Sid Roth

SID: Now many of you are familiar with the Praying Medic, Dave Hayes. But for those that are not, let me give you a quick recap. Dave was a fervent atheist until he was 38, paramedic. In 2000, he became a believer in the Messiah and then strange things started happening. He started hearing God’s voice. And then he had a prophetic dream, and what did God tell you to do with your patients in the ambulance?

 

DAVE: He said, “I want you to pray for your patients. I’m going to show you what’s wrong with them. And if you pray for them I’ll heal them.”

 

SID: Now when he said this to you, I mean, you’re a new believer. You had no paradigm. Did you think like you’d be a healing evangelist, heal in the name of Jesus? What did you think?

 

DAVE: I was confused. I had no idea. I didn’t even believe in healing at the time. I didn’t believe in miracles. I had never seen anyone healed. In fact, my wife and I had just had an argument, disagreement a couple of weeks earlier about healing. She believed in miracles, I didn’t. And then I had the dream and God said, “I’m going to do miracles for you.” So I didn’t have a degree for it.

 

SID: All right. So but you did have that Jewish thing called chutzpah, nerve, except he’s not Jewish. But somehow he got some chutzpah. Let me tell you what this guy did. You never have done this. He told me he prayed for 400 people in the ambulance. How many got healed?

 

DAVE: None.

 

SID: Did you hear that? None. How many were healed, going to 401? I mean, this is in the ambulance. This is your job. You could lose your job. I’m sure all this is going on inside of you. But then tell me one of the first people that was healed and what happened.

 

DAVE: Well I was on the ambulance. It was a very hot day and my partner and I went into the store to get something to drink, got my Gaterade. I went to the checkout counter, and I was standing in line behind a woman. And for some reason, I looked and I closed my eyes. In my mind, I saw what I now know is a vision. I didn’t know what it was at that time. I saw a picture of this woman and I saw the word “migraines” underneath her.

 

SID: This written out over this picture. Had you ever seen this woman before?

 

DAVE: No, never saw her before.

 

SID: Okay.

 

DAVE: Never had any experience like that.

 

SID: Okay.

 

DAVE: So I just thought, okay well God must be telling me she has migraine headaches because he wants me to pray for her. So all of a sudden, I got this boost of confidence, of faith and I said, “Hey, I’m Dave, I’m a paramedic. Do you have migraine headaches?” And she starts crying. And I said, “What’s wrong?” She goes, “Yes, I have migraines and how did you know that?” I said, “God told me and I think he wants me to pray for you so you can be healed.” So I prayed for her. Headache was completely gone, she’s crying, and she said, “You don’t understand what happened. I have had migraines for years. This morning I woke up with another headache and I asked God, when are you going to heal me, and then you showed up at the store.” And she got healed. And I got a testimony from her, I contacted her months later, she had never had any more migraines.

 

SID: This is just the beginning. He gets so many people healed. He’s a paramedic in an ambulance. He gets so many people healed after that. But you begged a question with me. So why weren’t the first 400 healed? You had a dream from God?

 

DAVE: Right.

 

SID: Why?

 

DAVE: Because I didn’t know how to release power and how to exercise authority. I just thought I could beg God to heal somebody and they would be healed. That’s what I did for the first two or three months. I would very quietly have a patient on the gurney, oh Lord, if it’s your will, please heal them, in a quiet voice so no one could hear me. Did that for a few months, no one got healed. And I started learning about, reading through the scriptures, reading through the New Testament, seeing how Jesus healed people and the disciples healed people. Then I realized it’s about authority, the authority that God has given us and releasing the power, the power of the Holy Spirit that lives in us. Once I understood it was about releasing power and exercising authority, I started seeing people healed all the time.

 

SID: Tell me one of the most recent healings you’ve had. I’d like to hear.

 

DAVE: Are you talking about the one at the conference?

SID: Right.

 

DAVE: So I was at a conference in Tacoma, last year, and this woman tracked me down and said, “Praying Medic, can you pray for me. I need to be healed.” And I said, “Yes, I’ll be happy to pray for you.” She knew me. She was a friend of mine. We emailed each other. I had prayed for her to be healed of emotional trauma from sexual abuse as a child and she had already been healed of that. She had emphysema, she had circulatory problems, her feet were purple. She had heart problems, thyroid problems. She had a long list of problems. So I prayed for her for about ten minutes and I knew I wasn’t going to have enough time to get everything healed. So as I was praying I felt like the Lord told me, “Tell her you’re going to send angels to follow her around at home when she leaves the conference.” So I did that. I said, “Look, I believe the Lord wants me to tell you that we’re going to have angels follow you around for the rest of the week, after you leave the conference.”

 

SID: Now that’s a pretty wild statement for someone to make.

 

DAVE: Yes. Look, I try to be obedient and it just requires sometimes taking a leap of faith. So I had never heard the Lord say that before. So I told her that and then I went back to the conference. She emailed me a couple of weeks later and said, “You’re not going to believe what happened. First of all, the next day the purple skin on my feet turned normal color.” Everybody noticed that my circulation cleared up. She went to an appointment that week and they noticed that her breathing was normal. She wasn’t huffing and puffing, and wheezing like she had been. And she said, “But the most amazing thing was the Wednesday after I went home, I was going to sleep that night, I laid down in bed, and as I was laying in bed, I saw an angel standing next to my bed and it was dumping oil over me.” And she said, “My breathing is better, all my health conditions are going away. She has continued to heal over the last few months. She’s continuing to, the healing is continuing and she’s giving me updates on each condition as it’s being healed. I believe those angels are still releasing healing on her.

 

SID: You know, many years ago, as a new believer, I saw Dr. Kenneth Hagin who is now in Heaven, minister great miracles. Then I heard him teach on how we could do it, and I said to myself, you can’t teach a gift. A gift is a gift. You hear from God. You can’t teach others to hear from God, or can you?

 

DAVE: Yes, you can and yes, I do. I do not believe what a lot people believe about prophecy, about hearing from God, seeing visions, all those angelic experiences. Those are experiences anyone can have. If an atheist like me can do those things, I’m not special, I don’t have a special anointing, God has specifically told me, “I want you to teach my people how to operate in the supernatural, how to hear my voice, how to see visions, how to release healing.” And that’s what my books are about. That’s what I do.

 

SID: Every believer can operate in all these arenas you operate in.

 

DAVE: Everyone who wants to and who is willing to practice can do it. One of the most frequent comments I get from people who have read my book on hearing God’s voice is, wow, I read your book and I realized I was hearing God. He was speaking to me the whole time. I just never recognized it was him speaking.

 

SID: When you come back, Dave says if you do two things consistently you will hear God’s voice. You will hear God’s voice all the time. Be right back.