It's Supernatural

Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Elisabeth Syre and she’s from South Africa but I’m catching up with her in Virginia. She is a holocaust survivor that… it’s a miracle that she’s alive and she walks in miracles. But one of the greatest miracles, one of the greatest releases of miracles, a lot of people don’t think in these terms but there is a key to the release of miracles. It has to do with forgiving supernaturally. Tell me about that woman that you met I believe you said that she… you could tell she was involved in the holocaust except on the wrong side and she was probably taking care of women in the death camps that were ready to be murdered. Tell me about that woman.

Elisabeth: I met her in the area of Stuttgart in Germany in a meeting of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship. She was standing there hard faced, no smile, no expression and I knew that she needed to be touched by God, but somehow I felt “I wonder what is behind this face?” Then I saw the watch of my grandmother on my hand, on my wrist, which my grandmother died in the holocaust. So this scripture comes to my mind Psalm 126:5 for it says “If you sow in tears you shall reap in joy.” I just started to sow my watch onto that lady…

Sid: Wait a second Elisabeth! That watch was dear to you it had sentimental value that was from your grandmother. Probably the only thing you had.

Elisabeth: Yes.

Sid: How could you do that?

Elisabeth: I realized that I loved the Lord much more than anything else. It was like a sacrifice, something broke in me. I just had such a tremendous burning love for the Lord Yeshua, for Jesus Himself, that He died for me and He gave me life that I was alive I wasn’t dead. I actually had found life, I wasn’t in that hole in the ground anymore where there was no food for me. My bones from my head had not grown together because of a lack of milk as a baby, but here I am strong enough. “Lord I am so thankful for my life. I’m alive.” So what is that watch in comparison to a life. I took it off and I put it on her wrist and I said “This is from the Lord Himself for you, it’s a sacrifice for me. I want to tell you I love you no matter what you have done in the war” She burst out in tears fell on her knees, gave her life to the Lord, called her husband he was saved as well and after that she totally changed. I went on the next train in Germany was without any watch and I thought “How foolish could I be.” You know that was my feeling again. Then the women who I gave my grandmother’s watch to stood at the train station with a brand new watch in her hand she had just bought. She said to me “I have found a new life, I have found forgiveness in Yeshua, in Jesus. This is a sign of a new life and you can take it with you. I’ll keep the old watch of your mother.” I said “Thank you Lord you have forgiven me for having such a hard heart towards people.” She was forgiven by the Lord Himself. It says clearly in Psalm 61 it says “He will give us the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness for they might be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord.” I just realized suddenly something in me broke. I had forgiven a person who done probably the most awful deeds, but she was forgiven through the Lord Himself. Therefore the watch I am carrying right now speaks about new life. Many people get sick because they cannot forgive but forgiveness is the key to true joy, joy that comes from the inside not from the outside. I was so changed after that that I could face any person whether it would be a terrorist, or a Satanist, or whoever that might be, I knew that I had enemies such… in that forgiveness and joy. Everything was broken and I could continue. Then on that trip and I was speaking in many meetings over Europe, people gave me watches as a sign that they also wanted to forgive. So I came home to South Africa through the airport and in my pockets were over 40 watches and when I went through the airport…

Sid: I was thinking you might have had a problem going through customs with 40 watches (laughing).

Elisabeth: (Laughing) Yes it was clicking all over the place. They were not new watches but I had watches for Africa. Then the customs officer “Can you go back again we want to check it.” I opened my purse I said “Do you mean these coins?” He said “Oh go straight on.” I could bring over 40 watches to all the poor pastors of Cape Town people that we related to everyone got a watch. I told them the story and things have never been the same. They have a proper watch which they have never had before. I was free and the woman was free, and so this is something God gave me to share with you. That forgiveness is the key to miracles.

Sid: Elisabeth you’ve seen so many miracles, for instance, you have prayed for many women that couldn’t have babies that did. Two of them that actually had hysterectomies, tell me about one of these women.

Elisabeth: This was in Holland in Amsterdam. I prayed for a lady who had been to the doctors and could not receive babies. She came forward and I didn’t know what her story was, she had underpants of her husband with her as well in the meetings. She said “Would you lay hands on these pants?” I looked at the pastor and at the leadership and he laughed and he said “Carry on praying she’s got a lot of faith.” I laid hands, both hands on the pants, and suddenly what happened I was laughing myself, I found it quite a funny situation. She took those pants and said “It’s mine! It’s mine! It’s mine!” and she went back to her seat. The next year I came back and she was pregnant with twins. A year later, I think it was last year or the year before I saw 2 children on her arm, a little boy and a little girl. The girl is called Elisabeth and the boy is called David, the girl was called after me. God did a matching miracle there and it opened the doors in Amsterdam for many ministries.

Sid: You’ve prayed for women that been barren 15 or 20 years.

Elisabeth: Yes.

Sid: I mean that is… (laughing) but someone with a hysterectomy I mean talk about a miracle. One of the other keys you’ve mentioned to miracles or secrets is fear the Lord and respect what He does. What do you mean by that?

Elisabeth: To have full trust in Him and not to actually trust man in the first place. That sometimes takes a sacrifice because people will say “Oh be careful you know could be prosecuted for praying or for believing in this.” Still to put your faith on the line, this is what happened when I prayed for a pregnant mother in Cape Town who had, the doctors said she had water head baby who has no brains in her body, she need to abort it. She came to me and said “Can the Lord do a miracle?” I said “He is in miracles.” I prayed, I don’t lightly say something like that I really have to hear the Lord. I heard clearly the Lord said “Are you willing to put your whole ministry on the line for me?” I said “Yes Lord I will I love you too much.” Then I stood with this woman and by the time that the baby was being born, she believed she said “I believe that this baby is going to be fine.” We were the only two who believed it plus her husband. When we went into the hospital all the x-rays showed a water head and no brain, but by the time the baby was born a miracle happened. The baby started to shout, to scream, or to cry and started to drink from the mother straight away. I was in tears by that time because a baby without a brain cannot do that, cannot drink from a mother. The head looked totally normal. We saw a whole lot of doctors standing around this mother saying “We have to do more test. We have to do more test.” I went into the office of the hospital he took all the records that stated the baby was a cabbage and she dressed herself and her husband took all her clothes. We left the hospital with the baby and today that baby is 8 years old, normal brains goes, normally to school, healed in the womb of the mother. This is one of the miracles I will never forget it changed my whole heart to the Lord. I knew that He could so much more than I could do.

Sid: You know one of the keys that you were talking about is respecting what God is doing and what God is doing right now is having mercy on Israel. What God is doing right now is equipping Christians to move in the supernatural. What God is doing right at this moment is giving Christians Jewish hearts because it’s all coming together. Our ministry is operating in… I mean it’s beyond my wildest imagine. The fact that we’re on almost every home in Israel primetime secular television, other parts of the world. We have a book ministry almost 400, 000 of these books have been distributed to Russians and many of them are running with the clothing on their back to Israel.