Archive for April, 2009
Our Guest Joshua Mills
Sid: Hello Sid Roth here.
Welcome to my world where it is naturally supernatural.
My guest Joshua Mills is a legitimate sign and wonder.
You will understand what I mean in just a few moments.
But he was preparing for a career in film animation,
he had a letter of intent from Warner Brothers, and you
come from generations of Pentecostals, and your parents
take you to something called a renewal meeting, and you
should have loved it, but that’s not what happened.
Joshua: I thought the people were crazy, I saw them
laughing, I saw then shaking, I couldn’t understand it.
Sid: What’s wrong with laughing and shaking,
the Bible is full of things like that?
Joshua: You know it never happened
in my church growing up.
Sid: Yeah but your church was obvious,
in other words you thought abnormal was normal,
and by consequence, normal was abnormal.
Joshua: Right, exactly.
Sid: So you are wondering probably,
how do I get out of here?
Joshua: I really didn’t want to be there, I was watching to
make sure nobody would come close to me, touch me,
make sure no one would come lay hands on me.
Sid: What were you afraid of?
Joshua: I was afraid that maybe I would get
the same stuff they were getting.
Sid: Soooo…
Joshua: So I ended up just sitting there, you know the
preacher got up said open your Bible to Acts, chapter two,
the next thing I know Sid, is that it was just as though the
hand of God just catapulted me out of my seat down to the
floor, and I started laughing for three or four hours.
Sid: Had you ever laughed by the Spirit, I know you
have laughed before, but by the Spirit of God before?
Joshua: I had never laughed in this way,
to this degree every before in my life.
Sid: Was it good?
Joshua: It was awesome.
It was absolutely amazing.
Sid: do you think you had to laugh that long
to get all that religious bondage off of you?
Joshua: That’s probably what was happening.
Sid: Did you see anything; did you hear anything
while this was going on?
Joshua: The only thing that I knew was that I felt
such a joy, such a peace, such an awesome
presence of God on me that night.
God was just filling me with such an overwhelming sense
of His presence and he was changing all my perspectives,
he was changing everything that I had thought
about the way that my life would go and…
Sid: I mean you were headed towards a top;
you can make a lot of money in animation.
Joshua: Right, that’s what I was hoping to do.
And after that experience all my intentions
and all my perceptions changed, and I began to
just want to pursue the will of God for my life.
Sid: Now why did you start all of a sudden
to move into worship, were you a musician before?
Joshua: I didn’t play the keyboard,
I never really wrote a song before that time.
Sid: Did you ever take any music lessons?
Joshua: I had take some piano lessons, I was actually
forced to take piano lessons when I was a little child
in kindergarten, first grade, my mother…
Sid: For how long did you do this?
Joshua: I think about several months.
Sid: I see, did you force yourself to learn
as little as possible?
Joshua: Actually I would sit at the piano
and cry cause I really didn’t want to do it.
Sid: What a sense of humor, so how did you
make that transition to worship leader
from a crybaby, no I was just teasing.
Joshua: Well the day after I had that experience with the
Holy Spirit it was like God just began imparting in me
such a desire for praise and to worship, and He showed me
that I could come into His presence through praise and
worship, and I sat down at a piano, it is like it is so
supernatural that I didn’t even, I can’t even hardly
explain what happened exactly, I sat at a piano
and I began to play songs and began to worship God.
Sid: You can’t play, you had a few, I had a few
lessons when I was a kid, I was older than you,
and I can’t do anything, so I mean you can’t
play the piano if you have not been taught.
Joshua: Right.
Sid: It’s not; you don’t just walk up there and play it.
Joshua: the Bible says the Holy Spirit will teach us in all
things, and so I was taught by God how to play the piano.
Sid: How long did it take from that point for you to
become the worship leader of your church?
Joshua: Well within two and a half to three months
I began leading worship in the church.
Sid: Now a little earlier we had you play the piano and
worship God and something happened, gold dust was all
over your hands and all over your jacket, why?
Joshua: Well it was a sign and a wonder how I came into
praise, how I came into worship, how I came to learn to
play the piano, and ever since that happened to me I find
any time I am worshipping signs and wonders follow.
And signs and wonders just began to manifest
during the praise and the worship.
Sid: What is the, I want you to pick one of the
strangest signs and wonders that has occurred
while you have worshipped God?
Joshua: Probably the oil beginning to flow
out of my hands, because my fingers got
slippery on the keyboard.
Sid: I will tell you what, this is not entertainment,
this is a God experience, some of you have never had
a God experience before, this is your moment.
This is what you have been asking for, that God loves you
so much, open yourself up as we hear Joshua who cannot
play the piano, is not a musician, is not a singer,
supernaturally goes to the piano and if you look real
closely you may see some gold dust.