JIM: And Sid, she used to go like this to me. She said, “Jimmy, it was like this, that when I was praising God, I saw His index finger come down and touch your left eye. And when I saw that, Jimmy, I knew you were going to be okay. I knew that God was doing something.” But Sid, what she didn’t know was that when, as I was in my coma and I was falling through darkness and, Sid, it was as real as me talking with you right now, I reached out my arms on both sides, Sid, to kind of break the fall. I was looking for a railing or something, but there was nothing there. And as I
kept falling, I was completely scared. I’m a big guy, Sid, and I could usually take care of myself, but I knew this time I had gone one step too far.
JIM: I was in a place that was not meant for mankind, and I knew it. I just didn’t know what it was. I had never read the Bible. I had never been to a prayer meeting or Christian church as we know it. I didn’t know that there were wicked spirits and high places, demonic forces that were living inside of me. I had no knowledge of that. But Sid as I was falling through darkness, my fall stopped. And I was in like a black room and I looked over on my left hand side and for the first time in my life, I saw two creatures that were standing right there and I knew they were going to do something to me. I had no idea they were demons. I had never understood that concept. How could I, I had never read the Bible, not exposed to that, but those two things, whatever they were, they were real.
JIM: And they were going to hurt me. There was a pull, like a magnetic pull, trying to take me back behind this wall back there, whether it was Hell, I don’t know, but I know they wanted to hurt me. I had no understanding, Sid, but those were the demons I learned later on as I studied the Bible that were living inside of me. The Bible says, “Give no place to the devil.” Well, I had given them every place. So they had every right. They had a claim on my soul, and Sid, as my mother was home praying for me, as she said that she saw this, God’s index finger touch me, as she was home crying out to God. For me, the value, the power of prayer. Jude tells us “Have mercy on those who doubt, snatching others as though taking them out of the fire.”
JIM: That’s what she was doing through prayer, Sid. That’s why prayer is so powerful. And Sid, as she was praying for me, it was then that Jesus came to me. But as he came to me, the essence of the discussion, what He didn’t say, is what shocked me the most, Sid.
SID: What?
JIM: Why should I help you now? You loser. You fool. You laughed at me.
SID: He didn’t say that?
JIM: No. I might have said that. You mocked your mother. You mocked me. My people, but Sid, it was like a liquid sea of love when I looked at Jesus and he said to me, “Jimmy, you’ve been playing around long enough, do you want to continue?” And I said, “Jesus, I don’t.” But I prayed that prayer in jail, get me out of this jam and I’ll go straight. Well, here I am again.
