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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello. My name is Marty Dericott, and I want to
share a supernatural story with you. I'd never heard the
voice of God before I gave my life to Christ
in nineteen ninety three. I grew up hearing teachers, preachers, apostles, evangelists.
They all said, the Lord told me to tell you this,
or God said, or the Spirit of the Lord told
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me to tell this to you. I didn't know what
they meant. I didn't hear the voice of God the
way they did. I thought hearing the voice of God
was reserved for a group of supernatural, super spiritual elitist.
I was just a normal guy. But I finally heard
from the voice of God, and it didn't come the
way I expected. I want to share that story with you.
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My wife and I gave our lives to Christ in
nineteen ninety three, and in nineteen ninety seven, four years later,
we found ourselves on a couple's retreat in Pigeonforge, Tennessee.
There was probably thirty or forty other people there with us,
and it was on a Saturday evening and we just
finished up dinner, putting the dishes away. And this was
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with our Sunday school class and so we put on
some worship had a moment of worship time with the
Lord's prayer time, and pulled the lights down low in
the cabin and everybody was sitting on floors, sitting around
on the floor, sitting in chairs, some people walking around.
And I remember they put on this worship song, and
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it wasn't too long after they click play. I'm walking
around the kitchen table there and the room is packed
people on the floors and couches and chairs and things,
and I'm minding my own business. I'm praying were some
people are singing softly to this worship song, and all
of a sudden, I hear within my spirit, not with
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my physical ears, but on the inside, this nudging, this prompting,
this tapping from Holy Spirit. I guess you could say
I heard, go to the kitchen window, random, go to
the kitchen window. It was so loud on the inside
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of me, go to the kitchen window. I literally looked
around the room to see if anybody else heard what
I heard. It was that real to me. Again, it
wasn't with my physical ears, and I had never heard
the voice of God this way up to this point,
So I believe it's the spirit of God, go to
the kitchen window. I froze. I didn't know what to do.
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I looked around. Nobody else seemed to hear it. I
hear it again, but this time, the voice of the
Lord says, go to the kitchen window. I've got something
I want to show you. So I very quietly, softly,
gently walked over to the kitchen window. I remember putting
my arms across the sink and looked out this kitchen
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window and it was in the mountains of Pigeon Forge,
and there was some trees in the front yard and
a driveway kind of going up a slight hill, and
it was very cold. It was in January, February ninety seven.
And I just remember putting my arms across the sink
and looking out, like, Lord, what am I looking for?
And I didn't see anything. I waited and I waited.
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I was like, Lord, you told me to come to
the window, and you said you were going to show
me something, but I don't see anything but the trees.
He said watch. I heard that one word. Watch. So
he's having a conversation with me. Go to the window,
Go to the window. I want to show you something.
And then the voice within says, Watch, And as I'm
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looking out the window, I begin to see snowfall, and
I thought, Wow, that's beautiful. But Lord, I've seen snow before.
I don't understand what's going on here, he said, Watch
the second time, all of a sudden, in that snow
coming down, I see my mother standing in the driveway.
With my physical eyes, not in my mind's. I see
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my mother, but she's in like a hologram. It's like
I can see snow going through her, but she's there.
And I remember looking around the room again to see
does anybody else see what I'm seeing? I literally saw
it with my own eyes. And she looked at me,
smile on her face. She didn't say a word, she
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just kept looking at me. I was like, Lord, why
am I seeing my mother? He said, Marty, your mother
knows about me, but she doesn't know me. I said, Lord,
what do you mean she doesn't know you. She's been
playing the piano in the organ in the church since
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before I was born. She goes to church every Sunday morning,
every Sunday night, every Wednesday night, whenever the doors are open.
My mother is always at church. What do you mean
she doesn't know you? He said, she knows about me,
but she doesn't know me. I begin to weep. This
is your mother. I begin to weep at the thought
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of me being a Christian, now me being born again,
spending the eternity in heaven without my mother. Then as
quick as she came, she was gone. Didn't see her
out there anymore. I looked a pan from the woods,
to the trees, to the driveway. She wasn't there. I
put my head down and weeping over the thought of
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my mom not being born again. Then I look back up,
tears coming down my eyes and wiping my eyes, and
I look and I see in the driveway again almost
where my mother was standing, but this time it's my brother.
My brother is standing there. His name's Ricky. Ricky's standing there,
and he's hologram for me. It's not his full body,
it's not fleshing bonets like I'm seeing him, but he's
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like a hologram. It's like a spirit or something. And
snow is going through him and light is shining through him.
But I see him. I said, Lord, what do you
want to show me about my brother? What do you
want to tell me about my brother? And I didn't
hear anything. But in my mind, the Lord took me
back to where we were young teenage boys. I was
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about fourteen or fifteen. My brother would have been sixteen
or seventeen. He was a couple of years older than me.
Ricky loved to work. He worked multiple jobs while going
to school. He would leave school, go to football practice,
leave football practice, go straight to work for an hour
or two, bagging some groceries, doing some things. They would
go to work at a restaurant till one two o'clock
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in the morning, busting tables. He loved to work. He
loved to earn money. And while I'm looking at my
brother in this vision, this thing the Lord's showing me,
I'm reminded of when we were young and my brother
had a ceramic Georgia bulldog piggy bank stood about two
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foot high, had a slot on top of its head
where my brother would put his hard earned money into
that piggy bank, change coins, dollar bills, ones, fives, tens, twenties.
He was always working hard and always saving his money,
whereas his younger brother had no work ethic, very lazy,
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very rebellious, and all my friends over the summer, I'll
never forget while the Lord has showed me this vision
of my brother. He's taken me back to my childhood.
And I remember all my friends going to this community pool.
But they charged two dollars to go to the community pool.
And I didn't have the two dollars. But I wanted
to go to the community pool. But I didn't have
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the two dollars, but I wanted to go to the
community pool with my friends. So I would go into
my brother's closet and take a coat hanger and fish
out orders, dollar bills, whatever I could to be able
to get money enough to go to go to my
community pool with all my friends, stealing from my brother.
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Wasn't born again at the time, living in a rebellious state,
living in a rebellious state, living in sin and I
was stealing from my brother, and the Lord was showing
me this hologram image of my brother in nineteen ninety seven,
but took me back to nineteen eighty four when I
was a fourteen year old boy stealing from my brother.
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I said, Lord, why are you showing me this? You
forgave me of all this, you forgave my sins and
cast them as far as east is to the west
your word says, you're never bringing my sin up to
me again. You forgave me, you don't remember it anymore.
And he said, no, I did forgive you. I don't
remember those sins anymore, but your brother remembers them. I said, Lord,
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but it's under the blood. I don't have to ask
for repentance for you from that. He said, no, but
you should confess it to your brother what you did,
because I would take the money to go to the pool,
and then it became video game money, and then pizza money,
and then money for this, and money for that. And
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I was estimating how much I stole from my brother
in the matter of two or three years. I would
guess easily one thousand, fifteen hundred dollars easy. The Lord
was taking me back to that place, not for me
to confess to my brother, to bring my sin up
in remembrance again. But the Lord was reminding me, Hey,
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I'm trying to strip you of your pride. I want
you to confess to your brother something that you've done
that he blamed somebody else for doing, while it was you.
All the while, I said, Lord, I'll do it. I'll
tell him. My brother fades out the next image pops
up as my father. My father comes up, and immediately
the Lord tells me, your dad has no knowledge of
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who I am. Your dad is lost and if he
died tonight, he would spend eternity away from me in hell.
That shook me to my core. I began to weep again.
I just saw my mother, my brother, my father in
this hologram vision. The Lord's speaking to me these things
about my family, and I knew I had to come
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home and address it. That was on a Saturday evening,
got home, called my family. They came over on a
Tuesday night. They're sitting in my living room, my brother,
my mother, my father. I began to tell them about
this vision, how the Lord spoke to me for the
very first time in my life. I finally heard from
the Lord, and God showed me my brother and I
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began to tell him what the Lord showed me. Now,
I said, Ricky, all those years you blamed a next
door neighbor from stealing from you, But it wasn't him.
I have to confess it was me. You have to understand.
My brother loved to fight. My brother was a wrestler,
football player, a linebacker, very big, very strong, I was
very scrawny, and my brother was struggling with some anger
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issues as a young man, and I knew if I
confess this to him, my brother will do to me
what I've watched him do to other guys that threatened
him or our family. He's gonna take me out in
the street or out in the backyard, and he's gonna
beat the brakes off of me. But when I begin
to share with my brother that night, the Spirit of
God came into that room. And as I'm sharing with
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him and confessing to him what I did through that
vision the Lord gave me, he begins to weep too.
He stands up, and I thought, here we go. He's
about to knock me out. He stands up and he
asked me to stand up, so I stood, preparing myself
for a punch. My brother hugs me. He said, I
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forgive you. I love you, you're my brother. Thank you
for confessing that. It's like it never happened. We're okay.
I began to share with my mother and my father
wouldn't what the Lord told me about them. The next
couple of years, my mother and father were born again.
They're believers now and they'll spend eternity with me in heaven.
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I don't know how you hear from God. I don't
know if you hear from God, but I promise you
he's still speaking to you. He's still speaking today, and
he wants to speak to you. John ten twenty seven says,
my sheep know my voice. My sheep know my voice.
Then he goes on to say, he who has ears
to hear, let him hear. So he's speaking and he
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wants you and I to hear. So if you're at
the place where you don't hear from God, or you
don't hear from him frequently, let me encourage you with this.
Find the secret place. It was in a moment of worship.
It was in a moment of prayer. We had pulled
the lights down. It was a darker place. Doesn't have
to be a dark place, but it has to be
a place to where the distractions are pushed back. Push
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the distractions back, find an isolated space. Isolation is the
breeding ground for a visitation from God that brings transformation
until your life becomes a habitation of His glory and presence.
If you don't hear from God frequently, if you don't
hear from him at all. Know that he wants to speak,
and he wants to speak to you today. If you
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want to hear from heaven, pray this prayer. Lord Jesus,
I know you still speak today. Lord, would you speak
to my heart. I want to hear you. Lord, speak
to me through visions, dreams, your word, other people. It
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doesn't matter how you speak, Lord, just speak to me.
Your servants listening, Lord, I want to hear your voice
in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen,