Our Guest Jim Maxim
JIM: And I knew why they were asking because the Holy Spirit had set that time up. I didn’t even know what witnessing was, Sid. All I knew was I had to tell them about my best friend, Jesus. God wants to shower you with His love, His blessings, prayer. Prayer is the greatest gift God’s given to me next to my salvation, the intimacy with Him. He wants to love me. He picks me up in His arms every day and infuses me with His power, with wisdom and knowledge and understanding. Why? Because of you being evil, know how to give good gifts under your children. How much more will I give good things to those that ask? Prayer is simply my
fellowship with my Dad. Prayer is my fellowship with Jesus and my fellowship with the Holy Spirit, the three of them every day.
SID: Jim, the most important thing for a believer, according to the Bible is prayer. But most believers don’t spend much time in prayer. They say it’s for the people that are “intercessors.”
JIM: Yes.
SID: Would you tell us why? And before you even say that, the one thing that Satan wants from us the most is what will happen in prayer. What is the one thing Satan wants the most?
JIM: Satan wants the number one thing the most, is our intimacy with our dad. I’ve been saved now for 50 years, Sid. And He has kept me for 50 years from drugs and alcohol and all that stuff. Why Sid? Because the one thing I do daily, is I answer the call when my dad comes knocking.
Sid, every morning, they come in my room, my three best friends every morning. I know that I’m a sinner. I know the wickedness in my heart. I can’t serve God unless He enables me. But every day, Sid, He’s waiting to infuse me with a fresh touch of His power every day. He’s waiting to speak to me, to talk to me, to love me. Why wouldn’t I want to fellowship with God, the creator of the universe. Why wouldn’t I want to ask Him to get into my business dealings?
JIM: Why wouldn’t I want wisdom and knowledge and understanding beyond my capability. He’s only God, He’s only the creator of the universe. And He wants to fellowship with me? Jesus wants to love me? The Holy Spirit wants to walk with me? Why would I turn that down Sid? If you want real supernatural power in your life, then pray. It’s the one thing that Satan does not want you to do because he knows when a child of the Most High cries out to Almighty God, he has no answer for that. Prayer is the answer to all of your issues.
Audience: Amen.
SID: I have to tell you he walks in the most amazing miracles. Tell us a few of the things that have happened to you.
JIM: Well Sid, I was in a prison once. The thing that comes to my mind is this experience in prison. And so, as I was walking up to the prison, I had my notes with me and the Holy Spirit said “Jimmy put your notes down.” And I knew enough. I’ve been walking with God long enough to know, okay I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I know it’s going to be great. And so I put my notes down and I got up to the pulpit and I just started praying. As I was interceding and praying, I said this to the guys. I said, “Guys, what you did isn’t who you are, what you did isn’t who you are. You’re here to pay the price for what you did, which [you] have to do. But what you did isn’t who you are. Almighty God loves you just the way you are.”