In this Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural! Classic episode from 2001: Dr. Paul Crites had an angelic visitation that launched him into supernaturally teaching people how to determine their purpose!
Sid: My guest had an angelic visitation that
launched him into supernaturally teaching
people how to determine their purpose.
Next on this edition of It’s Supernatural!
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Sid: Hello. I’m Sid Roth your investigative
reporter. I’m here with Dr. Paul Crites.
There is a purpose on your life.
Most people go their whole life, they never
find the purpose or even if they find the
purpose they don’t fulfill the purpose or
it might even be an improper focus.
But this isn’t some psychological approach.
This was a heavenly approach.
What do I mean by that?
Dr. Paul Crites, you were speaking in an area,
I believe it was Virginia.
Paul: That’s right.
Sid: And you were staying at a bed and breakfast.
Paul: Yes.
Sid: Take it from there.
Paul: Well the bed and breakfast had a 200-year
history and the local sponsors of my speaking,
my talk, did not have a hotel nearby and asked
would I live and stay at this bed and breakfast,
and I said certainly.
And all the way up the curvy country road
they said, by the way, there is a little history
here that they have seen some unusual events.
And I said, “What do you mean unusual?”
Sid: Yeah, I think I’d ask that.
Paul: And I said, “Unusual? Explain.”
And they said, “Well there’s a history of
the 200 years and the owners and guests have
seen demonic activity here; demons.”
Sid: Did this bother you?
Paul: Well I was looking forward to a rustic,
country bed and breakfast rest and I realized
that we had been placed supernaturally into
a place that was going to have a defining
moment in our lives.
And so we checked in.
My personal assistant, he took one room across
the hall.
I went into my room.
There was an uncomfortableness in the bed
and breakfast.
I met the ownership; nice people, but there
was an undercurrent of unrest.
There was an undercurrent of difficulties.
And being the kind of person I am, I began
to question and find out that there were some
problems going on in the family and some challenges
going on with their adult children with drugs
and problems, and things were beginning to
manifest.
And I just found myself, I believe, at the
right place at the right time.
Sid: But one night you were very tired.
You didn’t even want to talk with your friend.
You went to bed, but you had an unusual thing
happen.
Paul: Well I had prayed night after night
and day after day in my speaking in these
meetings that we were in, and things were
going well, but yet I was physically, emotionally
and spiritually drained; I mean, exhausted.
I turned to my assistant and I said, “David,
don’t come over tonight.”
He had one of those midnight come on by and
let’s chat, you know, review life dialogues.
I said, “Tonight just let me rest.”
I showered, went to bed, turned out the lights,
went into bed, turned my back away from the
door, with thoughts in my mind that I had
never been this exhausted.
Sid: So it wasn’t just that you were working
hard.
There was almost an external thing.
Paul: It was almost an oppressive attack.
And even the thought crossed my mind, and
looking back it was a crazy thought, but like
maybe I ought to leave this area of profession.
Maybe I ought to quit speaking and trying
to impact people’s lives.
Maybe I ought to just go get a job and stay
home and work nine to five, and crazy thoughts
of just changing things.
And I said, “Man, I’m so tired.”
I’d learned early in life never make a major
decision when you’re tired.
But I thought to myself as I was going to
sleep, I was weary, wore out, that tomorrow
we’ll pack it in and I’m going to head home.
Sid: Were you really entertaining the thought
of changing professions?
Paul: It actually crossed my mind that night.
I actually thought that maybe I had pushed
and gone the limit, and now it was time for
a change.
And all along I was seeking purpose and seeking
understanding, and trying to find focus in
my own life.
And that’s the night.
Sid: You know what’s kind of interesting.
This was not a natural oppression.
And sometimes you may have felt like that.
But it wasn’t just coming from his own mind.
It wasn’t just coming because he was overworked.
There was like a crushing.
He used those words.
It was like an oppression that was something
demonic.
Paul: Well there are probably people watching
us on this program now who are saying, “Is
everyone stressed out like I am?”
Does everyone feel like you just sometimes
want to go get in the car and never come back
home?
So I don’t think that those thoughts, though
they were terrible in origin, were new with
me.
I think thousands of people have thought that
thought, which out of this event began to
birth a brand new direction and a brand new
course in my life of this supernatural event
that occurred.
Sid: What happened?
Paul: Well that night, laying in the bed,
my back against the door, facing the wall,
all of a sudden I felt someone grab me and
shake me, and my first impression was, you
know, David has come into my room, he wants
to talk and he wants to wake me up.
And I rolled over in anger to yell at David,
throw him out of the room, and there was no
person in my room.
There was no human presence in my room.
Sid: Did you have enough time to think “I’m
afraid”?
Paul: My first thought, immediately like any
other person was, “What is going on here?”
I know something touched me.
Of course, I had that thought that we’d
wind up that winding road, and maybe there
was something going on, but it wasn’t a negative
feeling.
All of a sudden this presence came into the
room.
And I looked down at the foot of my bed and
a silhouette began to outline.
And I don’t know how to describe it except
to tell you that inside the silhouette was
like liquid water, like light moving as water,
and it began to fill.
And I recognized it as a figure, and inside
of me, instantly I knew that this was an angel.
I can’t tell you how I knew that.
I just knew that this was an angel.
Sid: Had you seen an angel before?
Paul: I had never seen anything like this
in my life.
In fact, I was afraid to tell people.
For weeks, I told my assistant, I said, “Don’t
tell anyone.
People are going to think I’ve lost my mind.”
Sid: Now did this person with this like liquid
water inside, did they have like a shape like
a human?
Paul: Yeah. There was like a very tall man,
like a very tall, strong person.
And as this liquid light began to–
Sid: I’ll tell you what.
Hold that thought.
We’ll be back in just a moment because this
angel changed the whole course of history
for Dr. Paul Crites.
And I believe what he’s going to tell you
will change your destiny.
We’ll be right back.
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Sid: Hello.
I’m Sid Roth your investigative reporter here
with Dr. Paul Crites and here he is, so to
speak, just trying to go to sleep and there’s
so much oppression coming on him.
I mean it’s a demonic type of oppression.
He’s thinking, “I’m going to change professions.”
I mean, it’s just feeling depressed and some of you,
you’ve gone through experiences like this.
And he just rolled over.
All I want to do is go to sleep.
I mean, I want to just tune out.
And he feels an arm pull him and there’s no
one in the room.
And then he sees for the first time in his
life an angel; and this angel, Paul, you said
had like liquid water.
Paul: Yeah.
Like the inside of the figure was like liquid
light moving.
The light was moving like water, like you
would see a moonlit night hit a lake, and
see the movement over it.
And it was just absolutely bringing my focus to
this figure.
And sitting there I didn’t know at that moment
whether to jump, to run.
I couldn’t, I didn’t want to speak because
I was waiting; and again, knowing inside of
me, I was waiting to hear something.
I knew inside of me this is an angel, and
number two, I knew it was going to say something.
Sid: Number three, what did he say?
We’re on the edge of our seat.
Paul: He said, “Everything“, he said, “Paul,
everything is going to be all right.”
Sid: He called you by name.
Paul: He called me by name.
He said, “Paul, everything is going to be
all right.”
And in that moment, even as I say this to
you, I get the hair raised up on the back
of my neck because things weren’t right.
There was something that was just not there.
It was – all the parts of my life were there,
but they weren’t into place.
Things were – I was right in my heart, but
I wasn’t correct in my approach or my thinking
about things.
And though I was having success and people’s
lives were being touched, it was not bringing
the fulfillment and the release of my life
into other people’s lives.
And when that happened, “Everything is going
to be all right”, my life and everything
about it, everything I said from that day
forward began to change.
Sid: What happened is today he speaks for
major corporations all over the world.
He speaks for places like the World Bank,
for a major airline, for the Dallas football
team, Dallas Cowboys.
But he had a message of how people can determine
their God-given purpose.
And it’s so simple, it’s profound.
You tell people there are four questions they
must answer for themselves.
Paul: Out of my own personal quest for understanding
– my purpose – I began to document from talking
to my mentors and talking to other people
that were my heroes, how did you get from
there to here?
And I began to formulate a plan and began
to create it.
I documented it into a book and then I began
going around teaching.
Sid: Which we have here, “Discovering the
Power of Purpose”.
Paul: And I began teaching out of that book.
And I would walk up to someone and I would
– they would say, “I’m without purpose.”
I’d say, “I understand.
Frustrated.” They said, “I’m at the end of my rope.”
“I understand.”
“I just feel like sometimes just shutting the door
and leaving, and quitting.”
“I understand.”
“I am so stressed out.”
“I understand.
You need a purpose.
Well where is it?
What is it? You were born with it.
Every person is born with their purpose.”
Sid: Any exceptions?
Paul: No exceptions.
In fact, in the Old Testament scriptures there
is a prophet named Jeremiah who said that
God knew him when he was in his mother’s womb.
So if God knew us then he had a plan and purpose
for our life.
And from this day as I speak to you and go
around and speak at different places, I can
actually supernaturally talk with people and
begin to get an insight or a thought about
purpose for their life.
And I ask them four simple questions: What
do you love, what do you hate, what makes
you cry, and what annoys you?
Sid: So simple.
Let’s take each question.
What’s the first one again?
Paul: What you love, when you give a simple answer, reveals a gift that’s in your life.
It could be –
Sid: So did you get that?
What you love.
I mean just quickly, say out loud, what do
you love and what does that reveal?
Paul: It reveals a gift. It might be dominant.
It might be hidden. But what you love.
What you love.
It could be the ability to love children,
the ability to be a baker, the ability to–
Sid: All right. Let’s take that for example.
You were telling me about –
Paul: I had a 70-year-old man in one of my
meetings walk up to me at the end of the meeting.
I was getting out of my car to go to the airport
and he handed me a cake.
Now I’ve had people give me tapes and give
me books, and give me, he gave me a cake.
And I said, “Sir?”
He said, “I’m 70.
As I child I loved to bake.
As a young boy I loved to be in my mother’s
kitchen.”
He said, “My family, my brothers, people made
fun of me.”
He said, “When I went in the military I signed
up to be a baker.
I baked pastries.
I was a great cook.
But people still made fun of me.
When I got out of the service they said, “you
got to get a real job.”
He said, “For 40 years I worked at a factory.”
He said, “But tonight, when I heard you speak
this week, I made a decision I was going to
do what I love.”
He said, “Here’s a cake.
I’m a baker.”
Sid: How many people are missing their purpose?
Haven’t you felt that there’s got to be something
more to life than work, eat, sleep, and that’s
the way it goes?
That you were created with a purpose.
Did you hear what Paul said, that the prophet
Jeremiah said, “Before … [you were conceived
in your mother’s] womb I knew you … [and
I called you].”
Before you were conceived in your mother’s
womb, God knew you, and God called you.
When we come back, we’re going to go over
those four questions, and I believe
God will supernaturally move on you, as he
did on that baker.
We’ll be right back.
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Sid: Hello.
Sid Roth your investigative reporter.
Before we find out the supernatural purpose
that you were created for and I believe when
you find these four questions from Dr. Paul
Crites you’ll understand it.
I want you to come into kind of a mini production
meeting.
We’re going into the studio right now with
Janie Duvall and who is our guest next week?
Janie: Sid, you’ll be interviewing Rick Amato,
who had Crohn’s disease.
He had other diseases and a colostomy, and
I think people are going to be really amazed
when they find out how he was healed, don’t
you?
Sid: Not only are they going to be amazed,
the thing that I think is so wonderful is
that he, at the same time he was addicted
to alcohol.
He was drinking. He was addicted to drinking.
No hope.
I mean, he was so depressed.
And when he got set free of the diseases he
also got set free of the alcohol addiction
and the drug addiction.
Janie: What I find amazing is that he had
supernatural words just appear before him.
They were these two words, and after he saw
those two words he was completely healed.
Sid: Sounds like fun.
Back to Dr. Paul Crites.
And let me ask you a question.
There were four questions that you posed to
people.
If they can answer these four questions, what
will happen?
Paul: Because the purpose is not your decision.
It’s your discovery.
It’s not a “what do you want to be when you
grow up?” Your decision.
Your purpose was already put on the inside
of you and you don’t need a psychic or someone
outside of your spiritual life to reveal to
you what’s already on the inside of you.
But you’ve got to ask some questions.
What do you love, because what you love reveals
a gift that’s in you.
What you hate reveals what you’re called to
correct.
And what makes you cry?
Sometimes where we hurt the most reveals what
we will heal the best.
Sid: Is it sort of like the thing that has
hurt us so bad prepares for us to have the
compassion to help someone else in that area.
Paul: I think in Dallas of the lady that began
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, you know, out
of the tragedy in her own life, a great organization
has been birthed.
Sid: Her daughter actually died from a drunk
driver.
Paul: Right. Right. And now that has been
birth into her life.
And many times where we do hurt the most we
can heal the best.
And finally, the fourth question, what annoys
you?
You know, what annoys a dentist?
Tooth problems.
What annoys a mechanic?
Car problems.
Those things that annoy you are those things
that you can solve, the problems you were created
to solve.
And those things that annoy you will be attracted
to your life.
That’s why things that bother you may not
bother someone else, but you’re called to
fix it because that’s your purpose.
And your purpose gets you up early and your
purpose will keep you up late, and your purpose
will keep you going when everyone else stops.
Sid: Sometimes someone knows their purpose,
but as you explain in your book, their focus
is wrong.
What do you mean by that?
Paul: What you look at the longest can become
the strongest in your life.
If you look at all the problems, you’ll become
problem-oriented and you’ll begin to lose
your focus.
And I believe that there’s a source out there.
There’s a power that we need to tap into;
a Divine power; the power of God that can
help us to stay focused on our mission.
That’s what causes someone to go into the
inner city and help children.
Way after the Congress has stopped talking
about it and the camera lights are gone, they’re
in there, day in and day out.
And that’s what keeps successful people moving
forward is they discover their purpose and
they keep that focus.
Sid: Now why are you so – have so much passion
for people to find their purpose and their
focus?
Paul: Because my purpose is to help others
find their purpose out of the supernatural
events that have transpired in my life.
You know, I can be flying on a plane, which
is the best way to fly.
I could be flying on a plane and as I’m riding
along, though the airlines might have scheduled
someone beside me, I pick up things.
I sense things, and I’ll begin engaging a conversation with them, and it always comes
around to purpose.
Sid: Tell me one real person that was on an
airplane with you that this happened with.
Paul: A very fine dressed lady one day was
sitting next to me – and just dressed immaculate
– and was flying, and was telling me that
her husband was transferred, and she’s flying
back and forth, making decisions about her
home, and how wonderful this is going to be.
And I have this impression on the inside of
me that she is not a happy camper.
Though she looks happy and she acts happy,
she’s not happy.
Sid: Sort of like Hollywood, you know, where
it looks like a beautiful scene on television
or in the movies, but if you were really there,
you’d see there’s nothing behind that scene.
It’s like a facade, and that’s the way a lot
of people are.
They’re crying on the inside, hurting bad
on the inside, but they’ve got so much pride
they don’t want anyone to know this.
And so they look fine and they smile, and
they’re happy, and coming apart on the inside.
Is that what you were talking about?
Paul: That’s exactly right.
And as I began to talking with her, I couldn’t
help but just say what I sense, you know.
And I said, “You’re not happy, and really you’re
not happy because you thought there was a
life over here and now you’re being uprooted
and you’re changing, and it’s impacting
family and your children.
But I want you to know that God does have
a purpose for your life.
And even though you’re making a geographical
move you’re going to find focus and you’re
going to find purpose.”
And she went from running mascara in tears
to laughter and joy.
And she said, “I believe God must have put
you here beside me because this morning I
was praying, ‘God, am I doing the right
thing?’”
Sid: What is the greatest enemy of people
fulfilling their God-ordained purpose?
Paul: Many people think this is as good as
it gets.
Many people think “this is my lot in life.”
“My parents did this so I’m going to do
this.”
“My family lived here; I’m going to live
here.”
They think this is as good as it gets.
But I’m here to tell people there’s more.
There is so much more in life.
And if you’re just willing to cooperate with
the Creator, is a term I like to use, because
he made you; and if he made you, he can reveal
his purpose for your life.
Sid: Do you remember what Paul said that angel
said to him?
“Everything” – that’s pretty inclusive;
“Everything”; “Everything is going to
be all right.”
I believe that’s a word for you right now.
Everything; everything.
You don’t understand exactly what is happening.
But God’s Spirit moves through sound and
you are capturing something very supernatural
right now.
Everything, everything is going to work out
all right.
Now there is a purpose and you’re not going
to be happy until you fulfill that purpose.
There’s a focus for that purpose.
You’re not going to be happy until you fulfill
that focus for that purpose.
But true happiness doesn’t come in what you
do.
True happiness comes in who you know.
The world can change.
Even your purpose can change.
Everything can be topsy-turvy.
But if you know God intimately; I’m not talking
about going to church or synagogue; Those
are fine and good.
I’m talking about knowing God because you
believe Jesus died for your sins, has washed
away your sins by his blood and you with your
mouth say, Jesus come inside of me.
Take over my life.
I make you Lord over every area of my life.”
That’s your purpose for intimacy.
You were created for intimacy, intimacy with
God.
You are special.
Before you were conceived in your mother’s
womb, God knew you and called you.
God knows you.
You’re not an accident.
Everything is going to work out all right.
I said everything is going to work out all
right.
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