SID: Hello, Sid Roth here with Jeff and Theresa Hurlbert. Unbelievable. He goes from a million dollar business in three months. Just one little drug, tailspinned, lost his business, lost everything, finds himself homeless living in his car in a church parking lot and now his car is going to be repossessed and he knows that he is dying. At two or three in the morning he hears a fight going on, explain.
JEFF: Well, I used to seek refuge in this parking lot and at probably three in the morning the inside of my car seemed to expand, maybe twelve feet high and twelve feet out. And in front of my car a fight erupted but at that time red light encompassed the car and I was thinking to myself, the police are here, they have their lights on and I’m going to go to jail. But this fight, I never heard any word but it was two very large, I would say men or beings, just erupted in front of my car and came onto the hood of the car.
SID: That’s all you need was a fight. You just want to die. There was a fight going on, on top of your own car.
JEFF: Exactly; the car is shaking and I’m holding onto the steering wheel and I’m thinking to myself, this is nuts. The fight goes to the roof and the car is rocking and all of the sudden, it was like gone, totally silent. And it was in the middle of winter and I broke the door open because it was frozen shut and nothing, nobody was around. And I heard God say, I have come and I am fighting for you tonight. Because I had not drank or eaten, I knew my body was shutting down and I felt like I was one foot in the world and one foot in maybe the supernatural realm and I think that I would have died that night if not for God.
SID: So you determine that you are going to pull your life together, you call home, what happened?
JEFF: Well I called home and my parents who had been praying for me for more than a couple of decades said, if you come here we have absolute support for you. If you stay where you are we will pray for you.
SID: So you immediately decide, I’m going home and you get in your car to go to a drug rehab type of program and your car breaks down. So what do you do?
JEFF: It did. In the middle of Oregon my van blew up and I heard the Lord say to me, if you don’t get out of this van it will be your coffin. And it just so happened that I was able to get to an off ramp after walking for many miles and the first place that I went in, there was a man there and he gave me twenty dollar bill and he said I knew that you were coming and I want you to go get something to eat.
SID: you didn’t have any money and you’re probably famished.
JEFF: Yeah, yeah. And so, the only restaurant is across the freeway. So I make my way towards the restaurant and I realize halfway across the overpass that there is a desire to throw myself over. And so I ran and I did get a bite to eat and on my way back I knew, I’ve got to cross that bridge again. And I just prayed. And got enough strength from God to make it across. And my father actually came and picked me up.
SID: Now how many hours away by car was that?
JEFF: Now here is something that is think is phenomenal. He was ten or twelve hours away by car, he says he knows, he remembers none of this, but he felt like he just got in the car and drove to me. But it was only about three or four hours later. I can’t explain that.
SID: So time was compressed.
JEFF: It was important, because I don’t think that I would have made it.
SID: So you’re about ready to go into this drug rehabilitation program and you’re listening to some music and something amazing happened to you, what happened?
JEFF: Well I had an open vision that I was this beat up dog. The kind of dog that you might see in a back alley somewhere, just abused and not fed. And I saw the hand of God go over me and I knew that this dog was symbolic of me and the condition that I was in. and as God placed his hand over me fleas jumped off and I knew at that moment that I had been set free in an instant.
SID: You were instantly set free of your total addiction?
JEFF: Instantly. Absolutely.
SID: So, fast forward, he’s free, he loves God. Were you a youth pastor at the church that you were at?
JEFF: I was.
SID: Alright, a youth pastor, and Theresa comes to play her flute, prophesies over him, the rest is history, they’re married today. Tell me some miracles that you two have seen, like the person that needed a new kidney.
JEFF: Right, a lot of times, and I think it’s so fabulous that God has placed us together because our giftings really match. I can see people in the congregation or in the audience or even if it’s a bigger group, I can see, he shows me people that it would most affect and most speak to the group. I invited this young man up and I knew because of my experience that he was on drugs, that his kidneys were shutting down and it was a dire situation. And I felt like God said, I want you to pray for his kidneys, I am going to give him new ones today and I’m going to heal him. I’m going to set him free.
SID: Boy that’s stepping out just like your wife steps out in the studio, with no music to do a recording session.
JEFF: It is, and you really have to be able to just do that and so I said everything that I heard and as it turned out he had just gotten out of the hospital from being in a coma, kidney failure because of drugs. And we still have communication with him today.
SID: What happened to the kidney failure kidney?
JEFF: It got healed. He was healed.
SID: My goodness, you’re taking that a little lightly. That is very dramatic.
JEFF: It’s incredible.
SID: Tell me about someone else that was healed. I like to hear people being healed.
JEFF: Ok, one of my favorites, we have loads of stories. One of my favorites is a Cambodian woman, seventy something years old, broken back three times, crooked, walked with a cane hunched over and her desire was to go to Cambodia to spread love to her people, and be a servant to her people. She can’t because in Cambodia a lot of the roads have big pot holes and she can’t walk so it’s been impossible for her to go. Well at one of our concerts she got miraculously healed, I heard the Lord say, have this woman put her hand on her back pray for healing for her. The next morning she came into the service, no cane, dancing, jumping up and down and saying Jeff, guess where I’m going!
And I said, Cambodia! Miraculously healed.
SID: You know, I’m reminded of that young man that was homeless in the car and that big fight that was going on, and God literally spoke to you and told you that he was fighting over your life at that point. But you were praying for a visitation from Jesus and you got it. Tell me what happened.
JEFF: Oh my gosh. For three years I prayed that Jesus would come into my room. I kept reading about it. He visited many people and I wanted to be one of those people. So for three years I prayed every day, all day, and he never came. So I have to honest and say that I got a little upset and said, you’re not coming. Well three months later he came to my room. And at five in the morning I woke up, it was January twelfth, 2005. At five in the morning I woke up and sat on the edge of my bed and coming out of my mouth supernaturally were the words, take courage and be of great faith. And I remember walking into the bathroom and looking into the mirror and seeing myself speak in such a fast tone that I remember looking and saying, Jeff, you’re weird. But as I went back and sat on my bed, a man walked by my doorway. And I remember thinking that there’s a man in my house. This is strange. So I walked out and looked down the hall and there he was. He had his back to me and I didn’t at that time know what was really going on, but I said hi. And when he turned around the magnitude was so intense that it threw me to the ground. And wearing Levis and a red shirt, hair about down to here, I looked up and the air in the room was snapping and crackling. And the molecules were spinning like they didn’t know what to do. And I felt like, I am so overwhelmed that I might not even be able to take another breath. At that time I was able to get up and he was gone, and I was able to move into my bedroom and I paced back and forth and I remember saying to myself, he’s here, he’s here. What do I do? And at that moment I realized that he was standing right behind me. And as I was turning to look at him he put his right hand on my right eye. I remember seeing his pinky and his third finger, and I fell. And at that moment, I don’t know how long I was out, but for quite some time.
SID: What difference has it been since this experience in your life?
JEFF: I am a completely different person.
SID: It’s as if the veil has been removed.
JEFF: Absolutely. Even my penmanship is different.
SID: I tell you what, I have asked Jeff and Theresa to play music to God that will go right through your television, right through the DVD and meet you at your greatest need. Jeff has changed. Theresa has changed. And you’re about ready to be changed. We’ll be right back.