In this It’s Supernatural! Classic episode from 1998: Why do people laugh hysterically when this woman sings? She’s not singing anything funny! And even more amazing, when they stop laughing they all are healed of incurable diseases!
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Sid: Why do people laugh hysterically when
this woman sings?
She’s not singing anything funny.
And even more amazing, when they stop laughing,
they all are healed of incurable diseases.
Next on this edition of It’s Supernatural.
[music]
Life after death experiences and angelic communications
are on the increase.
Terminally ill patients whom doctors have
given no hope are unexplainably cured.
People are being mysteriously protected from
natural disasters.
Sid Roth, your investigative reporter, examines
this invisible world on It’s Supernatural.
Sid: Hello.
I’m Sid Roth, your investigative reporter.
My guest, Vicki Jamison-Peterson is a woman,
that when she sings, people have just a great
desire to laugh, and whereas in the natural,
we have found that there, wonderful things
that happen when you laugh.
In the supernatural, it’s even better.
People are instantly healed of, well you told
me, cancer.
Tell me about that.
Vicki: Yes.
It happened three years ago in Birmingham,
Alabama.
And you see, I have had a healing ministry.
I have been singing healings for many years.
Sid: I know, and as a matter of fact, I can’t
let this program finish without saying that
several years ago, you laid hands on my wife,
and my wife literally says she left her body
and touched Heaven.
And she always had a fear, even though she
knew that she would go to Heaven someday,
she had a fear of death.
Well you know after she had that experience,
she has zero fear of death.
Vicki: Isn’t that wonderful.
Sid: As a matter of fact, she was trying,
between you and me, she was trying to figure
out how we both can get to Heaven together.
Vicki: Together.
People who love each other want to do that.
Sid: But seriously.
Vicki: All the sting was removed.
Sid: No fear of death.
Vicki: No fear.
Isn’t that, when we know and are sure where
we’re going, and we know the one who will
take us there, then we understand there’s
no fear.
But this woman who was healed three years
ago, was healed through laughter and singing.
I sing healings, have for years, but it goes
back to four years before today when this
began to occur.
As I would sing healings, the laughter came,
and we can talk about that in a moment.
But this woman in the service was healed of
cancer.
She was distended.
She says she was about the size of a seven-month
pregnancy and I know her.
Sid: Was this like a tumor that caused it?
Vicki: Yes, yes.
And it was in her uterus, and she had been
doctors, and I knew that she needed to be
healed.
I had known her through the years.
I said, “Come to the service.”
And she came and I began to sing healings,
and I began to sing, cancer is healed.
And when I did, the power of God came upon
her and her skirt all started to fall off
because the size began to diminish, and the
tumor disappeared.
And she came up and I said, “Come up to the
front.”
And when she did, the glory and power of God
was wonderful, upon her.
And when I reached out to touch her, his presence
just caused her to go back quite a distance
and all the ushers who were with her, and
they hit a plant and that all fell.
She stayed on the platform, laughing.
She laughed maybe for an hour to two hours,
and she’d go “phew”.
It felt like fire to her.
And laughed, and laughed.
And she came to my services for one to two
years.
Now she’s traveling around the world, taking
the same laughter with healing.
Sid: No cancer.
Vicki: No cancer.
Sid: None.
Vicki: Absolutely totally healed.
Sid: Was it an instant healing or gradual?
Vicki: Yes, it was instant.
It was instant like that.
Sid: Is this, now I know for years, when you
sing songs, you speak, actually you sing words.
Vicki: Specific words and specific healings.
People are healed.
Sid: And when did this first start?
I mean, I know you’re a singer.
Vicki: Twenty-six years ago, when I was called
to minister, I didn’t know what that meant.
It was very unusual to me.
And I, not being a theologian and not understanding
any of that, I just wouldn’t do, I wouldn’t
go in ministry.
I wouldn’t do it because I said to God, you
know, I’m a woman.
Of course, he knew that.
I don’t have any education and I don’t have
any doors, none of those things.
And so he said, “Will you go where I want
you to go, will you do what I want you to
do and will you be what I want you to be?”
And when I said yes, I was gradually restored.
I was invited to speak for ladies luncheon
and the ladies there, 600 of them in Dallas,
Texas, had many of them prayed that I would
live.
And so I stood as their speaker.
Sid: What was wrong with you?
Vicki: Blood clots were hitting my lungs and
I was surviving it, and having had surgery,
very serious.
Sid: That sounds pretty serious.
Vicki: Yes it was.
And so when I stood to speak, I said, “Don’t
blame God for what happened to me.”
And a cloud showed up, and I don’t know if
anyone else saw it, I was intrigued.
Sid: Did you see this cloud?
Vicki: Oh yes, I did.
And then the next time, I said, “Don’t blame
God for what happened to me.”
Because people blame God for their sickness.
He doesn’t make us sick.
He isn’t schizophrenic.
And so the cloud came down lower.
And the third time I said, “Don’t blame God
for what happened to me.”
I was in the cloud.
So then I said, “If you want to know Jesus,
if you want to be healed, come to the front.”
And these women ran to the front, and they
stood two, three and four deep.
And I went to lay hands upon them.
Never had done that, but that seemed natural.
And I reached out to touch the first woman,
and when I did, she fell back.
And it was the power of God.
I was amazed.
And I extended my arm, and when I did, every
person in the line that I pointed to fell
down, too.
It was just like corn wood, and then I fell
on them.
And we didn’t have a script.
I had never witnessed anything like this.
I was still in this cloud of his presence.
And my mother and another lady came, they
picked me up, and they just directed through
the room.
And this was a chandeliered ballroom of the
Hilton Hotel, and this was an elegant lunch
and it turned into a brawl.
And women were draped over the tables, they
were under the tables, and they were laughing.
And I, there would be up to a hundred people
on the floor experiencing God’s power.
And the waitresses and waiters came out because
they heard, this was noisy, and they would
fall under the power of God.
And you say, well what is the purpose?
It’s when something greater than you comes
into your presence, something is going to
give, and it’s not going to be God.
Sid: What happened to these women?
Vicki: They were healed and they were refreshed,
and they were amazed.
And when I left the auditorium, everyone I
passed fell, and it was, I thought I’m dangerous,
I can’t be let out of my room again.
And when I went out in public, I thought,
how can this be?
But then I learned it was the discretion of
God that it was, as he would will, but there
would be little tiny spurts of laughter through
these many years of ministry.
But it was four years ago when the laughter
became so obvious.
Sid: Tell me what happened at that point.
Vicki: At that point, I was praying, and I
was looking to God to change situations in
my life.
Sid: By the way, whatever happened to the
physical condition that you had, remember,
when you first healed?
Vicki: Healed of blood clots perfectly, absolutely,
totally.
And when I got in the plan of God, my health
began to great, and it was great for many
years.
I was healed of cancer later, many years later,
and that’s still another story.
Sid: Oh that’s just incidental.
I mean, there are people that are watching
us right and they say, I want to grab hold
of this type of healing.
But tell me, about four years ago, what happened?
Vicki: Four years ago, I was praying and I
was fasting, two hours, three hours, four
hours a day.
Some days I would skip.
And when I came from that extended period
of time back to minister, you reminded of
a story and I had forgotten that.
But I was on a lady’s retreat in the Pocono,
in the mountains.
It was an elegant time.
Women were dressed beautifully and everything
was in order.
And I was speaking the final night at the
banquet.
And the night before when I spoke, I noticed
I felt a little giddy, a little, this is not
a nice thing, but I like it, light in my loafers.
And I just felt just a little percolating
humor.
And this night is the banquet was being held
I walked back behind the podium to present
my speech and to minister to the sick.
When I did, the power of God came upon me
and I was knocked to the floor, where I lay
laughing.
I, chickens lay.
I wasn’t laying.
I was rolling actually, if you really want
to know the truth.
I was laughing so hysterically that I couldn’t
get up.
I had fallen and I couldn’t get up.
Sid: Doesn’t this embarrass you?
Vicki: No it felt so good.
I couldn’t get up anyway.
So what is the deal?
I mean, if I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed.
When you’re under the power of God and you
experience God in that full dimension, everyone
fades away.
They’re insignificant.
You’re not considering that.
Sid: You’re no longer a man pleaser.
Vicki: No.
So then my friend, who is married to a doctor
also, I’m married to a psychiatrist.
Can you imagine God’s sense of humor that
I’m married to a psychiatrist and this happens
to me.
It has stretched him, I can tell you.
My friend is married to a physician and she
was a speaker.
She thought she had never seen me do this,
and she thought she needed to help cover for
my humiliation.
She walked up to the podium and says, “Do
any of you know, ‘This is That’?”
It’s a song.
Well they all laughed.
And she said, “Do you know, ‘This is That’?”
And they all laughed even hard.
And when she said it a third time, the power
of God came upon her and hit her, and knocked
her backwards.
There was a wall, but we didn’t know there
was a door in the wall, and she fell out the
door and disappeared.
Didn’t hurt her.
Sid: I was going to ask you.
Vicki: She wasn’t injured.
It was the same level floor.
And I still couldn’t get up.
So the pastor’s wife comes now, because all
of our speakers are falling out.
And she is going to bring order back to this
meeting, and she falls in the floor.
And the women laugh even more.
And so I could observe everything going on,
and I laughed as hard as the ladies laughed.
Her husband came, too, he’s the pastor, and
he took of his coat, laying hands on ladies
to be healed.
And I, on the floor, I could see the ladies.
They were flying through the air.
No one was injured.
That was the demonstration of great power
coming from God.
And you know, in the natural it would injure
people.
And many would say, well what is the purpose?
Why would this be?
Well we can look at Exodus.
We can look into the Old Testament and see
that when Moses went into the tent in Exodus
40, he could not stand, for the cloud of the
glory of God.
And so when we come into his presence and
it is the fullness of his presence, the Proverbs
tells us that, “A merry heart is food like
a medicine.”
We also see in the psalms, “In his presence
is fullness of joy.”
And so when we come into fullness of God’s
presence, there is a great fullness of joy.
Sid: Well even in the natural realm, doctors
are finding that when you see comedies, something
happens in your body to help the body heal
itself.
Vicki: Yes.
We were created to be self-healing.
That is true.
And I collect research and information on
laughter therapy, because the world has learned
and they are learning that so much laughter
can produce a painkiller that is a hundred
times more potent than morphine, and that
when we laugh until we weep, there is an anti,
there is a killer for bacteria in our tears.
However, it only lasts for a limited amount
of time.
Sid: That’s what I was going to ask you.
What is the difference between this natural
laughter and what you’re talking about?
Vicki: Well the natural laughter was created
of God and it does a great work.
And it certainly does cause the brain to do
unusual jobs that it was created to do.
And it does last for a period of time.
Norman Cousins did research because of his
own pain, and he discovered that if he would
watch a film such as the Marx Brothers, that
ten minutes of laughter would produce a certain
amount of time of release from pain, but it
was in a timeframe.
But now this that we are encountering, where
we see that God is involved so very dramatically
and so dynamically, that when his presence
comes in we will see healings such as this
woman who was healed of cancer, who is today
ministering.
Sid: Vicki, I’ve got an idea.
Vicki: What?
Sid: I want Vicki to sing when we come right
back.
Get ready to laugh, to cry, to experience
God and to be healed.
We will return to It’s Supernatural right
after this.
Sid: Hello.
We’re back.
I know you could hardly wait because Vicki
Jamison-Peterson, four years ago, walked in
to another level with the Spirit of God.
You were talking a bit about it.
Your husband, who is a psychiatrist, was there.
What happened?
Vicki: Well I was in Manhattan in New York
City and I wasó
Sid: If you got to be anywhere, that’s the
place to be.
Vicki: That’s the place to be.
I love Manhattan.
And I was speaking for a conference, women’s
conference.
There were several speakers.
My husband, when he can, goes with me when
he isn’t practicing medicine, and he was with
me on this trip.
And I walked into the auditorium for the first
afternoon speaker, she got up to speak, a
dynamic woman of God, and when she did, the
power of God came upon me in such a strong
way, I fell on the floor.
And my husband was standing there and I could
not get up.
I was laughing so hard and I was the only
one in the auditorium laughing, to make it
even more strange.
Sid: I would say that the focus was on Vicki.
Vicki: And I couldn’t get up and it felt so
good.
You know this laughter of God, it is so beyond
what we humans can experience.
But you could imagine, my husband had never
seen me behave like this.
And so when the meeting was over, the speaker,
my husband and I were in the limousine going
back to the hotel, and I said to her, “Can
you tell me what’s happening to me?”
I said, “For the last few meetings that I’ve
been speaking in, I’m in the floor laughing.”
And I said, “This has never happened before
and people are not going to invite to speak
to come fall on the floor and laugh.”
And she said, “Oh dear,” she said, “you’re
coming into a new level of anointing in God.
You will be able to stand.”
My husband said, “I’m so relieved to hear
that.”
He said, “I thought she had a brain tumor.”
Sid: Of course, you know he was kidding.
Vicki: No, he was serious.
No, he was as serious as he could be.
And he said, “I was going to have aÖ”
Sid: That’s why you were falling.
Vicki: “Ögoing to have a CAT scan of her
brain.
I thought she had a tumor in her brain.”
And I have to tell you, it stretched him,
because he is a very logical, intellectual
scholar and magnificent physician, and a great
diagnostician of the brain.
I mean, his specialty is the brain.
And so to suddenly see his companion who has
always been sensible, always logical.
I mean, things were fun and unusual, but never
far out.
It has stretched him, but he is a changed
man because of it.
Sid: Now when you sing or speak, sometimes
this laughter jumps off of you and goes on
everyone?
Vicki: Not everyone, no.
Sid: Most people?
Vicki: Many, most.
That’s why I enjoy going and staying in several
services because I have discovered that those
who are the most weary and need joy and laughter,
the very most.
Sid: They’re the first.
Vicki: They are the first.
The most weary, the most ill.
Sid: Tell me what’s happening.
Just give me a few things of what’s happening
to people when the spirit of God comes on
them and they start laughing.
Vicki: Yes, I have seen a lady in a church
where I was for an extended meeting for ten
months.
Sid: That’s extended.
Vicki: That’s extended.
And so when you’re ten months with people,
you really do know them and know the validity
of their story.
It isn’t just a little quick fix kind of a
thing.
But you see a sustained change in their lives.
And the laughter seems to be a very great
therapy of the Holy Spirit.
This lady, after she had been in my services
laughing for months, I’d be there two weeks
and then would take a break and come back,
she wrote a letter to me, and I had her stand
and tell the church, she said, “I was one
of the meanest women you have ever met in
your life.
People didn’t dare cross me because I made
their lives miserable.”
And she began to laugh in front of this audience.
And she said, “People in my work cannot believe
how I have changed.”
God had so rearranged her that she had softened
and she was a joy to be around, and it was
a witness.
When she went to work people in her workplace
would begin to laugh.
The joy of the Lord would get off on them.
Sid: Not just in a church, she would just
go to work.
Vicki: She was just a conduit from God.
And I’ve seen that happen.
Sid: You’re a conduit and when you sing it’s
going to double your conduit for the laughing.
But you’re a conduit for physical healing
when youó
Vicki: Absolutely.
Sid: Now when you sing specific words, are
they just words, are they words that God is
telling you?
Where do these words come from?
Vicki: Well it’s a multi-faceted thing.
It is from God.
It is from his guidance within me.
And when I first began I would sometime feel
the pain in my body.
And so I would sing out.
I just learned that many years ago, singing,
and I found out that David the psalmist sang.
Sid: So as you sang about the pain in your
body, other people were healed?
Vicki: Yeah, and the pain would leave me.
Sid: Leave you, but were other people healed?
Vicki: They would be healed of that pain.
That’s the way I would know.
But now I just know that I know.
It’s a knowing from God.
Sid: Vicki, I’m going to get some people upset
with me if you don’t start singing.
Vicki: Well let us do it.
Sid: Okay.
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Vicki [singing] Would you like to be healed?
Would you like to be whole?
Would you like to receive joy that you’ve
never known.
This is your day to receive joy and blessings
from God.
You’re healed in your eyes right now.
Cataracts dissolve.
You’re healed.
You’re healed in your throat right now.
Goiters disappear.
Your thyroid is restored.
You’re healed now, healed now by our Lord.
Your shoulder is restored.
You’re healed in your arm.
Your bones are mended now.
Disease is gone.
Your back is healed.
Discs and vertebrae are restored now.
You’re healed now, you’re healed now from
the Lord.
Kidneys are healed now.
Kidneys are healed now.
The liver is cleansed of disease.
You’re healed now, so healed now.
The breast is healed.
Tumors dissolve.
You’re whole.
Cancer leaves you now.
Your intestines are cleansed right now.
Your colon is healed right now.
Laughter comes upon you right now and your
knees are restored.
[talking] You didn’t think He knew that one,
did you?
[singing] But they are whole.
[talking] You thought He forgot?
[singing] No, He didn’t forget you.
Your feet are healed, even your toe is healed.
Insomnia is healed.
Your neck is whole now.
You can move your neck, try it, you can do
it by His power.
He’s not only restoring, but He’s recreating
in this hour.
You’re healed in your gums right now.
Oh yes, receding gums are healed.
You had a problem with a tooth, just one,
but He wants you to know how involved He is
in your life.
The abscess leaves, absolutely.
Leaves you now, migraine headaches leave, totally.
It’s instant by His power, and you’re healed
of a skin disease.
Check it.
You will see that you are healed.
A sports injury in the hip, totally healed.
I promise you, you’re healed if you’ll just
check yourself you’ll see, by His power.
[talking] Then arthritis bows.
It bows as joy comes upon you right now.
You see, it is His plan to make you every whit whole from
the top of your head to the sole of your foot.
Not only is He healing you, but He is restoring
you.
There is an injury that wouldn’t heal, an
incision.
But now, you can check it out.
It’s healed by His power, healed by His glory,
[singing] healed in this hour.
Sid: Vicki, I feel like singing right now.
Vicki: Sing with me.
Sid: But I’m not a singer.
But I will tell you, I heard about ears.
Vicki: Did you?
Sid: Ears are being opened right now.
Vicki: Yes.
Sid: And the prostate is being healed
Vicki: Oh yes.
Sid: It’s almost as Vicki was singing, the
windows of Heaven were opened up.
And when the windows opened up, I’ll tell
you a secret.
Once they open, whether we say the word, whether
Vicki sings the word or not, it’s yours.
If you’ll only believe, and there are people
that need to know Jesus, you need to open
your heart up to Jesus right now.
Make Him your Lord.
Repent and believe that He loves you.
Believe in His love greater than anything
else in the world.
And remember, there is a love of God.
There’s nothing to compare.