Sid: If you’ve been listening this week then your temperature is going up because you’re hearing 2 Jewish people that are normal believers in the Messiah. What is normal? Red hot. What is abnormal? Lukewarm. What are you? There is only one gear, you are either a 24/7 believer in the Messiah putting Him first, or you’re into religion; you can’t have it both ways, you’re either for Him or against Him. My guest is Lonnie Lane a Jewish woman that had an encounter with Yeshua, Hebrew for Jesus, that no man could take from her. She is currently the International Prayer co-Coordinator for Messianic Vision. I am so pleased that God has sent Lonnie to us because she has a gift of writing, and she has some fascinating articles on intercessory prayer, as well as, Lonnie you do articles on our webpage about the Jewish roots of our faith. So many non-Jewish believers in the Messiah are getting so interested in their Jewish roots. One of the reasons is Jeremiah 31:31 tells us clearly that the New Covenant that would be coming will be with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Then Paul says “Non-Jews are the wild olive branch that is grafted into the olive tree which is the Jewish people, or Israel.” So if it’s a Jewish covenant that the Gentile has been grafted into and he doesn’t understand the Jewish covenant, well give me a break you can’t understand everything going on in the New Covenant, you can’t even understand the covenant itself. So Gentile Christians from all over the world… they can’t get enough information about their Jewish roots, but God’s up to something because how can a non-Jewish believer in the Messiah provoke a Jew to jealousy as we’re commanded to do in Romans 11:11 without knowing our Jewish roots. Lonnie tell me about your dad; how did he react to his daughter becoming fanatic for Jesus?
Lonnie: Well I was really surprised at my father’s reaction he stood up and walked across the room, I didn’t know if he was going to hit, or what he was going to do. He put his arms around me and gave me a hug and said “I’m so happy for you that you found something that is so meaningful to you.”
Sid: He should not have reacted that way Lonnie.
Lonnie: This is not your typical Jewish father reaction when their daughter tells him she believes in Jesus. Well a little while later he started going… he would go to church with me…
Sid: This is also not normal.
Lonnie: No it isn’t. We thought maybe it was because they serve coffee and donuts and he’d go anywhere for coffee and donuts. He would go to the Bible study, but he wouldn’t go to the church service because that was going to “church” where Gentiles went, but he would go to the Bible study for some reason that was a distinction to him. When I finally said “Dad why are you so open to do this?” He told me a story that years before, it was during the Korean war, he was having a very difficult time in business things were just difficult in every way in his life. He used to listen to someone on the radio; Harry Bristow had a Christian radio show and he would listen, he never told anybody he was listening to a Christian show. He thought what he was doing was tuning out the Jesus part and just listening to the encouragement part. Until one day he was at his desperate end and he told me he pulled the car over to the side of the road and he said “Jesus if You’re there, You’re the only One left can You help me.” At that moment he got washed over with a warmth that came over him, and he started to cry and he just sobbed and sobbed. He hadn’t cried in years. At the end he felt such a release and from that moment on he just always had a sense of the Lord being with him, but he could never tell anybody because everybody in his life was Jewish, and you don’t tell Jewish people you cried out to Jesus and you now you feel that He is with you. One other time something happened and he… it was some interaction with him and the Lord, I don’t remember exactly what, but he saw a very great white light and he knew that it was about God. God conveyed to him that he would be in heaven which is where he is now. He was so thrilled when I told him because there was hope for him to find a way to be able to really embrace this Jesus he didn’t know what to do with, but knew He was there.
Sid: Isn’t this interesting Lonnie that He would listen to Christian radio. I was privileged to know woman by the name of Kathryn Kuhlman who had a television ministry, great healing ministry. She said that “In the New York City area her largest audience were Jewish people that didn’t believe in the Messiah.” I have an uncle who used to watch, a Jewish uncle, that used to watch Benny Hinn on television. I believe, and my wife tells me this all the time, I say to my wife “You know we’re on so many Christian television networks with TV, my heart’s desire is to be on secular television.” Every time I say this my wife chastises me and she said “You have no idea how many unsaved people can eavesdrop on the gospel without anyone knowing it in the privacy of their own home.
Lonnie: I have a friend who’s a nurse who went to do home nursing with this elderly Jewish couple. She began to share the Lord with them figuring that’s why God had her there so they could hear the gospel. The little Jewish said to her in her little accent “Vell you don’t have to tell me because ve know Him for years and ve are believers in Jesus, but ve don’t tell anybody.” God had her come so they could tell her because they had to confess with their mouth unto salvation. How many other thousands of Jewish people, I believe are out there, haven’t said anything to anyone and no one has reached out to them for them to be able to say it to; especially listening to shows like yours.
Sid: Well you know Lonnie I am so… I’m talking about my wife Joy there’s something else she said “When two open doors occurred to our ministry, one open door was a Fox News affiliate television station that’s the number one viewed TV station in Charlotte, North Carolina right after the morning news our show “It’s Supernatural” comes on; secular TV. Now we are on a television network that covers 98% of the homes in Israel can catch “It’s Supernatural.” This is God’s time (sound of cell phone ringing) but there is nothing to compare… Do you want to get your telephone Lonnie or… that’s alright she’ll get her phone, I mean it happens in the best of places and she can’t find her phone right now. It’s too bad we’re not on TV you should see her going through every pocket… your pockets are worse than a woman’s pocketbook, but okay good. Oh you don’t want to talk to the person? Naw that’s okay, that’s alright. Can you picture what God is up to? Here is what we want to do we want to run newspaper ads driving the people to the TV show in all of these markets that we’re getting on. Can you picture running an ad saying “Investigative report on the supernatural many people are physically healed,” then have a long list of conditions that people have been physically healed of from watching the TV show. That’s all we’d say. I believe we’d have a blockbuster audience and it’s only money that’s preventing us from being on major networks in the United States at the set time to favor Zion. So your father becomes a believer, how about your brother Michael. I relate to him because your brother Michael was as crazy as I was before knowing the Messiah. I mean he was crazier than I was, he was one of the first hippies that went to San Francisco.
Lonnie: Well Michael as a hippy he was really into drugs and meditation, and that led him to following a guru a little 16 year old guru that was supposed to be some miracle worker. He got really involved with him and went to India and was involved in setting up what they called “The Millennium.” Which thousands of people to come to worship this guru and it was there he became disenchanted, probably because I had so many people praying for him, and there were Christians at this Millennium praying also. We used to have My God is better than your god discussions. One day, actually, God moved him about half-mile from my house from where he was across the country. I knew then he would get saved. One snowy day he was coming…
Sid: Tell me about that vision you had of Michael.
Lonnie: Oh I had seen a vision of him, at that time he was just a mess and a hippy, and long hair. You know, I said to my dad “I’ve seen Michael with his haircut in a suit and serving Jesus, and I think it’ll happen within a year,” and it did it was in 6 months.
Sid: Lonnie it was impossible, his mind everything was shot…
Lonnie: Oh pretty much.
Sid: I mean and he’s not interested in religion, in Jesus, he’s plain burned out.
Lonnie: Oh couldn’t even finish a sentence really, it was kind of like “What’s happening.”
Sid: I mean he’s addicted to drugs…
Lonnie: He wasn’t addicted to hard drugs, but…
Sid: Marijuana?
Lonnie: Marijuana yeah, but he was high all the time. Plus all these demons that were involved; I went into the house where he was living and it was thick with demons. One day we were having tea and cake, and I prayed and thanked the Lord for being with us, and when I opened my eyes I said a few other things, and when I opened my eyes he was crying, tears coming down his face. I said “What happened,” when he finally could talk he said “Jesus just touched me and I know who He is now.”
Sid: This is God’s time. God is touching Jewish people. Are you praying for the Jewish person that God has had cross your path?
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