Sid: Well, He did it again I got interrupted by the Holy Spirit someone’s hip and back was just healed in Jesus Name. And some one with even your little finger it’s painful when you bend it you’ll find that the pain is gone in Jesus Name. My guest Dr. James Maloney, on yesterday’s broadcast we found out about a gift that you know James I would say that it would provoke me to jealousy. But according to the Bible it’s the Gentile believer that’s supposed the Jew to jealousy and until recently you would have been classified there but however you found out an amazing story about your grandparents. Tell me about them your mother’s parents.
James: Well, just prior to my adoptive Dad’s death I didn’t know this all these 40 some years I mean I would have people come up to me if it happened once it happened a dozen times over 40 some years “You do not know this Brother Maloney but you’re Jewish.” And I would just well “Thank you of course.”
Sid: (Laughing)
James: Prints of God but I found out through my Dad who’s gone on to be with the Lord my adoptive Dad that my Grandmother her parents lived in Tel Aviv, she and her parents moved to Berlin and they got a business and my grandmother which is quite unusual a German gentleman who converted to Judaism which is very very rare. They had this business of course when Hitler came in and destroyed the business burned them down right prior to closing the borders he did permit 400,000 visa’s out but to individuals to get out of the country only 100,000 got Visa’s 300,000 were taken to the camps. Well one of the 100,000 was my grandmother and her husband and when they came to America of all places they could have gone to other nations they were sent to America my biological Mom was born in 1940 and I was born 16 years later 1956. So yeah I’m…
Sid: So, you know what I’m seeing James, I am seeing that the devil tried to snuff your life out twice, once in the holocaust of your grandparents. The second when you were a neglected baby and just brutal beatings but at age 15 you had an encounter with the Lord tell me about that.
James: Well, you know Sid I never thought about that, that’s a revelation that the enemy tried to snuff me out before I was born thank you for that. I was very broken because of my upbringing even though my adoptive parents loved me I know they did but because of certain scenarios situations in the house there was just no communication. And so with the wounding of rejection I was at 14 I was very suicidal, I don’t think that a teenager can not be suicidal at that age and I was. And I just couldn’t take it any more and I remember on New Years Eve of 1970 December 31 I cried out and I said “God if you’re real I didn’t know I mean I knew God was real all I had to do was look upon the handiwork of creation and see that He was real. And I remember telling God I said “I need You to live in me,” I didn’t even know what it meant Sid to be born again. Jesus, Yeshua coming into your heart and becoming your Messiah I didn’t know your Savior and Lord. And I’m trying to convince Him to come into my heart and I wept myself to sleep. And January 1st of 1971 as I laid there in bed I was 15 I saw a flickering of a light on the floor thought it was a little strange because the sun hadn’t even come up. And then this light spread and it became very tall and wherever the light was I could not see the wall or the ceiling. And I just felt compelled that whoever was standing in that light I wasn’t seeing a form it was a person of royalty and I need to get down on my knees and I did. And I was just very bold and I just took my hands and I put it in that light and that light covered my hands all the way up to my elbows I could not see my hands, my wrist all the way up to my elbow because of the glory, the light. And when I did I looked right down in front of my hands in between my arms and then I saw physically 2 outstretched hands come out towards me. And I could tell by the nail print and the upper part of the hand that they were the hands of Jesus. And Jesus spoke to me and He spoke to me audibly and He said “I’ve heard your cry for acceptance and I’ve heard your cry for reality and He said “I love you just the way that you are.” Because that’s what I needed to hear and at that time I was gloriously born again and that started my trek.
Sid: Now at 19 you saw a little bit more than the hands of Jesus what happened?
James: At 19 years of age I went through an amazing time of prayer and fasting and I was in Bible college, that may sound real spiritual to the hearers but I just didn’t have any money and they didn’t have a cafeteria and I didn’t have no other choice but to fast but God used it you know. And I think I was on a 14 day fast and I just became like a dead person laying on my bed and my face was turned towards the wall, I couldn’t open up my eyes and this is found scriptural in the book of Daniel. Daniel fell as a dead man and as I laid there in my flesh I was just dead this brilliant light I thought “My, if my eyes were open it would blind me.” But this brilliant light stood right there next to my bed and the wall. And I just instinctively see the Holy Spirit was teaching me Sid I just knew instinctively that it was not Jesus, but it was an angelical messenger. And it was a 22 minute experience and basically the angel, the messenger angel laid out aspects of my ministry that I would come into over a 30 or 40 year period. And so far they’ve come to past but there are still some things yet to come to past but that’s how basically one of the main experiences I had that affirmed my calling into the ministry. I’m not saying that a person has to have that encounter but it’s just happened to me and I don’t know why I’m a nobody and so I give God all the glory. It just really encouraged me through the times of great testing.
Sid: But you know something James with what you went through it was so traumatic that I don’t believe as a child I’m saying I don’t believe you’ll ever forget that. And the same thing happened with me and that’s why I know that because when I was 30 and became a believer in Jesus I went through the worst…I was so rescued by Jesus that I can’t even fathom being backslidden, it’s not in my vocabulary! And that’s what God did with you.
James: Yeah, Sid your right what is that I mean being backslidden, I mean I know what it means theologically but as far as experientially I mean I’ve tasted I’ve seen that the Lord is good. I’ve had my eyes opened to Him, I’ve been raptured caught up to heaven I had angelic encounters, He’s visited me, He’s talked with me, He’s appeared in my meetings. You know what are you going to do the miracles, the signs the wonders and just aside from all of those supernatural expressions just the peace, the joy inwardly, you know the sense of righteousness, rightness you know it’s just a part of my DNA and your DNA. And no you can’t, you cannot personally get over something like that and your upbringing as difficult. And I’m sure that those that are listening, I’m sure there’s many that have gone through the same horrible situations in fact I sense that Sid. Even worse, I mean I’ve been hearing testimonies of people going through even more difficult things than I even went through and I just shake my head and my heart breaks but I can relate and there’s this compassion and there’s this sense of destiny you know. There’s this sense of destiny you know that every believer can have and you know.
Sid: And by the way your book “Overwhelmed By the Spirit” I’ll ask a question I’m sure I know the answer to but maybe not why did you write the book “Overwhelmed By the Spirit.”
James: Well, the reason why I wrote the book was because number one I had 2 major life changing encounters in 2012 one in May and one in October. But number two the content of being overwhelmed by the Spirit or the glorious intruder. I had so much to overcome wounding, bruising, issues mentally, emotionally that I came to the realization that the Holy Spirit is our helper, He is our comforter, He is our paraclete and He abides within us. But there’s not just a gentle side as important as that is and the love and of course He aids in us when we need what I term hug therapies from Him. But there’s also more of an aggressive side where if we’ll yield to Him particularly in the baptism of the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues. And allow our understanding of the importance of tongues, of speaking in tongues what will happen is it will just elevate you your spirit man will take dominion and it’ll rise up and it will start as you study the word as well as you cooperate the Holy Spirit will start renewing your mind.
Sid: James I’m sorry we’re out of time…
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