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The 700 Club

May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026 | 57:59

May 14, 2026
The 700 Club features a distinctive blend of news from a biblical perspective, inspirational interviews and biblical teaching for everyday life.
#News #Politics #HumanTrafficking #Healing #Drugs #Addiction #Law #Prayer #Marriage #Struggle #SexualAbuse #Calling

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The 700 Club | May 14, 2026 | May 14, 2026
  • - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [narrator] coming up, hit by a bus.
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  • - they never told us that she would live.
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  • - [narrator] thrown 80 feet.
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  • - we just knew we had a long battle ahead of us.
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  • - [narrator] a young woman with multiple broken bones
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  • And a brain injury.
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  • - it just didn't even look like maggie.
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  • - [narrator] the fight to save her life.
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  • - i know that that was the holy spirit that was guiding me.
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  • - [narrator] and how she emerged stronger than ever.
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  • - it was just the most beautiful thing.
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  • - [narrator] on today's "700 club".
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  • (lively dramatic music)
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  • - well, welcome to "the 700 club".
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  • Victims of sex trafficking suffer from trauma
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  • Long after they're set free from the industry.
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  • - in tennessee, trafficking increased more than 30%
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  • In recent years.
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  • So now there are a growing number of victims who need help.
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  • Charlene aaron visited one ministry
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  • That's providing much needed healing for a fresh start.
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  • - rest stop ministries here in lebanon, tennessee,
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  • Is dedicated to restoring women who have been trafficked.
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  • It offers a long-term trauma recovery program,
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  • As well as educational and job training opportunities
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  • In an effort to help victims heal.
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  • - it started when i was three actually.
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  • - [charlene] galia ahava meira's own grandfather
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  • Took that step by selling her for sex
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  • To his fellow members of the kkk.
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  • - that went on up until he passed away
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  • When i was almost seven.
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  • - [charlene] that trauma then led to a lonely life
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  • Of drug and alcohol abuse.
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  • - actually had been on life support for nine days
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  • Due to an overdose
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  • And no one came to the hospital to see me.
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  • No one in my family at all.
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  • When i woke up,
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  • After they had taken the machines off,
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  • There was a social worker there from cps
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  • And that is how i got out.
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  • I got put in foster care.
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  • - [charlene] after aging out of foster care,
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  • Galia hoped marriage might provide a new start.
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  • Sadly, her husband continued the exploitation
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  • And even became her pimp.
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  • - he actually would sleep with a pistol under my pillow
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  • With his finger on the trigger.
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  • For me to just be able to reach out to someone and say,
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  • This is happening wasn't possible.
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  • - [charlene] her breakthrough came
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  • During a secret skype call with a trauma counselor
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  • Who told galia about rest stop ministries,
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  • Tennessee's first long-term program
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  • For female sex trafficking victims.
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  • - they partnered with another agency
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  • And sent a rescue team to ohio
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  • To get me out of that situation.
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  • - these women come to us broken,
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  • Body, mind, soul, and spirit.
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  • We have a, you know, a trauma focused therapist
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  • And we have clinical case managers,
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  • Creating comprehensive healing plans
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  • That help these women deal with
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  • Whatever they need to deal with
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  • To be completely rehabilitated,
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  • Made whole in christ.
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  • - [charlene] founder and executive director rondy smith
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  • Explains the ministry's holistic approach.
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  • - we tell these women when they come through the door,
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  • Your life has been hard,
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  • But the bravest thing you've ever done
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  • Is walk through these doors
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  • And the healing journey is going to be just as hard.
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  • And if you'll come and just focus
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  • On doing the very hard work of healing,
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  • We're gonna take care of your every need.
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  • - [charlene] part of that healing
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  • Includes a nine month curriculum called good hope farms,
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  • That provides education and employment opportunities.
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  • - they are learning job skills, paid hands-on,
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  • They're being paid to learn
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  • Because they need to be ready when they transition
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  • And when they start working and earning
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  • And it boosts their self-esteem
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  • And they realize, there is hope for me
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  • To transform my life.
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  • - [charlene] hope came in the form of the opportunity
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  • To purchase a 25 acre property
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  • That would allow the growing ministry
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  • To turn evil into good.
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  • - we have seen in our eight and a half years being open,
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  • 57 souls who have come through and you might say,
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  • Well, that doesn't sound like a lot for eight years.
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  • Remember, they can stay here two full years.
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  • So many of them now are living independently
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  • For the very first time.
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  • They get their driver's license
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  • For the first time when they're here.
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  • We had a resident who came here with no teeth
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  • Because her pimp had knocked them out with a bat
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  • And she got a new smile.
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  • - [charlene] due to this type of trauma,
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  • The ministry must take care
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  • In its approach to sharing the gospel.
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  • And smith says, testimonies of lives changed
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  • Are especially gratifying.
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  • - we have a group of women right now,
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  • They've claimed a church here in town,
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  • They go together as a community.
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  • They love it, they are on fire.
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  • They would all testify to you
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  • If you could talk to each one of them today
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  • That they know that god has been their answer.
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  • - [charlene] that includes galia,
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  • Whose name in hebrew means beloved, redeemed, shining light.
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  • Since completing the program,
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  • She helps others at a short-term rehab facility
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  • In nashville.
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  • - everyone at rest stop has walked beside me.
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  • When i was struggling, they were my legs so i could stand
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  • And they would hold me up till i could walk on my own.
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  • Watching my clients come in
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  • Broken and hopeless and helpless
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  • To the day they leave
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  • And watching that transformation
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  • Is one of the greatest blessings.
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  • - [charlene] a transformation she hopes to provide
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  • To other survivors.
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  • - there is love out there, the love of jesus
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  • And those people he put in the path.
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  • You don't have to do it alone.
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  • There's hope, there's healing, there's freedom.
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  • - [charlene] charlene aaron, "cbn news", lebanon, tennessee.
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  • - let me echo what was on that slide above her head,
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  • Let us stop shooting the wounded.
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  • In sex trafficking, they are absolute victims
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  • And anyone who has been trafficked is a victim.
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  • As a culture, as christians,
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  • We should reach out with love and compassion to let 'em know
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  • God has a much different plan for you.
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  • You can be delivered from this
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  • And you can have a life once again.
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  • We'll be back with more of "the 700 club" right after this.
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  • (lively music)
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  • - the thing we really like about cbn
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  • Is we know that our money is going to a good cause.
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  • We know that the money is well spent,
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  • We know that they're good stewards of our money,
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  • We know that they take really good care
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  • To make sure that they aren't wasting our resources.
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  • - when you are putting together
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  • The things that you want to happen in your legacy,
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  • In your will and testament,
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  • And your thought is to leave things
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  • That you work very hard for for your family.
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  • Cbn's part of the family.
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  • And so we included cbn for that very reason.
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  • - but cbn is in the soul business, just like the lord is.
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  • - the whole point is to bring people into the kingdom.
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  • That's what we want to do.
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  • That's what cbn does.
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  • - if you want to give to a good cause
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  • And make sure your money's well taken care of,
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  • Give it to cbn.
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  • - [narrator] find out how you can leave a legacy.
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  • Call cbn planned giving today.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [speaker] when i was a young girl,
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  • I went to fetch water for my mother.
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  • The weight of the water made my neck hurt so bad,
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  • I just pour the water out
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  • And went home with an empty container.
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  • The stream is very far 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 stomachache 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 this close,
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  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
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  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • - [narrator] partner with cbn for $20 a month
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  • And be part of the miracle for people all around the world.
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  • - [interviewer] you considered yourself an atheist.
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  • - yeah. - what did you specifically
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  • Have against christianity?
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  • - my dad was a former music minister.
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  • You know, i saw a 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 the transformation
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  • And 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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  • - 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, they're going to take your money
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  • And invest it wisely.
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  • - [speaker] you are saving souls through your giving.
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  • - the only way i can describe it
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  • Is i was supernaturally delivered
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  • From a nine year cocaine addiction.
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  • I loved jesus, i was a christian,
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  • 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
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  • And what i felt him saying was,
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  • I created you for more than this, my girl.
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  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message to say,
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  • You are enough in me.
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  • - i didn't even give it a second thought
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  • That there could be a miscarriage.
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  • I don't think i really processed it
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  • Until we were driving home.
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  • That's when i finally cried about it.
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  • - [husband] god, if this doesn't happen, i still love you.
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  • - i was mad in the way where you are boiling on the inside.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • I was surrendering myself.
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  • I felt held.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - well, we saw the heartbeat and that was like, okay.
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  • - we've never been this far.
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  • - eight years of wanting that moment.
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  • - my little girl is in my arms, finally.
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  • Have the guts to let go.
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  • That allows the lord to move in a way
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  • That we can't even imagine.
  • 00:11:54.666 --> 00:11:57.936
  • - chicago has long been one of the worst examples
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  • Of gun violence in american cities.
  • 00:12:01.673 --> 00:12:04.175
  • Much of it has taken place on the city's south side.
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  • A christian couple is now working in that area
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  • To build relationships with young people.
  • 00:12:09.914 --> 00:12:12.851
  • Cbns paul petitte shows how their ministry
  • 00:12:12.851 --> 00:12:15.286
  • Is using flowers to bring hope to at-risk youth.
  • 00:12:15.286 --> 00:12:19.824
  • - [paul] in 2023, the city's 617 homicides
  • 00:12:20.992 --> 00:12:24.462
  • Led the nation for the 12th straight year,
  • 00:12:24.462 --> 00:12:27.332
  • Often caught on the crossfire, younger chicagoans.
  • 00:12:27.332 --> 00:12:30.869
  • - so what you have are youth
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  • Who might not be seen past their 18th birthday,
  • 00:12:33.137 --> 00:12:37.308
  • Might be struggling staying engaged in a school
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  • Or work program.
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  • - [paul] in one of the more violent poverty stricken areas,
  • 00:12:41.579 --> 00:12:43.781
  • Something is being cultivated to change that.
  • 00:12:43.781 --> 00:12:46.684
  • A flower shop called southside blooms.
  • 00:12:46.684 --> 00:12:49.754
  • - so this is a faith inspired project.
  • 00:12:49.754 --> 00:12:52.490
  • You know, when i came to chicago,
  • 00:12:52.490 --> 00:12:55.360
  • It was a moment of me basically taking up my cross
  • 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.562
  • And following him.
  • 00:12:57.562 --> 00:12:59.030
  • - [paul] that journey led quilen and his wife hannah
  • 00:12:59.030 --> 00:13:01.099
  • To open their shop
  • 00:13:01.099 --> 00:13:02.533
  • And hire a neighborhood at risk youth like rashod.
  • 00:13:02.533 --> 00:13:05.670
  • - i do a lot of bad stuff in the world.
  • 00:13:05.670 --> 00:13:07.171
  • So it make me feel like i do stuff good,
  • 00:13:07.171 --> 00:13:10.708
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:13:10.708 --> 00:13:11.676
  • We could just balance it out,
  • 00:13:11.676 --> 00:13:12.977
  • Make me feel like i'm a good person, you know?
  • 00:13:12.977 --> 00:13:14.112
  • I help other people, save myself.
  • 00:13:14.112 --> 00:13:16.581
  • (water rumbles)
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  • - [paul] southside blooms is a nonprofit
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  • Supported by the county's gun violence and prevention grant.
  • 00:13:20.018 --> 00:13:23.388
  • Many of the staff here grew up
  • 00:13:23.388 --> 00:13:25.256
  • Around the worst society has to offer.
  • 00:13:25.256 --> 00:13:27.825
  • - there's high violence, high crime,
  • 00:13:27.825 --> 00:13:30.261
  • A lot of urban blight, a lot of gang activity.
  • 00:13:30.261 --> 00:13:33.731
  • You know, just trying to get to school
  • 00:13:33.731 --> 00:13:35.199
  • Can be a dangerous endeavor.
  • 00:13:35.199 --> 00:13:37.201
  • - [paul] through their efforts,
  • 00:13:37.201 --> 00:13:38.736
  • Not only are quilen and hannah training future florists,
  • 00:13:38.736 --> 00:13:41.406
  • They're planting seeds of hope and accomplishment.
  • 00:13:41.406 --> 00:13:44.375
  • - i go on events and then i see something i made.
  • 00:13:44.375 --> 00:13:47.345
  • I say, oh, i made that.
  • 00:13:47.345 --> 00:13:49.180
  • - they're competing against the best.
  • 00:13:49.180 --> 00:13:50.715
  • Like this isn't just, you know, doing flowers, you know,
  • 00:13:50.715 --> 00:13:52.917
  • For you know, your grandma or for prom.
  • 00:13:52.917 --> 00:13:56.354
  • We are at some of the most exclusive venues in chicago,
  • 00:13:56.354 --> 00:13:58.790
  • At the field museum or at (indistinct),
  • 00:13:58.790 --> 00:14:00.558
  • We're at the hyatt, the hilton.
  • 00:14:00.558 --> 00:14:02.627
  • - and southside blooms doesn't just arrange flowers here,
  • 00:14:02.627 --> 00:14:05.363
  • They grow flowers here.
  • 00:14:05.363 --> 00:14:06.965
  • In fact, they have six flower farms just like this
  • 00:14:06.965 --> 00:14:09.567
  • Spread out all over southwest chicago,
  • 00:14:09.567 --> 00:14:12.136
  • Turning an empty lot into a field of beauty,
  • 00:14:12.136 --> 00:14:15.006
  • Which often turns into a field of dreams.
  • 00:14:15.006 --> 00:14:18.576
  • - it's a dream, man.
  • 00:14:18.576 --> 00:14:19.444
  • It's a dream, you know?
  • 00:14:19.444 --> 00:14:20.378
  • It's meaningful, it's community,
  • 00:14:20.378 --> 00:14:24.515
  • And it's helping people.
  • 00:14:24.515 --> 00:14:26.384
  • You know, you couldn't ask for more.
  • 00:14:26.384 --> 00:14:28.152
  • - it's really the reason that we're here
  • 00:14:28.152 --> 00:14:29.554
  • And the reason that we, you know, are,
  • 00:14:29.554 --> 00:14:32.423
  • You know, wanting to create opportunities for them
  • 00:14:32.423 --> 00:14:34.525
  • Is really because we believe that god loves them
  • 00:14:34.525 --> 00:14:36.928
  • And we want them to experience it in a real way
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  • And know that god is real and he is with them.
  • 00:14:40.898 --> 00:14:42.800
  • - many of our youth, you know,
  • 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:44.702
  • People outside our community have written them off
  • 00:14:44.702 --> 00:14:47.105
  • And wouldn't expect you know that much from them.
  • 00:14:47.105 --> 00:14:49.941
  • But you know, like our ministry and our work
  • 00:14:49.941 --> 00:14:51.809
  • Is really an example that no life is unimportant.
  • 00:14:51.809 --> 00:14:55.513
  • No life is trash.
  • 00:14:55.513 --> 00:14:57.415
  • - [paul] although numbers remain high,
  • 00:14:57.415 --> 00:14:58.916
  • Homicides here have been declining since the pandemic.
  • 00:14:58.916 --> 00:15:02.086
  • Many city and county authorities credit programs
  • 00:15:02.086 --> 00:15:04.622
  • Like southside blooms as one of the reasons.
  • 00:15:04.622 --> 00:15:07.625
  • - and what you have with quilen and southside blooms
  • 00:15:07.625 --> 00:15:11.329
  • Is an organization specifically committed
  • 00:15:11.329 --> 00:15:15.433
  • To neighborhoods where young people
  • 00:15:15.433 --> 00:15:17.535
  • Who have all sorts of potential just need the opportunity.
  • 00:15:17.535 --> 00:15:20.705
  • They need the positive adults around them.
  • 00:15:20.705 --> 00:15:23.041
  • - [paul] whether it's sharing a timely scripture
  • 00:15:23.041 --> 00:15:24.976
  • Or encouraging an employee with dreams of medical school,
  • 00:15:24.976 --> 00:15:28.179
  • Hannah and quilen arranged southside blooms
  • 00:15:28.179 --> 00:15:31.082
  • To grow inspiration
  • 00:15:31.082 --> 00:15:32.583
  • In a part of chicago steeped in desperation,
  • 00:15:32.583 --> 00:15:35.653
  • That's why their slogan is empowering lives with flowers.
  • 00:15:35.653 --> 00:15:39.357
  • - the reason why we picked that slogan
  • 00:15:39.357 --> 00:15:41.092
  • Is because you know, of all the problems
  • 00:15:41.092 --> 00:15:43.261
  • That we're facing in chicago, you wouldn't have think
  • 00:15:43.261 --> 00:15:45.396
  • That something as humble as a flower
  • 00:15:45.396 --> 00:15:47.799
  • Could be the key to empowering people to change that.
  • 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:51.335
  • And i really just think it's a great way
  • 00:15:51.335 --> 00:15:53.738
  • To really show how god can use literally anything
  • 00:15:53.738 --> 00:15:56.607
  • And the most unlikely things to solve
  • 00:15:56.607 --> 00:15:58.910
  • Some of the greatest problems of our time.
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  • - [paul] in chicago, paul petite, "cbn news".
  • 00:16:00.945 --> 00:16:04.215
  • - well let the lilies bloom.
  • 00:16:05.016 --> 00:16:06.951
  • I like to remind people we were created for gardens
  • 00:16:06.951 --> 00:16:11.289
  • And when you get in nature,
  • 00:16:11.289 --> 00:16:14.025
  • When you get into blooming nature
  • 00:16:14.025 --> 00:16:17.428
  • And it just is so restful for your soul.
  • 00:16:17.428 --> 00:16:20.565
  • What a wonderful thing to do.
  • 00:16:20.565 --> 00:16:21.899
  • What a wonderful way to bring hope
  • 00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:24.435
  • To a desperate and hurting neighborhood.
  • 00:16:24.435 --> 00:16:27.538
  • Congratulations, that's a god idea.
  • 00:16:27.538 --> 00:16:30.775
  • Let's create a garden.
  • 00:16:30.775 --> 00:16:32.844
  • - yeah, don't you love hearing those young people
  • 00:16:32.844 --> 00:16:35.279
  • Themselves able to express
  • 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.115
  • How this has changed the way they self perceive,
  • 00:16:37.115 --> 00:16:40.017
  • You know? - yeah and yeah,
  • 00:16:40.017 --> 00:16:41.085
  • I wanna be a good guy.
  • 00:16:41.085 --> 00:16:42.420
  • - yes, i can do this.
  • 00:16:42.420 --> 00:16:44.322
  • - yeah. - love it.
  • 00:16:44.322 --> 00:16:45.756
  • - what a great message for the entire world.
  • 00:16:45.756 --> 00:16:49.026
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:16:49.026 --> 00:16:50.495
  • Well still ahead, meet the policeman
  • 00:16:50.495 --> 00:16:53.064
  • Known as the undercover pastor
  • 00:16:53.064 --> 00:16:56.234
  • And then up next the prayers heard halfway across the world,
  • 00:16:56.234 --> 00:17:00.404
  • A young woman was overseas
  • 00:17:00.404 --> 00:17:02.140
  • When she got into a terrible accident.
  • 00:17:02.140 --> 00:17:04.775
  • Her parents hopped on a plane praying the whole way.
  • 00:17:04.775 --> 00:17:08.146
  • Hear why they say the holy spirit was guiding them
  • 00:17:08.146 --> 00:17:11.015
  • Through the ordeal
  • 00:17:11.015 --> 00:17:12.517
  • And see what saved their daughter's life.
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  • That's coming up.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [narrator] melissa and her husband rick
  • 00:17:53.090 --> 00:17:54.559
  • Have come a long way from when they met.
  • 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:56.627
  • Melissa was in real estate,
  • 00:17:56.627 --> 00:17:58.329
  • Rick had been living on credit cards
  • 00:17:58.329 --> 00:18:00.565
  • Trying to start a number of businesses
  • 00:18:00.565 --> 00:18:02.800
  • And was $80,000 in debt.
  • 00:18:02.800 --> 00:18:05.269
  • All the while, the henon's were tithing
  • 00:18:05.269 --> 00:18:08.005
  • And the newly married couples started
  • 00:18:08.005 --> 00:18:09.507
  • Working their way out of the red.
  • 00:18:09.507 --> 00:18:11.409
  • - i think i had bought into society saying,
  • 00:18:11.409 --> 00:18:14.879
  • Here's what you should have.
  • 00:18:14.879 --> 00:18:16.214
  • I simply asked god, do i have money before you?
  • 00:18:16.214 --> 00:18:19.517
  • I asked god to forgive me instantly.
  • 00:18:19.517 --> 00:18:22.520
  • I told god whether i make a lot of money or not,
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  • I'm done striving.
  • 00:18:26.557 --> 00:18:28.292
  • - [narrator] today, rick and melissa have three children
  • 00:18:28.292 --> 00:18:30.895
  • And choose to live way below their means
  • 00:18:30.895 --> 00:18:33.064
  • So they can help the poor.
  • 00:18:33.064 --> 00:18:34.865
  • They've already built 13 orphanages
  • 00:18:34.865 --> 00:18:37.268
  • And a freedom house in india.
  • 00:18:37.268 --> 00:18:39.103
  • - what i loved about operation blessing
  • 00:18:39.103 --> 00:18:40.871
  • Is that we were really able to see the fruit of that gift.
  • 00:18:40.871 --> 00:18:44.875
  • - now i have the hunger to make more money
  • 00:18:44.875 --> 00:18:47.345
  • So we truly can give to all of these places
  • 00:18:47.345 --> 00:18:50.615
  • 'cause there's a lot of need out there.
  • 00:18:50.615 --> 00:18:53.217
  • - i just turned, an excruciating pain,
  • 00:18:53.217 --> 00:18:56.454
  • Came in my knee on the inside
  • 00:18:56.454 --> 00:19:00.157
  • And it was like a jabbing knife.
  • 00:19:00.157 --> 00:19:02.393
  • I made it to the doctor, found out it was a torn meniscus.
  • 00:19:02.393 --> 00:19:06.063
  • So having the knee injury,
  • 00:19:06.063 --> 00:19:08.899
  • Having to slow down was depressing.
  • 00:19:08.899 --> 00:19:12.236
  • I was like, lord, heal this.
  • 00:19:12.236 --> 00:19:14.472
  • Sitting on the couch and "700 club" came on
  • 00:19:14.472 --> 00:19:17.008
  • And that's when i saw gordon on.
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  • - we say out loud to it,
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  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:19:23.614 --> 00:19:27.685
  • May all pain leave me, in jesus' name.
  • 00:19:27.685 --> 00:19:33.291
  • I receive it now.
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  • Now what you couldn't do before, do now.
  • 00:19:35.926 --> 00:19:38.896
  • - by faith, i'm going to do this.
  • 00:19:38.896 --> 00:19:40.431
  • I'm by faith, i'm gonna walk and i was walking,
  • 00:19:40.431 --> 00:19:43.401
  • It wasn't hurting.
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  • I know that god heal me beyond a shadow of a doubt.
  • 00:19:44.835 --> 00:19:52.310
  • - [kathy] we've always been tithers.
  • 00:19:53.344 --> 00:19:54.879
  • We teach our children to tithe.
  • 00:19:54.879 --> 00:19:56.547
  • - i can't explain to you how the bills would be here maybe
  • 00:19:56.547 --> 00:19:59.717
  • In the income here, but at the end of the month,
  • 00:19:59.717 --> 00:20:01.819
  • It seemed that they would meet every single time.
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  • My stepfather is a farmer,
  • 00:20:05.456 --> 00:20:06.957
  • Had three or 400 acres of melons he grew.
  • 00:20:06.957 --> 00:20:09.860
  • And so i took a old toyota pickup truck that i had
  • 00:20:09.860 --> 00:20:13.030
  • And a trailer and would pick up 100 to 200 watermelons
  • 00:20:13.030 --> 00:20:16.934
  • And i started pedaling them out.
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  • Food line was our first corporate client.
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  • Remember one year sitting down working on my taxes
  • 00:20:20.671 --> 00:20:23.507
  • And my giving that year exceeded my adjusted gross income
  • 00:20:23.507 --> 00:20:27.511
  • Just a few years before.
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  • Cbn has really meant a lot to us over the years
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  • As we've watched the program
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  • And seen how god has blessed people.
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  • - we found that you just can't outgive god.
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  • - [narrator] if you have experienced a financial blessing
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  • Bless and be blessed.
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  • - i started drinking alcohol
  • 00:20:53.471 --> 00:20:55.406
  • Under the pretense of i'm celebrating.
  • 00:20:55.406 --> 00:20:58.075
  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
  • 00:21:01.412 --> 00:21:03.948
  • I was weak in my relationship with god
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  • And i was just a weak human being
  • 00:21:07.151 --> 00:21:09.887
  • And god got further and further away.
  • 00:21:09.887 --> 00:21:12.056
  • When you feel his presence and you walk away from it,
  • 00:21:13.391 --> 00:21:16.160
  • There's guilt, there's shame,
  • 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.962
  • But there's also a sort of a sense
  • 00:21:17.962 --> 00:21:19.764
  • That it'll never happen for you again.
  • 00:21:19.764 --> 00:21:22.867
  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time, she said,
  • 00:21:22.867 --> 00:21:25.569
  • "daddy, i want you to be happy.
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  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:21:27.838 --> 00:21:30.040
  • 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.
  • 00:21:45.289 --> 00:21:49.527
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:21:50.094 --> 00:21:53.330
  • - i just couldn't keep anything down.
  • 00:21:53.330 --> 00:21:55.966
  • The nausea and the fatigue, shortness of breath.
  • 00:21:55.966 --> 00:21:59.503
  • As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
  • 00:21:59.503 --> 00:22:01.772
  • My prayer was, lord, give me a diagnosis
  • 00:22:01.772 --> 00:22:05.376
  • And give me a treatment plan
  • 00:22:05.376 --> 00:22:06.644
  • And gimme a doctor who knows me
  • 00:22:06.644 --> 00:22:08.145
  • And understands what's going on.
  • 00:22:08.145 --> 00:22:09.847
  • And gordon said, "if you wanna be healed right now",
  • 00:22:09.847 --> 00:22:13.017
  • He said, "you just put your hand on that body part."
  • 00:22:13.017 --> 00:22:15.252
  • So i did, i put my hand,
  • 00:22:15.252 --> 00:22:16.754
  • I said, lord, i'm believing you that you can heal me.
  • 00:22:16.754 --> 00:22:20.391
  • And at that moment, gordon said.
  • 00:22:20.391 --> 00:22:22.860
  • - there's someone, you're saying,
  • 00:22:22.860 --> 00:22:23.828
  • Please say crohn's disease.
  • 00:22:23.828 --> 00:22:26.297
  • And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
  • 00:22:26.297 --> 00:22:29.233
  • Let your body no longer fight against itself,
  • 00:22:29.233 --> 00:22:32.570
  • But be restored now in jesus' name.
  • 00:22:32.570 --> 00:22:36.740
  • - and i've had no issues since that time
  • 00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:40.211
  • And i just give god the glory for that.
  • 00:22:40.211 --> 00:22:43.681
  • What i know is that jesus touched me
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  • And that i've been healed.
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  • (lively music)
  • 00:22:47.751 --> 00:22:53.958
  • - maggie swanson is an iron woman.
  • 00:22:54.925 --> 00:22:57.294
  • She's a top finisher of three grueling triathlons.
  • 00:22:57.294 --> 00:23:01.465
  • It's an incredible feat for anyone.
  • 00:23:01.465 --> 00:23:03.767
  • For maggie, downright miraculous
  • 00:23:03.767 --> 00:23:06.604
  • Because a few years ago, maggie was in a coma in the icu
  • 00:23:06.604 --> 00:23:10.975
  • Fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:10.975 --> 00:23:13.277
  • - [narrator] exchange student, maggie swanson,
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  • Always loved her morning runs
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  • Through the streets of seville, spain.
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  • This one almost cost her her life.
  • 00:23:20.885 --> 00:23:23.988
  • Maggie was crossing a street when a bus
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  • Traveling 37 miles per hour hit her,
  • 00:23:26.323 --> 00:23:29.960
  • Throwing her 80 feet.
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  • Seven hours later and over 4,000 miles away in minnesota,
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  • Tad weese got the phone call at work
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  • That his 19-year-old daughter was in the hospital
  • 00:23:37.868 --> 00:23:41.038
  • Fighting for her life.
  • 00:23:41.038 --> 00:23:42.373
  • - our life just got turned upside down
  • 00:23:42.373 --> 00:23:45.042
  • In a matter of moments with one phone call.
  • 00:23:45.042 --> 00:23:48.312
  • - [narrator] tad immediately called his wife, wendy.
  • 00:23:48.312 --> 00:23:51.181
  • - it was almost like an out of body experience.
  • 00:23:51.181 --> 00:23:53.417
  • Packed the bags, grabbed the passports,
  • 00:23:53.417 --> 00:23:55.519
  • Made my way to tad's office, picked him up,
  • 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:58.088
  • Got to the airport and i know that that was the holy spirit
  • 00:23:58.088 --> 00:24:01.125
  • That was guiding me.
  • 00:24:01.125 --> 00:24:02.593
  • - [narrator] wendy and tad say despite full flights,
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  • God paved the way for them
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  • To get last minute tickets to spain.
  • 00:24:06.597 --> 00:24:08.999
  • They spent most of the journey praying.
  • 00:24:08.999 --> 00:24:12.036
  • - praying to god during that time
  • 00:24:12.036 --> 00:24:14.638
  • Was probably the only thing that we felt we could do
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  • That made a difference.
  • 00:24:20.678 --> 00:24:21.812
  • - maggie was a believer in jesus christ
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  • And if the lord chose not to save her life,
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  • We knew that she would go to heaven.
  • 00:24:28.452 --> 00:24:32.389
  • - [narrator] in seville, they rushed to the hospital
  • 00:24:32.389 --> 00:24:35.092
  • Where they found maggie in the icu
  • 00:24:35.092 --> 00:24:37.094
  • In a medically induced coma.
  • 00:24:37.094 --> 00:24:39.096
  • It had been 25 hours since the accident.
  • 00:24:39.096 --> 00:24:41.665
  • - we were in shock.
  • 00:24:41.665 --> 00:24:43.734
  • Due to all the swelling from the accident,
  • 00:24:43.734 --> 00:24:46.670
  • It just didn't even look like maggie.
  • 00:24:46.670 --> 00:24:49.006
  • - those first moments of seeing maggie,
  • 00:24:49.006 --> 00:24:52.509
  • We just knew we had a long battle ahead of us.
  • 00:24:52.509 --> 00:24:55.746
  • - [narrator] through translators,
  • 00:24:55.746 --> 00:24:57.414
  • They learned that maggie suffered a traumatic brain injury,
  • 00:24:57.414 --> 00:24:59.717
  • Pelvic fracture and broken ribs.
  • 00:24:59.717 --> 00:25:02.586
  • Their main concern was the possibility
  • 00:25:02.586 --> 00:25:04.688
  • Of her brain swelling.
  • 00:25:04.688 --> 00:25:06.256
  • The first 72 hours were critical.
  • 00:25:06.256 --> 00:25:08.726
  • - they never told us that she would live
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  • Or that they had assurance that she would live.
  • 00:25:10.995 --> 00:25:13.464
  • And so we went through the first four days wondering
  • 00:25:13.464 --> 00:25:17.735
  • At any moment whether or not we would hear from the hospital
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  • That she had taken a turn for the worse
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  • And we would be called in to say goodbye to her.
  • 00:25:25.676 --> 00:25:28.112
  • - [narrator] now it was a waiting game.
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  • Tad and wendy spent every moment they could
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  • At maggie's bedside.
  • 00:25:32.883 --> 00:25:34.818
  • After a week, maggie was stable enough for surgery
  • 00:25:34.818 --> 00:25:37.621
  • To repair her fractured pelvis.
  • 00:25:37.621 --> 00:25:39.623
  • While doctors assured them maggie would live,
  • 00:25:39.623 --> 00:25:41.859
  • They couldn't predict what her future would hold.
  • 00:25:41.859 --> 00:25:44.161
  • - what if she is no longer able to speak clearly
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  • Or hold a job
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  • Or would she be able to be an adult
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  • Who is able to earn an income
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  • And get married and have a family?
  • 00:25:58.876 --> 00:26:01.245
  • All of those, all of those thoughts race through your mind.
  • 00:26:01.245 --> 00:26:04.748
  • - [narrator] by then, tad had set up a caringbridge page
  • 00:26:04.748 --> 00:26:07.451
  • To post updates on maggie.
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  • Prayers and encouragement came pouring in.
  • 00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:11.955
  • - people that came alongside of us
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  • Were such a part of this story
  • 00:26:13.891 --> 00:26:16.493
  • And such a big part of maggie's recovery
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  • And we just can't thank them enough.
  • 00:26:19.129 --> 00:26:21.532
  • - [narrator] by the end of three weeks,
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  • Maggie had been brought out of her coma
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  • And was stable enough to fly home.
  • 00:26:24.702 --> 00:26:26.904
  • Psychiatrist and brain trauma specialist, dr. bob sevenich,
  • 00:26:26.904 --> 00:26:31.008
  • Was on the team that took over maggie's care in minneapolis.
  • 00:26:31.008 --> 00:26:34.411
  • - when i first saw her, she was quite cognitively impaired.
  • 00:26:34.411 --> 00:26:37.381
  • She was semi-awake
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  • And she was answering yes, no questions inconsistently,
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  • Even fairly simple questions.
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  • People that have traumatic brain injuries
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  • Often have ongoing difficulties with walking,
  • 00:26:48.192 --> 00:26:51.161
  • With moving, with coordination,
  • 00:26:51.161 --> 00:26:54.131
  • All those sorts of things.
  • 00:26:54.131 --> 00:26:55.699
  • - [narrator] however, maggie would begin defying the odds,
  • 00:26:55.699 --> 00:26:58.368
  • Making great strides in physical therapy
  • 00:26:58.368 --> 00:27:00.738
  • And on august 7th, she was up and walking.
  • 00:27:00.738 --> 00:27:03.107
  • - she stood up out of that wheelchair
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  • And we walked her out of the hospital
  • 00:27:04.775 --> 00:27:06.543
  • And it was just the most beautiful thing.
  • 00:27:06.543 --> 00:27:09.546
  • - it felt so freeing to walk
  • 00:27:09.546 --> 00:27:11.915
  • After i've been sitting around for months.
  • 00:27:11.915 --> 00:27:15.152
  • - [narrator] although she was improving physically,
  • 00:27:15.152 --> 00:27:17.054
  • Maggie's emotional and mental healing took longer.
  • 00:27:17.054 --> 00:27:19.923
  • - i just couldn't join my friends with a lot of things
  • 00:27:19.923 --> 00:27:22.626
  • And i found that that was very isolating and very confusing.
  • 00:27:22.626 --> 00:27:27.698
  • That led to me asking god a lot of questions
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  • Of why is this happening to me?
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  • Why am i alone?
  • 00:27:32.102 --> 00:27:33.437
  • It was a very isolating time.
  • 00:27:33.437 --> 00:27:35.272
  • I was wondering why god had taken my running,
  • 00:27:35.272 --> 00:27:37.541
  • My academics, my social life,
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  • My ability to really do anything, to be a normal,
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  • To be a normal student.
  • 00:27:44.214 --> 00:27:46.717
  • Romans 8:28 was a real encouragement during this time.
  • 00:27:46.717 --> 00:27:50.754
  • "god works all things for the good of those who love him,
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  • Who are called according to his will."
  • 00:27:53.223 --> 00:27:55.292
  • - [narrator] those words would come true.
  • 00:27:55.292 --> 00:27:57.661
  • That fall with therapy, hard work and a lot of prayer,
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  • Maggie returned to college
  • 00:28:01.231 --> 00:28:02.833
  • And was soon running again.
  • 00:28:02.833 --> 00:28:04.802
  • A year after the accident,
  • 00:28:04.802 --> 00:28:06.403
  • Maggie was back in spain as an exchange student.
  • 00:28:06.403 --> 00:28:09.673
  • In may of 2016, she graduated from college on time.
  • 00:28:09.673 --> 00:28:14.011
  • - the accident was quite severe
  • 00:28:14.011 --> 00:28:15.512
  • And i think it surprised a lot of the providers,
  • 00:28:15.512 --> 00:28:18.549
  • The medical professionals both in spain and here,
  • 00:28:18.549 --> 00:28:22.286
  • How rapid her recovery was and how well she did
  • 00:28:22.286 --> 00:28:26.924
  • Considering the injuries that she sustained.
  • 00:28:26.924 --> 00:28:29.293
  • - [narrator] married in 2019,
  • 00:28:29.293 --> 00:28:31.228
  • Maggie went on to accomplish even more.
  • 00:28:31.228 --> 00:28:33.530
  • Since then, she has competed in three ironman triathlons.
  • 00:28:33.530 --> 00:28:37.668
  • 2023, she placed 100 out of 2,000 women.
  • 00:28:37.668 --> 00:28:42.206
  • As in everything, she gives god the glory.
  • 00:28:42.206 --> 00:28:44.942
  • - it's just amazing what god has done in her life.
  • 00:28:44.942 --> 00:28:48.979
  • How she can use her story to help others
  • 00:28:48.979 --> 00:28:53.283
  • Learn about jesus and about god
  • 00:28:53.283 --> 00:28:56.753
  • And how he can take the worst of events
  • 00:28:56.753 --> 00:28:58.956
  • And turn them into incredible blessings.
  • 00:28:58.956 --> 00:29:02.693
  • - be in the word, know the lord jesus in such a way
  • 00:29:02.693 --> 00:29:07.698
  • That you can stand on his foundation of truth
  • 00:29:07.698 --> 00:29:11.768
  • When the storm comes.
  • 00:29:11.768 --> 00:29:13.337
  • - i'm grateful that the accident happened
  • 00:29:13.337 --> 00:29:15.072
  • And that he did,
  • 00:29:15.072 --> 00:29:18.475
  • He did turn what was initially meant for evil
  • 00:29:18.475 --> 00:29:22.045
  • To something beautiful
  • 00:29:22.045 --> 00:29:23.280
  • And all the things that happened to me,
  • 00:29:23.280 --> 00:29:25.649
  • God did mean it for good
  • 00:29:25.649 --> 00:29:27.084
  • And god brought so much good from it.
  • 00:29:27.084 --> 00:29:29.753
  • Keep the faith that god is with you
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  • And that god wants the best for you.
  • 00:29:31.822 --> 00:29:34.558
  • (gentle music)
  • 00:29:34.558 --> 00:29:36.226
  • - all things work together for good,
  • 00:29:36.226 --> 00:29:38.428
  • For those who are called according to his purposes.
  • 00:29:38.428 --> 00:29:41.732
  • Those are not just words on a page, that's a promise.
  • 00:29:41.732 --> 00:29:45.669
  • That's a promise from god to us,
  • 00:29:45.669 --> 00:29:48.438
  • A promise from god to you.
  • 00:29:48.438 --> 00:29:50.107
  • He takes the worst of things
  • 00:29:50.107 --> 00:29:52.876
  • And if we'll give them to him, he turns them around.
  • 00:29:52.876 --> 00:29:55.879
  • The bible says he gives us beauty for ashes.
  • 00:29:55.879 --> 00:29:58.248
  • The oil of joy for mourning,
  • 00:29:58.248 --> 00:29:59.850
  • A garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.
  • 00:29:59.850 --> 00:30:03.120
  • In this scenario, i mean i think you could say
  • 00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:05.722
  • Maggie got her life back.
  • 00:30:05.722 --> 00:30:07.658
  • Maggie got her life back under the most extreme conditions
  • 00:30:07.658 --> 00:30:11.762
  • That would have robbed her of everything she knew,
  • 00:30:11.762 --> 00:30:14.598
  • Everything that made life legit for her.
  • 00:30:14.598 --> 00:30:18.001
  • God knows your need right now.
  • 00:30:18.001 --> 00:30:19.970
  • You know, one of the things that her parents did
  • 00:30:19.970 --> 00:30:22.205
  • That i think is so important
  • 00:30:22.205 --> 00:30:24.574
  • Is they didn't wait for signs of things to turn around.
  • 00:30:24.574 --> 00:30:28.512
  • They got into the word, they declared they were the word,
  • 00:30:28.512 --> 00:30:31.815
  • They prayed the word over her,
  • 00:30:31.815 --> 00:30:33.583
  • They spent every moment they could with her
  • 00:30:33.583 --> 00:30:36.253
  • Reaffirming who god is, what he said and who we are in him.
  • 00:30:36.253 --> 00:30:40.757
  • We're his kids, we have legacy with him.
  • 00:30:40.757 --> 00:30:44.161
  • We have connection with him,
  • 00:30:44.161 --> 00:30:45.896
  • He sees us, he knows us and we wanna take some time
  • 00:30:45.896 --> 00:30:48.432
  • To pray for you today.
  • 00:30:48.432 --> 00:30:50.267
  • Everybody has something that they would like
  • 00:30:50.267 --> 00:30:53.403
  • Or even asking god to do for them.
  • 00:30:53.403 --> 00:30:56.239
  • God knows what's best for you.
  • 00:30:56.239 --> 00:30:58.008
  • That's the crux in the whole thing
  • 00:30:58.008 --> 00:31:00.844
  • Is are you willing to surrender it to him
  • 00:31:00.844 --> 00:31:03.380
  • If the outcome isn't what you want it to be?
  • 00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:06.083
  • Because he knows you, he loves you.
  • 00:31:06.083 --> 00:31:08.752
  • He sees your tomorrow even when you cannot.
  • 00:31:08.752 --> 00:31:12.055
  • We wanna pray together for god's kingdom purposes today,
  • 00:31:13.457 --> 00:31:16.760
  • For all of us.
  • 00:31:16.760 --> 00:31:18.228
  • This is first of all a answer to prayer from angela.
  • 00:31:18.228 --> 00:31:21.365
  • She had inflammation and pain in her knee
  • 00:31:21.365 --> 00:31:23.333
  • For an entire year.
  • 00:31:23.333 --> 00:31:24.901
  • Nothing she tried brought relief
  • 00:31:24.901 --> 00:31:27.004
  • And then gordon, you prayed,
  • 00:31:27.004 --> 00:31:28.505
  • "someone's laying your hands on your right knee.
  • 00:31:28.505 --> 00:31:30.674
  • God has heard your cry.
  • 00:31:30.674 --> 00:31:32.109
  • He's able to take away all the pain right now.
  • 00:31:32.109 --> 00:31:34.978
  • Just receive it in jesus' name."
  • 00:31:34.978 --> 00:31:37.381
  • Angela exercised her faith in god
  • 00:31:37.381 --> 00:31:40.217
  • And she was totally healed.
  • 00:31:40.217 --> 00:31:42.185
  • - well, here's a tremendous miracle from susan,
  • 00:31:42.185 --> 00:31:44.187
  • "in the late 1980s", so a long time ago,
  • 00:31:44.187 --> 00:31:47.791
  • "i was in a car accident.
  • 00:31:47.791 --> 00:31:49.893
  • Since then, i've struggled with chronic back pain."
  • 00:31:49.893 --> 00:31:53.597
  • If you know anyone with chronic back pain,
  • 00:31:53.597 --> 00:31:55.699
  • You know how horrible that is.
  • 00:31:55.699 --> 00:31:58.035
  • "the doctor said he was surprised i was even able to walk.
  • 00:31:58.035 --> 00:32:03.006
  • Well watching 'the 700 club;,
  • 00:32:03.840 --> 00:32:06.043
  • Terry prayed for someone injured in a car accident.
  • 00:32:06.043 --> 00:32:09.579
  • I immediately knew the prayers were for me.
  • 00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:12.916
  • The pain left my spine, all i could feel was love.
  • 00:32:12.916 --> 00:32:19.022
  • Thank you, jesus."
  • 00:32:19.656 --> 00:32:21.758
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:32:21.758 --> 00:32:23.093
  • All you can feel is love.
  • 00:32:23.093 --> 00:32:25.328
  • For anyone you know, like maggie,
  • 00:32:25.328 --> 00:32:27.597
  • You've been in an accident
  • 00:32:27.597 --> 00:32:29.299
  • And it's okay to pour out your complaint before the lord,
  • 00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:33.203
  • But you know in that realize,
  • 00:32:33.203 --> 00:32:35.839
  • All things do work together for good.
  • 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:39.076
  • Now, for maggie,
  • 00:32:39.076 --> 00:32:40.510
  • I would say god didn't take those things from you,
  • 00:32:40.510 --> 00:32:43.413
  • The bus did.
  • 00:32:43.413 --> 00:32:45.182
  • In god's creation, time, chance happened to us all.
  • 00:32:45.182 --> 00:32:50.587
  • So there was a decision to run,
  • 00:32:51.388 --> 00:32:53.457
  • There was a decision to drive the bus,
  • 00:32:53.457 --> 00:32:55.625
  • There were all these decisions that god didn't make,
  • 00:32:55.625 --> 00:32:59.429
  • People made and accidents happen
  • 00:32:59.429 --> 00:33:03.667
  • In god's universe.
  • 00:33:03.667 --> 00:33:05.635
  • But here's the great news,
  • 00:33:05.635 --> 00:33:07.771
  • In that accident, he is able to work all things together
  • 00:33:07.771 --> 00:33:12.642
  • For your good.
  • 00:33:12.642 --> 00:33:13.543
  • Isn't that wonderful?
  • 00:33:13.543 --> 00:33:15.278
  • That's the great promise.
  • 00:33:15.278 --> 00:33:19.182
  • Don't blame the healer,
  • 00:33:17.314 --> 00:33:21.318
  • Look to the healer for the answer.
  • 00:33:21.318 --> 00:33:24.054
  • Look to how he's working all things together for your good.
  • 00:33:24.054 --> 00:33:27.891
  • And for maggie, what a great persevering story.
  • 00:33:27.891 --> 00:33:31.361
  • You say, it was so great to get up and walk.
  • 00:33:31.361 --> 00:33:33.897
  • You know, okay, it's so great to get up and run,
  • 00:33:33.897 --> 00:33:36.099
  • It's so great to get up and ride a bike,
  • 00:33:36.099 --> 00:33:38.168
  • It's so great to do all these things
  • 00:33:38.168 --> 00:33:39.970
  • Because god is working all things together for my good.
  • 00:33:39.970 --> 00:33:43.807
  • Let that same resolution be deep within you right now.
  • 00:33:43.807 --> 00:33:48.311
  • That we are going to look to him,
  • 00:33:48.311 --> 00:33:50.413
  • The author and the finisher of our faith.
  • 00:33:50.413 --> 00:33:52.816
  • We're gonna look to the healer,
  • 00:33:52.816 --> 00:33:54.484
  • Not the causer of the problem,
  • 00:33:54.484 --> 00:33:55.986
  • He's not that,
  • 00:33:55.986 --> 00:33:57.420
  • He is the solution, the answer to every human problem.
  • 00:33:57.420 --> 00:34:02.092
  • When we look to him with that attitude,
  • 00:34:03.226 --> 00:34:05.228
  • We get everything that he's promised.
  • 00:34:05.228 --> 00:34:08.498
  • So let's pray right now.
  • 00:34:08.498 --> 00:34:10.934
  • Lord god almighty,
  • 00:34:10.934 --> 00:34:12.169
  • We come to you and we come to you know
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  • That you want to shower us with your love.
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  • You want to just baptize us in that.
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  • And so lord, we just turn now from every complaint.
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  • We turn now from every pain,
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  • Every disease, every symptoms,
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  • We turn from all of that
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  • And we look to you for you are the answer,
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  • You are the author and the finisher of our faith.
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  • We look to you and we look to heaven
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  • And the finished work of the cross
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  • And we say, may your will be done in our bodies
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  • As it is in heaven.
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  • Stretch forth your hand to heal now
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  • For we ask it in jesus' name.
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  • There's someone, you've had a fall,
  • 00:35:01.518 --> 00:35:03.386
  • You've got deep pain in your right shoulder.
  • 00:35:03.386 --> 00:35:06.856
  • God is reknitting that together.
  • 00:35:06.856 --> 00:35:10.894
  • He's able to take all of that trauma off of you,
  • 00:35:10.894 --> 00:35:14.097
  • Take all of that pain is lifting off of you right now.
  • 00:35:14.097 --> 00:35:18.101
  • In the name of jesus, do what you couldn't do before
  • 00:35:18.101 --> 00:35:21.972
  • And receive your healing.
  • 00:35:21.972 --> 00:35:24.374
  • Terry.
  • 00:35:24.374 --> 00:35:25.809
  • - there's someone, you have an arthritic condition
  • 00:35:25.809 --> 00:35:29.846
  • In not just your foot but your ankle as well.
  • 00:35:29.846 --> 00:35:32.249
  • It's not from an accident, it's just begun in your life,
  • 00:35:32.249 --> 00:35:35.919
  • But it's actually deforming your foot
  • 00:35:35.919 --> 00:35:39.589
  • And the way you walk and it's quite painful as well.
  • 00:35:39.589 --> 00:35:42.759
  • God's healing you from that right now.
  • 00:35:42.759 --> 00:35:44.694
  • You're just gonna see it slowly revert back
  • 00:35:44.694 --> 00:35:47.097
  • To its normal state, in jesus' name.
  • 00:35:47.097 --> 00:35:50.734
  • - there's somebody who've got pain in your right jaw
  • 00:35:50.734 --> 00:35:53.169
  • And it's an inflammation in the gums
  • 00:35:53.169 --> 00:35:55.205
  • And you're not even praying for it
  • 00:35:55.205 --> 00:35:57.007
  • And you're saying what, he's saying that?
  • 00:35:57.007 --> 00:36:00.010
  • In jesus' name, may that infection,
  • 00:36:00.010 --> 00:36:02.212
  • All of that gum irritation,
  • 00:36:02.212 --> 00:36:04.114
  • All of the pressure in your right jaw,
  • 00:36:04.114 --> 00:36:06.449
  • May it leave you right now and be healed in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:06.449 --> 00:36:10.954
  • - yeah, there's a young woman, you're watching this program.
  • 00:36:10.954 --> 00:36:13.123
  • You have a chronic acne problem
  • 00:36:13.123 --> 00:36:15.158
  • And it's not just frustrating to you, it's embarrassing.
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  • God is clearing that for you,
  • 00:36:18.962 --> 00:36:20.830
  • Just like changing the chemistry
  • 00:36:20.830 --> 00:36:23.133
  • And the makeup of what's causing that
  • 00:36:23.133 --> 00:36:26.036
  • And it's gonna clear up in jesus' name.
  • 00:36:26.036 --> 00:36:28.405
  • - someone, you've got a torn retina in your left eye
  • 00:36:28.405 --> 00:36:31.041
  • And the treatment program that's prescribed for you
  • 00:36:31.041 --> 00:36:36.112
  • Is just terrifying for you
  • 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.014
  • And god has heard your cry.
  • 00:36:38.014 --> 00:36:40.583
  • He's able to restore your retina.
  • 00:36:40.583 --> 00:36:42.552
  • He is able to heal that tear, go back and get rechecked.
  • 00:36:42.552 --> 00:36:46.289
  • God has done an amazing miracle for you right now
  • 00:36:46.289 --> 00:36:50.360
  • In jesus name.
  • 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:51.561
  • Lord, we thank you for you are the healer,
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  • You are the answer.
  • 00:36:54.964 --> 00:36:56.499
  • You are the solution to every one of our problems.
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  • We look to you and we thank you for your promise
  • 00:36:59.969 --> 00:37:04.674
  • And your love towards us.
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  • Be with us now for we ask it in jesus name,
  • 00:37:06.676 --> 00:37:10.547
  • Amen and amen. - amen.
  • 00:37:10.547 --> 00:37:12.415
  • - if you've been healed, let us know.
  • 00:37:12.415 --> 00:37:14.351
  • Let us share in your good report
  • 00:37:14.351 --> 00:37:16.052
  • And if you need prayer, we're here for you.
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  • We are here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  • It's our honor, our privilege to pray with you.
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  • So call us, 1-800-700-7000.
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  • Terry?
  • 00:37:27.530 --> 00:37:28.832
  • - well still ahead, he used to lock him up,
  • 00:37:28.832 --> 00:37:30.767
  • Now he's setting them free.
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  • The undercover pastor reveals his secret identity,
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  • That's coming up.
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  • (lively music)
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  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
  • 00:37:41.978 --> 00:37:44.981
  • - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
  • 00:37:44.981 --> 00:37:47.717
  • - [speaker] they kept saying septic, septic.
  • 00:37:47.717 --> 00:37:49.419
  • I think she's getting septic.
  • 00:37:49.419 --> 00:37:50.587
  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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  • For a lifetime of dialysis
  • 00:37:53.390 --> 00:37:55.658
  • And this medicine was going to destroy
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  • Every dream my girl could possibly have.
  • 00:37:57.293 --> 00:37:59.462
  • - thousands and thousands, literally around the world
  • 00:37:59.462 --> 00:38:02.365
  • Were praying for her.
  • 00:38:02.365 --> 00:38:03.633
  • - mom runs out into the hallway and she's like,
  • 00:38:03.633 --> 00:38:06.102
  • He just told me he canceled your surgery.
  • 00:38:06.102 --> 00:38:09.839
  • He was like, your kidney biopsy came back completely clean.
  • 00:38:09.839 --> 00:38:13.777
  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
  • 00:38:13.777 --> 00:38:16.312
  • Just we were hugging and screaming.
  • 00:38:16.312 --> 00:38:18.148
  • It was like just the biggest celebration.
  • 00:38:18.148 --> 00:38:20.683
  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
  • 00:38:20.683 --> 00:38:23.052
  • I think those prayers were answered.
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  • - hi, yay.
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  • I am beyond thankful that i have been singing nonstop.
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  • Prayers work, they work.
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  • Ask people to pray for you and like really believe,
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  • Really believe that anything is possible.
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  • (gentle triumphant music)
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  • - i wanted to be a boy one week,
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  • I wanted to be a girl next week.
  • 00:39:17.407 --> 00:39:18.975
  • It was constantly like that,
  • 00:39:18.975 --> 00:39:20.210
  • Confusion always in my mind,
  • 00:39:20.210 --> 00:39:21.744
  • But i always felt like i was more in tune to femininity.
  • 00:39:21.744 --> 00:39:25.081
  • - [narrator] at 16, tommy decided it was time
  • 00:39:25.081 --> 00:39:27.283
  • To give in to those desires.
  • 00:39:27.283 --> 00:39:29.552
  • Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
  • 00:39:29.552 --> 00:39:32.388
  • And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
  • 00:39:32.388 --> 00:39:35.158
  • - [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
  • 00:39:35.158 --> 00:39:38.061
  • - [narrator] despite his doubts,
  • 00:39:38.061 --> 00:39:39.229
  • Tommy started taking female hormones
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  • And making plans to have a sex change operation.
  • 00:39:41.965 --> 00:39:45.068
  • Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
  • 00:39:45.068 --> 00:39:48.371
  • When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
  • 00:39:48.371 --> 00:39:51.708
  • Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom
  • 00:39:51.708 --> 00:39:54.978
  • Who had recently committed her life to christ.
  • 00:39:54.978 --> 00:39:57.580
  • - i had to cry out to god
  • 00:39:57.580 --> 00:39:58.748
  • Because i just knew in that moment,
  • 00:39:58.748 --> 00:40:00.149
  • That he was the only one that was able to help me.
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  • So i remember just telling him,
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  • I'm sorry of the lifestyle that i was living.
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  • I just went into this deep place of repenting
  • 00:40:05.522 --> 00:40:08.558
  • And asking for forgiveness.
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  • If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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  • - i got into a serious relationship
  • 00:40:42.926 --> 00:40:45.962
  • But his family was like involved in santería.
  • 00:40:45.962 --> 00:40:49.465
  • They would do like ouija boards and like,
  • 00:40:49.465 --> 00:40:52.001
  • I mean everything that you can think of like old cult,
  • 00:40:52.001 --> 00:40:54.170
  • Like they were in it
  • 00:40:54.170 --> 00:40:55.572
  • And i feel like something just like,
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  • Like sit on me.
  • 00:40:58.474 --> 00:40:59.442
  • Like i was like shaking, crying.
  • 00:40:59.442 --> 00:41:01.844
  • I just called out to jesus.
  • 00:41:01.844 --> 00:41:05.114
  • From that moment, i felt like god took it and was like,
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  • I'm gonna heal you.
  • 00:41:10.853 --> 00:41:11.754
  • - for me, it constantly left me in a state of fear.
  • 00:41:13.022 --> 00:41:14.958
  • Am i enough?
  • 00:41:14.958 --> 00:41:16.526
  • 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.
  • 00:41:20.396 --> 00:41:22.799
  • It was reading colossians three 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,
  • 00:41:33.810 --> 00:41:35.912
  • I now have joy, even in the midst of any circumstance.
  • 00:41:35.912 --> 00:41:42.118
  • - hannah and emmaus have been go-getters from an early age.
  • 00:41:43.586 --> 00:41:46.689
  • Both started their own companies
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  • While they were still teenagers.
  • 00:41:48.491 --> 00:41:50.493
  • They work hard and have tons of technical know-how.
  • 00:41:50.493 --> 00:41:53.630
  • Still they're quick to say that's not the reason
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  • For their success.
  • 00:41:56.265 --> 00:41:58.067
  • Instead, they give all the credit to god.
  • 00:41:58.067 --> 00:42:02.672
  • - [narrator] 22-year-old emmaus vanderbilt
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  • Owns silver fox productions,
  • 00:42:05.508 --> 00:42:07.210
  • A video production company located in north carolina.
  • 00:42:07.210 --> 00:42:10.713
  • His wife hannah owns and operates her own cleaning company,
  • 00:42:10.713 --> 00:42:14.017
  • Joyful cleaning.
  • 00:42:14.017 --> 00:42:15.485
  • From the beginning, they made tithing a priority.
  • 00:42:15.485 --> 00:42:18.888
  • - i credit that to my parents.
  • 00:42:18.888 --> 00:42:20.089
  • They've always modeled that for me.
  • 00:42:20.089 --> 00:42:21.557
  • God just gets the first 10%.
  • 00:42:21.557 --> 00:42:23.226
  • - i want to honor god as best as i can
  • 00:42:23.226 --> 00:42:26.062
  • And so from that first job when i was 14,
  • 00:42:26.062 --> 00:42:29.499
  • Ever since, i've just always tied 10% of what i made
  • 00:42:29.499 --> 00:42:33.002
  • And it's just been a habit that i'm joyful to do.
  • 00:42:33.002 --> 00:42:36.506
  • - [narrator] emmaus has learned valuable lessons
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  • About finances.
  • 00:42:39.108 --> 00:42:40.443
  • At 18, his income had grown to six figures
  • 00:42:40.443 --> 00:42:43.746
  • As a startup video business, shooting destination weddings.
  • 00:42:43.746 --> 00:42:47.684
  • - i just believe there were different times in my life
  • 00:42:47.684 --> 00:42:49.152
  • Where i slipped and i said that this is something
  • 00:42:49.152 --> 00:42:51.154
  • That i've been able to do.
  • 00:42:51.154 --> 00:42:52.522
  • Look what i did.
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  • I won't ever say that i totally cut god outta the equation
  • 00:42:54.057 --> 00:42:57.026
  • 'cause i still tithe on it.
  • 00:42:57.026 --> 00:42:58.428
  • I thank the lord for it.
  • 00:42:58.428 --> 00:42:59.729
  • But what i realized was that no,
  • 00:42:59.729 --> 00:43:01.831
  • The lord was the one who put
  • 00:43:01.831 --> 00:43:02.965
  • The breath in my lungs this morning.
  • 00:43:02.965 --> 00:43:04.367
  • The lord was the one who provided these opportunities
  • 00:43:04.367 --> 00:43:07.170
  • And god has just allowed me to manage this money.
  • 00:43:07.170 --> 00:43:09.872
  • God's just allowed me to manage this video project.
  • 00:43:09.872 --> 00:43:12.875
  • - [narrator] when covid hit in 2020,
  • 00:43:12.875 --> 00:43:15.445
  • Emmaus experienced god's faithfulness
  • 00:43:15.445 --> 00:43:17.714
  • As his business weathered the storm.
  • 00:43:17.714 --> 00:43:20.016
  • - some people they were dropping by 50% of their weddings,
  • 00:43:20.016 --> 00:43:23.319
  • 60% of their shoots and just the lord continued providing.
  • 00:43:23.319 --> 00:43:26.322
  • Even whenever a few weddings canceled,
  • 00:43:26.322 --> 00:43:28.191
  • We saw that 85 to 90% of our weddings still hire us
  • 00:43:28.191 --> 00:43:31.160
  • And even for those 10% that had to cancel,
  • 00:43:31.160 --> 00:43:33.296
  • We had local government organizations reach out
  • 00:43:33.296 --> 00:43:35.364
  • And ask us to film videos for them,
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  • Different corporate groups and we never went without.
  • 00:43:37.133 --> 00:43:40.436
  • I totally attribute tithing
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  • To the fact that we stayed safe during that storm.
  • 00:43:41.938 --> 00:43:44.107
  • - [narrator] soon after, he met and married hannah in 2021.
  • 00:43:44.107 --> 00:43:47.844
  • She became co-owner of the production company
  • 00:43:47.844 --> 00:43:50.313
  • And in 2022, she started her in-home cleaning business.
  • 00:43:50.313 --> 00:43:54.383
  • The couple then got serious about debt.
  • 00:43:54.383 --> 00:43:56.786
  • She had school loans and they both had car payments,
  • 00:43:56.786 --> 00:43:59.455
  • Which in all totaled $90,000.
  • 00:43:59.455 --> 00:44:02.058
  • They began paying it off working long hours,
  • 00:44:02.058 --> 00:44:04.594
  • Tithing the whole time and their businesses thrived.
  • 00:44:04.594 --> 00:44:08.030
  • - there's no other answer, but the lord did that.
  • 00:44:08.030 --> 00:44:10.733
  • Having a month where we're having less weddings
  • 00:44:10.733 --> 00:44:12.802
  • But more cleaning clients.
  • 00:44:12.802 --> 00:44:14.070
  • So it all balances out
  • 00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:16.139
  • And the only answer for it is god.
  • 00:44:16.139 --> 00:44:17.840
  • He's the one providing it all
  • 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:19.609
  • - [narrator] today they are debt free.
  • 00:44:19.609 --> 00:44:21.711
  • Looking back on all god has accomplished this year,
  • 00:44:21.711 --> 00:44:24.514
  • The couple is grateful for their two businesses
  • 00:44:24.514 --> 00:44:26.682
  • Growing at a rate of 40%
  • 00:44:26.682 --> 00:44:28.618
  • And many more opportunities awaiting them.
  • 00:44:28.618 --> 00:44:31.187
  • - and whenever we don't have debt, we don't have payments,
  • 00:44:31.187 --> 00:44:34.123
  • We have more money to invest, save and ultimately give,
  • 00:44:34.123 --> 00:44:37.226
  • We could be more generous.
  • 00:44:37.226 --> 00:44:38.494
  • - [narrator] emmaus and hannah say
  • 00:44:38.494 --> 00:44:39.762
  • It all starts with generosity.
  • 00:44:39.762 --> 00:44:41.998
  • - the lord provided for us.
  • 00:44:41.998 --> 00:44:43.699
  • It says in malachi 3:10,
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  • The only time in the bible that we can test god in something
  • 00:44:45.234 --> 00:44:48.337
  • And it's in tithes and offerings
  • 00:44:48.337 --> 00:44:50.072
  • And god just completely overflowed our storehouses.
  • 00:44:50.072 --> 00:44:53.309
  • - i say when you give 10%, that god's gonna bless you
  • 00:44:53.309 --> 00:44:57.814
  • Because you're obeying him
  • 00:44:57.814 --> 00:44:59.348
  • And you're doing what his word says.
  • 00:44:59.348 --> 00:45:03.052
  • - when you give, he gives back
  • 00:45:03.886 --> 00:45:06.289
  • And that's the word from jesus.
  • 00:45:06.289 --> 00:45:08.357
  • Give and it'll be given unto you.
  • 00:45:08.357 --> 00:45:11.060
  • And then he adds, it'll be heaped up, pressed down,
  • 00:45:11.060 --> 00:45:13.763
  • Running over, will be poured into your lap,
  • 00:45:13.763 --> 00:45:16.666
  • But you have to recognize it's from him
  • 00:45:16.666 --> 00:45:19.402
  • And it is all from him.
  • 00:45:19.402 --> 00:45:21.137
  • Your talent, your ability.
  • 00:45:21.137 --> 00:45:24.106
  • Deuteronomy is quite specific,
  • 00:45:24.106 --> 00:45:26.075
  • It's god who gives you the power to get wealth.
  • 00:45:26.075 --> 00:45:29.378
  • So when you honor him with your first fruit,
  • 00:45:29.378 --> 00:45:31.714
  • You honor him with your tithes and offerings,
  • 00:45:31.714 --> 00:45:34.383
  • You get even more wonderful blessings from him.
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  • Just imagine living a life
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
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  • That it was to the point where my jaws were even hurting
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  • From coughing so intensely.
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  • It was a battle, it really was.
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  • He kept saying to me, this too will pass.
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  • So i just stand up and say, i'm waiting on you lord.
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  • I just kept confessing, god is my healer.
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  • He is my healer.
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  • They were to the section where they were talking about
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  • People receiving healings.
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  • They were gonna pray for anyone who was sick.
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  • - there's someone, you heard the report
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  • About sinus conditions and you're saying,
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  • Please say sinus conditions.
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  • So for you, i'm saying sinus condition.
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  • All of that inflammation,
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  • Everything that seems to be swollen and closed up,
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  • Open now in jesus' name.
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  • - i jumped up and my spirit just kind of leaped
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  • And i said, that's for me lord, that's it.
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  • You think maybe he's not mindful of those things,
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  • But he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful and he is our healer.
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  • - god, i can't stop.
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  • I'm gonna wreck my marriage, i'm gonna wreck my family.
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  • I had this just lust, this physical dependency
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  • That i had to these drugs.
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  • - i just couldn't be with him the rest of my life.
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  • I decided to leave.
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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, there's only one hope
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  • And that's christ.
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  • - it's all the revolution against christianity.
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  • - once you have the foundation, man determines truth,
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  • Anything goes.
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  • - show me the downside of loving god and loving each other.
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  • - i wanted to take a step back.
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  • Who has jonathan isaac?
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  • What has changed his life?
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  • - the only one that's going get me
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  • Through this tragedy is jesus.
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  • - [narrator] "faith versus culture",
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  • - in the last five minutes of my labor and delivery
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  • Was when i noticed something was wrong.
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  • They put her on my chest and right away they took her away
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  • And she wasn't crying and she looked sort of gray.
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  • I didn't know if she was gonna live or die.
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  • Then they came back in the room and said,
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  • "she's had a brain injury."
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  • That's when i really started praying,
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  • God, please, please let her mind be okay.
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  • Turned on the tv and just randomly flipping the channels,
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  • Here's cbn.
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  • It really lifted me up, it gave me that little bit of hope
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  • I needed at the time.
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  • After that, i really felt like
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  • Things started moving even more.
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  • She went from being behind to advanced for her age.
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  • I can never deny the power of prayer,
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  • I would always just say, pray and pray more
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  • And just keep trusting god.
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  • His word is true.
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  • He saw me through all the bad things
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  • I thought would happen to my daughter
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  • And he healed her.
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  • Psalms 34:4, "i sought the lord and he answered me.
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  • He delivered me from all of my fears."
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  • - dale sutherland would go from a drug bust
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  • To a youth group often in the same day.
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  • For years, he put his life on the line
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  • As an undercover narcotics officer.
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  • And after he busted the bad guys,
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  • He made sure they knew he was also a pastor.
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  • - [narrator] for 12 years, dc native dale sutherland
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  • Lived a double life.
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  • During the day, he was a youth pastor at his church,
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  • At night, he was putting his life on the line
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  • As an undercover narcotics police officer.
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  • - so i would be pastoring during the day
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  • And then during the day, i'd be in the office counseling,
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  • Working and then in the evening,
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  • I'd go to the police department and come in and you know,
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  • Buy drugs and arrest bad guys.
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  • - [narrator] the job required dale to immerse himself
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  • In the dark, dangerous underworld of inner city crime.
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  • He found walking the line
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  • Between duty and faith often challenging.
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  • - it was especially difficult for me to have both jobs
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  • And to walk with the lord.
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  • I was a pimp for a while
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  • And i was introduced as a pimp,
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  • So i had these girls around me all the time
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  • And i would be able to try to convince guys to trust me
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  • Because they could sell drugs to me 'cause i was a pimp,
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  • I was in another kind of role.
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  • I was doing that and i was at the same time
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  • Preaching on holiness at church
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  • And trying to keep myself holy at the same time,
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  • Which is always a challenge.
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  • - [narrator] in his early 20s,
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  • Dale felt the call to minister to urban youth.
  • 00:53:44.740 --> 00:53:47.076
  • However, growing in a christian home
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  • Within a safe and secure neighborhood,
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  • Dale didn't have much experience with life on the streets.
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  • So after a few years in bible college,
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  • He enrolled in the washington dc police academy.
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  • - i wanted to be a policeman
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  • 'cause i figured i could get to know the street,
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  • Maybe understand people better
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  • And i'd have a better testimony.
  • 00:54:04.059 --> 00:54:05.427
  • - [narrator] the plan was to work on the force
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  • For a few years, then moving to full-time ministry.
  • 00:54:06.862 --> 00:54:10.165
  • That would change.
  • 00:54:10.165 --> 00:54:11.433
  • Shortly after graduating the police academy,
  • 00:54:11.433 --> 00:54:13.836
  • Dale worked his first undercover case.
  • 00:54:13.836 --> 00:54:16.405
  • Not only did it lead to an arrest,
  • 00:54:16.405 --> 00:54:18.474
  • It gave dale a new perspective on his work
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  • As an officer and his faith.
  • 00:54:20.709 --> 00:54:23.712
  • - i constantly knew this was sin,
  • 00:54:23.712 --> 00:54:25.948
  • It was ruining their life and the lives of others.
  • 00:54:25.948 --> 00:54:28.517
  • And so there was a big picture thing here
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  • And each individual mattered.
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  • So when i got a drug dealer,
  • 00:54:32.121 --> 00:54:33.956
  • I was keeping him from hurting all the families
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  • And everything else that he was selling drugs to.
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  • So i saw it as related to my faith as well.
  • 00:54:40.429 --> 00:54:43.932
  • - [narrator] so he stayed with the force.
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  • In the coming years, dale would arrest hundreds of criminals
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  • And every so often he'd share the gospel with them.
  • 00:54:48.871 --> 00:54:51.473
  • Then in 1993, he and an informant showed up late
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  • To a drug deal.
  • 00:54:56.044 --> 00:54:57.546
  • - one day, i think it was about our seventh purchase
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  • From these guys,
  • 00:55:00.783 --> 00:55:02.050
  • I pulled up and we were supposed to meet
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  • About 45 minutes earlier,
  • 00:55:06.255 --> 00:55:07.556
  • He got outta the car to go find the guys
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  • And then after he got outta the car,
  • 00:55:09.925 --> 00:55:11.794
  • They ended up killing him.
  • 00:55:11.794 --> 00:55:13.162
  • Planned, we later found out,
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  • I mean it was in washington post,
  • 00:55:14.363 --> 00:55:15.964
  • That they had planned to kill both of us had we been on time
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  • Because they thought i was an informant as well.
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  • You realize the mortality and in him
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  • And feeling terrible
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  • And wanting another chance to talk to him about the lord.
  • 00:55:25.474 --> 00:55:28.477
  • - [narrator] dale then decided he wasn't going to miss
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  • Another opportunity to be sure
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  • That he shared the love of christ.
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  • - i could control the body,
  • 00:55:35.150 --> 00:55:36.452
  • You know, i could put 'em in a cell block,
  • 00:55:36.452 --> 00:55:37.820
  • I couldn't change the heart.
  • 00:55:37.820 --> 00:55:39.288
  • The truth is whether it's a drug dealer, prostitute,
  • 00:55:39.288 --> 00:55:42.191
  • A victim, a criminal, a murderer,
  • 00:55:43.225 --> 00:55:45.627
  • I've met 'em all, i've talked to all of 'em
  • 00:55:45.627 --> 00:55:47.629
  • For long periods of time,
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  • And the truth is they need christ
  • 00:55:49.331 --> 00:55:51.433
  • And they are very open to the gospel
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  • If people would just talk to 'em.
  • 00:55:54.169 --> 00:55:56.104
  • - [narrator] while many he arrested would reject
  • 00:55:56.104 --> 00:55:57.906
  • His message of hope, others would ultimately
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  • Find faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:56:00.476 --> 00:56:02.411
  • One was javier, a former drug dealer.
  • 00:56:02.411 --> 00:56:05.714
  • - i wanted to get out of there.
  • 00:56:05.714 --> 00:56:07.049
  • I start, god, i don't wanna do this no more.
  • 00:56:07.049 --> 00:56:09.084
  • I don't want to die selling drugs.
  • 00:56:09.084 --> 00:56:10.986
  • And then like after like three months,
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  • I get arrested and it's how i met dale,
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  • This guy from narcotics.
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  • He started telling me about jesus
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  • And then everything in my life started changing.
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  • We got to be good friends
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  • And we even do ministry together now.
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  • - [narrator] after 12 years of working undercover,
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  • Dale would get the opportunity
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  • To become a full-time youth pastor.
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  • For 12 years, he balanced both jobs.
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  • - it'd be wednesday night i'd go speak at the youth group
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  • And wednesday i'd make an arrest.
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  • And so i'd drive right over to church
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  • And i'd tell him about the arrest,
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  • Tell 'em how it relates to something hopefully in their life
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  • To help 'em understand the word of god better.
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  • - [narrator] after 22 years on the force, dale retired.
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  • Today, he's an associate pastor at his local church
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  • In washington dc where he became known
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  • As the undercover pastor.
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  • He's also the founder of code 3,
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  • A nonprofit organization that provides training and programs
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  • To police and citizens so they can work together
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  • To build safer, more to communities.
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  • His goal of sharing the gospel remains the same.
  • 00:57:10.879 --> 00:57:14.249
  • - i need to preach the gospel is what matters,
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  • Is what really matters.
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  • The only thing that matters is that i can reach more people
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  • For christ, for eternity.
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  • So that's why now i say we used to lock people up
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  • And now we're trying to set people free.
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  • - you know when god calls you to something,
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  • He equips you for whatever it is he's asking you to do.
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  • Trust him with your life and listen
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  • Because he's got purpose in the call.
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  • Gordon.
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  • - well, here's a word from psalm 71,
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  • "my lips will shout for joy when i sing praise to you,
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  • I whom you have delivered."
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  • May your lips sing praise to god today.
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  • God bless you.
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  • (gentle music)
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