The 700 Club

January 20, 2026

January 20, 2026 | 57:59

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The 700 Club | January 20, 2026 | January 20, 2026

- [announcer] the following program
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Is sponsored by cbn.
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- [narrator] today, eat clean, train mean.
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- the gym was my best friend.
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- [narrator] leads to problems unseen.
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- this is an obsession.
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- [narrator] one woman's push for perfection backfires.
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- it really took a toll on my health.
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- [narrator] what happened when her body broke down?
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- everything i had built my life on was gone.
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- [narrator] and why she's now stronger than before.
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- "haley shall not perish but have eternal life."
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- [narrator] coming up, on "the 700 club."
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(dramatic music)
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- welcome to "the 700 club."
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When tara leigh cobble began her bible reading podcast,
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She asked god for 300 people to join her.
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Well, five years later,
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"the bible recap" has more than 300 million downloads.
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- cbn's charlene aaron spoke with tara
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About this amazing response to the word of god.
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- for years, tara leigh cobble felt a shallow faith within
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And lacked interest in reading the bible.
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Then a pastor challenged her to read the bible
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Through from beginning to end,
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Promising to answer any question she had along the way.
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Taking his advice led to a transformation
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Of her understanding of scripture
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And a love for god like never before.
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- i fell in love with god through this conduit of his word.
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So something that i always knew and admired
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And respected and knew was true,
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I then fell in love with.
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- [charlene] cobble admits that after reading
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The entire bible for the first time,
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She didn't like it.
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When her pastor encouraged her to give it another try,
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She came to a startling realization,
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Seeing god for who he is,
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Not for what he could give her.
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- 'cause i was looking for the character
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And the person of god instead of my to-do list,
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My takeaway, my action step, my application points.
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The bible isn't about me.
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It's for me, but it's not about me;
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It's about god.
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It's about who he is.
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- [charlene] that revelation led to her launching
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"the bible recap" in 2019.
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It offers a chronological read through
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The bible in a year plan,
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With a daily commentary podcast that cobble hosts.
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Since 2019, it has seen more than 300 million downloads
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And recently topped apple's podcast charts,
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And some 800,000 new subscribers signing on
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For her bible reading plan in youversion.
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- we're blown away that people want to read
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And understand and love god's word,
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And that they're finding this resource
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To be helpful to them.
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And my prayer when i started was
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That 300 people would do it with me.
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- 300? - 300.
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I prayed for 300 people to do it with me.
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And when i woke up on the day we launched,
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January 1st, 2019,
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I woke up at 10:00 a.m.
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I woke up to 300 emails from listeners,
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And i was like, "oh boy.
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Wow."
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I mean, ephesians 3:20, exceedingly more. (laughs)
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All you can ask or hope or imagine.
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I was like, "all right, lord, we're doing this."
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- [charlene] cobble believes the increased interest points
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To a growing spiritual appetite among people
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From all walks of life,
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Including listeners in some 200 countries.
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- it's just this word of mouth, like,
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And obviously the spirit of god is doing something
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In those communities,
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That people are finding joy in the word of god,
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And they can't stop talking about it.
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- [charlene] the mission of "the bible recap"
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Is equipping people to read, understand,
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And love the bible,
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Which includes ensuring people read scripture
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In the proper context.
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What are some scriptures, i'm curious,
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That you've discovered that people often misquote
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Or take out of context?
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- so jeremiah 29:11:
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"for i know the plans i have for you," declares the lord,
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And he has plans to prosper us
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And plans for a future, plans not to harm us.
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The people that that scripture was written to and about,
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When jeremiah was writing that,
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They were about to go into 70 years of exile.
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Some of those people would die in exile.
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So what you see when you look at that
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Is something way more beautiful
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Than my life isn't gonna be hard.
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Way more beautiful that the god of the universe
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Is with me through every struggle and has a long-term plan.
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And he is fulfilling his plan.
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He does the doing.
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And so when you're in exile
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And you're despairing,
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He's with you,
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And he's working things out in the long term.
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- [charlene] cobble, who tells cbn news,
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While she's not sure of the exact number of those
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Who complete the year-long bible plan,
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She offers this encouragement for those who might fall off.
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- so if you fall behind,
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It's a 365-day plan.
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When you do "the bible recap",
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The book, the podcast, the youtube,
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None of it says january 1, january 2.
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It says day 1, day 2.
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And if there's four days between those, doesn't matter.
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Pick back up.
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You're right on time.
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Lean back in.
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God is ready and waiting for you
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And has beautiful things for you in that space.
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- [charlene] meanwhile, cobble also encourages believers
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To turn to the word for help
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Living in today's often controversial culture.
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- i think the more people lean into the word,
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One of the things that i found that it does
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Is it humbles me.
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The fruit of the spirit,
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It's one fruit, singular,
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With nine attributes:
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Love, joy, peace, patience,
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Kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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Gentleness, and self-control.
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Those are things that as i lean in
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And i look for his character,
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We become what we behold.
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And so i want those things.
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In a divisive world,
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In uncertain times,
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I want those things to be ever-increasing fruit
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In me and in my life,
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So that i am calm and peaceful and joyful
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In a very chaotic and unsettled world.
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- [charlene] charlene aaron, cbn news.
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- all of tara's honesty,
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That she was challenged to read the bible,
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She did it and said,
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"well, i didn't like it."
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'cause she was looking for the wrong thing.
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And take the same journey
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You find in the song of psalms.
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The shulamite starts at saying, "my beloved is mine."
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And then after all the challenges she goes through,
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She comes to the realization,
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"i am my beloved's,
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And i surrender to him."
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We'll be back with more of "the 700 club" right after this.
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- we've always been tithers.
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We teach our children to tithe.
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- i can't explain to you how the bills would be here maybe,
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And the income here,
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But at the end of the month it seemed
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That they would meet every single time.
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My stepfather was a farmer,
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Had 3 or 400 acres of melons he grew.
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And so i took a old toyota pickup truck that i had,
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And a trailer, and would pick up 100 to 200 watermelons
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And i started peddling them out.
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Food lion was our first corporate client.
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I remember one year sitting down,
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Working on my taxes,
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And my giving that year exceeded my adjusted gross income
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Just a few years before.
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Cbn has really meant a lot to us over the years
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As we've watched the program and seen
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How god has blessed people.
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- we found that you just can't outgive god.
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(inspired music)
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- that's the worst feeling i've ever had in my life.
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I mean, i'm locked up,
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I don't know what's going on on the outside.
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I felt totally alone.
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I'd never been suicidal in my life,
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But i couldn't get these visions out of my mind,
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And i couldn't get my attention off of that piece of glass.
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And i just stood there crying out to the lord,
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"lord, you have to save me."
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I just was overcome with complete peace.
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I never felt that kinda peace before or since.
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And he never spoke,
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But he told me everything's gonna be all right.
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"you're gonna be okay."
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- the only way i can describe it
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Is i was supernaturally delivered
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From a nine-year cocaine addiction.
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I loved jesus.
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I was a christian,
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But i was deeply in pain.
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I was physically addicted.
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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,
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"i created you for more than this, my girl."
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God filled those holes with a beautiful message
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To say you are enough in me.
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- well, mountain climbing is an extreme sport
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And one of the world's most dangerous.
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Climbers challenge their bodies,
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Risk their lives,
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And for the two men you're about to meet,
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It's a means of drawing closer to god.
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Cbn's brody carter brings us their story
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From yosemite national park.
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- people travel worldwide just to witness
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The beauty here at yosemite national park.
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It's breathtaking.
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But for one local rock climber,
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This is more of his sanctuary.
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It's a place of healing,
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And he's growing in his faith one careful step at a time.
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- you gotta try it,
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'cause when you're hundreds of feet off the ground
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And you're looking at this,
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It becomes addicting.
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- [brody] as seen as the top rock climbing area in america,
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Yosemite valley offers death-defying routes
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With views that marvel.
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- the bible says that the earth cries out the glory of god.
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You know, even the stones cry out.
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- [brody] kent johnson is a certified mountaineer
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And rock climber.
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- so this climb is called bishop's terrace.
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- [brody] he comes here often to exercise both his physical
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And spiritual muscles,
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Conquering new climbing routes for fun.
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- if you're going through a difficult time,
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First of all, get outside.
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The pulse of the earth is different
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Than what you're gonna have on your tv
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Or in your phone or in the city or whatever.
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And it's healing.
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- [brody] the mountains, however, can be unforgiving.
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The day before we arrived,
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An accident claimed the life of another climber.
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Between 12 and 15 deaths happen here each year,
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Mainly due to slips and falls.
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- safety is an illusion.
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I think it's really easy to make a mistake
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If you're not being careful and methodical
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As you're climbing,
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And so you just really have to check yourself
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And also check your partner.
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- [brody] longtime climbing partner eric hagan
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Has climbed more than 30 years,
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Learning his craft by kent's example.
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And safety is paramount.
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- there's definitely a macho culture
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Around these kinda activities,
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And i think, you know, people,
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When they become really good at something,
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Put a lotta faith in themselves.
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- [brody] kent's journey to that kind of faith, however,
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Began with him at rock bottom.
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- rope!
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- [brody] and addiction became his first
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Major mountain to overcome.
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- in high school,
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I played soccer,
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I partied a lot and ended up getting in trouble.
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Ended up going to university in indiana
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And was arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
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And i had various addictions at the time.
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At the time, i was in deep rebellion in my life.
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- [brody] kent's life choices landed him
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In a drug recovery center in montana.
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During rehabilitation, he fell in love with nature,
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Learned about clean living,
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And how to take responsibility for his life.
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- for me, i had to figure out
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What the purpose of my life was,
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And i got to a point, it's a crossroads,
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And i realized, you know what?
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I believe there's a god in the universe.
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I believe it's jesus christ.
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I'm not running anymore.
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- [brody] kent traded his addictions
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For the thrill of the mountain,
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Which helped him climb in his faith
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And make mountaineering a career.
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Shortly after, he met the love of his life, fern,
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And started a family.
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- i think going to wilderness treatment center in montana,
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It broke me out of my world,
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And it showed me the stunning,
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Incredible beauty of creation,
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And i couldn't deny it.
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- [brody] over time, life led kent
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And eric down separate paths.
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While eric also started a family
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And became a school principal,
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He secretly wrestled with god over a deep childhood trauma.
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- i could see god forgiving the person
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That did this horrible thing for me as a child,
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But i don't think i had accepted
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That same forgiveness in my own life.
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And that was a transformative peace.
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- so, lord, we just thank you for a beautiful day.
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Keep us safe.
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- [brody] this climb is kent and eric's 20-year reunion.
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Despite life's long and sometimes challenging ascent,
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They both relied on god to get them through it,
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And found the view from the top totally worth it.
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- and so that's why i love climbing,
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Because it's like a small metaphor of life.
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- when you go to a camp or you get out into nature,
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It takes you out of your normal routine.
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And that's where god works.
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- having faith in christ is critical for me for, you know,
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Living a life of wisdom.
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And, you know, obviously,
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I use the wilderness as inspiration
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To continue on for when i go through the struggles,
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And i also go to the word.
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- [brody] reporting in yosemite national park, california,
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Brody carter, cbn news.
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- well, it's amazing what being out in nature
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Will do for you,
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Because the heavens truly do declare the glory of the lord.
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There's nothing like a mountaintop experience
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To convince you, wow, there is a creator,
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This is absolutely awesome.
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All that said,
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You're never gonna see me climbing a rock. (laughs)
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I'm not built for that. - i'll watch from
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Below with you. (laughs)
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- i do like hiking,
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But these days hiking and me are kinda strangers,
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But it is always great to get out into it.
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And now i bring a camera along with me
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To record it. - exactly, it's magnificent.
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I mean, you can't deny that,
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It's just the top of the mountains high. (laughs)
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- (chuckles) and the rocks are really hard,
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And if you fall, you're gonna hurt.
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- (chuckles) that is correct.
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Well, still ahead,
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Prenatal screening reveals some devastating news.
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This baby had a condition in the womb
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That's fatal 95% of the time.
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Find out what saved the life of this child.
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That's later on today's "700 club."
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And then up next,
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This young woman considered herself to be a christian
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Until she heard an audible voice say "poser!"
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Watch what happened next after this.
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- i had a drug test that was coming up.
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I had the drugs in my hand
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And i was thinking that if i use this today,
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I'm going to lose my kids.
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So i got on my knees,
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And i went down a list of everything
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That i could think of that i had done wrong,
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Both outwardly and inside.
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I just told him i'm sorry that i did these things,
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And jesus, "i want you to come into my heart
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And be the lord of my life."
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And it was real.
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- my head was just killing me.
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I never experienced it to that magnitude,
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Like, i'm gonna have to go to the er.
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- the doctor who was on call,
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He said, "it looks like a brain bleed."
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We began to plead the blood of jesus
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And the holy spirit spoke to me when he said,
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"the bleeding has stopped."
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We were just all rejoicing
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When we heard she's gonna be fine.
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- i'm grateful every single day,
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Because if god brought me through that,
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God can bring you through anything.
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I believe in prayer, the power of prayer.
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- i just couldn't keep anything down.
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The nausea and the fatigue,
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Shortness of breath,
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As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
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My prayer was, lord,
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Give me a diagnosis, and give me a treatment plan,
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Give me a doctor who knows me
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And understands what's going on.
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And gordon said,
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"if you wanna be healed right now,"
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Said, "you just put your hand on that body part."
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So i did, i put my hand, i said,
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"lord, i believe in you that you can heal me."
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And at that moment gordon said...
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- there's someone, you're saying,
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Please say crohn's disease,
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And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
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Let your body no longer fight against itself,
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But be restored now, in jesus' name.
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- and i've had no issues since that time,
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And i just give god the glory for that.
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What i know is that jesus touched me
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And that i've been healed.
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(inspired music)
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- total obsession.
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That's how haley ericson described her relationship
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With food and exercise.
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Her life was so consumed
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With counting calories and working out,
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There was little time for anything else.
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Then, one day, she injured her leg,
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And all that exercise had to stop.
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Robbed of her obsession,
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Haley wasn't sure if she wanted to go on living.
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- [narrator] haley ericson had long lived by the motto,
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Eat clean, train mean,
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But it eventually took over her life.
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- where it was truly mentally enslaving.
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- [narrator] haley had never been happy with her body
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Or her weight,
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Something she picked up from her mom.
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- i saw my mom always dieting
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And talking about what her body looks like
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And needing to change her body.
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And so i know, as like a young girl,
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Like, really looking up to my mom,
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I really thought that, like,
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Well, i must need to look a certain way
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To also be loved and accepted by others.
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- [narrator] so in high school she started eating healthy,
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Dieting, and exercising constantly.
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- although i tried to play it off
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As "i'm just super healthy."
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Like, i just love to exercise and i love to eat healthy.
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In my heart, i knew this is not healthy.
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This is an obsession.
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My life was totally revolved around food
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And exercise and what my body looks like.
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Every time i looked at myself in the mirror,
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There was always something that needed to be better,
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Whether it was fixing my body or something about my face.
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It was never good enough.
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- [narrator] although she was considered underweight,
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She was healthy for the most part.
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Then, her sophomore year in college,
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Haley overheard some of her sorority sisters
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Talking about going to the beach for spring break
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And needing to lose weight.
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- that seed was planted of,
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Oh, yeah, i need to lose weight too,
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And i know subconsciously it was,
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I just wanted to fit in with these girls
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And be loved and accepted,
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And i wasn't even going on the trip with them,
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But i just wanted to belong.
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- [narrator] now she took her obsession
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Of nonstop weight training and counting calories
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To a new unhealthy level.
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This led to many physical and mental health issues.
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- i would say just very, like, lonely and sad,
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And just felt very isolated, and truly, like,
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The gym was my best friend, (chuckles)
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Which is really sad to say,
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Because i didn't have those solid relationships,
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But also physically it really took a toll on my health,
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Although i kept pushing past the pain.
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- [narrator] then during christmas break of her junior year,
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Haley slipped on black ice and injured her leg.
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It wasn't broken,
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But doctors told her she couldn't exercise for weeks.
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The now 20-year-old became desperate.
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- and i begged god to please show me the purpose of my life,
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Because everything i was living for was gone,
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And i didn't know why i was here,
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What the purpose of my life was,
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And i honestly wasn't sure if i wanted to live anymore.
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Like, that's how dark it was.
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It was everything i had built my life on was gone.
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- [narrator] weeks later, as soon as the pain subsided,
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Haley was back in the gym.
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This time, she met then 85-year-old mary jane.
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The two hit it off,
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And mary jane invited haley to her home the next day.
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When the conversation turned into families,
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Haley shared a picture of hers,
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Explaining she grew up in a christian home.
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She didn't know her new friend was also a follower of jesus.
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- i asked her, "are you a christian?"
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And then she cried,
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And i knew that something was missing,
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And i thought, "this is why she's here."
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- [narrator] till then, haley considered herself
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To be a christian.
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- and right then and there,
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I heard the holy spirit's very clear conviction,
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Almost as if it was an audible voice,
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Like the lord just say, "you poser."
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Because here i was claiming to being a follower of christ,
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Because i had gone to church
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When i was younger occasionally,
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I went to christian camp in my youth years,
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And i thought that's what made me a christian,
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But i definitely did not know jesus.
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- [narrator] mary jane explained god's plan
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Of salvation through christ.
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- john 3:16, "for god so loved the world
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He gave his only begotten son,
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That if you believe in him you will not perish
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But have everlasting life."
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And i put her name in it.
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- "for god so loved haley
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That he gave his one and only son
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That if haley believes in him,
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Haley shall not perish but have eternal life."
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- [narrator] haley accepted christ into her life that day
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And began to grow in her faith.
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However, she would continue to obsess
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Over her body image for another three years.
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Then, at 24 years old,
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She completely surrendered it to jesus.
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- "lord, like, i don't want anything
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To do with this anymore.
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Like, i just ask for your healing,
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And that you would show me what it looks like
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To eat in a way that is glorifying to you."
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Finally, surrendering the food,
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Controlling food and exercise,
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And really just letting god walk me
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Through this healing journey.
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The lord led me to really cling to truth
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Instead of what i thought was my identity
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And what made me worthy.
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- [narrator] now a nutrition coach,
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Personal trainer, and public speaker,
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Haley still likes to stay fit,
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But she says she now sees herself through god's eyes.
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- the lord really helped me renew my mind
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With seeing who he says i am instead of what this world,
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Or what i thought made me worthy,
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And just seeing the truth of my identity in christ.
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- what an honest, vulnerable story, isn't it?
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You know, two things just strike me immediately
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After seeing and hearing what haley had to say,
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And one was how easy it is for us
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To say we're christian without living
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The life that god intended us to live, to have, to be.
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You know, it's not about doing things,
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It's not even about going to church.
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You know, really it's about relationship.
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And if you don't know jesus,
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What does she mean when she says that?
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She means, you know, the word christian
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Has the name christ in it,
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But if you're not in relationship with him,
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If you're not talking with him,
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Aware of his presence every day,
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If you're not understanding the price he paid
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For you because of his great love for you,
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You're not a christian.
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You know, we need to understand
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That a christian is a disciple,
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A follower of jesus.
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We're following after him
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To receive the forgiveness he's offered us
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And to let him change our lives
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And to let him give us exactly what she was looking for.
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What's my purpose? why am i here?
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You know, we all have that question
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At some point in our lives, i think.
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The other thing i see in haley's life
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Is how easy it is for us,
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Even when we are following after jesus,
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To get caught up in something
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That can become an idol in our lives.
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You know, that's what happened to her with food,
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With calories, with her working out.
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The idol became perfection.
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The idol became having a body
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That was admired by others so she would be acceptable.
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You know, (chuckles) we don't have to do things
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Or prove things to acquire friendship
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Or relationship with other people either.
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You know, that happens because we care,
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Because we open our hearts,
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Because we share,
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Just the same way that we have a relationship
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With jesus christ.
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I don't know whether there's an idol in your life or not.
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You know, it can be many things.
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I have a friend who is a young person
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Who has an idol with being successful,
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With how much money he makes a year,
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With how many jobs he has,
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How people perceive him.
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You know, you get bound up in that,
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And pretty soon it defines who you are,
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And you're not who god created you to be anymore.
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There's no freedom in it.
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You're actually stuck in it.
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That's what happened to haley.
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She got stuck in the definition of her own success.
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Idols can be many, many things,
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But the bible says that god will not have an idol
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In place of him.
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He's jealous for your love in a good way.
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He wants all of you, all of me,
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Because he wants to be all to us.
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If you've never invited jesus christ
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Into the core of your life,
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The core of your life,
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Saying what it took.
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It took her three years to really get to the place,
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Even after hearing truth, of saying,
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"okay, god, i'm waving the white flag.
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I surrender. i'm giving it all to you."
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That's not an easy thing to do,
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Because you can't see the future.
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God reveals his plans one day at a time,
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One purpose at a time,
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But when you walk with him,
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It's all good.
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It's all as it was meant to be,
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And in your heart is that peace
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That passes all understanding.
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If you've never experienced that,
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Let's pray together right now.
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Would you be willing to identify whatever the idol
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In your life might be?
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Think about it for a moment.
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Before we know jesus, we have them.
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He wants to help you be free from that.
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Let's pray together.
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Jesus, you said you came to set the captives free.
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Sometimes, lord, we are captive to things of our own making,
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Our own doing,
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Our own determination.
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We wanna be free.
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More than we wanna be free,
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We wanna know you.
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In you there is freedom.
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In you there's light.
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In you the darkness must flee.
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And so today we are coming to you,
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Saying, jesus, be the lord of my life.
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Be the savior of my soul.
00:30:48.991 --> 00:30:51.961
Would you forgive my sins?
00:30:51.961 --> 00:30:53.729
Would you eliminate the idols in my life?
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Help illuminate them first so i can see them
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And identify them,
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And then i give them to you.
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I'm just surrendering them to you right now.
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Would you take them away?
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Would you give me the freedom you created me to have?
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And, oh, god, would you become the center of my life?
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I wanna know you.
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I wanna understand what you created me for.
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I wanna walk in your paths,
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Know your ways, think your thoughts.
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As i open your word and read the bible
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With a new and a refreshed mind,
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Would you open up truth to me?
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Would you speak to me?
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I'm asking all of this in jesus' mighty name.
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Amen.
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Listen, your life is forever changed
00:31:40.376 --> 00:31:42.878
If you've prayed that prayer.
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I wanna help you grow.
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What do you do?
00:31:46.115 --> 00:31:47.016
You've prayed the prayer,
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How do you follow after jesus?
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We put this together just for you.
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It's full of wonderful information
00:31:51.854 --> 00:31:53.789
On what does it mean to be a disciple of jesus,
00:31:53.789 --> 00:31:56.492
To walk his paths with him.
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This is yours for free,
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So is the phone call to get it.
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1-800-700-7000,
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Just call and say, i prayed that prayer,
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And i'd like the new day packet.
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We will send this out to you right away.
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Just wanna tell you that god's got a great plan
00:32:10.606 --> 00:32:13.509
For your life and freedom for everything
00:32:13.509 --> 00:32:16.311
That's ever tried to stand in your path.
00:32:16.311 --> 00:32:18.947
Ask him today.
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Gordon?
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- still to come:
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A mother hears the voice of her unborn daughter.
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Find out what her baby said
00:32:27.089 --> 00:32:28.957
And see how it led to her miracle birth,
00:32:28.957 --> 00:32:32.061
And then terry and i will be praying for you.
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That's all ahead on today's "700 club."
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(inspired music)
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- [reporter] you considered yourself an atheist.
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- yeah. - what did you specifically
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Have against christianity?
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- my dad was a former music minister.
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You know, i saw a lotta hurt in that church.
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- [reporter] in 2015, walker lost his record deal
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And had their family van repossessed by the label.
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That's when craig decided
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To give their family van to walker.
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- their unconditional love,
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It was so different from what we were used to.
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I went and got a bible and just started reading
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And reading and reading.
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- it was amazing to watch the transformation
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And just the power of the holy spirit.
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- [reporter] walker had given his life to christ
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And couldn't wait to share the news with craig.
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- i said, i believe.
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- are you telling me that you believe
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That jesus is the son of god
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And that you wanna live your life for him?
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He said, "that's exactly what i'm saying."
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- giving to "the 700 club"
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Is giving to the world.
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"the 700 club" are my feet.
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They're walking it there.
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All i'm doing is helping write the check.
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- it's just like planting a seed in the ground,
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And the water comes and the sun hits it and it grows.
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What has changed his life?
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And she wasn't crying,
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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,
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Turned on the tv and just randomly flipping the channels.
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Started moving even more,
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I can 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,
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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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I'd never been suicidal in my life,
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And i couldn't get my attention off of that piece of glass.
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And i just stood there crying out to the lord,
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"lord, you have to save me."
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I just was overcome with complete peace.
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I never felt that kinda peace before or since.
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And he never spoke,
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But he told me everything's gonna be all right.
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"you're gonna be okay."
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- doctors said kanukh was going to suffocate and die.
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- [narrator] not long after she was born,
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Kanukh developed a slight swelling in her neck.
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By the time she was three,
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It had not stopped growing.
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- [interpreter] we took her to many hospitals.
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They said the swelling in this gland
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Could eventually kill her if it wasn't removed.
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It hurts her and makes her cry.
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And they said eventually it could swell so much
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That she would suffocate and die.
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My husband and i are so worried,
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But we do not have enough money for surgery.
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- [narrator] kanukh's mother had to take care
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Of her around the clock,
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So she couldn't work in the fields.
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She took kanukh out of school
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And feared she would get hurt
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Every time she saw her playing.
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It even hurt for her to eat or drink.
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- [interpreter] i love her so much.
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She's my little princess.
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But i cannot do anything to help her.
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- [narrator] when kanukh's parents heard
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- [interpreter] i am so happy and relieved.
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Now she can eat and drink properly.
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She plays with her friends and goes to school,
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I'm working in the fields again and earning a living.
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That's what this couple experienced
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When they were told their unborn baby had a fatal disorder.
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- i was told for so many years by my dad
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That i was worthless,
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That i was no good.
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I did not like myself very much at all.
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And i started asking god to help me.
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I heard this voice say to me, "can you forgive?"
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And then i said, "i can forgive."
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In that moment, i found everything i was looking for.
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He will transform your life like you wouldn't believe.
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♪ but we'll know more satisfaction ♪
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♪ i love the way this joy makes me move ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ i move around because i've got it ♪
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- i didn't even give it a second thought
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That there could be a miscarriage.
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I don't think i really processed it
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Until we were driving home.
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That's when i finally cried about it.
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- [partner] god, if this doesn't happen,
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I still love you.
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- i was mad in the way where you are boiling on the inside.
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(soft music)
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I was surrendering myself.
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I felt held.
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- well, we saw the heartbeat,
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And that was like, "okay."
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- we've never been this far.
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- eight years of wanting that moment.
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- my little girl is in my arms, finally.
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Have the guts to let go.
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That allows the lord to move in a way
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That we can't even imagine.
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- i wanted to be a boy one week,
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I wanted to be a girl next week.
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It was constantly like that.
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Confusion always in my mind.
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But i always felt like i was more in tune to femininity.
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- [narrator] at 16, tommy decided it was time
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To give in to those desires.
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Now addicted to meth,
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He dropped out of school
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And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
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- [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
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- [narrator] despite his doubts,
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Tommy started taking female hormones
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And making plans to have a sex change operation.
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Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
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When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
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Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom,
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Who had recently committed her life to christ.
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- i had to cry out to god because i just knew in that moment
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That he was the only one that was able to help me.
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So i remember just telling him i'm sorry
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Of the lifestyle that i was living.
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I just went into this deep place of repenting
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And asking for forgiveness.
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If jesus did it for me,
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He could do it for you.
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And we all needed a savior.
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We all come from a place of brokenness.
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Regent was a perfect fit for me.
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- when sarah got the results of her prenatal screening,
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She knew exactly what it meant.
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Her child wasn't going to make it.
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Devastated, sarah cried out to god for help,
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And that's when she heard the audible voice
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Of her unborn baby.
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- we did all those tests with the previous two,
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So we felt like our odds of that ever happening to us were,
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I mean, pretty much non-existent.
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- [narrator] will and sarah morison
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Had been looking forward to this day in november 2017.
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Sarah, 38 years old and 10 weeks pregnant,
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Was getting the results of her prenatal screening.
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Having had two healthy children,
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The couple expected a good report.
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They'd also find out if their new addition
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Was a boy or a girl.
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- i just was waiting at the phone to get that call,
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And sure enough got the call.
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And my doctor said, you know, right away,
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"sarah, i need to let you know
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That your baby tested positive for trisomy 18."
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And right away, i knew what that meant.
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That was it.
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Basically, my child wasn't gonna make it.
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- [narrator] also known as edward's syndrome,
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Trisomy 18 is a birth disorder
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In which babies carry an extra chromosome 18.
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Of those who do live full term,
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90 to 95% don't survive the first year.
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- like, oh, my gosh, i'm gonna lose a child.
00:47:24.218 --> 00:47:29.123
How will i ever be the same?
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How will i be able to tell my other children,
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And how will this affect us?
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- [narrator] before hanging up,
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There was still one thing sarah needed to know.
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- i said, "wait a minute,
00:47:43.071 --> 00:47:44.372
What did it say that will and i are having?
00:47:44.372 --> 00:47:46.874
Are we having a boy or a girl?"
00:47:46.874 --> 00:47:47.842
And she said, "a girl, sarah."
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- [narrator] later that day,
00:47:49.744 --> 00:47:51.012
The couple met with sarah's doctor.
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- it was a shock.
00:47:53.881 --> 00:47:55.049
That's all i remember that moment,
00:47:55.049 --> 00:47:57.118
Like, learning that information,
00:47:57.118 --> 00:48:00.088
Learning what it was,
00:48:00.088 --> 00:48:01.656
And preparing ourselves mentally
00:48:01.656 --> 00:48:03.358
For what could lie ahead.
00:48:03.358 --> 00:48:04.792
It was just a blur and just a shock.
00:48:04.792 --> 00:48:07.095
- [narrator] will and sarah were already familiar
00:48:07.095 --> 00:48:09.597
With edward's syndrome.
00:48:09.597 --> 00:48:11.466
Each had friends whose babies had the disorder.
00:48:11.466 --> 00:48:14.936
One died in the womb.
00:48:14.936 --> 00:48:17.071
The other had numerous challenges.
00:48:17.071 --> 00:48:19.474
- so i think my biggest fear was that,
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Like, you know, we're gonna be that family
00:48:23.778 --> 00:48:26.314
That has to live with this situation
00:48:26.314 --> 00:48:30.084
Where we've got two healthy kids we're trying to raise,
00:48:30.084 --> 00:48:32.286
But this third child that's requiring every ounce
00:48:32.286 --> 00:48:35.757
Of our time and energy just to keep,
00:48:35.757 --> 00:48:38.626
You know, keep them alive,
00:48:38.626 --> 00:48:39.961
And what's that gonna do to our other children?
00:48:39.961 --> 00:48:42.463
- [narrator] at the doctor's advice,
00:48:42.463 --> 00:48:43.998
They scheduled sarah for an amniocentesis
00:48:43.998 --> 00:48:47.035
To verify the diagnosis
00:48:47.035 --> 00:48:49.137
And help them make an informed decision
00:48:49.137 --> 00:48:51.406
About whether to terminate the pregnancy.
00:48:51.406 --> 00:48:53.641
While abortion wasn't an option,
00:48:54.475 --> 00:48:57.011
The couple wasn't sure they had the faith
00:48:57.011 --> 00:48:59.447
To turn it over to god and trust him for the outcome.
00:48:59.447 --> 00:49:04.018
At home, the next day,
00:49:04.018 --> 00:49:05.920
Sarah poured her heart out to god.
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:09.023
- i'm just crying out to him, saying,
00:49:09.023 --> 00:49:11.325
"i need a word, lord,
00:49:11.325 --> 00:49:12.627
As to what me and will are supposed to do.
00:49:12.627 --> 00:49:15.396
- [narrator] sarah says at that moment god spoke to her
00:49:15.396 --> 00:49:19.267
Through the voice of her unborn daughter.
00:49:19.267 --> 00:49:22.136
- and then, right then, it was like so clear,
00:49:22.136 --> 00:49:25.173
Feeling her voice say, like,
00:49:25.173 --> 00:49:27.241
"mommy, tell them to leave me alone.
00:49:27.241 --> 00:49:30.211
I'm just fine."
00:49:30.211 --> 00:49:31.913
- [narrator] later, when will came home from work.
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- she was so excited when i got home,
00:49:35.116 --> 00:49:38.119
It was the first thing she said to me,
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:39.520
That we're gonna have, like,
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We're not doing the amniocentesis.
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And i just said,
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God told me the same thing.
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We're not.
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And we just had so much peace after that.
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- [narrator] sarah canceled the appointment.
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They even gave their daughter a name, lively rain,
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But now they wouldn't know whether the baby
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Had the disorder until she was born,
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If she lived that long.
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For the next 33 weeks,
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The couple and their family prayed
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As sarah continued getting checkups
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And numerous ultrasounds.
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Finally, the day came.
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On july 24th, 2018,
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Lively rain was delivered by c-section
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With no sign of edward's syndrome.
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In the words of sarah's obstetrician,
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"the baby was perfect."
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- it was such a great moment,
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Because i just knew that the lord had told me
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This was gonna be the outcome.
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- i just saw this beautiful, tiny little baby,
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And i saw 10 fingers, 10 toes,
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And i just looked back to sarah,
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And i was like, "she looks great, babe.
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"we're good," you know?
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- [sarah] god gave me a miracle.
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He saved lively.
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- [narrator] this is lively rain at five years old,
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Healthy in every way through the power of prayer.
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- i'm grateful for the blessings
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That we've received from the lord,
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And i just live in that.
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- god shows up for you,
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And if i could tell any parent out there
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To just let god have the final say,
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Gather your information,
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Take it to him, lay it at his feet,
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And expect to hear him.
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- i love that.
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"expect to hear him."
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When you pray, pray expectantly.
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God has given us so many promises,
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So many words of encouragement in his word,
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And then he's with us every day,
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And he does speak in those moments to our hearts,
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And just like he did to sarah as she was beseeching him.
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Some of you today have things that you've been praying for
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For a long time,
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And you're longing to hear from god.
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Let's pray expectantly together for you today.
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Let's pray that god will respond in a way
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That will give you that inner peace,
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That will give you that word of knowledge,
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That will help you to say yes to healing from the lord,
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Whatever your request might be.
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We've got lots of people who have written in asking
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Or telling us what god has done for them.
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This is ronald.
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He lives in wadena, minnesota.
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For years, he wrestled with high blood pressure.
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One day he was taken to the er
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With a reading of 220/125.
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Wow.
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Another time, his blood pressure spiked to 200/98,
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And he was sent back to the er.
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Later at home, ronald turned on "the 700 club."
00:52:29.790 --> 00:52:32.326
Gordon, he heard you say,
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"there's someone, you're suffering from high blood pressure.
00:52:34.061 --> 00:52:36.397
Hypertension has been diagnosed over you.
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God is able to release all of that
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And relax every vein, every artery,
00:52:41.869 --> 00:52:44.071
And bring your blood pressure back into normal range.
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Be healed now in jesus' name."
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By faith, ronald believed god for his healing.
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His blood pressure has come down to normal range
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And is staying down consistently.
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To god be the glory.
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- that's wonderful.
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Here's william from oklahoma.
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He had an ear condition.
00:53:02.456 --> 00:53:04.292
His left ear was all stopped up.
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He can hear an unusual sound like "clunking or plopping."
00:53:06.994 --> 00:53:11.866
It was extremely troublesome.
00:53:11.866 --> 00:53:14.535
After about five weeks of this,
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He was watching "the 700 club."
00:53:16.304 --> 00:53:18.172
He heard terry say a word of knowledge,
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Describing his condition to a t.
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He claimed it by faith in the name of jesus,
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And his ear opened up immediately.
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You have seen some miracles,
00:53:30.618 --> 00:53:32.420
You've heard about miracles,
00:53:32.420 --> 00:53:34.555
And you're going, "can that happen to me?"
00:53:34.555 --> 00:53:36.724
And the answer is absolutely.
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You are a child of god.
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Isn't that wonderful?
00:53:42.063 --> 00:53:43.964
You were created by him.
00:53:43.964 --> 00:53:46.100
He breathed you into being.
00:53:46.100 --> 00:53:48.602
He spoke, and you came to be.
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Before he laid the foundation of the world,
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He thought about you.
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Now, some people have trouble believing
00:53:57.044 --> 00:53:59.313
That god can speak directly to them,
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That somehow they're not holy enough,
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Or they haven't done enough good things,
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And all of this stuff.
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Or maybe they're under some kind of doctrinal
00:54:07.588 --> 00:54:11.025
That all of this stuff stopped
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And god isn't speaking to people anymore.
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Well, here's a verse for you,
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And i hope you really take it to heart,
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Because i call it god's phone number.
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It's jeremiah 33:3,
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"call to me, and i will answer you
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And show you great and mighty things that you do not know."
00:54:30.444 --> 00:54:34.615
So we just saw the story of a mother praying
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And calling out to god, "show me what to do."
00:54:39.253 --> 00:54:42.189
She's had a diagnosis pronounced
00:54:42.189 --> 00:54:45.159
Over her baby that's devastating.
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:48.028
And she says, "god, i need an answer."
00:54:48.028 --> 00:54:50.865
Who does god pick?
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Well, the very baby in her womb.
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"mommy, tell them to leave me alone." (chuckles)
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Isn't that wonderful?
00:54:57.905 --> 00:55:00.841
God is able to do all things.
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And it just shows the power that that baby
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Was thought of before he laid the foundation of the earth.
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Isn't that incredible?
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So take all of these power verses,
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All of these power stories,
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And say, "this could happen to me."
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Let's pray, and god will answer you.
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Lord god, we come to you,
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And we call on your name.
00:55:25.065 --> 00:55:27.001
You are the healer,
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You are the deliverer.
00:55:29.270 --> 00:55:31.238
You are the god who answers.
00:55:31.238 --> 00:55:34.875
So, lord, here are our request.
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We say them out loud to you,
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And we ask that you would answer
00:55:41.482 --> 00:55:44.485
And show us the way forward.
00:55:44.485 --> 00:55:46.720
Stretch forth your hand to do signs,
00:55:47.788 --> 00:55:50.424
Wonders, and miracles,
00:55:50.424 --> 00:55:52.793
For we ask it in jesus' name.
00:55:52.793 --> 00:55:56.397
Terry, god's given you something.
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- there's someone, your name is rachel,
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And you have been praying for a long time.
00:56:03.170 --> 00:56:05.272
God's answering your prayer right now.
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Don't give up.
00:56:07.274 --> 00:56:08.476
Wait for it.
00:56:08.476 --> 00:56:09.443
Hang on to his promises.
00:56:09.443 --> 00:56:11.245
It's in process.
00:56:11.245 --> 00:56:13.214
And i don't know if this is connected to that or not,
00:56:13.214 --> 00:56:15.449
But god's opening wombs today.
00:56:15.449 --> 00:56:17.818
Just husbands and wives who've been praying
00:56:17.818 --> 00:56:20.988
For babies and not able to have them,
00:56:20.988 --> 00:56:22.823
Just receive that today.
00:56:22.823 --> 00:56:24.758
God is giving that gift to you.
00:56:24.758 --> 00:56:27.361
- there's someone, you have a fast-growing tumor
00:56:27.361 --> 00:56:29.263
In your brain and god is healing it.
00:56:29.263 --> 00:56:31.599
You've been crying out for relief,
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:33.400
"god, where's the answer to this?
00:56:33.400 --> 00:56:34.902
Where are you in this?"
00:56:34.902 --> 00:56:36.370
He's right there with you,
00:56:36.370 --> 00:56:37.771
And he's shrinking and dissolving that tumor now,
00:56:37.771 --> 00:56:41.141
In jesus' name.
00:56:41.141 --> 00:56:43.010
There many are crying out for children
00:56:43.010 --> 00:56:45.246
And god's heard your prayer.
00:56:45.246 --> 00:56:47.615
He is giving you the power to give life,
00:56:47.615 --> 00:56:50.384
The power to have a normal pregnancy,
00:56:50.384 --> 00:56:53.787
A normal birth.
00:56:53.787 --> 00:56:55.756
In the name of jesus,
00:56:55.756 --> 00:56:57.358
May everything be regulated
00:56:57.358 --> 00:56:59.827
And be normal and whole in you.
00:56:59.827 --> 00:57:02.930
- and there are many of you who are struggling
00:57:02.930 --> 00:57:04.632
With eating disorders,
00:57:04.632 --> 00:57:07.601
Both kinds of eating disorder.
00:57:08.435 --> 00:57:10.070
God is healing that for you right now.
00:57:10.070 --> 00:57:11.805
Just ask him to come into the very core
00:57:11.805 --> 00:57:14.408
Of your being and change how you identify yourself.
00:57:14.408 --> 00:57:17.811
Identify with him.
00:57:17.811 --> 00:57:19.013
You're a child of god.
00:57:19.013 --> 00:57:20.314
Receive that.
00:57:20.314 --> 00:57:23.183
- there's someone, you have just overwhelming grief.
00:57:24.451 --> 00:57:26.620
It's like there's been blow after blow after blow.
00:57:26.620 --> 00:57:30.357
May the god of all comfort come and comfort you now
00:57:30.357 --> 00:57:33.727
And encourage you and give you hope for the future.
00:57:33.727 --> 00:57:38.098
We ask it in jesus' name.
00:57:38.098 --> 00:57:40.501
Amen and amen.
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If you've been healed, let us know.
00:57:42.202 --> 00:57:43.871
Call us and share your good report, 1-800-700-7000.
00:57:43.871 --> 00:57:48.676
Here's a verse from isaiah.
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"your ears shall hear a word behind you saying,
00:57:50.077 --> 00:57:53.814
'this is the way, walk it.'"
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(inspired music)
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