SID: Now how does someone that, now you have experience, and you understand how faith operates. But back then, you must have really had a grasp of faith to; I mean here you ‘re with your WIFE and you’re nest egg is your car, you sell it. And so and you ‘re going to squander it, and in a few weeks –
DAVID:
Exactly.
SID:
by just going to Israel. Now you got nothing!
DAVID:
[CHUCKLES] Exactly!
SID:
Alright, so you go to Israel; now what?
DAVID:
On my way there, I read a book by –
[PHOTO BEGINS]
DAVID:
Shira Sorko-Ram called, I forget what it was called, but how to share the
Gospel to Jewish people! “I Became as a Jew”, I think it’s says.
SID:
Yeah, I’ve read that.
DAVID:
And I’m read it, [PHOTO ENDS] and I read
the last page that has the prayer! “Lord, use me please to reach Jewish
people”. And I’m reading that last page as I’m at the airport waiting for
the other tour from America to come – I’m coming in from France and as soon as
I say the prayer, I look to my right and there’s a little old Jewish lady
sitting on the bench! She goes, “Hello, how are you doing?”, and the
Lord says, “Start with her”. “Oh, right now?”
SID:
[CHUCKLES]
DAVID:
“Oh, well what was it I read?”, and “don’t -“, you know.
SID:
[LAUGHS]
DAVID:
And It was really fast. I you give the Lord an inch, and He’ll do it,
IMMEDIATELY! I said, ” how you doing?” I forgot how I did it, but I
shared the gospel to her, and she accepted the Messiah, right there, weeping as
she prayed. Then she said to me, “Be careful! You might get in trouble for
sharing this in the rest of Israel.” In that tour, we led 13 people to the
Lord: 10 Jewish Israelis, and 3 Arab Israelis. And [VIDEO BEGINS]
DAVID: and then – and then went to the Upper Room. I got slammed to the
floor by the power of God – I never get slain in the spirit up to that point –
and the Lord spoke to me and said, “Now your ministry begins.” And I
was thinking, “Well no; I’ve ministered before”, but to the Lord,
it’s like now it gets – it’s clocked; like now it – things begin. And that’s
REALLY where things really took off;
[VIDEO ENDS] when I reached the Jew first, in Israel. And then I came
back to France, and we had revival for like 5 years straight.
SID:
But before that, what was going on with your ministry in France?
DAVID:
Um I had an anointing. I would evangelize on the streets, –
SID:
Um hm.
DAVID:
I would get people healed here and there, but nothing major of significance
that – where anyone would say, “Wow! Well you know I need to come see
that”. But I – at times, I would see miracles –
SID:
Um hm.
DAVID:
I would get people saved, but I KNEW there was – got to be something more. And
I was – I’d fasted and pray for 3 days one day, and I said, “Lord, what’s
– how do I do this? This country’s really hard”; less than 1% Christian.
And when I was fasting and praying, God gave me Romans 11. He said, “Do
what Paul did. Paul was successful in Europe; you ‘re in Europe. What did Paul
do? Paul was called to the Europeans too, like you are.” He goes, “I
go to the Jew first. I magnify My ministry by going to the Jew first. And even
if I just save SOME of them, or even just make them jealous, I have magnified
My ministry”, which means to the Gentiles. And I thought, “Well,
okay, that’s all I’m getting in prayer”, so after that fast, that’s when
God said, “Go to Israel”. Went to Israel; came back, and a whole new
move of God began to hit us; and for 5 years non-stop, we were in revival
meetings for 5 years. On the fifth year, it went for 6-months straight. It was
the longest running revival in 50 years in one church.
SID:
Now I know something about David; we’ve been friends for many years. And when
he ministers, the glory of God shows up; when the glory of God shows up, almost
anything he says, happens! Fr as a matter of fact, h-he s he made another
investment. He wherever I am around the world, he and his wife will show up to
– to learn, so they can – so he can do the same thing I do, in reference to
reaching un unsaved Jewish people. but you
had a meeting in Philadelphia, and – and I have to tell you , I – you – I – I
want him to do MORE than me; I want him –
DAVID:
[CHUCKLES]
SID:
to do better. That’s – that’s – that – that’s how the Kingdom operates; that’s
how the world operates.
DAVID:
Tough act to follow!
SID:
But that’s how –
DAVID:
[CHUCKLES]
SID:
that’s how the King Kingdom operates! But I don’t know, David; tell me [CHUCKLES]
about that Jewish bald man! [LAUGHS]
DAVID:
[LAUGHS] Yeah! Yeah!
SID:
that – that – this is a – we have a word for it in Hebrew,
“meshuggah!”
DAVID:
[LAUGHS]
SID:
And David – I call David “meshuggah”; that means “crazy!”
And he says, “Well, takes one to know one.” [LAUGHS]
DAVID:
[LAUGHS]
SID:
So tell me a – this is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of, David. Tell me
about it.
DAVID:
Well what’s – what’s even crazier is we did it in the Jewish Culture Center,
which I don’t know how we got permission to do that!
SID:
Now I tried to do this in Montreal and they kicked me out!
DAVID:
Well –
SID:
But you got in [CHUCKLES]. Okay. [LAUGHS]