Sid: One way the One New Man will come into being is the Levites the worshippers will go first before the army of Israel and that’s why I’m so pleased to introduce to you Andre Ashby. And Andre on yesterday’s broad cast we found out that you were destined to either be in prison or to be a drug addict, there was no hope for you. But except God.
Andre: Right.
Sid: Took you out of such a hopeless situation and as just a young boy you had a dream and in the dream Jesus came to you, what did He say?
Andre: He just said that, “He would never leave me, never forsake me…
Sid: Had you ever heard that scripture before?
Andre: No, never had.
Sid: And He became your best friend and you loved to sing as a child and you joined the Seven Day Adventist Church, but they had a problem with you because people started feeling the Holy Spirit. They had no grid for the Holy Spirit so they said, “Well, since we don’t have a grid for a Holy Spirit, it’s got to be an evil spirit, it’s got to be the devil. As a matter of fact in college you would do concerts and what would they say?
Andre: Well, we would be put off campus and so what would happen was we would have to like give a list of the songs that we were singing, but the truth is that it wasn’t the songs, it was the presence of God. And people would come up to me and they would go, “Well, you sing like a Baptist or you sing like a Pentecostal and my response to them was if you knew Jesus as I knew Him you would sing like me too.
Sid: Okay, but in your early twenties you meet a woman that has that same presence of God that you’re experiencing when you’re worshiping Him and her name is Sherrie; tell me about her.
Andre: Sherrie Brown, Sherrie Brown, we work at…l left college, came home got a job at Waddell & Reed which is an investment brokerage Firm and I met Sherrie; we worked in the same office. The thing about Sherrie that confused me because I was taught if you went to church on Sunday you really didn’t love God; you were just going through the motions.
Sid: Actually I’ve met Seven Day Adventist that’s been taught much worse of that. But go ahead.
Andre: Yeah, but when I met Sherrie I knew God was around her, I could feel His presence and that confused me. So I decided well, I need to get her out of the Pentecostal Church into the Adventist Church. And so I went about trying to do that, but what happened I got pulled out of the Adventist Church into the move of God, that’s basically what happened.
Sid: But there was a fear of you leaving the church because you’ve been told that unless you worship on Saturday, were you told that it could affect your salvation?
Andre: Basically I was told if I leave the Adventist Church because I would be leaving the truth, I would go to Hell.
Sid: That would be a tough step for you to take, but you had another dream, tell me about it.
Andre: Yeah, this was, I was in Kansas City, I’m from Kansas City Missouri and what people don’t realize is that Kansas City had about third highest murder rate in the country. So I’m walking through this real dangerous part of Kansas City and I’m terrified in the dream. And this tall guy, he was really tall with blond hair came up and walked in front of me, he didn’t say anything to me, but I knew instinctively that I was to follow him. So I followed him through a really dangerous area and went into this house and he went inside, and I stood out on the porch. Now, in Kansas City there is lots of screened in porches, so I’m in the screened in porch. And I waited there because I wanted him to come out because I wanted to thank him because I felt he saved my life. But when he came out, he never spoke anything, he just handed to me a piece of white paper that was folded up. When I opened it up it was written on it and said, “In all your ways acknowledge Me and I’ll direct your path.” And I woke up from the dream. And I knew that it was God was leading me through this scary time and it was okay to leave the Adventist Church.
Sid: You know I had an interesting conversation once with a member of the Adventist Church and because I’m a Jewish believer in Jesus she knew I understood the Sabbath, she said, “What am I going to do?” I love to go to church on Sunday where’s there is the Spirit of God but I’m afraid to leave the Adventist Church because I’m supposed to worship on Saturday and I have children to raise and I just can’t take two days a week. Therefore I’m staying at the Adventist Church. I said, “I have a better idea for you, you realize you don’t need a service to observe the Sabbath you could take Saturday as a day to be with God and your family and worshipping God, and Sunday go to church; that way you’ll have the best of both worlds. She said, “Oh, I thought I had to go to church to observe the Sabbath.” I said, “No, in fact I didn’t take her to the next step the next step is the true Sabbath is not in a day, the true Sabbath is in a person, His name is Jesus. But God never changed the Sabbath; I just think that by going to church on Saturday that’s a lot of work. And it’s a lot more rest and God wanted us to take one day a week of rest, to Saturday as a day of rest, I believe there’s blessings on taking a day of rest, at least blessing for your physical body. But I believe there is blessing for your spiritual body but I want to make it clear to everyone listening, it has nothing to do with righteousness and it has nothing to do with salvation. It’s a matter of blessings, anyway I don’t know if you’ve never heard that spin before Andre, but that’s mine.
Andre: Oh yes, actually I agree with that and also I think that Lord began to teach me more about the Sabbath, that the Sabbath was number one a sign of us resting from our works to enter into God’s works. Like if you look into Hebrews 4 the thing that really shook me was, I realized that the Jewish people at that time kept the Sabbath better than I ever could, but yet God said, “They did not enter my rest.” I’m like okay, that doesn’t make sense to me God, they didn’t enter His rest because they didn’t accept His provision for salvation; which is Jesus.
Sid: Hey, that’s pretty good, now I have your CD here and my staff is so enthralled by it, in fact my producer said to me, and she has a back ground in music, so but she’s very conscious of music not being entertainment, but true worship. And this is what she said, I’m going to quote her. “When I listened to Andre’s music the presence of God, His glory fills my room, the worship is so deep because Andre knows the power of worship and he has the ability to have intimacy with God and walk in the supernatural. Andre’s music is also prophetic, people’s destinies are realized when they soak and worship with Andre’s music. We are going to play a selection from your CD entitled “Before the Throne.” Tell me a bit about “Let Your Kingdom Come.” I know that it’s scripture but tell me a little bit about that.
Andre: Actually I wrote that song, I was at a conference and I sat down at the piano and I don’t consider myself a songwriter, God has to come and inspire me. And I wrote the song about “Let, Your Kingdom Come” that God would release His Kingdom in my life and like I searched for so many things you look for so many things in life, and sometimes it seems like God isn’t there and you know just being real. But in the midst of all the strife and in the midst of all the struggle God if Your kingdom can be reproduced in me then I know I will have what I need to do what You called me to do.
Sid: And in His Presence all things are possible.
Andre: Right.
Sid: Let’s hear this.
Worship excerpt
Sid Roth: I’ll tell you Andre really carry’s the presence of God; I want the presence of God to be wherever you go.
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