Our Guest Joe Oden
SID: Now, that’s the way it should be. Okay, you have an amazing witnessing style, absolutely amazing. He walks up to someone and he says just a simple question, “Have you ever felt the power of God?” And then what?
JOE: Well—
SID: Give me an example.
JOE: Yeah. One particular night in front of a bar called the Blue Planet known for LSD and Ecstasy. I’ve got a friend of mine, we’re out sharing the gospel and he’s arguing with this guy about Jesus. I’ve never argued anybody into the Kingdom of God. So I walked over to him, I said, “Have you ever felt the power of God?” He said, “No.” I said, “Would you like to?” He said, “Yes.” I laid hands on him. I said, “Lord, I pray the fire of God would come right now in Jesus’ name.” He looked at me and said, “I want to get saved right now.” I led him to Christ, I laid hands on him again.
The second time I laid hands on him he doubled over under the power of God, began to manifest demons and started throwing up on the sidewalk. He comes back up, totally set free. I laid hands on him a third time, I just said, “Fire.” He doubles over, Sid, and went, “[speaking tongues],” comes back up, I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I have no idea.” So I laid hands on him again. I mean, it’s working, the fire is flowing, why change it? I laid hands… We complicate it so many times.
I laid hands on him again, he doubles over again, [speaking tongues], comes back up. I said, “Have you ever said that?” He said, “Never in my life.” He was saved, delivered of demons and baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues in less than five minutes. Why? Is it because I’m a good preacher? No. Is it because of going to Bible school? No, it’s because I’m available and I want to tell you. You say, “I’d like for God to use me to like that,” all you have to do is be available.
SID: I want you to look in the camera and I want you to tell everyone watching this that they can do anything you can do and they can do it better.
JOE: Absolutely, I want to tell you, you don’t have to be a pastor, someone on television. The Bible says that the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in you. You don’t need another service, you don’t need another prayer meeting, you need to step out in faith and believe that God can use you. Lay hands on your waiter, your next-door neighbor, the flight attendant, just step out, God is waiting for you.
SID: Tell me about the Jewish woman that just showed up at your service, out—
JOE: We were in Texas and this particular morning we preached and powerful service. This Jewish girl was dating a young man from the church whose parents attended the church. They would not have come. The parents begged them, “Please come, please come, please come.” They show up on a Sunday morning, they hear the word of God, they receive a prophetic word personally to them and she gives her life to Christ. That night we were having a healing service and she said, before, she would make statements, “I will never go to a crazy charismatic service,” but she had a disease akin to leukemia. That night she came. I preached on healing, she comes to the alter, she gets hit by the power of God, falls out unconscious, gets up totally healed. This is how she knew. She goes to the bathroom and the disease in some form or fashion caused scales. They came off of her, she went—
