The 700 Club

January 21, 2026

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The 700 Club | January 21, 2026 | January 21, 2026

- [narrator 1] the following program
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Is sponsored by cbn.
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- [narrator 2] today, a baby-
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- and suddenly i knew something was wrong.
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- [narrator 2] born at just 23 weeks.
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- [jenny] the issues went on and on.
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As you can imagine,
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We were completely filled with fear.
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- [narrator 2] the prognosis.
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- this child could be blind, they could be deaf,
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They could never walk, they could never talk.
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- [narrator 2] and the prophecy.
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- [jenny] i knew that god had a really
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Big plan for her.
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- [narrator 2] today on "the 700 club".
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(triumphant music)
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- hi everyone and welcome to "the 700 club".
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As a child, josé hernández
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Was a migrant farm worker
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And that hard labor fueled big dreams.
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José wanted to be an astronaut.
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- over the years, he refused to give up
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On his dream, even though nasa turned him
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Down nearly a dozen times.
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Efrem graham brings us
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His extraordinary success story.
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(logo whooshing)
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- [efrem] somehow old faded photographs
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Paint a clear picture of josé hernández's journey
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From a child working in the fields
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Of california in the 1960s and '70s
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To a field of dreams
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That launch him into space in 2009.
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- [reporter] booster ignition and lift off
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Of discovery, celebrating his 25th birthday
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By racking up science and supplies.
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- take me back to where it all began
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In terms of the idea that you, a kid on a farm,
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A migrant farm worker
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Could go to outer space.
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- the stars always attracted me.
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When i was a kid, "star trek",
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The first-run series was coming on, captain kirk.
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And then when we would go out in the fields,
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We would go away from the pollution
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Of light of the city and it was still dark.
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And man, you can see constellations up above.
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- what are stars for?
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Well that is one tough question, sir.
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You know what?
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I think you're gonna be one of those people
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Who can actually come up with an answer
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For that kind of question.
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- [efrem] hernández' million miles story
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Is now a feature film.
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- when i was a 10-year-old, i see
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On the black and white tv,
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The very last apollo mission, apollo 17,
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Eugene cernan walking on the moon.
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And man, that's when they hit me.
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I said, "that's what i wanna be.
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I wanna be like that guy.
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I wanna go to space."
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And i told my dad
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And my dad did something incredible.
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I mean he only has a third grade education,
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But he had the wisdom
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To empower me to believe it.
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'cause he told me, "i think you can do it."
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As a 10-year-old, i never looked back
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As i grew up.
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I just add perseverance
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Because you guys know the story.
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I got rejected by nasa not once,
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Not twice, but 11 times.
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- and then this is gonna be your 11th attempt?
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And i appreciate your persistence
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And i thank you for coming all the way down here,
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But i really wish you'd have saved
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Yourself the airfare. - sir, sir, sir, if i may?
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If i may, this is my strongest application yet
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And this would be my 12th attempt, not my 11th.
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- so you get rejected 11 times.
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What makes you get up the 12th time?
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- well, you know, you really want it,
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But the thing i always tell people
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Is when you select something
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That you're going after,
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Make sure you enjoy the journey,
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'cause that's about 80, 90% of your effort.
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And so i was enjoying the journey.
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- what's changed?
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What's different this time?
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- over the course of the last 10 years,
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Every academic, professional
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And personal decision i've made,
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I've made with the space program in mind.
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- sure. - [josé] i have my master's
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In electrical engineering.
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I'm a pilot now
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With over 800 hours under my belt.
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I have my scuba diving certificate.
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I just ran the san francisco marathon.
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- wow. - and i speak russian, sir.
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- so clearly you are not afraid of hard work.
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What role does faith play in moving you
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From the farm as a little boy
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To what you've accomplished today?
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- oh, a lot, a lot.
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We grew up going to church.
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A lot of people always argue with me
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And say, "wait, wait, isn't that kind
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Of like a contradiction in life?
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You know, science and religion?"
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And i said, "no, quite the contrary."
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I said, "science explains you
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How things work."
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"so religion," i said,
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"explains why things happen,
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Not how things happen, why they happen."
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And so it fills you spiritually
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And as to why things happen.
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And so i think they go hand in hand.
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- i've applied 12 times and yes sir,
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I've been on the verge of giving up
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After each and every rejection.
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But you know what, sir?
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Here i am.
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So you could turn me down again,
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But rest assured i'll be standing here
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Again in a year.
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- how does it feel to watch your story now play
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On screen for other people to see?
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- it's kind of like surreal.
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It's kind of like an open book.
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It's almost like i opened my door
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To my house to the public
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And they're all in here now watching me.
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And it's good in the sense
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That i want people to see my story,
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To understand where i came from,
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Such that they get empowered to say,
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"hey, if he had it that bad
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And he was able to accomplish this,
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Then why can't i accomplish my own goals?"
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- you've got children now of your own.
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Do you see yourself in them?
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- a lot.
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I got five kids. - [efrem] yes.
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- my oldest four weeks ago graduated
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From purdue university
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In aerospace engineering phd.
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- nice. - i told him why purdue?
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He said, "did you know
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That purdue graduates the most astronauts?"
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So that's how he told me he wants
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To be an astronaut. - nice.
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And as josé supports his son's space dreams,
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He's also back on the farm working
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Alongside his dad in the vineyard
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Their family owns.
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Efrem graham, cbn news washington.
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- efrem, thank you so much
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For that inspiring story.
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When you think about he was rejected
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By nasa 11 times,
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But then you reflect back
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And the empowering word from his father,
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Combined with josé's own perseverance,
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Helped him achieve
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What he thought was impossible.
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So us seeing that story is a real shot
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In the arm.
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Devote your life to christ and say,
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"lord, use me how you see fit."
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He can often do incredible things
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We've never imagined.
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We'll be back with more
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Of "the 700 club" right after this.
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Stay with us.
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(upbeat music)
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- [mike] the thing we really like about cbn
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Is we know that our money is going
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To a good cause.
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We know that the money is well spent.
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We know that they're good stewards of our money.
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We know that they take really
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Good care to make sure
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That they aren't wasting our resources.
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- when you are putting together the things
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That you want to happen in your legacy,
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In your will and testament, and your thought
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Is to leave things that you worked very hard for
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For your family.
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Cbn's part of the family.
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And so we included cbn for that very reason.
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- but cbn is in the soul business
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Just like the lord is.
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- [lou] the whole point is to bring people
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Into the kingdom.
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That's what we want to do.
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That's what cbn does.
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- if you want to give to a good cause
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And make sure your money's well taken care of,
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Give it to cbn.
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- [narrator 3] find out how you can leave a legacy.
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Call cbn planned giving today.
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(ethereal music)
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- [villager] when i was a young girl,
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I went to fetch water for my mother.
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The weight of the water made my neck hurt so bad.
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I just pour the water out
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And went home with an empty container.
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The stream is very far
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And i go four times a day.
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I get home exhausted.
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I feel terrible drinking that water
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And giving it to my family.
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We often get intense stomachaches and vomit.
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When my son was three,
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He got very sick from the water.
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Thank you operation blessing
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For giving us a new life.
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When you came, we were all
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So grateful we could not hold back our joy.
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I've never had this kind of water before.
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Every time i drink it, i feel good and healthy.
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With the well is close,
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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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- [narrator 4] partner with cbn for $20 a month
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And be part of the miracle
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For people all around the world.
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- [interviewer] you considered yourself an atheist.
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- [walker] yeah.
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- what did you specifically
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Have against christianity?
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- my dad was a former music minister.
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You know, i saw a lot of hurt in that church.
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- in 2015, walker lost his record deal
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And had their family van repossessed
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By the label.
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That's when craig decided
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To give their family van to walker.
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- [walker] their unconditional love,
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It was so different from what we were used to.
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I went and got a bible and just started reading
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And reading and reading.
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- it was amazing to watch the transformation
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And just the power of the holy spirit.
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- walker had given his life to christ
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And couldn't wait to share the news with craig.
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- i said, "i believe."
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- are you telling me that you believe
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That jesus is the son of god
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And that you wanna live your life for him?
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He said, "that's exactly what i'm saying."
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- [donor 1] giving to "the 700 club" is giving
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To the world.
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"700 club" are my feet.
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They're walking it there.
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All i'm doing is helping write the check.
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- it's just like planting a seed in the ground
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And the water comes and the sun hits it
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And it grows.
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- you can trust cbn, they're going
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To take your money and invest it wisely.
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- [donor 2] you are saving souls
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Through your giving.
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(epic music)
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- the only way i can describe it
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Is i was supernaturally delivered
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From a nine year cocaine addiction.
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I loved jesus.
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I was a christian, but i was deeply in pain.
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I was physically addicted,
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I was mentally addicted.
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I was all of those things.
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I knew how bad off i was
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And what i felt him saying was,
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"i created you for more than this, my girl."
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God filled those holes with a beautiful message
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To say, "you are enough," in me.
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- calvary temple is india's largest church
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With more than 300,000 members.
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Pastors satish kumar is now on a mission
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To build 40 more megachurches
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In the next 10 years.
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George thomas brings us the story from hyderabad.
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(logo whooshing)
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- [george] most roads in hyderabad on sundays
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Lead to calvary temple.
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It's a little after four in the morning
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And side streets around the church
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Are already jammed.
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As church volunteers coordinate traffic,
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Shuttle buses, auto rickshaws
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And motorcycles ferry thousands
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Of people all trying to get here,
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Some two hours ahead of calvary's first
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Of five services that begin at six.
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(pastor chanting)
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By sunrise, the faithful have taken their seats.
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The main sanctuary holds 18,000 people supported
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By adjacent bethlehem hall with 15,000,
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And a third structure accommodating
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More than 3000.
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Hundreds more watching on television screens
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Scattered around the sprawling calvary campus.
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Pastor satish kumar preaches all five services
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With the last one ending at 8:00 pm.
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- i've been given the grace to pastor
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This church which practices the word of god,
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Which is beyond my dream and imagination.
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- calvary temple started in 2005
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With about two dozen people.
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Well today it boasts more than 300,000
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Members making it this nation's biggest church
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And one of the largest in the world.
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They have 11 satellite churches with plans
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Of more nationwide expansion.
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- god put a burden in my heart
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To establish 40 mega churches,
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Just like what you see here during next 10 years.
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- [george] pastor kumar says the church
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Adds some 3000 new believers
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Each month in a sign
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That the lord is moving mightily
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Across the country.
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- god's hand is upon india.
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It's a time for india to reach the lost,
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Not only within the country, across the globe.
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(bright lively music)
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- [george] in addition, the church produces
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Over 650 television programs each month
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In 17 of the country's major languages
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For broadcast on national television.
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- not only within the nation,
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Even bangladesh, nepal, sri lanka, afghanistan,
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Pakistan, gulf countries.
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- [george] millions more follow on social media.
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The reason for the church's success...
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- preaching the pure word of god
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Is what attracts people
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And practicing the word of god,
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What keeps people within the church.
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(carrier rattling)
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- [george] that practical demonstration
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On full display here each sunday.
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Narayana podhili works as a civil engineer
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During the week.
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On sunday, he leads an army
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Of 150 church volunteers
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Who spend hours chopping, slicing, peeling,
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And stirring all to prepare free breakfast,
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Lunch, and dinner meals for 50,000 people.
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- we are committed to come here
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Every sunday at 3:34 am in the morning
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And we keep working till evening.
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- [george] nagavalli mendem has served
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In the calvary kitchen for seven years
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After making a promise to god
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That if he healed her cancerous tumor,
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She would serve the church in this capacity.
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- because i made that promise,
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God healed me completely without surgery.
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God cleared the tumor in my chest.
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As a thanksgiving to him,
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I serve here at the lord's house.
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- [george] she and volunteers feed
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More than 200,000 people each month.
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- in india we say service
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To mankind is service to god.
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So that is what we try to practice.
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We try to show god's love in action
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In every possible way that we find.
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- [george] calvary also has an on-campus hospital
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Where members get free medical treatment
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On sundays and medicines at reduced cost.
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- the majority of people who come here are poor
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And cannot afford a treatment.
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- [george] members also have access
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To church facilities to hold marriages.
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And when a church member passes away,
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Calvary handles all funeral, burial
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And meal arrangements, again, all for free.
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And one of the things you do
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Is when somebody's having a birthday-
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- yes. - [george] you send them...
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- a cake.
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- [george] that's a lot of cakes.
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- [pastor] yes. - [george] 350,000 people.
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- [pastor] absolutely.
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- [george] in 2007, calvary temple
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Created an access card system,
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The first of its kind
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To follow up with members
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And their families.
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- [pastor] i've got thousands of people.
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How do i know that who hasn't showed
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Up on sunday?
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As i was praying, god put access card
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Into my mind.
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- [george] each member must swipe their card
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When attending any one
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Of the five sunday services
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- without fail, if we don't show up to church,
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We get a call.
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They'll ask me why i didn't come to church.
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And after they find out they will pray for me.
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I'm happy when i received that call.
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The fact that they care for us
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Is really special and because of that,
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We will surely come to the next service.
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- [george] pastor kumar says prayer has always
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Been an integral part of their success.
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The church has held 40 days of prayer
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And fasting since 2005 drawing tens of thousands
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Of young participants to stadiums
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Around the country.
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- during this 40 days fasting prayers,
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I teach from genesis to the revelation.
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Every book i try to explain.
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Hundreds and thousands of young kids read bible.
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- [george] each month, the church,
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Along with its satellite campuses holds a night
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With god as members pray for revival.
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- [pastor] about 25,000 to 30,000 people
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Join together.
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That has been the biggest,
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Largest all-night prayers in our nation.
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- [george] in recent years however,
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India has witnessed an unprecedented uptick
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In violence against christians.
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- the more the persecution,
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The more the church grows.
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And that's what's happening in india.
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- [george] most attacks carried out
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By hindu extremist groups who accuse christians
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Of forcibly converting people to christianity.
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Pastor kumar, a hindu convert
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To christianity himself,
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Says resistance produces power.
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- it's my passion, my burden that before i die,
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I want to see every indian will hear the gospel
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And know the savior.
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- [george] george thomas, cbn news,
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Hyderabad, india.
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- wow.
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Terry, i certainly feel convicted showing
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Up 10 minutes late for the 10 o'clock service.
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I mean, 4:30 in the morning,
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These folks, the volunteer effort,
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It's incredible.
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I mean i was smiling the whole time watching
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And he's such an at ease guy, the pastor.
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- yeah, well he's thought of everything-
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- in that form, yeah.
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- he's thought of everything
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And he's ministering to so many people
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Who have not.
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I mean that's so what jesus did and would do.
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But i also was thinking about how, you know,
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Scripture says that in the last days,
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There'll be a mighty outpouring
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Of the holy spirit - even in persecution,
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Which we've covered this week.
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- yeah.
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And in persecution there,
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Comes this new birth and this power.
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It's remarkable
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- preaching five services on a sunday
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But seem to get just as excited
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About the birthday cakes going on.
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So just really sweet and what a holistic
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Approach to ministry.
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- yes, yes. - everything covered.
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Really precious, inspiring stuff.
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- wonderful to see that happening in india.
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Well up next, at 23 weeks this woman
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Went into labor.
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Doctors said they could quote,
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"almost guarantee the baby could be born blind
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Or deaf, would never walk or talk
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And might have cerebral palsy."
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Watch what happened instead.
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That's coming up.
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Plus andrew and i are gonna be praying for you
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And with you after this.
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- [andrew] melissa and her husband rick
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Have come a long way from when they met.
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Melissa was in real estate.
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Rick had been living on credit cards trying
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To start a number of businesses
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And was $80,000 in debt.
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All the while the hennens were tithing
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And the newly married couple
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Started working 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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- [andrew] today rick and melissa
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Have three children and choose to live
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Way below their means 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
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Is that we were really able
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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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- i just turned, and an excruciating pain
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Came in my knee on the inside
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And it was like a jabbing knife.
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I made it to the doctor,
00:20:50.494 --> 00:20:52.229
Found out it was a torn meniscus.
00:20:52.229 --> 00:20:54.164
So having the knee injury,
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Having to slow down was depressing.
00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.471
I was like, "lord, heal this."
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Sitting on the couch, "the 700 club" came on
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And that's when i saw gordon on.
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- we say out loud to him,
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"be healed and be made whole.
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May all pain leave me.
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In jesus' name, i receive it now."
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Now what you couldn't do before, do now.
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- [patient 1] by faith i'm going to do this,
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And by faith i'm gonna walk
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And i was walking, it wasn't hurting.
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I know that god heal me
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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- [vickie] we've always been tithers.
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We teach our children to tithe.
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- i can't explain to you
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How the bills would be here maybe
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And the income here,
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But at the end of the month,
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It seemed that they would meet every single time.
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My stepfather as a farmer,
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Had three or 400 acres of melons he grew,
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And so i took a old toyota pickup truck that i had
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And a trailer and would pick
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Up a 100 to 200 watermelons
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And i started pedaling them out.
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Food lion was our first corporate client.
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I remember one year of sitting down working
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On my taxes and my giving
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That year exceeded my adjusted gross income
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Just a few years before.
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- we found that you just can't outgive god.
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- spinal meningitis, a hole in her heart
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And a brain bleed.
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Madeline faced a host
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Of life-threatening challenges.
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When she was born at 23 weeks,
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She weighed a little over a pound
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And her parents had already lost one baby.
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- at first i didn't even know how to take it,
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I mean death of a baby.
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It destroyed us.
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- when your child dies, nothing matters anymore.
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Everything goes away.
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And the only thing that mattered
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In that point in time was god.
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- [narrator 6] jacob and jenny lee meyer
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Lost their baby girl ray at 26 weeks.
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Two months later, they were pregnant again.
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- obviously i was riddled with fear,
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But i know that fear doesn't come from the lord.
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And so i really tried to lean on that,
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Attended a revival service
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And they prayed over me
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And i just had a supernatural encounter
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With the lord and the holy spirit in that moment.
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It's like as if he reached down and touched me
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And just parts of me began to heal
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And the preacher was praying over us
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And he had prophesied over her as well.
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So that gave me a very good,
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That gave me a lot of confidence,
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Kind of in our journey forward.
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- [narrator 6] the myers' renewed faith
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And prayer was sustaining them.
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Then at the 20 week ultrasound,
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They received concerning news,
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- the doctor was going through
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And toward the end,
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He began to ask me a lot of questions.
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And suddenly i knew something was wrong.
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And he told me that my cervix looked
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As though it was a 100% efface.
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The severity of the circumstance
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Became very real to us,
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That if my cervix really was a 100% efface
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That we were going to lose another baby.
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- we were, i mean, super devastated to know
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That it could potentially not be born.
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Our child couldn't be born.
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We were heartbroken.
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- [narrator 6] they prayed for god
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To protect their baby
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And then a doctor was able to close her cervix.
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Two weeks later, she went into labor.
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- just prior to the delivery,
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The neonatologist had come
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And sat with us that day and began
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To explain to us what it would look like
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To give birth to a 23 week baby.
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They basically told us
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That you can almost guarantee
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That this child could be blind,
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They could be deaf, they could never walk,
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They could never talk.
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They may need long-term breathing assistance
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Or feeding tubes.
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They could have cerebral palsy.
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They may never be able to eat on their own.
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I mean, the issues went on and on.
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So as you can imagine,
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We were completely filled with fear,
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But i knew that god had a really
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Big plan for her.
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- [narrator 6] madeline was born at 23 weeks,
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Weighing a little under one pound, four ounces.
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Dr. sarah coors was her neonatologist.
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- to start with,
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23 weeks has a high risk of mortality.
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And it was during her first week of life
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That we found out she had severe
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Infection and meningitis.
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It makes it very difficult
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For such small babies to survive.
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- seeing my wife suffer
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And knowing that she's just delivered
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On the baby that may not make it was hard.
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But i just continued to give it all to god
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And somehow he helped me get through it.
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- i knew that i wasn't going to lose
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With jesus on my side.
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I began to play worship songs over her
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And plead the blood of jesus over her.
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- i remember madeline's parents
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Being at the bedside and mentioning
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That they were praying for her
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That these results would not be
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To her devastation or for her bad outcome.
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And i just encouraged them to continue praying.
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- they did find e. coli.
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Normally when they do that type
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Of test and they find that in the chances
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Of the baby's survival's basically,
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I mean minimal.
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At that point in time,
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It was all family members on deck,
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Praying, praying as much as we could,
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Praying life over the baby
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That this wasn't gonna happen.
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And, and lo and behold,
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(soft gentle music)
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It was gone.
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It was gone.
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- she stopped me and said,
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"we got the results from the test back
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And the fluid is completely clear."
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She's like, "i don't even see
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Any signs of the meningitis."
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And i just broke down crying and i hugged her
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And i said, "i've been praying."
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And she said, "i know you have
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And it's working, so keep doing it."
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- we prayed, i mean harder than we ever did.
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And yeah, no medical explanation.
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Even the doctors couldn't explain it.
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So it was definitely a miracle.
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It was a miracle.
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- in the preceding couple of weeks,
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She just started miraculously turning around.
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She was actually taken off the ventilator
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At only 18 days old.
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So she was only about 25 weeks gestational
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And she only weighed one pound, seven ounces
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And she was breathing on her own
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With just a cpap machine,
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Which is just miraculous for a baby that small.
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And toward the end of her stay, her heart pda
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Closed on its own with no intervention.
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- god was faithful
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In helping her overcome the barriers
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And she was able to go home even earlier than any
00:28:11.501 --> 00:28:13.870
Of us could have ever expected well
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Before her due date, which is quite remarkable
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From a medical standpoint.
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So we recognize that god's hand was on her life
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And on this family's life
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And it's such a joy to partake
00:28:25.615 --> 00:28:27.751
In watching that miracle happen.
00:28:27.751 --> 00:28:30.554
- [jenny] the hospital told us
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That she was a record
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That they had never had a 23 weeker
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Leave that early.
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And with no breathing tubes, no feeding tubes,
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Really no major medical intervention
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Throughout her stay.
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- [narrator 6] today madeline is a thriving toddler
00:28:43.133 --> 00:28:45.335
With no deficits from her premature birth.
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- with maddie being a miracle baby,
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And through everything that she's been through,
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And to sit here and just
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To give a testimony on it,
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We're super strong in our faith now.
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- prior to this experience,
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I did pray and i believed in god,
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But i never really saw a lot
00:29:02.385 --> 00:29:04.754
Of miracles in front of my eyes.
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And so seeing this happen and knowing
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That it was an undeniable miracle,
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It just became very real to me.
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So when i pray now,
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I know that he is real and i know
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That he can do whatever he says he can do
00:29:19.769 --> 00:29:23.073
And there are no limits.
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And when i pray for someone, i actually believe
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With everything inside of me
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That it's going to happen.
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- well she's right.
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That's what we're supposed to believe
00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:38.154
That when we pray the king of the universe,
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Hears our prayers and comes to our needs.
00:29:41.024 --> 00:29:45.095
At that moment, he invites us,
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He says, "come to me all of you
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Who labor and are heavy laden
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And i'll give you rest."
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This is an incredible story
00:29:53.036 --> 00:29:55.138
Of a miraculous move of god in a situation
00:29:55.138 --> 00:29:58.174
That shouldn't have had that outcome.
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I hope that's encouraging to you today
00:30:00.110 --> 00:30:01.878
Because i know there are many of you
00:30:01.878 --> 00:30:03.480
Who are facing things right now
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.081
And you're saying, "it's impossible.
00:30:05.081 --> 00:30:07.284
How can this be?"
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We serve a god that is filled with possibilities.
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When i saw this little girl at the end,
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I thought of how when my kids
00:30:14.824 --> 00:30:16.092
Were in sunday bible school years ago,
00:30:16.092 --> 00:30:18.628
They used to sing this song,
00:30:18.628 --> 00:30:19.763
"i'm a promise, i'm a possibility,"
00:30:19.763 --> 00:30:22.032
And i thought, there she is.
00:30:22.032 --> 00:30:23.667
She's a promise fulfilled,
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She's a possibility that has come to pass.
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We wanna pray for you right
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In the midst of your need.
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And we have others who have written in
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To encourage you with how god
00:30:32.809 --> 00:30:34.344
Has answered their prayers.
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This is douglas.
00:30:35.712 --> 00:30:36.680
He wrote by email and he said,
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:37.814
"andrew had a word about someone
00:30:37.814 --> 00:30:39.716
Who had spasms on the right side.
00:30:39.716 --> 00:30:41.718
He described the exact location
00:30:41.718 --> 00:30:43.553
And nature of what i'd been experiencing.
00:30:43.553 --> 00:30:45.455
So it really struck me.
00:30:45.455 --> 00:30:47.590
He said it was not an immediate healing,
00:30:47.590 --> 00:30:49.726
But that the spasms would diminish
00:30:49.726 --> 00:30:51.461
And then be healed completely.
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This was encouraging to me
00:30:53.496 --> 00:30:54.764
Because they didn't completely
00:30:54.764 --> 00:30:56.199
Disappear right away,
00:30:56.199 --> 00:30:57.467
But did over the next two weeks.
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I'm deeply thankful to jesus
00:31:00.036 --> 00:31:01.805
Because they were tormenting me."
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- [andrew] wonderful douglas.
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I mean here, the holy spirit is the one
00:31:05.075 --> 00:31:06.076
Who provided the detail.
00:31:06.076 --> 00:31:07.077
Thank you lord.
00:31:07.077 --> 00:31:07.978
Here's rosemary by email.
00:31:07.978 --> 00:31:09.446
"i've been suffering with right rib pain
00:31:09.446 --> 00:31:11.247
For quite a while.
00:31:11.247 --> 00:31:12.549
I was watching "the club" when terry said
00:31:12.549 --> 00:31:14.184
Someone has right rib pain, god is healing it.
00:31:14.184 --> 00:31:16.920
I knew it was me.
00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:17.821
I thanked and praised god.
00:31:17.821 --> 00:31:18.989
I haven't had a problem with it since.
00:31:18.989 --> 00:31:20.390
Glory be to god."
00:31:20.390 --> 00:31:21.224
And that's right,
00:31:21.224 --> 00:31:22.459
The honor and the praise goes to god.
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We want to go to the lord on your behalf today.
00:31:27.163 --> 00:31:28.798
Please pray with terry and i.
00:31:28.798 --> 00:31:30.266
It's our privilege to go
00:31:30.266 --> 00:31:31.835
To the throne on your behalf.
00:31:31.835 --> 00:31:33.403
Father, we come before you in the name of jesus
00:31:34.571 --> 00:31:36.106
And we thank you
00:31:36.106 --> 00:31:37.640
For this miraculous testimony we have seen.
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:39.576
And now lord god, people in the audience
00:31:39.576 --> 00:31:40.944
Have needs for themselves or for loved ones.
00:31:40.944 --> 00:31:43.913
Lord god, we pray for the miraculous
00:31:43.913 --> 00:31:45.915
Now in jesus' name.
00:31:45.915 --> 00:31:48.251
And we think of how, jesus said,
00:31:48.251 --> 00:31:49.552
"if you have faith the size of a mustard seed,
00:31:49.552 --> 00:31:51.755
You can say to this mountain move
00:31:51.755 --> 00:31:53.023
And it will move."
00:31:53.023 --> 00:31:54.324
He didn't say, "if you have faith the size
00:31:54.324 --> 00:31:55.725
Of a mountain, you can move a mustard seed."
00:31:55.725 --> 00:31:57.494
So lord god, we take our mustard seed faith now
00:31:57.494 --> 00:32:01.631
And we pray for miracles for this audience
00:32:01.631 --> 00:32:04.667
In jesus' name.
00:32:04.667 --> 00:32:06.870
I think the lord just wants to remind us
00:32:08.004 --> 00:32:09.439
To think of peter in prison and the angel visited
00:32:09.439 --> 00:32:12.742
And the chains fell off of peter
00:32:12.742 --> 00:32:15.378
And many are chained and bound to addiction.
00:32:15.378 --> 00:32:18.681
- [terry] jesus.
00:32:18.681 --> 00:32:21.217
- and to raise your hands
00:32:21.217 --> 00:32:22.852
Because the chains are falling off.
00:32:22.852 --> 00:32:25.055
You've been praying for healing
00:32:25.055 --> 00:32:26.823
And release from this
00:32:26.823 --> 00:32:28.224
And god's doing a mighty work
00:32:28.224 --> 00:32:30.593
Of love for you today.
00:32:30.593 --> 00:32:32.295
Just raise your hands and let those chains
00:32:32.295 --> 00:32:34.364
Of drop in jesus' name.
00:32:34.364 --> 00:32:37.967
- [terry] there's somebody else.
00:32:37.967 --> 00:32:39.069
You have an issue with your liver.
00:32:39.069 --> 00:32:40.370
It's actually shutting down,
00:32:40.370 --> 00:32:43.039
But it's just one of many things
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.075
That you're facing right now.
00:32:45.075 --> 00:32:46.309
Would you just lift your hands
00:32:46.309 --> 00:32:48.778
And before you see a sign of anything,
00:32:48.778 --> 00:32:51.414
Begin to thank god for your healing.
00:32:51.414 --> 00:32:53.316
He's healing your liver right now
00:32:53.316 --> 00:32:55.318
And your other organs will follow.
00:32:55.318 --> 00:32:57.387
Thank him and receive that.
00:32:57.387 --> 00:32:59.622
Let him know you receive that.
00:32:59.622 --> 00:33:01.224
Just say yes to his healing in jesus' name.
00:33:01.224 --> 00:33:05.195
- someone has literally been saying out loud,
00:33:05.195 --> 00:33:06.930
"i'm done.
00:33:06.930 --> 00:33:08.665
I'm done."
00:33:08.665 --> 00:33:09.933
I don't know if it's regarding a marriage
00:33:09.933 --> 00:33:10.867
Or with life itself.
00:33:10.867 --> 00:33:12.402
God hears you and he wants you
00:33:12.402 --> 00:33:14.204
To know you're not done
00:33:14.204 --> 00:33:15.238
And he's got a mighty plan
00:33:15.238 --> 00:33:17.407
And purpose for your life, not for calamity,
00:33:17.407 --> 00:33:21.811
But for your welfare.
00:33:21.811 --> 00:33:22.912
You are not done.
00:33:22.912 --> 00:33:24.447
Give god the freedom to move
00:33:24.447 --> 00:33:26.749
And work in your life.
00:33:26.749 --> 00:33:28.151
- [terry] yes. - don't restrict him
00:33:28.151 --> 00:33:29.686
Because he moves out of love for you.
00:33:29.686 --> 00:33:32.088
- someone else, you have tinnitus
00:33:32.088 --> 00:33:33.523
Like you have this kind
00:33:33.523 --> 00:33:35.225
Of hollow cave-like ringing
00:33:35.225 --> 00:33:36.793
In your ears all the time.
00:33:36.793 --> 00:33:37.994
It's so annoying.
00:33:37.994 --> 00:33:39.395
God is touching that, removing it from you.
00:33:39.395 --> 00:33:42.465
It's just gonna go away.
00:33:42.465 --> 00:33:43.566
You're gonna be startled by quiet
00:33:43.566 --> 00:33:45.268
For the first time in a long time.
00:33:45.268 --> 00:33:47.470
Thank him for that.
00:33:47.470 --> 00:33:49.305
- lord is healing people
00:33:49.305 --> 00:33:50.340
Of depression and anxiety
00:33:50.340 --> 00:33:54.811
And we just pray now the peace
00:33:54.811 --> 00:33:56.980
That surpasses understanding
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Overwhelms you now in jesus' name, lord god.
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Terry and i come against depression
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That people are experiencing.
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Some people literally do not want
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To get out of bed. - [terry] yes.
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- and god has a mission for you
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And he has life for you.
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He loves you.
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And lord, we rebuke the spirit
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Of the enemy who seeks to keep them down.
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We speak life and joy to the audience.
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- and now, if you're one of those people
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Suffering that depression, you say,
00:34:27.977 --> 00:34:29.879
"i rebuke the devourer in my life,
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In my heart, in my mind, in my spirit,
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And jesus, i receive your healing."
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- [andrew] thank you lord.
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Lord, we just continue to lift the audience long
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After we say amen,
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That you'll continue to heal and touch
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With your precious loves.
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In jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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If you've experienced an answer to prayer
00:34:49.933 --> 00:34:51.067
Or you need prayer, give us a call,
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1-800-700-7000 and let us know
00:34:52.902 --> 00:34:55.939
How we can pray for you.
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Terry.
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- well, coming up,
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Shortly after the wedding,
00:34:59.509 --> 00:35:00.577
This groom said out loud,
00:35:00.577 --> 00:35:02.545
"i've made the biggest mistake of my life."
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Find out why he said that and what happened next.
00:35:05.215 --> 00:35:08.451
That's later on today's "700 club".
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And then also ahead raising a family of six
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With only $20 a week for groceries.
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For years, this couple was just scraping by.
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:20.630
So how did they set themselves up
00:35:20.630 --> 00:35:22.465
For a comfortable retirement?
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You'll find out that's coming up.
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(spiritual music)
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- it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
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- it was a condition
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Called acute tubular necrosis.
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- [daughter] they kept saying septic, septic.
00:35:36.846 --> 00:35:38.448
I think she's getting septic.
00:35:38.448 --> 00:35:39.616
- they sent this lady in to prepare us
00:35:39.616 --> 00:35:42.418
For a lifetime of dialysis
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And this medicine was going
00:35:44.721 --> 00:35:45.922
To destroy every dream my girl
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Could possibly have.
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- thousands and thousands, literally
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Around the world we're praying for her.
00:35:50.627 --> 00:35:52.595
- mom runs out into the hallway
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And she's like, "he just told me
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He canceled your surgery.
00:35:56.499 --> 00:35:58.901
He was like, 'your kidney biopsy came
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Back completely clean.'"
00:36:01.170 --> 00:36:02.739
I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
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Just we were hugging and screaming.
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It was like just the biggest celebration.
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- [dr. todd] i know there were a lot
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Of people praying for her.
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I think those prayers were answered.
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- [visitor] hi, yay.
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- i am beyond thankful
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That i have been singing nonstop.
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Prayers work.
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They work.
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Ask people to pray for you
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And like really believe, really believe
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That anything is possible.
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(triumphant music)
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(triumphant music)
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(triumphant music)
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- i wanted to be a boy one week.
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I wanted to be a girl next week.
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It was constantly like that.
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Confusion always in my mind.
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I always felt like i was more
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In tune to femininity.
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- [narrator 4] at 16, tommy decided it was time
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To give in to those desires.
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Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
00:37:18.548 --> 00:37:21.351
And began frequenting
00:37:21.351 --> 00:37:22.518
Gay chat-rooms and nightclubs.
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- [tommy] i had an internal knowing
00:37:24.153 --> 00:37:25.688
That it was just wrong.
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- [narrator 4] despite his doubts,
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Tommy started taking female hormones
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And making plans to have a sex change operation.
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Tommy was doing drugs
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With his brother and sister
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When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
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Terrified, tommy left the house
00:37:40.670 --> 00:37:42.538
And went to his mom
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Who had recently committed her life to christ.
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- i had to cry out to god
00:37:46.509 --> 00:37:47.677
Because i just knew in that moment
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That he was the only one that was able
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To help me.
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So i remember just telling him i'm sorry,
00:37:51.514 --> 00:37:52.882
Of the lifestyle that i was living.
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I just went into this deep place of repenting
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And asking for forgiveness.
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If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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(lively music)
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- i got into a serious relationship,
00:38:31.988 --> 00:38:35.024
But his family was like involved in santeria.
00:38:35.024 --> 00:38:38.528
They would do like ouija boards
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And i mean everything
00:38:40.630 --> 00:38:41.864
That you can think of like occult,
00:38:41.864 --> 00:38:43.232
Like they were in it
00:38:43.232 --> 00:38:44.634
And i feel like something just like sit on me.
00:38:44.634 --> 00:38:48.504
I was like shaking, crying.
00:38:48.504 --> 00:38:51.007
I just called out to jesus.
00:38:51.007 --> 00:38:54.277
From that moment, i felt like god took it
00:38:54.277 --> 00:38:58.481
And was like, "i'm gonna heal you."
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- well, from living paycheck to paycheck,
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To receiving promotion after promotion.
00:39:04.153 --> 00:39:07.123
Jack and gena bradford have seen
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An amazing financial turnaround in their lives
00:39:09.025 --> 00:39:11.661
And it all started with a question.
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Will god really provide?
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Here's how they found the answer.
00:39:15.898 --> 00:39:18.301
Jack and gena bradford of spokane, washington,
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Love blessing others the way
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God has blessed them.
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- reciprocity is basically god's nature.
00:39:25.942 --> 00:39:28.911
He's a god who wants to bless.
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He calls us to bless and as we bless,
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He gives us more opportunity to bless more.
00:39:33.549 --> 00:39:36.919
- [andrew] they first learned about the law
00:39:36.919 --> 00:39:39.288
Of reciprocity from pat robertson's teaching
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On "the 700 club".
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- every time i would watch cbn,
00:39:42.425 --> 00:39:44.126
I would trust in his heart.
00:39:44.126 --> 00:39:45.995
His heart was good, he was wise.
00:39:45.995 --> 00:39:48.231
- seeing other couples that were going
00:39:48.231 --> 00:39:49.966
Through hard times, we could identify with that.
00:39:49.966 --> 00:39:52.869
- [andrew] jack worked as a counselor
00:39:52.869 --> 00:39:54.370
With the washington state department of corrections.
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Gena ran a daycare in their home for extra money.
00:39:56.806 --> 00:40:00.042
Their family of six was barely surviving
00:40:00.042 --> 00:40:02.211
On their $2,100 a month income.
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- i was trying to provide groceries
00:40:05.181 --> 00:40:06.983
For $20 a week for the family.
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That's what i had, $20 a week and i would go up
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And down the aisle of the store
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Of all the things i know i couldn't buy.
00:40:15.157 --> 00:40:17.193
So it was a lot of potatoes, a lot of beans.
00:40:17.193 --> 00:40:19.128
- [andrew] since they lived paycheck to paycheck
00:40:19.128 --> 00:40:21.097
With no savings, they were terrified
00:40:21.097 --> 00:40:23.366
At the thought of tithing.
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- the biggest part of it for us,
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It was a trust issue.
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Would god really provide?
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- [andrew] after two years
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Of watching "the 700 club",
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Jack and gena took a chance.
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They tithed to their church and gave to cbn.
00:40:36.145 --> 00:40:39.315
That's when they say they started
00:40:39.315 --> 00:40:40.650
To see god provide for their family.
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First, gena was awarded a full-ride
00:40:43.052 --> 00:40:44.987
College scholarship
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To complete her bachelor's degree
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And become a teacher.
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She went on to get her master's
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And with it, a substantial wage increase.
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- [gena] we were flourishing.
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It wasn't steak every night,
00:40:55.097 --> 00:40:56.566
But it was still a wonderful increase
00:40:56.566 --> 00:40:58.334
For the family.
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The fear was leaving,
00:40:59.201 --> 00:41:00.536
The fear of not having enough was leaving.
00:41:00.536 --> 00:41:03.039
- [andrew] then gena had a health crisis
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:04.807
That forced her to quit her job.
00:41:04.807 --> 00:41:07.076
That meant they would be without a second income.
00:41:07.076 --> 00:41:09.612
- i went to the lord and just told him,
00:41:09.612 --> 00:41:12.748
"i don't know what to do."
00:41:12.748 --> 00:41:14.717
But the lord spoke to me very clearly
00:41:14.717 --> 00:41:17.053
And he said, "gena i wanna take care of you."
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- [andrew] almost immediately, god provided.
00:41:19.889 --> 00:41:22.124
Jack received a promotion
00:41:22.124 --> 00:41:23.693
And three pay increases over the next year.
00:41:23.693 --> 00:41:26.829
- it was just god's way of speaking to me,
00:41:26.829 --> 00:41:29.332
"jack, i'm gonna provide.
00:41:29.332 --> 00:41:32.201
Don't worry about it."
00:41:32.201 --> 00:41:33.536
- [andrew] a few years later, gena recovered
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And returned to teaching as an adjunct professor
00:41:35.171 --> 00:41:38.274
And student teacher supervisor
00:41:38.274 --> 00:41:40.042
At a local university.
00:41:40.042 --> 00:41:41.644
Since then, jack and gena have continued
00:41:41.644 --> 00:41:43.879
To support "the 700 club"
00:41:43.879 --> 00:41:45.648
By becoming cbn thousand club members.
00:41:45.648 --> 00:41:48.517
- [gena] you can trust cbn.
00:41:48.517 --> 00:41:49.685
You can trust that they're gonna
00:41:49.685 --> 00:41:50.920
Take your money and invest it wisely.
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:52.989
They're gonna invest it in people.
00:41:52.989 --> 00:41:54.490
- we know that when a big tornado rips
00:41:54.490 --> 00:41:56.525
Through the south,
00:41:56.525 --> 00:41:58.127
Operation blessing's gonna be there.
00:41:58.127 --> 00:42:00.396
We know that when people need medical care,
00:42:00.396 --> 00:42:04.300
Their needs are gonna be met by cbn.
00:42:04.300 --> 00:42:07.269
- [andrew] jack and gena are now retired
00:42:07.269 --> 00:42:09.472
And continuing to bless others
00:42:09.472 --> 00:42:11.407
Through their giving.
00:42:11.407 --> 00:42:12.642
- god is completely trustworthy.
00:42:12.642 --> 00:42:15.378
He's good, and i can't trust anyone else
00:42:15.378 --> 00:42:18.547
Like i can trust him to direct my life.
00:42:18.547 --> 00:42:23.419
- jack and gena talked a lot about trust.
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I was reading my favorite chapter
00:42:26.322 --> 00:42:27.723
In the bible the other day, john 14,
00:42:27.723 --> 00:42:29.692
And it starts with jesus saying,
00:42:29.692 --> 00:42:30.893
"you trust in god, trust also in me."
00:42:30.893 --> 00:42:34.263
And i'm realizing more and more,
00:42:34.263 --> 00:42:35.531
This is in all areas of our lives,
00:42:35.531 --> 00:42:37.833
Including our finances.
00:42:37.833 --> 00:42:39.635
Because as we trust god more,
00:42:39.635 --> 00:42:41.203
Even when we're terrified to do it
00:42:41.203 --> 00:42:42.705
And give him what we think is ours
00:42:42.705 --> 00:42:44.807
Or should be ours, he'll draw us closer
00:42:44.807 --> 00:42:47.176
To his heart.
00:42:47.176 --> 00:42:48.477
And the main reason is so our finances
00:42:48.477 --> 00:42:51.414
Can be used to bless others,
00:42:51.414 --> 00:42:53.315
Not just us receiving blessings,
00:42:53.315 --> 00:42:54.884
But giving helps other people.
00:42:54.884 --> 00:42:57.086
And jack and gena give to cbn
00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.588
As a way to do that.
00:42:59.588 --> 00:43:00.523
I made that decision decades ago
00:43:00.523 --> 00:43:02.224
To give to cbn to help other people.
00:43:02.224 --> 00:43:04.560
I encourage you to join us on this journey,
00:43:04.560 --> 00:43:06.495
Trusting god with what maybe you're a little
00:43:06.495 --> 00:43:08.664
Initially afraid to do.
00:43:08.664 --> 00:43:09.832
Let him work in your finances
00:43:09.832 --> 00:43:11.233
And also bless people along the way.
00:43:11.233 --> 00:43:12.968
When you do, i encourage you to join us
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Through pledge express.
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That means you don't have to write
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Out any more checks.
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The bank does all the work
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And every month we will send you "power for life",
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Which is a teaching here from gordon robertson.
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Great stuff.
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You'll hear his lessons he gives to us,
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So join via pledge express
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And you'll get a monthly teaching.
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Give us a call, 1-800-700-7000 or go to cbn.com
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Or you can text cbn to 71777
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And join "the 700 club".
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Terry.
00:43:45.434 --> 00:43:46.335
- well, up next.
00:43:46.335 --> 00:43:47.303
He wanted a divorce almost
00:43:47.303 --> 00:43:49.138
From the moment they married.
00:43:49.138 --> 00:43:50.773
For five years, she kept praying for a miracle.
00:43:51.941 --> 00:43:54.477
Watch how he's supernaturally transformed
00:43:54.477 --> 00:43:57.113
Overnight and see why they both
00:43:57.113 --> 00:43:59.448
Burned their divorce papers, after this.
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(soft gentle music)
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- it was so intense with the sinus pressure
00:44:36.352 --> 00:44:39.421
That it was to the point where my jaws
00:44:39.421 --> 00:44:42.625
Were even hurting from coughing so intensely.
00:44:42.625 --> 00:44:45.194
It was a battle.
00:44:45.194 --> 00:44:46.028
It really was.
00:44:46.028 --> 00:44:47.363
He kept saying to me, "this too will pass."
00:44:47.363 --> 00:44:49.365
So i just stand up and say,
00:44:49.365 --> 00:44:51.167
"i'm waiting on you, lord."
00:44:51.167 --> 00:44:52.334
I just kept confessing.
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God is my healer.
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He is my healer.
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They were to the section
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Where they were talking
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About people receiving healings.
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They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
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- there's someone, who heard the report
00:45:03.813 --> 00:45:05.080
About sinus conditions and you're saying,
00:45:05.080 --> 00:45:06.749
"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
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And closed up, open now, in jesus' name."
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- [patient 2] i jumped up and my spirit
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Just kind of leaped and i said,
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"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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(bright music)
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(bright lively music)
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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 starts a chain reaction ♪
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♪ an almost satisfaction ♪
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♪ i love the way this joy makes me move ♪
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♪ i got the ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ i dance around because i know it ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ i move around because i've got it ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ joy to the heart ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ i dance around because i know it ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ i move around because i've got it ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ joy to the heart ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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♪ joy to the heart ♪
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♪ joy ♪
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- [narrator 6] life.
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It's meant to be lived fully.
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(light cheerful music)
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Jesus said it.
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"i came to give you life.
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Life to the fullest.
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Life in your family.
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Life in your finances.
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Life in your body, mind and spirit.
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Life in your everyday.
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(light cheerful music)
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At cbn.com, we're taking
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What jesus said seriously.
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(light cheerful music)
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We're here to help you discover life.
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(light cheerful music)
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Life.
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Live it fully.
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Cbn.com.
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(light cheerful music)
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- god, i can't stop.
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I'm gonna wreck my marriage.
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I'm gonna wreck my family.
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I had this just lust, this physical dependency
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That i had to these drugs.
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- i just couldn't be with him the rest
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Of my life.
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I decided to leave.
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(bright music)
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- i just remember him doing the altar call
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And if you're not sure
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That you're gonna go to heaven,
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You've gotta confess with your mouth.
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Say that you're a sinner.
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You gotta believe
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That christ died for your sins.
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There's only one way.
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There's only one hope, and that's christ.
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- jason and tatum's wedding day
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Was a dream come true for her.
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For him, it was a nightmare that began
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As soon as the ceremony ended.
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Jason had a secret addiction
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And wanted out of the marriage.
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Still tatum hung in there, fortified by prayer.
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- tatum was in the other room getting changed out
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Of her wedding dress and i said out loud,
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"i just made the biggest mistake of my life."
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(epic music)
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- [narrator 6] by the look
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Of their wedding photos, jason and tatum bilbro
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Should have a picture perfect marriage.
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He was a career navy officer
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Who grew up in a strong christian family.
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Tatum, who was a new christian,
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Had recently gone through a painful divorce
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And thought she found the spiritual partner
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She longed for.
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- [tatum] i knew i wanted to marry a christian.
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He knew all the right things to say
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And he knew all about the bible.
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I was just head over heels in love
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With him very quickly.
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- [narrator 6] jason wasn't the spiritual man he projected.
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He had a secret life he wasn't about
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To share with tatum,
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And right away he told her he wanted
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Out of the marriage.
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- being a preacher's kid, i knew all the stories
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And i could talk the talk.
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And so i was really,
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I guess in some ways a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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And i began to talk about divorce
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Like routinely, like regularly
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Like it was my answer.
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The constant thought in my head was,
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"how do i end this
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So i can just go back to doing what i want?"
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Really.
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In hindsight, like i really lived in the darkness
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And i didn't like the light that she represented.
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- [narrator 6] tatum wasn't convinced
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Divorce was the answer.
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- i felt like the enemy
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Had taken my first marriage
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And so i didn't want him
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To take my second marriage.
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And so this faith rose up in me to fight.
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I'm gonna do everything i can.
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I'm gonna stand before the lord
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And know i did what i could
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And if i get divorced then i'm divorced.
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But it's not because i didn't do my part,
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It's not 'cause i didn't try.
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- [narrator 6] they eventually separated
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And jason served tatum divorce papers.
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During that time, tatum found peace
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As she pressed into her relationship with christ,
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Still praying for a miracle.
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- okay, god, but your word says
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That nothing's impossible with you.
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Like you can do this.
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And i would read the bible and i'd say,
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"this is who you say you are."
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And my prayer life really shifted from,
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"god, will you save my marriage,"
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To praying that jason would have what i had.
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I wanted him to have the freedom that i had,
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The peace that i had, the joy that i had.
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I knew that he was so tormented
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And i really just wanted him to have peace.
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I would still have liked god to save my marriage,
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But it was not as important to me
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As him knowing jesus like i did.
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- [narrator 6] jason lived in constant tension
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And internal conflict due to his secret addiction
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To online pornography.
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(poignant music)
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- what i desired at the core
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Of my being was connection.
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I wanted to be connected with tatum,
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But i couldn't be connected with her
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Because of my shame, because of what i was doing.
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Because to bring that into the light
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Would be too painful.
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And so the lie that i believed was
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That if i confessed,
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If i was vulnerable with her,
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That she could never love me, right?
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That's the lie of shame.
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Like if you really knew what was beneath here,
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What was going on in here, what i was doing
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Behind closed doors when you weren't home,
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You couldn't love me, right?
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That's the lie.
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I didn't realize that,
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But that was the lie that i lived with
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For the entirety of our marriage.
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- then one night he watched a youtube video
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About pornography's destructive effects
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On the human brain and intimacy.
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Jason stopped viewing porn
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And decided to tell tatum his secret,
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Even though he still wanted a divorce.
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- what do you say to the person
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That you've made your worst enemy
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That you've disparaged, that you've tried
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To get away from for five years?
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And so i just blurted it out.
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I said, "i've been addicted
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To porn for 23 years."
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- [tatum] i'm going, "oh, this fits."
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It felt like a puzzle piece
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That had been missing the whole time
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That i didn't know was missing
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And i started, all the pieces started
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To come together for me.
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- [narrator 6] jason believed the marriage
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Was at its end, but then one night alone
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In his apartment, he prayed.
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- and i said, "god, i don't know you're out
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There if you're listening."
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I said, "but if it's your desire for me to learn
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To love my wife, then i wanna learn
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To love her like you love her
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And see her like you see her."
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And i said amen.
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The next morning when i woke up,
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Everything had changed.
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Everything.
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I've never quite found the words to explain
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What it's like to be born again.
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It's kind of like waking up
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In someone else's body.
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- [narrator 6] for the next month,
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He didn't want to leave tatum's side,
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Sleeping on her couch and eventually winning
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Back her trust.
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- i cannot express to you in words
00:53:13.935 --> 00:53:17.005
How overjoyed i was just to go
00:53:17.005 --> 00:53:20.275
And like be in her presence.
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- he was like gushing
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Like he was so in love with me.
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He just wanted to be near me.
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It was very foreign, but you couldn't deny
00:53:31.586 --> 00:53:35.691
That it was, something was very different.
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Jason was actually being honest like with himself
00:53:38.994 --> 00:53:42.664
And with god for like the first time in his life
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And that that was actually something to build on.
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- [narrator 6] they burned their divorce papers
00:53:50.839 --> 00:53:52.507
And rebuilt their relationship with christ
00:53:52.507 --> 00:53:54.843
As the foundation, thankful for the miracle
00:53:54.843 --> 00:53:57.846
Of a restored life and marriage.
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- she fought for me when i was at my worst,
00:54:00.282 --> 00:54:03.418
At my most unredeemable.
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Through her faith, through her persistence,
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Through her trust in god,
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She got to see the miracle that she believed
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That he was capable of.
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- i would do it all again
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Because going through that,
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I wouldn't know jesus the way
00:54:18.066 --> 00:54:19.568
That i know him had i not gone
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Through the hard things.
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So it was absolutely worth it.
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I'm very thankful.
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- tatum's right about that.
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Life is full of hard things,
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Hard places, struggles, challenges,
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And we would not be who we are
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If we didn't allow god to be who he is right
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In the midst of all of that.
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But i wanna talk to you about what jason said.
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You can feel like you can't get out
00:54:53.034 --> 00:54:54.903
Of the hole you're in.
00:54:54.903 --> 00:54:56.905
You have dug it so deep.
00:54:56.905 --> 00:54:59.508
God can't love you.
00:54:59.508 --> 00:55:00.942
Nobody could forgive you.
00:55:00.942 --> 00:55:02.310
You can't forgive yourself.
00:55:02.310 --> 00:55:04.112
But i want to tell you a truth.
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This is what it says in god's word
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And oh my friend, this is a promise to you.
00:55:09.251 --> 00:55:12.988
It says, if any man, any man is in christ,
00:55:14.156 --> 00:55:18.393
He's a brand new creation,
00:55:18.393 --> 00:55:20.095
That all things pass away
00:55:20.095 --> 00:55:23.064
And all things become new.
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That's what you saw happen to jason.
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Jason didn't make that happen.
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Jason didn't know how to make that happen,
00:55:31.173 --> 00:55:33.875
But he gave everything he had to god.
00:55:33.875 --> 00:55:36.745
He came to him humbly.
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He came to him having been honest about his sin,
00:55:38.947 --> 00:55:43.218
About what he struggled with, about his shame.
00:55:43.218 --> 00:55:46.188
He said, "god, will you do something
00:55:46.188 --> 00:55:49.191
Miraculous in me?"
00:55:49.191 --> 00:55:51.059
Don't keep living in darkness
00:55:51.893 --> 00:55:54.162
When you were created to live in life light.
00:55:54.162 --> 00:55:57.666
The light of christ, you can be set free.
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.503
Not because you're capable,
00:56:01.503 --> 00:56:03.205
But because god loves you that much.
00:56:03.205 --> 00:56:05.674
When jesus died on the cross,
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He became our sin.
00:56:07.676 --> 00:56:10.846
Our sin was covered.
00:56:10.846 --> 00:56:13.114
You don't have to bear that anymore,
00:56:13.114 --> 00:56:15.951
But you have to choose.
00:56:15.951 --> 00:56:19.120
So today,
00:56:19.120 --> 00:56:21.556
I'm asking you give god the same chance you've given
00:56:22.824 --> 00:56:26.394
All the junk in your life to say,
00:56:26.394 --> 00:56:30.031
"jesus, i'm lost.
00:56:30.031 --> 00:56:33.268
I'm a sinner in need of a savior,
00:56:33.268 --> 00:56:35.804
And today i'm just coming.
00:56:35.804 --> 00:56:38.106
I'm coming with all my junk
00:56:38.907 --> 00:56:40.876
And i'm asking you to make me a new creation."
00:56:42.043 --> 00:56:45.080
When we pray that prayer, all of heaven sings.
00:56:46.314 --> 00:56:50.118
It's why jesus came.
00:56:50.118 --> 00:56:52.687
Don't pass up the gift of eternity,
00:56:52.687 --> 00:56:55.724
Not just for then, but the gift of life for now.
00:56:55.724 --> 00:57:00.395
Jesus said, "i came that you might have life
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And have it abundantly."
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It's yours for the asking.
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If you need to pray with someone today,
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Call our toll free number.
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If you're watching this story
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And you're in a marriage
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That you think cannot be saved,
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I want you to call and ask for prayer.
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And when you do,
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Ask for the "love & marriage" brochure.
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We'll send this to you.
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It's full of what does god's word have
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To say about marriage.
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It's not just something
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That he expects us to endure.
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God is the god of romance.
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He expects us to walk in the fullness of love,
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That he created marriage for.
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Intimacy.
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That's what he's about.
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I wanna share with you a word from 1 peter.
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"above all things have fervent love
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For one another.
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For love will cover a multitude of sins."
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God bless you.
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Have a great weekend.
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(ethereal music)
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January 21, 2026

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