SID: Now my guest, Roland Worton was always aware of the supernatural but not knowing Jesus it seemed so dark, even fearful. He wanted to be a professional musician but at 17, after a failed recording contract he decides, “I’ll go to college.” And the supernatural became natural.
SID: So Roland, let me take you back to those college days. What caused you to turn around like that?
ROLAND: Yeah. Sid, I bumped into our supernatural God, or should I say, he ran into me. It was a transformative time. As you said I was at rock bottom. I’d won a single songwriting competition that was national. It was television. A record deal came out of that at 17 years old but it all crashed and I found myself living in the most difficult time of my life at 17 and God sent somebody to find me and to tell me about the supernatural.
ROLAND: I was radically saved at college in the first month. So those of you who have kids that are going off to college, God can meet them right where they are. It was a wonderful time of being mentored in the supernatural. My first pastor was Jean Darnall. She was one of the original disciples of Aimee Semple McPherson.
SID: For those not familiar with Aimee, who was she?
ROLAND: Yeah, Aimee Semple McPherson was an incredible female minister of the Gospel in the 1920s and 30s in L.A.—
SID: Which was unusual at that time.
ROLAND: … which was very unusual. Was on television and radio and saw miracles, signs and wonders in her ministry in a powerful way. And Jean, my first pastor, was one of her small group or original group back in the 30s.
SID: But things really changed when you got baptized in the Holy Spirit. What happened?
ROLAND: Yeah, that’s right. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in my room at college, in my college dorm, and I started speaking in tongues and actually didn’t know what it was. I went to one of my friends and I said, “Hey, this has happened to me. Tell me what it is.” I just began speaking in my prayer language and they, “Oh, we know exactly what that is.”
ROLAND: But, yeah, things really changed. The visionary, seer, prophetic realm was really opened to me at that time, pretty early on. A lot of dreams and visions and supernatural—
SID: But do you know the thing that got me so excited and is going to get you excited, if I understood you right, here you know nothing, nothing, and you look at people’s heads and you see words above them. What kind of words would you see?
ROLAND: Yeah. Yeah, I was walking in the London business district in the middle of lunch and London’s one of the greatest financial capitals of the world, lots of people. And suddenly, Sid, my eyes were opened. I began to see words written across people’s forehead in the Spirit. And at the same time, also had a sense of the weight that those words carried. Some said shame. Some said difficulty. Some said strife. Some said depression.
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