Sid: My guest by way of telephone is red hot for the Messiah, and that’s an understatement, her name is Dr. Loretta Blasingame. I’m speaking to her at home in Oceanside, California. Loretta on yesterday’s broadcast you suffered a double heart attack and died right in the doctor’s office. You had an encounter in heaven and Jesus I’m reading from your book “Is Anybody up There?” is your full testimony is there and the anointing that you picked up in heaven is got to be so terrific because when I read your book I could sense that same presence of God. But this is what Jesus said to you He said, “You were called for a creative miracle ministry to create body organs that are diseased or missing; you will never have to touch anyone; always remember that I touch the people and sometimes I didn’t. You will never see me but I’ll always be at your right side.” And then He goes on to say other things; just out of curiosity do people report to you that they see Jesus when you’re ministering?” Guest Sid Roth
Loretta: Well, yes Sid they have in fact I was in the Kavena Bowl doing a meeting back in ’84, and the lady that was doing the music said that “I stood and when I took the platform she said I saw Jesus standing there.” And she came down and she told me later that she said, “I saw Jesus standing there.” And I said, “Oh Lord, when I got down there it was just Loretta and He said, “What you’re seeing is Jesus in Loretta.” But many many times Sid people have said to me when we did meetings at a hotel called “The Omni Hotel” in Dallas we had many people put a record and said that they saw Jesus standing at my side as I did the meeting. I was in New Zealand and we did several meetings there for fourteen days and people said to me, “I saw Jesus standing at your side.”
Sid: I imagine that when someone sees Jesus they have faith to believe for anything.
Loretta: Yes, ah huh.
Sid: Tell me one creative miracle that has occurred.
Loretta: Well, I prayed for a baby in Phoenix, and we have that in the book, we have it in the book and we also have a whole hour rolling on my web page. They pulled the plugs on a baby to die and God, when I laid hands on the baby, gave the baby two new eyes, gave the baby a new brain and a new heart because her heart had just deteriorated.
Sid: Well, what happened to her eyes?
Loretta: She lost her eyesight and the baby was about two years old and when I laid hands on the baby she came out of the coma, when she opened her eyes she had two eyes and when they examined her she had a new brain and a new heart.
Sid: Is it necessary for you to lay hands on people for them to be healed?
Loretta: No! No we’ve had people, actually Sid we’ve had people healed just driving in their car on the way to the meeting.
Sid: Actually I was reading a portion of the books where the Lord said to you “That if you just speak, He’ll heal people.”
Loretta: Yeah, and He has done that Sid, once the Lord really wanted me to know and wanted me to tell others that Jesus is so powerful; you know the scriptures says “And the Lord was present to heal.” It didn’t say Loretta was present to heal it said, “The Lord was present to heal.” And so all I do is I just set an atmosphere for the Lord to move and the Holy Spirit to move. People come in our meetings and sometimes I will call out what God has already done and I’ll just let them testify. But I always tell the people “You don’t need Loretta, you don’t need my hands, Jesus is here and the power of the Holy Spirit’s here to manifest those gifts, the gifts of healing, the workings of miracles, the gift of faith; and you just need to come and take a seat.” And we have many, many people to come Sid who has never been to a church service, they’ve never read the Bible, they just come in and sit down and they get healed. Sometimes they tell me “I don’t even believe in any of this, but I got my miracle anyway.”
Sid: I think it’s so amazing where I find it’s almost easier these days at least in the United States to get a nonbeliever healed than a believer. Why is that?
Loretta: [Laughing] I believe that Sid, it’s so easy to get people overseas especially healed they just come knowing that they are going to get healed.
Sid: Is it that we just have been taught so much unbelief here in America?
Loretta: Well, you know one time I made this statement, I don’t know it might have gotten me into a little trouble, but I said, “People were writing books 12 steps to be healed; I never found that in the Bible. Jesus just showed up and He said, ‘Arise and be healed’ there’s only one step and it’s called coming unto Jesus.” And when you get in the presence of the Lord He will do it, if when we come to Him; when we come to man that’s the problem. See a lot of times people follow men and women, but we’re not the healer we just carry the message. The Lord told me to preach the word and He’d do the work, but when I preach the word I do really expect Him to do what He told me, and He does thank God.
Sid: Well, Kenneth Hagen who was a friend of mine, I’ll say acquaintance more than a friend; he used to say I would much rather teach for a week and then lay hands on people, than do it immediately because I got to teach them so their faith level will receive what God wants to give them. What do you think about that?
Loretta: Well, that probably worked for Him because God works with all of us different, but can I tell you Sid, I’ve been to the bedside of I don’t know of forty-nine years of ministry, hundreds of probably thousands of people that were in comas that they didn’t have any faith and I never had an opportunity to teach them anything I just walked up to the bed, laid my hand over them and spoke a word. I remember one time I flew down to San Antonio a girl had been flown in from Panama that was totally paralyzed, she couldn’t move, couldn’t do anything. I just walked to the bedside, she didn’t – her mother wasn’t a believer, the doctors were not believers. I walked to bedside and I said, “Lord the Word of God said, were planted together with Him, raised together with Him in the likeness of His resurrection.” And Sid when I quoted that scripture that girl immediately was healed, she was totally paralyzed, I have the doctors reports to prove she could only blink her right eyelid; God totally healed her. So in our ministry we don’t have, a lot of times people come in, people will come in and stand outside sometime when they can’t get into the building and be healed and they’ve never heard a message of faith.
Sid: Well, with Kathryn Kulman people on the buses or in the lines were healed.
Loretta: That’s right. A gentleman called me about a month ago and he said, “I don’t believe in all this healing stuff but one of my friends sent me your book. I thought your picture looked real nice, thought your son looked nice.” And he said, “But I set down and read the book and enjoyed it so much something came upon me like it felt like power, and I read it again so he said, “I need a new lung.” He said, “Can you give me one?” I said, “Well, since you have called me and you’re on my phone I said, “If you give me two minutes to talk to the Holy Spirit I’m sure He will.” And so I just began to thank the Holy Spirit, and I said, “Holy Spirit fall on him and create a new lung.” And he got it and the doctor verified it, I have the email to verify it.
Sid: Do you expect everyone that you pray for that sits into one of your meetings or perhaps reads your book to be healed?
Loretta: Well, I expect it because the Lord told me in heaven if would bring the people to Him He would heal them. And I tell people in the Bible He did heal them all except in His own town.
Sid: Maybe that’s the key, maybe people that are preaching or teaching aren’t bringing them to Him, they’re bringing them to themselves. Sid Roth’s messianic vission 2007 archives
Loretta: Sometimes that’s the case, and that’s why I tell people “When you come don’t come looking to me because I can’t do anything, and don’t come looking to my hands because I’m not going to put my hands on you I’m just going to set an atmosphere, I’m going to bring you to the Lord.” Because He said, “All was healed that came to Him” and only one time in His own home town because of their unbelief because I think they were looking for someone else besides coming to the Lord. And I think that’s the main key, we have to bring the people to the Lord and sometimes I think people read so many books. You know personally when I started in ministry I never read a book but the Bible. I never read a book, I never listened to anybody tape. When I started in full time ministry I read Kathryn Kulman’s book “A Glimpse into Glory.” And God did use that book to get me in fulltime ministry, but I’d already been praying for the sick since I was thirteen years old. I just don’t read books, I hope people read mine because the testimonies, but I tell people, “It’s the word of God. God sent his word and He healed them.” The word says “He was present to heal” and we just need to know it’s just one step.
Sid: Well, I happen to believe that that catalyst that was used, Kathryn Kulman’s book to thrust you into have the impetus to move into ministry. The anointing, I mean I read lost of books, but the anointing, I mean from cover to cover is on your book. And I’ve heard this several times, I must say it; someone’s back and spine is being healed right now, and another neck has been healed but the backs, it’s a given it’s almost automatic. If you’re driving, pull off to the side of the road and do something, I have noticed that passive faith isn’t faith, it’s a façade, active faith spends and is the currency of heaven. So do something you couldn’t do and you’ll see the pain in your back or your neck is gone in Jesus name.
Loretta: That’s true and someone by the name of Joe just got healed of liver cancer and you’re healed Joe. You can go back to the doctor and the doctor will verify it and when he does you call or email Sid and let him know that the doctor verified that miracle because you are healed.
Sid: Now Loretta is it unusual for you to get a first name?
Loretta: No, actually one time I did a five week revival in a little town I went for three days for five weeks I ran a revival and called every person by name that got healed. Now the Lord doesn’t always do that, but sometimes he does. I think that just is to build faith and it could be Sid that person Joe might not be a believer, but the Lord just wanted him to know that He loves him so much he called him by name. You know I think these things that God does in the supernatural is because He loves people and He’s reaching out to them saying, “I love you so much I want to do it rather you believe it or not.”
Sid: You know with what Loretta just said I agree, I think it’s time we do get back to the Bible but I also agree that her book has got such an awesome presence of God that some of you, that maybe you’re a little backslidden and you need a jump start; I believe this book is going to do it for you.