Sid: I have Randy Clark on the telephone because Randy I don’t know what the numbers are but how many people would you say that you have prayed for for impartation or healing over the last decade or so?
Randy: I don’t know either, I would say it’s into the 100’s of 1000’s.
Sid: I thing that you’re being conservative because of what I know about your ministry. But if anyone knows anything about healing that’s you and I want to find out a little bit about you. I understand at age 5 your Grandmother told you about an amazing physical healing that she had.
Randy: That’s correct Sid and that’s what actually caused my first interest in healing. I was with her and she was vacuuming and she just began to tell me I was in this bedroom and she was a new Christian and she hadn’t believed in Jesus for very long. And she had been a pretty wild sinner and she was saved and she heard the voice of God speak to her and she said “God in the other bedroom and pray and I’ll heal that large goiter that is in her throat.” She just obeyed; she’s illiterate and she’s a simple person; when into the bedroom prayed. And she said that “It felt like a hot hand went down my throat and it just disappeared. And that is what got me interested in believing, not only interested but in believing in healing.
Sid: You know you’re so blessed you had a Grandmother that at least was getting to know God and had a miracle. I’m thinking about when I was 30 and younger my big interest was the New Age because I didn’t know about the authentic I only knew the counterfeit; I didn’t even have an option.
Randy: Yeah, I’m glad that I’ve always known about the power of God. At 6 years old my mother went to heaven in her spirit and was there and for weeks she just wanted to…didn’t want to stay on earth anymore and it really scared my Dad. So the reality of heaven, the reality of the supernatural realm; the reality of God has always been a part of my family.
Sid: Okay, and this is hard for me to comprehend because I was talking about myself. When I was 30 I had an encounter with the devil; I had an encounter with God and I am not even I can’t relate to a backslider because I know what’s back there; that’s why I can’t relate to a backslider. But at16 you had a tragedy your Grandfather dies of cancer and your big question is why? And that opened the door and you backslid for a couple of years. Knowing everything you knew how did you backslide?
Randy: Well actually I backslide for 11 months and it was at the height of the Vietnam War and I was 18 years old and I got involved with the wrong crowd. I stayed in church 3 times a week; I still went to services but I was back-slidden and I actually had become a hypocrite. And then after 11 months of that I was just miserable and came back to God and 4 days after that I was almost killed in a car accident and ended up being healed.
Sid: Well, I mean that is…the question that I think you must have posed and you turned your life back over to God and 4 days later you had the accident. But I have to believe that was one of the most impactful healing in your life that was preparation for everything you’re doing today.
Randy: Oh, I know it was and you know that healing is what kept me because I went to college and majored and minored and took all my electives in religious studies. And then went to seminary and eventually got a Masters and then got a Doctorate. But it was in the Bachelor and Masters level studies and so much of it was so liberal it was my healing that kept me from losing my faith.
Sid: And you know with me it was that major encounter I had with God that that would have been enough for the rest of my life. But let’s I want to take you back to that; you rededicate your life and 4 days later your in a horrific car accident, your best friend dies; you end up in the hospital. What were the injuries?
Randy: I had 15% compression of the vertebra’s and the disk in the spurastic area and I had most of my vertebra’s were fractured. My face, the forehead felt like a washboard with so many cracks in it. I had 3 places the size of a quarter in my hairline that was crushed; my cheekbone was crushed; my jaw was fractured and my intestines were paralyzed. And I had so much pain from the spinal injury I was on 50 milligram of demurral a morphine derivative every 3 hours.
Sid: And then people began to pray and one thing after another you got healed. But the thing that got me that I had to ask you about is the doctors warned you that if you got out of bed or even moved just sat up on your own you could be paralzed the rest of your life; is that true?
Randy: That’s true. I couldn’t even have a pillow and for the first 15 days I got healed of the back was the last thing to get healed the pain. The jaw set itself, the…
Sid: Wait a second, how does a jaw set itself?
Randy: I don’t know, but and I had 3 specialists one of them came in to set my jaw and he said put your teeth together and he asked me that several times I did it. And he said “I don’t understand it I came here to set your jaw; it needs to be set but it already is.” And then after that the paralysis stopped, I was going to have to go to another hospital, a bigger hospital and my church prayed for me and the next morning when they checked me the paralysis was gone and they took the tube out that was feeding me and the tube that was pumping my stomach as well. And then it was the pain that left and that’s when I heard the not audible but the strong internal voice of the Lord that said “I’ve healed you get out of bed and walk.” And that’s when I knew I was really at risk because I had been told I wasn’t even to lift my head up; I couldn’t have a pillow as I said. And if I needed to move I had 3 nurses to come in and hold me at my knees, hips and shoulders to make sure that I didn’t move my spine. Because they said that “If I did I could become paraplegic or have charlie horses the rest of my life.
Sid: Now it seems to me that the first few healings you received while in the hospital gave you the faith and that was a major; to me that was a major decision for you to go against doctors advice and be a paraplegic the rest of your life. Did you count the cost or was it just you did it.
Randy: You know I don’t advise people to do that but I just felt so strongly that it was God that I did it.
Sid: Now I bet you did it very slowly.
Randy: I did.
Sid: And was there a point where you thought “Oh my God it’s not working?”
Randy: No, no I didn’t have any pain and you know I wanted to get out of the hospital right then at 15 days. And I was told I’d be in there 49 to 77 days my parents were told that. And this is the 15 day when the last part of the healing came and I wanted to go home but they wouldn’t release me until they could get a brace. And when I was around my mother I wore the brace but when I got away from her I took it off. Because I knew I’d been healed.
Sid: Now, did you ever go back to the doctors and show them what God had done?
Randy: No, but a revival broke out within one week at my church and then I ended up within a month of that being called into ministry at my little church of 125 people there. We ended up with 250 conversions and most of them were teenagers and people in their early 20’s just coming back from Vietnam.
Sid: Wait, when people say revival tell me exactly what you mean by that; what was going on actually.
Randy: It’s an unusual outpouring of the presence of God that makes you aware that you need Him as your Savior. It’s like a…like one guy came in and he was Presbyterian and he’d been to church Sunday School all of his life and except when he was in Vietnam and he had been a medic and he was really messed up bad now. And he had never been a service like this revival meeting. And he was sitting there thinking “I’m going to get up and tell them how good I am that I haven’t missed any church in so many years. And when he got up what he said was this “My name if (and he gave his name) and I’m a sinner and I’m glad I’m here and went to the altar and got on his knees and was saved.” People came in; the biggest pusher in our country came in and ended up getting delivered from drugs and saved instantly and both saved and delivered and became a preacher. People came in stoned and would go straight. It was just this presence of God that you could tangibly feel. And my Youth Pastor and he had a stroke and was 30 years old or 33 I think and that was my third thing I asked the Lord for 3 things to know if I was really called to preach. And the last thing was that he’d be able to play a piano again after he had a stroke and he couldn’t move his hand. And I said “He has to do it tomorrow night without pain; and if you do that it’s like a third sign like Gideon asking for signs I did the same thing.
Sid: Right.
Randy: And when he played the piano I asked him why did you do that? And he said “Well, I had a word I was sitting there and I couldn’t even move my hand and this strong impression came and said “If you’ll go and try to play the piano I’ll heal you.” And he said “The moment my hands hit the keys I was healed.” And so that’s when I stood up and said “I know that God’s called me to preach.”
Sid: Randy, I know our time is slipping away but we’ve put together the best materials you have. For instance this manual “Ministry Team Training Manuel.” Tell me what 1000’s of pastors that have gone through this manual say about it?
Randy: Well, I have several pastors that oversea churches of 30 to 100,000 members and overseas some of them 1000’s of pastors and they’ve told me that this is the best training manual that they’ve ever seen. And we now have it in over 14 languages and the last 42 pages deals with deliverance and the rest is about 150 or 80 pages I forgot now. But the rest of it deals with healing and it deals with how to get words of knowledge and how to….
Sid: And speaking about how to get words of knowledge we have these 4 DVD’s and your book “The Essential Guide to Healing.” I mean if you had had all of this information when you just started what difference would it had made?
Randy: I think I would have entered into things that it took me 20 years to enter into; I could have entered into within a year.
Sid: Okay, I don’t want you to take 20 years do you know why? You may not have it, Jesus may return before then.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth