Sid: Now I’m speaking to Don Gossett and Don has written books that this generation needs to understand on what is faith. How to walk by faith because what’s happening what’s coming on it’ not just so you’re going to have a great miracle ministry it’s so that you’ll be able to accomplish all God has for you because we are in last of last days. And without faith you cannot please God; and that’s why I asked Don He’s 83 years young. He worked for a healing evangelist that many people have never heard of William Freeman. But Don tell me about the visitation William Freeman had from an angel.
Don: Well he received a real calling of God to become a full time minister of course in that was followed by the fact that he made a decision when he resigned from the railroad. He said “I’d given myself to eight hours a day work on the railroad but now that I’m not on the railroad working I’m going to give those same eight hours in prayer to the Lord.” And this was a real… something that you didn’t necessarily exploit about talk about much about this but he did explain very much about the encounter with the angel. And it was something very real very fervent. He was in his church study, he was on his face praying and he was just getting dark and he hadn’t turned on the lights and suddenly the room illumined with a bright light and he looked up there stood this man. He just simply spoke to him; he said “I’m an angel of the Lord sent by God to give you a gift of healing, you’re to go and stretch forth your hand and bring healing to the people. If you can get them to only believe not one thing will stand before you not even cancer. There is a great sleeping slumbering in the land that must be awakening because Jesus is coming soon.” Now he was a man of prayer that influenced my life deeply; when I’d travel with him and we’d stay in hotels he would call me to come to his… he said Don “Let’s come and go for your breakfast.” And I would go to his room and knock on the door, he said “Before we go let’s stop and pray fifteen minutes.” Well this was an experience that maybe happened several times a day when I was with him to stop and pray for fifteen minutes and he by the Holy Spirit ability had a grasp on bringing the glory of God down like no man I’d ever seen all these years, as far as even in fifteen minutes of prayer. Of course before that he had made this commitment to pray 8 hours a day which was something that was very remarkable.
Sid: Now when you prayed with him. Did he pray all in English, all in supernatural languages tongues; how did he pray?
Don: He would pray in both supernatural languages and pray in English. He had ability to really meet the Lord. And I know when I traveled with him with all of his great calling of God the anointing upon he always had a fear of flying in a sort of an unusual way. So it meant we had to drive a lot to avoid his flying. And driving across the American highways from one crusade to the next I was his continual companion. And he was always praying, praying, praying and then it was a frequent thing is “Don I got to stop and meet God.” And he would go to a hotel rent it for just a few hours and would himself to fervent prayer. He was always strange to me when he said “I got to give myself to prayer because that was what he was doing mainly in driving.” But he was so hungry for God’s anointing and the assurance that he would be used by him that prayer was a very essential.
Sid: What a great foundation as a new believer for you to learn these secrets; tell me some of the miracles you saw under William Freeman.
Don: Well Freeman had this most unusual gifting and idea every night after he had preaches this salvation message and won souls to Christ. I would go to the platform and say “Now Brother Freeman is getting ready to pray for the healing of the sick and we want all the people who are deaf in one or both ears, blind in one or both eyes, people with cancer and diabetes, heart trouble, people who are very infirmed and cannot walk without a walking ability.” And then we’d go down I’d go with him down to the front row where all these people came forward and he would walk up to each one, that was when I would say the word of knowledge but he called it discernment which was not exactly accurate I don’t think. But anyway he would ask them each one what their condition was with this person face to face and he would then, when he was ready to preach in his heart that they were ready for a miracle he would ask the ushers to take them to the platform and maybe about possibly 25 people who were ushered to the platform and he would pray for them. The miracles were always very pronounced there was no mystical factor, they were just really clear cut miracles. In his magazine I would have the privilege of eventually to interview dozens of people and publish in his magazine and there was always very convincing that they were confirmed by he would like to have if possible a medical doctor who even give a re-witness to what had happened by the people going back to the doctor. The miracles were always very evident and yet there was never any lack of miracles. After he would pray for all these one by one miracles, and that time was no factor he would just continue on and he would launch into the prayer cards being brought forth by the people who weren’t in that select group. And so he was a very bold aggressive; many times where he would have us a special section where people were in wheelchairs and on beds stretchers. He would just for the anointing suddenly I would see him do this a number of times he would leap off the platform with a real surge and run down and begin to lay hands on all those people who were on beds and on wheelchairs and what have you. He would jerk them off by the hand up and the healings were really wonderful.
Sid: Okay so Don you’re watching this you’re praying with him, you’re being really mentored for the same type of ministry, although you didn’t think so. You got so hungry one night you said that you were going to pray until you had your own visitation. What happened?
Don: Well, I went to this church this Assembly of God church and I went early in the morning to the altar and I bowed my knees and prayed for about two hours. I was disappointed that no particular manifestation had taken place. And I set up well I raised up and set on the altar and then I opened my Bible to Philippians Chapter 2 verses 9 to 11 “Wherefore also God also is highly exalted Him and gave Him the Name above every name that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow; things in Heaven things on earth and things under the earth every tongue should confess Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory God the Father.” That just set a fire in my heart I suddenly the revelation was that at the Name of Jesus was the greatest Name in Heaven Earth and Hell. And if I acted and spoke in His Name as Peter and John did back in the Book of Acts I can see God’s working. And I was very zealous or ready to begin to minister. Then I had this call from my Grandma Davis saying “My little 9 year old grandson is given up to die he has brain tumors.” And they brought him from the Burns Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri to this woman’s home in Joplin and I was invited to go there. The whole tone of the home was a funeral atmosphere because all the family thought they were seeing the boy for the last time. But when I thought this is what I can do in Jesus Name brain tumor that’s what’s included in this Philippians 2 Name above every name. And so I boldly began to cast out the spiritual infirmity and speak in Jesus Name for a miracle. When I left there was no particular change. But the parents took the boy back to the Burns Hospital and they checked him and examined again and discovered he had no brain tumors. The boy grew up and I had occasion to see him when he was about maybe 20 some years old, young married and father and he’s still free of the brain tumors. There are miracles like that I began to see in my ministry I prayed for people…
Sid: I tell you what were out of time right now Don. I want you to be able to operate in every one of the promises in God’s Word. Unless you have a proper understanding of faith and it’s my opinion that about 98% of most Christians do not have a proper understanding of faith you will not be able to operate in all the promises that God wants to operate in your life and in your family’s life and in your ministries life.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth