>> Hello, friends. This is Dr. Francis Myles.
Today I want to give you a supernatural story
that I hope and pray is going to encourage you.
This supernatural story is called, How God
Saved My Father with His Audible voice.
And the reason I really felt led of the Lord to tell it
is because somebody out there is believing
God for loved ones to come in the kingdom,
especially the ones that look like they have no time for God.
And you are worried about the eternal destiny
of their lost souls if they do not come to the Lord.
That was my biggest dilemma.
When I came to faith in 1989, I was radically born again
by a divine encounter with Jesus Christ.
I fell in love with Jesus.
I mean, I went head over heels in love with Jesus.
I used to hate church.
My father was a staunch Roman Catholic.
You know, he would beat me into church.
I was afraid more of the road than my desire to go to church.
And I couldn't wait for it to be over.
So, I could not believe how hungry
I suddenly became for the church.
Every prayer meeting, I wanted to be there.
If you just said, church, I'm running.
There was so much passion to be
wherever I thought I could get more of Jesus.
In my excitement, I went to see my dad.
At that time, my dad was living in a village
about four hours by bus from me.
So, I got on the bus, and I cannot wait to tell my dad
I am born again. I love Jesus. I'm serving God.
And I thought, my God, I gave him this news.
He is going to be shouting and getting excited.
A child who never loved church now loves the Lord.
He wants to go read his Bible. That's what I thought.
I went and I and I met him, and I told him,
I said, dad, I am radically born again.
I just found Jesus, or he found me, you know,
and I'm changed, and I want you to know about it.
I couldn't wait to share with you. He was quiet.
It was not what I expected. And then there was an explosion.
You see, my father at the time was a very staunch Roman Catholic
who believed that the pope was the only person on earth
Jesus can talk to. So when I told him I'm saved
and I'm going to the Assemblies of God Church,
we have worship services, we have this.
All he heard was I've left the papacy.
You have left the Catholic Church. He blew up.
I've never seen him that angry in my entire life.
I was devastated because
I thought it was going to be excited for me.
He was not. He was disappointed in me.
Embarrassed. He said to me, what did I do wrong?
What's wrong with the Catholic Church?
Why do you need this? And it got so bad.
He denounced me from being his son.
He told me, if you don't recant, I don't want to see you again.
My mother is crying in the background.
She's begging. She's caught between the two men she loves -
her son and her husband.
But I had found Jesus to such a degree
that I was willing to give up my father for him.
So that's what I did.
I cried my whole way on the bus going back.
And when I got to the city where I lived,
the Holy Spirit spoke to me. Pray for him.
Said what? Said pray for him.
So, every week I prayed. I was on my knees.
I bruised my knees for the salvation of that man,
for my father to come to faith. About a year went from the time
he denounced me from being his son.
Then one day I went into my office
at the accounting firm where I was working,
and lo and behold, who do I see?
Waiting for me at the door to the office was my dad.
When I saw him,
I panicked because I'm thinking my mother must be dead
because I know my dad. He was a very proud man,
very difficult to change when he makes up his mind.
So, I'm thinking the only thing that can make this man come and see me
- my mother is dead. So, I start crying.
I said, What's wrong with mom? That's what I said. Is she dead?
He said, why would you think that?
I said to you, what are you doing here?
That was very awkward, but that's what I said.
He said, well, can we sit down in your office?
I want to talk to you. And here comes a story.
He says to me, my son, I've come here
because I want to find the God you found.
I want to, I mean, I almost fell off my chair.
I said, what? You want to find the God I found. What happened?
He said, well, it begun about two weeks ago.
He said, my son, I've never heard the voice of God in my life.
I know God has a concept.
Yes, I believe that whatever I got from the Catholic Church,
I believe that's all there was.
But I never thought God talks to people today, let alone me.
He said I was doing my normal routine
of praying through the rosary.
My father would pray through the rosary of Rosary,
the 66 beads that are in the rosary.
He knew every chanting of every bead.
And so, he would do that once a day.
And so, he began to do it in the in his bedroom.
He knelt down and began to say, hail Mary.
As soon as he said hail Mary,
he said he heard a loud, audible voice
and the voice called my father by middle name.
He never wanted anybody to call him by that name,
including my mother. So all of us know you never call.
We never called our dad by his middle name
unless you wanted to get in trouble.
But God chose to use that name.
He called him by his middle African name
and said to these words,
I am the way, the truth and the life.
That's not the way they worship me.
Ask me how. He panicked.
He had never heard this kind of voice before he stopped.
He dropped the rosary, brought it,
he told me, out of the bedroom
because he thought he was losing his mind.
So the following day he decided,
I'm going to pray in another bedroom.
He kind of thought maybe
there was witchcraft in the other bedroom.
So I need to do I need to change rooms.
If I change rooms, this voice,
sure, they can't come back a second day.
So I went to another bedroom, and he knelt down to begin to pray.
As soon as he said, hail Mary, same name, same voice.
I am the way, the truth and the life.
That's not the way they worship me.
Ask me how. My father, he said, I dropped the rosary again, son.
I was terrified.
At this point I thought, I'm losing my mind.
I thought, there's some people is really praying.
Some witches are really praying,
some amazing voodoo or some things on me.
That's what he thought.
So for two days he never touched the rosary which was a big deal
because he was attached to that rosary.
He had to pray every day.
But for two days he was terrified of the voice.
So finally, the third time he told me,
Francis, I thought, surely if I stay in the sitting room
where everybody there is no way
this voice is going to find me there.
So he goes on the sitting room, you know,
and then he opens the door
so he can see people on the outside.
He thinks, oh, he put all the things he could put it together.
He thought, this voice will be terrified
of all the people looking through and all the noise outside.
So that's what he did. He knelt down and he began again.
Hail Mary, mother of God. And the voice came.
Now this time the voice called him by his English name.
Daniel. I am the way, the truth and the life.
That's not the way to worship me. Ask me how.
He said to me, son, at that moment,
like little Samuel, who kept going to Eli thinking
Eli was calling him when it was actually
the audible voice of the living God of the Bible.
He said on the third attempt, something broke in me.
He said it was like the dams broke inside of me. Francis.
I began to weep like a baby. I cried.
I cried. My wife walked in. What is going on?
She thought it was the funeral. I couldn't stop myself.
I kept crying and when I had stopped crying,
he said the voice spoke to him for the fourth and final time.
He said, Daniel, I want you to get on the bus.
Go and see your son, Francis. He knows the way.
So my father gets on that bus. To come and see me.
And that's how he ends up at my office.
Tears are running down my face.
This is not how I expected God to reach him.
But you see, we serve a supernatural God.
He has multiple ways he can save even members of your family
that you have come to become convinced
they are so gone. They are so lost.
There is no way they will turn to Jesus.
Or you know what? God is saying. Watch me.
My father tells me, Frances, this is why I'm here.
The Lord told me, you know the way.
So guess what? That day in my office,
I was given a privilege by Jesus to lead my own father to Christ.
One year after he denounced me from being his son,
he apologized, said, I'm so sorry.
I was a blinded man.
But I now know you have something I don't have.
God. And I led him to the Lord. He was filled with the Spirit.
I mean, the power of God came upon him.
It was amazing. Radical, radical transformation.
After he got born again, my dad went back to the village.
My mother said, where did you go?
He said, I went to see our son. My mother said, smiling,
because she didn't know what, he never talked about the encounter.
You know, he kept quiet. He kept it to himself.
She just was happy. So you guys are reconciled?
Yes, we have. But there's something more.
And he said to my mother, to my mother, sit down
and gather all the children.
All my brothers and sisters came together.
And here's dad. He sat on a chair, and he said,
my children, my wife, I am radically born again.
I have found the one they call Jesus.
Somebody who was a mystical figure has become real to me.
And my father began to weep.
I now know what it means to be born again.
I know what Francis came to tell me,
even though I got so mad. I now have it.
And he said, I've resigned my position
in the Catholic Church, where I used to be an elder.
I have done it. You know, I am done.
I'm going to follow this new path and see what Jesus leads me.
My mother said, what happens to us then?
He says, well, if you want to follow me in your faith in Jesus,
He will receive you too. So in that moment, my father,
this new convert, barely one week old in the Lord,
leads my mother and all my brothers.
So my whole family comes to salvation in one day.
I want to encourage you out there not to give up on your family.
Don't give up on your loved ones.
Keep praying, keep believing God, we serve a supernatural God
who has millions of ways he can reach your loved ones,
even the ones you think are a hopeless case.
This is my supernatural story. Amen.