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The 700 Club | January 23, 2026 | January 23, 2026
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- - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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- - [narrator] coming up later.
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- - someone's child is passed out.
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- - [narrator] a 12-year-old collapses in school.
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- - that's my son. you need to take me to my son.
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- - [narrator] the victim of a sudden cardiac arrest.
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- - [anthony] he looked limbless and lifeless.
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- - [narrator] for eight minutes, he's unresponsive.
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- - [medic] he has no pulse, he's not breathing.
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- - [narrator] the prayers that brought him back.
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- - your kingdom come.
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- Your will be done.
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- - [narrator] on today's "700 club."
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- - welcome to "the 700 club."
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- For better health, get better soil.
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- That's the message from one north carolina farmer
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- Who's taking innovative steps to transform her land
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- And her produce.
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- - the practice of regenerative farming
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- Can lead to healthier food and a better bottom line.
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- Cbn's brody carter shows us how.
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- (logo whooshing)
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- - the earth's soil, it's not glamorous,
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- But biblically, it's where you and i come from,
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- And also our food, both plant and animal.
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- One farmer here in newton grove, north carolina,
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- Is making it her priority to study soil health
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- Because when it comes to feeding her family,
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- It favors them too.
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- - you can change our health and our communities
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- Just by focusing on soil health.
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- We can smell the difference.
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- It has- - lisa williams
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- And her son lance have transformed their 55 acre farm
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- Through regenerative farming.
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- Lisa's focus is to regenerate the soil and ecosystems
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- While avoiding conventional pesticides,
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- Herbicides, and fertilizers.
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- It's taken roughly four years to cultivate the land,
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- Raising the healthiest cows and chickens to feed her family.
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- - if you have healthy soil, you have healthy grasses.
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- If you have healthy grasses, you have healthy livestock.
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- In our case, it's hereford cattle.
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- - [brody] they fertilize the fields the old fashioned way,
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- With cow patties.
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- - [lance] they have no antibiotics.
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- They're drug-free.
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- We don't spray anything on them.
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- So we can put just about any label we want on these cows.
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- - [brody] the family also had a personal reason
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- For choosing this route.
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- - i wanted my family to be healthy.
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- And my husband had a medical condition
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- And there weren't any answers,
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- And he wasn't getting better.
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- - [brody] larry williams suffers from an autoimmune disease
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- With no known cure, that attacks his muscles.
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- The williams believed clean eating might help
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- And started the hard work of raising healthy cows.
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- - one, you don't wanna lose a spouse,
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- But i really, really believe what i'm doing.
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- I believe it's good for america.
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- - [brody] studies have shown that food grown
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- Using regenerative farming practices
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- Tends to be more nutritious
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- Compared to conventionally farmed food.
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- The healthier the soil, the healthier your food.
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- When it comes to feeding america,
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- Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2% of the population.
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- And out of the roughly 2 million farms
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- Dotting america's landscape,
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- Less than 2% of that land uses regenerative practices.
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- So how is the soil health in america?
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- Dr. ekrem ozlu with nc state university says
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- It really depends on where you look.
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- - so the variability in the soil type
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- And climate is huge in north carolina,
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- Sort of from the mountains to coastal plane,
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- Everything can change region by region.
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- - [brody] dr. ozlu works with farmers in north carolina
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- To help their fields cultivate healthy soil
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- That can better withstand drought and flooding.
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- - because soil health or soil in general
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- Is like a retirement package.
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- As much as you put there later, you get the benefit.
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- - you know, we have a human health crisis going on
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- Whether we wanna admit it or not.
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- And it's related directly, a lot of it, to the food we eat.
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- - [brody] north dakota rancher, gabe brown,
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- Is known as a founding father of regenerative farming,
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- An author and consultant.
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- Brown teaches farmers worldwide how to regenerate their dirt
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- And make more money doing it.
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- - i am literally 10 times more profitable per acre now
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- Than i was back then.
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- - [brody] gabe's success and recognition
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- Have caught washington's attention
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- Leading to an invitation to testify before congress
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- About regenerative farming.
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- Brown tells cbn news
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- That science finds healthy soils produce food
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- With more than 60% higher vitamins,
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- Fatty acids, and nutrients.
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- - you've eaten a tomato out of a garden,
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- You know how good that is.
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- And i'm assuming you like tomatoes.
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- Well, then go buy one and look what you get
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- In a restaurant or a store.
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- Look, that isn't even the same thing.
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- - [brody] there can be challenges, however,
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- When switching to regenerative practices.
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- For example, it can take up to five years
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- To see a return on the investment
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- In terms of the soil's health or profit.
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- - but once they realize what we are proposing here
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- Is actually not a new thing,
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- We are just regenerating what we used to do
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- In a way which could be an alternative
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- To today's agriculture practices
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- And still providing them the same benefits,
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- But also making them more sustainable.
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- - [brody] for lisa and others,
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- This is more than just better soil.
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- This method can improve people's health,
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- Communities, and economic impact.
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- - it's a cycle.
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- For every one farmer, it creates,
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- Every one job in production agriculture,
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- Creates three to four off the farm jobs.
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- - [brody] given that america imports roughly 15%
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- Of our food,
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- Lisa sees this as a national security component.
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- - [lisa] we can't constantly rely on other countries
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- To feed us.
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- - [brody] today, lisa is also spreading the wealth
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- By teaching others what she's learned.
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- As a board member
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- On the north carolina soil health coalition,
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- She's using a $75,000 grant to educate state farmers
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- About soil health.
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- - god created everything.
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- He created the insects, he created the plants.
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- He worked for six days and on the seventh day he rested,
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- And that's what they're asking you to do
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- In regenerative agriculture.
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- Well, i just wanna be good stewards of what god's given me.
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- - [brody] reporting in north carolina,
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- Brody carter, cbn news.
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- - well, i love to cook and and it obviously shows.
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- But in cooking,
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- I've learned when you have these kinds of vegetables,
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- When you have this kind of produce,
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- When you have this kind of protein that's raised properly
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- With regenerative practices, then it will taste better.
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- And not only tastes better,
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- It'll be a whole lot better for you.
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- So i hope this trend catches on.
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- As a consumer, please make sure it catches on
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- By buying that way.
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- We'll be back with more right after this.
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- - [beneficiary] 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 poured the water out
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- And went home with an empty container.
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- The stream is very far 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 stomach aches and vomit.
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- When my son was three, he got very sick from the water.
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- Thank you, operation blessing, for giving us a new life.
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- When you came, we were all so grateful.
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- 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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- And be part of the miracle for people all around the world.
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- - for me, it constantly left me in a state of fear.
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- Am i enough?
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- Being able to make it all the way there on the world stage
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- And still come up short,
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- I think was just devastating for me.
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- It was reading colossians 3, flipped a switch for me.
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- God, you have not failed me.
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- Even when i lose, i still win because i learn.
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- The girl who wants to cross the line
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- And still feel empty inside, i now have joy.
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- Even in the midst of any circumstance.
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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 in tune to femininity.
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- - [reporter] 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
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- And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
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- - [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
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- - [reporter] despite his doubts,
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- Tommy started taking female hormones
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- And making plans to have a sex change operation.
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- Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
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- When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
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- Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom
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- Who had recently committed her life to christ.
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- - i had to cry out to god
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- Because i just knew in that moment
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- That he was the only one that was able to help me.
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- So i remember just telling him i'm sorry
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- Of the lifestyle that i was living.
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- I just went into this deep place of repenting
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- And asking for forgiveness.
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- If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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- We all need a savior.
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- We all come from a place of brokenness.
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- - [reporter] melissa and her husband rick,
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- Have come a long way from when they met
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- Melissa was in real estate.
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- Rick had been living on credit cards,
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- Trying to start a number of businesses.
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- And was $80,000 in debt.
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- All the while, the henens were tithing.
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- And the newly married couples started working their way
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- 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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- - [reporter] today, rick and melissa have three children
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- And choose to live way below their means
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- So they can help the poor.
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- They've already built 13 orphanages
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- And a freedom house in india.
- 00:10:37.715 --> 00:10:39.584
- - what i loved about operation blessing
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- Is that we were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
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- - now i have the hunger to make more money
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- So we truly can give to all of these places
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- 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
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- - 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,
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- This physical dependency that i had to these drugs.
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- - i just couldn't be with him the rest of my life.
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- I decided to leave.
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- (gentle music)
- 00:11:07.578 --> 00:11:09.313
- - i just remember him doing the altar call,
- 00:11:09.313 --> 00:11:11.182
- "and if you're not sure 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 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.
- 00:11:21.292 --> 00:11:24.028
- - i've been a missionary for 31 years,
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- And it's outstanding when you are just the lay person,
- 00:11:27.498 --> 00:11:32.203
- Watch god work through you and he does these miracles.
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- And i've seen it over and over.
- 00:11:36.407 --> 00:11:39.343
- I give to cbn because, one, i believe in it.
- 00:11:39.343 --> 00:11:43.447
- They do such great missionary work i wanted to be a part of.
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- The day i chose to leave a legacy with cbn
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- Was the happiest day of my life.
- 00:11:53.491 --> 00:11:57.161
- Well, leaving the legacy is important to me
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- Because i know when i leave this work is going to continue
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- Because it's a monetary legacy.
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- So the needs will continue to be met
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- And the gospel will continue to go out
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- So people would be blessed.
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- (gentle music)
- 00:12:15.413 --> 00:12:23.754
- - well, today, more than 100,000 centenarians
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- Live in america.
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- In the next 30 years,
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- That number is expected to quadruple.
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- Health reporter lorie johnson recently talked
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- With a super senior about her secret to a long happy life.
- 00:12:35.433 --> 00:12:39.804
- (logo swooshing)
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- - heavens know. (laughs)
- 00:12:41.806 --> 00:12:44.809
- - [lorie] just weeks before turning 102,
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- Mary shy never dreamed she'd still be
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- On this side of eternity.
- 00:12:50.848 --> 00:12:53.217
- - it just what the lord wants so you don't argue about that.
- 00:12:53.217 --> 00:12:57.255
- You know, when he is ready, he'll come get me.
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- He's got something here for me to do.
- 00:13:00.424 --> 00:13:02.994
- I don't know what it is,
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- But when he finishes with me, then i'll get to go home.
- 00:13:05.096 --> 00:13:09.734
- - [lorie] still sharp as tack,
- 00:13:09.734 --> 00:13:11.535
- Mary worked at an accounting firm until age 88.
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- She also lived alone for 40 years
- 00:13:15.439 --> 00:13:18.676
- Until just three months ago when she moved in
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- With her granddaughter.
- 00:13:21.946 --> 00:13:23.414
- - she's spunky.
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- She has an incredible sense of humor. (chuckles)
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- She takes things very lightly.
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- She's very kind.
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- A lot of people will say like, "does she complain a lot?"
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- And she doesn't.
- 00:13:37.094 --> 00:13:38.596
- - [lorie] one secret could be that mary remains active
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- By regularly going to church,
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- Getting her hair and nails done,
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- Plus taking care of household chores like laundry
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- And washing dishes.
- 00:13:49.874 --> 00:13:51.275
- - so i think there is an element of determination
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- That she's got,
- 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:56.447
- Just the will that i'm going to figure this out and do it.
- 00:13:56.447 --> 00:14:00.651
- - [lorie] she also prepares many of her own meals
- 00:14:00.651 --> 00:14:03.487
- Like her daily bacon and jelly sandwich.
- 00:14:03.487 --> 00:14:06.857
- - and she loves paydays.
- 00:14:06.857 --> 00:14:09.694
- That's her little,
- 00:14:09.694 --> 00:14:10.928
- "can you give some more paydays?" (laughs)
- 00:14:10.928 --> 00:14:14.231
- - [lorie] part of her daily regimen
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- Includes her favorite red wine, but just a little.
- 00:14:15.900 --> 00:14:20.237
- - aah! (lorie chuckling)
- 00:14:21.105 --> 00:14:22.406
- - [lorie] most notably mary reads her bible
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- For hours each day as she has for years.
- 00:14:24.608 --> 00:14:28.646
- - however, every time you read it,
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- You get something new out of it.
- 00:14:30.047 --> 00:14:32.683
- I don't care if you read it 1500 times.
- 00:14:32.683 --> 00:14:36.520
- - [lorie] she's not afraid to die.
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- In fact, looks forward to it.
- 00:14:38.956 --> 00:14:41.592
- - heaven is gonna be so wonderful
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- That who in their right mind,
- 00:14:44.495 --> 00:14:46.564
- If they know about it,
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- Are gonna be the least bit concerned about it.
- 00:14:48.933 --> 00:14:52.103
- - while mary's longevity is impressive, she's not alone.
- 00:14:52.103 --> 00:14:56.374
- There are over a hundred thousand
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- American centenarians alive today.
- 00:14:58.309 --> 00:15:01.512
- That number is expected to quadruple in the next 30 years.
- 00:15:01.512 --> 00:15:05.983
- That's largely due to a projected population increase
- 00:15:05.983 --> 00:15:10.087
- Combined with longer life expectancies.
- 00:15:10.087 --> 00:15:13.057
- - these people actually have the physiology,
- 00:15:13.057 --> 00:15:17.361
- Have the workings of a 50-year-old individual.
- 00:15:17.361 --> 00:15:20.831
- - [lorie] dr. steven gundry says,
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- Like mary, many centenarians are very healthy
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- And have been throughout their lives.
- 00:15:26.470 --> 00:15:29.106
- - what we know about super old people
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- Who are thriving is that they don't become infirm,
- 00:15:31.942 --> 00:15:35.479
- That they don't get cancer,
- 00:15:35.479 --> 00:15:37.415
- That they don't get alzheimer's.
- 00:15:37.415 --> 00:15:39.250
- - [lorie] gundry credits that to lots
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- Of good bacteria living in their intestines.
- 00:15:41.218 --> 00:15:44.955
- - when we look at 105-year-old people around the world,
- 00:15:44.955 --> 00:15:48.659
- They carry the diverse gut microbiome of 30-year-old people.
- 00:15:48.659 --> 00:15:53.731
- - another common characteristic is they take few,
- 00:15:54.965 --> 00:15:57.735
- If any medications.
- 00:15:57.735 --> 00:15:59.937
- Mary's on just one.
- 00:15:59.937 --> 00:16:01.872
- Doctors say exercise,
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- Especially walking up hill, promotes longevity.
- 00:16:03.441 --> 00:16:06.844
- In fact, the five world cities
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- With the highest concentration
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- Of centenarians are all very hilly.
- 00:16:10.481 --> 00:16:13.584
- Turns out mary lived much of her life
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- In the smoky mountains.
- 00:16:16.220 --> 00:16:18.522
- Genetics and a positive attitude also factor in.
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- - [mary] i've had a very blessed life.
- 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.529
- - [lorie] as well as the unknown.
- 00:16:25.529 --> 00:16:27.865
- - our days are numbered, our times are in the lord's hands,
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- And i think so it's that.
- 00:16:32.570 --> 00:16:34.271
- And i don't know how it all works
- 00:16:34.271 --> 00:16:37.007
- 'cause you can be 50 and fit and the lord call you home,
- 00:16:37.007 --> 00:16:40.778
- Or you can be 101.
- 00:16:40.778 --> 00:16:42.580
- So those things are up to the lord.
- 00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:45.116
- - [lorie] and while we won't all live to 100,
- 00:16:45.116 --> 00:16:48.319
- We can all benefit from the wisdom of someone who has.
- 00:16:48.319 --> 00:16:52.890
- - don't tell me that jesus doesn't take your hand
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- And take you home.
- 00:16:56.560 --> 00:16:58.028
- And you'll never convince me that
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- That's not what he's gonna do for me too, one of these days,
- 00:17:00.030 --> 00:17:05.035
- For all of us that know him and trust in him.
- 00:17:06.203 --> 00:17:09.940
- - [lorie] lorie johnson, cbn news.
- 00:17:09.940 --> 00:17:13.177
- - well, that's an amazing story.
- 00:17:13.978 --> 00:17:15.713
- And i've gotta point out lorie johnson in reports
- 00:17:15.713 --> 00:17:18.849
- On this program has said,
- 00:17:18.849 --> 00:17:20.217
- "don't eat bacon and don't drink any alcohol."
- 00:17:20.217 --> 00:17:23.254
- And so here you have a report from lorie johnson
- 00:17:23.254 --> 00:17:26.423
- Showing somebody eating bacon and drinking red wine.
- 00:17:26.423 --> 00:17:29.827
- And so go figure.
- 00:17:29.827 --> 00:17:31.795
- And, you know, i will underline,
- 00:17:32.596 --> 00:17:34.665
- If you have good genes.
- 00:17:34.665 --> 00:17:38.102
- I had a great-grandmother who lived to be a hundred.
- 00:17:38.102 --> 00:17:40.671
- I had two parents that lived to be in their nineties.
- 00:17:40.671 --> 00:17:43.374
- If you have great genes, that's really good
- 00:17:43.374 --> 00:17:46.677
- And that spells good things for you in the future.
- 00:17:46.677 --> 00:17:49.613
- If you keep up, if you say, okay, i'm going to exercise,
- 00:17:49.613 --> 00:17:54.285
- I'm gonna do it the right way.
- 00:17:54.285 --> 00:17:56.353
- But i just love that because she was eating bacon.
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- And i'm not a drinker, but she's eating bacon.
- 00:17:59.190 --> 00:18:02.793
- You're, yay.
- 00:18:02.793 --> 00:18:04.061
- That means wonderful things ahead from here.
- 00:18:04.061 --> 00:18:06.197
- - you might wanna take your probiotics
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- (laughing) if you're doing that.
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- - they'll protect your gut.
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- If you can dig through our website,
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- About how to keep good bacteria in your intestines.
- 00:18:18.442 --> 00:18:21.412
- - oh, i love that bacon part.
- 00:18:21.412 --> 00:18:23.514
- So exonerated here. (laughs)
- 00:18:23.514 --> 00:18:25.883
- Well, still ahead. playing with fire.
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- One teen is introduced to santeria
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- - [reporter] delari was cooking
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- - [walker] yeah.
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- You know, i saw a lot of hurt in that church.
- 00:23:59.816 --> 00:24:02.819
- - [interviewer] in 2015, walker lost his record deal
- 00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:05.789
- And had their family van repossessed by the label.
- 00:24:05.789 --> 00:24:09.059
- That's when craig decided
- 00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:10.594
- To give their family van to walker.
- 00:24:10.594 --> 00:24:13.597
- - their unconditional love,
- 00:24:13.597 --> 00:24:15.232
- It was so different from what we were used to.
- 00:24:15.232 --> 00:24:19.469
- I went and got a bible and just started reading
- 00:24:19.469 --> 00:24:21.939
- And reading and reading.
- 00:24:21.939 --> 00:24:23.106
- - it was amazing to watch,
- 00:24:23.106 --> 00:24:24.675
- The transformation and the,
- 00:24:24.675 --> 00:24:27.611
- Just the power of the holy spirit.
- 00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:30.180
- - [interviewer] walker had given his life to christ
- 00:24:30.180 --> 00:24:32.282
- And couldn't wait to share the news with craig.
- 00:24:32.282 --> 00:24:35.152
- - i said, i believe.
- 00:24:35.152 --> 00:24:36.720
- - "are you telling me that you believe
- 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.488
- That jesus is the son of god
- 00:24:38.488 --> 00:24:41.191
- And that you wanna live your life for him?"
- 00:24:41.191 --> 00:24:45.095
- He said, "that's exactly what i'm saying."
- 00:24:45.095 --> 00:24:49.099
- (upbeat music)
- 00:24:49.099 --> 00:24:51.668
- - i got into a serious relationship,
- 00:24:51.668 --> 00:24:54.705
- But his family was like involved in santeria.
- 00:24:54.705 --> 00:24:58.141
- They would do like ouija boards
- 00:24:58.141 --> 00:25:00.243
- And like, i mean, everything that you can think of,
- 00:25:00.243 --> 00:25:02.045
- Like occult, like they were in it.
- 00:25:02.045 --> 00:25:04.181
- And i feel like something just like, like sit on me.
- 00:25:04.181 --> 00:25:08.018
- Like, i was like shaking, crying.
- 00:25:08.018 --> 00:25:10.554
- I just called out to jesus.
- 00:25:10.554 --> 00:25:13.857
- From that moment, i felt like god took it
- 00:25:13.857 --> 00:25:18.061
- And was like, i'm gonna heal you.
- 00:25:18.061 --> 00:25:20.797
- - giving to "the 700 club" is giving to the world.
- 00:25:22.032 --> 00:25:25.469
- "700 club" are my feet. they're walking it there.
- 00:25:25.469 --> 00:25:28.672
- All i'm doing is helping write the check.
- 00:25:28.672 --> 00:25:31.141
- - it's just like planting a seed in the ground
- 00:25:32.376 --> 00:25:34.678
- And the water comes and the sun hits it and it grows.
- 00:25:34.678 --> 00:25:39.116
- - you can trust cbn.
- 00:25:39.116 --> 00:25:40.517
- They're gonna take your money and invest it wisely.
- 00:25:40.517 --> 00:25:43.587
- - [giver] you are saving souls through your giving.
- 00:25:43.587 --> 00:25:47.557
- (tense music)
- 00:25:48.125 --> 00:25:51.128
- - anna and anthony hankins went to watch a basketball game.
- 00:25:52.529 --> 00:25:56.266
- What they saw instead was chilling.
- 00:25:56.266 --> 00:25:59.469
- Their 12-year-old son, yosua,
- 00:25:59.469 --> 00:26:01.605
- Was lying on the ground lifeless
- 00:26:01.605 --> 00:26:03.874
- While paramedics were administering cpr.
- 00:26:03.874 --> 00:26:07.077
- - so i started running and the police came to me,
- 00:26:08.345 --> 00:26:12.215
- And i said, "where is my son?"
- 00:26:12.215 --> 00:26:14.051
- I'm like, "that's my son.
- 00:26:14.051 --> 00:26:15.052
- You need to take me to my son."
- 00:26:15.052 --> 00:26:16.987
- - [reporter] anna hankins and her husband anthony
- 00:26:16.987 --> 00:26:19.322
- Had just arrived at a high school gym in westminster,
- 00:26:19.322 --> 00:26:21.992
- California, for their son micaiah's basketball tournament.
- 00:26:21.992 --> 00:26:25.762
- Moments later, everything came to a halt.
- 00:26:25.762 --> 00:26:29.966
- - as we were kind of getting settled in,
- 00:26:29.966 --> 00:26:32.769
- There was a tournament director who came in
- 00:26:32.769 --> 00:26:35.472
- And he stopped all of the games.
- 00:26:35.472 --> 00:26:37.874
- They just said, "someone's child is passed out."
- 00:26:37.874 --> 00:26:40.577
- - [reporter] yosua was their 12-year-old son,
- 00:26:40.577 --> 00:26:42.946
- Who'd gone back to the car for a snack.
- 00:26:42.946 --> 00:26:45.382
- A police officer pointed them toward the school's entrance
- 00:26:45.382 --> 00:26:48.452
- Where they found their son surrounded by a crowd of people
- 00:26:48.452 --> 00:26:51.755
- And paramedics administering cpr.
- 00:26:51.755 --> 00:26:54.991
- - [anthony] we first saw him, he was laying on the ground.
- 00:26:54.991 --> 00:26:58.028
- His shirt was kind of cut.
- 00:26:58.028 --> 00:26:59.496
- He looked limbless and lifeless.
- 00:26:59.496 --> 00:27:01.364
- - [reporter] luke brokowski was one of the paramedics
- 00:27:01.364 --> 00:27:03.467
- On the scene.
- 00:27:03.467 --> 00:27:04.735
- They estimated yosua had been unconscious
- 00:27:04.735 --> 00:27:07.304
- For more than eight minutes.
- 00:27:07.304 --> 00:27:10.006
- - [medic] we find a boy on the ground.
- 00:27:10.006 --> 00:27:11.575
- He is unconscious, he has no pulse and he is not breathing.
- 00:27:11.575 --> 00:27:14.511
- So we consider that a cardiac arrest.
- 00:27:14.511 --> 00:27:17.247
- So you can say he was dead for that amount of the time.
- 00:27:17.247 --> 00:27:19.883
- He had been down for a while.
- 00:27:19.883 --> 00:27:21.151
- So normally when they're down for that long,
- 00:27:21.151 --> 00:27:23.386
- You don't really have a high expectation
- 00:27:23.386 --> 00:27:24.955
- That they're gonna make it through.
- 00:27:24.955 --> 00:27:26.490
- - when all this was happening and i'm like,
- 00:27:26.490 --> 00:27:29.760
- "what happened to him?"
- 00:27:29.760 --> 00:27:30.961
- And my heart just start get racing.
- 00:27:30.961 --> 00:27:35.232
- I couldn't understand.
- 00:27:35.232 --> 00:27:36.533
- It was really confusing.
- 00:27:36.533 --> 00:27:37.968
- The only thing that i could i remember saying was,
- 00:27:37.968 --> 00:27:42.372
- "your kingdom don't come. your will be done."
- 00:27:42.372 --> 00:27:45.842
- - [reporter] anthony kneeled by his son's side,
- 00:27:45.842 --> 00:27:48.311
- Holding his head as he prayed.
- 00:27:48.311 --> 00:27:51.047
- - i just spoke to his body and told it to come to life.
- 00:27:51.047 --> 00:27:53.817
- I commanded yosua to live
- 00:27:53.817 --> 00:27:55.719
- And told him that he would live and not die
- 00:27:55.719 --> 00:27:57.387
- And declare the works of the lord.
- 00:27:57.387 --> 00:27:59.222
- I spoke life to his body
- 00:27:59.222 --> 00:28:00.690
- And commanded his spirit to come alive.
- 00:28:00.690 --> 00:28:02.726
- I didn't realize at the time
- 00:28:02.726 --> 00:28:04.728
- That that was the first breath he took.
- 00:28:04.728 --> 00:28:07.297
- - [reporter] finally they got a pulse
- 00:28:07.297 --> 00:28:09.132
- And rushed yosua to the children's hospital
- 00:28:09.132 --> 00:28:11.601
- Of orange county.
- 00:28:11.601 --> 00:28:13.036
- - we got to the hospital
- 00:28:13.036 --> 00:28:14.905
- And they start putting all of these wires on him
- 00:28:14.905 --> 00:28:18.008
- And then they put a tube in his mouth.
- 00:28:18.008 --> 00:28:23.079
- And it was really, really scary.
- 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:28.518
- Like i saw myself in a situation that i have no control.
- 00:28:28.518 --> 00:28:33.590
- - [reporter] yosua was put on life support
- 00:28:34.758 --> 00:28:35.926
- And into a medically induced coma.
- 00:28:35.926 --> 00:28:37.861
- They discovered he had cardiomyopathy, a heart disorder
- 00:28:37.861 --> 00:28:41.398
- That was restricting blood flow and requiring surgery.
- 00:28:41.398 --> 00:28:45.635
- Because yosua had been without oxygen or a heartbeat
- 00:28:45.635 --> 00:28:48.905
- For an extended time,
- 00:28:48.905 --> 00:28:50.640
- Doctors were concerned about permanent brain damage
- 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:53.877
- If he lived.
- 00:28:53.877 --> 00:28:55.245
- The hankins refused to accept the prognosis.
- 00:28:55.245 --> 00:28:59.015
- - we wanted to believe god for the most.
- 00:28:59.015 --> 00:29:00.851
- You know, we just wanted to be outrageous with our faith.
- 00:29:00.851 --> 00:29:03.353
- The lord just gave us a supernatural faith.
- 00:29:03.353 --> 00:29:06.089
- - [reporter] between the hankins church, friends
- 00:29:06.089 --> 00:29:08.925
- And anna's family in columbia, south america,
- 00:29:08.925 --> 00:29:12.062
- Thousands of people prayed and fasted over the coming days.
- 00:29:12.062 --> 00:29:16.733
- - i start calling my pastors and people,
- 00:29:16.733 --> 00:29:19.135
- And i called "the 700 club" to pray for me, for a miracle.
- 00:29:19.135 --> 00:29:23.707
- - [reporter] it had been almost a week
- 00:29:23.707 --> 00:29:25.342
- Since yosua's collapse when doctors performed the surgery.
- 00:29:25.342 --> 00:29:29.179
- While it corrected the problem,
- 00:29:29.179 --> 00:29:30.947
- They wouldn't know if there was brain damage
- 00:29:30.947 --> 00:29:32.816
- Until they brought him out of sedation,
- 00:29:32.816 --> 00:29:34.885
- Which they did soon after the surgery.
- 00:29:34.885 --> 00:29:37.320
- - he woke up in a rage, in a fit,
- 00:29:37.320 --> 00:29:39.856
- And it took like four or five nurses to hold him down
- 00:29:39.856 --> 00:29:44.861
- Because when he woke up,
- 00:29:44.861 --> 00:29:47.297
- He started trying to pull everything apart.
- 00:29:47.297 --> 00:29:50.433
- - [reporter] the prayers continued.
- 00:29:50.433 --> 00:29:52.369
- Yosua slowly improved physically and cognitively.
- 00:29:52.369 --> 00:29:56.273
- He doesn't remember much about his ordeal,
- 00:29:56.273 --> 00:29:58.842
- But there was one thing that stuck with him.
- 00:29:58.842 --> 00:30:01.912
- - my parents' faith helps me to build my own faith.
- 00:30:01.912 --> 00:30:05.348
- Without them i probably wouldn't even be here.
- 00:30:05.348 --> 00:30:07.751
- As simple as that.
- 00:30:07.751 --> 00:30:09.019
- - [reporter] the hankins are grateful
- 00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:10.687
- That god's hands were on their son every step of the way.
- 00:30:10.687 --> 00:30:15.759
- - it could have happened any time, they said.
- 00:30:16.893 --> 00:30:19.029
- My faith of course has increased.
- 00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:22.098
- Is solid. i believe him for anything.
- 00:30:23.199 --> 00:30:26.803
- - even receiving all of the reports from the doctors
- 00:30:26.803 --> 00:30:31.241
- In terms of brain damage from, you know,
- 00:30:31.241 --> 00:30:34.010
- Not receiving oxygen to the brain
- 00:30:34.010 --> 00:30:36.313
- And potentially being a vegetable,
- 00:30:36.313 --> 00:30:38.448
- Potentially not even waking up from the coma,
- 00:30:38.448 --> 00:30:41.551
- Not being able to walk or have his faculties.
- 00:30:41.551 --> 00:30:44.754
- And god just, you know, miraculously reversed all
- 00:30:44.754 --> 00:30:49.526
- Of those potentials and said, you know,
- 00:30:49.526 --> 00:30:51.494
- This is my child and he is the healed of the lord.
- 00:30:51.494 --> 00:30:56.533
- - [reporter] although yosua still sees a cardiologist,
- 00:30:57.934 --> 00:30:59.336
- He's had no heart episode since
- 00:30:59.336 --> 00:31:01.805
- And says the experience has brought him closer to god.
- 00:31:01.805 --> 00:31:05.241
- He and his parents attribute his recovery to faith,
- 00:31:05.241 --> 00:31:08.912
- Prayer and god's healing touch.
- 00:31:08.912 --> 00:31:12.449
- - the amount of boldness that it takes
- 00:31:12.449 --> 00:31:15.118
- To even pray in a public setting like that,
- 00:31:15.118 --> 00:31:19.322
- Commanding the body to come to life,
- 00:31:19.322 --> 00:31:21.624
- It's like, it takes a lot of boldness.
- 00:31:21.624 --> 00:31:23.927
- Now what i do is i run 20 minutes nonstop
- 00:31:23.927 --> 00:31:28.164
- Because my heart can do that now.
- 00:31:28.164 --> 00:31:31.434
- And i can like play two basketball games
- 00:31:31.434 --> 00:31:34.604
- Without any serious problems.
- 00:31:34.604 --> 00:31:37.340
- But when i look back on my story,
- 00:31:37.340 --> 00:31:39.275
- I feel like mostly joyful because i'm alive
- 00:31:39.275 --> 00:31:42.779
- And i began to understand that god wasn't finished.
- 00:31:42.779 --> 00:31:46.616
- He wasn't finished with the job that he started in me.
- 00:31:46.616 --> 00:31:49.686
- So i'm gonna pursue it till the day of christ.
- 00:31:49.686 --> 00:31:55.225
- - what an incredible story.
- 00:31:56.026 --> 00:31:58.995
- You know, yosua understands
- 00:31:58.995 --> 00:32:01.798
- That the power of speaking life over him brought him back.
- 00:32:01.798 --> 00:32:07.704
- You know, it's a remarkable thing
- 00:32:08.571 --> 00:32:10.440
- For a parent to watch that,
- 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:11.841
- But even for us to watch it in this story,
- 00:32:11.841 --> 00:32:14.711
- To say yes, god, yes.
- 00:32:14.711 --> 00:32:17.480
- You know, god wants to do that in your life as well.
- 00:32:17.480 --> 00:32:20.183
- Sometimes we can be discouraged by either a prognosis
- 00:32:20.183 --> 00:32:24.421
- That we're given or other people's opinion
- 00:32:24.421 --> 00:32:26.589
- Or even how we are feeling.
- 00:32:26.589 --> 00:32:28.892
- But we can speak life over ourselves as well as others.
- 00:32:28.892 --> 00:32:33.763
- The power of the spoken word.
- 00:32:33.763 --> 00:32:35.665
- It's how the universe was created
- 00:32:36.666 --> 00:32:38.635
- And god has placed that opportunity within us.
- 00:32:38.635 --> 00:32:41.938
- We wanna speak on your behalf today.
- 00:32:41.938 --> 00:32:44.240
- We wanna pray with you.
- 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:45.408
- We wanna pray for you.
- 00:32:45.408 --> 00:32:47.043
- I know you have many needs.
- 00:32:47.043 --> 00:32:48.411
- I know many of you are asking god
- 00:32:48.411 --> 00:32:50.713
- To come right into the center of whatever it is
- 00:32:50.713 --> 00:32:53.416
- That is a part of your need at the moment
- 00:32:53.416 --> 00:32:56.319
- And we wanna join you in that.
- 00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:57.821
- The bible says, "where two or more are joined together,
- 00:32:57.821 --> 00:33:00.256
- He's right there in the midst of them, listening."
- 00:33:00.256 --> 00:33:02.792
- And so god is here with us right now,
- 00:33:02.792 --> 00:33:04.794
- And gordon and i are gonna be your two or more.
- 00:33:04.794 --> 00:33:07.130
- So let me share some more with you to encourage your faith.
- 00:33:07.130 --> 00:33:10.767
- This is sylvia who lives in philadelphia.
- 00:33:10.767 --> 00:33:13.503
- She says for years she suffered
- 00:33:14.304 --> 00:33:16.539
- With a serious retina issue in her left eye.
- 00:33:16.539 --> 00:33:19.109
- Her vision was extremely blurry as well.
- 00:33:19.109 --> 00:33:21.711
- She was watching this program,
- 00:33:21.711 --> 00:33:23.113
- And, gordon, she heard you say,
- 00:33:23.113 --> 00:33:24.514
- "someone, you've got a torn retina in your left eye
- 00:33:24.514 --> 00:33:27.150
- And the treatment program that's been prescribed
- 00:33:27.150 --> 00:33:29.152
- For you is just terrifying to you.
- 00:33:29.152 --> 00:33:31.554
- God has heard your cry.
- 00:33:31.554 --> 00:33:33.356
- He's able to heal that tear.
- 00:33:33.356 --> 00:33:35.658
- God has done an amazing miracle
- 00:33:35.658 --> 00:33:37.627
- For you right now in jesus' name."
- 00:33:37.627 --> 00:33:39.863
- So by faith sylvia believed god for her healing to manifest.
- 00:33:39.863 --> 00:33:43.600
- She can see clearly.
- 00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:45.135
- She doesn't even have to go looking for her glasses anymore.
- 00:33:45.135 --> 00:33:47.804
- Praise the lord. - jesus is still
- 00:33:47.804 --> 00:33:49.305
- Healing the blind.
- 00:33:49.305 --> 00:33:50.907
- Here's petal. i love that name.
- 00:33:50.907 --> 00:33:52.442
- Petal from miami, florida.
- 00:33:52.442 --> 00:33:54.244
- She started to find her hair falling out.
- 00:33:54.244 --> 00:33:56.813
- She trusted god for months to help.
- 00:33:56.813 --> 00:33:59.516
- While watching this show, terry said,
- 00:33:59.516 --> 00:34:01.851
- "someone else, you have an issue with your hair follicles
- 00:34:01.851 --> 00:34:04.988
- Like they're slowly dying.
- 00:34:04.988 --> 00:34:07.023
- You're afraid to even brush your hair.
- 00:34:07.023 --> 00:34:09.125
- God is healing that for you right now.
- 00:34:09.125 --> 00:34:11.561
- In jesus' name."
- 00:34:11.561 --> 00:34:12.829
- Well, petal, believe god, exercise faith.
- 00:34:12.829 --> 00:34:16.266
- Since then, she hasn't experienced any hair loss.
- 00:34:16.266 --> 00:34:19.936
- And she thanks god for healing her.
- 00:34:19.936 --> 00:34:22.539
- God numbers the hairs on your head.
- 00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:25.275
- He is vitally concerned with you.
- 00:34:25.275 --> 00:34:27.844
- He wants to heal. that's why jesus came.
- 00:34:27.844 --> 00:34:31.481
- That's why he died for us.
- 00:34:31.481 --> 00:34:33.683
- By his stripes, we are healed.
- 00:34:33.683 --> 00:34:37.387
- When we claim that, when we walk into that,
- 00:34:37.387 --> 00:34:40.990
- When we're bold enough to declare it,
- 00:34:40.990 --> 00:34:43.860
- Wonderful things can happen.
- 00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:45.929
- Now, in the story we just saw, the father had the boldness.
- 00:34:45.929 --> 00:34:50.867
- As people are working, as it looks to be hopeless,
- 00:34:50.867 --> 00:34:55.004
- His son lifeless on the ground,
- 00:34:55.004 --> 00:34:57.807
- What does he declare over him?
- 00:34:57.807 --> 00:34:59.509
- The words of psalm 118, "i shall not die
- 00:34:59.509 --> 00:35:03.513
- But live and declare the glory of the lord."
- 00:35:03.513 --> 00:35:07.016
- I encourage christians, memorize psalm 118.
- 00:35:07.016 --> 00:35:10.153
- It's the final psalm and the great hallel.
- 00:35:10.153 --> 00:35:13.289
- It's what jesus sang as the final hymn at the last supper.
- 00:35:13.289 --> 00:35:17.760
- "i shall not die but live
- 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:20.930
- And declare the glory of the lord.
- 00:35:20.930 --> 00:35:22.699
- This is the day the lord has made.
- 00:35:22.699 --> 00:35:25.635
- I will rejoice and be glad in it."
- 00:35:25.635 --> 00:35:28.972
- Let's take whatever problem you have
- 00:35:28.972 --> 00:35:31.975
- And put it into this is the day the lord has made.
- 00:35:31.975 --> 00:35:35.745
- I will rejoice.
- 00:35:35.745 --> 00:35:37.380
- I'm not rejoicing over the problem.
- 00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:39.382
- I'm rejoicing that jesus
- 00:35:39.382 --> 00:35:41.251
- Has already provided the answer.
- 00:35:41.251 --> 00:35:43.987
- "be of good cheer for i have overcome the world."
- 00:35:43.987 --> 00:35:48.291
- That means he's overcome every problem.
- 00:35:48.291 --> 00:35:51.361
- Whether it's the hairs on your head
- 00:35:51.361 --> 00:35:53.429
- Or your heart isn't pumping,
- 00:35:53.429 --> 00:35:55.265
- He has already overcome it.
- 00:35:55.265 --> 00:35:57.600
- Let's believe it, let's declare it and god will do the rest.
- 00:35:57.600 --> 00:36:02.605
- Let's speak to the mountain
- 00:36:03.406 --> 00:36:04.841
- And have it be removed, in jesus' name.
- 00:36:04.841 --> 00:36:08.411
- Let's pray.
- 00:36:08.411 --> 00:36:09.679
- Lord god almighty, we come to you.
- 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:11.381
- We come to you with the power that you have given us
- 00:36:11.381 --> 00:36:14.884
- That you said we will lay hands on the sick
- 00:36:14.884 --> 00:36:18.488
- And they shall recover.
- 00:36:18.488 --> 00:36:21.024
- So in an act of faith, we lay hands on that area of the body
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- That needs healing.
- 00:36:25.395 --> 00:36:26.863
- We say out loud to it, be healed and be made whole.
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- We declare this is the day the lord is made.
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- I will rejoice and be glad for god almighty has come
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- And he has healed my disease.
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- I will not die but live and declare the glory of the lord.
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- I receive it now, in jesus' name.
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- There's someone,
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- You're laying your right hand over your heart.
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- You see the heart condition story
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- And you're saying, can my heart be healed?
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- The answer is yes.
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- May your heart be healed. may it beat normally.
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- May all the veins, all the arteries be open now.
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- May there be no more pain, no more shooting pain.
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- No more pressure pain.
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- In the name of jesus, be healed.
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- And draw a full breath now
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- For you are healed and made whole.
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- Terry.
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- - speaking of drawing a full breath,
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- You have an issue with your lungs.
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- You have some kind of growth in your lungs
- 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.528
- And it's restricted your breathing,
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- God's healing that condition for you right now.
- 00:37:34.530 --> 00:37:37.200
- Take a deep breath from deep down
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- Inside like you haven't been able to in a long time
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- As god sets you free from that disease.
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- Someone else you've had a choking incident happen
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- And you damage something in your throat
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- That's left you with kind of this uncomfortable,
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- Even painful thing to swallow over.
- 00:37:54.317 --> 00:37:56.386
- God's healing that for you right now.
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- Just begin to praise him.
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- Lift your hands up and thank him.
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- - and someone, you've had a bullet wound
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- In your right lung and the upper lobe.
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- God's going to heal all of that for you right now.
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- In the name of jesus,
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- Be healed and be made whole.
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- - and the shoulder muscle on the right,
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- On the back of your shoulder.
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- God's healing that for you.
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- That's been tight and painful for a long time.
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- Just receive the warmth that's coming into your body now
- 00:38:25.748 --> 00:38:28.785
- As he heals you.
- 00:38:28.785 --> 00:38:30.319
- - someone else with a scalp condition.
- 00:38:30.319 --> 00:38:33.055
- There's just redness, itchy scaling.
- 00:38:33.055 --> 00:38:35.792
- God is healing all of that for you right now.
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- In the name of jesus, be healed.
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- Lord, we thank you.
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- We thank you that you are the healer, you are the savior,
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- You are the deliverer.
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- When we receive you,
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- We receive the answer to every human need.
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- Thank you for all that you do for us.
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- We receive it all, in jesus' name, amen.
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- The prayer that doesn't give up until you get an answer.
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- Terry.
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- - well, still to come.
- 00:39:22.738 --> 00:39:24.240
- A quest for peace leads one teen into a chasm of evil,
- 00:39:24.240 --> 00:39:28.644
- From practicing the law of attraction
- 00:39:28.644 --> 00:39:30.880
- To burning candles for the dead.
- 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:33.115
- See what opened his eyes to the spiritual darkness.
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- That's ahead on today's "700 club."
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- - i just couldn't keep anything down.
- 00:39:40.923 --> 00:39:43.226
- The nausea and the fatigue, shortness of breath.
- 00:39:43.226 --> 00:39:46.796
- As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
- 00:39:46.796 --> 00:39:49.131
- My prayer was, lord, give me a diagnosis
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- And give me a treatment plan,
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- And gimme a doctor who knows me
- 00:39:54.036 --> 00:39:55.571
- And understands what's going on.
- 00:39:55.571 --> 00:39:57.240
- And gordon said, "if you wanna be healed right now,"
- 00:39:57.240 --> 00:40:00.810
- He said, "you just put your hand on that body part."
- 00:40:00.810 --> 00:40:02.545
- So i did. i put my hand.
- 00:40:02.545 --> 00:40:04.046
- I said, "lord, i'm believing you that you can heal me."
- 00:40:04.046 --> 00:40:07.683
- And at that moment gordon said-
- 00:40:07.683 --> 00:40:10.152
- - there's someone you're saying, please say crohn's disease.
- 00:40:10.152 --> 00:40:13.589
- And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
- 00:40:13.589 --> 00:40:16.526
- Let your body no longer fight against itself
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- But be restored now in jesus' name.
- 00:40:19.862 --> 00:40:24.066
- - and i've had no issues since that time.
- 00:40:24.066 --> 00:40:27.470
- And i just give god the glory for that.
- 00:40:27.470 --> 00:40:30.973
- What i know is that jesus touched me
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- And that i've been healed.
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- - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
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- - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
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- - [] they kept saying, "septic, septic.
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- I think she's getting septic."
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- - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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- For a lifetime of dialysis.
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- I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag
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- - after her divorce, kayla went into panic mode.
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- She had been a stay-at-home mom.
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- Now she had to be the provider to four young children.
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- That's when you came to give her hope.
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- (kayla chuckling)
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- - i was the stay at home mom.
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- My husband was the sole provider.
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- Things were really, really, really hitting rock bottom.
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- I couldn't fix it.
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- I couldn't fix it on my own.
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- - [reporter] in the wake of her painful divorce,
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- Kayla took on the roles of both caregiver and breadwinner.
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- - i went into panic mode,
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- And i was stressing because my kids were in school.
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- How am i gonna find a job that provides the hours
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- That i need where i can be home for my kids?
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- - [reporter] that's when the doors open for kayla
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- To take a job cooking at a church daycare center.
- 00:47:03.832 --> 00:47:07.002
- - it just fell into place.
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- And it was a daycare so they provided childcare
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- For my youngest as well.
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- It was a reminder that god is providing
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- 'cause who else could give you
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- Exactly what you're needing like that
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- With the hours and everything
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- And all the things i was stressing and worrying about.
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- - [reporter] the church daycare is next door
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- To operation compassion, a partner of operation blessing.
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- - i said, yeah, i could probably benefit from that
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- 'cause if they can help me save on groceries,
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- That would help me provide in other areas at home.
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- - [reporter] the food kayla in her family received
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- Provided the relief she needed.
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- - i feel like i'm accomplishing something
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- Knowing that i'm providing for them,
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- That they're getting what they need.
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- As a mother, that's what you want for your kids.
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- You never wanna see 'em do without or struggle or hurt,
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- Anything like that.
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- So to see them smile and happy, that made me feel like,
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- Okay, this is okay. (chuckles)
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- - [reporter] kayla now works at a community action center,
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- Which provides even more support and stability
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- For her family.
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- On the path to becoming a teacher,
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- Kayla is immensely grateful
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- For the help she received along the way.
- 00:48:07.329 --> 00:48:09.631
- - in the midst of everything falling apart,
- 00:48:09.631 --> 00:48:11.667
- The lord still showed up
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- In his own time and in his own way.
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- I feel hope now.
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- - [reporter] thanks to you,
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- Kayla received the help she needed
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- During one of the most difficult times of her life.
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- - i felt like i wasn't alone anymore.
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- I had fighting for me.
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- There was someone that cared.
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- Thank you.
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- - life is full of unexpected suddenlys, isn't it?
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- And here's kayla, a beautiful young mom,
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- Who's now responsible for herself and four children.
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- And you were able to bring hope into her life,
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- Able to give her a path to recovery,
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- A path to a future filled with god's purpose and intention.
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- That's what we do, not just around the world,
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- Gordon?
- 00:49:48.931 --> 00:49:50.265
- - well, john thought he had nothing to lose.
- 00:49:50.265 --> 00:49:51.433
- He wanted to become famous.
- 00:49:51.433 --> 00:49:53.235
- So he met with a fortune teller,
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- Set up an altar in his home, burned candles to the spirits
- 00:49:55.370 --> 00:49:59.308
- And became a devoted follower of santeria.
- 00:49:59.308 --> 00:50:03.612
- - she's telling me about events
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- That have happened in my life, like the sexual abuse
- 00:50:06.849 --> 00:50:09.218
- And things like that that i never told anybody.
- 00:50:09.218 --> 00:50:13.055
- And the fact that she knew this,
- 00:50:13.055 --> 00:50:14.823
- I'm like, "oh, this is, this is some legit stuff."
- 00:50:14.823 --> 00:50:19.461
- - [reporter] john clash left his turbulent home at age 17
- 00:50:19.461 --> 00:50:23.198
- And spent years in gangs dealing and using drugs.
- 00:50:23.198 --> 00:50:27.736
- One night a friend invited him to a party where a woman
- 00:50:27.736 --> 00:50:31.273
- Who changed into multiple personalities made john a promise.
- 00:50:31.273 --> 00:50:35.878
- - she said, "hey, i know that you want to,"
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- She didn't say i,
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- She said, "we know that you want to be this famous rapper.
- 00:50:39.515 --> 00:50:42.885
- We know you want money, we know you want to be on stages
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- Around the world, and we're gonna give it to you.
- 00:50:45.954 --> 00:50:48.423
- All you have to do is make an altar
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- And you gotta wear these beads
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- And, you know, say what it says on the back of the candle
- 00:50:53.061 --> 00:50:56.265
- And keep it lit and keep the altar nice
- 00:50:56.265 --> 00:50:58.233
- And we'll give you everything."
- 00:50:58.233 --> 00:50:59.868
- I'm looking at it as if it works,
- 00:50:59.868 --> 00:51:02.437
- I get money and fame and all of this stuff, then awesome.
- 00:51:02.437 --> 00:51:05.440
- If it doesn't work, what did i lose?
- 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:07.176
- I lit some candles.
- 00:51:07.176 --> 00:51:08.644
- - [reporter] john built his altar
- 00:51:08.644 --> 00:51:09.978
- And for several months continued
- 00:51:09.978 --> 00:51:11.613
- To attend the fortune telling events.
- 00:51:11.613 --> 00:51:14.383
- - the deeper i got, i started now asking questions.
- 00:51:14.383 --> 00:51:18.220
- I'm like, so what is it that we're actually doing here?
- 00:51:18.220 --> 00:51:21.690
- And she said, "it's called santeria."
- 00:51:21.690 --> 00:51:23.492
- All of these different times
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- That she changes into a different person
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- Or a different personality,
- 00:51:28.797 --> 00:51:30.365
- That's her being possessed by one of the catholic saints.
- 00:51:30.365 --> 00:51:34.736
- And, you know, these are saints, they're from god
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- So they want what's best for you.
- 00:51:37.306 --> 00:51:39.708
- Why would something from god
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- Ever wanna do something evil to you?
- 00:51:41.343 --> 00:51:43.545
- And since i have no spiritual discernment at all,
- 00:51:43.545 --> 00:51:46.648
- I'm like, "all right, i guess that's a good thing.
- 00:51:46.648 --> 00:51:49.851
- You know, i went to catholic churches,
- 00:51:49.851 --> 00:51:51.386
- They light candles to the saints too."
- 00:51:51.386 --> 00:51:53.522
- So it just, there was no red flags going off in my mind.
- 00:51:53.522 --> 00:51:58.527
- - [reporter] john invested everything into his music career,
- 00:51:58.527 --> 00:52:01.496
- But was met with disappointment when it failed to take off.
- 00:52:01.496 --> 00:52:04.766
- He continued to light his candles.
- 00:52:04.766 --> 00:52:06.935
- And was introduced to a group of christians
- 00:52:06.935 --> 00:52:08.804
- That helped him find success in home-based business.
- 00:52:08.804 --> 00:52:12.074
- - i got invited to church
- 00:52:12.074 --> 00:52:13.675
- And this was kind of my first experience going to church.
- 00:52:13.675 --> 00:52:16.912
- But they were also really into personal development
- 00:52:16.912 --> 00:52:19.881
- And the law of attraction.
- 00:52:19.881 --> 00:52:21.250
- And they say, "oh, quantum physics
- 00:52:21.250 --> 00:52:23.819
- Shows that the law of attraction is real.
- 00:52:23.819 --> 00:52:25.587
- That your thoughts create reality
- 00:52:25.587 --> 00:52:27.756
- And what you say vibrates into the universe
- 00:52:27.756 --> 00:52:30.092
- And brings whatever you're saying back into your life,
- 00:52:30.092 --> 00:52:32.894
- So make sure that you're only saying positive things.
- 00:52:32.894 --> 00:52:35.264
- Make sure you're only thinking positive thoughts."
- 00:52:35.264 --> 00:52:37.666
- And so it trapped me in this,
- 00:52:37.666 --> 00:52:39.901
- I call it the secret cycle
- 00:52:39.901 --> 00:52:41.303
- In where i can't think anything negative,
- 00:52:41.303 --> 00:52:43.372
- I can't speak anything negative.
- 00:52:43.372 --> 00:52:45.440
- I didn't realize that this was a spirituality.
- 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:48.043
- I thought that it was just, quote unquote, "science."
- 00:52:48.043 --> 00:52:50.245
- Then i got invited to another church
- 00:52:50.245 --> 00:52:51.913
- And i was down at the front all emotional,
- 00:52:51.913 --> 00:52:55.817
- Giving my life to jesus essentially.
- 00:52:55.817 --> 00:52:58.320
- So after that, i'm thinking about what just happened,
- 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:00.989
- And i'm like, i'm not a christian.
- 00:53:00.989 --> 00:53:03.892
- I don't even know what that means.
- 00:53:03.892 --> 00:53:05.527
- I had no idea if there was good reason
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- To believe that jesus rose from the dead.
- 00:53:07.863 --> 00:53:10.165
- So i just went on a journey
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- To research different worldviews.
- 00:53:11.533 --> 00:53:13.769
- And when i did that,
- 00:53:13.769 --> 00:53:15.304
- I just came to the conclusion that jesus christ did rise
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- From the dead.
- 00:53:18.473 --> 00:53:19.574
- And then what do you do with that?
- 00:53:19.574 --> 00:53:20.909
- So i put my faith in him as my lord and savior.
- 00:53:20.909 --> 00:53:23.278
- But i carried everything
- 00:53:23.278 --> 00:53:25.847
- That i was doing into my christian walk.
- 00:53:25.847 --> 00:53:28.850
- - [reporter] john continued to practice the law
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- Of attraction and santeria.
- 00:53:30.819 --> 00:53:32.754
- Despite financial success, he still had no peace.
- 00:53:32.754 --> 00:53:36.191
- - so i'm a spiritual mess.
- 00:53:36.191 --> 00:53:38.327
- I'm still angry all the time.
- 00:53:38.327 --> 00:53:40.062
- I'm still like wrestling with depression
- 00:53:40.062 --> 00:53:44.199
- And being sad and i'm just at the lowest of lows.
- 00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:48.770
- So i end up moving and i'm staying with my mother.
- 00:53:48.770 --> 00:53:52.107
- And right down the street was a church
- 00:53:52.107 --> 00:53:54.976
- And it was a bible-believing church.
- 00:53:54.976 --> 00:53:57.546
- This was my first time going to a church
- 00:53:57.546 --> 00:53:59.815
- Where the people just read the word of god,
- 00:53:59.815 --> 00:54:02.951
- Verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book.
- 00:54:02.951 --> 00:54:06.021
- I learned more in my time in that church
- 00:54:06.021 --> 00:54:08.924
- About what a true relationship with christ
- 00:54:08.924 --> 00:54:11.259
- Actually looks like than i had ever learned before.
- 00:54:11.259 --> 00:54:16.198
- - [reporter] as john quickly grew in his relationship
- 00:54:16.198 --> 00:54:18.367
- With god, he tore down his altar
- 00:54:18.367 --> 00:54:20.635
- And stopped practicing the law of attraction.
- 00:54:20.635 --> 00:54:23.071
- True discipleship changed his life.
- 00:54:23.071 --> 00:54:26.208
- - just being around them changed me.
- 00:54:26.208 --> 00:54:28.710
- The holy spirit worked through them and through me
- 00:54:28.710 --> 00:54:32.180
- In my life into where now i understood
- 00:54:32.180 --> 00:54:34.883
- What a real relationship with god is.
- 00:54:34.883 --> 00:54:37.018
- It's not this,
- 00:54:37.018 --> 00:54:38.754
- I do these things so i can get something from god.
- 00:54:38.754 --> 00:54:42.224
- - [reporter] today, john loves to share the gospel
- 00:54:42.224 --> 00:54:44.526
- Both online and in the mission field,
- 00:54:44.526 --> 00:54:46.895
- Enjoying the peace he found only in christ.
- 00:54:46.895 --> 00:54:50.432
- - jesus to me is my everything.
- 00:54:50.432 --> 00:54:53.201
- He's all that i need.
- 00:54:53.201 --> 00:54:55.103
- I have had, as paul says,
- 00:54:55.103 --> 00:54:57.038
- I know what it's like to have plenty.
- 00:54:57.038 --> 00:54:58.473
- I know what it's like to lack
- 00:54:58.473 --> 00:55:00.208
- And in jesus i can do all things,
- 00:55:00.208 --> 00:55:02.644
- Through him who strengthens me.
- 00:55:02.644 --> 00:55:04.379
- But there's no way that you could look at somebody
- 00:55:04.379 --> 00:55:06.748
- Who's done all the things that i've done and say,
- 00:55:06.748 --> 00:55:08.250
- Yeah, that guy's gonna make it to heaven.
- 00:55:08.250 --> 00:55:10.519
- That assurance in putting your faith in christ
- 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:13.855
- When all else is just going wrong in your life
- 00:55:13.855 --> 00:55:17.492
- And things are in shambles,
- 00:55:17.492 --> 00:55:19.528
- But you have that assurance
- 00:55:19.528 --> 00:55:20.829
- That for an eternity, you're never gonna have
- 00:55:20.829 --> 00:55:23.064
- To worry about anything again,
- 00:55:23.064 --> 00:55:24.633
- I wish i could just give that to people,
- 00:55:25.767 --> 00:55:26.935
- But all i can do is is tell you
- 00:55:26.935 --> 00:55:28.703
- To put your faith in christ today.
- 00:55:28.703 --> 00:55:30.672
- And i pray that you experience the same peace that i have.
- 00:55:30.672 --> 00:55:34.543
- (gentle music)
- 00:55:34.543 --> 00:55:37.179
- - when you find him, you find the prince of peace,
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- You find the answer to every human need,
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- You find satisfaction,
- 00:55:42.984 --> 00:55:44.886
- You find out that he is your inheritance,
- 00:55:44.886 --> 00:55:48.990
- The creator of everything.
- 00:55:48.990 --> 00:55:51.359
- By him and through him, all things were created.
- 00:55:51.359 --> 00:55:56.264
- Now there are spiritual forces at work
- 00:55:56.264 --> 00:56:00.268
- That wanna get us off track.
- 00:56:00.268 --> 00:56:02.704
- And what they want us to do
- 00:56:02.704 --> 00:56:04.773
- Is to start worshiping the creation
- 00:56:04.773 --> 00:56:08.343
- Or start worshiping a particular idol.
- 00:56:08.343 --> 00:56:11.713
- It can even be as simple as start worshiping a candle.
- 00:56:11.713 --> 00:56:15.717
- These things aren't jesus.
- 00:56:15.717 --> 00:56:19.454
- And because they're not, they're going to lead you astray.
- 00:56:19.454 --> 00:56:23.892
- They have personalities.
- 00:56:23.892 --> 00:56:25.827
- I know in a scientific world view that seems odd,
- 00:56:25.827 --> 00:56:30.198
- But i have seen it up close and personal.
- 00:56:30.198 --> 00:56:33.735
- When you are in an idolatrous nation
- 00:56:33.735 --> 00:56:37.239
- And they're bowing down and asking idols
- 00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.041
- To come and possess them, they are invoking spirits.
- 00:56:40.041 --> 00:56:44.846
- And when you do that, evil things will happen to you.
- 00:56:44.846 --> 00:56:49.484
- But when you come to jesus, you get peace,
- 00:56:49.484 --> 00:56:52.888
- You get life, you get joy,
- 00:56:52.888 --> 00:56:56.057
- You get all the things that you're looking for.
- 00:56:56.057 --> 00:56:58.927
- Maybe your idol is like santeria.
- 00:56:58.927 --> 00:57:01.396
- Maybe your idol is money or fame or career or position,
- 00:57:01.396 --> 00:57:06.434
- You know, whatever it is, realize it will never satisfy.
- 00:57:07.836 --> 00:57:11.506
- And here's your prayer, and it's a very simple prayer.
- 00:57:11.506 --> 00:57:14.776
- And when you do it with all of your heart, he'll answer.
- 00:57:14.776 --> 00:57:18.413
- Jesus, if you're real, could you save me?
- 00:57:18.413 --> 00:57:23.485
- Could you forgive me?
- 00:57:24.185 --> 00:57:25.687
- Could you come into my heart?
- 00:57:25.687 --> 00:57:28.056
- Can you show me peace?
- 00:57:28.056 --> 00:57:30.725
- Can you give me righteousness, peace and joy in you?
- 00:57:30.725 --> 00:57:35.730
- If you need help with this prayer, we're here for you.
- 00:57:35.730 --> 00:57:38.500
- All you have to do is call us, 1800-700-7000,
- 00:57:38.500 --> 00:57:41.703
- Say, i need to find jesus.
- 00:57:41.703 --> 00:57:43.638
- I need him today.
- 00:57:43.638 --> 00:57:45.373
- Here's a word from proverbs.
- 00:57:45.373 --> 00:57:47.075
- "the fear of man brings a snare,
- 00:57:47.075 --> 00:57:49.110
- But whoever trusts in the lord shall be safe."
- 00:57:49.110 --> 00:57:52.180
- God bless you. we'll see you again.
- 00:57:52.180 --> 00:57:54.349
- (bright music)
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