Sid: My guest by way of telephone is Eddie James he doesn’t need an introduction to most of you; he’s had the number 3 song on all charts. I want you to get to know Eddie James and what God has done in his life. You’re a young guy Eddie and at age 8 you get saved and this is unfair, I protest you heard the audible voice of God; what did He say?
Eddie: (Laughing) I heard the voice of the Lord begin to speak to me about my purpose; immediately after I said “Yes” to God. I’ll never forget it the Lord said, “You will preach my word to the nations; you will lift up a sound of worship. You will sing, you will write music.” I just heard it just like that. And I’ll never forget just the encounter and the weightiness of the moment. I told my father as soon as I got in the car with him at home and shared that with him. The first thing he said was “You tell your mother.” And when I told my mother that when she had finally got home from service that day she pulled out this card that she had written on; there was a man that came from Africa to my church while I was in my mother’s womb and told her almost word for word that same thing that I had just shared with her. She had never shared with anyone except my father.
Sid: She must have been beside herself I mean someone that young is not supposed to hear clearly from God, well though I guess you could go back to Samuel, so there’s a little precedent. But you learned the supernatural, the reality of the living God as a child; tell me a few of the things that you saw with your eyes with your mother’s faith. Because you didn’t have much in the way of finances and therefore your mother was in the position that most people in the next year or two years are going to find themselves in. That is totally dependent on God, what did you see as a child?
Eddie: It’s fascinating, I just remember I come from a very prayerful heritage my aunts, my uncles, my grandparents they were prayer leaders, as well as worship leaders of our church I grew up in The Church of Christ there in Phoenix, Arizona called Immanuel. And it was constant that I heard the intercession in our home so in that context there was a season of my life where financially it was pretty challenging. We were going through a rough time financially. So there were times when my brothers or my sister would have fevers, catch cold, or get sick or have very challenging health issues. My mother just would use anointing oil and lay hands on them because going to the hospital wasn’t an option we just did not have the finances or the medical insurance support to take care of those. But my mother would lay hands on my brother Terrance I’ll never forget he was really really sick. Not physically moving having some real bad health issues and my mother laid hands on him and prayed and just…I remember breaking the spirit of death off of my brother, and I’m talking about minutes he’s jumping, he’s whole, the fever breaks, he’s totally fine. And I remember also this was crazy; this was probably the most crazy thing I’ve ever seen we’re sitting at the dinner table there’s no food in the cupboards at all, no food in the refrigerator, no food in the cupboards one of the biggest stories that we told over the years that just blown me away. We’re at the table in South Phoenix, Arizona. My mother puts out the pots and pans and I found out the reason she did that is that Lord had reminded her of when the feeding of the 5000 she said “The Lord showed her how Jesus had the people sit down as though they were going to eat though there was nothing prepared they were going to bless the food. The Lord brought the two fish and the five loaves he set the people down, prepared them to eat.” My mother said “Set the children down and prepare them and pull out the pots and pans in faith like the two fish and five loaves if you will.” And so she pulls it out and you could only use water because that was all we had there’s nothing else in there it’s just water. While we’re sitting there at the table just kind of awkward knowing that there’s nothing in the cupboards the doorbell rings and my mother goes to the door. Now we grew up in a very kind of a very disciplined home so to turn around in your seat was not appropriate but I couldn’t help but to see what was going on because my mother was in the Spirit and when she’s in the Spirit like I said anything was about to happen. And my mother goes to the door and I turned around and look to see what was going to happen. When she opens the door I hear a car drive off and there are 12 bags of groceries around the doorstep, literally 12 bags. We go and help pull those bags in the house and my mother begins to cook and we ate. I’m telling you like it was a buffet, it was awesome.
Sid: Eddie you just keep provoking me to jealousy and you know the Bible says you’re job description the Christian is to provoke the Jew to jealousy, but our time is slipping away and I’ve got to have them experience the anointing on your music. Tell me very briefly about the song “I Am.”
Eddie: Well, “I Am” came to me by a dream; my pastor’s wife Phyllis Sawyer spoke to me and asked me to write a song with Jesus singing to us. And so when she said that no one taps into that anointing for something more than my pastor’s wife; she has this ability to push that button until something comes out. And so I went to bed that night and dreamed “I Am” literally Jesus singing to us and that’s what that song is about.
Sid: And Jesus in this singing over you let’s go to “I Am.”
Excerpt: “I Am”
Sid: Well, I don’t know about you but the anointing I mean Eddie prays and worships God so long a day that the anointing is out of sight…
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