SID: Hello, Sid Roth your investigative reporter here with Rafaela Silveira; she’s from Brazil. She has such a hunger to see miracles. She saw miracles as a youngster on an exchange program in Las Vegas of all places, and they went on a trip and she actually prayed for someone and she saw miracles. Then she went home and even went to what are, quote, “Sprit-filled” churches where they are supposed to have miracles, but they didn’t have any miracles. Then she found out about a man by the name of Randy Clark who walked in miracles and that hunger for the miraculous that she had almost felt, “I don’t know if I will ever see it again,” it quickened, and she became a translator for someone on his team. And what did you see, Rafaela?
RAFAELA: Well, I started to see like a lot of miracles. Miracles like I had never seen before even when I did that mission trip to Mexico. Because on that trip when I was translating for somebody on Randy Clark’s team, I saw a deaf person being healed, and I saw kind of, that is like a bump, a tumor, that somebody had on his wrist disappearing, as I was the interpreter for someone on that trip. After that, I just fell in love with the ministry. You know, I fell in love with God’s power to heal. I wanted to see more of that. But on that trip, you know where I was translating, I was like, “Lord, you know, I have got to see more of this.” And I got a call before I was invited to translate for them from somebody at my church and this person said, ” Rafaela, I see you are working with this American ministry and God is going to open up a door for you. Just say yes and go and take the chance, what ever God opens up for you, say yes.” And after that trip Randy and his international vice-president called, Tom Rutolla, they invited me to work for them for Global Awakening, working in Brazil. And I was like, “Yes Lord,” that is the chance that I wanted because then I get to see the miracles more and more often. And then God really took me above and beyond what I asked or prayed for because I wanted to see the miracles and God started using me to pray for people, you know, pray for people and see the miracles happening through my hands
SID: Tell me some of the ones you started seeing with your own hands laying on people.
RAFAELA: Deaf people being healed, you know. I loved it. The year 2003 I went to Ghana with Gary Oates and he is one of my mentors.
SID: Well, Gary Oates we had on the show and boy, does he pack a miracle.
RAFAELA: Yes. Gary is like one of my mentors and so we went to Ghana, Africa, and there I had my first experience with the supernatural, you know. Before that trip I was so hungry for God I went on my first forty day fast and I was really trusting to see God in the supernatural realm. I heard Gary’s testimony and it stirred up such a hunger in my heart. I was like, Lord, if there is a man on this earth that sees you, and see your face, I believe because you are a good father, you don’t have like, special children, you know. I believe that if we ask we shall receive and I do want to see you too. So, in one of Gary’s meeting in Ghana, in one of his meetings, I was just hit by the power of God, I was knocked on the floor
SID: For those who don’t understand, what do you mean by hit by the power of God?
RAFAELA: Well, its
SID: If you were talking to some of your friends, that are Catholic and have not seen this sort of thing, how would describe it?
RAFAELA: Okay. Well, I think I would say there was this pressure, you know, that came on me, and I felt like so much power coming on me, like in my legs started to shake, and my body started to shake. I could not control my body, you know, it was something like I don’t know, I just could not control what was happening with my body. So I went to the floor, I just fell
SID: You know what? I have an idea how we can explain that to you. We have a miracle cam of a woman who was minding her own business at a meeting, I believe it was in Brazil?
RAFAELA: Yes.
SID: And she, it was Gary Oates daughter, had what is known as a word of knowledge, and the word was her name. And the word was not only her name, but her age. And so she knew it was her, she had this condition, a horrible gastritis condition and even though this is with subtitles the presence of God is so strong you are going, some backs are going to be healed, your hips, you are going to receive a presence of God for healing and you are going to feel what Rafaela felt. Let’s go to that clip with Raquel.
SID: Now I believe that many of you experienced the presence of God. Many of you have already had miracles. I want you to send in a one to three minute home video of the miracle in your life. Go to our web page, you will find out about it. But we are going to be back in a moment and you are going to find out about this encounter that Rafaela had that literally took her out of this realm. We’ll be right back.