SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest has chutzpah, that’s a Hebrew word, it means “nerve”. She was raised by parents that most of you have heard of, T.L. and Daisy Osborn. On the platform in foreign countries, miracles were as normal to her as the oxygen that most of us breathe. She would hear her mother and father say, in front of a group of a thousand Muslims, if this man is not healed, don’t believe anything that I say. That’s chutzpah. Sid Roth here with LaDonna Osborn. And what a heritage she had. Her parents, Daisy and T.L. Osborn, historians say probably recorded and witnessed more miracles than anyone that’s ever lived. I mean, and she grew up, you grew up on a platform watching these. Some kids grow up with little dolls and dollhouses. She grew up watching miracles. But you know, your parents started out so badly it almost ended before it started.
LaDONNA: That’s true.
SID: They love God and they decided they wanted to be pioneers in India. But India has Muslims and Hindus, and without the supernatural, it’s just mind to mind, book to book. But I’ll tell you something. They came back and they were discouraged because they couldn’t impact the people. They sacrificed and when they came back, they went to a, through an experience in which your mom said, she had a new husband. What happened to your dad, LaDonna?
LaDONNA: It was one year after they returned from India. My father and mother began every day praying. And for one year, they prayed this prayer: Lord, show us the answer. How do we convince people of other faiths and so on, how do we bring them to Christ? And after one year, some circumstances were set up that put it in their heart to just see Jesus. They heard a message, if you see Jesus, you’ll never be the same. And six o’clock that next morning, Jesus appeared to my father in their bedroom. And apparently, the way he would tell it, he was just frozen. He laid there, got out of bed eventually, laid on his face until in the afternoon. My mother got up, dealt with my brother and me, had us down for our naps before he came out of the bedroom. And she said, “When I saw him I knew I had a new husband.” But the beautiful thing about him, he said, “When I saw Jesus I was changed from a denominational man to a Jesus man.”
SID: But then he went to a meeting that there was a man that I have only seen video footage of, but probably had the greatest miracles of anyone I’ve ever heard of, short of Jesus. His name was William Branham. So he sneaks into this meeting.
LaDONNA: That’s right.
SID: And what happened?
LaDONNA: He preached a sermon that shocked them.
SID: What is that?
LaDONNA: He preached, where does sickness come from. Well my father, he’d laugh and he’d say, everyone knows where sickness comes from. It comes from germs. But Brother Branham went through the scripture and he showed that sickness comes from the devil. There was no sickness in the Garden. Sickness came after sin. And then he showed through the ministry of Jesus how sicknesses are spirits of infirmity and Jesus had the power to cast them out. And then he gave his disciples power to cast out devils and cure diseases. And that’s what you see all through the Book of Acts. So after this message was so clear and so shocking to my folks, he had people who were sick come up and pray. In those days, it was all prayer lines. You might remember. And the first person that came in the line was a little girl who was born deaf and she was mute, never spoken. And he put his fingers in her ears, and he said a simple prayer. He said, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I adjure you, the spirit of deafness to come out of the girl and enter her no more.” My father said later, he said, before we even could suck up enough oxygen, and take a deep breath to get rid of it, pray long and loud, the little girl was healed. She was instantly healed. She could repeat every word. She could hear everything. And when that happened, my father said that it was like a thousand voices whirling over his head saying, you can do that, you can do that, you can do that. That’s what Jesus did. That’s what the disciples did. You can do that. That’s what the early church did. That’s the answer. You can do that. And oh, Sid, that was like an explosion.
SID: And by the way, I have a word for you. You can do that.
LaDONNA: That’s it.
SID: You can do that. So her parents get their second wind and they decide we’re going to Jamaica. What happened? Anything close to India?
LaDONNA: Oh no, no, no. They went, they sold everything, they resigned from their church, sold the car, sold everything, and we went as a family. I was about nine months old, my brother two and a half. And they rented a little hall in Jamaica and were there for 17 weeks. And during that time, all they did was just preach Jesus alive. He’s alive, he’ll do the same things today, he has not changed, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. They would preach, they would pray for the sick, and thousands of people accepted Christ. Blind people, more than 90 blind people were healed.
SID: So you’re telling me, her mom and dad, they’re Pentecostal, they’re in a church that believes in miracles, but they don’t see many.
LaDONNA: That’s right.
SID: They go to India. They see nothing, no results at all. Then they have, they see the cause of sickness, that’s what Branham taught them, and they see a miracle and God says they can do it, so they did. And here’s the amazing thing. Thousands of people saved and healed their very first meeting. And this man T.L. Osborn was a farmer, no special gifts. If he can do it, you can do it.
LaDONNA: That’s it.
SID: We’ll be right back.
LaDONNA: That’s it.
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