Sid: As you know, I’m an evangelist and I desire everyone, everywhere to hear the good news but I have found that God has a plan A because many Christians don’t understand God’s plan A they go to God’s plan B which was never the way He created. Plan A is to demonstrate the kingdom and then when you have their undivided attention by a miracle or a healing then introduce them to the King. That’s God’s plan A, and that’s why I’m so pleased to be making available this week Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty’s book, he’s the Senior Pastor from Victory Christian Center. It’s title is “You Can Be Healed” and there is such a presence of God on this teaching, it’s done so simply, so clearly it’s going to pump you with the faith necessary for you to draw on the healing power of God for your own healing or for praying for someone else. Now, Pastor Billy Joe I’m so intrigued on gifts of the Spirit and as a young man you had some opened visions; one affected your entire life, it had to do with who you should marry, tell me about that.
Billy Joe: The week after I was saved, in May of 1970 I was driving with my family down through North Louisiana headed for Florida where my bother lived and we lived in South Arkansas. I had had a heart change, a radical new birth and I was taken from death to life, from darkness to light just the week before. And I was looking out my window that we were driving through the night, just trees, it was darkness but two lane road you could see all around you and then suddenly I saw this open vision of this girl that was in our youth group. I saw she and I together preaching to masses of people and there was this instant knowing that’s going to be my wife! And it was amazing, I had been in the same youth group with her for a year, her father was our pastor, her mother was our youth leader at that time and we had just gone on a trip to Six Flags over Texas as a youth group. And during that time I had spent time with her and I had never had the thought prior to me getting saved, I had never had the thought of dating her or being with her. She was just too radical of a Christian, she was so on fire, so zealous, so pure and holy you know, she was the preacher’s daughter and she was one that lived it.
Sid: Now, just out of curiosity, you have this wonderful open vision, you believe that it’s God but how long did it take you to convince her that it was God?
Billy Joe: Well, I went to Florida and when I came back, I came back late in the afternoon and I called her and I said, “Would you, I know it’s not much time, but would you be willing to go out on a date tonight and go to a movie.” We’re United Methodist so we don’t have a problem going to a movie back then. And she’s kind of a funny girl and she just so funny she said, “Well, let me check my calendar and see if I have an opening of you. Ha-ha.
Sid: Ha-ha.
Billy Joe: And her mother was there and her mother was really upset with her because her mother for whatever reason wanted her to get with me, and so she said, “I think I can work you in between 7:00 and 10:00. And you know it’s funny because she says that she hasn’t had a lot of dates because she was being funny with me. And it was an instant deal, God had dealt with her, it would be three years and three months before we got married so we had quite a lengthy courtship and we lived in different cities at different times because her parents were moved to a new pastorate and I went away to school. But in 1973 that we were married so we were rejoicing here looking back it will be thirty-six years.
Sid: You know the second most important open vision you had, you were on a football field because you had a football scholarship and you had a certain track that you were on, but this open vision changed things for you tell me about that.
Billy Joe: One afternoon in practice we were in full gear, I played defensive back position the offense was in the huddle and I just looked over this hill, it was just a grassy hill and I was looking at and suddenly again, this open vision I see just millions of people but in it I could see faces I knew from my hometown. And they were all living and chasing and running after one thing after another. They were going and I saw the things, they were going after getting an education, getting a job, getting married, getting a house, getting the things that went with it, working so that they could retire, get a house on the lake, a boat and die. And it was just shoal split second or less that I saw it all and was like all the little things that go with it that people were living for and then I heard the voice of God say, “Nothing they have done will go into eternity.” And tears just welled up in my eyes because I saw friends, I saw people I knew in my community among those millions of people that were worldwide yet they were ones I knew in there. And that there whole life was as zero, it was so overwhelming and then the voice of God, “You could make a decision,” and it was like I went back to the start of the vision, “You can make a decision and live for me, to go where I tell you to go, to do what I tell you to do and touch people with My love.” Now it wasn’t like I wouldn’t get an education, I did I got my Bachelors, Masters, Doctorate I earned them all. It wasn’t like I wouldn’t have a family, I got married, we have four children, two grandchildren, you know, we have a house, but those were not things we’ve live for that does not consume us. And the Lord took me to the end of my life and He said, “You’ll come to the end of your life and you’ll look back, not on accumulations, not on accomplishments, but you’ll look back at the people you have touched and they will all go into eternity.” That was the moment that I realized that God was dealing with me about living for Him. And He told me as I pondered on the whole vision later, this was not for me alone, He said, “It’s the story of the world, and that you need to tell it because in one way or another, people are either living for things or they’re living for the Master; either living for the temporal or living for the eternal; either living for the perishable or living for the imperishable.”
Sid: Alright, so someone’s listening to us right now Billy Joe and they’re saying “Well, that’s me, but I don’t know how to change, I’m too enmeshed in these things. How do I make my life count?
Billy Joe: Let me tell you about Arles Cole, he heard me tell this story; he was sixty-five years old. I didn’t know him, he just started coming to our church, he walked up to me, he was a gray haired guy, he in tears, he said, “That’s me, that’s my story, he said, “I’m living on the lake right now, retired, nothing to do just waiting to die.” I said, “Arles, you can make a decision,” I’m saying to everyone listening to me right now. You can make a decision at this age to live for God, do exactly what I shared with you, and God’s going to bless your life, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to flow through you. And he made that decision, okay live for God, what do I do? He and his wife decided to start a small Bible study out there on the lake, invited a few people around and the amazing thing was bikers, the rowdiest bunch of all started coming to their house on the lake and getting saved and filled with Holy Spirit. That’s been over fifteen years ago, Arles and Virginia made a huge difference because they decided even at age sixty-five. And as you’re listening to me right now, find away, maybe you’ll reach out to children, maybe teenagers, maybe someone in the nursing home. Maybe you’re home bound and you have to get on a computer and begin to email people good messages or on a techs on a phone or maybe calling. There is something Sid for every person to find a way to do what God calls them to do, because He has a job for each of us. There are no spare parts in the Body of Christ, the finger has a function, the toe has a function, our kidneys have a function as well as our heart, liver. And we’re defined as a member of the Body of Christ and so that vision connects with the revelation of God’s word is “What is my job to do; how do I apply it?” And nobody who is in a position to say “Well, there’s nothing for me to do.” No, there is something for everyone even if it is just helping somebody else do what they’re already doing.
Sid: But what about the person that says, “But you know I’ve wasted most of my life, it’s too late?”
Billy Joe: You know Colonel Sanders got saved up in his nearly seventy years of age, but that finger licking chicken guy made the most of his later years. And we know the family there in Louisville, Kentucky that helped lead him to Christ and then watch him make a difference in his later years.
Sid: You know, I believe we’re living in such an unusual period of time Billy Joe that it’s almost like Heaven is drawing closer to earth. Are you seeing an increase of the supernatural in your ministry?
Billy Joe: Definitely, not only in our ministry but in the lives of people everywhere. This is the time where two things are happening simultaneously Sid, the darkness is getting darker but the light’s getting brighter. And if people get focused on the darkness then they can just read the newspaper everyday and they listen to 5:00 news and be depressed all day long. It’s true, there are bad things happening, there are terrible things happening. But the flip side of it, Isaiah 60 says, that when gross darkness, intense terrible darkness would come on the earth that the church, the Body of Christ is going to arise and shine. And that’s the other side, and that’s the side that we live on; the side of the miraculous, the power of God, the anointing of God. You know the book, “You Can be Healed” tells so many stories of people being delivered, people being set free, the miracles happening.
Sid Roth: That’s what I love about it, because it tells the stories, but it works the anointed teaching in such a clear fashion that it’s almost like and atrophy muscle will all of a sudden become a big muscle, that muscle’s called faith.
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Tags: It's Supernatural, Sid Roth