Sid: Now I have a guest and first we found out about her from her book and it’s quite a grabber for a title. The title is “You Can be an Overnight Soul Winner.” Why is this so important? Because the truth of the matter is that most people who call themselves never lead anyone to the Lord let alone Jewish people to the Lord. And after reading this book and reading the information that’s in this book there is an anointing on this and I believe that anyone that reads this book and yields to the Spirit of God can be wise. Why do I say “Wise?” Because the Bible says “He who wins souls is wise.” Why are you wise if you win souls. Because the only thing you take to heaven with you are those that you’ve lead to the Lord. There is a soul winners crown waiting for you; I believe that this will be a destiny week; a total change in your life. And you may be the type of person that says “Well, I’m not the type that leads people to the Lord. Yes, you are you’re about to ready to find this out. My guest Debra Alderman from Stafford, Texas is provoking me to jealousy and I’ve just met her by way of the telephone but on July of 1992 Jesus walked into her living room. Now the Bible, Debra the Bible says that the gentle is to provoke the Jew to jealousy but this is ridiculous; you’re getting me jealous already. Tell me what happened on July of ’92?
Debra: Well, Sid the most supernatural thing happened in July of 1992. I had already been serving God for a number of years and I was in full-time ministry; traveling and preaching the gospel across America and to Africa and England and other countries around the world. And I was just sitting in my one bedroom pink apartment in July of 1992 and at that time I loved pink and Sid I moved on to other colors but at that time the carpet in my apartment was pink; my walls were pink and even the fuzzy thing on the toilet was pink. And that night I was just sitting on my couch and it just seemed like an ordinary night and I had my Bible in my hand and I was preparing Sid to go speak at a ladies meeting the next day. And all of a sudden Jesus walked into the living room of my one bedroom pink apartment. And I’d never saw Jesus with my natural eyes and I know of people that that has happened to but I knew that Jesus walked into the room because His presence filled the room.
Sid: Well, when you say “His presence filled the room.” I have been at meetings where there’s different degrees of anointing. But was this way beyond a very anointed meeting?
Debra: This was way beyond that; this was Sid a personal visitation that I had from Jesus on that night.
Sid: Okay, tell me what He did or said.
Debra: Well, when He walked into the living room into my one bedroom pink apartment I stood up off of my couch on to the floor because I was getting ready to pray or to say something. And you know Sid a lot of times you know when Jesus comes to visit us or His presence comes into the room a lot of time as human beings we don’t know how to respond. And that was the case with my self that night; I didn’t know how to respond.
Sid: I’ve never had that problem; He’s never come in to my room I’m jealous.
Debra: (Laughing)
Sid: But go ahead.
Debra: I’ll tell you I didn’t know how to respond and you know I opened my mouth and I got ready to pray and I heard Jesus or I heard the Holy Spirit go “Sh, be quiet don’t say anything Debra I want to talk to you.” And that night as I stood Sid on the floor in my living room Jesus said “Debra I’ve called you to be a soul winner and from this forward the anointing that I’ve placed upon your life to win the lost is about to intensify.” And I tell you what Sid I really did not realize to the extent of what Jesus was really saying to me that night. I thanked Him; you know in a few minutes it’s like the visitation was over and Jesus never said another word.” And I said well thank You Lord because Sid I’d already been winning souls. I mean my sister that lead me to the Lord when I was a 20 year old college student she was a number 1 soul soul winner. And so I would be with her in different places and my older sister Tina she was always witnessing to this person and that person winning souls and so I was winning souls Sid. But I tell you I didn’t really realize what God had done in my life until about 24 hours Jesus had visited me in my one bedroom pink apartment. I was returning home that evening from the grocery store and I saw a young man walking along side of the road who I recognized from my local church. and his name was Steven so I knew that something was wrong he needed transportation and I just got out and chatted with him a minute and he jumped in my car and I offered to drop him off at his department complex I realized I was on an extremely bad side of town. There were a lot of drugs, alcohol, sin and this particular apartment complex. And Sid I could hardly wait to get Steven out of my car; I was thinking God if he doesn’t get out fast enough I’m going to push him out. Because I could hardly wait to get out of that apartment complex and get back to the good side of town where I lived. But you know what Sid God had a completely different plan for that night. When I dropped Steven off the only place there was for me to turn my car around was in that dark alley way of this apartment complex. And that particular night there happened to be about 16 teenagers playing volleyball and basketball in the ally way and I had to kind of interrupt their game to get my car turned around. And Sid when I was almost out of that apartment complex I heard Jesus say…now keep in mind it’s 24 hours after He had visited me in my apartment complex Debra turn your car around and go back into that dark alley way and preach Jesus Christ to those teenagers.
Sid: Now, was there a chance that you could have talked yourself out of it and said “That’s just my thoughts, that’s not Jesus.”
Debra: Oh, I could have easily talked myself out of it because of this very first thing that I did was I just started arguing back and forth with God. I was like “God you have got the wrong person; I mean yes I’m preaching across America and in different parts of the world and I’m leading people to You but I have never in my life have I ever stood in a dark alleyway of an apartment complex and about 10:30 and 11:00 PM at night by myself and preached Jesus Christ to a bunch of street teenagers.” And the more I began to tell God He had the wrong person the more God began to speak to me Sid saying “Are you going to be obedient to Me; are you going to do what I’m asking you to do; I’m asking you to turn your car around and step out by faith and do something that you never done before.” And so out of obedience to the Lord I was afraid; I had never done anything like this before.
Sid: You know what that reminds me of; it reminds me of Peter being told to walk on the water.
Debra: Yes.
Sid: Just imagine the courage it took for him to take that first step?
Debra: Absolutely. And you know so many people you know preach about how you know Peter took his eyes off of Jesus and sunk. But I like to preach about the part that he was the only one of the disciples that dared to walk on the water.
Sid: So you started literally walking on water from the viewpoint of I mean how many teenagers were there playing basketball?
Debra: There were about 16 teenagers; there was males and females.
Sid: And this was in a dark area in Houston, Texas about what time at night?
Debra: It was in between 10:30 and 11:00 PM.
Sid: My goodness that is a tough call; you decided to be obedient.
Debra: I decided to be obedient Sid and so I turned my car around I had no idea what I was going to say or what I was going to do. And Sid this is just another reason why I know that if God can used me to be a soul winner God can use anybody to be a soul winner. And that night when I drove my car back into the dark alley way they’re seeing me for the second time now I’ve already interrupted their game to turn my car around; now they’re seeing me coming back. And so I got out of my car and I didn’t know what to do but you know when you don’t know what to do Sid you just know that the Holy Spirit He’s in charge; He’s in control and I walked up to this big old tall guy and he was dribbling a basketball I’ll never forget him as long as I live. And he was so tall he was looking down at me and I’m a very short person I’m only 5’2” tall and he’s looking down at me and I’m looking up at him and I don’t know what to say so I just kind of cleared my voice. And I said “Can I have your attention I have something to tell you.” And I’ll never forget it Sid he stopped dribbling his basketball and he looked down at me and he said “Well, what have you got?” And so at that moment of time I just looked at all of those teenagers and I said “Everybody come over here I’ve got something good to tell you tonight.” And so all of the teenagers to my shocking surprise stopped what they were doing walked over to where I was and at that point I just began to share with them I said “Jesus loves you; I don’t normally come down alley’s I the middle of the night however God has sent me.” And you know Sid if you ever tell anyone that God has sent you they’ll listen to you because they think that you’re crazy anyhow. And so I just said “You know Jesus loves you; He has a great plan for your life and tonight you can invite Jesus Christ to come live in your heart and you can be 100% sure when you leave this earth that you will go to heaven to be with Jesus forever. And I said it just seemed like one of the teenagers that night looked at me and said “Yeah, that would be cool.” And I just couldn’t help to think to myself that heaven is a lot cooler than hell. And so I said “Join hands with me and we’re going to get ready to pray because every teenager in that dark alley way that night said “I want to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior.” And Sid what I did not know was that when I was sharing Christ with all of these young people one of the teenagers mothers was standing several feet behind me listening to every word that I said. And before we got ready to pray I didn’t know that she was back there; I didn’t know that she had been listening to me but she just yelled out with a loud voice “Wait, don’t pray without me; I want to make sure that I’m going to heaven also.”
Sid: You know Debra we’re out of time right now but Mishpochah I’m telling you that we’re coming into times where the Holy Spirit’s going to go ahead of you just as He did with Debra. How would you have liked to have had the opportunity of leading all of those people to the Lord. Well, Debra says that you can be an overnight soul winner because it happened to her.
