It's Supernatural

CLARICE: I knew he would never turn me loose! I knew it! I mean he was going to shake a tongue out of me! That was all.

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: And I said, “I don’t know what you want!”

Audience: [more laughter]

CLARICE: “I don’t – I mean I would – believe me, I would do it if I knew what it was!”

Audience: [more laughter]

CLARICE: I’m about to fall off the edge of the chair.

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: And I said, “But, but.” And he said, “That’s it!” My husband looked at me and he says, “You got it?”

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: I said, “Oh yeah! I got it! I’m not going to have a hair left on my head if I don’t get it!”

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: I mean this guy was – I mean he was determined! We didn’t know much except hang in there! You know! So I said, “But, but!” Suddenly this woman – you know every meeting has a strange woman. And she had more hair than King Kong and it was wrapped around, an oatmeal box and she comes down the aisle with a finger pointing! She looked – and she’s doin’ the chicken, you know, comin’ down there. And I thought, “Oh my God!” And then my husband had his head down and he was bowing. I said, “Man, if you ever opened your eyes, open ‘em now! There’s somethin’ comin’ after us!”

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: And she was shakin’ her head and her hair came down. Her hairpins went everywhere and she goes [speaking in tongues]. You know I thought whoo – hoo – hoo – hoo!

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: She got up to us [speaking in tongues] goin’ around and around! I thought, “My God, it’s going to rain somewhere!” You know?

Audience: [laughing] Whooo – hoo – hoo – hoo – hoo! 

CLARICE: Now say it. We’ve never been this way before!

Audience: [laughing and laughing] We’ve never been this way before! [laughing]

CLARICE: She said, “For God has called you as prophets to the nation!” I knew what a profit was! That’s money! [laughs]

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: It’s going to go with my bird! [laughing]

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: [laughing] You’re going to think did this really happen? I could not be here doing what I’m doing today! In my job, if you lie you fry!

Audience: [laughs]

CLARICE: Now in the authority of Jesus’ name there were 5 people that were just healed of an arthritic condition in your knees and in your back! Laughter is a medicine! It doeth good! It’s better than a medicine! If you know that you have come in here with an arthritic body would you stand up just for a second? Or raise your hand. You don’t have to stand up. Just raise your hand where you are! I loose upon you the antidote right now! Every bit of unforgiveness that’s been in your heart that you didn’t even know was there we bind it, break it and cleanse you of that and command your bones not to be brittle but to serve you the rest of the days of your life! I speak to the pain and command it to go! For every second it stays on you I claim a soul for the kingdom of God! Hallelujah!

Audience: Whooo! Whooo! Whooo! [clapping]

CLARICE: Hallelujah! I was an only child. And as far as my mother and father were concerned I was THE only child. We didn’t have a TV so they’d stand me on the table and I’d dance and sing and I was the entertainment! And my mother was very, very religious. My mother was wonderful! She could pray! She was just a wonderful, wonderful person! And she used to say to me, “Now Clarice, you have to have a vision! Without a vision, the people perish!” And she would just put that word all over me all the time! And I was going to the Baptist church with her and mother would sing a little song. She’d say, “I’m Baptist born and Baptist bred and when I die I’ll be Baptist dead!” Momma was a Baptist. She would have intimidated Scofield. I’m tellin you it was just an amazing time! But at 16 when I came to the absolutely full knowledge – [pauses]

Audience: [laughter]

CLARICE: You’re slow but worth waiting on! [laughs]

Audience: [laughter]

“What are you doing up here?” I said, “We came to pray for the sick, sir.” He says, “You’re not going to pray for the sick. You’re going to go to the solitary housing unit. I’m putting you in the hole.” I said, “I’m fine with that. We’re both fine with that, in fact. But we’d like to pray for the sick first. Would that be okay?” And he said, “Well, you’re a horse of a different breed.” He says, “Come in here.” He said to the nurses, “what do you think I ought to do with them?” He says, “Well, they want to pray for the sick, let them pray for the sick. You can put him in hole the afterwards.” I said, “Thank you. I appreciate that. We’d be happy to go to the hole. But let us pray for the sick.” And so he said, “Okay.” He says, “You can pray for the sick, but you got to start in this room first.”

Sid, he brought us into a room where there was three men that were comatose. They were in comas. One had his arms tied down and there was netting around the entire bed. He’d been beat with a metal bar on the weight pile at another facility because he hadn’t paid a drug debt, and his head had been bashed in. So he had brain damage. And so as he’s there, I’m thinking, “Man, this is a tough call, God. You sent us.” There’s a difference between being sent, and those who just went. We were sent, so I knew he was with us. And I raised my hands up and I began to pray. No presence.

And about two minutes went by and I felt like an abject failure. And just when I was getting ready to stop, the presence of God rolled in like it did in that cell years earlier when I met him, and the room became pregnant with the atmosphere of God. And this man in a coma leaned up, and that’s when I saw his hands were tied, and he had torment in his eyes. And I rebuked the demon out of his eyes. And all of a sudden, peace came and he fell back down onto the bed and he was out again. And we prayed for the other two, asking God to heal. And we went down the hall, and a healing revival broke out on the death ward.