes I was, I was but then a thought came over, this is just not my day. I went to sleep and the next morning in order to get out of bed, the hose that they have to help my legs with my hands out of bed in order to get myself to the shoes and the iron characters and as I touched myself there was feeling. I touched myself everywhere else and there was feeling, all of a sudden I needed to go to the bathroom. I was with a catheter and I said to my wife, “Sheila, come quickly, see what’s happening!” And my wife had two people South African girls said to me, “Rubbish, lie down, I don’t believe a word you’re saying.” And she took a needle and she said, “Close your eyes,” and she started pricking me with a needle. And she said, “Where do you feel it?” I said, “I felt every prick,” so I thought to myself, “Well, I better stop her before she makes a sieve out of me.”
Sid: Ha, ha.
David: Any way we went to the doctors, out local doctor around the Moshav, and when he was disturbed I realized that something happened. Subsequently we went to the hospital and there must have been twenty, twenty-five neurologists and neurosurgeons and they all examined me.
Sid: Wait a second, they told you to live with it, they told you nothing could happen, they told you that you would never walk again. So what do all these neurologists have to say about it?
David: Well, I can tell you that they were flabbergasted until I told them and this is the thing, they said to me, “That it’s a medical miracle; they’ve never seen such a thing.” So I told them, “Hang on to your horses, this is no medical miracle, this is Yeshua” and the minute I said that, slowly, slowly they disappeared from the room. But I went home with all my paraphernalia in the wheelchair and I came back to the Moshav and everybody saw me walking and they only accepted the medical letter that this was a medical miracle they wouldn’t accept Devine healing.
Sid: Well, they that’s okay a medical miracle, I’ll take a miracle any way you want, I don’t care what is in writing, I will take a miracle. I love miracles. David, how long have you and your wife Sheila been believer’s in Messiah now?
David: Well, you mean, after this, it took about three months later she accepted the Lord as well.
Sid: So how many years have you been believers?
David: How many years Sheila, have you been a believer?
Sid: Oh, mazel tov, it’s your twenty-first anniversary.
David: It has been about twenty-one years.
Sid: David for the Jewish person that’s listening right now, give me one reason why they should believe Jesus is the Messiah.
David: One reason; it is the truth. He is the Truth, He is the True, Messiah, He is the True living Son of God, He is the true one who left this earth and is coming back. He is the Truth, that’s all there is to it; and believe me I’ve tried everything, everything just to refute it and I couldn’t, I couldn’t. I read every secular book, every book that you can think of just to try to refute it that it’s not true and I couldn’t. He is the truth.
Sid: Now David, I don’t know what God is showing you by the Spirit, but I can tell you what God is showing me, by the Spirit. I can tell you that I know, I absolutely know that this is God’s moment to reach Jewish people in the United States. And God is up to something, whereas in the past you might have shared Jesus with a Jewish person, and they weren’t interested. Jewish people are; it’s like a window of God’s mercy right now. I rented an auditorium in Brighton Beach, New York, Brooklyn, New York and we had over 400 Soviet Jews come to this meeting, most of them unsaved and the majority of them stood up to receive the Lord. When have you ever heard in the United States over 400 Jewish people even coming to an evangelistic meeting let alone receiving the Lord? This is God’s moment…