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The 700 Club

January 14, 2026

January 14, 2026 | 57:59

January 14, 2026
The 700 Club features a distinctive blend of news from a biblical perspective, inspirational interviews and biblical teaching for everyday life.
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The 700 Club | January 14, 2026 | January 14, 2026
  • (production beeping continues)
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  • - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [gordon] coming up, 34 weeks pregnant,
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  • And dying of covid.
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  • - i was told that she had 0% chance of survival.
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  • - [gordon] watch as doctors and prayer
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  • Saved two lives.
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  • - (laughs) i'm trying not to cry.
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  • - [gordon] then she fell into a coma
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  • And woke up for getting half her life.
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  • - people are telling me that i've had a baby
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  • That i'm married.
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  • - [gordon] see how her blank canvas
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  • Helped rebuild her life.
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  • - god is the master artist and we are his canvas.
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  • - on today's "700 club".
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  • (intense music)
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  • Well welcome to the "700 club."
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  • In zambia, more than 5,000 people
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  • Are translating the bible into 20 native languages.
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  • Thanks to the work of witcliff associates.
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  • - ephraim graham traveled to the african nation
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  • To bring us the results.
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  • Christians reading god's word in their own tongue
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  • For the very first time.
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  • (singing in foreign language)
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  • - [efrem] zambia known for its vast landscapes,
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  • Walking safaris,
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  • (water pouring)
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  • And victoria falls is still called africa's best kept secret
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  • And it's giving birth to yet another untold story.
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  • Men and women meeting daily
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  • To translate the bible into the languages they speak.
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  • What's your first memory of the bible?
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  • - yes, john 3:16.
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  • - [efrem] henry mumba plants and pastors churches
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  • And he's helping to lead church-owned translation work
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  • In mansa.
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  • - my pastor was a missionary from another country, malawi,
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  • And he came into this town
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  • And they preached the gospel to me.
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  • The first verse that i knew was john 3:16.
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  • "for god so loved the world that he gave his only son
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  • That whoever believes in him should not perish
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  • But have everlasting life."
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  • - scholars estimate there are at the very least
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  • 7,000 languages spoken around the world.
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  • Fewer than 800 of those languages
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  • Have the bible fully translated,
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  • Both old and new testament,
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  • Leaving thousands still in need of translation.
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  • Many of those are here on the continent of africa
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  • In hard to reach places as well as asia
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  • And indo-pacific regions.
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  • (worshipper speaking foreign language)
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  • (congregation clapping)
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  • - [efrem] that's the sound of another area reached.
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  • Churchgoers in mansa are reading
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  • And hearing the new testament in aushi their mother tongue
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  • For the very first time.
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  • And after reading,
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  • (singing in foreign language)
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  • There's dancing.
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  • - it's like god is speaking our language.
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  • - [efrem] a first even for henry mumba,
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  • Who remembers hearing john 3:16 at 19 now hearing
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  • And seeing scripture in his native language at 58.
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  • - it's the first written literature.
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  • - oh wow. in aushi language?
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  • - yeah. - it's the first
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  • Written literature?
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  • - that bible it is the first written literature.
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  • We've never had anything before.
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  • - [efrem] this new testament gift is more than literature.
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  • - for me it's not only about translating the bible,
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  • Having the bible printed,
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  • To me it's about life changing.
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  • I've seen a lot of lives being changed
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  • Through bible translation.
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  • - [efrem] that includes his own.
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  • Tomussone machinga travels to african countries
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  • Teaching translators to use technology.
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  • Though that is not how this bible translation career began
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  • For the young husband and father who grew up in zimbabwe,
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  • A child of refugees fleeing civil war in mozambique.
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  • - i appeared there at the meeting.
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  • I was drunk because by that time i was doing both lives.
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  • I was going to church and i was doing wild things.
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  • So, i appeared at the meeting, i was drunk
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  • And they said, "you have to go home and come back tomorrow."
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  • - [efrem] tomus returned and did the work,
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  • But the power of the word he translated didn't become real
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  • Until he found himself sick and in the hospital.
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  • - my mother was telling me
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  • We couldn't eat anything at home.
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  • Sometime they couldn't have transport to come
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  • And visit me at hospital. (crying)
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  • (calming music)
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  • Then, they started talking to me about taking christ
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  • As my savior.
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  • And when bible translation comes,
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  • I was saving that mind of the life
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  • That i was trying to to leave behind.
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  • But something started changing through bible translation.
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  • - during our visit to this region of the world,
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  • There are actually three new testament translations
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  • Being celebrated.
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  • The nyanja in lusaka, leha in livingston
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  • And aushi here in mansa.
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  • (singing in foreign language)
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  • We're in livingston for its celebration
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  • Of the new testament in leha, the mother tongue of those
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  • Who called this village home
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  • Including buster paul tembo.
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  • - our country has 73 languages
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  • And only seven were considered official languages.
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  • Those are the only ones who had scripture translated.
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  • - [efrem] tembo is the pastor
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  • Who leads church owned translation work here.
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  • - when you bring it out in your own language,
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  • When you read it out in your own language,
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  • Even the interpretation of it to the people,
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  • The understanding that you have
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  • Or you bring to the people is so clear
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  • And it has a great spiritual impact in their lives.
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  • - [efrem] that impact is why wycliffe associates facilitates
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  • Church-owned bible translation here in zambia
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  • And other parts of the world.
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  • - when we say church-owned bible translation,
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  • We mean that local church owns
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  • Not just the translation process
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  • But also the scriptures that they produce
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  • At the end of the day.
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  • - simoun ung is president.
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  • What's lost in translation? (laughs)
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  • - that's a very good question.
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  • I think part of the challenge now is
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  • How can we further accelerate the process
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  • Without sacrificing the quality of the translations.
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  • When you see the field,
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  • You see the need for scriptures, right?
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  • People are dying every day without coming to know the lord.
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  • And so the urgency i guess for us is really there
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  • In terms of being able to press forward.
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  • - [efrem] press forward with the message god loves you.
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  • (henry speaking foreign language)
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  • - [efrem] in every language.
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  • Efrem graham cbn news zambia.
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  • - god wants his scripture in every single language
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  • So everyone can hear it in their heart language.
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  • And when we finally understand that,
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  • That's when we get the great commission.
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  • Before jesus can come back the second time,
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  • Everybody has to hear about him coming the first time.
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  • And let's be devoted to that.
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  • Let's preach the gospel in every language to every tribe,
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  • To every person so that he can come back again.
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  • We'll be right back with more of the "700 club" after this.
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  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
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  • - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
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  • - [survivor] they kept saying septic, septic,
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  • I think she's getting septic.
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  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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  • For a lifetime of dialysis
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  • And this medicine was going
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  • To destroy every dream my girl could possibly have.
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  • - thousands and thousands literally
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  • Around the world we're praying for her.
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  • - mom runs out into the hallway
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  • And she's like, "he just told me he canceled your surgery."
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  • He was like, "your kidney biopsy came back
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  • Completely clean."
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  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
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  • Just we were hugging and screaming.
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  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
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  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
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  • I think those prayers were answered. hi,
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  • - [mom] hi, yay. you did it.
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  • - i am beyond thankful
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  • That i have been singing nonstop.
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  • Prayers work, they work.
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  • Ask people to pray for you
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  • And like really believe, really believe
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  • That anything is possible.
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure that it was
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  • To the point where my jaws were even hurting
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  • From coughing so intensely.
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  • It was a battle, it really was.
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  • But he kept saying to me, this too will pass.
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  • So i just stand up and say, "i'm waiting on you lord."
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  • I just kept confessing,
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  • God is my healer, he is my healer.
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  • They were to the section where they were talking about
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  • People receiving healings.
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  • They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
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  • - oh, there's someone, you heard the report
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  • About sinus conditions
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  • And you're saying please say sinus conditions.
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  • So for you i'm saying sinus condition.
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  • All of that inflammation,
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  • Everything that seems to be swollen and closed up,
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  • Open now in jesus' name.
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  • - i jumped up and my spirit just kind of leaped
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  • And i said, "that's for me lord, that's it."
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  • You think maybe he's not mindful of those things,
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  • But he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful and he is our healer.
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  • - [narrator] melissa and her husband rick
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  • Have come a long way from when they met.
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  • Melissa was in real estate.
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  • Rick had been living on credit cards
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  • Trying to start a number of businesses
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  • And was $80,000 in debt.
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  • All the while the hennings were tithing
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  • And the newly married couples started working
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  • Their way out of the red.
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  • - i think i had bought into society saying,
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  • "here's what you should have."
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  • I simply asked god, "do i have money before you?"
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  • I asked god to forgive me instantly.
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  • I told god whether i make a lot of money or not,
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  • I'm done striving.
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  • - [narrator] today rick and melissa have three children
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  • And choose to live way below their means
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  • So they can help the poor.
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  • They've already built 13 orphanages
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  • And a freedom house in india.
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  • - what i loved about operation blessing is
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  • That we were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
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  • - now i have the hunger to make more money
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  • So we truly can give to all of these places
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  • 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
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  • - harris faulkner is an emmy winning host on fox news.
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  • She's also a woman of faith
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  • Who believes in the power of prayer.
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  • Her latest book explores the impact prayer
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  • Has had on her life and the lives of others.
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  • Charlene aaron recently spoke with her
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  • About why she believes faith moves mountains.
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  • - in her book, faith still moves mountains:
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  • Miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer,"
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  • Faulkner reminds readers that god's light always shines
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  • Through dark times.
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  • It's a message she felt needed
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  • To be sent given the life-changing impact
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  • And many losses suffered due to covid-19.
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  • - we've all reached this point in our lives, i think,
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  • After the pandemic
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  • And we have individual struggles as well,
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  • But we've reached that point at times in our lives
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  • Where we wonder, "well if there is a god who loves me,
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  • Why are things going wrong?
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  • Why when i pray doesn't the lord answer
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  • My prayers contemporaneously?"
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  • - [charlene] faulkner points out how a recent survey
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  • Showing a growing number struggling to believe
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  • That god still answers prayer
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  • Could be part of the problem.
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  • - the one part of that gallup survey is people no longer
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  • Believe in high numbers that god intervenes in our lives.
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  • So that's very important
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  • Because you're less likely to be direct
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  • And big and fervent in your prayer if you don't think
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  • It is being heard.
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  • And the litmus test for whether or not your prayer is heard
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  • Is not whether or not you got your prayers answered
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  • The way you wanted them or in the timing that you want.
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  • And that is something that people sometimes
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  • Need to be reminded of.
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  • - [charlene] in her book, the host of fox news
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  • Is "outnumbered" and the "faulkner focus"
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  • Felt that by sharing
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  • A collection of powerful testimonies,
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  • It would help more people embrace the practice of prayer.
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  • - i've been told by them
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  • And they tell their own in their own words in the book
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  • That it was through their fervent prayer and communion
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  • And relationship with the lord that they realized
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  • That our spiritual vital tool
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  • And the fight in a world that would want us to give up.
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  • - yes. - is prayer
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  • - [charlene] a lesson faulkner gleaned from her mother.
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  • - there have been times in my life when the mountains
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  • Have seemed so much bigger than the dreams that i had.
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  • At a time in this country
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  • That didn't necessarily celebrate people who look like us.
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  • My mom truly believed
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  • That my dad's love of country
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  • Was part of the answer to take us all forward.
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  • And she prayed about that mightily.
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  • - [charlene] included is the story of earnestine reese
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  • Who in 2019 survived an ef4 tornado
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  • That tore through lee county, alabama.
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  • While the storm devoured most everything in its path,
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  • Reese miraculously survived,
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  • Huddled inside her prayer closet,
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  • The only thing left standing in her neighborhood.
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  • - [harris] earnestine prayed one simple sentence.
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  • "thank you god, thank you." - wow.
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  • Before the storm started,
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  • During the storm when everything was pulling away
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  • And i mean she could hear it all being pulled away.
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  • And after the storm.
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  • - i thank the lord, you tell god thank you (indistinct).
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  • - [charlene] "storms," says faulkner,
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  • "often mirror difficult times
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  • Like when her father passed away.
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  • - i was so sorrowful and missed him so much
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  • And had lost my mother thanksgiving before that four years
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  • And i felt lost.
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  • And when i did pray, i talked the whole time
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  • And remembered some words that my mom had told me,
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  • "don't treat god like santa claus.
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  • You have to be silent.
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  • You have to sit and be still
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  • Because faith still moves mountains."
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  • - [charlene] mountains that can't be moved by rituals
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  • But by faith in god who stands ready to answer when we call.
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  • - i've been put here as a witness
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  • And in that role, through the testimonies
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  • That i've collected, i've learned how to pray better.
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  • So i pray big and with specificity
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  • And my one prayer as you ask me for everyone
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  • Is that they open themselves up to the point
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  • Where they can reignite the power of prayer
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  • And let bloom in their hearts the hope
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  • And unconditional, true unconditional love
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  • That the lord brings
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  • And be patient with him
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  • So that he can do mighty works in your life, in his time.
  • 00:17:24.523 --> 00:17:29.294
  • - [charlene] faulkner also includes prayers
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  • That reflect today's challenging times.
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  • Prayers she invites readers to boldly pray.
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  • - i do tell people that when you read these prayers
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  • As your own out loud, when you say them, they have power.
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  • So be sure to have enough time in a space
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  • Where you are able to be quiet and focused.
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  • - [charlene] faulkner's book
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  • "faith still moves mountains:
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  • Miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer"
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  • Is available wherever books are sold.
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  • Charlene aaron, cbn news.
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  • - those are powerful lessons in prayer.
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  • Prayer comes out of thanksgiving.
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  • So i encourage you as you pray today
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  • And try to pray every day, try to pray continuously
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  • Read psalm 148, that it's a praise of thanksgiving
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  • And in that, god inhabits the praises of his people
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  • And when you know his presence is there,
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  • Well then you're at the throne of grace.
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  • Then you're in his presence
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  • And then you can let your request be made known,
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  • But do it with thanksgiving
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  • Knowing that the answer is going to come.
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  • Terry? - coming up,
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  • In the icu on a ventilator
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  • And having an emergency c-section,
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  • This woman was battling covid for her life
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  • And the life of her unborn baby.
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  • See how her husband ignited a wildfire of prayer
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  • On social media.
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  • Plus we're going to be praying
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  • For you later on today's "700 club".
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  • And then up next, a woman who wakes up from a coma
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  • With no memories of her husband and children
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  • And watch how she turns her pain into a passion for art,
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  • - i am not breathing enough to make a feather move.
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  • It really frustrated me
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  • Because my quality of life
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  • Had drastically changed.
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  • I could just say, "just lord, i need your help."
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  • - if someone else you have breathing issues,
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  • Take a complete breath
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  • And exhale as jesus christ heals you completely.
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  • - i can feel that air going clear down
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  • To my stomach and back.
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  • He will always be there walking this out for your benefit
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  • - for me as a musician and my identity,
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  • That was like the ultimate validation,
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  • Just literally going out and like living the rockstar life.
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  • It was a darkness that started to wear on me.
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  • I realized how fake it was so i, without talking to anybody,
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  • I silently left hollywood with my dreams shattered
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  • Because that was the epitome.
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  • And i said, "god, i need help."
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  • And at that moment i knew i needed to figure out
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  • Who jesus is.
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  • I found that acceptance i was looking for.
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  • The only thing that can fill that hole is jesus christ.
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  • - today, marcy greg is a renowned abstract artist.
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  • When she was 30 years old, she woke up from a coma
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  • With no memories of the last 13 years.
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  • Marcy thought she was 17 and had no husband or children.
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  • She hid her amnesia for years
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  • Until the secret almost destroyed her.
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  • - it takes every layer to make the painting
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  • What i need it to be at the end.
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  • And by the end, every layer has done what it needs to do
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  • To make it the final piece.
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  • - [reporter] marcy greg is an accomplished abstract artist
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  • With works in galleries
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  • And private collections across the united states.
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  • It's a passion she rediscovered later
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  • In a life that was almost cut short.
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  • After giving birth to her third child at the age of 30,
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  • Marcy contracted a form of meningitis and fell into a coma.
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  • Her husband, dev, says he nearly lost her.
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  • - i look in there and she's got 10 tubes hooked to her.
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  • She's intubated and completely out.
  • 00:24:27.312 --> 00:24:29.781
  • And the doctors literally came to me
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  • And said, "she's probably not gonna make it.
  • 00:24:31.883 --> 00:24:35.286
  • We don't see many patients that is this severe,
  • 00:24:35.286 --> 00:24:39.691
  • You know live."
  • 00:24:39.691 --> 00:24:41.059
  • - [reporter] she lay in a coma for an entire week
  • 00:24:41.059 --> 00:24:42.694
  • With little hope for her survival.
  • 00:24:42.694 --> 00:24:44.696
  • Then miraculously after prayers from her pastor,
  • 00:24:45.830 --> 00:24:48.733
  • Marcy woke up confused, disoriented,
  • 00:24:48.733 --> 00:24:52.303
  • Without any memories past the age of 17.
  • 00:24:52.303 --> 00:24:55.573
  • - in icu, i'm still trying to figure out,
  • 00:24:55.573 --> 00:24:57.709
  • People are telling me that i've had a baby, that i'm married
  • 00:24:57.709 --> 00:25:02.347
  • And i'm in there thinking, "wait, how in the world?
  • 00:25:02.347 --> 00:25:05.416
  • I'm a 17-year-old, i'm not married,
  • 00:25:05.416 --> 00:25:08.086
  • I don't have children, this can't be."
  • 00:25:08.086 --> 00:25:10.955
  • - [reporter] dev tried to comfort his wife,
  • 00:25:10.955 --> 00:25:13.091
  • Unaware of her mental state.
  • 00:25:13.091 --> 00:25:14.826
  • - he sat down beside me
  • 00:25:14.826 --> 00:25:16.628
  • And he talked to me as if i should know who he was
  • 00:25:16.628 --> 00:25:20.164
  • And i thought he was a doctor.
  • 00:25:20.164 --> 00:25:22.133
  • But then he reached down to kiss me
  • 00:25:22.133 --> 00:25:24.402
  • And i thought, "okay, wait,
  • 00:25:24.402 --> 00:25:25.803
  • When did doctors start kissing their patients?"
  • 00:25:25.803 --> 00:25:28.840
  • And he said that he was my husband
  • 00:25:28.840 --> 00:25:32.110
  • And that we had had a child together
  • 00:25:32.110 --> 00:25:33.811
  • And i didn't remember any of this,
  • 00:25:33.811 --> 00:25:36.180
  • So i was completely confused what was going on.
  • 00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:39.651
  • - [reporter] marcy had no memories
  • 00:25:39.651 --> 00:25:41.052
  • Of the last 13 years of her life.
  • 00:25:41.052 --> 00:25:44.255
  • Soon after, she was reunited with her children.
  • 00:25:44.255 --> 00:25:48.092
  • - i had no memory of having them at all.
  • 00:25:48.092 --> 00:25:50.795
  • And when they came to the room and they brought them in
  • 00:25:50.795 --> 00:25:53.965
  • And they jumped on the bed
  • 00:25:53.965 --> 00:25:56.534
  • And they put the baby girl in my arms, i literally knew
  • 00:25:56.534 --> 00:26:00.605
  • That they were mine and i felt like that was god's gift
  • 00:26:00.605 --> 00:26:03.741
  • To me that i knew they were mine.
  • 00:26:03.741 --> 00:26:06.177
  • - [reporter] desperate to be released from the hospital,
  • 00:26:07.578 --> 00:26:09.547
  • Marcy hid her amnesia.
  • 00:26:09.547 --> 00:26:12.083
  • She soon returned to a home and a life she didn't remember.
  • 00:26:12.083 --> 00:26:16.287
  • - being inauthentic was the hardest part.
  • 00:26:16.287 --> 00:26:19.223
  • I felt very inauthentic and it was hard
  • 00:26:19.223 --> 00:26:23.795
  • Because i was lying to everybody.
  • 00:26:23.795 --> 00:26:27.398
  • - [reporter] marcy is a christian
  • 00:26:27.398 --> 00:26:28.700
  • And prayed earnestly for her memories to return.
  • 00:26:28.700 --> 00:26:32.136
  • When they didn't, she secretly began drinking alcohol
  • 00:26:32.136 --> 00:26:35.940
  • To cover her frustration.
  • 00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:38.042
  • - i would drink quietly, secretly,
  • 00:26:38.042 --> 00:26:42.513
  • And then the next morning i would get up
  • 00:26:42.513 --> 00:26:43.981
  • And i would open my bible and i would pray
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  • And ask god to forgive me.
  • 00:26:48.619 --> 00:26:50.888
  • There was this guilt, but i was so addicted to the alcohol
  • 00:26:50.888 --> 00:26:55.126
  • That i drank anyway.
  • 00:26:55.126 --> 00:26:56.828
  • I wanted to stop feeling what i was feeling, the pressure.
  • 00:26:56.828 --> 00:27:02.033
  • I drank to forget what i couldn't remember.
  • 00:27:03.201 --> 00:27:06.904
  • - [reporter] she struggled to keep her memory loss
  • 00:27:08.139 --> 00:27:09.974
  • And addiction a secret for years.
  • 00:27:09.974 --> 00:27:12.744
  • Then one night she saw her life
  • 00:27:12.744 --> 00:27:14.912
  • And family with a new perspective.
  • 00:27:14.912 --> 00:27:17.982
  • - and their dev was, and he had callie in his arms
  • 00:27:17.982 --> 00:27:20.585
  • And the boys were all over the furniture just everywhere.
  • 00:27:20.585 --> 00:27:23.321
  • And god said to me at that moment, straight to my heart,
  • 00:27:23.321 --> 00:27:26.657
  • As clear as i've ever heard him,
  • 00:27:26.657 --> 00:27:29.093
  • "that is what i saved you for, the future, not the past.
  • 00:27:29.093 --> 00:27:33.364
  • And as much as that father loves his children,
  • 00:27:33.364 --> 00:27:35.800
  • I love you more.
  • 00:27:35.800 --> 00:27:37.735
  • And just as that father's holding his daughter,
  • 00:27:37.735 --> 00:27:40.438
  • I'm holding you.
  • 00:27:40.438 --> 00:27:42.006
  • And i will never let you fall, but you've gotta trust me."
  • 00:27:42.006 --> 00:27:46.010
  • And i fell to my knees
  • 00:27:46.711 --> 00:27:48.713
  • And i literally at that point in my life surrendered my life
  • 00:27:48.713 --> 00:27:51.949
  • Because at that point i realized i wanted god's will
  • 00:27:51.949 --> 00:27:55.019
  • For my life more than i wanted anything else.
  • 00:27:55.019 --> 00:27:58.623
  • I wanted his plan for me
  • 00:27:58.623 --> 00:28:00.958
  • Without my memories more than i wanted my plan
  • 00:28:00.958 --> 00:28:04.128
  • With my memories.
  • 00:28:04.128 --> 00:28:05.730
  • And i chose to trust him with all of it.
  • 00:28:05.730 --> 00:28:09.300
  • - [reporter] marcy came clean before god and her husband.
  • 00:28:10.735 --> 00:28:13.671
  • She was set free from alcohol addiction
  • 00:28:13.671 --> 00:28:15.606
  • As she put her life in god's hands.
  • 00:28:15.606 --> 00:28:18.409
  • Her memories have not returned,
  • 00:28:18.409 --> 00:28:20.611
  • However, her passion for painting was reborn
  • 00:28:20.611 --> 00:28:23.214
  • And has grown into a successful career
  • 00:28:23.214 --> 00:28:25.616
  • With the word of god at its foundation.
  • 00:28:25.616 --> 00:28:28.452
  • - i take scripture from usually a verse i'm studying
  • 00:28:28.452 --> 00:28:30.988
  • That morning, i will take it to the studio
  • 00:28:30.988 --> 00:28:34.025
  • And i will paint it across the blank canvas
  • 00:28:34.025 --> 00:28:37.061
  • And that becomes the foundation for the piece.
  • 00:28:37.061 --> 00:28:39.964
  • And it is also the inspiration for the title.
  • 00:28:39.964 --> 00:28:43.267
  • - in her book, "blank canvas," she tells her amazing story
  • 00:28:43.267 --> 00:28:47.238
  • And the process of learning to trust god
  • 00:28:47.238 --> 00:28:50.041
  • With each layer of challenge and grace
  • 00:28:50.041 --> 00:28:52.276
  • She faces in her life.
  • 00:28:52.276 --> 00:28:54.245
  • - one day i was putting a final layer on
  • 00:28:54.245 --> 00:28:56.581
  • And god literally just impressed on my heart.
  • 00:28:56.581 --> 00:28:59.884
  • God is the master artist and we are his canvas.
  • 00:29:01.085 --> 00:29:05.690
  • We are his masterpiece.
  • 00:29:06.357 --> 00:29:08.259
  • So every layer in my life is important
  • 00:29:08.259 --> 00:29:12.563
  • To make me who i am.
  • 00:29:12.563 --> 00:29:14.832
  • And if we are his masterpiece
  • 00:29:14.832 --> 00:29:17.001
  • And you're in a bad layer, you're in a bad place,
  • 00:29:17.001 --> 00:29:21.806
  • He's not finished and i am convinced
  • 00:29:21.806 --> 00:29:25.610
  • And i'm confident that he is gonna finish
  • 00:29:25.610 --> 00:29:28.446
  • The work he has begun
  • 00:29:28.446 --> 00:29:29.814
  • So there's no accidents and there's no mistakes.
  • 00:29:30.948 --> 00:29:36.587
  • - well, we can count on that
  • 00:29:37.388 --> 00:29:38.923
  • Because god tells us that, that he will complete the work
  • 00:29:38.923 --> 00:29:41.959
  • That he has begun in us.
  • 00:29:41.959 --> 00:29:43.761
  • What an interesting story.
  • 00:29:43.761 --> 00:29:45.363
  • Isn't it fascinating to hear from marcy
  • 00:29:45.363 --> 00:29:47.398
  • And also the comparison
  • 00:29:47.398 --> 00:29:48.666
  • Between paint and the layers of paint
  • 00:29:48.666 --> 00:29:51.202
  • And how god works in our lives when we sometimes
  • 00:29:51.202 --> 00:29:53.804
  • Don't even realize that?
  • 00:29:53.804 --> 00:29:55.106
  • Well, you can read more about marcy's story
  • 00:29:55.106 --> 00:29:57.275
  • In her book, "blank canvas."
  • 00:29:57.275 --> 00:29:58.843
  • It's available where books are sold.
  • 00:29:58.843 --> 00:30:01.112
  • And we want you to know that if you struggle
  • 00:30:01.112 --> 00:30:03.814
  • With addiction like marcy once did with alcohol,
  • 00:30:03.814 --> 00:30:05.549
  • We have a resource sheet to help you
  • 00:30:05.549 --> 00:30:07.585
  • Because jesus said he came to set the captive free.
  • 00:30:07.585 --> 00:30:10.054
  • Well this sheet is called "free indeed."
  • 00:30:10.054 --> 00:30:12.423
  • You can download it at cbn.com
  • 00:30:12.423 --> 00:30:14.659
  • Or if you'd like to receive it in the mail,
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  • You can call us 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:30:16.661 --> 00:30:19.897
  • Just say, "i'd like the free indeed resource sheet."
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  • We'll send it out to you. gordon?
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  • - coming up, several months behind on his mortgage
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  • And depending on a food bank for his meals,
  • 00:30:27.738 --> 00:30:31.008
  • This single dad quit his business to save his son.
  • 00:30:31.008 --> 00:30:34.612
  • See what saved him from losing his home,
  • 00:30:34.612 --> 00:30:37.815
  • Later on today's "700 club."
  • 00:30:37.815 --> 00:30:41.052
  • (upbeat music)
  • 00:30:41.052 --> 00:30:44.155
  • - [narrator] when i was a young girl,
  • 00:30:44.155 --> 00:30:45.556
  • I went to fetch water for my mother.
  • 00:30:45.556 --> 00:30:47.558
  • The weight of the water made my neck hot so bad
  • 00:30:47.558 --> 00:30:50.227
  • I just poured the water out
  • 00:30:50.227 --> 00:30:51.629
  • And went home with an empty container.
  • 00:30:51.629 --> 00:30:53.965
  • The stream is very far and i go four times a day.
  • 00:30:53.965 --> 00:30:57.868
  • I get home exhausted.
  • 00:30:57.868 --> 00:30:59.503
  • I feel terrible drinking that water
  • 00:30:59.503 --> 00:31:01.539
  • And giving it to my family.
  • 00:31:01.539 --> 00:31:03.140
  • We often get intense stomachache and vomit.
  • 00:31:03.140 --> 00:31:06.711
  • When my son was three, he got very sick from the water.
  • 00:31:06.711 --> 00:31:11.048
  • Thank you operation blessing for giving us a new life.
  • 00:31:11.048 --> 00:31:14.552
  • When you came, we were all so grateful
  • 00:31:14.552 --> 00:31:17.321
  • We could not hold back our joy.
  • 00:31:17.321 --> 00:31:19.757
  • I've never had this kind of water before.
  • 00:31:19.757 --> 00:31:22.493
  • Every time i drink it, i feel good and healthy.
  • 00:31:22.493 --> 00:31:26.197
  • With the well this close,
  • 00:31:26.197 --> 00:31:27.999
  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
  • 00:31:27.999 --> 00:31:30.468
  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • Was when i noticed something was wrong.
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  • They put her on my chest and right away they took her away
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  • And she wasn't crying and she looked sort of gray.
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  • I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
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  • Then they came back in the room and said
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  • "she's had a brain injury."
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  • That's when i really started praying,
  • 00:32:03.401 --> 00:32:05.569
  • "god, please, please let her mind be okay."
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  • Turned on the tv and just randomly flipping
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  • The channels, here's cbn.
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  • It really lifted me up.
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  • It gave me that little bit of hope i needed at the time.
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  • After that i really felt like things started moving
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  • Even more and she went from being behind to advanced
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  • For her age,
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  • I could never deny the power of prayer.
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  • I would always just say, pray and pray more
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  • And just keep trusting god.
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  • His word is true.
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  • He saw me through all the bad things i thought would happen
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  • To my daughter and he healed her.
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  • Psalms 34:4, "i sought the lord and he answered me.
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  • He delivered me from all of my fears."
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  • Delivered from a nine year cocaine addiction.
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  • I loved jesus. i was a christian, but i was deeply in pain.
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  • I was physically addicted, i was mentally addicted,
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  • I was all of those things.
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  • I knew how bad off i was
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  • And what i felt him saying was,
  • 00:33:31.055 --> 00:33:33.958
  • "i created you for more than this, my girl."
  • 00:33:33.958 --> 00:33:36.627
  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message
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  • To say, "you are enough in me."
  • 00:33:39.897 --> 00:33:42.967
  • - the international outreach of cbn is simply amazing.
  • 00:33:44.335 --> 00:33:48.672
  • - i think cbn ends up touching many of the areas
  • 00:33:48.672 --> 00:33:51.408
  • Of the world that you as an individual cannot touch.
  • 00:33:51.408 --> 00:33:54.979
  • - it allows me to be a part of such an amazing
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  • Body of christ.
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  • - i mean this thrilled us. we love to give.
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  • - it's a blessing to be able to be a part of this,
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  • To be able to speak about an amazing community that cbn is.
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  • (inspirational music)
  • 00:34:10.094 --> 00:34:14.165
  • - god, i can't stop.
  • 00:34:14.165 --> 00:34:15.666
  • I'm gonna wreck my marriage. i'm gonna wreck my family.
  • 00:34:15.666 --> 00:34:18.402
  • I had this just lust, this physical dependency
  • 00:34:18.402 --> 00:34:21.038
  • That i had to these drugs.
  • 00:34:21.038 --> 00:34:23.107
  • - i just couldn't be with him the rest of my life.
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  • I decided to leave.
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  • (calming music)
  • 00:34:27.144 --> 00:34:29.914
  • - i just remember him doing the altar call
  • 00:34:29.914 --> 00:34:31.882
  • And if you're not sure that you're gonna go to heaven,
  • 00:34:31.882 --> 00:34:34.552
  • You've gotta confess with your mouth.
  • 00:34:34.552 --> 00:34:37.188
  • Say that you're a sinner.
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  • You gotta believe that christ died for your sins.
  • 00:34:38.589 --> 00:34:40.624
  • There's only one way.
  • 00:34:40.624 --> 00:34:41.892
  • There's only one hope and that's christ.
  • 00:34:41.892 --> 00:34:44.295
  • - this kind of lifestyle was leading to nothing
  • 00:34:44.295 --> 00:34:47.798
  • But destruction.
  • 00:34:47.798 --> 00:34:49.567
  • I just wanted to give a big middle finger to life
  • 00:34:49.567 --> 00:34:52.703
  • And blow up everything.
  • 00:34:52.703 --> 00:34:54.738
  • And the light is so light when you know how dark the dark is
  • 00:34:54.738 --> 00:34:58.976
  • And i am grateful every single day for the life that i have.
  • 00:35:00.444 --> 00:35:04.081
  • And i know every single day that the life that i have
  • 00:35:04.081 --> 00:35:06.984
  • Is because of jesus.
  • 00:35:06.984 --> 00:35:09.620
  • And if god can do that for me,
  • 00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:11.455
  • Then he can do that for anyone.
  • 00:35:11.455 --> 00:35:14.191
  • - a gut punch, that's what todd felt
  • 00:35:15.259 --> 00:35:17.561
  • When he received a letter saying
  • 00:35:17.561 --> 00:35:18.996
  • He could lose his house.
  • 00:35:18.996 --> 00:35:20.898
  • He had fallen behind on his mortgage
  • 00:35:20.898 --> 00:35:22.900
  • After he switched jobs to spend more time with his son.
  • 00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:26.570
  • A drastic pay cut followed
  • 00:35:26.570 --> 00:35:28.872
  • And this single dad had to depend on food banks
  • 00:35:28.872 --> 00:35:31.909
  • Just to put meals on the table, but not anymore.
  • 00:35:31.909 --> 00:35:35.579
  • Today todd has quadrupled his income
  • 00:35:35.579 --> 00:35:38.682
  • And here's how he did it.
  • 00:35:38.682 --> 00:35:41.518
  • - [narrator] todd dunston always knew
  • 00:35:42.620 --> 00:35:43.921
  • He wanted to be a builder.
  • 00:35:43.921 --> 00:35:45.322
  • He eventually started his own carpentry business
  • 00:35:45.322 --> 00:35:48.092
  • And did well.
  • 00:35:48.092 --> 00:35:49.460
  • Meanwhile, one of his sons started going
  • 00:35:49.460 --> 00:35:51.895
  • Through some difficulties.
  • 00:35:51.895 --> 00:35:53.564
  • As a single father, todd had a tough choice to make.
  • 00:35:53.564 --> 00:35:57.101
  • - i decided to quit my business for a while
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  • And work for someone else
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  • Just so that i could spend a little more time with him.
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  • There's something about family that is more important
  • 00:36:03.841 --> 00:36:06.377
  • And that you'll sacrifice
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  • And go through anything for your family.
  • 00:36:08.279 --> 00:36:11.148
  • - [narrator] his new position provided a decent salary
  • 00:36:11.148 --> 00:36:13.450
  • For a while and then his pay was cut in half.
  • 00:36:13.450 --> 00:36:17.354
  • - i used up the little savings i had.
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  • I did take some side jobs.
  • 00:36:20.157 --> 00:36:22.059
  • It didn't add up though to quite enough
  • 00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:24.361
  • And i kept getting more in a bind with my bills.
  • 00:36:24.361 --> 00:36:28.832
  • - [narrator] he cut corners to try to make ends meet.
  • 00:36:28.832 --> 00:36:31.435
  • - now all of a sudden, my good intentions of spending time
  • 00:36:31.435 --> 00:36:34.371
  • With my son began to be serious.
  • 00:36:34.371 --> 00:36:37.574
  • I learned how to make cor, casserole clean out refrigerator.
  • 00:36:37.574 --> 00:36:42.313
  • - [narrator] at one point
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  • He had to go to a food bank for help.
  • 00:36:43.547 --> 00:36:45.249
  • He also fell several months behind with his mortgage.
  • 00:36:45.249 --> 00:36:48.585
  • - it's a gut punch when you get a letter that
  • 00:36:49.753 --> 00:36:53.924
  • You could lose a house that you worked very hard for.
  • 00:36:55.292 --> 00:36:58.796
  • - [narrator] as a christian, todd had tithed for years.
  • 00:36:58.796 --> 00:37:01.799
  • Even during these lean times, he continued to give to god.
  • 00:37:01.799 --> 00:37:06.003
  • - because i was a giver, i had a little more confidence
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  • That god was gonna take care of things for me.
  • 00:37:08.772 --> 00:37:11.975
  • I felt like i had no to turn but to the lord
  • 00:37:11.975 --> 00:37:15.346
  • And that was also my desire is
  • 00:37:15.346 --> 00:37:18.248
  • To see god move on my behalf.
  • 00:37:18.248 --> 00:37:21.018
  • - [narrator] then one sunday at church.
  • 00:37:21.018 --> 00:37:23.120
  • - the pastor read the verse before offering
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  • And god started speaking to me
  • 00:37:27.024 --> 00:37:31.295
  • Immediately and he said, "todd, i've seen your need
  • 00:37:31.295 --> 00:37:34.798
  • And i've taken care of it."
  • 00:37:34.798 --> 00:37:36.967
  • I got home the moment i shut the door, i mean click,
  • 00:37:36.967 --> 00:37:41.338
  • My phone rings.
  • 00:37:41.338 --> 00:37:43.340
  • - [narrator] the call was from a former contractor of his
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  • Who wanted to hire him for some big projects.
  • 00:37:45.676 --> 00:37:48.412
  • Todd accepted and then asked if he could get a cash advance
  • 00:37:48.412 --> 00:37:51.749
  • Even before the work began.
  • 00:37:51.749 --> 00:37:54.318
  • - and he did not hesitate.
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  • The next day
  • 00:37:56.253 --> 00:37:57.988
  • There was $4,000 in my bank account, hallelujah.
  • 00:37:57.988 --> 00:38:03.060
  • - [narrator] the advance allowed him to catch up
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  • On his mortgage and his bills
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  • And that was only the beginning.
  • 00:38:06.864 --> 00:38:09.032
  • He continued to work with that client for several years
  • 00:38:09.032 --> 00:38:11.802
  • During which time his income substantially increased.
  • 00:38:11.802 --> 00:38:15.072
  • Best of all, by this point, things had started
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  • To improve with his son.
  • 00:38:17.875 --> 00:38:20.043
  • - i believe it was beneficial for him.
  • 00:38:20.043 --> 00:38:22.045
  • I began to see a change in him.
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  • He's holding down a job.
  • 00:38:24.181 --> 00:38:25.916
  • He's actually has a small business himself in another state.
  • 00:38:25.916 --> 00:38:30.754
  • - [narrator] todd is once again an independent contractor
  • 00:38:32.122 --> 00:38:33.957
  • And having struggled himself, he now likes helping others,
  • 00:38:33.957 --> 00:38:37.528
  • As a cbn partner.
  • 00:38:37.528 --> 00:38:39.563
  • - [todd] i like how they go
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  • To different parts of the country
  • 00:38:40.731 --> 00:38:41.765
  • In different parts of the world
  • 00:38:41.765 --> 00:38:42.966
  • And they're there to lend a hand
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  • And to help people in their faith when they're in trouble.
  • 00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:50.307
  • - today, todd's income has quadruple
  • 00:38:51.341 --> 00:38:52.810
  • And he and his family are doing better than ever.
  • 00:38:52.810 --> 00:38:55.512
  • He encourages others who need a miracle
  • 00:38:55.512 --> 00:38:57.448
  • To give just like he does.
  • 00:38:57.448 --> 00:38:59.950
  • - we all have a part in building god's kingdom.
  • 00:38:59.950 --> 00:39:03.720
  • I would challenge others to support the work at cbn.
  • 00:39:03.720 --> 00:39:06.723
  • He sees it. he doesn't forget it.
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  • If you're in a difficult situation right now,
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  • Whatever the problem is, you can trust god with giving.
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  • God is gonna come through for you.
  • 00:39:14.865 --> 00:39:16.333
  • (joyful music)
  • 00:39:16.333 --> 00:39:18.936
  • - god will come through for you.
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  • He always honors his promise
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  • And his promise is give and it will be given unto you.
  • 00:39:23.173 --> 00:39:27.344
  • For todd, that became very difficult.
  • 00:39:27.344 --> 00:39:29.813
  • He had a whole lot more month than he had money
  • 00:39:29.813 --> 00:39:32.082
  • And here he is facing foreclosure on the home
  • 00:39:32.082 --> 00:39:34.618
  • He had worked so hard for.
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  • But what did he do?
  • 00:39:36.420 --> 00:39:37.921
  • He continued to honor god and in that god honored him
  • 00:39:37.921 --> 00:39:41.592
  • And spoke to him
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  • And said, "i'm going to take care of your needs."
  • 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.362
  • And then did so very miraculously.
  • 00:39:45.362 --> 00:39:49.266
  • What an incredible story of god's faithfulness.
  • 00:39:49.266 --> 00:39:53.136
  • You can have your own story of god's faithfulness.
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  • He wants to watch over his word to perform it for you.
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  • He loves you.
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  • He wants to provide for your every need.
  • 00:40:01.845 --> 00:40:04.248
  • What is he looking for?
  • 00:40:04.248 --> 00:40:05.949
  • He's looking for you to put him first.
  • 00:40:05.949 --> 00:40:08.185
  • When you seek his righteousness and his kingdom,
  • 00:40:08.185 --> 00:40:12.256
  • You put him first in your life,
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  • Then all these other things will be added unto you.
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  • That's what the bible promises
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  • And god always keeps his promise.
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  • If you wanna start a life of giving,
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  • This isn't some on again, off again thing.
  • 00:40:24.668 --> 00:40:26.970
  • This is in the good times and in the tough times
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  • Give and it will be given unto you.
  • 00:40:30.407 --> 00:40:32.576
  • If you wanna start doing that, give us a call,
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  • 1-800-700-7000.
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  • Just say, "yes, i want to be a part of it.
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  • I want to be a part of operation blessing
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  • And help people here at home and around the world.
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  • I wanna be a part of preaching the gospel around the world."
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  • You're a part of everything when you join the "700 club,"
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  • So do it now.
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  • 1-800-700-7000 is the number to call.
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  • How much is it? it's just $20 a month.
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  • That's 65 cents a day.
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  • Some of you can give at higher levels.
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  • We have "700 club" gold at $40 a month.
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  • We also have 1000 club
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  • That's $1,000 a year, that breaks out to $84 a month.
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  • At whatever level,
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  • When you call, make sure you ask for pledge express.
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  • That's electronic, monthly giving,
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  • The bank doing all the work so there's no checks to write.
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  • You know it's going to be just automatic.
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  • You can call us and say, "i want pledge express."
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  • You can go to cbn.com and you give monthly on the internet.
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  • You automatically sign up for pledge express.
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  • We also have a new text-to-give
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  • Either way, do it now. 1-800-700-7000.
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  • Terry? - up next,
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  • Doctors told this husband that his wife
  • 00:41:44.748 --> 00:41:46.883
  • Had 0% chance of surviving.
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  • Watch how he held onto hope and see how it led to a miracle.
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  • We'll also be praying for you after this.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • (upbeat music continues)
  • 00:42:47.978 --> 00:42:59.056
  • - i start drinking alcohol
  • 00:42:59.823 --> 00:43:01.692
  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
  • 00:43:01.692 --> 00:43:04.361
  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
  • 00:43:07.764 --> 00:43:10.333
  • I was weak in my relationship with god
  • 00:43:11.368 --> 00:43:13.537
  • And i was just a weak human being
  • 00:43:13.537 --> 00:43:16.273
  • And god got further and further away.
  • 00:43:16.273 --> 00:43:18.442
  • When you feel his presence and you walk away from it,
  • 00:43:19.776 --> 00:43:22.512
  • There's guilt is shame,
  • 00:43:22.512 --> 00:43:24.347
  • But there's also a sort of a sense
  • 00:43:24.347 --> 00:43:26.116
  • That it'll never happen for you again.
  • 00:43:26.116 --> 00:43:29.252
  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time, she said,
  • 00:43:29.252 --> 00:43:31.955
  • "daddy, i want you to be happy.
  • 00:43:31.955 --> 00:43:34.224
  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:43:34.224 --> 00:43:36.393
  • God started to reveal himself to me again
  • 00:43:37.561 --> 00:43:40.597
  • And he started to melt away the ice that was my heart.
  • 00:43:40.597 --> 00:43:45.268
  • I'm trying to talk people into this life
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  • That is second to none.
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  • This life of feeling christ's presence in your life.
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  • (calming music)
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - [announcer] come home to the sounds of southern gospel
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  • From cbn radio.
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  • You'll enjoy a rich southern blend of bluegrass,
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  • Classic gospel and southern gospel favorites
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  • Like the "gaithers," "the crab family,"
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  • And bluegrass sounds like "mountain faith."
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  • So make yourself at home
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  • With the all new cbn southern gospel,
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  • Now available at cbnradio.com.
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  • (upbeat southern music)
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  • - i got into a serious relationship,
  • 00:44:30.213 --> 00:44:33.216
  • But his family was like involved in santería.
  • 00:44:33.216 --> 00:44:36.686
  • They would do like ouija boards and like...
  • 00:44:36.686 --> 00:44:39.222
  • I mean everything that you can think of like occult,
  • 00:44:39.222 --> 00:44:41.391
  • Like they were in it and i feel like something just like,
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  • Like sit on me like...
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  • I was like shaking, crying.
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  • I just called out to jesus.
  • 00:44:49.166 --> 00:44:52.435
  • From that moment, i felt like god took it
  • 00:44:52.435 --> 00:44:56.640
  • And was like, "i'm gonna heal you."
  • 00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:59.676
  • - i was angry, hurt, outta control.
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  • It is like i didn't even care about life.
  • 00:45:02.179 --> 00:45:03.814
  • I knew of god, but i didn't know him.
  • 00:45:03.814 --> 00:45:06.716
  • "it has to be a better plan for my life than this.
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  • I'm tired, lord, help me, help me, lord, help me."
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  • My heart totally changed.
  • 00:45:14.191 --> 00:45:16.226
  • I felt the overwhelming love now
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  • I had been set free from all the hurt.
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  • I started learning the love of god
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  • That changed everything within him.
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  • (inspirational music)
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  • - autumn carver was eight months pregnant
  • 00:45:30.874 --> 00:45:33.343
  • When she contracted covid.
  • 00:45:33.343 --> 00:45:35.779
  • She became so sick, her unborn baby had to be delivered
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  • By emergency c-section.
  • 00:45:39.082 --> 00:45:41.251
  • Soon autumn was put on life support
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  • And her husband was told she had no chance for survival.
  • 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.657
  • - they walked in and said it's a boy, and he was doing fine.
  • 00:45:49.125 --> 00:45:51.995
  • - [terry] the emergency c-section had gone well
  • 00:45:51.995 --> 00:45:54.531
  • For zach carver's third child.
  • 00:45:54.531 --> 00:45:57.133
  • He was now resting in the neonatal intensive care unit.
  • 00:45:57.133 --> 00:46:01.171
  • His wife, autumn, however,
  • 00:46:01.171 --> 00:46:02.806
  • Was in icu fighting for her life.
  • 00:46:02.806 --> 00:46:06.209
  • - i was told that she had 0% chance of survival.
  • 00:46:06.209 --> 00:46:08.945
  • I mean the worst day of my life.
  • 00:46:08.945 --> 00:46:10.380
  • - [terry] autumn was eight months pregnant
  • 00:46:10.380 --> 00:46:11.915
  • When she and zach contracted covid-19
  • 00:46:11.915 --> 00:46:14.384
  • In mid-august 2021.
  • 00:46:14.384 --> 00:46:17.020
  • Zach recovered quickly.
  • 00:46:17.020 --> 00:46:18.688
  • Autumn did not.
  • 00:46:18.688 --> 00:46:20.156
  • By late august, she was in icu on a ventilator
  • 00:46:20.156 --> 00:46:23.360
  • With acute respiratory distress syndrome
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  • And having an emergency c-section
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  • To save the life of the baby.
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  • Now she was on advanced life support called ecmo.
  • 00:46:31.501 --> 00:46:35.972
  • - i've been with autumn since i was 14 years old.
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  • I don't know life without her
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  • And so they're telling me that she's not gonna survive.
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  • It was traumatic
  • 00:46:42.746 --> 00:46:43.680
  • - in the coming weeks,
  • 00:46:43.680 --> 00:46:44.915
  • Autumn remained in critical condition.
  • 00:46:44.915 --> 00:46:47.784
  • All zach could do was pray and ask god for a miracle.
  • 00:46:47.784 --> 00:46:52.255
  • - i would sit with her and pray and pray over
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  • And it was just overwhelming and so i'd go walk the halls
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  • Or go sit in the waiting room
  • 00:46:58.595 --> 00:46:59.863
  • And i was begging him to keep her alive.
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  • Let her beat the odds, i'd need her.
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  • You know the kids need her.
  • 00:47:03.500 --> 00:47:04.868
  • - [terry] by now, zach had posted a prayer request
  • 00:47:04.868 --> 00:47:06.670
  • On facebook that ignited a wildfire on social media.
  • 00:47:06.670 --> 00:47:11.141
  • - literally millions of people all over the world
  • 00:47:11.141 --> 00:47:13.109
  • Were just praying for us.
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  • I told him not leaving here without autumn.
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  • I prayed all the time. every second.
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  • I can't even explain it i guess,
  • 00:47:18.214 --> 00:47:19.783
  • But i just knew that she was gonna survive.
  • 00:47:19.783 --> 00:47:21.985
  • - [terry] during the day,
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  • Zach maintained a vigil at autumn's side.
  • 00:47:23.219 --> 00:47:26.056
  • At night, he visited his two daughters
  • 00:47:26.056 --> 00:47:28.491
  • And baby son huxley, who were staying
  • 00:47:28.491 --> 00:47:30.860
  • With their grandparents.
  • 00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:32.896
  • Then he returned to an empty, dark house.
  • 00:47:32.896 --> 00:47:36.166
  • - it was super sad.
  • 00:47:36.166 --> 00:47:37.734
  • I would come in, get some food, go to bed.
  • 00:47:37.734 --> 00:47:40.403
  • I hated being here.
  • 00:47:40.403 --> 00:47:42.005
  • - [terry] with the arrival of fall, came more complications
  • 00:47:42.005 --> 00:47:44.641
  • For the young mother and wife, multiple infections,
  • 00:47:44.641 --> 00:47:47.944
  • Anemia and a cardiac arrest.
  • 00:47:47.944 --> 00:47:51.081
  • Doctors had few answers
  • 00:47:51.081 --> 00:47:52.916
  • And even considered a double lung transplant,
  • 00:47:52.916 --> 00:47:56.219
  • But dismissed the idea.
  • 00:47:56.219 --> 00:47:58.388
  • Instead, they suggested
  • 00:47:58.388 --> 00:48:00.523
  • That autumn be taken off life support
  • 00:48:00.523 --> 00:48:02.892
  • And allowed to die peacefully
  • 00:48:02.892 --> 00:48:05.195
  • With a do not resuscitate order in place.
  • 00:48:05.195 --> 00:48:08.665
  • Zach declined, refusing to give up.
  • 00:48:08.665 --> 00:48:11.968
  • - the main doctor said there was a 0% chance
  • 00:48:11.968 --> 00:48:14.871
  • That she would survive.
  • 00:48:14.871 --> 00:48:16.239
  • I remember going off on my own that afternoon
  • 00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:18.508
  • And like i dunno, somewhere in the hospital
  • 00:48:18.508 --> 00:48:20.610
  • I've been praying.
  • 00:48:20.610 --> 00:48:21.945
  • I just knew that she wasn't gonna die.
  • 00:48:21.945 --> 00:48:23.813
  • - [terry] zach and millions on facebook continued to pray
  • 00:48:23.813 --> 00:48:27.650
  • As zach began searching for a second opinion.
  • 00:48:27.650 --> 00:48:31.021
  • In early october, there was one hopeful moment.
  • 00:48:31.021 --> 00:48:34.824
  • Autumn's vital signs improved slightly
  • 00:48:34.824 --> 00:48:37.527
  • And doctors agreed to zach's request
  • 00:48:37.527 --> 00:48:40.030
  • That she be taken out of sedation
  • 00:48:40.030 --> 00:48:42.298
  • And off ecmo long enough for her to see
  • 00:48:42.298 --> 00:48:45.502
  • And hold huxley for the first and perhaps last time.
  • 00:48:45.502 --> 00:48:50.540
  • - i obviously had very little strength to hold myself up,
  • 00:48:52.008 --> 00:48:55.078
  • So they got me all propped up with lots of pillows
  • 00:48:55.078 --> 00:48:58.014
  • All around me and they brought him in
  • 00:48:58.014 --> 00:49:00.316
  • And they put him in my arms.
  • 00:49:00.316 --> 00:49:02.419
  • Zach was helping me.
  • 00:49:02.419 --> 00:49:03.386
  • We got to feed him a bottle.
  • 00:49:03.386 --> 00:49:04.988
  • So they took him and then they just like laid him to my side
  • 00:49:04.988 --> 00:49:10.026
  • And he just kind of like curled up and went to sleep.
  • 00:49:11.294 --> 00:49:15.065
  • - [terry] the reunion was short-lived
  • 00:49:16.099 --> 00:49:18.134
  • As autumn was put back on ecmo.
  • 00:49:18.134 --> 00:49:21.037
  • Then another answer to prayer.
  • 00:49:21.037 --> 00:49:23.506
  • Renowned thoracic surgeon, dr. ankit barrett
  • 00:49:23.506 --> 00:49:26.976
  • At northwestern memorial hospital in chicago
  • 00:49:26.976 --> 00:49:30.647
  • Agreed to evaluate autumn for a double lung transplant.
  • 00:49:30.647 --> 00:49:34.984
  • - we got transferred up to chicago
  • 00:49:34.984 --> 00:49:36.619
  • And that doctor day two,
  • 00:49:36.619 --> 00:49:38.088
  • Said, "whether you need a lung transplant or not,
  • 00:49:38.088 --> 00:49:40.657
  • You're gonna be fine."
  • 00:49:40.657 --> 00:49:41.925
  • - [terry] although still on life support,
  • 00:49:41.925 --> 00:49:43.760
  • Autumn was only lightly sedated.
  • 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:46.563
  • Now she and zach could pray together
  • 00:49:46.563 --> 00:49:48.798
  • As they waited for dr. barrett's decision.
  • 00:49:48.798 --> 00:49:52.669
  • Before long, he gave them the best news
  • 00:49:52.669 --> 00:49:55.738
  • They could have ever hoped for.
  • 00:49:55.738 --> 00:49:58.308
  • - he came in and said, "you don't need a lung transplant,
  • 00:49:58.308 --> 00:50:00.677
  • You're gonna be fine."
  • 00:50:00.677 --> 00:50:01.945
  • It was super good news, super, super good news.
  • 00:50:01.945 --> 00:50:04.180
  • You know, we've embraced in a hug and thank god
  • 00:50:04.180 --> 00:50:07.283
  • And the doctor.
  • 00:50:07.283 --> 00:50:08.818
  • - [terry] autumn was weaned slowly from the va ecmo machine
  • 00:50:08.818 --> 00:50:11.855
  • And continued to improve.
  • 00:50:11.855 --> 00:50:14.190
  • On november 11th, three months
  • 00:50:14.190 --> 00:50:16.693
  • After being given no hope for survival,
  • 00:50:16.693 --> 00:50:19.662
  • Autumn was discharged from northwest memorial hospital
  • 00:50:19.662 --> 00:50:23.733
  • To begin three weeks of rehabilitation.
  • 00:50:23.733 --> 00:50:26.736
  • On december 1st, 2021, autumn walked out of the hospital
  • 00:50:26.736 --> 00:50:31.407
  • Smiling and unassisted.
  • 00:50:31.407 --> 00:50:34.277
  • - we pulled in the driveway and our neighbors
  • 00:50:34.277 --> 00:50:36.312
  • Were in our yard like yelling and screaming
  • 00:50:36.312 --> 00:50:38.648
  • And trying not to cry.
  • 00:50:38.648 --> 00:50:41.317
  • (joyful music)
  • 00:50:41.885 --> 00:50:46.589
  • It was just emotional.
  • 00:50:47.290 --> 00:50:49.225
  • - it was a whole host of emotion.
  • 00:50:50.093 --> 00:50:53.897
  • Just the opportunity to see my kids grow,
  • 00:50:53.897 --> 00:50:58.101
  • Spend time with my husband, every day is a gift.
  • 00:50:58.101 --> 00:51:01.237
  • My daughter said, "i believe in miracles, mommy."
  • 00:51:01.237 --> 00:51:03.373
  • - [terry] the neighborhood is quiet today.
  • 00:51:03.373 --> 00:51:05.775
  • Autumn is busy providing her family
  • 00:51:05.775 --> 00:51:07.810
  • With all the tlc they missed and more,
  • 00:51:07.810 --> 00:51:11.581
  • But life in the carver family will never be the same.
  • 00:51:11.581 --> 00:51:15.985
  • - tell people you love them, give lots of hugs.
  • 00:51:15.985 --> 00:51:18.655
  • It can just all change so quickly
  • 00:51:18.655 --> 00:51:20.757
  • And you don't wanna leave anything unsaid.
  • 00:51:20.757 --> 00:51:23.660
  • - i'm closer with my family.
  • 00:51:23.660 --> 00:51:25.028
  • I say prayers with my kids every single night now.
  • 00:51:25.028 --> 00:51:27.096
  • I didn't do that before.
  • 00:51:27.096 --> 00:51:28.498
  • I'm super grateful and i don't go throughout the day,
  • 00:51:28.498 --> 00:51:31.367
  • You know, without saying multiple prayers.
  • 00:51:31.367 --> 00:51:33.436
  • And prayer saved my wife
  • 00:51:33.436 --> 00:51:35.205
  • And not only did it save her life, but it changed my life.
  • 00:51:35.205 --> 00:51:38.675
  • - prayer is so important. i mean, it's everything.
  • 00:51:38.675 --> 00:51:43.646
  • It saved my life.
  • 00:51:43.646 --> 00:51:44.914
  • When people are flooding the gates of heaven,
  • 00:51:44.914 --> 00:51:47.450
  • There was no way it could be ignored.
  • 00:51:47.450 --> 00:51:51.788
  • - boy, autumn is right, life can change like that, can't it?
  • 00:51:53.189 --> 00:51:56.659
  • And everything suddenly comes to a grinding halt
  • 00:51:56.659 --> 00:51:59.996
  • And sometimes you know, things can be fixed
  • 00:51:59.996 --> 00:52:02.865
  • Or taken care of quickly
  • 00:52:02.865 --> 00:52:04.634
  • And sometimes there's a process to it,
  • 00:52:04.634 --> 00:52:06.970
  • But god is in it all and prayer does change things.
  • 00:52:06.970 --> 00:52:10.873
  • So we wanna take a few minutes to pray for you today,
  • 00:52:10.873 --> 00:52:14.544
  • And we have some other stories of people who've been touched
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  • By the power of prayer and their circumstances have changed.
  • 00:52:16.913 --> 00:52:21.084
  • This is chantel who sent this message by email.
  • 00:52:21.084 --> 00:52:25.288
  • She said, "while gordon was praying,
  • 00:52:25.288 --> 00:52:26.923
  • I asked god to heal my bronchial tubes
  • 00:52:26.923 --> 00:52:29.192
  • Because i keep getting recurring bronchitis,
  • 00:52:29.192 --> 00:52:31.894
  • Which i had at that very moment.
  • 00:52:31.894 --> 00:52:33.997
  • I asked that he heal my body
  • 00:52:34.797 --> 00:52:36.466
  • And that i never get bronchitis again."
  • 00:52:36.466 --> 00:52:38.835
  • Gordon then said, 'someone has a lung condition,
  • 00:52:38.835 --> 00:52:41.938
  • You have recurring bronchitis.'
  • 00:52:41.938 --> 00:52:43.706
  • He said, 'god is healing your lungs
  • 00:52:43.706 --> 00:52:45.875
  • And he's giving you a normal response
  • 00:52:45.875 --> 00:52:47.577
  • To bacteria and viruses.
  • 00:52:47.577 --> 00:52:49.679
  • You'll be healed from this day forward.
  • 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.215
  • It's not going to recur.
  • 00:52:52.215 --> 00:52:54.117
  • Take that deep breath and realize god has given you life.'
  • 00:52:54.117 --> 00:52:57.587
  • I took that deep breath
  • 00:52:57.587 --> 00:52:58.855
  • And i felt the blessing flow into my lungs.
  • 00:52:58.855 --> 00:53:01.624
  • I knew right then i was cured.
  • 00:53:01.624 --> 00:53:03.893
  • When i went to the doctor, he said my lungs were clear
  • 00:53:03.893 --> 00:53:06.396
  • And free of any virus.
  • 00:53:06.396 --> 00:53:08.064
  • I know i was healed and i will never get bronchitis again
  • 00:53:08.064 --> 00:53:10.967
  • After suffering with it four to five times a year
  • 00:53:10.967 --> 00:53:14.604
  • For the past 10 years."
  • 00:53:14.604 --> 00:53:16.472
  • - wow, that's a miracle. here's dana.
  • 00:53:16.472 --> 00:53:19.942
  • "the other night, my husband and i
  • 00:53:19.942 --> 00:53:21.544
  • Were at a friend's house for dinner.
  • 00:53:21.544 --> 00:53:23.546
  • I wasn't able to eat with everyone
  • 00:53:23.546 --> 00:53:26.182
  • Because when i would eat, my stomach would always hurt.
  • 00:53:26.182 --> 00:53:30.286
  • I've had this battle for a year
  • 00:53:30.286 --> 00:53:31.788
  • Having numerous doctor's appointments
  • 00:53:31.788 --> 00:53:33.790
  • And there was nothing else they could do.
  • 00:53:33.790 --> 00:53:36.259
  • When we got home, i was so frustrated
  • 00:53:36.259 --> 00:53:38.494
  • Because i felt it was ruining my life.
  • 00:53:38.494 --> 00:53:41.364
  • We watched the '700 club' for the first time
  • 00:53:41.364 --> 00:53:44.400
  • And terry prayed about the lining
  • 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:46.035
  • Of someone's intestines being healed.
  • 00:53:46.035 --> 00:53:48.404
  • Immediately, i felt a warm sensation going through my feet
  • 00:53:48.404 --> 00:53:52.275
  • And resting on my stomach.
  • 00:53:52.275 --> 00:53:55.111
  • I knew it was for me and i broke down in tears.
  • 00:53:55.111 --> 00:53:58.448
  • Thank you, jesus, for my healing."
  • 00:53:58.448 --> 00:54:01.351
  • Here's a scripture for you.
  • 00:54:01.351 --> 00:54:02.485
  • It's from psalm 146:6.
  • 00:54:02.485 --> 00:54:04.587
  • "he keeps every promise forever."
  • 00:54:05.555 --> 00:54:09.492
  • You look at the promises of god,
  • 00:54:09.492 --> 00:54:11.461
  • He forgives all your iniquities.
  • 00:54:11.461 --> 00:54:14.197
  • He heals all your diseases.
  • 00:54:14.197 --> 00:54:17.400
  • Let your disease today be part of that all,
  • 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:20.303
  • That he heals it all.
  • 00:54:20.303 --> 00:54:21.971
  • May the kingdom of heaven come near to you right now.
  • 00:54:21.971 --> 00:54:26.943
  • In heaven, there's nobody sick. it's not allowed there.
  • 00:54:26.943 --> 00:54:31.080
  • It shouldn't be allowed here.
  • 00:54:31.080 --> 00:54:32.915
  • That's why jesus told us to pray this,
  • 00:54:32.915 --> 00:54:35.385
  • "thy kingdom come,
  • 00:54:35.385 --> 00:54:36.753
  • Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
  • 00:54:36.753 --> 00:54:41.090
  • Let's do that.
  • 00:54:41.090 --> 00:54:42.358
  • Let's do that collectively, let's thank him
  • 00:54:42.358 --> 00:54:44.994
  • That he keeps his promise.
  • 00:54:44.994 --> 00:54:46.329
  • Let's thank him for the cross.
  • 00:54:46.329 --> 00:54:48.131
  • Let's thank him for by his stripes we are healed.
  • 00:54:48.131 --> 00:54:51.134
  • Let's thank him that he's allowed us
  • 00:54:51.134 --> 00:54:53.202
  • To enter into his presence once again.
  • 00:54:53.202 --> 00:54:56.172
  • Let's pray. lord, we come to you with thanksgiving.
  • 00:54:56.172 --> 00:54:59.809
  • We come to you with praise on our lips
  • 00:54:59.809 --> 00:55:03.012
  • For what you're about to do.
  • 00:55:03.012 --> 00:55:04.480
  • We thank you for the sacrifice that you made.
  • 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.050
  • We thank you that for god so loved the world
  • 00:55:08.050 --> 00:55:11.621
  • And you loved each one of us,
  • 00:55:11.621 --> 00:55:14.090
  • That you gave your only begotten son.
  • 00:55:14.090 --> 00:55:16.993
  • So lord, right now, we want to be whosoever
  • 00:55:18.161 --> 00:55:20.997
  • That believe in you.
  • 00:55:20.997 --> 00:55:22.598
  • We don't want to perish,
  • 00:55:22.598 --> 00:55:24.033
  • But we want to have your everlasting life.
  • 00:55:24.033 --> 00:55:26.969
  • We want to have your miracle power present
  • 00:55:26.969 --> 00:55:31.007
  • In our lives today
  • 00:55:31.007 --> 00:55:34.076
  • For you are the same yesterday, today and forever.
  • 00:55:34.076 --> 00:55:38.848
  • You are the god of the right now.
  • 00:55:38.848 --> 00:55:41.784
  • So right now, stretch forth your hand to do miracle signs
  • 00:55:41.784 --> 00:55:46.722
  • And wonders for we ask it in jesus' name.
  • 00:55:46.722 --> 00:55:51.694
  • There's someone, your name as lucy,
  • 00:55:52.662 --> 00:55:54.263
  • And you just heard that story about intestinal problems
  • 00:55:54.263 --> 00:55:57.700
  • And you have the same thing that you eat
  • 00:55:57.700 --> 00:56:00.036
  • And it just causes enormous pain.
  • 00:56:00.036 --> 00:56:02.738
  • God is healing your intestines right now.
  • 00:56:02.738 --> 00:56:05.241
  • He's healing everything in the small intestine,
  • 00:56:05.241 --> 00:56:07.844
  • All that lining, all of that problem in jesus' name.
  • 00:56:07.844 --> 00:56:11.981
  • Be healed and be made whole there, terry?
  • 00:56:11.981 --> 00:56:15.618
  • - there's someone else ,you've been praying
  • 00:56:15.618 --> 00:56:17.153
  • For medical equipment that you need
  • 00:56:17.153 --> 00:56:20.456
  • For someone in your family who's sick.
  • 00:56:20.456 --> 00:56:22.091
  • I mean, you need a considerable amount
  • 00:56:22.091 --> 00:56:24.727
  • Of just stuff that's expensive.
  • 00:56:24.727 --> 00:56:27.029
  • God is going to supply all of that for you.
  • 00:56:27.029 --> 00:56:30.099
  • You will be amazed at how it comes to you,
  • 00:56:30.099 --> 00:56:32.201
  • But it is on its way in jesus' name.
  • 00:56:32.201 --> 00:56:35.004
  • - there's someone you've had swelling in the eye socket
  • 00:56:35.004 --> 00:56:38.307
  • On the right side of your face and your skull
  • 00:56:38.307 --> 00:56:42.778
  • And it's causing numerous problems,
  • 00:56:42.778 --> 00:56:46.883
  • But regardless of the problem,
  • 00:56:46.883 --> 00:56:49.185
  • Jesus is the answer right now.
  • 00:56:49.185 --> 00:56:51.387
  • In jesus' name, be healed.
  • 00:56:51.387 --> 00:56:53.389
  • May that swelling dissipate, go away.
  • 00:56:53.389 --> 00:56:55.725
  • May everything with your right eye be normal
  • 00:56:55.725 --> 00:56:58.694
  • And may you see clearly
  • 00:56:58.694 --> 00:57:01.464
  • And may there be no impact on the optic nerve,
  • 00:57:01.464 --> 00:57:04.934
  • On the retina.
  • 00:57:04.934 --> 00:57:06.168
  • In jesus name, be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:57:06.168 --> 00:57:10.072
  • - yeah, there's someone else.
  • 00:57:10.907 --> 00:57:12.041
  • You have an odd condition in your feet.
  • 00:57:12.041 --> 00:57:14.544
  • It kind of started out as just athlete's foot,
  • 00:57:14.544 --> 00:57:18.180
  • But it's cracked and opened and oozing
  • 00:57:18.180 --> 00:57:21.317
  • And nothing you do seems to alleviate this.
  • 00:57:21.317 --> 00:57:24.987
  • God's healing your feet right now.
  • 00:57:24.987 --> 00:57:26.556
  • You're just gonna feel a warmth come into your feet
  • 00:57:26.556 --> 00:57:29.158
  • As all of that begins to become whole in jesus' name.
  • 00:57:29.158 --> 00:57:32.161
  • - someone else with a problem with your right shoulder.
  • 00:57:32.161 --> 00:57:34.297
  • Just begin to move it
  • 00:57:34.297 --> 00:57:35.565
  • And realize you have new freedom of movement
  • 00:57:35.565 --> 00:57:37.833
  • In jesus' name, amen.
  • 00:57:37.833 --> 00:57:40.503
  • If you've been touched, let us know.
  • 00:57:40.503 --> 00:57:42.071
  • Let us share in your good report.
  • 00:57:42.071 --> 00:57:43.973
  • Call us now, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:57:43.973 --> 00:57:47.510
  • Here's a word from the gospel of luke.
  • 00:57:47.510 --> 00:57:49.211
  • "for with god, nothing will be impossible."
  • 00:57:49.211 --> 00:57:53.716
  • How big is your possible today?
  • 00:57:53.716 --> 00:57:57.053
  • (calming music)
  • 00:57:57.587 --> 00:58:00.000