Our Guest Max Davis
SID: Why would she even say that?
MAX: Because she had talked to Cheryl at 11 o’clock. So now, three o’clock, and we talked about agents and books and things like that. So Josiah comes home. Without hearing from her at all, and starts typing, alluding to a person. And she said, “Does this have anything to do with Max?” So that’s all he got was my name, Max. And Josiah’s response was, “Lots to do with Max. He’s not only a major novel writer, but he knows valuable sameness is not always the best approach.” He identified me as a writer and a novel writer with just getting my first name. And, listen to this, I was finishing up a major novel with a major publisher and my book before that was a novel, but I normally do nonfiction. So he not only identified me as a writer, but as a novel writer. I could have been anybody. So then Tahni got my contact information and sent me that message. And, of course, I was very skeptical. But that was just the beginning of this incredible journey.
SID: I don’t think anyone can comprehend this young boy. He takes one finger and he has an iPad and he just types these messages.
MAX: Yes.
SID: But even today, he can’t talk.
MAX: No. And it’s not connected to the internet. He cannot access the internet. He can’t even turn the page on the paper he’s so locked up. It’s supernatural.
SID: You went to visit him one time.
MAX: I did.
SID: And what I read was he spent most of the time under the covers with his iPad.
MAX: Yeah. It was an eye-opening experience. After two years of words from him, words that changed my life, I finally decided I needed to go visit him. And, when I did, it just opened up my eyes to how incredibly difficult the situation was and it was definitely a miracle.
SID: Well, I’ll tell you what’s even more amazing with that, he’s not even Jewish.
MAX: No.
SID: And he set you free from Jewish guilt and you’re not even Jewish.
MAX: That’s right.
SID: Tell me about that.
MAX: So I was praying intensely in the morning. I was praying about two hours in the morning in my office this particular season, and this word was on July 10, 2016. And my wife and I were writing a book. My wife was helping me work on a book for another person. And we stayed home from church that day to work on the book, and the book was entitled First Fruits. And we worked all day on that book. And about one o’clock, I got really, really tired and felt like, man, I have to take a nap. And I told my wife, “I feel really guilty about taking a nap because we skipped church to work on this book and we have so much work to do.” And my wife looked at my eyes and she said, “It’s okay to take a nap as long as you’ll write tonight.” So I took this long three-hour nap. Woke up. I wrote all night long. And it was like the Holy Spirit was just on me, on my hands. It was amazing. The next morning I get a sovereign message from Josiah in Minnesota. I’m in Louisiana. And you know what he said?
