It's Supernatural!

Sid Roth: Hello, Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it's naturally supernatural. My guest was told by his own family he would be better off dead. By 16, he was homeless, addicted, and hunted by gangs. Then he heard a voice say three supernatural, life-changing words. Next.

Welcome, Holy Spirit. Go and flow. My guest, Brian Ayala, grew up in abuse, addiction, and rejection. By 16, he was homeless on the streets of Fort Worth, Texas, until he met the stranger. What happened?

Brian Ayala: I was sitting on the corner of Henderson right there in Fort Worth, Texas, and a man is driving his vehicle past me. I'm out there panhandling. He makes a U-turn right in the middle of the road, comes back around, and parks right next to me and ends up starting to share Jesus with me.

Now, I'm not trying to hear anything about Jesus. I'm trying to hear about money to get my next fix to go back and get high. He begins to tell me things that Jesus told him to make a U-turn. He said when he had passed me up, he said he heard the Lord say, "He is chosen." He said, "If you give me your number, then I'll take your number if you leave me alone."

He's walking away, he turns around and he looks at me. He says, "You'll be calling me." So, I had the number that day and I kept it forever, pretty much.

Sid Roth: Let me take you back just a little bit. Tell me a little bit more about your dad and mom.

Brian Ayala: Well, my dad was an alcoholic. He also loved to fight a lot, and he loved to use Mom as a punching bag and use me as a punching bag. So, I grew up very angry. I grew up learning how to fight at a very young age.

Sid Roth: Now, you're out panhandling. I never quite understood it. Here you're a bright young person, you can get a job. Why are you panhandling?

Brian Ayala: When you're addicted, you're not led by yourself anymore. That addiction had me, it was leading me. It had me in the streets. Nobody would give me a job. Truth is, I couldn't work because I was too busy being bound by drugs and bound by that spirit.

Sid Roth: God knows how to find you and knows how to mark you. But then just hours later, Brian is running for his life.

Brian Ayala: In that moment, a few hours pass. I'm going through the apartment complexes in downtown Fort Worth projects and all of a sudden, I get seen by a rival gang member. So, a rival gang member, they ended up chasing me through the projects, and they literally had guns in their hand.

I'm running through those projects. I'm looking for a place to hide. I find a car in the middle of nowhere, so I dive under the car. I'm sitting there under the vehicle and I have never prayed. I didn't even know what prayer was. All I kept hearing was the number.

They're walking right next to me and they literally are saying, "We're going to smoke this guy." There's nowhere else I could hide and I literally said, "God, if you're real, don't let them find me and I will call that number." Immediately when I said I'll call that number, I heard sirens going off, so close that these guys took off running.

Sid Roth: They thought it was the police. Now, you kind of promised to call that number, did you?

Brian Ayala: I did. I literally shook it off and I was like, "Okay, whatever. Let me get back to what I was doing." I heard a voice and it freaked me out. It literally said, "You said you would call that number."

I'm sitting there thinking, "Wait a minute. What is that?" I'm walking, I shook it off, and I heard, "Call that number." I said, "Okay, fine. I will call the number." So, I'm walking down Henderson Street there in Fort Worth, Texas. I get to the nearest payphone. It's about 2:30 in the morning right now.

I pick up the phone and there's no callback number on there because the number ended up being a pager number. So, you have to leave a number back in those days. There was a beeper number there, and there was no phone. I didn't want to hear that voice anymore and I slammed the phone.

I've already walked about a mile just to make the call and I slammed the phone. I looked up and I said, "There, I called." As soon as I looked down and turned around, a car pulls up. It's about 2:45 AM now.

I look and the guy pulls up. He goes, "Hey, you need a ride somewhere?" I got in the car. It was an ambulance that passed by that caused the guys to run away. The nearest payphone that had a callback number was Children's Cook Hospital. I didn't even understand Children's Cook Hospital.

I looked at everything now and realized that God was setting me up. So, he takes me to the hospital. I get out of the car. He goes, "Hey, son. God bless you." I looked in his car and between us the whole time, there was a Bible.

I didn't understand. I just knew in that moment, I was feeling something that I've never felt before. Everything was becoming weird, almost like the Twilight Zone. I walked to the payphone and I called the number. I left the number there and waited by the phone.

No callback. I said, "This is baloney. What is going on? Get yourself together." I'm walking out of the hospital. I get all the way down the hallway, a long hallway, and the phone rings. I'm exhausted. I've been chased. I've been rained on. These guys tried to kill me. I'm hearing voices.

I heard the phone ringing again. I looked all the way down the hallway and something in me just said, "Go answer the phone." I took off running, I sprinted to the phone. I picked it up and on the other line, I hear, "I knew you would be calling."

I said, "Look, sir. I don't know who you are. I don't know what this 'chosen' you said that God told you is, but I'm telling you right now, my life is broken. I'm an addict. I need help, and if you think your God can help me, then please help me."

He says, "Don't you go anywhere. You've got to remember, even if you fall, you've got to remember, even if you're broken, you've got to remember what you've got to remember. You've got to remember that Jesus said whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. He didn't say if you pray 10 times, 30 times, 40 times. He said if you call on me, I will be right there."

He said, "You've been calling on Jim Beam and Jack Daniels and getting jacked up, but I believe somebody right now, you're about to call on Jesus and he's about to meet you right there in the midst of your mess. I want you to pray just for a moment right there. Just pray."

Lord Jesus, I need you. I can't do this without you. Forgive me for every sin I've committed. I'm not running from you. I'm running to you. Receive me now, Lord. I give you my life. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

Sid Roth: After three years, Brian fell into disobedience. The Lord had instructed me, I knew that there were certain things that were no longer part of my life. I was never trained about spiritual warfare, didn't understand a lot of that. All I knew is that one of the things that used to be big for me was the drinking and the drugs. That scene was gone, but I had friends. I was working in a restaurant and they kept pestering me day after day.

Why don't you do this? Just because you're a Christian, anybody can just drink a little bit, just if you smoke a little bit. So, this one of my co-workers one day, I would take him home and he ended up telling me, "Hey, can you stop by the store real quick? I just want to get something to drink."

I'm like, "What are you getting?" He said, "I'm going to get a soda, man." He goes in the store, he comes out, and he has a six-pack. I told the Lord I would never let anything unclean or anything like that get in my vehicle anymore. I told him he's not getting in the car.

He goes, "Are you seriously telling me you're a Christian, but you're not going to take me home because I have this? You're not the one drinking it." When he got in, I took him to the house. I said, "Get in, man. Just get in." At that moment, I was already angry. I was feeling some things that I had not felt in a long time.

We get to his house. He goes, "Man, let me talk to you for a moment." He ends up having this Boon's Farm. He goes, "Do you really believe that you're going to lose your salvation if you have one capful?" He says, "Jesus drank wine, man."

I tell you in that moment, I said, "No, my God is stronger than that." Somehow, I stayed in the midst of where I shouldn't have been. I want to tell somebody something right now. It doesn't matter how anointed you are or how strong you think you are in the Lord, you don't play in the devil's territory unless you're there to take what the enemy stole from you. Don't ever think that compromise comes free. Compromise will cost you.

I took one cap of Boon's Farm. Next thing I know, I'm in his house smoking weed. It was so fast, it was quick, it was strong. After such an encounter with God, to fall so fast. That's all the enemy needs. He doesn't need a big old door. All he needs is an inch. From that moment, it was such a quick downward spiral.

I ended up getting arrested. I ended up running away from God and the Lord tried to reach out to me, but I felt like he was no longer there. I felt condemned. I felt so terrible, so ugly. After that night, I couldn't even find myself to pray. I didn't even understand how I could ever get back what I just lost.

That night, I had a dream. In the dream, I saw these men in vests. I was in the back of a cop car and these guys were around me looking at me in the cop car. I woke up and I'm like, "Wow, that was weird." I would still put on Christian broadcasting stations. I went to the station in the morning and there's a preacher right there saying, "When God gives you a dream, you better understand, Jonah, that God will swallow you up."

I changed the station to the next station and there's another minister preaching. This person is saying, "Right now, somebody's watching, and let me tell you something about dreams. If God is trying to warn you, you will get a dream and if you disobey..." I shut the TV off. Within eight hours, I'm in the cop car. I see all the vests around me. The very dream that I had prior took place within the next eight hours.

Sid Roth: And you're arrested, facing decades of prison?

Brian Ayala: Facing 25 years. They had a habitual enhancement. They had videos of me going in and stealing different kinds of stuff. It's almost as if the enemy tried that last card to take me out.

Sid Roth: What happened in the police car?

Brian Ayala: I'm in the car and all of a sudden, when I see the people around me, I remember the dream. In that moment, I began to feel like that feeling I felt when I first got saved. Then out of the radio on the police car, I hear a song come out. There's this shimmering glow, and it almost looked like water coming to me.

It started in the front of the police car and it's just coming. As soon as it touches me, I feel the Holy Spirit. I feel the love, I feel the breakthrough, I feel chains breaking, I feel demons leaving. I'm hyperventilating. I'm crying. I've got boogers everywhere. The police are like, "Hey, bring the EMS." They look at me, "Are you okay?" I looked at them and I said, "I am now."

They had crosses on their uniforms. They were actually police officers, but they were also police chaplains. At that moment, I knew I could feel Him again. I told the Lord, "I don't care what happens. I know what I'm facing already." When I got on my knees in that cell in that county, I said, "From here on out, God, my life is yours. If I have to stay in here, no matter what, just don't ever take that feeling from me again."

Then the court case came. They had a lawyer, and they kept telling me I was looking at 15 to 25 years. They were not giving me anything under 20 years. But the Lord had given me a word. From the moment I hit the county jail, I started preaching every day for the next two years. I would preach every day, I started teaching men, I started reaching people.

The Lord told me, "Don't worry. I'm going to give you the minimum sentence on a misdemeanor charge. What you're facing, we're going to take the 25 down to two years." I told people, Christians, even chaplains. They're like, "Son, that doesn't happen. You need to use logical sense here."

The lawyer comes back and says, "Brian, they're going to give you 14 years." Still better than the alternative. I looked at him and said, "Sir, I'm sorry. I can't take the 14." He says, "What are you talking about? Do you understand you were looking at 25?" I'm like, "Sir, the Lord told me."

When I said the Lord, it was as if this guy was an atheist or something. He got mad. "The Lord doesn't run this courtroom. You're saying you're only going to take two years?" I'm telling him. He got mad and he goes, "You don't run the courtroom. You did the crime, you're going to do the time."

I felt so bad. I go back to the dorm. He comes back about a month and a half later and says, "They dropped it down to 10 years." I said, "I'm sorry, I can't take it." He was fuming. He leaves and comes back four months later. He says, "They dropped it down to seven years. Here's your paperwork." I looked at him and said, "Sir, I'm sorry. The Lord told me two years."

He goes, "Do you understand who you're talking to? Do you think this is a game, young man?" He says, "You're going to go to trial, and when you go to trial, you're going to lose everything. You're going to get back to 25." I walked back feeling defeated, but I knew what I heard because I recognized the voice of the Lord. That much I knew.

They come back another month later. It was about nine months total. They came back and said, "They're giving you four years." I refused to sign it because I knew what the Lord said. Two years. Two years is what the Lord told me. I thought I could see smoke coming out of his head. He was livid. He slammed the paper.

Next day, "Ayala, you have a visitor." I go over there and the guy is sitting there in front of me, just staring at me. He goes, "Listen. I don't believe in whatever you're believing in, but somebody up there is looking out for you. I don't know, I don't understand it." He put his hand on the envelope, pushed it over, and he goes, "You got your two years."

Sid Roth: Look in the camera and pray for every need the people have that God shows you.

Brian Ayala: If you're watching right now and you feel the Holy Spirit right now, or maybe you're just saying, "I'm broken, I'm lost," I want you to just extend your hand this way. I believe the anointing of God is tangible and transferable. I believe the anointing of God and the glory of God is flowing to you now for healing, healing in your body, healing in your mind, healing from a broken heart.

In the name of Jesus, right now, God, I pray for every single person watching. You are the God who sees. You are the God who heals, delivers, and sets free. Every person now in the name of Jesus, receive from the Holy Spirit. Receive your healing, receive your breakthrough, receive the chains breaking off of your life. Receive the new beginning promised to you as you surrender to Christ, as you surrender to Jesus, as you call on the name of Jesus.

Whatever the enemy has brought to bring you down cannot hold you down anymore. Father, right now in Jesus' name, let healing begin to flow, restoration begin to flow, family restoration in the name of Jesus. Sinners coming to the salvation that is provided through Jesus. I plead the blood of Jesus over every person watching. Let God arise and every enemy of God be scattered. In the name of Jesus, call on his name right now. You'll be so glad you did and receive the healing flowing from this place here and now.