Sid: I have a young woman Evangeline Weiner who is a prototype of a normal Christian. Her parents, Bob and Rose Weiner; Bob is known as a man that teaches faith all over the world. And Evangeline was raised in that type of environment. At five years of age she found herself in Russia and she saw miracles going on. As a five year old Evangeline can you remember any miracles you saw in Russia?
Evangeline: Yeah, absolutely as a five year old even I remember that we would have our own lines at the conferences and these students would come from the universities and you know a lot of them hadn’t even heard of Jesus before. And it was awesome, and you know there we would see, I remember seeing you know just so many people who had deaf ears or you know things that you could visibly see, blind eyes, different things like that which is you know some of the parents that came of these students as well. I just remember seeing one person after another healed of you know of being blind, you know the deafness…
Sid: You know Evangeline faith is contagious and here in America we have a generation, even Spirit filled people that have been raised where miracles are the exception not the norm.
Evangeline: Yeah.
Sid: And you have contagiousness about you; in fact tell me about the three year old in a wheelchair when you were about nine years old in Russia.
Evangeline: Yeah, absolutely. Well we went to Russian every other month so I was there and I was playing outside of the hotel and I saw this woman pushing her son who was about three years old in a wheelchair and I went up to her and said, “Hey, you know we are here, we’ve have brought people from all over the world and I believe God wants to heal your son.” And she said, “Oh well, I’m an atheist, my husband’s a professor at the university of Moscow and we don’t believe in God.” And I said, “That’s okay He wants to heal your son.” And so she listened to the nine year old. I said, “Come with me to the hotel, I’m going to have some people pray for you.” You know I’m going to have some people pray for you; you know I wasn’t thinking right at that time. And I looked everywhere and I looked everywhere for someone to pray for him and well, I couldn’t find anyone to pray for him, you know. And so I decided kind of irritated that I had to pray for him myself, I said, “Fine, I’ll pray for him myself.” You know, I grabbed the kid, pulled him out of the wheelchair and said, “Okay walk” and he had never walked before, he was paraplegic so we had to teach him kind of how to walk, but you know that little boy got healed.” And later on that night they came back to the conference and the little boy ran across the stage to me as his mother gave his life to Jesus. She in front of everyone as the little boy ran across the stage, she dropped to her knees and asked Jesus to come into her life, so it was an awesome experience.
Sid: Now, how does an eleven year old, when you were eleven years of age teach a seminar on faith; how did you do that?
Evangeline: ha-ha. Well, I felt like I was supposed to do a seminar on faith so I went to my Dad and I said, “Dad, I’m supposed to do my own seminar on faith.” And you know because he had trained us our whole life that we have same Holy Spirit that he has and you know the power of God resides in each one of us, and then he couldn’t really say that much about it. But he just said, “Well, do you have any notes?” And so I showed him all my notes and he said, “Well, do you have them in Russian?” And I didn’t know why I would need them in Russian, but I had them quickly translated and you know we had the seminar set up and what happened was, the Lord told him, He said, “That if they see a little eleven year old girl operating in the gifts of the Spirit and preaching and doing all these things they’ll believe that anyone can do it, so let her do it.” So you know I got up there and I said, “I’m going to give you seven ways to grow your nation, change your world you know. And they thought maybe, you know they gave me the smallest room thinking maybe five people would show up because it was a Pastor’s Conference you know. Any way wouldn’t you know it three hundred and fifty of the five hundred students that were there, pastors that were there came because they wanted to hear from an eleven year old girl about what she had to say about God.
Sid: Now, just out of curiosity, were you a little intimidated when you saw so many people show up.
Evangeline: I think I was excited! Ha ha.
Sid: Ha-ha.
Evangeline: I guess I’ve never felt like, I guess I do get nervous, but I’ve always felt like it’s not my job to do something, it’s the Holy Spirit’s job so I didn’t feel pressure to do anything. But you know I’ve been to all those you know revival meetings and you know where people fall under the power of God so afterward’s I said, “Okay, we are going to line you all up.” And me and my little sister, who is nine, lined them all up and prayed for them.” And this is the craziest part, there was two girls from the ballet school because we were doing our conference at a ballet school came up and they said, “Will you pray for me, you know pray for us?” And they were the same age as me and so I said, “Sure.” I didn’t know if they were with us or not with us at the time and I prayed for them. Well, the next day we got a call from the Governor’s Assistant of Religion Affairs for disrupting the peace of Russia and at eleven I had to go meet with the Governor’s Assistant of Affairs. You know he’s this big guy, this bald guy and you know his secretary is typing everything you are saying, and they are saying “Who is this that’s disrupted the peace of Russia?” Ha. And the reason why is because these two girls were the head of the Communist party in that area’s kids and they were just totally ticked off that someone prayed for these two girls and they went home apparently speaking in another language.
Sid: Evangeline, there are people listening to us right now that are discouraged, they use to believe for the miraculous, they’ve seen so little, there in a dead church and everything is dead, dead all around them and they want to get their first love back. I believe they will when they read your book, especially what I was going to say was young people, but why don’t I say young people and those that are young at heart that want to get their first love back.
Evangeline: Absolutely, and you know Sid, I’ve heard from people all over the world that have read it and even of all different ages and saying how it’s encouraged them, got them excited for what God has. And I believe that every stage of our life, you know whether you’re four or forty-four or ninety-four it doesn’t matter, but that God wants to do something new in your life and give you a new vision, a new faith. And even right now as you’re listening and your discouraged you know I just want to pray for you. And Lord, “We just ask right now for every heart out there that is discouraged, that’s discouraged because of the economy, because of growing weary in their faith, whatever it is Lord, we ask for faith to go into each one of their hearts and Lord, that you start to give them dreams and visions Lord that they’ll begin to dream with you again of all the things that you have; and Lord; I just pray for a hunger for the miraculous for the presence of God in their life like never before in the name of Jesus.”
Sid: Speaking of the miraculous, speaking about a hunger for God like never before, what has God showing you that’s on the horizon for us right now?
Evangeline: Well, I believe that we, this is an exciting time in the world. I think a lot of people look and they see a lot of fear and they see you know recession and they see different things that are freaking them out. But I think that this is one of the most exciting times for the Kingdom in the sense of that more people are going to come to know the Lord than ever before. I you know that this being, you know the things that we’ve heard about for years and years, but I really do believe that it is going to be one of the next greatest awakening in the history of the world. And so even from people who are, you know friends from all over I’ve, even my friends who aren’t Christians I’ve been hearing from them of just their desire to know God, of their desire to know Jesus and even from churches and saying that they’ve been seeing more people than ever come to know Him. So I think we have a lot of exciting things on the horizon.
Sid: You know Evangeline; I love the testimonies you have in your book because they’re such faith builders. On tomorrow’s broadcast I want to listen to the testimony of a Shiite Muslem that had an experience with Jesus. But your teaching is what makes this very exceptional; for instance you talk about the seven steps to increased faith; tell me about that.
Evangeline: Yeah, well I think everyone is given a measure of faith and you know sometimes we wait until we have a feeling on you know that we can conquer the world or some feeling in order to you know step out and pray for someone or to step out and believe for the miraculous or the supernatural. But I just want to tell you that you know that faith in the Bible says that, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” You know so if we’re waiting for things to be seen in order to step out in them then you know that’s never going to happened and I think that it’s a matter of just stepping out and believing God to meet us there. And these seven steps you know, one is first of all is that God has given everyone a measure of faith, as it says in Roman’s 12:3. And Two is to exercise your muscles of faith daily through obedience to Christ and you know what I would even say through that is that as I’m anywhere I don’t even have to think about intentionally speaking to someone you know, I just get into conversations with people and allow the Holy Spirit to give me insight into their lives. And I’ll give you one example, I was sitting on the airplane next to this lady who she started, you know the first thing she sat down next to me and said was, “How she hated missionaries.” Which I was like, “Man that’s hilarious,” so she said that how she hated missionaries and she was going on and on about her hate and then she said, “Well what are you in school for?” And at the time I was studying international studies and comparative religion from the University of Washington. And she said, “Well, what are you going to do with that?” And I started talking to her about how I was going to go into the ministry and stuff. And she started going just like telling all this stuff and basically her and husband we’re atheists, she had grown up Jewish, but they were, her and her husband were atheists. And you know how the Holy Spirit showed me that in that situation was that just to begin to listen to her life and to begin to say how much, you know the things that I loved about her. You know as she talked she talked about things she loved; she talked about a bicycle shop that her and her husband ran and you know they fix bicycles for low income families and different things like that. And I started saying just how much I love the things that they did. And you know pretty soon she began to cry and tell her whole life story and by the end of it she said, “You know my husband he’s a brain scientist at the University of Washington and he just found this part in your brain that actually gives you desire to know God that says that tells you to desire to know God in your brain. And isn’t that interesting? And she said, “You know he just found that and so now he’s been desiring, he’s been looking everywhere trying to find out is God real? Is all my atheist beliefs for nothing? And so anyway she was like, “I was really you know wanting to go to church with you and I’ve never been to a church before in my life.”
Sid Roth: Your book is so faith filled; I believe that no matter where someone is no matter how much cold water has been thrown on your faith it’s going to explode… “The Calling of a Generation.”
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