January 23, 2026

January 23, 2026 | 57:59

The 700 Club features a distinctive blend of news from a biblical perspective, inspirational interviews and biblical teaching for everyday life.

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The 700 Club | January 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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  • (upbeat music)
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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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  • (cows mooing)
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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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  • - 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.
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  • - what i loved about operation blessing
  • 00:10:39.584 --> 00:10:41.352
  • 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.
  • 00:10:56.434 --> 00:10:57.835
  • I had this just lust,
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  • This physical dependency that i had to these drugs.
  • 00:10:59.237 --> 00:11:02.473
  • - 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)
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  • - i just remember him doing the altar call,
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  • "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.
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  • - i've been a missionary for 31 years,
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  • And it's outstanding when you are just the lay person,
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  • Watch god work through you and he does these miracles.
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  • And i've seen it over and over.
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  • 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.
  • 00:11:43.447 --> 00:11:47.785
  • 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.
  • 00:12:12.610 --> 00:12:14.846
  • (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.
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  • (logo swooshing)
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  • - heavens know. (laughs)
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  • - [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.
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  • - it just what the lord wants so you don't argue about that.
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  • You know, when he is ready, he'll come get me.
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  • He's got something here for me to do.
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  • I don't know what it is,
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  • But when he finishes with me, then i'll get to go home.
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  • - [lorie] still sharp as tack,
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  • Mary worked at an accounting firm until age 88.
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  • She also lived alone for 40 years
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  • Until just three months ago when she moved in
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  • With her granddaughter.
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  • - 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.
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  • - [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,
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  • 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
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  • Like her daily bacon and jelly sandwich.
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  • - and she loves paydays.
  • 00:14:06.857 --> 00:14:09.694
  • That's her little,
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  • "can you give some more paydays?" (laughs)
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  • - [lorie] part of her daily regimen
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  • Includes her favorite red wine, but just a little.
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  • - aah! (lorie chuckling)
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  • - [lorie] most notably mary reads her bible
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  • For hours each day as she has for years.
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  • - however, every time you read it,
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  • You get something new out of it.
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  • I don't care if you read it 1500 times.
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  • - [lorie] she's not afraid to die.
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  • In fact, looks forward to it.
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  • - heaven is gonna be so wonderful
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  • That who in their right mind,
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  • 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.
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  • There are over a hundred thousand
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  • American centenarians alive today.
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  • That number is expected to quadruple in the next 30 years.
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  • That's largely due to a projected population increase
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  • Combined with longer life expectancies.
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  • - these people actually have the physiology,
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  • Have the workings of a 50-year-old individual.
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  • - [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.
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  • - what we know about super old people
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  • Who are thriving is that they don't become infirm,
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  • That they don't get cancer,
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  • That they don't get alzheimer's.
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  • - [lorie] gundry credits that to lots
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  • Of good bacteria living in their intestines.
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  • - when we look at 105-year-old people around the world,
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  • 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,
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  • If any medications.
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  • Mary's on just one.
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  • Doctors say exercise,
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  • Especially walking up hill, promotes longevity.
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  • In fact, the five world cities
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  • With the highest concentration
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  • Of centenarians are all very hilly.
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  • Turns out mary lived much of her life
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  • In the smoky mountains.
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  • Genetics and a positive attitude also factor in.
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  • - [mary] i've had a very blessed life.
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  • - [lorie] as well as the unknown.
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  • - our days are numbered, our times are in the lord's hands,
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  • And i think so it's that.
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  • And i don't know how it all works
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  • 'cause you can be 50 and fit and the lord call you home,
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  • Or you can be 101.
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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:56.353 --> 00:17:59.190
  • And i'm not a drinker, but she's eating bacon.
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  • 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
  • 00:18:06.197 --> 00:18:07.932
  • (laughing) if you're doing that.
  • 00:18:07.932 --> 00:18:08.866
  • - they'll protect your gut.
  • 00:18:08.866 --> 00:18:10.134
  • If you can dig through our website,
  • 00:18:10.134 --> 00:18:11.802
  • There's a place where if you just put protect your gut
  • 00:18:11.802 --> 00:18:14.538
  • Into the cbn.com, you can find it
  • 00:18:14.538 --> 00:18:16.907
  • And we'll give you a lot of tips
  • 00:18:16.907 --> 00:18:18.442
  • 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.
  • 00:18:25.883 --> 00:18:29.119
  • One teen is introduced to santeria
  • 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.323
  • And soon has a face off with demons.
  • 00:18:32.323 --> 00:18:34.925
  • That's coming up later.
  • 00:18:34.925 --> 00:18:37.094
  • Up next, no pulse, not breathing.
  • 00:18:37.094 --> 00:18:40.564
  • This boy was medically dead for over eight minutes.
  • 00:18:40.564 --> 00:18:44.468
  • Watch what happens when his parents speak life over him.
  • 00:18:44.468 --> 00:18:48.672
  • Right after this.
  • 00:18:48.672 --> 00:18:50.474
  • - [kathy] we've always been tithers.
  • 00:18:51.508 --> 00:18:53.043
  • We teach our children to tithe.
  • 00:18:53.043 --> 00:18:54.745
  • - i can't explain to you how the bills would be here maybe
  • 00:18:54.745 --> 00:18:57.848
  • And the income here,
  • 00:18:57.848 --> 00:18:58.916
  • But at the end of the month,
  • 00:18:58.916 --> 00:19:00.317
  • It seemed that they would meet every single time.
  • 00:19:00.317 --> 00:19:03.621
  • My stepfather who's a farmer
  • 00:19:03.621 --> 00:19:05.155
  • Had three or 400 acres of melons he grew
  • 00:19:05.155 --> 00:19:07.992
  • And so i took a old toyota pickup truck that i had
  • 00:19:07.992 --> 00:19:11.228
  • And a trailer and would pick up 100 to 200 watermelons
  • 00:19:11.228 --> 00:19:15.099
  • And i started pedaling them out.
  • 00:19:15.099 --> 00:19:16.900
  • Food lion was our first corporate client.
  • 00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:18.669
  • I remember one year sitting down working on my taxes,
  • 00:19:18.669 --> 00:19:21.705
  • And my giving that year exceeded my adjusted gross income
  • 00:19:21.705 --> 00:19:25.643
  • Just a few years before.
  • 00:19:25.643 --> 00:19:27.311
  • Cbn has really meant a lot to us over the years
  • 00:19:27.311 --> 00:19:29.813
  • As we've watched the program
  • 00:19:29.813 --> 00:19:31.148
  • And seen and how god has blessed people.
  • 00:19:31.148 --> 00:19:33.651
  • - we found that you just can't outgive god.
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  • - [announcer] if you have experienced a financial blessing
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  • As a result of giving, tell us your story.
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  • Call 1-800-265-0793
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  • Bless and be blessed.
  • 00:19:49.333 --> 00:19:51.468
  • - the only way i can describe it
  • 00:19:51.468 --> 00:19:52.703
  • Is i was supernaturally delivered
  • 00:19:52.703 --> 00:19:54.505
  • From a nine-year cocaine addiction.
  • 00:19:54.505 --> 00:19:57.741
  • 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, 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.
  • 00:20:05.382 --> 00:20:08.252
  • And what i felt him saying was,
  • 00:20:08.252 --> 00:20:11.155
  • "i created you for more than this, my girl."
  • 00:20:11.155 --> 00:20:13.824
  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message to say,
  • 00:20:13.824 --> 00:20:17.394
  • "you are enough in me."
  • 00:20:17.394 --> 00:20:20.597
  • - [reporter] delari was cooking
  • 00:20:21.398 --> 00:20:22.866
  • When the edge of her soiree caught on fire.
  • 00:20:22.866 --> 00:20:25.703
  • Her back and legs were severely burned.
  • 00:20:25.703 --> 00:20:28.472
  • - after that, i faced a lot of difficulties.
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  • I couldn't walk.
  • 00:20:32.076 --> 00:20:33.377
  • My legs had shrunk and the skin peeled off.
  • 00:20:33.377 --> 00:20:37.281
  • I gave up all hope.
  • 00:20:37.281 --> 00:20:38.916
  • - [reporter] delari needed surgery,
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  • But her family couldn't afford it.
  • 00:20:41.218 --> 00:20:42.920
  • Then the family heard about a hospital
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  • That partners with operation blessing.
  • 00:20:44.621 --> 00:20:47.057
  • They reached out to us
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  • And we paid for delari's multiple surgeries.
  • 00:20:48.325 --> 00:20:51.495
  • - i can walk normally without anything.
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  • I will be forever grateful to everyone
  • 00:20:54.431 --> 00:20:56.867
  • Who helped me get my surgery.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • ♪ where there's joy there's action ♪
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  • ♪ it's like great attraction ♪
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  • ♪ that starts a chain reaction ♪
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  • ♪ with an satisfaction ♪
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  • ♪ i like the way this joy makes me move ♪
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  • ♪ yeah, yeah ♪
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  • ♪ i dance around because i want ♪
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  • ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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  • ♪ i dance around because i want ♪
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  • ♪ i move around because i got it ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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  • ♪ joy ♪
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  • ♪ joy's in the heart ♪
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  • - [interviewer] you considered yourself an atheist.
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  • - [walker] yeah.
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  • - what did you specifically 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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  • - [interviewer] in 2015, walker lost his record deal
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  • And had their family van repossessed by the label.
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  • That's when craig decided
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  • To give their family van to walker.
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  • - their unconditional love,
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  • It was so different from what we were used to.
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  • I went and got a bible and just started reading
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  • And reading and reading.
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  • - it was amazing to watch,
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  • The transformation and the,
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  • Just the power of the holy spirit.
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  • - [interviewer] 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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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - i got into a serious relationship,
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  • But his family was like involved in santeria.
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  • They would do like ouija boards
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  • And like, i mean, everything that you can think of,
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  • Like occult, like they were in it.
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  • And i feel like something just like, like sit on me.
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  • Like, i was like shaking, crying.
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  • I just called out to jesus.
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  • From that moment, i felt like god took it
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  • And was like, i'm gonna heal you.
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  • - giving to "the 700 club" is giving to the world.
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  • "700 club" are my feet. they're walking it there.
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  • All i'm doing is helping write the check.
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  • - it's just like planting a seed in the ground
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  • And the water comes and the sun hits it and it grows.
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  • - you can trust cbn.
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  • They're gonna take your money and invest it wisely.
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  • - [giver] you are saving souls through your giving.
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  • (tense music)
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  • - anna and anthony hankins went to watch a basketball game.
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  • What they saw instead was chilling.
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  • Their 12-year-old son, yosua,
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  • Was lying on the ground lifeless
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  • While paramedics were administering cpr.
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  • - so i started running and the police came to me,
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  • And i said, "where is my son?"
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  • I'm like, "that's my son.
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  • You need to take me to my son."
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  • - [reporter] anna hankins and her husband anthony
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  • Had just arrived at a high school gym in westminster,
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  • California, for their son micaiah's basketball tournament.
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  • Moments later, everything came to a halt.
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  • - as we were kind of getting settled in,
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  • There was a tournament director who came in
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  • And he stopped all of the games.
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  • They just said, "someone's child is passed out."
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  • - [reporter] yosua was their 12-year-old son,
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  • Who'd gone back to the car for a snack.
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  • A police officer pointed them toward the school's entrance
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  • Where they found their son surrounded by a crowd of people
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  • And paramedics administering cpr.
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  • - [anthony] we first saw him, he was laying on the ground.
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  • His shirt was kind of cut.
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  • He looked limbless and lifeless.
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  • - [reporter] luke brokowski was one of the paramedics
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  • On the scene.
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  • They estimated yosua had been unconscious
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  • For more than eight minutes.
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  • - [medic] we find a boy on the ground.
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  • He is unconscious, he has no pulse and he is not breathing.
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  • So we consider that a cardiac arrest.
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  • So you can say he was dead for that amount of the time.
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  • He had been down for a while.
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  • So normally when they're down for that long,
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  • You don't really have a high expectation
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  • That they're gonna make it through.
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  • - when all this was happening and i'm like,
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  • "what happened to him?"
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  • And my heart just start get racing.
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  • I couldn't understand.
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  • It was really confusing.
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  • The only thing that i could i remember saying was,
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  • "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,
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  • Holding his head as he prayed.
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  • - i just spoke to his body and told it to come to life.
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  • I commanded yosua to live
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  • And told him that he would live and not die
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  • And declare the works of the lord.
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  • I spoke life to his body
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  • And commanded his spirit to come alive.
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  • I didn't realize at the time
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  • That that was the first breath he took.
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  • - [reporter] finally they got a pulse
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  • And rushed yosua to the children's hospital
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  • Of orange county.
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  • - we got to the hospital
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  • And they start putting all of these wires on him
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  • And then they put a tube in his mouth.
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  • And it was really, really scary.
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  • Like i saw myself in a situation that i have no control.
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  • - [reporter] yosua was put on life support
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  • And into a medically induced coma.
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  • They discovered he had cardiomyopathy, a heart disorder
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  • That was restricting blood flow and requiring surgery.
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  • Because yosua had been without oxygen or a heartbeat
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  • For an extended time,
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  • Doctors were concerned about permanent brain damage
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  • If he lived.
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  • The hankins refused to accept the prognosis.
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  • - we wanted to believe god for the most.
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  • You know, we just wanted to be outrageous with our faith.
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  • The lord just gave us a supernatural faith.
  • 00:29:03.353 --> 00:29:06.089
  • - [reporter] between the hankins church, friends
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  • And anna's family in columbia, south america,
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  • Thousands of people prayed and fasted over the coming days.
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  • - i start calling my pastors and people,
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  • 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
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  • Since yosua's collapse when doctors performed the surgery.
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  • While it corrected the problem,
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  • They wouldn't know if there was brain damage
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  • Until they brought him out of sedation,
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  • Which they did soon after the surgery.
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  • - he woke up in a rage, in a fit,
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  • And it took like four or five nurses to hold him down
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  • Because when he woke up,
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  • He started trying to pull everything apart.
  • 00:29:47.297 --> 00:29:50.433
  • - [reporter] the prayers continued.
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  • Yosua slowly improved physically and cognitively.
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  • He doesn't remember much about his ordeal,
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  • But there was one thing that stuck with him.
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  • - my parents' faith helps me to build my own faith.
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  • Without them i probably wouldn't even be here.
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  • As simple as that.
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  • - [reporter] the hankins are grateful
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  • That god's hands were on their son every step of the way.
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  • - it could have happened any time, they said.
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  • My faith of course has increased.
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  • Is solid. i believe him for anything.
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  • - even receiving all of the reports from the doctors
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  • In terms of brain damage from, you know,
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  • Not receiving oxygen to the brain
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  • And potentially being a vegetable,
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  • Potentially not even waking up from the coma,
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  • Not being able to walk or have his faculties.
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  • And god just, you know, miraculously reversed all
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  • Of those potentials and said, you know,
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  • 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,
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  • He's had no heart episode since
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  • And says the experience has brought him closer to god.
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  • He and his parents attribute his recovery to faith,
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  • Prayer and god's healing touch.
  • 00:31:08.912 --> 00:31:12.449
  • - the amount of boldness that it takes
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  • To even pray in a public setting like that,
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  • Commanding the body to come to life,
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  • It's like, it takes a lot of boldness.
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  • Now what i do is i run 20 minutes nonstop
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  • Because my heart can do that now.
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  • And i can like play two basketball games
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  • Without any serious problems.
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  • But when i look back on my story,
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  • I feel like mostly joyful because i'm alive
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  • And i began to understand that god wasn't finished.
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  • He wasn't finished with the job that he started in me.
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  • So i'm gonna pursue it till the day of christ.
  • 00:31:49.686 --> 00:31:55.225
  • - what an incredible story.
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  • You know, yosua understands
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  • That the power of speaking life over him brought him back.
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  • You know, it's a remarkable thing
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  • For a parent to watch that,
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  • But even for us to watch it in this story,
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  • 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.
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  • Sometimes we can be discouraged by either a prognosis
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  • That we're given or other people's opinion
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  • Or even how we are feeling.
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  • But we can speak life over ourselves as well as others.
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  • The power of the spoken word.
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  • It's how the universe was created
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  • And god has placed that opportunity within us.
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  • We wanna speak on your behalf today.
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  • We wanna pray with you.
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  • We wanna pray for you.
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  • I know you have many needs.
  • 00:32:47.043 --> 00:32:48.411
  • I know many of you are asking god
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  • To come right into the center of whatever it is
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  • That is a part of your need at the moment
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  • 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,
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  • 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,
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  • And gordon and i are gonna be your two or more.
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  • So let me share some more with you to encourage your faith.
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  • This is sylvia who lives in philadelphia.
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • And the treatment program that's been prescribed
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  • For you is just terrifying to you.
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  • God has heard your cry.
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  • He's able to heal that tear.
  • 00:33:33.356 --> 00:33:35.658
  • God has done an amazing miracle
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  • 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.
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  • She can see clearly.
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  • She doesn't even have to go looking for her glasses anymore.
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  • Praise the lord. - jesus is still
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  • Healing the blind.
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  • Here's petal. i love that name.
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  • 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.
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  • You're afraid to even brush your hair.
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  • God is healing that for you right now.
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  • In jesus' name."
  • 00:34:11.561 --> 00:34:12.829
  • Well, petal, believe god, exercise faith.
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  • Since then, she hasn't experienced any hair loss.
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  • And she thanks god for healing her.
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  • God numbers the hairs on your head.
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  • He is vitally concerned with you.
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  • He wants to heal. that's why jesus came.
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  • That's why he died for us.
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  • By his stripes, we are healed.
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  • When we claim that, when we walk into that,
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  • When we're bold enough to declare it,
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  • Wonderful things can happen.
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  • Now, in the story we just saw, the father had the boldness.
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  • As people are working, as it looks to be hopeless,
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  • His son lifeless on the ground,
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  • What does he declare over him?
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  • The words of psalm 118, "i shall not die
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  • But live and declare the glory of the lord."
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  • I encourage christians, memorize psalm 118.
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  • It's the final psalm and the great hallel.
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  • It's what jesus sang as the final hymn at the last supper.
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  • "i shall not die but live
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  • And declare the glory of the lord.
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  • This is the day the lord has made.
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  • I will rejoice and be glad in it."
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  • Let's take whatever problem you have
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  • And put it into this is the day the lord has made.
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  • I will rejoice.
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  • I'm not rejoicing over the problem.
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  • I'm rejoicing that jesus
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  • Has already provided the answer.
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  • "be of good cheer for i have overcome the world."
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  • That means he's overcome every problem.
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  • Whether it's the hairs on your head
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  • Or your heart isn't pumping,
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  • He has already overcome it.
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  • Let's believe it, let's declare it and god will do the rest.
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  • Let's speak to the mountain
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  • And have it be removed, in jesus' name.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Lord god almighty, we come to you.
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  • We come to you with the power that you have given us
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  • That you said we will lay hands on the sick
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  • And they shall recover.
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  • So in an act of faith, we lay hands on that area of the body
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  • That needs healing.
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  • 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.
  • 00:37:25.321 --> 00:37:26.522
  • - 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
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  • 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.
  • 00:37:42.071 --> 00:37:45.308
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:38:20.943 --> 00:38:22.412
  • 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.
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  • - someone else with a scalp condition.
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  • There's just redness, itchy scaling.
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  • 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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  • If you've been healed, let us know.
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  • Let us share in your good report.
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  • All you have to is call us, 1800-700-7000,
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  • If you need prayer.
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  • We believe in prevailing prayer.
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  • The prayer that doesn't give up until you get an answer.
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  • The bold prayer that declares the glory of the lord.
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  • We want to pray with you.
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  • All you have to do is call us, 1800-700-7000.
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  • Terry.
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  • - well, still to come.
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  • A quest for peace leads one teen into a chasm of evil,
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  • From practicing the law of attraction
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  • To burning candles for the dead.
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  • See what opened his eyes to the spiritual darkness.
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  • That's ahead on today's "700 club."
  • 00:39:36.819 --> 00:39:39.822
  • - i just couldn't keep anything down.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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-
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  • - 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.
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  • Let your body no longer fight against itself
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  • But be restored now in jesus' name.
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  • - and i've had no issues since that time.
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  • And i just give god the glory for that.
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  • What i know is that jesus touched me
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  • And that i've been healed.
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  • - i start drinking alcohol
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  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
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  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
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  • I was weak in my relationship with god
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  • And i was just a weak human being.
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  • And god got further and further away.
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  • When you feel his presence and walk away from it,
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  • There's guilt, there's shame,
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  • But there's also a sort of a sense
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  • That it'll never happen for you again.
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  • My daughter who was 12 at the time,
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  • She said, "daddy, i want you to be happy.
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  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:42:45.341 --> 00:42:47.543
  • God started to reveal himself to me again
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  • And he started to melt away the ice that was my heart.
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  • I'm trying to talk people into this life
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  • That is second to none.
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  • This life of feeling christ's presence in your life.
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  • - [announcer] regent university, follow your path.
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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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  • And this medicine was going
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  • To destroy every dream my girl could possibly have.
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  • - thousands and thousands,
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  • Literally around the world were praying for her.
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  • - mom runs out into the hallway, i think she's like,
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  • "he just told me he canceled your surgery.
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  • He was like, your kidney biopsy came back completely clean."
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  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag
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  • Just we were hugging and screaming.
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  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
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  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
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  • I think those prayers were answered.
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  • - after her divorce, kayla went into panic mode.
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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.
  • 00:46:32.801 --> 00:46:35.070
  • I never saw myself being the one to get divorced.
  • 00:46:35.070 --> 00:46:39.208
  • Things were really, really, really hitting rock bottom.
  • 00:46:39.208 --> 00:46:43.379
  • I couldn't fix it.
  • 00:46:43.379 --> 00:46:44.580
  • I couldn't fix it on my own.
  • 00:46:44.580 --> 00:46:46.282
  • - [reporter] in the wake of her painful divorce,
  • 00:46:46.282 --> 00:46:48.217
  • Kayla took on the roles of both caregiver and breadwinner.
  • 00:46:48.217 --> 00:46:52.154
  • - i went into panic mode,
  • 00:46:52.154 --> 00:46:53.722
  • And i was stressing because my kids were in school.
  • 00:46:53.722 --> 00:46:57.059
  • How am i gonna find a job that provides the hours
  • 00:46:57.059 --> 00:46:59.461
  • That i need where i can be home for my kids?
  • 00:46:59.461 --> 00:47:02.231
  • - [reporter] that's when the doors open for kayla
  • 00:47:02.231 --> 00:47:03.832
  • To take a job cooking at a church daycare center.
  • 00:47:03.832 --> 00:47:07.002
  • - it just fell into place.
  • 00:47:07.002 --> 00:47:08.270
  • And it was a daycare so they provided childcare
  • 00:47:08.270 --> 00:47:11.240
  • For my youngest as well.
  • 00:47:11.240 --> 00:47:13.242
  • It was a reminder that god is providing
  • 00:47:13.242 --> 00:47:16.612
  • 'cause who else could give you
  • 00:47:16.612 --> 00:47:18.047
  • Exactly what you're needing like that
  • 00:47:18.047 --> 00:47:20.282
  • With the hours and everything
  • 00:47:20.282 --> 00:47:21.717
  • And all the things i was stressing and worrying about.
  • 00:47:21.717 --> 00:47:23.886
  • - [reporter] the church daycare is next door
  • 00:47:23.886 --> 00:47:25.754
  • To operation compassion, a partner of operation blessing.
  • 00:47:25.754 --> 00:47:29.959
  • - i said, yeah, i could probably benefit from that
  • 00:47:29.959 --> 00:47:32.027
  • 'cause if they can help me save on groceries,
  • 00:47:32.027 --> 00:47:33.696
  • That would help me provide in other areas at home.
  • 00:47:33.696 --> 00:47:37.132
  • - [reporter] the food kayla in her family received
  • 00:47:37.132 --> 00:47:39.101
  • Provided the relief she needed.
  • 00:47:39.101 --> 00:47:41.470
  • - i feel like i'm accomplishing something
  • 00:47:41.470 --> 00:47:43.872
  • Knowing that i'm providing for them,
  • 00:47:43.872 --> 00:47:45.741
  • That they're getting what they need.
  • 00:47:45.741 --> 00:47:47.276
  • As a mother, that's what you want for your kids.
  • 00:47:47.276 --> 00:47:48.978
  • You never wanna see 'em do without or struggle or hurt,
  • 00:47:48.978 --> 00:47:51.513
  • Anything like that.
  • 00:47:51.513 --> 00:47:52.948
  • So to see them smile and happy, that made me feel like,
  • 00:47:52.948 --> 00:47:55.217
  • Okay, this is okay. (chuckles)
  • 00:47:55.217 --> 00:47:57.286
  • - [reporter] kayla now works at a community action center,
  • 00:47:57.286 --> 00:47:59.755
  • Which provides even more support and stability
  • 00:47:59.755 --> 00:48:02.157
  • For her family.
  • 00:48:02.157 --> 00:48:03.525
  • On the path to becoming a teacher,
  • 00:48:03.525 --> 00:48:05.494
  • Kayla is immensely grateful
  • 00:48:05.494 --> 00:48:07.329
  • 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
  • 00:48:11.667 --> 00:48:14.003
  • In his own time and in his own way.
  • 00:48:14.003 --> 00:48:16.739
  • I feel hope now.
  • 00:48:16.739 --> 00:48:18.240
  • - [reporter] thanks to you,
  • 00:48:18.240 --> 00:48:19.341
  • Kayla received the help she needed
  • 00:48:19.341 --> 00:48:21.310
  • During one of the most difficult times of her life.
  • 00:48:21.310 --> 00:48:24.279
  • - i felt like i wasn't alone anymore.
  • 00:48:24.279 --> 00:48:27.216
  • I had fighting for me.
  • 00:48:27.216 --> 00:48:29.485
  • There was someone that cared.
  • 00:48:29.485 --> 00:48:31.153
  • Thank you.
  • 00:48:31.153 --> 00:48:32.388
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:48:32.955 --> 00:48:35.090
  • - life is full of unexpected suddenlys, isn't it?
  • 00:48:35.090 --> 00:48:38.260
  • And here's kayla, a beautiful young mom,
  • 00:48:38.260 --> 00:48:41.330
  • Who's now responsible for herself and four children.
  • 00:48:41.330 --> 00:48:44.233
  • And you were able to bring hope into her life,
  • 00:48:44.233 --> 00:48:47.970
  • Able to give her a path to recovery,
  • 00:48:47.970 --> 00:48:50.272
  • A path to a future filled with god's purpose and intention.
  • 00:48:50.272 --> 00:48:54.209
  • That's "the 700 club."
  • 00:48:54.209 --> 00:48:55.677
  • That's becoming a member.
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  • That's what we do, not just around the world,
  • 00:48:57.146 --> 00:48:59.381
  • Right here at home as well.
  • 00:48:59.381 --> 00:49:00.983
  • 65 cents a day, $20 a month makes you a "700 club" member.
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  • We wanna invite you to join with the rest of us.
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  • Our number's toll free.
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  • You just call 1-800-700-7000 and say,
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  • I wanna join "the 700 club."
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  • Then tell us what club level you'd like
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  • Because we've got options for you.
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  • Maybe you're already a "700 club" member.
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  • Go up to "700 club" gold, if you can.
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  • $40 a month.
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  • Or become a thousand member at $84 a month.
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  • You can see we have a 2,500 club level
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  • And a founders level.
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  • Talk to the friend on the phone.
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  • They'll help you figure all of that out.
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  • And would you do it using pledge express,
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  • Your bank does all the work.
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  • It's pretty wonderful.
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  • And it gives us even more of your giving
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  • To give it to people like kayla who are in need.
  • 00:49:40.289 --> 00:49:42.591
  • So call us now or go to cbn.com
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  • Or you can text cbn 271777.
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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,
  • 00:49:53.235 --> 00:49:55.370
  • 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
  • 00:50:04.413 --> 00:50:06.849
  • 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,"
  • 00:50:35.878 --> 00:50:37.946
  • She didn't say i,
  • 00:50:37.946 --> 00:50:39.515
  • 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
  • 00:50:42.885 --> 00:50:45.954
  • 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
  • 00:50:48.423 --> 00:50:50.626
  • And you gotta wear these beads
  • 00:50:50.626 --> 00:50:53.061
  • 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
  • 00:51:23.492 --> 00:51:25.360
  • That she changes into a different person
  • 00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:28.797
  • 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
  • 00:51:34.736 --> 00:51:37.306
  • So they want what's best for you.
  • 00:51:37.306 --> 00:51:39.708
  • Why would something from god
  • 00:51:39.708 --> 00:51:41.343
  • 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
  • 00:53:05.527 --> 00:53:07.863
  • To believe that jesus rose from the dead.
  • 00:53:07.863 --> 00:53:10.165
  • So i just went on a journey
  • 00:53:10.165 --> 00:53:11.533
  • 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
  • 00:53:15.304 --> 00:53:18.473
  • 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
  • 00:53:28.850 --> 00:53:30.819
  • 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,
  • 00:55:37.179 --> 00:55:40.115
  • You find the answer to every human need,
  • 00:55:40.115 --> 00:55:42.984
  • 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.
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  • Maybe your idol is money or fame or career or position,
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  • You know, whatever it is, realize it will never satisfy.
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  • And here's your prayer, and it's a very simple prayer.
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  • And when you do it with all of your heart, he'll answer.
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  • Jesus, if you're real, could you save me?
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  • Could you forgive me?
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  • Could you come into my heart?
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  • Can you show me peace?
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  • Can you give me righteousness, peace and joy in you?
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  • If you need help with this prayer, we're here for you.
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  • All you have to do is call us, 1800-700-7000,
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  • Say, i need to find jesus.
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  • I need him today.
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  • Here's a word from proverbs.
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  • "the fear of man brings a snare,
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  • But whoever trusts in the lord shall be safe."
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  • God bless you. we'll see you again.
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  • (bright music)
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