May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 | 57:59

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

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The 700 Club | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025
  • (dramatic music)
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  • - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [gordon] coming up, view the works of the sistine chapel
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  • Without booking a trip to rome.
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  • - [woman] it gives me the chills.
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  • - [gordon] then he had music royalty in his blood.
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  • - growing up in the cassidys was its own unique experience.
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  • - [gordon] and cocaine in his veins.
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  • - [jack] my heart started uncontrollably
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  • Pounding outta my chest.
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  • - [gordon] jack cassidy shares the story of his rise,
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  • Fall and rebirth.
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  • - [jack] god was literally breathing life into me.
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  • - on today's "700 club".
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  • Well, welcome to the 700 club.
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  • To alleviate a little bit of suffering
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  • In some small corner of the world.
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  • Well, those are the words that set one american couple
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  • On a journey to a remote part of eastern africa.
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  • - this couple has dedicated their lives
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  • To serving the poorest of the poor.
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  • George thomas traveled to kenya
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  • To bring us their inspiring story.
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  • (exotic music)
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  • - [george] i traveled some 7,300 miles
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  • (horn beeping)
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  • To this remote outpost in northwest kenya
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  • To find out why a group of african medical professionals
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  • Working with american missionary doctors
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  • Would choose a life of selfless service
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  • To bring desperately needed medical care
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  • To one of the poorest regions of this country.
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  • - is sitting on the mountain of mount sinai,
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  • He's gone back to where it all began.
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  • - [george] i discovered why in fairly short order.
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  • - lord is reiterate.
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  • - everything you do, you do it
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  • As unto the lord, for god's glory.
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  • (happy music)
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  • - [george] that plus a deep desire to demonstrate the saving
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  • And healing ministry of christ to this community.
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  • - we feel very, very fortunate to be able to do what we do.
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  • There's nothing else that we would rather do.
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  • (happy music)
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  • - [george] americans bill and laura rhodes
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  • Moved to this corner of kenya
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  • To work at kapsowar mission hospital.
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  • - that was a close one. - that was a close one!
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  • Located near the ugandan border,
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  • The 140 bed christian hospital opened its doors
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  • Back in 1963.
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  • When bill and laura rhodes
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  • Moved to this part of northwestern kenya,
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  • Getting up to the mission hospital,
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  • I guess we'll have to wait for the cow to pass the road.
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  • There we go.
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  • Getting up to the mission hospital was no easy task.
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  • Why?
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  • Because, well, you had to traverse across roads like this.
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  • I mean the dirt path-
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  • - it was not like it is now.
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  • It was so much more rustic and rural
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  • And isolated and difficult to reach.
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  • (happy music)
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  • - rhodes, who had no medical background,
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  • Was pursuing a master's degree
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  • In biblical hebrew in jerusalem when he and his wife
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  • Picked up two christian medical students
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  • Hitchhiking through israel.
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  • - bill said, "so why as believers
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  • Do you wanna practice medicine?"
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  • And the answer of one of those young medical students,
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  • Whom we've never seen since, never even knew his name,
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  • Changed the trajectory of our lives.
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  • - he said, "i would just like to see
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  • If i couldn't alleviate a little bit of suffering
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  • In some small corner of the world someday
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  • In the name of jesus."
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  • - that set rhodes on a 16 year odyssey
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  • With numerous setbacks in preparation for a surgical career
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  • That would change the lives of the african continent.
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  • You failed to get into med school three times.
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  • Did it not dawn on bill rhodes
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  • That maybe i should try something different?
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  • I mean maybe plumbing or architecture, maybe be a lawyer.
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  • - just because you decide to do something
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  • That you think will honor god or be pleasing to god
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  • Or be helpful in moving the kingdom of god forward
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  • Doesn't mean that you have a guaranteed easy path
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  • To get there.
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  • In fact, you should probably buckle up tight
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  • Because it's probably gonna be challenging.
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  • - when bill and laura moved here to kenya
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  • In january of 1999, some 23 years ago,
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  • They knew without a shadow of a doubt
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  • That this was a lifetime commitment
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  • To serve the people of this country.
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  • But more importantly, to come to a region of the nation
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  • That had some tremendous needs.
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  • And today, bill, his team, his wife and children
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  • Are all committed to serve
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  • The people of kapsowar and beyond.
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  • - when we see the staggering disparity
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  • In this world of the people who have
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  • And those on the other end who have not,
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  • The disparity is only growing wider.
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  • And for all of our days,
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  • However many we have, we want to try
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  • And bring healing and wholeness.
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  • - in recent years, dr. rhode's vision
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  • To bring medical care has gone beyond the valleys
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  • That surround kapsowar to include other countries.
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  • So for example, he along with his wife
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  • And members of the mission hospital,
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  • Often travel to countries
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  • Like liberia, chad and south sudan.
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  • Accompanying him is kenyan thomas kiptoo,
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  • Who heads up kapsowar's anesthetist department.
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  • Kiptoo came from a very poor family
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  • And a missionary doctor acting as a mentor
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  • Urged him to pursue the medical field.
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  • - i couldn't imagine that i could come all the way
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  • To this position at that moment.
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  • Looking back, i never had a future.
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  • But since i believed in god
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  • And i'm a product of a missionary,
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  • This is why i have become what i am.
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  • - [george] dr. rhode's passion
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  • Is to train and equip the next generation
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  • Of african health professionals.
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  • 36-year-old kenyan, patricia chesang has worked closely
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  • With rhodes in the last three years.
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  • - he is going to leave a wonderful legacy.
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  • He's left his family all the comfort that he could afford,
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  • But he has given of his life, of himself,
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  • To come and serve here.
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  • So for me, it's really humbling.
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  • - [george] dr. rhodes is honored with
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  • The amh gerson l'chaim prize
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  • For outstanding christian medical missionary service.
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  • The annual prize comes with a $500,000 award,
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  • Which will go toward the hospital,
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  • Surgical work and training.
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  • - he envisions the opportunity to train
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  • And raise up whole surgical teams, not just surgeons,
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  • But anesthetists, nurses, to go to these hard places
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  • Where he's now going just periodically
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  • And go and stay there.
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  • - you wanna spend the rest of your life
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  • Either here in northwest kenya
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  • Or somewhere on the continent.
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  • - yeah, this is the end of the rainbow for us.
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  • Very few people get to do
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  • Really what they really want to do.
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  • And we bless god every day
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  • Because we know we actually are in that little minority
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  • That actually is getting to do
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  • Exactly what we want it to do.
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  • (machine beeping)
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  • - [george] george thomas, cbn news, kapsowar, kenya.
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  • - well you can be part of that little minority.
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  • How?
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  • By just following what god tells you to do
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  • When you do life his way and according to his design.
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  • And here's a wonderful prayer for you.
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  • God, can i be part of your plan?
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  • Well then you'll find that you walk into things
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  • That satisfy the desires of your heart,
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  • That it's something you've wanted to do all along.
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  • We'll be right back with more
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  • Of "the 700 club" right after this.
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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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  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
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  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • From when they met.
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  • Melissa was in real estate.
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  • Rick had been living on credit cards
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  • Here's what you should have.
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  • I told god whether i make a lot of money or not,
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  • I'm done striving.
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  • - [announcer] today rick and melissa have three children
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  • - now i have the hunger to make more money
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  • So we truly can give to all of these places.
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  • - imagine being able to enjoy the beauty and wonder
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  • Of the sistine chapel right in your own city.
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  • - when michelangelo brought the bible to life
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  • Some 500 years ago, it's hard to imagine
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  • He thought his masterpiece on the ceiling
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  • Of the sistine chapel would ever make its way
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  • From the vatican to a shopping mall in richmond, virginia.
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  • But here we are.
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  • The agony and the ecstasy.
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  • ♪ gloria ♪
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  • - [gabe] in 1965, charlton heston's portrayal
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  • Of a 33-year-old michelangelo buonarroti
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  • Transported the sistine chapel to the silver screen.
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  • - i wanted to paint man as he was first created.
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  • - [gabe] now a roving global exhibit is bringing visitors
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  • Face to face with the italian artist's visualization
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  • Of the book of genesis.
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  • - it's almost as if we're looking at god creating the world,
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  • The beginning of genesis.
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  • And we're seeing the the cornucopia,
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  • The richness of god's creation unfolding in front of us.
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  • - [gabe] from adam's creation.
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  • - it gives me the chills.
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  • It truly gave me anxiety to see how close,
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  • But not quite touching their fingers were.
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  • - showing that tangible space
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  • Between man and god to the downfall.
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  • A pained look banished from paradise.
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  • Soon michelangelo's sistine chapel,
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  • The exhibition will hit 80 cities
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  • Bringing to life nine scenes from the bible.
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  • Tiffany, i feel like you are living proof
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  • That you don't need to know anything
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  • About michelangelo or the sistine chapel
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  • To appreciate his paintings.
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  • - absolutely. - which is your favorite?
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  • - so my favorite one is over here
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  • In the ancestors of christ room.
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  • There's a guy in the back that's back here.
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  • You won't be able to see that 60 feet up in italy.
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  • - [gabe] no need for a deep background in art history
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  • To appreciate this masterpiece.
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  • - many of them say that they were weren't able
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  • To see the ceiling clearly because it was so high up
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  • Or they didn't have enough time
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  • To really look at the ceilings.
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  • - [gabe] the cracked fresco shown in vivid relief,
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  • Even revealing the great flood.
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  • - [attraction narrator] there we can see the ark,
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  • Which noah builds at the instruction from god.
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  • - [gabe] a level of access to the world famous paintings
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  • That even connoisseurs can appreciate.
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  • - you've been once and you haven't never forgotten it.
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  • And it astonished you when you saw it.
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  • I think i've been 55 times in my life
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  • And it never fails to astonish me every time i go in.
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  • - [gabe] professor william wallace,
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  • Who's written eight books on the sculptor turned painter.
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  • Michelangelo is an artist who goes from zero to 60
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  • In less than a second.
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  • He just is capable of undertaking monumental tasks
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  • And carrying them out so that suddenly the artist
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  • Who's never made painted a fresco
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  • Paints the most important fresco in the world.
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  • - [gabe] some of the brass tacks,
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  • The vault is nearly seven stories high
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  • With some 5,000 square feet of painting
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  • And even on a curved ceiling,
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  • Michelangelo achieves a three dimensional effect.
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  • The technical challenges are astronomical
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  • And it's just amazing how well he solved all of them.
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  • The first being, you know,
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  • How do you get a scaffold up there?
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  • But then how do you paint 14 foot,
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  • Seated figures that are 14 feet high,
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  • That are on that curve and yet make 'em look like
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  • They're just properly proportioned and sitting,
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  • Not in some kind of mirror-like thing.
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  • - yeah, yeah.
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  • It could have been,
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  • It could have looked like a house of mirror-
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  • - up on a mirror. yes, exactly.
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  • House of horrors.
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  • - [gabe] instead of horror, the awe of god.
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  • - would you have painted there my son,
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  • Is not a portrait of god.
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  • It's a proof of faith.
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  • - whether you're religious or not,
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  • This image of god creating man
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  • Is the ultimate symbol of the creation story.
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  • That's the legacy michelangelo left
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  • When he created one of the most famous works of art
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  • In the world.
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  • Gabe lamonica, cbn news, richmond, virginia.
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  • - well if you ever get a chance to go to rome
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  • And actually see it in person,
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  • You'll walk away absolutely astounded.
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  • But here, not 60 feet away, looking up, craning your neck,
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  • But right there in front of you,
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  • All the detail come to life.
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  • Terry? - well still ahead,
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  • A member of the partridge family's extended family,
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  • David cassidy's nephew, jack.
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  • Stay tuned to see how he's becoming a star in his own right.
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  • - an hour long drive made in 25 minutes.
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  • Tonya morrison's father drove 110 miles per hour
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  • To get her to a hospital.
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  • That's because tonya's doctor
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  • Had given her just one hour to live.
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  • - i was terrified the thought of her dying in an hour's time
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  • Is something to be concerned about.
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  • (pensive music)
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  • - [reporter] tonya morrison and her husband paul,
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  • Had been attending church with her parents,
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  • Dwayne and kay for years.
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  • That sunday their pastor
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  • Had an unusual and ominous message for tonya.
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  • - and suddenly the spirit gave me tonya's name
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  • And said to tonya
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  • That the lord was holding her in the palm of his hand.
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  • She was going to face some problems in her life
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  • That she really wasn't even aware of.
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  • - we just couldn't imagine what it was gonna be.
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  • And we did not know that within 24 hours
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  • That this would happen.
  • 00:21:58.567 --> 00:21:59.868
  • - when i heard what brother walter said,
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  • I thought it was amazing blessing for tonya.
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  • I certainly didn't think it was anything to do
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  • With a medical condition that she had.
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  • - [reporter] in 2017,
  • 00:22:07.910 --> 00:22:09.178
  • Tonya was diagnosed with diabetes insipidus,
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  • An uncommon disorder that causes an imbalance
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  • Of fluids in the body.
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  • The day after receiving a message from her pastor,
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  • Tonya woke up not feeling well.
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  • Her doctor was concerned about some recent lab results
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  • And insisted tonya get another test.
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  • Then on her way home, she became very ill
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  • And could barely move.
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  • Her doctor called with urgent news.
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  • - i heard the urgency in her voice.
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  • She said, "daddy, i need your help real badly.
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  • The doctor just told me i have water poisoning,
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  • That i need to get to
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  • The murfreesboro hospital within an hour.
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  • It is a matter of life and death."
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  • I remember her using those terms, matter of life and death.
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  • - [reporter] tonya's father, dwayne, who lives nearby,
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  • Swung into action and raced her
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  • To the murfreesboro hospital to get her there
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  • Before it was too late.
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  • - i would look in the rear view mirror
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  • And see my daughter basically unconscious.
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  • And i was praying for her
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  • And i'd say, "lord, i know you've got her
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  • In the palm of your hand."
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  • And one of my favorite scriptures that was coming to me,
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  • He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high
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  • Shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.
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  • And we knew that the almighty had our daughter in his hand.
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  • - they made an hour long drive in just 25 minutes.
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  • And when they got off the highway,
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  • They hit seven green lights in a row
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  • Before arriving at the hospital.
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  • - they pulled up to the emergency room.
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  • I opened the back door.
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  • She was unresponsive in the backseat.
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  • It was completely scary to see her just unconscious
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  • - doctors determined that due to her diabetes,
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  • Tonya's sodium had dropped to a life-threatening 112,
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  • Causing her brain to swell and lose consciousness.
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  • - nobody else had ever left the hospital
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  • With her condition alive is what they told us.
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  • So we were really praying for her.
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  • Just praying for the lord to take care of her,
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  • To bring her back to us.
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  • And we were not ready to lose her.
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  • - we were depending on the power of prayer
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  • And knew that we were asking for a miracle.
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  • And we knew we had a lot of praying people that could pray
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  • And that the lord could answer prayer
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  • And that he had all power
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  • And that he was gonna keep her in the palm of his hand
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  • And perform that miracle.
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  • We needed one.
  • 00:24:23.645 --> 00:24:24.880
  • - i immediately thought back to the words
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  • That brother walter had spoken over her sunday.
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  • So i felt comfortable.
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  • I knew that she was in god's hands
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  • And nothing could really be bad.
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  • But i was concerned.
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  • - [reporter] over the next three days in the hospital,
  • 00:24:37.826 --> 00:24:40.028
  • Tonya's sodium levels came back to a safe range.
  • 00:24:40.028 --> 00:24:42.998
  • And she began her recovery.
  • 00:24:42.998 --> 00:24:45.233
  • - when i came to i knew beyond a shadow of a doubt
  • 00:24:45.233 --> 00:24:48.303
  • It was the hand of the lord and that he'd spared my life.
  • 00:24:48.303 --> 00:24:51.540
  • And that that was what brother walter,
  • 00:24:51.540 --> 00:24:53.308
  • When he had that word of knowledge the day before,
  • 00:24:53.308 --> 00:24:56.378
  • I knew exactly that's what it meant
  • 00:24:56.378 --> 00:24:58.413
  • And that god had spared my life.
  • 00:24:58.413 --> 00:25:00.582
  • - he came through for us that time
  • 00:25:00.582 --> 00:25:03.318
  • In such a magnificent way.
  • 00:25:03.318 --> 00:25:04.853
  • And we are so thankful that the lord demonstrated his power
  • 00:25:04.853 --> 00:25:08.323
  • By saving our daughter.
  • 00:25:08.323 --> 00:25:09.825
  • - it was wonderful seeing her,
  • 00:25:09.825 --> 00:25:11.293
  • Knowing that she was still alive
  • 00:25:11.293 --> 00:25:13.261
  • And that she was a miracle.
  • 00:25:13.261 --> 00:25:14.997
  • She was a miracle.
  • 00:25:15.631 --> 00:25:16.865
  • - i think one of her favorite songs is,
  • 00:25:16.865 --> 00:25:19.034
  • I can't even walk without you holding my hand,
  • 00:25:19.034 --> 00:25:21.203
  • Referring to the hand of the lord.
  • 00:25:21.203 --> 00:25:22.904
  • And paul, her husband had her one hand
  • 00:25:22.904 --> 00:25:25.807
  • And the lord had her other hand.
  • 00:25:25.807 --> 00:25:27.709
  • - i'm thankful that god carried us through that
  • 00:25:27.709 --> 00:25:29.945
  • And that he gave me a life with tonya.
  • 00:25:29.945 --> 00:25:32.180
  • - tonya remains thankful for god's encouraging word
  • 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:35.550
  • That provided a source of hope during a terrible situation.
  • 00:25:35.550 --> 00:25:39.554
  • - it's hard to describe the gratitude and the love you feel
  • 00:25:39.554 --> 00:25:42.290
  • And just knowing the love he has for you, that he did this.
  • 00:25:42.290 --> 00:25:46.228
  • He spared your life for a reason
  • 00:25:46.228 --> 00:25:48.330
  • And now he has your life, in his hand.
  • 00:25:48.330 --> 00:25:50.399
  • And he had me in the palm of his hand.
  • 00:25:50.399 --> 00:25:52.534
  • It's just a miracle
  • 00:25:52.534 --> 00:25:53.802
  • Because when you watch how it played out
  • 00:25:53.802 --> 00:25:56.505
  • And that the day before,
  • 00:25:56.505 --> 00:25:58.340
  • In 24 hours from the time that was spoken by my pastor,
  • 00:25:58.340 --> 00:26:02.511
  • I was in the backseat of that car hanging on to life
  • 00:26:02.511 --> 00:26:06.081
  • And how he can turn that around and heal you
  • 00:26:06.081 --> 00:26:09.685
  • And it brings glory to him.
  • 00:26:09.685 --> 00:26:11.687
  • And that's what's important.
  • 00:26:11.687 --> 00:26:13.655
  • It was all for his glory.
  • 00:26:13.655 --> 00:26:14.956
  • He had a plan and it was all for his glory.
  • 00:26:14.956 --> 00:26:19.327
  • - i love the tender heart of god
  • 00:26:20.128 --> 00:26:21.897
  • That he gave that word to their pastor.
  • 00:26:21.897 --> 00:26:24.099
  • That they could stand on that
  • 00:26:24.099 --> 00:26:26.168
  • In the midst of what was a really difficult situation.
  • 00:26:26.168 --> 00:26:29.504
  • Some of you are standing today in the midst
  • 00:26:29.504 --> 00:26:32.174
  • Of very difficult situations and we want to stand with you.
  • 00:26:32.174 --> 00:26:36.778
  • God is not just gracious, he's powerful,
  • 00:26:36.778 --> 00:26:40.749
  • And he loves us in a way that extends that power
  • 00:26:40.749 --> 00:26:44.252
  • To us in our place of need when we come to him.
  • 00:26:44.252 --> 00:26:46.655
  • And so let's do that together.
  • 00:26:46.655 --> 00:26:48.623
  • Because when we join together, there is in our unity
  • 00:26:48.623 --> 00:26:52.561
  • Just an opening of the doors of heaven.
  • 00:26:52.561 --> 00:26:55.530
  • God's heart is open to us at that time.
  • 00:26:55.530 --> 00:26:57.766
  • We wanna pray for you today.
  • 00:26:57.766 --> 00:26:59.668
  • To further enhance your faith before we pray,
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  • Here's a word from nicole.
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  • She lives in baltimore, maryland.
  • 00:27:04.339 --> 00:27:06.641
  • She was experiencing chronic urinary tract infections
  • 00:27:06.641 --> 00:27:10.112
  • While watching this program a few months ago.
  • 00:27:10.112 --> 00:27:12.114
  • Gordon, she heard you say "someone is suffering
  • 00:27:12.114 --> 00:27:14.149
  • With kidney problems and urinary issues.
  • 00:27:14.149 --> 00:27:16.885
  • You are going to be healed."
  • 00:27:16.885 --> 00:27:18.954
  • Immediately she knew you were talking about her.
  • 00:27:18.954 --> 00:27:21.723
  • She started crying and thanking god.
  • 00:27:21.723 --> 00:27:24.059
  • She called to tell us that she's not had
  • 00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:26.061
  • Any infections since.
  • 00:27:26.061 --> 00:27:27.329
  • And she is praising jesus for that healing.
  • 00:27:27.329 --> 00:27:29.765
  • - yay.
  • 00:27:29.765 --> 00:27:31.099
  • For 17 months, minnie of san antonio, texas
  • 00:27:31.099 --> 00:27:34.069
  • Suffered with daily headaches, some of which were severe.
  • 00:27:34.069 --> 00:27:37.873
  • Her doctor prescribed pain medication which helped some.
  • 00:27:37.873 --> 00:27:41.676
  • Watching "the 700 club", terry said,
  • 00:27:41.676 --> 00:27:44.246
  • "there is someone who is having headaches,
  • 00:27:44.246 --> 00:27:45.781
  • God is healing you, receive it now."
  • 00:27:45.781 --> 00:27:48.784
  • Minnie immediately claimed her healing
  • 00:27:48.784 --> 00:27:51.520
  • And she started crying.
  • 00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:53.655
  • For weeks now she hasn't had any more headaches.
  • 00:27:53.655 --> 00:27:56.958
  • She can't wait to see her doctor,
  • 00:27:56.958 --> 00:27:58.894
  • To tell him all that god, tell him that god healed her.
  • 00:27:58.894 --> 00:28:01.997
  • She gives all praise to her lord and savior, jesus christ.
  • 00:28:01.997 --> 00:28:05.600
  • You can give that same praise.
  • 00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:07.602
  • Psalm 91 is for you.
  • 00:28:07.602 --> 00:28:09.137
  • It's a psalm of moses.
  • 00:28:09.137 --> 00:28:10.806
  • And moses knew a lot about god
  • 00:28:10.806 --> 00:28:12.941
  • And he begins it with he who dwells in the secret place.
  • 00:28:12.941 --> 00:28:18.013
  • How do you do that? how do you dwell in the secret place?
  • 00:28:19.414 --> 00:28:22.617
  • Well, you just come to jesus.
  • 00:28:22.617 --> 00:28:24.719
  • He's the secret.
  • 00:28:24.719 --> 00:28:26.188
  • He's the answer to every human need.
  • 00:28:26.188 --> 00:28:28.857
  • You'll dwell under his shadow.
  • 00:28:28.857 --> 00:28:31.026
  • You'll be with him.
  • 00:28:31.026 --> 00:28:33.428
  • And then here's a great illustration from that same psalm.
  • 00:28:33.428 --> 00:28:36.431
  • He'll cover you with his feathers, with his wings.
  • 00:28:36.431 --> 00:28:41.002
  • Get that image.
  • 00:28:41.002 --> 00:28:42.170
  • It's the same image that jesus used
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  • When he prayed over jerusalem.
  • 00:28:44.272 --> 00:28:46.007
  • "oh jerusalem, i wanted to gather you
  • 00:28:46.007 --> 00:28:48.310
  • As a hen, gathers her chicks."
  • 00:28:48.310 --> 00:28:50.946
  • When does a hen do that?
  • 00:28:50.946 --> 00:28:52.247
  • When there's trouble.
  • 00:28:52.247 --> 00:28:54.182
  • Come and and come underneath my wings and i'll protect you.
  • 00:28:54.182 --> 00:28:59.221
  • I'll be with you.
  • 00:28:59.888 --> 00:29:01.456
  • But then at the end of psalm 91,
  • 00:29:01.456 --> 00:29:03.859
  • Here's some great i wills.
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  • I will deliver them.
  • 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:08.530
  • Isn't that great?
  • 00:29:08.530 --> 00:29:10.398
  • These are the i wills of god.
  • 00:29:10.398 --> 00:29:12.534
  • They're wonderful to memorize,
  • 00:29:12.534 --> 00:29:14.669
  • To know that it's his will.
  • 00:29:14.669 --> 00:29:17.939
  • I will deliver when you call, i will answer.
  • 00:29:17.939 --> 00:29:23.511
  • It's one thing to pray.
  • 00:29:24.179 --> 00:29:25.647
  • It's another thing to pray
  • 00:29:25.647 --> 00:29:27.148
  • Believing that you'll get an answer.
  • 00:29:27.148 --> 00:29:30.285
  • On that long ride, and it had to be a long ride
  • 00:29:30.285 --> 00:29:33.221
  • To the hospital that father was believing for an answer.
  • 00:29:33.221 --> 00:29:36.725
  • He was praying psalm 91 over his daughter.
  • 00:29:36.725 --> 00:29:40.695
  • The pastor had given them a word.
  • 00:29:40.695 --> 00:29:42.898
  • They were holding on to the word
  • 00:29:42.898 --> 00:29:45.367
  • Because they knew that the word would sustain them.
  • 00:29:45.367 --> 00:29:48.904
  • That they would get an answer to their prayer.
  • 00:29:48.904 --> 00:29:52.440
  • They weren't praying some ritual thing.
  • 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:54.542
  • They weren't praying with no faith, no expectation.
  • 00:29:54.542 --> 00:29:58.280
  • When you pray with the promise of psalm 91,
  • 00:29:58.280 --> 00:30:01.650
  • I will answer them.
  • 00:30:01.650 --> 00:30:03.652
  • Isn't that what you have the answer to every human need.
  • 00:30:03.652 --> 00:30:08.690
  • So terry and i are going to agree with you in prayer.
  • 00:30:10.058 --> 00:30:12.460
  • What do we ask you to do?
  • 00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:13.828
  • We ask you to demonstrate
  • 00:30:13.828 --> 00:30:15.797
  • That you're going to get an answer.
  • 00:30:15.797 --> 00:30:17.899
  • That you believe that, that you're going to cry out to god
  • 00:30:17.899 --> 00:30:21.536
  • And he is going to answer you in an act of faith.
  • 00:30:21.536 --> 00:30:25.674
  • 'cause faith can be a verb, in an act of faith.
  • 00:30:25.674 --> 00:30:29.044
  • Lay your hand on that area of the body that needs healing.
  • 00:30:29.044 --> 00:30:32.847
  • Terry and i will join with you.
  • 00:30:32.847 --> 00:30:34.849
  • The bible says when two or more agree touching anything,
  • 00:30:34.849 --> 00:30:38.219
  • It shall be done for them by my father in heaven.
  • 00:30:38.219 --> 00:30:41.556
  • These are the words of jesus.
  • 00:30:41.556 --> 00:30:43.658
  • "ask and it will be given to you."
  • 00:30:43.658 --> 00:30:45.560
  • These are the words of jesus.
  • 00:30:45.560 --> 00:30:46.895
  • "seek and you will find.
  • 00:30:46.895 --> 00:30:48.496
  • Knock, it will be open to you."
  • 00:30:48.496 --> 00:30:51.299
  • When you call to him, he will answer you
  • 00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:54.970
  • Because that's his promise.
  • 00:30:54.970 --> 00:30:57.706
  • Let's believe it and let's ask him right now.
  • 00:30:57.706 --> 00:31:01.543
  • Lord god almighty, we come to you.
  • 00:31:01.543 --> 00:31:04.346
  • We come to you believing.
  • 00:31:04.346 --> 00:31:06.047
  • And now for everyone who is reaching their hand
  • 00:31:07.215 --> 00:31:10.552
  • On that area of the body that needs healing,
  • 00:31:10.552 --> 00:31:13.288
  • We join with them in agreement, now, touching it.
  • 00:31:14.556 --> 00:31:19.160
  • We declare over them that the time is fulfilled.
  • 00:31:20.428 --> 00:31:24.599
  • The kingdom of god is at hand.
  • 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.569
  • We believe the good news, we receive your salvation,
  • 00:31:27.569 --> 00:31:32.207
  • Your deliverance, your healing.
  • 00:31:32.207 --> 00:31:34.843
  • We receive every promise that you have for us now.
  • 00:31:34.843 --> 00:31:39.481
  • So in jesus' name, i say out loud to my own body,
  • 00:31:39.481 --> 00:31:43.985
  • Be healed now, sickness, disease,
  • 00:31:43.985 --> 00:31:48.123
  • Infirmity, pain depart from me.
  • 00:31:48.123 --> 00:31:51.126
  • In the name of jesus, from the top of my head
  • 00:31:51.126 --> 00:31:54.929
  • To the soles of my feet, i am healed now
  • 00:31:54.929 --> 00:31:58.867
  • By the stripes of jesus christ.
  • 00:31:58.867 --> 00:32:01.569
  • He is restoring me.
  • 00:32:01.569 --> 00:32:03.271
  • He's giving me new energy, new life, new vigor.
  • 00:32:03.271 --> 00:32:07.509
  • In jesus' name i receive all of it now.
  • 00:32:07.509 --> 00:32:12.113
  • And i give you praise and thanksgiving
  • 00:32:13.148 --> 00:32:16.818
  • For what you've done for me.
  • 00:32:16.818 --> 00:32:19.054
  • Terry, god's given you something.
  • 00:32:19.054 --> 00:32:20.388
  • - there's someone, you have a condition.
  • 00:32:20.388 --> 00:32:22.490
  • It's very grave actually, you're developing these tumors
  • 00:32:22.490 --> 00:32:26.428
  • That are just, they're visible it's disfiguring.
  • 00:32:26.428 --> 00:32:30.698
  • Those are melting away.
  • 00:32:31.366 --> 00:32:32.767
  • Jesus is healing you right now
  • 00:32:32.767 --> 00:32:35.637
  • From something that is untreatable.
  • 00:32:35.637 --> 00:32:38.840
  • God is healing that.
  • 00:32:38.840 --> 00:32:40.275
  • Just begin to praise him and receive that.
  • 00:32:40.275 --> 00:32:42.677
  • - there's someone, you've got a weak heart muscle
  • 00:32:43.912 --> 00:32:45.413
  • And you're not getting full compression on your heart.
  • 00:32:45.413 --> 00:32:48.950
  • And as a result you've got swelling
  • 00:32:48.950 --> 00:32:52.887
  • Particularly in your feet,
  • 00:32:53.655 --> 00:32:55.056
  • Particularly in your right leg, your right foot.
  • 00:32:55.056 --> 00:32:57.826
  • And god is restoring your heart
  • 00:32:57.826 --> 00:32:59.661
  • And he's restoring your circulation.
  • 00:32:59.661 --> 00:33:01.596
  • And in jesus' name may everything
  • 00:33:01.596 --> 00:33:03.798
  • With your vascular system,
  • 00:33:03.798 --> 00:33:05.300
  • May everything with your heart muscle,
  • 00:33:05.300 --> 00:33:07.268
  • May everything with every single valve,
  • 00:33:07.268 --> 00:33:09.904
  • Every chamber in jesus' name, be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:33:09.904 --> 00:33:14.976
  • New energy is coursing through you right now.
  • 00:33:16.177 --> 00:33:18.213
  • New vitality, new oxygen levels.
  • 00:33:18.213 --> 00:33:21.516
  • Go back and get checked
  • 00:33:21.516 --> 00:33:22.917
  • And give praise to god for what he's done for you.
  • 00:33:22.917 --> 00:33:26.554
  • - yeah, someone else you have a problem with oxygen levels
  • 00:33:27.989 --> 00:33:30.158
  • And you actually get at the base of your fingernails,
  • 00:33:30.158 --> 00:33:33.328
  • Almost a grayish bluish color.
  • 00:33:33.328 --> 00:33:36.531
  • God's healing that condition for you right now.
  • 00:33:37.765 --> 00:33:39.734
  • Just breathe deeply as your lungs completely open up
  • 00:33:39.734 --> 00:33:43.671
  • And your body is able to process all of that appropriately.
  • 00:33:43.671 --> 00:33:47.242
  • - there's someone you've had some kind of discharge
  • 00:33:48.476 --> 00:33:50.879
  • Out of your left ear.
  • 00:33:50.879 --> 00:33:52.780
  • I don't know if it's spinal fluid
  • 00:33:52.780 --> 00:33:56.251
  • Or just from an infection.
  • 00:33:56.251 --> 00:33:57.952
  • But you'll know it
  • 00:33:57.952 --> 00:33:59.354
  • Because i'm saying discharge from your left ear.
  • 00:33:59.354 --> 00:34:01.856
  • God is healing that right now.
  • 00:34:01.856 --> 00:34:04.159
  • Whatever that condition is, in jesus' name,
  • 00:34:04.159 --> 00:34:07.562
  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:34:07.562 --> 00:34:09.297
  • - and someone else, you have an issue
  • 00:34:09.297 --> 00:34:11.199
  • With chronic stys in your eye.
  • 00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.368
  • I mean it just, you hardly get one healed
  • 00:34:13.368 --> 00:34:15.537
  • And another one is present.
  • 00:34:15.537 --> 00:34:17.438
  • That whole thing that's out of balance,
  • 00:34:17.438 --> 00:34:19.440
  • Out of order is being made right now in jesus' name.
  • 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:24.012
  • - someone with recurring eye infections
  • 00:34:24.012 --> 00:34:26.581
  • And god is healing your eyes,
  • 00:34:26.581 --> 00:34:28.383
  • Cleansing you from all that bacteria,
  • 00:34:28.383 --> 00:34:30.652
  • Everything that's wrong with it in jesus' name.
  • 00:34:30.652 --> 00:34:33.788
  • Be healed and be made whole.
  • 00:34:33.788 --> 00:34:36.891
  • Lord god, we thank you.
  • 00:34:36.891 --> 00:34:38.259
  • We thank you for all that you're doing for us.
  • 00:34:38.259 --> 00:34:40.528
  • We receive everything
  • 00:34:40.528 --> 00:34:42.197
  • And every promise that you have in jesus' name.
  • 00:34:42.197 --> 00:34:46.167
  • Amen.
  • 00:34:46.601 --> 00:34:47.769
  • If you've been healed, let us know.
  • 00:34:47.769 --> 00:34:49.604
  • Let us share in your good report.
  • 00:34:49.604 --> 00:34:51.239
  • Just give us a call, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:54.475
  • And if you need prayer, let me remind you.
  • 00:34:54.475 --> 00:34:56.711
  • Ask and it will be given.
  • 00:34:56.711 --> 00:34:58.279
  • Seek and you will find.
  • 00:34:58.279 --> 00:34:59.814
  • Knock and it will be open to you.
  • 00:34:59.814 --> 00:35:01.783
  • That's why we believe in prevailing prayer.
  • 00:35:01.783 --> 00:35:04.452
  • The prayer that doesn't give up until you get the answer.
  • 00:35:04.452 --> 00:35:08.623
  • So if you want someone to stand with you in prayer,
  • 00:35:08.623 --> 00:35:10.792
  • Call us, 1-800-700-7000.
  • 00:35:10.792 --> 00:35:14.062
  • Terry.
  • 00:35:14.062 --> 00:35:15.496
  • - well still ahead, the grandson of hollywood royalty,
  • 00:35:15.496 --> 00:35:18.166
  • Jack cassidy, talks about his stint in the spotlight
  • 00:35:18.166 --> 00:35:21.736
  • On "the voice".
  • 00:35:21.736 --> 00:35:23.171
  • Find out what happened
  • 00:35:23.171 --> 00:35:24.539
  • When his dream of winning the contest was dashed.
  • 00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:27.775
  • And then also ahead, a baby's life is in constant danger
  • 00:35:27.775 --> 00:35:31.946
  • And her mother has no way to afford the brain surgery
  • 00:35:31.946 --> 00:35:35.016
  • Her daughter needs to survive.
  • 00:35:35.016 --> 00:35:37.185
  • See how this mom turns to prayer
  • 00:35:37.185 --> 00:35:39.520
  • And watch the miracle that follows.
  • 00:35:39.520 --> 00:35:41.956
  • That's coming up.
  • 00:35:41.956 --> 00:35:43.725
  • (bright music)
  • 00:35:43.725 --> 00:35:50.732
  • - my head was just killing me.
  • 00:35:51.566 --> 00:35:53.735
  • I never experienced it to that magnitude.
  • 00:35:53.735 --> 00:35:56.404
  • Like i'm gonna have to go to the er.
  • 00:35:56.404 --> 00:35:58.606
  • - the doctor who was on call, he said,
  • 00:35:58.606 --> 00:36:01.609
  • "it looks like a brain bleed."
  • 00:36:01.609 --> 00:36:03.845
  • We begin to plead the blood of jesus.
  • 00:36:03.845 --> 00:36:05.813
  • Holy spirit spoke to me when he said
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  • "the bleeding has stopped."
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  • We were just all rejoicing
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  • When we heard she's gonna be fine.
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  • - i'm grateful every single day.
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  • 'cause if god brought me through that
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  • God can bring you through anything.
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  • I believe in prayer, the power of prayer.
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  • - i'm not breathing enough to make a feather move.
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  • It really frustrated me
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  • Because my quality of life had drastically changed.
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  • I could just say, just "lord, i need your help."
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  • - there's someone else, you have breathing issues.
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  • Take a complete breath
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  • And exhale as jesus christ heals you completely.
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  • - i can feel that air going clear down
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  • To my stomach and back.
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  • He will always be there, walking this out for your benefit.
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  • - when i was eight years old, i was molested by a boy
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  • That was only a year older than me.
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  • I became very sexualized.
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  • I started going all over the state
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  • Just for random sexual encounters that i would find online.
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  • Nothing was satisfying anymore.
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  • And so i began to remember all the fantasies
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  • I had as a child of feeling like a boy.
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  • I began to transition.
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  • I began to take the hormones
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  • And at first it was the greatest thing ever.
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  • I was really excited about the results
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  • And i liked how it looked physically.
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  • I realized that my surgery hadn't made me a man
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  • And that was devastating to me.
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  • But after about a month of just crying out the lord
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  • Night after night after night,
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  • I had a clear vision of jesus christ himself
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  • Getting down on one knee.
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  • He reached his hand into the pit
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  • And he said, "do you trust me?"
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  • I took his hand.
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  • I walked away from my entire identity.
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  • You are who god created you to be
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  • And you are put on this earth for his purpose.
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  • God loves you more than you could ever even imagine.
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  • - the international outreach of cbn is simply amazing.
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  • - i think cbn ends up touching
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  • Many of the areas of the world
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  • That you as an individual cannot touch.
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  • It allows me to be a part of such an amazing body of christ.
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  • - i mean this thrilled us. we love to give.
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  • To be able to speak about an amazing community that cbn is.
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  • - for me as a musician and my identity,
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  • That was like the ultimate validation,
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  • Just literally going out and living the rockstar life.
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  • It was a darkness that started to wear on me.
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  • I realized how fake it was so without talking to anybody,
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  • I silently left hollywood with my dreams shattered
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  • Because that was the epitome.
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  • And i said, god, i need help.
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  • And at that moment i knew i needed to figure out
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  • Who jesus is.
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  • I found that acceptance i was looking for.
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  • The only thing that can fill that hole is jesus christ.
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  • - i wanted to be a boy one week.
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  • I wanted to be a girl next week.
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  • It was constantly like that.
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  • Confusion always in my mind.
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  • I always felt like i was more in tune to femininity.
  • 00:39:27.648 --> 00:39:31.018
  • - [reporter] at 16, tommy decided it was time
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  • To give in to those desires.
  • 00:39:33.187 --> 00:39:35.456
  • Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
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  • And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
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  • - [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
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  • - [reporter] despite his doubts,
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  • Tommy started taking female hormones
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  • And making plans to have a sex change operation.
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  • Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
  • 00:39:50.972 --> 00:39:54.275
  • When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
  • 00:39:54.275 --> 00:39:57.612
  • Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom,
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  • Who had recently committed her life to christ.
  • 00:40:00.882 --> 00:40:03.484
  • - i had to cry out to god
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  • Because i just knew in that moment
  • 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:06.087
  • That he was the only one that was able to help me.
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  • So i remember just telling him i'm sorry,
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  • Of the lifestyle that i was living.
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  • I just went into this deep place
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  • Of repenting and asking for forgiveness.
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  • If jesus did it for me, he could do it for you.
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  • We all need a savior.
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  • We all come from a place of brokenness.
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  • - heaven light is a little girl with a glow about her
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  • That matches her name.
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  • Her mother is devoted to her.
  • 00:40:28.142 --> 00:40:30.545
  • Yet not long ago heaven light was in constant danger
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  • Every single day.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [reporter] when heaven light was two months old,
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  • Her mother found a bump on her head.
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  • As time went by, it grew bigger.
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  • (woman speaking in foreign language)
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  • - [translator] when she plays,
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  • I make sure she does not hurt herself or bump her head.
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  • She often touches her head and says, "mommy, get this off."
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  • I realized how dangerous it was
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  • And went all over to find help.
  • 00:41:03.044 --> 00:41:06.013
  • - the plates in her skull
  • 00:41:06.013 --> 00:41:07.248
  • Didn't fuse the way they should have.
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  • So she's had fluid from her brain accumulate here
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  • Just under the skin.
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  • Left untreated, over time her brain
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  • Would eventually start to grow through that hole
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  • And she'd probably develop mental disabilities.
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  • - [translator] when i learned heaven light needed surgery,
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  • I lost all hope because i couldn't afford it.
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  • I worried for her future
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  • Because daily activities are dangerous for her.
  • 00:41:29.470 --> 00:41:33.107
  • I prayed god would make a way for us
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  • Because there was nothing i could do.
  • 00:41:35.876 --> 00:41:38.613
  • - [reporter] heaven light's mother kept searching for help
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  • And learned about arusha lutheran medical centre,
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  • A hospital supported by operation blessing.
  • 00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:47.722
  • We soon arranged and paid for heaven light's surgery.
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  • - [translator] she recovered completely.
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  • I am so relieved and at peace now.
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  • Afterward she felt her head
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  • And said "it is gone now." and smiled.
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  • She will be able to go to school safely.
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  • She can interact and play like other children.
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  • Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible.
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  • You have changed our lives
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  • We're able to have these centers around the world
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  • Where operation blessing can help people in need.
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  • We're able to distribute medical care,
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  • We're able to distribute food, disaster relief,
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  • Clean water, all because you care enough to give.
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  • That breaks out to be 65 cents a day.
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  • Which is a $1000 a year.
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  • That breaks out to $84 a month.
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  • - well coming up next a fall from "the voice"
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  • That sent this singer into a cocaine fueled addiction.
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  • Find out who he called for help
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  • And what he learned about coming clean.
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  • - i was muslim for four years.
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  • I had spells cast on me
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  • And just everything you can think of.
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  • I never got what i was looking for.
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  • There was no real power to change my life.
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  • I had tried everything.
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  • It was just came to a point
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  • Where it was like, you know what?
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  • I don't want to do this anymore.
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  • The little old lady at the church, she'd come and get me.
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  • She prayed for me.
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  • And all i know is i felt the love of god.
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  • We would read from genesis to revelation
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  • And we just went deep in the word of god.
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  • Everything about me, even my very countenance
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  • Begin to change after that point.
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  • And now i just have a desire
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  • To see them experience the loving kindness of god
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  • That i have experienced.
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  • To see that true change is possible
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  • And that what you thought that you were looking for
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  • Can only be found in christ.
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • - i just couldn't keep anything down.
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  • The nausea and the fatigue, shortness of breath.
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  • As a nurse, i knew it wasn't just a flu.
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  • My prayer was, lord, give me a diagnosis
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  • And give me a treatment plan and gimme a doctor who knows me
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  • And understands what's going on.
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  • And gordon said, "if you wanna be healed right now,"
  • 00:46:03.344 --> 00:46:07.047
  • He said, "you just put your hand on that body part."
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  • So i did. i put my hand.
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  • I said, "lord, i'm believing you that you can heal me."
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  • And at that moment gordon said-
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  • - there's someone you're saying, please say crohn's disease.
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  • And so we're saying crohn's disease for you.
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  • Let your body no longer fight against itself,
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  • But be restored now in jesus' name.
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  • - and i've had no issues since that time
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  • And i just give god the glory for that.
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  • What i know is that jesus touched me
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  • And that i've been healed.
  • 00:46:38.746 --> 00:46:45.552
  • - it was alarming how much i was vomiting.
  • 00:46:46.720 --> 00:46:49.723
  • - it was a condition called acute tubular necrosis.
  • 00:46:49.723 --> 00:46:52.493
  • - they kept saying "septic, septic,
  • 00:46:52.493 --> 00:46:54.094
  • I think she's getting septic."
  • 00:46:54.094 --> 00:46:55.262
  • - they sent this lady in to prepare us
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  • For a lifetime of dialysis
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  • And this medicine was going to destroy
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  • Every dream my girl could possibly have.
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  • - thousands and thousands,
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  • Literally around the world were praying for her.
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  • - mom runs out into the hallway and she's like,
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  • "he just told me he canceled your surgery."
  • 00:47:10.711 --> 00:47:14.581
  • He was like, "your kidney biopsy
  • 00:47:14.581 --> 00:47:16.583
  • Came back completely clean."
  • 00:47:16.583 --> 00:47:18.485
  • I stood up on my hospital bed with my iv bag,
  • 00:47:18.485 --> 00:47:21.055
  • Just, we were hugging and screaming.
  • 00:47:21.055 --> 00:47:22.890
  • It was just the biggest celebration.
  • 00:47:22.890 --> 00:47:25.726
  • - i know there were a lot of people praying for her.
  • 00:47:25.726 --> 00:47:27.528
  • I think those prayers were answered.
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  • - hi! - yay!
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  • - you did it.
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  • I am beyond thankful
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  • That i have been singing nonstop.
  • 00:47:35.235 --> 00:47:38.038
  • Prayers work. they work.
  • 00:47:38.038 --> 00:47:39.873
  • Ask people to pray for you
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  • And really believe, really believe
  • 00:47:41.241 --> 00:47:43.577
  • That anything is possible.
  • 00:47:43.577 --> 00:47:45.946
  • - i was told for so many years by my dad
  • 00:47:47.081 --> 00:47:49.917
  • That i was worthless, that i was no good.
  • 00:47:49.917 --> 00:47:52.720
  • I did not like myself very much at all.
  • 00:47:52.720 --> 00:47:54.755
  • And i started asking god to help me.
  • 00:47:55.756 --> 00:47:59.460
  • I heard this voice say to me, "can you forgive?"
  • 00:47:59.460 --> 00:48:04.298
  • And then i said, "i can forgive."
  • 00:48:04.298 --> 00:48:07.701
  • In that moment, i found everything i was looking for.
  • 00:48:07.701 --> 00:48:11.672
  • He will transform your life like you wouldn't believe.
  • 00:48:11.672 --> 00:48:17.378
  • - jack cassidy was 17 years old when he was selected
  • 00:48:18.645 --> 00:48:22.282
  • To be a contestant on "the voice".
  • 00:48:22.282 --> 00:48:24.718
  • He was in his element and convinced he could win it all.
  • 00:48:24.718 --> 00:48:28.922
  • So when jack was cut from the contest,
  • 00:48:28.922 --> 00:48:31.325
  • His dreams were dashed
  • 00:48:31.325 --> 00:48:33.127
  • And his life was soon hanging in the balance.
  • 00:48:33.127 --> 00:48:36.797
  • - i did one line that night that was too much
  • 00:48:37.965 --> 00:48:41.135
  • And i felt my whole body start to shut down and go cold
  • 00:48:41.135 --> 00:48:45.072
  • And my heart started uncontrollably pounding out my chest.
  • 00:48:45.072 --> 00:48:48.776
  • - [reporter] jack cassidy is the grandson
  • 00:48:49.910 --> 00:48:51.779
  • Of actress, shirley jones.
  • 00:48:51.779 --> 00:48:53.580
  • He grew up in a musical family with his dad patrick
  • 00:48:53.580 --> 00:48:56.550
  • And his uncles david and shaun cassidy.
  • 00:48:56.550 --> 00:49:00.087
  • - growing up in the cassidys was interesting.
  • 00:49:00.087 --> 00:49:04.124
  • It was definitely, its own unique experience.
  • 00:49:04.124 --> 00:49:06.560
  • My parents tried to keep me very, very grounded
  • 00:49:06.560 --> 00:49:08.862
  • And really instill what was important,
  • 00:49:08.862 --> 00:49:11.265
  • Which is just normal family life and love.
  • 00:49:11.265 --> 00:49:13.967
  • And mom sent me to a church camp called forest home.
  • 00:49:13.967 --> 00:49:17.671
  • She thought me and our family needed christ
  • 00:49:17.671 --> 00:49:20.974
  • 'cause we were going through some rough stuff
  • 00:49:20.974 --> 00:49:22.609
  • And she's like, hopefully my kids can find jesus.
  • 00:49:22.609 --> 00:49:25.279
  • - [reporter] that summer he encountered
  • 00:49:25.279 --> 00:49:27.147
  • The unconditional love of christ at camp
  • 00:49:27.147 --> 00:49:29.850
  • And gave his life to jesus.
  • 00:49:29.850 --> 00:49:32.419
  • - i just said yes.
  • 00:49:32.419 --> 00:49:33.854
  • But from there my prayer became a prayer for evidence.
  • 00:49:33.854 --> 00:49:36.890
  • And over the next few years i just got flooded
  • 00:49:36.890 --> 00:49:39.326
  • With those evidences.
  • 00:49:39.326 --> 00:49:40.761
  • Jesus showing up in very miraculous ways in my life
  • 00:49:40.761 --> 00:49:43.997
  • And giving me peace in the midst of chaotic circumstances.
  • 00:49:43.997 --> 00:49:48.435
  • And just definitely affirmed for me
  • 00:49:48.435 --> 00:49:49.903
  • That there was power in the name of jesus
  • 00:49:49.903 --> 00:49:52.272
  • - [reporter] in high school,
  • 00:49:52.272 --> 00:49:53.674
  • Jack was a talented singer and worship leader.
  • 00:49:53.674 --> 00:49:56.076
  • When he was 17, he was selected
  • 00:49:56.076 --> 00:49:58.245
  • To be a contestant on "the voice".
  • 00:49:58.245 --> 00:50:00.581
  • Jack was thrilled to have a platform to share jesus.
  • 00:50:00.581 --> 00:50:05.252
  • - i had never done anything in the music business before.
  • 00:50:05.252 --> 00:50:07.554
  • And you know, trying to succeed on that show
  • 00:50:07.554 --> 00:50:09.890
  • Or win that show was definitely the goal.
  • 00:50:09.890 --> 00:50:12.192
  • It was like, oh, i definitely belong here.
  • 00:50:12.192 --> 00:50:13.994
  • I was working with other artists
  • 00:50:13.994 --> 00:50:15.496
  • And working with the coaches
  • 00:50:15.496 --> 00:50:17.731
  • And it was like, this is where i fit in.
  • 00:50:17.731 --> 00:50:21.335
  • This is who god created me to be.
  • 00:50:21.335 --> 00:50:23.670
  • - [reporter] jack's time on "the voice"
  • 00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:24.938
  • Took him to the top 12,
  • 00:50:24.938 --> 00:50:26.740
  • But his dreams of winning it all were dashed
  • 00:50:26.740 --> 00:50:29.042
  • When he was voted off.
  • 00:50:29.042 --> 00:50:30.777
  • - i let that show get the better of me
  • 00:50:30.777 --> 00:50:33.547
  • And i just got caught up in that world.
  • 00:50:33.547 --> 00:50:36.416
  • So when things returned to a state of normalcy
  • 00:50:36.416 --> 00:50:39.153
  • It was a much bigger fall
  • 00:50:39.153 --> 00:50:41.522
  • And i guess i was chasing that high again
  • 00:50:42.623 --> 00:50:44.525
  • And i was allowing myself to let my christian guard down
  • 00:50:44.525 --> 00:50:48.695
  • And went to a lot of parties
  • 00:50:48.695 --> 00:50:50.731
  • And interacted with a lot of worldly type things,
  • 00:50:50.731 --> 00:50:53.867
  • Which was temporarily soothing the depression
  • 00:50:53.867 --> 00:50:56.570
  • And the fall from that show that i was experiencing.
  • 00:50:56.570 --> 00:51:00.507
  • - [reporter] at one of those parties,
  • 00:51:00.507 --> 00:51:02.075
  • Jack was introduced to cocaine.
  • 00:51:02.075 --> 00:51:04.478
  • - from the first time i tried cocaine,
  • 00:51:04.478 --> 00:51:06.547
  • I got pretty instantly hooked.
  • 00:51:06.547 --> 00:51:09.650
  • It started to become every day, all day,
  • 00:51:09.650 --> 00:51:13.053
  • And it completely destroyed my life in every aspect.
  • 00:51:14.321 --> 00:51:18.892
  • It drained my bank account completely.
  • 00:51:19.993 --> 00:51:21.828
  • It made me start to steal just to get drugs.
  • 00:51:21.828 --> 00:51:27.434
  • - [reporter] for the next year and a half,
  • 00:51:28.602 --> 00:51:30.571
  • Jack isolated himself from friends and family
  • 00:51:30.571 --> 00:51:33.507
  • As his drug addiction took over his life,
  • 00:51:33.507 --> 00:51:36.310
  • - found a new batch of drugs that was just a lot stronger.
  • 00:51:36.310 --> 00:51:39.713
  • And i did one line that night that was too much
  • 00:51:39.713 --> 00:51:43.350
  • And i felt my whole body start to shut down and go cold.
  • 00:51:44.751 --> 00:51:48.155
  • And my heart started uncontrollably pounding outta my chest
  • 00:51:48.155 --> 00:51:51.491
  • And it felt like it was right on the verge of a heart attack
  • 00:51:51.491 --> 00:51:55.329
  • And i felt like i couldn't really call the ambulance
  • 00:51:55.329 --> 00:51:59.533
  • Or get any help.
  • 00:51:59.533 --> 00:52:01.802
  • - [reporter] alone and desperate, jack remembered
  • 00:52:01.802 --> 00:52:03.937
  • The power of jesus' name he experienced earlier in life
  • 00:52:03.937 --> 00:52:07.174
  • And cried out for help.
  • 00:52:07.174 --> 00:52:08.909
  • - even though i had buried god really deep in that season,
  • 00:52:08.909 --> 00:52:12.946
  • I hit my knees in the midst of that full blown chaos
  • 00:52:12.946 --> 00:52:17.251
  • And i just cried out to him
  • 00:52:17.251 --> 00:52:18.652
  • And asked him to let me live,
  • 00:52:18.652 --> 00:52:21.655
  • To save my life in a moment of total brokenness,
  • 00:52:21.655 --> 00:52:24.725
  • Total darkness, did not deserve to be saved.
  • 00:52:24.725 --> 00:52:27.127
  • I got myself here.
  • 00:52:27.127 --> 00:52:29.162
  • I felt the spirit coming in that moment
  • 00:52:29.162 --> 00:52:30.964
  • And completely overpower the chaos
  • 00:52:30.964 --> 00:52:34.234
  • And the drugs that i'd put in my body.
  • 00:52:34.234 --> 00:52:36.069
  • And the drugs were warring against me,
  • 00:52:36.069 --> 00:52:37.804
  • Trying to make my body shut down.
  • 00:52:37.804 --> 00:52:40.274
  • But god was literally breathing life into me.
  • 00:52:40.274 --> 00:52:43.443
  • His power in my spirit, in the midst of all that
  • 00:52:43.443 --> 00:52:46.380
  • Is what was keeping me in a place of real peace
  • 00:52:46.380 --> 00:52:48.982
  • And calming my heart down
  • 00:52:48.982 --> 00:52:51.318
  • And keeping me literally alive.
  • 00:52:51.318 --> 00:52:54.855
  • - [reporter] jack realized how far he had fallen
  • 00:52:54.855 --> 00:52:57.658
  • From the calling he once had.
  • 00:52:57.658 --> 00:53:00.093
  • - after that experience, it really exposed what cocaine was.
  • 00:53:00.093 --> 00:53:04.965
  • It was not a friend, it was not a helper
  • 00:53:04.965 --> 00:53:07.267
  • To get me out of those places.
  • 00:53:07.267 --> 00:53:08.535
  • It was leading me to a place of death.
  • 00:53:08.535 --> 00:53:10.704
  • And when jesus showed up in such a radical way
  • 00:53:10.704 --> 00:53:12.839
  • In the midst of that, it really made it really real
  • 00:53:12.839 --> 00:53:16.443
  • And tangible that he was the way to life.
  • 00:53:16.443 --> 00:53:19.680
  • Jesus showed that, no, i'm lord over that
  • 00:53:19.680 --> 00:53:22.249
  • And i can be lord over all these things in your life.
  • 00:53:22.249 --> 00:53:24.851
  • So it really established this deep rooted trust in god.
  • 00:53:24.851 --> 00:53:29.389
  • - [reporter] jack has been free from drugs since 2018
  • 00:53:29.389 --> 00:53:33.060
  • And shares his deep appreciation for god's love
  • 00:53:33.060 --> 00:53:36.296
  • In his music.
  • 00:53:36.296 --> 00:53:37.998
  • ♪ jesus, i'm learning to let go ♪
  • 00:53:37.998 --> 00:53:40.701
  • ♪ and let god show me how to be me ♪
  • 00:53:40.701 --> 00:53:44.738
  • ♪ i'm learning to let go and let god ♪
  • 00:53:44.738 --> 00:53:48.742
  • ♪ show me how to be free. ♪
  • 00:53:48.742 --> 00:53:50.344
  • He is willing to meet us in whatever place that we're in.
  • 00:53:50.344 --> 00:53:53.947
  • And that varies for everyone.
  • 00:53:53.947 --> 00:53:55.949
  • For me, the darkest moments i walked through,
  • 00:53:55.949 --> 00:53:58.518
  • He wanted to meet me and redeem me in that place.
  • 00:53:58.518 --> 00:54:01.421
  • And he came with a spirit of kindness, a spirit of love
  • 00:54:01.421 --> 00:54:04.858
  • And a spirit of, i just want to help you
  • 00:54:04.858 --> 00:54:08.662
  • And he's willing to do that
  • 00:54:08.662 --> 00:54:10.964
  • In whatever scenario people walk through.
  • 00:54:10.964 --> 00:54:13.367
  • ♪ i'm letting go, let god ♪
  • 00:54:14.201 --> 00:54:17.971
  • ♪ so i can be the real me ♪
  • 00:54:17.971 --> 00:54:22.175
  • - that's an odd thing, isn't it?
  • 00:54:22.175 --> 00:54:23.744
  • We almost have to unlearn what's taught us
  • 00:54:23.744 --> 00:54:27.848
  • From the time we're small,
  • 00:54:27.848 --> 00:54:29.182
  • Which is pick yourself up, dust yourself off,
  • 00:54:29.182 --> 00:54:32.018
  • Get moving, you've got this.
  • 00:54:32.018 --> 00:54:34.488
  • But when we come to these places in our lives as adults
  • 00:54:34.488 --> 00:54:39.593
  • Where the rubber meets the road
  • 00:54:40.394 --> 00:54:42.462
  • And we are not enough, where do we go?
  • 00:54:42.462 --> 00:54:46.633
  • Where do we go?
  • 00:54:46.633 --> 00:54:47.801
  • You know, thankfully jack's family
  • 00:54:47.801 --> 00:54:50.470
  • Had invested some time
  • 00:54:50.470 --> 00:54:52.439
  • And sending him places
  • 00:54:52.439 --> 00:54:55.976
  • Where at an early time in his life
  • 00:54:55.976 --> 00:54:57.477
  • He did find out about the power of the name of jesus.
  • 00:54:57.477 --> 00:55:01.715
  • Because it really does change everything,
  • 00:55:01.715 --> 00:55:04.751
  • Really does change everything.
  • 00:55:04.751 --> 00:55:07.120
  • You know in us there is this thing
  • 00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:09.890
  • That has to continually be surrendered to the lord
  • 00:55:09.890 --> 00:55:12.659
  • That says, i can do this.
  • 00:55:12.659 --> 00:55:14.027
  • You know, let me, i can manage this.
  • 00:55:14.027 --> 00:55:16.630
  • And it's for some of us, sometimes it's a survival technique
  • 00:55:16.630 --> 00:55:20.967
  • That we wind up getting caught up in.
  • 00:55:20.967 --> 00:55:23.703
  • But for the most part, until you know
  • 00:55:23.703 --> 00:55:26.673
  • How trustworthy jesus is, beyond that,
  • 00:55:26.673 --> 00:55:30.510
  • That he has always had a plan and a purpose for your life.
  • 00:55:30.510 --> 00:55:35.582
  • And it's your choice to tap into that.
  • 00:55:36.683 --> 00:55:38.518
  • You know, as difficult a journey as this was for jack,
  • 00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:42.956
  • Really, it was a gift from god to him to come to the place
  • 00:55:44.391 --> 00:55:47.694
  • Where he had to surrender and let go of all that he knew
  • 00:55:47.694 --> 00:55:51.565
  • How to manage and control in his life
  • 00:55:51.565 --> 00:55:53.733
  • And say, jesus, i'm crying out to you.
  • 00:55:53.733 --> 00:55:58.038
  • And he was right about what he said.
  • 00:55:59.039 --> 00:56:00.941
  • You know, he didn't deserve
  • 00:56:00.941 --> 00:56:02.409
  • To have jesus do a thing for him.
  • 00:56:02.409 --> 00:56:04.845
  • I mean, his life was a mess.
  • 00:56:04.845 --> 00:56:06.880
  • He'd gotten himself into that.
  • 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:09.549
  • He'd made choices that backfired
  • 00:56:09.549 --> 00:56:12.285
  • And that really were costing him his life at that point.
  • 00:56:12.285 --> 00:56:16.356
  • You know, you can't earn the love
  • 00:56:17.390 --> 00:56:20.994
  • Or the presence or the power of god.
  • 00:56:20.994 --> 00:56:24.598
  • There's nothing you can do to earn that.
  • 00:56:24.598 --> 00:56:27.934
  • But you can call upon the name of the lord.
  • 00:56:27.934 --> 00:56:31.505
  • You can call out to him in your misery,
  • 00:56:31.505 --> 00:56:34.140
  • In your lostness, in your panic, in your sickness,
  • 00:56:34.140 --> 00:56:39.145
  • And god will be present with you.
  • 00:56:40.113 --> 00:56:42.682
  • It's who he is.
  • 00:56:43.216 --> 00:56:44.417
  • It's not about who you are.
  • 00:56:44.417 --> 00:56:46.253
  • It's not about what you've done.
  • 00:56:46.253 --> 00:56:47.821
  • It's not about having some kind of a spiritual ability
  • 00:56:47.821 --> 00:56:51.458
  • To tap into things.
  • 00:56:51.458 --> 00:56:53.927
  • He wants the real you.
  • 00:56:54.628 --> 00:56:56.596
  • He wants you just to call upon his name,
  • 00:56:56.596 --> 00:56:59.933
  • Because like jack,
  • 00:56:59.933 --> 00:57:02.035
  • You know there's power in the name of jesus.
  • 00:57:02.035 --> 00:57:05.405
  • I don't know what you're facing today.
  • 00:57:05.405 --> 00:57:07.607
  • Could be many, many things,
  • 00:57:07.607 --> 00:57:10.410
  • But the power in jesus' name never changes, never changes.
  • 00:57:11.845 --> 00:57:16.449
  • Will you call on him today to come right into the midst
  • 00:57:17.817 --> 00:57:20.153
  • Of whatever you're dealing with
  • 00:57:20.153 --> 00:57:21.621
  • And to make a difference, to give you, first of all,
  • 00:57:21.621 --> 00:57:24.491
  • Salvation, you need it.
  • 00:57:24.491 --> 00:57:26.893
  • We all do.
  • 00:57:26.893 --> 00:57:27.994
  • We're sinners in need of a savior.
  • 00:57:27.994 --> 00:57:30.664
  • Call upon the name of jesus.
  • 00:57:30.664 --> 00:57:33.333
  • Just say, jesus, come into my heart, my life.
  • 00:57:33.333 --> 00:57:36.603
  • Teach me your ways.
  • 00:57:36.603 --> 00:57:38.505
  • Forgive my sins.
  • 00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:40.907
  • Fill me with your holy spirit.
  • 00:57:40.907 --> 00:57:43.243
  • He will come.
  • 00:57:43.243 --> 00:57:44.778
  • We leave you today with these words from 1st peter 5:7.
  • 00:57:44.778 --> 00:57:48.014
  • Give all your worries and cares to god
  • 00:57:48.014 --> 00:57:50.884
  • For he cares about you.
  • 00:57:50.884 --> 00:57:53.954
  • Thanks for joining us today.
  • 00:57:53.954 --> 00:57:55.255
  • If you need prayer, call our toll free number.
  • 00:57:55.255 --> 00:57:57.157
  • There's always a friend there.
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  • God bless you.
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