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The 700 Club

January 21, 2025

January 21, 2025 | S25:E15

January 21, 2025
The 700 Club features a distinctive blend of news from a biblical perspective, inspirational interviews and biblical teaching for everyday life.
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The 700 Club | January 21, 2025 | January 21, 2025
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  • - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [gordon] coming up, 34 weeks pregnant and dying of covid.
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  • - i was told that she had 0% chance of survival.
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  • - [gordon] watch as doctors and prayer saved two lives,
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  • - (laughing) i'm trying not to cry.
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  • - [gordon] then she fell into a coma
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  • And woke up for getting half her life.
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  • - people are telling me that i've had a baby,
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  • That i'm married.
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  • - [gordon] see how her blank canvas helped rebuild her life?
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  • - god is the master artist and we are his canvas.
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  • - on today's "700 club."
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • Well, welcome to "the 700 club".
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  • In zambia, more than 5,000 people
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  • Are translating the bible into 20 native languages
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  • Thanks to the work of wycliffe associates.
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  • - ephraim graham traveled to the african nation
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  • To bring us the results.
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  • Christians reading god's word in their own
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  • Tongue for the very first time.
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  • (congregants singing in foreign language)
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  • - [efrem] zambia, known for its vast landscapes,
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  • Walking safaris and victoria falls
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  • Is still called africa's best kept secret
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  • And it's giving birth to yet another untold story.
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  • Men and women meeting daily
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  • To translate the bible into the languages they speak.
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  • What's your first memory of the bible?
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  • - yes, john 3:16.
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  • - [efrem] henry mumba plants and pastors churches
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  • And he's helping to lead church owned
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  • Translation work in mansa.
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  • - my pastor was a missionary from another country, malawi.
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  • And he came into this town.
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  • And when he,
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  • They preached the gospel to me.
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  • The first verse that i knew was john 3:16,
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  • "for god so loved the world that he gave his only son
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  • That whoever believes in him should not perish
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  • But have everlasting life."
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  • - scholars estimate there are at the very least
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  • 7,000 languages spoken around the world.
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  • Fewer than 800 of those languages
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  • Have the bible fully translated, both old and new testament,
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  • Leaving thousands still in need of translation.
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  • Many of those are here on the continent of africa
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  • In hard to reach places as well as asia
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  • And indo-pacific regions.
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  • (reader speaking in foreign language)
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  • (congregants cheering and applauding)
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  • That's the sound of another area reached.
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  • Churchgoers in mansa are reading and hearing
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  • The new testament in aushi, their mother tongue,
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  • For the very first time.
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  • And after reading,
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  • (congregants singing in foreign language)
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  • There's dancing.
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  • - just like god is speaking our language.
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  • - [efrem] a first even for henry mumba,
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  • Who remembers hearing john 3:16 at 19,
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  • Now hearing and seeing scripture
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  • In his native language at 58.
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  • - it's the first written literature.
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  • - oh wow, in aushi language?
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  • - yeah.
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  • - it's the first written literature>
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  • - that bible is the first written literature.
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  • We've never had anything before.
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  • - [efrem] this new testament gift is more than literature.
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  • - for me, it's not only about translating the bible,
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  • Having the bible printed,
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  • To me, it's about life changing.
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  • I've seen a lot of lives being changed
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  • Through bible translation.
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  • - that includes his own,
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  • Tomussone machinga travels to african countries
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  • Teaching translators to use technology,
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  • Though that is not how this bible translation career began
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  • For the young husband and father who grew up in zimbabwe,
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  • A child of refugees fleeing civil war in mozambique.
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  • - i appeared at the meeting.
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  • I was drunk because by that time i was doing both lives.
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  • I was going to church and i was doing world things.
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  • So i appeared at the meeting,
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  • I was drunk and they said,
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  • You have to go home and come back tomorrow.
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  • - thomas returned and did the work,
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  • But the power of the word he translated didn't become real
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  • Until he found himself sick and in the hospital.
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  • - my mother was telling me we couldn't eat anything at home.
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  • Sometime they couldn't have transport to come
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  • And visit me at hospital.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • Then they started talking to me about
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  • Taking christ as my savior.
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  • And when bible translation comes,
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  • I was saving that mind of doing that,
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  • The life that i was trying to leave behind,
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  • But something started changing through bible translation.
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  • - during our visit to this region of the world,
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  • There are actually three new testament translations
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  • Being celebrated.
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  • The nyanja in lusaka, leya in livingston
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  • And aushi here in mansa.
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  • (congregants singing in foreign language)
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  • We are in livingston for its celebration
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  • Of the new testament in leya,
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  • The mother tongue of those who call this village home
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  • Including buster paul tembo.
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  • - our country has 73 languages
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  • And only seven were considered official languages.
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  • Those are the only ones who had scripture translated.
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  • - [efrem] tembo is the pastor who leads
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  • Church owned translation work here.
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  • - when you bring it out in your own language,
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  • When you read it out in your own language,
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  • Even the interpretation of it to the people,
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  • The understanding that you have
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  • Or you bring to the people is so clear
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  • And it has a great spiritual impact in their lives.
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  • - that impact is why wycliffe associates
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  • Facilitates church owned bible translation
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  • Here in zambia and other parts of the world.
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  • - when we say church owned bible translation,
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  • We mean that local church owns
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  • Not just the translation process
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  • But also the scriptures that they produce
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  • At the end of the day.
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  • - simoun ung is president.
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  • What's lost in translation? (laughing)
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  • - that's a very good question.
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  • I think part of the challenge now is what's the,
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  • How can we further accelerate the process
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  • Without sacrificing the quality of the translations?
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  • When you see the field,
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  • You see the need for scriptures, right?
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  • People are dying every day without coming to know the lord.
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  • And so the urgency i guess for us is really there
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  • In terms of being able to press forward.
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  • - press forward with the message, god loves you,
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  • (henry speaking in foreign language)
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  • In every language.
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  • Efrem graham, cbn news, zambia.
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  • (congregants singing in foreign language)
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  • - god wants his scripture in every single language
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  • So everyone can hear it in their heart language.
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  • And when we finally understand that,
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  • That's when we get the great commission.
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  • Before jesus can come back the second time,
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  • Everybody has to hear about him coming the first time.
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  • And let's be devoted to that.
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  • Let's preach the gospel in every language to every tribe,
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  • To every person so that he can come back again.
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  • We'll be right back with more of "the 700 club" after this.
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  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
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  • - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
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  • - [*] they kept saying, "septic, septic.
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  • I think she's getting a septic."
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  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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  • For a lifetime of dialysis,
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  • And this medicine was going to destroy
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  • Every dream my girl could possibly have.
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  • - thousands and thousands
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  • Literally around the world were praying for.
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  • - her mom runs out into the hallway and she's like,
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  • "he just told me he canceled your surgery."
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  • He was like,
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  • "your kidney biopsy came back completely clean."
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  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag just,
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  • We were hugging and screaming.
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  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
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  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
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  • I think those prayers were answered.
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  • - [videographer] hi.
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  • Yay.
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  • You did it.
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  • - i am beyond thankful that i have been singing nonstop.
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  • Prayers work. they work.
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  • Ask people to pray for you and like really believe,
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  • Really believe that anything is possible.
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
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  • That it was to the point where my jaws were even hurting
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  • From coughing so intensely.
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  • It was a battle, it really was.
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  • He kept saying to me, "this too will pass."
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  • So i just stand up and say, "i'm waiting on you lord."
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  • I just kept confessing, "god is my healer. he is my healer."
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  • They were to the section where they were talking about
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  • People receiving healings.
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  • They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
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  • - there's someone,
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  • You heard the report about sinus conditions
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  • And you're saying, "please say, sinus conditions."
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  • So for you, i'm saying sinus condition.
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  • All of that inflammation,
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  • Everything that seems to be swollen and closed up,
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  • Open now in jesus' name.
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  • - i jumped up and my spirit just kind of leaped
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  • And i said, "that's for me, lord.
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  • That's it."
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  • You think maybe he's not mindful of those things,
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  • But he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful and he is our healer.
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  • (cheerful music)
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  • - [announcer] melissa and her husband rick have come
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  • A long way from when they met.
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  • Melissa was in real estate,
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  • Rick had been living on credit cards,
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  • Trying to start a number of businesses
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  • And was $80,000 in debt.
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  • All the while the henins were tithing
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  • And the newly married couples started working
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  • Their way out of the red.
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  • - i think i had bought into society saying,
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  • Here's what you should have.
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  • I simply asked god, do i have money before you?
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  • I asked god to forgive me instantly.
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  • I told god whether i make a lot of money or not,
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  • I'm done striving.
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  • - [announcer] today rick and melissa have three children
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  • And choose to live way below their means
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  • So they can help the poor.
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  • They've already built 13 orphanages
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  • And a freedom house in india.
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  • - what i loved about operation blessing is that
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  • We were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
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  • - now i have the hunger to make more money
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  • So we truly can give to all of these places
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  • 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
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  • She's also a woman of faith
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  • Who believes in the power of prayer.
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  • Her latest book explores the impact
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  • Prayer has had on her life and the lives of others.
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  • Charlene aaron recently spoke with her
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  • About why she believes faith moves mountains.
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  • - in her book, "faith still moves mountains:
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  • Miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer,"
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  • Faulkner reminds readers that god's light
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  • Always shines through dark times.
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  • It's a message she felt needed
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  • To be sent given the life-changing impact
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  • And many losses suffered due to covid-19,
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  • - we've all reached this point in our lives, i think,
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  • After the pandemic and we have individual struggles as well,
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  • But we've reached that point at at times in our lives
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  • Where we wonder, well, if there is a god who loves me,
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  • Why are things going wrong?
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  • Why when i pray doesn't the lord
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  • Answer my prayers contemporaneously.
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  • - [charlene] faulkner points out how a recent survey
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  • Showing a growing number struggling to believe
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  • That god still answers prayer could be part of the problem.
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  • - the one part of that gallup survey is,
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  • People no longer believe in high numbers
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  • That god intervenes in our lives.
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  • So that's very important because you're less likely
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  • To be direct and big and fervent in your prayer
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  • If you don't think it is being heard.
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  • And the litmus test for whether or not your prayer is heard
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  • Is not whether or not you got your prayers answered
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  • The way you wanted them or in the timing that you want.
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  • And that is something that people sometimes
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  • Need to be reminded of.
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  • - [charlene] in her book,
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  • The host of fox news is outnumbered
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  • And the faulkner focus felt that by sharing
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  • A collection of powerful testimonies,
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  • It would help more people embrace the practice of prayer.
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  • - i've been told by them
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  • And they tell their own in their own words in the book
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  • That it was through their fervent prayer and communion
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  • And relationship with the lord that they realized that
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  • Our spiritual vital tool and the fight
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  • In a world that would want us to give up,
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  • - yes. - is prayer.
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  • - [charlene] a lesson faulkner gleaned from her mother.
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  • - there have been times in my life when
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  • The mountains have seemed so much bigger
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  • Than the dreams that i had
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  • At a time in this country
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  • That didn't necessarily celebrate people who look like us.
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  • My mom truly believed that my dad's love of country
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  • Was part of the answer to take us all forward.
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  • And she prayed about that mightily
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  • - included is the story of ernestine reese who,
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  • In 2019, survived an ef4 tornado
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  • That tore through lee county, alabama.
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  • While the storm devoured most everything in its path,
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  • Reese miraculously survived
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  • Huddled inside her prayer closet,
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  • The only thing left standing in her neighborhood.
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  • - [harris] ernestine prayed one simple sentence,
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  • "thank you god.
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  • Thank you." - wow. wow.
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  • - before the storm started, during the storm,
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  • When everything was pulling away
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  • And i mean, she could hear it all being pulled away
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  • And after the storm.
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  • - i thank the lord.
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  • You tell god, thank you, king, king.
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  • - [charlene] "storms," says faulkner,
  • 00:16:11.184 --> 00:16:12.585
  • "often mirror difficult times
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  • Like when her father passed away."
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  • - i was so sorrowful and missed him so much
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  • And had lost my mother thanksgiving
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  • Before that four years and i felt lost.
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  • And when i did pray, i talked the whole time
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  • And remembered some words that my mom had told me.
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  • "don't treat god like santa claus.
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  • You have to be silent.
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  • You have to sit and be still
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  • Because faith still moves mountains."
  • 00:16:38.711 --> 00:16:41.447
  • - [charlene] mountains that can't be moved by rituals
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  • But by faith in god who stands ready to answer when we call.
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  • - i've been put here as a witness.
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  • And in that role,
  • 00:16:51.090 --> 00:16:53.693
  • Through the testimonies that i've collected,
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  • I've learned how to pray better.
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  • So i pray big and with specificity
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  • And my one prayer as you ask me for everyone
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  • Is that they open themselves up to the point where
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  • They can reignite the power of prayer
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  • And let bloom in their hearts the hope and unconditional,
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  • True unconditional love that the lord brings
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  • And be patient with him so that he can do
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  • Mighty works in your life in his time.
  • 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:30.496
  • - [charlene] faulkner also includes prayers
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  • That reflect today's challenging times,
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  • Prayers she invites readers to boldly pray.
  • 00:17:34.967 --> 00:17:38.171
  • - i do tell people that when you read these prayers
  • 00:17:38.171 --> 00:17:41.674
  • As your own out loud, when you say them, they have power.
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  • So be sure to have enough time in a space
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  • Where you are able to be quiet and focused.
  • 00:17:47.914 --> 00:17:53.586
  • - [charlene] faulkner's book,
  • 00:17:54.387 --> 00:17:55.321
  • "faith still moves mountains:
  • 00:17:55.321 --> 00:17:56.856
  • Miraculous stories of the healing power of prayer
  • 00:17:56.856 --> 00:17:59.859
  • Is available wherever books are sold.
  • 00:17:59.859 --> 00:18:02.795
  • Charlene aaron, cbn news.
  • 00:18:02.795 --> 00:18:05.097
  • - those are powerful lessons in prayer.
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  • Prayer comes out of thanksgiving.
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  • So i encourage you as you pray today
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  • And try to pray every day, try to pray continuously
  • 00:18:13.606 --> 00:18:18.277
  • Read psalm 148, that it's a praise of thanksgiving
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  • And in that, god inhabits the praises of his people
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  • And when you know his presence is there,
  • 00:18:27.186 --> 00:18:30.723
  • Well then you're at the throne of grace,
  • 00:18:30.723 --> 00:18:32.758
  • Then you're in his presence
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  • And then you can let your request be made known.
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  • But do it with thanksgiving
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  • Knowing that the answer is going to come.
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  • Terry.
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  • In the icu, on a ventilator
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  • This woman was battling covid for her life
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  • And the life of her unborn baby.
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  • See how her husband ignited a wildfire
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  • Of prayer on social media?
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  • Plus, we're going to be praying
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  • For you later on today's "700 club".
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  • And then up next, a woman who wakes up from a coma
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  • See her struggle to hide her amnesia
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  • And watch how she turns her pain
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  • Into a passion for art after this.
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  • ♪ and where there's joy, there's action ♪
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  • ♪ it's like a great attraction ♪
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  • ♪ that's starts a chain reaction ♪
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  • ♪ but with a little more satisfaction ♪
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  • ♪ i love the way the joy makes me move ♪
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  • ♪ yeah, i got the ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ i'm dancing around because of more ♪
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  • ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in our hearts ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ i'm dancing around because of more ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in our hearts ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in our hearts ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • - i am not breathing enough to make a feather move.
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  • It really frustrated me because
  • 00:22:30.830 --> 00:22:33.098
  • My quality of life had drastically changed.
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  • I could just say, "just lord, i need your help."
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  • - there's someone else, you have breathing issues,
  • 00:22:40.573 --> 00:22:42.775
  • Take a complete breath and exhale
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  • As jesus christ heals you completely.
  • 00:22:45.211 --> 00:22:48.080
  • - i can feel that air going clear
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  • Down to my stomach and back.
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  • He will always be there walking this out for your benefit.
  • 00:22:53.619 --> 00:22:58.190
  • - for me as a musician and my identity,
  • 00:22:58.190 --> 00:22:59.859
  • That was like the ultimate validation,
  • 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:01.994
  • Just literally going out and like living the rockstar life.
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  • It was a darkness that started to wear on me.
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  • I realized how fake it was.
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  • So i, without talking to anybody, i silently left hollywood
  • 00:23:08.834 --> 00:23:12.104
  • With my dreams shattered because that was the epitome.
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  • And i said, "god, i need help."
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  • And at that moment i knew
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  • I needed to figure out who jesus is.
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  • I found that acceptance i was looking for.
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  • The only thing that can fill that hole is jesus christ.
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  • - today, marcy greg is a renowned abstract artist.
  • 00:23:29.688 --> 00:23:33.759
  • When she was 30 years old,
  • 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:35.361
  • She woke up from a coma with no memories
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  • Of the last 13 years.
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  • Marcy thought she was 17 and had no husband or children.
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  • She hid her amnesia for years
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  • Until the secret almost destroyed her.
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  • - it takes every layer to make the painting
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  • What i need it to be at the end.
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  • And by the end, every layer has done what it needs to do
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  • To make it the final piece.
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  • - [announcer] marcy, greg is an accomplished abstract artist
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  • With works in galleries and private collections
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  • Across the united states.
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  • It's a passion she rediscovered later
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  • In a life that was almost cut short.
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  • After giving birth to her third child at the age of 30,
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  • Marcy contracted a form of meningitis and fell into a coma.
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  • Her husband dev says he nearly lost her.
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  • - i look in there and she's got 10 tubes hooked to her.
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  • She's intubated and completely out.
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  • And the doctors literally came to me and said,
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  • "she's probably not gonna make it.
  • 00:24:34.753 --> 00:24:36.889
  • We don't see many patients
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  • That are this severe, you know, live."
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  • - [announcer] she lay in a coma for an entire week
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  • With little hope for her survival.
  • 00:24:44.296 --> 00:24:46.265
  • Then miraculously after prayers from her pastor,
  • 00:24:47.399 --> 00:24:50.336
  • Marcy woke up confused, disoriented,
  • 00:24:50.336 --> 00:24:53.906
  • Without any memories past the age of 17
  • 00:24:53.906 --> 00:24:57.176
  • - in icu, i'm still trying to figure out,
  • 00:24:57.176 --> 00:24:59.311
  • People are telling me that i've had a baby, that i'm married
  • 00:24:59.311 --> 00:25:03.983
  • And i'm in there thinking, wait, how in the world?
  • 00:25:03.983 --> 00:25:07.086
  • I'm a 17-year-old.
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  • I'm not married. i don't have children.
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  • This can't be.
  • 00:25:10.889 --> 00:25:12.658
  • - dave tried to comfort his wife,
  • 00:25:12.658 --> 00:25:14.727
  • Unaware of her mental state.
  • 00:25:14.727 --> 00:25:16.462
  • - he sat down beside me
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  • And he talked to me as if i should know who he was
  • 00:25:18.297 --> 00:25:21.767
  • And i thought he was a doctor.
  • 00:25:21.767 --> 00:25:23.769
  • But then he reached down to kiss me and i thought,
  • 00:25:23.769 --> 00:25:26.639
  • Okay, wait, when did doctors start kissing their patients?
  • 00:25:26.639 --> 00:25:30.476
  • And he said that he was my husband
  • 00:25:30.476 --> 00:25:33.746
  • And that we had had a child together
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  • And i didn't remember any of this.
  • 00:25:35.447 --> 00:25:37.816
  • So i was completely confused what was going on.
  • 00:25:37.816 --> 00:25:41.320
  • - [announcer] marcy had no memories
  • 00:25:41.320 --> 00:25:42.688
  • Of the last 13 years of her life.
  • 00:25:42.688 --> 00:25:45.891
  • Soon after, she was reunited with her children.
  • 00:25:45.891 --> 00:25:49.762
  • - i had no memory of having them at all.
  • 00:25:49.762 --> 00:25:52.398
  • And when they came to the room and they brought 'em in,
  • 00:25:52.398 --> 00:25:55.601
  • And they jumped on the bed
  • 00:25:55.601 --> 00:25:58.170
  • And they put the baby girl in my arms,
  • 00:25:58.170 --> 00:26:00.806
  • I literally knew that they were mine
  • 00:26:00.806 --> 00:26:03.676
  • And i felt like that was god's gift to me,
  • 00:26:03.676 --> 00:26:06.545
  • That i knew they were mine.
  • 00:26:06.545 --> 00:26:07.946
  • - [announcer] desperate to be released from the hospital,
  • 00:26:09.314 --> 00:26:11.250
  • Marcy hid her amnesia.
  • 00:26:11.250 --> 00:26:13.819
  • She soon returned to a home and a life she didn't remember.
  • 00:26:13.819 --> 00:26:18.023
  • - being inauthentic was the hardest part.
  • 00:26:18.023 --> 00:26:20.926
  • I felt very inauthentic and it was hard
  • 00:26:20.926 --> 00:26:25.497
  • Because i was lying to everybody.
  • 00:26:25.497 --> 00:26:29.134
  • - [announcer] marcy is a christian
  • 00:26:29.134 --> 00:26:30.402
  • And prayed earnestly for her memories to return.
  • 00:26:30.402 --> 00:26:33.872
  • When they didn't, she secretly began drinking alcohol
  • 00:26:33.872 --> 00:26:37.643
  • To cover her frustration.
  • 00:26:37.643 --> 00:26:39.745
  • - i would drink quietly, secretly,
  • 00:26:39.745 --> 00:26:44.249
  • And then the next morning i would get up
  • 00:26:44.249 --> 00:26:45.751
  • And i would have, i would open my bible and i would pray
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  • And ask god to forgive me.
  • 00:26:50.255 --> 00:26:52.591
  • There was this guilt,
  • 00:26:52.591 --> 00:26:54.059
  • But i was so addicted to the alcohol that i drank anyway.
  • 00:26:54.059 --> 00:26:58.564
  • I wanted to stop feeling what i was feeling,
  • 00:26:58.564 --> 00:27:02.401
  • The pressure.
  • 00:27:03.001 --> 00:27:03.869
  • I drank to forget what i couldn't remember.
  • 00:27:04.970 --> 00:27:08.707
  • - [announcer] she struggled to keep her memory loss
  • 00:27:09.942 --> 00:27:11.744
  • And addiction a secret for years.
  • 00:27:11.744 --> 00:27:14.513
  • Then one night she saw her life
  • 00:27:14.513 --> 00:27:16.682
  • And family with a new perspective
  • 00:27:16.682 --> 00:27:19.752
  • - and there dave was, and he had callie in his arms
  • 00:27:19.752 --> 00:27:22.354
  • And the boys were all over the furniture, just everywhere.
  • 00:27:22.354 --> 00:27:25.124
  • And god said to me at that moment,
  • 00:27:25.124 --> 00:27:27.259
  • Straight to my heart is clear as i've ever heard him,
  • 00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:30.896
  • "that is what i saved you for the future, not the past.
  • 00:27:30.896 --> 00:27:34.867
  • And as much as that father loves his children,
  • 00:27:34.867 --> 00:27:37.603
  • I love you more.
  • 00:27:37.603 --> 00:27:39.505
  • And just as that father's holding his daughter,
  • 00:27:39.505 --> 00:27:42.207
  • I'm holding you and i will never let you fall,
  • 00:27:42.207 --> 00:27:45.744
  • But you've gotta trust me."
  • 00:27:45.744 --> 00:27:47.646
  • And i fell to my knees,
  • 00:27:48.313 --> 00:27:50.516
  • And i literally at that point in my life surrendered my life
  • 00:27:50.516 --> 00:27:52.284
  • Because at that point i realized i wanted god's will
  • 00:27:52.284 --> 00:27:56.789
  • For my life more than i wanted anything else.
  • 00:27:56.789 --> 00:28:00.392
  • I wanted his plan for me without my memories
  • 00:28:00.392 --> 00:28:04.496
  • More than i wanted my plan with my memories.
  • 00:28:04.496 --> 00:28:07.666
  • And i chose to trust him with all of it.
  • 00:28:07.666 --> 00:28:11.103
  • - [announcer] marcy came clean before god and her husband.
  • 00:28:12.471 --> 00:28:15.440
  • She was set free from alcohol addiction
  • 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:17.376
  • As she put her life in god's hands.
  • 00:28:17.376 --> 00:28:20.212
  • Her memories have not returned.
  • 00:28:20.212 --> 00:28:22.381
  • However, her passion for painting was reborn
  • 00:28:22.381 --> 00:28:24.983
  • And has grown into a successful career
  • 00:28:24.983 --> 00:28:27.419
  • With the word of god at its foundation.
  • 00:28:27.419 --> 00:28:30.222
  • - i take scripture from usually
  • 00:28:30.222 --> 00:28:31.790
  • A verse i'm studying that morning.
  • 00:28:31.790 --> 00:28:33.592
  • I will take it to the studio
  • 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:35.594
  • And i will paint it across the blank canvas
  • 00:28:35.594 --> 00:28:38.864
  • And that becomes the foundation for the piece.
  • 00:28:38.864 --> 00:28:41.767
  • And it is also the inspiration for the title.
  • 00:28:41.767 --> 00:28:45.037
  • - [announcer] in her book, "blank canvas,"
  • 00:28:45.037 --> 00:28:47.272
  • She tells her amazing story
  • 00:28:47.272 --> 00:28:48.674
  • And the process of learning to trust god
  • 00:28:48.674 --> 00:28:51.810
  • With each layer of challenge and grace
  • 00:28:51.810 --> 00:28:54.046
  • She faces in her life.
  • 00:28:54.046 --> 00:28:56.048
  • - one day i was putting a final layer on
  • 00:28:56.048 --> 00:28:58.383
  • And god literally just impressed on my heart.
  • 00:28:58.383 --> 00:29:02.454
  • God is the master artist and we are his canvas.
  • 00:29:02.454 --> 00:29:07.492
  • We are his masterpiece.
  • 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:10.095
  • So every layer in my life is important
  • 00:29:10.095 --> 00:29:14.399
  • To make me who i am.
  • 00:29:14.399 --> 00:29:16.635
  • And if we are his masterpiece and you're in a bad layer,
  • 00:29:16.635 --> 00:29:21.473
  • You're in a bad place, he's not finished.
  • 00:29:21.473 --> 00:29:25.143
  • And i am convinced and i'm confident
  • 00:29:26.211 --> 00:29:28.881
  • That he is gonna finish the work he has begun.
  • 00:29:28.881 --> 00:29:31.750
  • So there's no accidents and there's no mistakes.
  • 00:29:32.885 --> 00:29:38.457
  • - well, we can count on that
  • 00:29:39.224 --> 00:29:40.359
  • Because god tells us that,
  • 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.194
  • That he will complete the work that he has begun in us.
  • 00:29:42.194 --> 00:29:45.597
  • What an interesting story.
  • 00:29:45.597 --> 00:29:47.199
  • Isn't it fascinating to hear from marcy?
  • 00:29:47.199 --> 00:29:49.234
  • And also the comparison between painting
  • 00:29:49.234 --> 00:29:51.837
  • And the layers of paint
  • 00:29:51.837 --> 00:29:53.038
  • And how god works in our lives
  • 00:29:53.038 --> 00:29:54.640
  • When we sometimes don't even realize that?
  • 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.808
  • Well, you can read more about marcy's story in her book,
  • 00:29:56.808 --> 00:29:59.611
  • "blank canvas."
  • 00:29:59.611 --> 00:30:00.746
  • It's available where books are sold.
  • 00:30:00.746 --> 00:30:02.848
  • And we want you to know that if you struggle with addiction
  • 00:30:02.848 --> 00:30:05.617
  • Like marcy once did with alcohol,
  • 00:30:05.617 --> 00:30:07.486
  • We have a resource sheet to help you
  • 00:30:07.486 --> 00:30:09.521
  • Because jesus said he came to set the captive free.
  • 00:30:09.521 --> 00:30:11.957
  • Well, this sheet is called free indeed.
  • 00:30:11.957 --> 00:30:14.326
  • You can download it at cbn.com
  • 00:30:14.326 --> 00:30:16.561
  • Or if you'd like to receive it in the mail,
  • 00:30:16.561 --> 00:30:18.563
  • You can call us, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:30:18.563 --> 00:30:21.800
  • Just say, i'd like the free indeed resource sheet.
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  • We'll send it out to you. gordon.
  • 00:30:24.236 --> 00:30:26.505
  • - coming up several months behind on his mortgage
  • 00:30:26.505 --> 00:30:29.641
  • And depending on a food bank for his meals,
  • 00:30:29.641 --> 00:30:32.945
  • This single dad quit his business to save his son.
  • 00:30:32.945 --> 00:30:36.548
  • See what saved him from losing his home
  • 00:30:36.548 --> 00:30:39.751
  • Later on today's "700 club."
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [interviewee] when i was a young girl,
  • 00:30:45.958 --> 00:30:47.459
  • I went to fetch water for my mother.
  • 00:30:47.459 --> 00:30:49.461
  • The weight of the water made my neck hurt so bad.
  • 00:30:49.461 --> 00:30:52.130
  • I just poured the water out
  • 00:30:52.130 --> 00:30:53.532
  • And went home with an empty container.
  • 00:30:53.532 --> 00:30:55.867
  • The stream is very far and i go four times a day.
  • 00:30:55.867 --> 00:30:59.671
  • I get home exhausted.
  • 00:30:59.671 --> 00:31:01.406
  • I feel terrible drinking that water
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  • And giving it to my family.
  • 00:31:03.508 --> 00:31:05.143
  • We often get intense stomachache and vomit.
  • 00:31:05.143 --> 00:31:08.714
  • When my son was three, he got very sick from the water.
  • 00:31:08.714 --> 00:31:13.018
  • Thank you operation blessing for giving us a new life.
  • 00:31:13.018 --> 00:31:16.521
  • When you came,
  • 00:31:16.521 --> 00:31:17.990
  • We were all so grateful we could not hold back our joy.
  • 00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:21.727
  • I've never had this kind of water before.
  • 00:31:21.727 --> 00:31:24.496
  • Every time i drink it, i feel good and healthy.
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  • With the world is close,
  • 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.002
  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
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  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • - [announcer] partner with cbn for $20 a month
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  • And be part of the miracle for people all around the world.
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  • - in the last five minutes of my labor and delivery
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  • Was when i noticed something was wrong.
  • 00:31:49.221 --> 00:31:51.490
  • They put her on my chest and right away they took her away
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  • And she wasn't crying and she looked sort of gray.
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  • I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
  • 00:31:58.764 --> 00:32:00.632
  • Then they came back in the room and said,
  • 00:32:01.767 --> 00:32:02.801
  • "she's had a brain injury."
  • 00:32:02.801 --> 00:32:05.437
  • That's when i really started praying,
  • 00:32:05.437 --> 00:32:07.606
  • "god, please, please let her mind be okay."
  • 00:32:07.606 --> 00:32:11.076
  • Turned on the tv
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  • And just randomly flipping the channels, here's cbn.
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  • It really lifted me up.
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  • It gave me that little bit of hope i needed at the time.
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  • After that i really felt like things started
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  • Moving even more.
  • 00:32:20.419 --> 00:32:21.787
  • She went from being behind to advanced for her age.
  • 00:32:21.787 --> 00:32:26.091
  • I can never deny the power of prayer.
  • 00:32:26.091 --> 00:32:28.193
  • I would always just say,
  • 00:32:28.193 --> 00:32:29.461
  • "pray and pray more and just keep trusting god."
  • 00:32:29.461 --> 00:32:33.398
  • His word is true.
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  • He saw me through all the bad things
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  • I thought would happen to my daughter and he healed her.
  • 00:32:36.868 --> 00:32:39.938
  • 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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  • - the only way i can describe it is
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  • I was supernaturally delivered
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  • From a nine year cocaine addiction.
  • 00:33:19.311 --> 00:33:22.547
  • I loved jesus. i was a christian, but i was deeply in pain.
  • 00:33:22.547 --> 00:33:26.651
  • I was physically addicted, i was mentally addicted,
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  • I was all of those things.
  • 00:33:29.221 --> 00:33:30.689
  • I knew how bad off i was and what i felt him saying was,
  • 00:33:30.689 --> 00:33:35.393
  • "i created you for more than this, my girl."
  • 00:33:36.495 --> 00:33:38.730
  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message to say,
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  • You are enough in me.
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  • - the international outreach of cbn is simply amazing.
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  • - i think cbn ends up touching
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  • Many of the areas of the world that
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  • You as an individual cannot touch.
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  • - it allows me to be a part
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  • Of such an amazing body of christ.
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  • - i mean this thrilled us. we love to give.
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  • - it's a blessing to be able to be a part of this,
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  • To be able to speak about an amazing community that cbn is.
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  • (cheerful music)
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  • - god, i can't stop.
  • 00:34:16.368 --> 00:34:17.836
  • I'm gonna wreck my marriage. i'm gonna wreck my family.
  • 00:34:17.836 --> 00:34:20.572
  • I had this just lust,
  • 00:34:20.572 --> 00:34:21.940
  • This physical dependency that i had to these drugs.
  • 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:25.277
  • - i just couldn't be with him the rest of my life.
  • 00:34:25.277 --> 00:34:27.913
  • I decided to leave.
  • 00:34:27.913 --> 00:34:30.949
  • - i just remember him doing the altar call
  • 00:34:32.050 --> 00:34:34.019
  • And if you're not sure that you're gonna go to heaven,
  • 00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:36.688
  • You've gotta confess with your mouth.
  • 00:34:36.688 --> 00:34:39.357
  • Say that you're a sinner.
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  • You gotta believe that christ died for your sins.
  • 00:34:40.725 --> 00:34:42.794
  • There's only one way,
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  • There's only one hope and that's christ.
  • 00:34:44.029 --> 00:34:46.464
  • - this kind of lifestyle
  • 00:34:46.464 --> 00:34:47.899
  • Was leading to nothing but destruction.
  • 00:34:47.899 --> 00:34:51.770
  • I just wanted to give a big middle finger to life
  • 00:34:51.770 --> 00:34:54.873
  • And blow up everything.
  • 00:34:54.873 --> 00:34:57.609
  • The light is so light when you know how dark the dark is.
  • 00:34:57.609 --> 00:35:01.246
  • And i am grateful every single day for the life that i have.
  • 00:35:02.647 --> 00:35:06.318
  • And i know every single day
  • 00:35:06.318 --> 00:35:08.086
  • That the life that i have is because of jesus.
  • 00:35:08.086 --> 00:35:11.856
  • And if god can do that for me,
  • 00:35:11.856 --> 00:35:13.692
  • Then he can do that for anyone.
  • 00:35:13.692 --> 00:35:16.494
  • - a gut punch, that's what todd felt
  • 00:35:17.495 --> 00:35:19.798
  • When he received a letter saying he could lose his house.
  • 00:35:19.798 --> 00:35:23.134
  • He had fallen behind on his mortgage
  • 00:35:23.134 --> 00:35:25.170
  • After he switched jobs to spend more time with his son.
  • 00:35:25.170 --> 00:35:28.807
  • A drastic pay cut followed and this single dad
  • 00:35:28.807 --> 00:35:32.344
  • Had to depend on food banks just to put meals on the table,
  • 00:35:32.344 --> 00:35:36.548
  • But not anymore.
  • 00:35:36.548 --> 00:35:37.816
  • Today todd has quadrupled his income
  • 00:35:37.816 --> 00:35:40.919
  • And here's how he did it.
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  • - [announcer] todd dunston always knew
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  • He wanted to be a builder.
  • 00:35:46.157 --> 00:35:47.926
  • He eventually started his own
  • 00:35:47.926 --> 00:35:49.427
  • Carpentry business and did well.
  • 00:35:49.427 --> 00:35:51.696
  • Meanwhile, one of his sons
  • 00:35:51.696 --> 00:35:53.298
  • Started going through some difficulties.
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  • As a single father, todd had a tough choice to make.
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  • - i decided to quit my business for a while
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  • And work for someone else
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  • Just so that i could spend a little more time with him.
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  • There's something about family that is more important
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  • And that you'll sacrifice
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  • And go through anything for your family.
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  • - [announcer] his new position provided
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  • A decent salary for a while
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  • And then his pay was cut in half.
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  • - i used up the little savings i had.
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  • I did take some side jobs.
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  • It didn't add up though to quite enough
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  • And i kept getting more in a bind with my bills.
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  • - [announcer] he cut corners to try to make ends meet.
  • 00:36:31.169 --> 00:36:33.705
  • - now all of a sudden, my good intentions
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  • Of spending time with my son began to be serious.
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  • I learned how to make cor, casserole clean out refrigerator.
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  • - [announcer] at one point,
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  • He had to go to a food bank for help.
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  • He also fell several months behind with his mortgage.
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  • - it's a gut punch when you get a letter that
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  • You could lose a house that you worked very hard for.
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  • - [announcer] as a christian, todd had tithed for years.
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  • Even during these lean times, he continued to give to god.
  • 00:37:04.169 --> 00:37:08.373
  • - because i was a giver, i had a little more confidence
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  • That god was gonna take care of things for me.
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  • I felt like i had no to turn but to the lord
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  • And that was also my desire is to see god move on my behalf.
  • 00:37:17.682 --> 00:37:22.754
  • - [announcer] then one sunday at church,
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  • - the pastor read the verse before offering,
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  • And god started speaking to me immediately and he said,
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  • "todd, i've seen your need and i've taken care of it."
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  • I got home the moment i shut the door,
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  • I mean click, my phone rings.
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  • - [announcer] the call was from a former contractor of his
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  • Who wanted to hire him for some big projects.
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  • Todd accepted and then asked if he could get
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  • A cash advance even before the work began
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  • - and he did not hesitate.
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  • The next day there was $4,000 in my bank account.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • - [announcer] the advance allowed him
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  • To catch up on his mortgage and his bills,
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  • And that was only the beginning.
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  • He continued to work with that client for several years
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  • During which time his income substantially increased.
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  • Best of all, by this point,
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  • Things had started to improve with his son.
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  • - i believe it was beneficial for him.
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  • I began to see a change in him. he's holding down a job.
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  • He's actually has a small business himself in another state.
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  • - todd is once again an independent contractor
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  • And having struggled himself,
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  • He now likes helping others as a cbn partner.
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  • - i like how they go to different parts of the country,
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  • In different parts of the world and they're there
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  • To lend a hand and to help people in their faith
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  • When they're in trouble.
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  • - [announcer] today, todd's income has quadrupled
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  • And he and his family are doing better than ever.
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  • He encourages others who need a miracle to give
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  • Just like he does.
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  • - we all have a part in building god's kingdom.
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  • I would challenge others to support the work at cbn.
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  • He sees it. he doesn't forget it.
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  • If if you're in a difficult situation right now,
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  • Whatever the problem is, you can trust god with giving.
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  • God is gonna come through for you.
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  • - god will come through for you.
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  • He always honors his promise.
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  • And his promise is give and it will be given unto you.
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  • For todd, that became very difficult.
  • 00:39:29.814 --> 00:39:32.250
  • He had a whole lot more month than he had money
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  • And here he is facing foreclosure on the home
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  • He had worked so hard for.
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  • But what did he do?
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  • He continued to honor god and in that,
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  • God honored him and spoke to him and said,
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  • "i'm going to take care of your needs,"
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  • And then did so very miraculously.
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  • What an incredible story of god's faithfulness.
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  • You can have your own story of god's faithfulness.
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  • He wants to watch over his word to perform it for you.
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  • He loves you. he wants to provide for your every need.
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  • What is he looking for?
  • 00:40:06.751 --> 00:40:08.486
  • He's looking for you to put him first.
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  • When you seek his righteousness and his kingdom,
  • 00:40:10.688 --> 00:40:14.759
  • You put him first in your life,
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  • Then all these other things will be added unto you.
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  • That's what the bible promises
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  • And god always keeps his promise.
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  • If you wanna start a life of giving,
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  • This isn't some on again off again thing.
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  • This is in the good times and in the tough times,
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  • Give and it will be given unto you.
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  • If you wanna start doing that, give us a call.
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  • And help people here at home and around the world.
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  • I wanna be a part of preaching the gospel around the world.
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  • Some of you can give it higher levels.
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  • We have 700 club gold at $40 a month.
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  • We also have 1,000 club that's $1,000 a year.
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  • You can go to cbn.com, and you give monthly on the internet,
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  • That his wife had 0% chance of surviving.
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  • Watch how he held onto hope and see how it led to a miracle.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - i start drinking alcohol
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  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
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  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
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  • I was weak in my relationship with god
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  • And i was just a weak human being
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  • And god got further and further away.
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  • When you feel his presence
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  • And you walk away from it, there's guilt is shame,
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  • But there's also a sort of a sense that
  • 00:43:27.051 --> 00:43:29.687
  • It'll never happen for you again.
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  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time,
  • 00:43:31.956 --> 00:43:34.325
  • She said, "daddy, i want you to be happy.
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  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:43:36.928 --> 00:43:39.197
  • God started to reveal himself to me again
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  • And he started to melt away the ice that was in my heart.
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  • I'm trying to talk people into this life
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  • That is second to none,
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  • This life of feeling christ's presence in your life.
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  • - i was angry, hurt, outta control.
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  • It's like i didn't even care about life.
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  • I knew of god, but i didn't know him.
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  • It has to be a better plan for my life than this.
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  • I'm tired, lord. help me.
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  • Help me, lord. help me.
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  • My heart totally changed.
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  • I felt the overwhelming love now.
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  • I had been set free from all the hurt.
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  • I started learning the love of god
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  • That changed everything within me.
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • - autumn carver was eight months pregnant
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  • When she contracted covid.
  • 00:45:36.180 --> 00:45:38.649
  • She became so sick her unborn baby
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  • Had to be delivered by emergency c-section.
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  • Soon autumn was put on life support
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  • And her husband was told she had no chance for survival.
  • 00:45:46.757 --> 00:45:50.528
  • - they walked in and said it's a boy, and he was doing fine.
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  • - [announcer] the emergency c-section had gone well
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  • For zach carver's third child.
  • 00:45:57.368 --> 00:45:59.971
  • He was now resting in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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  • His wife, autumn, however, was in icu fighting for her life.
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  • - i was told that she had 0% chance of survival.
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  • I mean the worst day of my life.
  • 00:46:11.883 --> 00:46:13.317
  • - [announcer] autumn was eight months pregnant when she
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  • And zach contracted covid-19 in mid-august 2021.
  • 00:46:15.186 --> 00:46:19.924
  • Zach recovered quickly, autumn did not.
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  • By late august, she was in icu on a ventilator
  • 00:46:23.094 --> 00:46:26.297
  • With acute respiratory distress syndrome
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  • And having an emergency c-section
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  • To save the life of the baby.
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  • Now she was on advanced life support called ecmo.
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  • - i've been with autumn since i was 14 years old.
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  • I don't know life without her.
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  • And so, their telling me that she's not gonna survive,
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  • It was traumatic
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  • - [announcer] in the coming weeks,
  • 00:46:46.584 --> 00:46:47.785
  • Autumn remained in critical condition.
  • 00:46:47.785 --> 00:46:50.721
  • All zach could do was pray and ask god for a miracle.
  • 00:46:50.721 --> 00:46:55.159
  • - i would sit with her and pray and pray over
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  • And it was just overwhelming.
  • 00:46:57.929 --> 00:46:59.630
  • And so i'd go walk the halls or go sit in the waiting room
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  • And i was begging him to keep her alive.
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  • Let her beat the odds.
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  • I need her. you know, the kids need her.
  • 00:47:05.937 --> 00:47:07.538
  • - [announcer] by now, zach had posted
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  • A prayer request on facebook
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  • That ignited a wildfire on social media.
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  • - literally millions of people
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  • All over the world were just praying for us.
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  • I told him not leaving here without autumn.
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  • I prayed all the time, every second.
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  • I can't even explain it i guess,
  • 00:47:21.218 --> 00:47:22.787
  • But i just knew that she was gonna survive.
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  • - [announcer] during the day,
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  • Zach maintained a vigil at autumn's side.
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  • At night, he visited his two daughters
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  • And baby son, huxley,
  • 00:47:31.462 --> 00:47:33.064
  • Who were staying with their grandparents.
  • 00:47:33.064 --> 00:47:35.866
  • Then he returned to an empty dark house.
  • 00:47:35.866 --> 00:47:39.770
  • - it was super sad.
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  • I would come in, get some food, go to bed.
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  • I hated being here.
  • 00:47:43.407 --> 00:47:44.608
  • - [announcer] with the arrival of fall,
  • 00:47:44.608 --> 00:47:46.077
  • Came more complications for the young mother and wife,
  • 00:47:46.077 --> 00:47:49.580
  • Multiple infections, anemia, and a cardiac arrest.
  • 00:47:49.580 --> 00:47:54.051
  • Doctors had few answers and even considered
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  • A double lung transplant, but dismissed the idea.
  • 00:47:57.154 --> 00:48:01.392
  • Instead, they suggested that autumn
  • 00:48:01.392 --> 00:48:04.028
  • Be taken off life support and allowed to die peacefully
  • 00:48:04.028 --> 00:48:08.165
  • With a do not resuscitate order in place.
  • 00:48:08.165 --> 00:48:11.669
  • Zach declined, refusing to give up.
  • 00:48:11.669 --> 00:48:14.939
  • - the main doctor said
  • 00:48:14.939 --> 00:48:16.207
  • There was a 0% chance that she would survive.
  • 00:48:16.207 --> 00:48:19.243
  • I remember going off on my own that afternoon
  • 00:48:19.243 --> 00:48:21.479
  • And like, i dunno, somewhere in the hospital.
  • 00:48:21.479 --> 00:48:23.581
  • I've been praying. i just knew that she wasn't gonna die.
  • 00:48:23.581 --> 00:48:26.817
  • - [announcer] zach and millions on facebook
  • 00:48:26.817 --> 00:48:28.919
  • Continued to pray,
  • 00:48:28.919 --> 00:48:30.654
  • As zach began searching for a second opinion.
  • 00:48:30.654 --> 00:48:34.025
  • In early october, there was one hopeful moment.
  • 00:48:34.025 --> 00:48:37.828
  • Autumn's vital signs improved slightly
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  • And doctors agreed to zach's request
  • 00:48:40.531 --> 00:48:43.000
  • That she be taken out of sedation and off ecmo
  • 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.904
  • Long enough for her to see and huxley,
  • 00:48:46.904 --> 00:48:50.174
  • For the first and perhaps last time.
  • 00:48:50.174 --> 00:48:53.978
  • - i obviously had very little strength to hold myself up,
  • 00:48:53.978 --> 00:48:57.648
  • So they got me all propped up with lots of pillows
  • 00:48:57.648 --> 00:49:00.985
  • All around me and they brought him in
  • 00:49:00.985 --> 00:49:03.687
  • And they put him in my arms.
  • 00:49:03.687 --> 00:49:05.456
  • Zach was helping me. we got to feed him a bottle.
  • 00:49:05.456 --> 00:49:07.992
  • So they took him and then they just like laid him to my side
  • 00:49:07.992 --> 00:49:13.064
  • And he just kind of like curled up and went to sleep.
  • 00:49:14.298 --> 00:49:18.069
  • - [announcer] the reunion was short-lived
  • 00:49:19.170 --> 00:49:21.172
  • As autumn was put back on ecmo.
  • 00:49:21.172 --> 00:49:24.108
  • Then another answer to prayer.
  • 00:49:24.108 --> 00:49:26.577
  • Renowned thoracic surgeon, dr. ankit bharat
  • 00:49:26.577 --> 00:49:30.014
  • At northwestern memorial hospital in chicago
  • 00:49:30.014 --> 00:49:33.684
  • Agreed to evaluate autumn for a double lung transplant.
  • 00:49:33.684 --> 00:49:38.022
  • - we got transferred up chicago and that doctor,
  • 00:49:38.022 --> 00:49:40.524
  • Day two said, "whether you need a lung transplant or not,
  • 00:49:40.524 --> 00:49:43.694
  • You're gonna be fine."
  • 00:49:43.694 --> 00:49:44.962
  • - [announcer] although still on life support,
  • 00:49:44.962 --> 00:49:46.797
  • Autumn was only lightly sedated.
  • 00:49:46.797 --> 00:49:49.600
  • Now, she and zach could pray together
  • 00:49:49.600 --> 00:49:51.869
  • As they waited for dr. bharat's decision.
  • 00:49:51.869 --> 00:49:54.905
  • Before long, he gave them the best news
  • 00:49:56.006 --> 00:49:58.776
  • They could have ever hoped for.
  • 00:49:58.776 --> 00:50:01.378
  • - he came in and said, "you don't need a lung transplant.
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  • You're gonna be fine."
  • 00:50:03.714 --> 00:50:05.049
  • It was super good news, super, super good news.
  • 00:50:05.049 --> 00:50:07.284
  • You know, we've embraced in a hug
  • 00:50:07.284 --> 00:50:09.186
  • And thanked god and the doctor,
  • 00:50:09.186 --> 00:50:11.622
  • - [announcer] autumn was weaned slowly
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  • From the va ecmo machine and continued to improve.
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  • On november 11th,
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  • Three months after being given no hope for survival,
  • 00:50:18.963 --> 00:50:22.800
  • Autumn was discharged from northwest memorial hospital
  • 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:26.871
  • To begin three weeks of rehabilitation.
  • 00:50:26.871 --> 00:50:29.840
  • On december 1st, 2021, autumn walked out
  • 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:33.277
  • Of the hospital smiling and unassisted.
  • 00:50:33.277 --> 00:50:37.381
  • - we pulled in the driveway in our neighbors
  • 00:50:37.381 --> 00:50:39.416
  • We're in our yard like yelling and screaming
  • 00:50:39.416 --> 00:50:41.785
  • And try not to cry.
  • 00:50:41.785 --> 00:50:44.355
  • (cheerful music)
  • 00:50:44.355 --> 00:50:49.760
  • It was just emotional.
  • 00:50:50.427 --> 00:50:52.363
  • - it was a whole host of emotion.
  • 00:50:53.230 --> 00:50:57.034
  • Just the opportunity to see my kids grow,
  • 00:50:57.034 --> 00:51:00.905
  • Spend time with my husband.
  • 00:51:00.905 --> 00:51:02.773
  • Every day is a gift.
  • 00:51:02.773 --> 00:51:04.408
  • My daughter said, "i believe in miracles, mommy."
  • 00:51:04.408 --> 00:51:06.577
  • - [announcer] the neighborhood is quiet today.
  • 00:51:06.577 --> 00:51:08.946
  • Autumn is busy providing her family
  • 00:51:08.946 --> 00:51:10.981
  • With all the tlc they missed and more.
  • 00:51:10.981 --> 00:51:14.785
  • But life and the carver family will never be the same.
  • 00:51:14.785 --> 00:51:19.156
  • - tell people you love 'em, give lots of hugs.
  • 00:51:19.156 --> 00:51:21.825
  • They can just all change so quickly
  • 00:51:21.825 --> 00:51:23.928
  • And you don't wanna leave anything unsaid.
  • 00:51:23.928 --> 00:51:26.931
  • - i'm closer with my family.
  • 00:51:26.931 --> 00:51:28.299
  • I say prayers with my kids every single night now.
  • 00:51:28.299 --> 00:51:29.900
  • I didn't do that before.
  • 00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:31.669
  • I'm super grateful and i i don't go throughout the day,
  • 00:51:31.669 --> 00:51:34.572
  • You know, without saying multiple prayers.
  • 00:51:34.572 --> 00:51:36.607
  • And prayer saved my wife
  • 00:51:36.607 --> 00:51:38.375
  • And not only did it save her life, but it changed my life.
  • 00:51:38.375 --> 00:51:41.845
  • - prayer is so important. i mean, it's everything.
  • 00:51:41.845 --> 00:51:46.483
  • It saved my life.
  • 00:51:46.483 --> 00:51:47.952
  • When people are flooding the gates of heaven,
  • 00:51:47.952 --> 00:51:50.654
  • There was no way it could be ignored.
  • 00:51:50.654 --> 00:51:54.992
  • - boy, autumn is right. life can change like that, can't it?
  • 00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:59.830
  • And everything suddenly comes to a grinding halt
  • 00:51:59.830 --> 00:52:03.033
  • And sometimes you know,
  • 00:52:03.033 --> 00:52:04.635
  • Things can be fixed or taken care of quickly
  • 00:52:04.635 --> 00:52:07.905
  • And sometimes there's a process to it.
  • 00:52:07.905 --> 00:52:10.207
  • But god is in it all and prayer does change things.
  • 00:52:10.207 --> 00:52:14.144
  • So we wanna take a few minutes to pray for you today,
  • 00:52:14.144 --> 00:52:17.748
  • And we have some other stories of people who've been touched
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  • By the power of prayer and their circumstances have changed.
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  • This is shantal who sent this message by email.
  • 00:52:24.321 --> 00:52:28.559
  • She said, "while gordon was praying,
  • 00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:30.160
  • I asked god to heal my bronchial tubes
  • 00:52:30.160 --> 00:52:32.463
  • Because i keep getting recurring bronchitis,
  • 00:52:32.463 --> 00:52:35.165
  • Which i had at that very moment.
  • 00:52:35.165 --> 00:52:37.268
  • I asked that he heal my body
  • 00:52:38.035 --> 00:52:39.703
  • And that i never get bronchitis again.
  • 00:52:39.703 --> 00:52:42.072
  • Gordon then said, 'someone has a lung condition,
  • 00:52:42.072 --> 00:52:45.209
  • You have recurring bronchitis.'
  • 00:52:45.209 --> 00:52:46.977
  • He said, 'god is healing your lungs
  • 00:52:46.977 --> 00:52:49.146
  • And he's giving you a normal response
  • 00:52:49.146 --> 00:52:50.848
  • To bacteria and viruses.
  • 00:52:50.848 --> 00:52:52.950
  • You'll be healed from this day forward.
  • 00:52:52.950 --> 00:52:55.452
  • It's not going to recur.
  • 00:52:55.452 --> 00:52:57.354
  • Take that deep breath and realize god has given you life.'
  • 00:52:57.354 --> 00:53:00.824
  • I took that deep breath
  • 00:53:00.824 --> 00:53:02.059
  • And i felt the blessing flow into my lungs.
  • 00:53:02.059 --> 00:53:04.928
  • I knew right then i was cured.
  • 00:53:04.928 --> 00:53:07.197
  • When i went to the doctor,
  • 00:53:07.197 --> 00:53:08.565
  • He said my lungs were clear and free of any virus.
  • 00:53:08.565 --> 00:53:11.402
  • I know i was healed and i will never get bronchitis again
  • 00:53:11.402 --> 00:53:14.271
  • After suffering with it four to five times a year
  • 00:53:14.271 --> 00:53:17.775
  • For the past 10 years.
  • 00:53:17.775 --> 00:53:19.777
  • - [gordon] wow, that's a miracle. here's dana.
  • 00:53:19.777 --> 00:53:23.247
  • "the other night, my husband and i
  • 00:53:23.247 --> 00:53:24.815
  • Were at a friend's house for dinner.
  • 00:53:24.815 --> 00:53:26.884
  • I wasn't able to eat with everyone because when i would eat,
  • 00:53:26.884 --> 00:53:31.221
  • My stomach would always hurt.
  • 00:53:31.221 --> 00:53:33.624
  • I've had this battle for a year,
  • 00:53:33.624 --> 00:53:35.092
  • Having numerous doctor's appointments
  • 00:53:35.092 --> 00:53:37.094
  • And there was nothing else they could do.
  • 00:53:37.094 --> 00:53:39.596
  • When we got home, i was so frustrated
  • 00:53:39.596 --> 00:53:41.799
  • Because i felt it was ruining my life.
  • 00:53:41.799 --> 00:53:44.702
  • We watched "the 700 club" for the first time
  • 00:53:44.702 --> 00:53:47.271
  • And terry prayed about the lining
  • 00:53:47.271 --> 00:53:49.039
  • Of someone's intestines being healed.
  • 00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:51.709
  • Immediately, i felt a warm sensation
  • 00:53:51.709 --> 00:53:53.911
  • Going through my feet and resting on my stomach.
  • 00:53:53.911 --> 00:53:58.415
  • I knew it was for me and i broke down in tears.
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  • Thank you, jesus, for my healing."
  • 00:54:01.752 --> 00:54:04.755
  • Here's a scripture for you.
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  • It's from psalm 146:6.
  • 00:54:05.889 --> 00:54:07.991
  • "he keeps every promise forever."
  • 00:54:08.959 --> 00:54:12.863
  • You look at the promises of god,
  • 00:54:12.863 --> 00:54:14.832
  • He forgives all your iniquities,
  • 00:54:14.832 --> 00:54:17.568
  • He heals all your diseases.
  • 00:54:17.568 --> 00:54:20.771
  • Let your disease today be part of that all,
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  • That he heals it all.
  • 00:54:23.674 --> 00:54:25.376
  • May the kingdom of heaven come near to you right now.
  • 00:54:25.376 --> 00:54:30.314
  • In heaven, there's nobody sick. it's not allowed there.
  • 00:54:30.314 --> 00:54:34.418
  • It shouldn't be allowed here.
  • 00:54:34.418 --> 00:54:36.320
  • That's why jesus told us to pray this,
  • 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.889
  • Thy kingdom come,
  • 00:54:38.889 --> 00:54:40.224
  • Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
  • 00:54:40.224 --> 00:54:44.461
  • Let's do that. let's do that collectively.
  • 00:54:44.461 --> 00:54:47.464
  • Let's thank him that he keeps his promise.
  • 00:54:47.464 --> 00:54:49.700
  • Let's thank him for the cross.
  • 00:54:49.700 --> 00:54:51.535
  • Let's thank him for by his stripes we are healed.
  • 00:54:51.535 --> 00:54:54.505
  • Let's thank him that he's allowed us
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  • To enter into his presence once again.
  • 00:54:56.540 --> 00:54:59.543
  • Let's pray.
  • 00:54:59.543 --> 00:55:00.911
  • Lord, we come to you with thanksgiving.
  • 00:55:00.911 --> 00:55:03.180
  • We come to you with praise on our lips
  • 00:55:03.180 --> 00:55:06.183
  • For what you're about to do.
  • 00:55:06.183 --> 00:55:07.951
  • We thank you for the sacrifice that you made.
  • 00:55:07.951 --> 00:55:11.522
  • We thank you that for god so loved the world
  • 00:55:11.522 --> 00:55:14.558
  • And you loved each one of us,
  • 00:55:14.558 --> 00:55:17.528
  • That you gave your only begotten son.
  • 00:55:17.528 --> 00:55:20.631
  • So lord, right now,
  • 00:55:21.265 --> 00:55:22.499
  • We want to be whosoevers that believe in you.
  • 00:55:22.499 --> 00:55:26.036
  • We don't want to perish,
  • 00:55:26.036 --> 00:55:27.504
  • But we want to have your everlasting life.
  • 00:55:27.504 --> 00:55:30.441
  • We want to have your miracle power
  • 00:55:30.441 --> 00:55:33.444
  • Present in our lives today,
  • 00:55:33.444 --> 00:55:37.514
  • For you are the same yesterday, today and forever.
  • 00:55:37.514 --> 00:55:42.286
  • You are the god of the right now.
  • 00:55:42.286 --> 00:55:45.255
  • So right now, stretch forth your hand to do
  • 00:55:45.255 --> 00:55:48.792
  • Miracle, signs and wonders for we ask it in jesus' name.
  • 00:55:48.792 --> 00:55:55.065
  • There's someone in your name as lucy
  • 00:55:56.133 --> 00:55:57.734
  • And you just heard that story about intestinal problems
  • 00:55:57.734 --> 00:56:00.804
  • And you have the same thing,
  • 00:56:00.804 --> 00:56:02.739
  • That you eat and it just causes enormous pain.
  • 00:56:02.739 --> 00:56:06.276
  • God is healing your intestines right now.
  • 00:56:06.276 --> 00:56:08.445
  • He's healing everything in the small intestine,
  • 00:56:08.445 --> 00:56:11.381
  • All that lining, all of that problem in jesus' name.
  • 00:56:11.381 --> 00:56:15.486
  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:56:15.486 --> 00:56:17.988
  • Terry.
  • 00:56:17.988 --> 00:56:19.356
  • - yeah, there's someone else you've been praying for
  • 00:56:19.356 --> 00:56:22.192
  • Medical equipment that you need
  • 00:56:22.192 --> 00:56:23.961
  • For someone in your family who's sick.
  • 00:56:23.961 --> 00:56:25.596
  • I mean, you need a considerable amount
  • 00:56:25.596 --> 00:56:28.232
  • Of just stuff that's expensive.
  • 00:56:28.232 --> 00:56:30.534
  • God is going to supply all of that for you.
  • 00:56:30.534 --> 00:56:33.604
  • You will be amazed at how it comes to you,
  • 00:56:33.604 --> 00:56:35.706
  • But it is on its way in jesus' name.
  • 00:56:35.706 --> 00:56:38.509
  • - there's someone you've had swelling in the eye socket
  • 00:56:38.509 --> 00:56:41.478
  • On the right side of your face and your skull.
  • 00:56:41.478 --> 00:56:46.316
  • And it's causing numerous problems,
  • 00:56:46.316 --> 00:56:50.387
  • But regardless of the problem,
  • 00:56:50.387 --> 00:56:52.556
  • Jesus is the answer right now.
  • 00:56:52.556 --> 00:56:54.892
  • In jesus' name, be healed.
  • 00:56:54.892 --> 00:56:56.894
  • May that swelling dissipate and go away.
  • 00:56:56.894 --> 00:56:59.263
  • May everything with your right eye be normal
  • 00:56:59.263 --> 00:57:02.199
  • And may you see clearly
  • 00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:05.035
  • And may there be no impact on the optic nerve,
  • 00:57:05.035 --> 00:57:08.539
  • On the retina in jesus name,
  • 00:57:08.539 --> 00:57:10.541
  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:57:10.541 --> 00:57:13.677
  • - yeah, there's someone else.
  • 00:57:14.478 --> 00:57:15.612
  • You have an odd condition in your feet.
  • 00:57:15.612 --> 00:57:18.148
  • It kind of started out as just athlete's foot,
  • 00:57:18.148 --> 00:57:21.752
  • But it's cracked and opened and oozing
  • 00:57:21.752 --> 00:57:24.888
  • And nothing you do seems to alleviate this.
  • 00:57:24.888 --> 00:57:28.559
  • God's healing your feet right now.
  • 00:57:28.559 --> 00:57:30.127
  • You're just gonna feel a warmth come into your feet
  • 00:57:30.127 --> 00:57:32.763
  • As all of that begins to become whole in jesus' name,
  • 00:57:32.763 --> 00:57:35.766
  • - someone else with a problem with your right shoulder.
  • 00:57:35.766 --> 00:57:37.868
  • Just begin to move it and realize
  • 00:57:37.868 --> 00:57:39.636
  • You have new freedom of movement in jesus' name, amen.
  • 00:57:39.636 --> 00:57:44.074
  • If you've been touched, let us know.
  • 00:57:44.074 --> 00:57:45.676
  • Let us share your good report.
  • 00:57:45.676 --> 00:57:47.578
  • Call us now, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:57:47.578 --> 00:57:51.081
  • Here's a word from the gospel of luke,
  • 00:57:51.081 --> 00:57:52.849
  • "for with god, nothing will be impossible."
  • 00:57:52.849 --> 00:57:57.287
  • How big is your possible today?
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