SPKM DUSTY KEMP I’m six years old at this time. But it was definitely a real experience with the Lord. Now I spent the next approximately 14 years convincing myself that I did not do that, so that in 1975 I was in college, I was going to University of Houston, going to be a lawyer, was going to graduate from the University of Houston and be a lawyer. And in 1975 was not really born again, never knew Jesus Christ as living. And I didn’t have anything to do on a Thanksgiving night, and 1973 was the year. And so we went to Evangelistic Temple in Houston, Texas where Charles and Frances Hunter, who was on here just a couple of weeks ago, I remember seeing them, they were holding a special healing meeting. And the place was so packed out that I didn’t have a place to sit. So here I am college hippy type. They went and sat me on the stage on the steps to the choir loft, right there front row center to watch what was going on. Now I’d come with my grandparents and my mother and a couple of other people. And during that service Frances Hunter had a word of knowledge that my grandmother–well, didn’t say Dusty’s grandmother–but of course she said, “There is a lady in the audience who is being healed of a heart condition,” and that was my grandmother who stood up instantly when she said that. She had had a heart condition for 17 or more years. They tell me now it was more than 17 years. I’d never known her able to do anything, go to any of my football games in high school or anything of that sort. But that night she was supernaturally healed by the power of God. And from that day until now–she’s 79 years old, I hope she doesn’t mind me telling you that, 79 years old–
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS I doubt she’ll mind.
SPKM DUSTY KEMP I don’t think so. She now goes to Ronda’s daddy’s church, who was also my pastor, and is younger today thanshe ever has been in her life. They were able right after thatwhen we first started pastoring Bread of Life Church in Houston in 1980, we were able to send my grandfather and grandmother up here to your partners weekend, I guess that’s the weekend seminar. And she had never been able to do that in her life.And that turned me on to the supernatural power of God.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS That experience that your grandmother had, that miracle turned you on to Jesus. (Yes) What happened to you, now did you, you were not married yet at that time?
SPKM DUSTY KEMP No, I didn’t know Rhonda.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You didn’t know Rhonda.
SPKM DUSTY KEMP No, I didn’t know Rhonda at that time.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Did that set about something in your life that you wanted to know more about Jesus?
SPKM DUSTY KEMP Well, see, I believed that the Bible teaches that every man is born with a knowing of God. But the Bible says in Romans, chapter 1, that He makes it evident even to those who are not learned in the visible creation that He’s made. And I don’t know if every man had it, but I had a hunger for God all my life, just for something more. And then and there I knew that there was something more. And so I began searching for the Lord at that time. And then it was at a Holy Spirit Conference in which your dad ministered over in Dallas, a Methodist Holy Spirit Conference, that I finally turned my life completely over to the Lord Jesus Christ at that time. And the rest is history, so to speak.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Rhonda, now how did you and Dusty get together? I mean tell us, you’re on television now, you can tell the real story.
SPKM RHONDA KEMP O.K., I can tell the real story.
SPKM DUSTY KEMP Tell the truth. Tell how you believed for me.
SPKM RHONDA KEMP Well, you know, there wasn’t a lot of faith movement back then and my dad having a church and of course they liked for me to date guys that were Spirit-filled and went to the church. So I had to believe them in. So I would pick them, you know, and bring them and get them saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. That’s what I did with Dusty. I saw him, the first time I saw him I knew I liked him. And I’d invite him to things at the church a lot.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Did he come?
SPKM RHONDA KEMP Yeah, he came a lot of times, like singing groups, mild stuff, you know. I’d only invite him to real mild stuff that wouldn’t blow him away. But one night we, you came for a singing group and I remember Dusty sitting in the back and he knew nothing about the baptism in the Holy Spirit or anything. And he kept looking at me saying, “Have I got it, have I got it?” And I kept going, “What is this guy talking about, have I got it, have I got it?” But what he was speaking of was the power of the Holy Ghost, you know, in the service. Do you remember it? That was great.
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