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The 700 Club

September 18, 2025

September 18, 2025 | 62:0

September 18, 2025
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 | September 18, 2025 | September 18, 2025
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  • - [announcer] the following program is sponsored by cbn.
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  • - [presenter] coming up...
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  • - i saw what was about to happen.
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  • - [presenter] a boy walks into oncoming traffic,
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  • - "fisher, look right."
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  • - [presenter] and is hit by a car going 30 miles an hour.
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  • - the thought crossed my mind,
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  • "you just watched your son die right in front of you."
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  • - [presenter] he's thrown 15 feet in the air
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  • And lands on his head.
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  • - [paris] he landed in a crumple.
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  • - [presenter] how he survived the accident.
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  • - there is nobody but god that can help you at that point.
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  • - [presenter] today on "the 700 club."
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  • (thrilling music)
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  • - hi, everyone. welcome to "the 700 club."
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  • I'm andrew knox, in for gordon robertson today.
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  • People of all ages flocked to asbury university
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  • When revival broke out, an 11-year-old girl named helen
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  • And her family were among them.
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  • - the family was worshiping god
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  • When helen experienced a miracle.
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  • Abigail robertson brings the story of her amazing healing.
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  • - when the white family heard about the revival
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  • At asbury university, they canceled their weekend plans,
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  • Loaded up their rv, and drove 10 hours to kentucky
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  • To witness the move of the holy spirit for themselves.
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  • - it was. literally, it was the best night of my life.
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  • I loved it.
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  • (congregation singing)
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  • - [abigail] 11-year-old helen white,
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  • The oldest of four children,
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  • Described her experience inside the revival.
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  • - it was beautiful.
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  • It was such simple worship,
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  • But it felt so holy.
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  • I pray every night and thank the lord that i got to go.
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  • - [abigail] while there, helen says
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  • God miraculously healed her from celiac disease
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  • And eosinophilic esophagitis or eoe.
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  • - this one guy, he prayed for me of my eoe,
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  • And i just felt this tingling in my hands and my feet
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  • And my whole body, and i actually was healed.
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  • - [abigail] helen's mom, christina, joined in the prayer
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  • For her daughter's healing.
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  • - i'm just praying quietly and (indistinct) watching her
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  • Interact with this prayer minister
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  • And she's saying, "my hands are tingling.
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  • Okay, now i feel it to my elbows."
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  • And we would thank god and keep praying, and then she said,
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  • "my whole body feels like it's electric."
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  • I don't have to know what was happening in that moment
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  • 'cause i know god was there.
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  • I know that was a touch from the spirit
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  • And i know that he is moving.
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  • - [abigail] the first miracle god performed
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  • Involved getting the family and friends past the lines.
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  • Then some of them inside the chapel.
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  • As they pulled their rv into the small town of wilmore,
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  • Signs greeted them with a message to turn around
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  • Because the revival was at capacity.
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  • - we just started praying and said,
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  • "lord, you've gotten us this far.
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  • If we need to watch the livestream, we will.
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  • But would you just make a way?
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  • Would you make a way for us to come and encounter you
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  • And to be in your presence?"
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  • - [abigail] four of them set out on foot
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  • And were led to a door for students and children.
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  • - we walked up and they immediately were like,
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  • "is there any party of four here?"
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  • And we were right there and we walked right in.
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  • It was one of those moments where jesus was saying like,
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  • "let the little children come to me,"
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  • Like, "let the children come to me."
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  • And i kind of knew right then,
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  • "i think we're here for my girls to be here."
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  • - [abigail] they stayed in the chapel for five hours
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  • Soaking in the presence of the holy spirit,
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  • And helen even had an opportunity
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  • To read her favorite verse aloud, psalm 91.
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  • - "i will say of the lord he's my refuge
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  • And my fortress, my god in whom i trust."
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  • - what have you taken from this experience?
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  • - i mean, i've always known the lord my whole life,
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  • But really i feel like i met him at asbury
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  • And really devoted my life to him here,
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  • And so i feel like i definitely took that home.
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  • And the hunger and boldness, that too.
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  • And the healing.
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  • - [abigail] christina believes the asbury revival
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  • Is just the beginning.
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  • - there is a purification that's happening
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  • And a holiness that's coming.
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  • I think that this younger generation
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  • Has a huge part to play.
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  • I can't be the same after i've encountered
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  • A genuine touch from the lord.
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  • And i know that that's true for the other people
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  • Who are in the room, and honestly just for everywhere
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  • That the lord is moving.
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  • - [abigail] all of christina's kids say they felt
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  • God's power and presence.
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  • - i think the holy spirit was definitely there and it's...
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  • Yeah, it was really cool.
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  • - [abigail] even the ones who didn't make it inside.
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  • - it just felt like god was in that place.
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  • Even he didn't have to be in that exact room,
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  • But he was also sharing his love outside of the room.
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  • - christina tells cbn news
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  • She has a sense of expectancy without expectation
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  • That god is going to keep spreading this revival
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  • Around the country.
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  • While the whites are glad they went to kentucky,
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  • They believe revival can break out anywhere.
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  • They're hoping and expecting it continues to spread
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  • To more college campuses,
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  • Like right here at regent university.
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  • Reporting from virginia, abigail robertson, cbn news.
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  • - well, that revival at asbury was an exciting time,
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  • And it's so great to hear about the experience from children
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  • Who were there and we're celebrating helen's healing.
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  • Loved that sign on the highway, "revival over capacity,"
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  • Which is kind of funny because revival still continues.
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  • The holy spirit is still alive and moving
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  • And wants to do things in your life
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  • Whether you are at asbury or not.
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  • Well, we will be back with more
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  • Of "the 700 club" right after this.
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  • Please stay with us.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - [narrator] life. it's meant to be lived fully.
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  • Jesus said it. "i came to give you life."
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  • Life to the fullest.
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  • Life in your family. life in your finances.
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  • Life in your body, mind, and spirit.
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  • Life in your every day.
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  • At cbn.com, we're taking what jesus said seriously.
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  • We're here to help you discover life.
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  • Life, live it fully.
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  • - in the last five minutes of my labor
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  • And delivery was when i noticed something was wrong.
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  • They put her on my chest, and right away they took her away
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  • And she wasn't crying and she looked sort of gray.
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  • I didn't know if she was going to live or die.
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  • Then they came back in the room and said
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  • She's had a brain injury.
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  • That's when i really started praying,
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  • "god, please, please let her mind be okay."
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  • Turned on the tv and just randomly flipping the channels,
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  • Here's cbn.
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  • It really lifted me up.
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  • It gave me that little bit of hope i needed at the time.
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  • After that, i really felt like things started
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  • Moving even more.
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  • She went from being behind to advanced for her age.
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  • I could never deny the power of prayer.
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  • I would always just say, "pray and pray more
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  • And just keep trusting god.
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  • His word is true."
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  • He saw me through all the bad things i thought would happen
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  • To my daughter, and he healed her.
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  • Psalms 34:4, "i sought the lord and he answered me.
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  • He delivered me from all of my fears."
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  • - giving to the 700 club is giving to the world.
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  • 700 club are my feet. they're walking it there.
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  • All i'm doing is helping write the check.
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  • - it's just like planting a seed in the ground
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  • And the water comes and the sun hits it, and it grows.
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  • - you can trust cbn.
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  • You are saving souls through your giving.
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • - the only way i can describe it
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  • Is i was supernaturally delivered
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  • From a nine-year cocaine addiction.
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  • I loved jesus, i was a christian. but i was deeply in pain.
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  • I was physically addicted, i was mentally addicted.
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  • I was all of those things.
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  • I knew how bad off i was, and what i felt him saying was,
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  • "i created you for more than this, my girl."
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  • God filled those holes with a beautiful message
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  • To say, "you are enough in me."
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  • (dramatic music)
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  • - it was so intense with the sinus pressure
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  • That it was to the point where my jaws were even hurting
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  • From coughing so intensely.
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  • It was a battle. it really was.
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  • He kept saying to me, "this too will pass."
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  • So i just stand up and say, "i'm waiting on you, lord."
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  • I just kept confessing, "god is my healer. he is my healer."
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  • They were to the section where they were talking
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  • About people receiving healings.
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  • They were going to pray for anyone who was sick.
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  • - there's someone, you heard the report
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  • About sinus conditions and you're saying,
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  • "please say sinus conditions."
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  • So for you, i'm saying sinus condition.
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  • All of that inflammation,
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  • Everything that seems to be swollen
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  • And closed up, open now in jesus' name.
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  • - i jumped up and my spirit just kind of leaped
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  • And i said, "that's for me, lord. that's it."
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  • You think maybe he's not mindful of those things,
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  • But he's mindful of everything.
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  • He's just faithful and he is our healer.
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  • (upbeat music)
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  • - climbing steep hills and navigating rocky paths,
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  • Hiking in the holy land can be challenging.
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  • The tough terrain has made it nearly impossible
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  • For the disabled to enjoy all the sites israel has to offer.
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  • But that's changing thanks to a ministry called
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  • Luke 5 adventures.
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  • Paul strand has the story.
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  • (animation whooshing)
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  • - israel's many things to many people.
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  • Well, one thing it's not really
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  • Is all that handicapped-accessible?
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  • What with the rough ground, the slippery rocks,
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  • The big steep slopes everywhere?
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  • But there's a group right now working on making sure
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  • That the handicapped can go anywhere
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  • In this land that anyone else can.
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  • Dr. john delancey leads tours combining israel's archeology,
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  • History, and the bible.
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  • But he couldn't include tour-goers
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  • With physical disabilities.
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  • - we offer multiple israel trips a year,
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  • But no accessibility for people who can't walk.
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  • - [paul] then delancey discovered luke 5 adventures,
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  • A ministry grown to nine us chapters that helped those
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  • With disabilities experience the rugged outdoors
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  • Using joelette chairs like this one.
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  • - we just completed our 800th hike in the last three years.
  • 00:10:30.173 --> 00:10:33.977
  • - [paul] cbn news hit the trail with them in ohio in 2021
  • 00:10:33.977 --> 00:10:37.380
  • And more recently, israel as they partnered
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  • With delancey's ministry.
  • 00:10:39.616 --> 00:10:41.051
  • - i thought right away this was an answer to prayer.
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  • God orchestrated this.
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  • This opens the whole new door for really going anywhere.
  • 00:10:45.188 --> 00:10:49.793
  • - [paul] delancey and luke 5 adventures tested that idea
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  • In israel with victoria odom.
  • 00:10:52.195 --> 00:10:54.531
  • She's fought her way back from traumatic brain injury
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  • And total paralysis...
  • 00:10:57.067 --> 00:10:58.635
  • - i've relearned step by step.
  • 00:10:58.635 --> 00:11:01.104
  • - [paul] though not enough to tackle certain terrain.
  • 00:11:01.104 --> 00:11:03.540
  • - [victoria] i can never walk on slippery rocks
  • 00:11:03.540 --> 00:11:06.476
  • Or climb up trails.
  • 00:11:06.476 --> 00:11:07.944
  • - and for people like victoria it's not even a dream
  • 00:11:07.944 --> 00:11:11.715
  • To go from here over there because it's not possible.
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  • But what we're doing makes the impossible possible.
  • 00:11:14.985 --> 00:11:18.288
  • - [paul] whitney blackston came along
  • 00:11:18.288 --> 00:11:19.556
  • To help odom, since blackston had witnessed
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  • How luke 5 adventures helped transform the life
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  • Of her daughter, emerson.
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  • - she's completely blind and hearing impaired, non-verbal.
  • 00:11:25.629 --> 00:11:28.765
  • - [paul] on hikes in the joelette,
  • 00:11:28.765 --> 00:11:30.066
  • Emerson came to know god's wonders in nature.
  • 00:11:30.066 --> 00:11:32.669
  • - we could tell her what a tree is. she's blind.
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  • She really doesn't have a concept of what that is.
  • 00:11:34.571 --> 00:11:37.073
  • But now she can get out there and feel the tree
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  • And actually feel the the leaves and the wind in her face.
  • 00:11:39.976 --> 00:11:43.647
  • - [paul] or for the first time, touch water in the wild
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  • At a place emerson revisited in fall of 2022.
  • 00:11:46.449 --> 00:11:49.419
  • - and as i was telling her that jesus is her rock,
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  • She said, "jesus, i want."
  • 00:11:53.023 --> 00:11:56.026
  • And so we baptized her that day.
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  • - [paul] beginning their israel tour,
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  • Blackston and the others aiding odom
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  • Came upon an immediate challenge.
  • 00:12:00.964 --> 00:12:02.899
  • - that first day we stepped off
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  • And there's this steep, deep cavern
  • 00:12:04.234 --> 00:12:07.637
  • That you couldn't even see the bottom.
  • 00:12:07.637 --> 00:12:08.939
  • Victoria wanted to go, so we tackled it.
  • 00:12:08.939 --> 00:12:10.841
  • - just to see that, i go, "this is amazing, a god thing.
  • 00:12:10.841 --> 00:12:15.212
  • And victoria, wow, she's experiencing exactly what we are."
  • 00:12:15.212 --> 00:12:19.316
  • - masada was a really nice challenge as well.
  • 00:12:19.316 --> 00:12:21.852
  • - [paul] masada, the steep mountain where jewish rebels
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  • Made their stand against roman legions
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  • Almost 2000 years ago.
  • 00:12:26.156 --> 00:12:27.724
  • - [pastor schwieger] to relentlessly get uphill
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  • For a long, long, long time.
  • 00:12:29.292 --> 00:12:31.228
  • - it's probably 5 or 600 feet in elevation,
  • 00:12:31.228 --> 00:12:35.298
  • And they conquered it just amazingly.
  • 00:12:35.298 --> 00:12:38.635
  • - it was incredible
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  • And will go down as one of the most amazing memories.
  • 00:12:40.103 --> 00:12:44.975
  • - talk about the uniqueness of this ministry.
  • 00:12:46.209 --> 00:12:47.611
  • I don't think any other type of wheelchair apparatus
  • 00:12:47.611 --> 00:12:50.881
  • Ever made it up the roman ramp there at masada.
  • 00:12:50.881 --> 00:12:54.417
  • - [paul] other days, the group raced odom and the joelette
  • 00:12:54.417 --> 00:12:56.419
  • Like a chariot in a place real chariots once raced.
  • 00:12:56.419 --> 00:12:59.356
  • And they took her on a pre-dawn hike with headlamps.
  • 00:12:59.356 --> 00:13:02.158
  • - [victoria] it just opened everything.
  • 00:13:02.158 --> 00:13:05.128
  • I was like, "i can do this. everyone can do this."
  • 00:13:05.128 --> 00:13:07.764
  • - don't dismiss your dreams.
  • 00:13:08.565 --> 00:13:09.900
  • - [paul] now delancey is ready to make
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  • Dreams come true for others.
  • 00:13:11.134 --> 00:13:12.802
  • - to offer trips to israel on a regular basis
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  • With this amazing one-wheel wheelchair
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  • - [paul] delancey's ministry hopes to buy at least
  • 00:13:20.744 --> 00:13:22.412
  • One joelette and keep it in israel for his tours and others.
  • 00:13:22.412 --> 00:13:26.149
  • And luke 5 adventures founder points out 99.99%
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  • Of god's creation is outside
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  • Of where most severely disabled people can reach it.
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  • - [delancey] and that's not acceptable.
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  • - so everyone should be able to do this.
  • 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:40.797
  • - and now they can get their chance.
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  • The bottom line of victoria's adventure
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  • Here in the holy land is never tell yourself,
  • 00:13:44.267 --> 00:13:46.469
  • No matter what shape you're in,
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  • That something's impossible for you.
  • 00:13:47.804 --> 00:13:50.507
  • Paul strand, cbn news, reporting from jerusalem.
  • 00:13:50.507 --> 00:13:53.677
  • - thank you, paul. people helping people.
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  • Inspiring. it does your heart good, doesn't it?
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  • I don't know how many of us consider the challenges
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  • And how much of the world is off limits to those folks
  • 00:14:00.016 --> 00:14:02.619
  • Who have physical limitations and disabilities.
  • 00:14:02.619 --> 00:14:05.288
  • But that's changing thanks to luke 5 ministries,
  • 00:14:05.288 --> 00:14:07.457
  • And i'm sure you've maybe figured out
  • 00:14:07.457 --> 00:14:09.225
  • Luke 5 has the story of the paralytic lowered
  • 00:14:09.225 --> 00:14:11.795
  • Through the roof by the four friends who desperately wanted
  • 00:14:11.795 --> 00:14:14.698
  • That paralytic to see jesus.
  • 00:14:14.698 --> 00:14:16.833
  • The effort is underway with luke 5 ministries as well.
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  • Terry? - what a great idea.
  • 00:14:19.936 --> 00:14:21.504
  • Well, up next, sexually abused at the age of seven,
  • 00:14:21.504 --> 00:14:25.875
  • This rodeo star couldn't shake the ghosts of his past.
  • 00:14:25.875 --> 00:14:29.279
  • His body took a beating on the circuit,
  • 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:31.381
  • And so he turned to drugs.
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  • See what happened next after this.
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  • (thrilling music)
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  • - i just turned, an excruciating pain
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  • Came in my knee on the inside
  • 00:14:47.163 --> 00:14:50.900
  • And it was like a jabbing knife.
  • 00:14:50.900 --> 00:14:53.203
  • I made it to the doctor. found out it was a torn meniscus.
  • 00:14:53.203 --> 00:14:56.906
  • So having the knee injury,
  • 00:14:56.906 --> 00:14:59.709
  • Having to slow down was depressing.
  • 00:14:59.709 --> 00:15:02.979
  • I was like, "lord, heal this."
  • 00:15:02.979 --> 00:15:05.281
  • Sitting on the couch, "the 700 club" came on,
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  • And that's when i saw gordon on.
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  • - we say out loud to it,
  • 00:15:11.988 --> 00:15:14.324
  • "be healed and be made whole.
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  • May all pain leave me in jesus' name.
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  • I receive it now."
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  • Now what you couldn't do before, do now.
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  • - [interviewee] by faith, i'm going to do this.
  • 00:15:29.672 --> 00:15:31.441
  • By faith, i'm going to walk.
  • 00:15:31.441 --> 00:15:33.209
  • And i was walking. it wasn't hurting.
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  • I know that god healed me, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - i wanted to be a boy one week,
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  • I wanted to be a girl next week.
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  • It was constantly like that. confusion always in my mind.
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  • I always felt like i was more in tune to femininity.
  • 00:16:49.819 --> 00:16:53.156
  • - [narrator] at 16, tommy decided it was time
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  • To give in to those desires.
  • 00:16:55.358 --> 00:16:57.627
  • Now addicted to meth, he dropped out of school
  • 00:16:57.627 --> 00:17:00.497
  • And began frequenting gay chat rooms and nightclubs.
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  • - [tommy] i had an internal knowing that it was just wrong.
  • 00:17:03.299 --> 00:17:06.169
  • - [narrator] 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.
  • 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:13.143
  • Tommy was doing drugs with his brother and sister
  • 00:17:13.143 --> 00:17:16.446
  • When he felt an oppressive, paralyzing fear.
  • 00:17:16.446 --> 00:17:19.782
  • Terrified, tommy left the house and went to his mom,
  • 00:17:19.782 --> 00:17:23.052
  • Who had recently committed her life to christ.
  • 00:17:23.052 --> 00:17:25.622
  • - i had to cry out to god
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  • Because i just knew in that moment
  • 00:17:26.789 --> 00:17:28.158
  • That he was the only one that was able to help me.
  • 00:17:28.158 --> 00:17:29.826
  • So i remember just telling him,
  • 00:17:29.826 --> 00:17:31.327
  • "i'm sorry of the lifestyle that i was living."
  • 00:17:31.327 --> 00:17:33.663
  • I just went into this deep place of repenting
  • 00:17:33.663 --> 00:17:36.366
  • 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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  • (energizing music)
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  • (energizing music continues)
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  • - the international outreach of cbn is simply amazing.
  • 00:18:45.068 --> 00:18:49.005
  • - i think cbn ends up touching many of the areas
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  • Of the world that you as an individual cannot touch.
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  • - it allows me to be a part
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  • Of such an amazing body of christ.
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  • - i mean, this thrilled us. we love to give.
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  • - it's a blessing to be able to be a part of this,
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  • To be able to speak about an amazing community that cbn is.
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  • (inspirational music)
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  • - andy was molested at the age of seven.
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  • What's worse, when he told his parents,
  • 00:19:19.269 --> 00:19:21.237
  • They refused to believe him.
  • 00:19:21.237 --> 00:19:22.739
  • And that trauma caused his life to spin out of control.
  • 00:19:22.739 --> 00:19:26.509
  • And for years, he was haunted by flashbacks from his past.
  • 00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:31.214
  • - [narrator] andy bronkhorst put in many miles
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  • And years behind the wheel of a semi,
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  • Alone with his thoughts and memories.
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  • Many were good, especially those
  • 00:19:40.089 --> 00:19:42.425
  • From his 17 years in the rodeo
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  • And the people there who touched his life.
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  • - they cared about you.
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  • If you got hurt, they came up and they consoled you.
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  • And you knew from town to town
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  • When you were going from rodeo to rodeo,
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  • And the same people were there, and so they became a family.
  • 00:19:58.941 --> 00:20:02.679
  • - [narrator] the memories of his own family
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  • Told a different story.
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  • His father, also a truck driver, was always on the road.
  • 00:20:06.215 --> 00:20:10.086
  • His mom, an alcoholic,
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  • Was constantly bringing people home to party.
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  • - i felt hurt. i felt abandoned.
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  • - [narrator] of all the memories,
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  • There was one that haunted him.
  • 00:20:20.997 --> 00:20:23.132
  • The time his uncle sexually abused him when andy was seven.
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  • Adding to this shame, his parents didn't believe him.
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  • - it crossed me.
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  • Yeah, it crossed me.
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  • Because i was telling the truth
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  • And i would never make that up.
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  • And i felt like i had to gain control.
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  • I felt like i had to do something to fix the situation.
  • 00:20:48.491 --> 00:20:52.061
  • But at that age, i didn't know what to do.
  • 00:20:52.061 --> 00:20:54.263
  • I just thought i could...
  • 00:20:54.263 --> 00:20:55.398
  • If you can't beat them, join them.
  • 00:20:55.398 --> 00:20:57.633
  • - [narrator] so at 10 years old, andy started drinking.
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  • By then, he was a rising star in junior rodeo.
  • 00:21:00.937 --> 00:21:04.440
  • There he found his family and a reason for living.
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  • He worked hard to be the best.
  • 00:21:08.378 --> 00:21:10.580
  • - i didn't feel like i was anybody already.
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  • I felt like i needed to prove myself.
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  • I felt like i wasn't good enough.
  • 00:21:17.487 --> 00:21:19.489
  • - [narrator] while andy enjoyed the attention and success,
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  • The years of bull-riding took a heavy toll on his body.
  • 00:21:22.425 --> 00:21:26.295
  • He started abusing painkillers and, eventually, meth.
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  • The addiction forced andy to drop out of rodeo
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  • At 22 years old.
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  • - i felt like, why was i even here?
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  • And i just kept building on that.
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  • And the more negative that happened,
  • 00:21:43.980 --> 00:21:46.182
  • The more negative i thought about myself,
  • 00:21:46.182 --> 00:21:47.850
  • And the more negative i thought
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  • That was going to happen in the future.
  • 00:21:49.752 --> 00:21:52.422
  • - [narrator] by the time he quit, he had divorced twice
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  • And had four children.
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  • To pay child support, he became a truck driver.
  • 00:21:57.326 --> 00:22:00.663
  • The road gave andy an escape from life.
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  • - and since i had so many bad relationships,
  • 00:22:04.434 --> 00:22:06.536
  • Nobody wanted to be with me.
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  • So i was alone, you know?
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  • And so that's how i led my life.
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  • I was always a rambler.
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  • I always had to get out of town. i always left.
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  • - [narrator] andy would spend 14 lonely years on the road,
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  • In and out of rehab.
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  • Then at 36, he lost his commercial driver's license
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  • Because of addiction.
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  • Out of work, he joined a notorious biker gang.
  • 00:22:29.959 --> 00:22:33.362
  • Still, the outlaw in him couldn't chase
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  • The haunting visions of abuse away.
  • 00:22:36.032 --> 00:22:39.535
  • - and it just got worse from...
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  • For every time i thought about it,
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  • I would just put more drugs and alcohol into my system,
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  • Or do something worse that would...
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  • I mean, even if i had to go to jail
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  • To get somebody's attention, i did it.
  • 00:22:49.412 --> 00:22:51.547
  • - [narrator] he became so volatile,
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  • Even the gang had enough and kicked him out.
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  • Worse, his kid's sister told him to stay away
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  • From her home and her family.
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  • - yeah, everything at that point,
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  • I just tried to tear it down.
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  • I didn't want to be alive,
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  • And there was points where i thought that i needed
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  • To probably take my life too.
  • 00:23:08.531 --> 00:23:10.666
  • - [narrator] two years later, in september of 2012,
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  • Andy was living out of his pickup truck in a campground
  • 00:23:15.104 --> 00:23:18.374
  • In washington state, out of money and having withdrawals.
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  • One day while walking along a creek,
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  • He remembered something from his rodeo days,
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  • The messages he heard at cowboy church about jesus.
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  • It wasn't until now he realized jesus was his only hope.
  • 00:23:32.755 --> 00:23:37.827
  • - i laid in the water to cool it off,
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  • And i just started sobbing.
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  • (water running)
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  • And i asked god,
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  • I said, "lord, i need you right now.
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  • I can't do this alone.
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  • If you help me out, lord, i promise i'll change my life."
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  • (water running)
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  • I felt like somebody was standing there with me,
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  • And i like had this...
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  • Like somebody came and hugged me. i felt it.
  • 00:24:05.988 --> 00:24:09.692
  • - [narrator] that same day, his sister called,
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  • Inviting him to stay with her family.
  • 00:24:11.928 --> 00:24:14.797
  • While there, andy started watching christian television
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  • And prayed with pastor robert morris
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  • To accept jesus into his life.
  • 00:24:20.570 --> 00:24:23.272
  • - i started hearing that still small voice inside me.
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  • And when i found out that that was the holy spirit,
  • 00:24:26.008 --> 00:24:29.512
  • Boy, i let it rip.
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  • And i just talked to that little still small voice,
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  • And i just knew, i just had this feeling
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  • That came over me that everything was going to be okay.
  • 00:24:41.591 --> 00:24:45.261
  • - [narrator] andy went back into aa,
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  • And with god's help conquered his addictions.
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  • He also met and married trina.
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  • As andy grew in christ,
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  • He was able to forgive those who hurt him.
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  • - the lord told me that that wasn't my fault.
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  • He also made me...
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  • He has taken those visions away.
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  • I don't have the the visions anymore,
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  • And i feel like i've been heard.
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  • - [narrator] today, as he works on the relationships
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  • With his children and grandchildren,
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  • Andy leans on his faith in jesus christ.
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  • - i feel blessed. i feel redeemed.
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  • I feel loved.
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  • I feel honored to be a husband, a father, a grandfather.
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  • And i don't have the emptiness anymore.
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  • (soft dramatic music)
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  • - well, i see that smile on andy's face,
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  • With all that pain and turmoil from his past
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  • And the sexual abuse he went through,
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  • And betrayal of his parents as he told them
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  • And they didn't believe him, and he carried that.
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  • So many of us hurt for so long
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  • And we carry this hurt around.
  • 00:25:49.392 --> 00:25:51.627
  • And there andy was, he said to the lord,
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  • In an admission to god, "i need you. i can't do this alone."
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  • A simple statement, but profound.
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  • It was his heart cry,
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  • "lord, i can't do this alone and i need you."
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  • Look, you were not designed
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  • To live life apart from your creator,
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  • Apart from your heavenly father,
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  • Apart from jesus who loves you.
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  • As he said that prayer,
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  • He learned to hear god's voice.
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  • I don't think there was anything special
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  • About andy's pursuit.
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  • He didn't go to seminary.
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  • He wasn't involved in all these bible studies.
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  • He just cried out and said, "lord, i need you.
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  • I can't do this alone."
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  • Maybe that's where you are today.
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  • And we see jesus in the bible, and he says,
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  • "those who come to me, all who come to me,
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  • I will never drive away.
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  • All you who are burdened
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  • And feel heavy burdens and are weary,
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  • All of you come to me," jesus said,
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  • "and i will give you rest."
  • 00:26:59.829 --> 00:27:03.132
  • And he goes on to say that rest is rest for your soul.
  • 00:27:03.132 --> 00:27:06.602
  • And jesus said, "i'm humble and gentle in heart."
  • 00:27:07.903 --> 00:27:12.608
  • Jesus understands that the way we cope with our pain
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  • In this world will not assist us, it will not help us.
  • 00:27:17.713 --> 00:27:22.284
  • It will leave us unsatisfied and in worse condition.
  • 00:27:22.284 --> 00:27:25.354
  • Because as we have pain, as we have trauma,
  • 00:27:25.354 --> 00:27:28.290
  • We may try alcohol, we may try drugs.
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  • Whatever we look to fill the void
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  • And take our mind off what we're dealing with,
  • 00:27:33.662 --> 00:27:36.332
  • It actually gets us in a cycle of more pain and more shame,
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  • And then we seek more of this to cope
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  • And it just exhausts us and leaves us empty.
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  • If you find yourself there today, i have good news.
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  • The same jesus who helped andy and has helped me
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  • And has helped so many find hope and salvation
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  • And meaning and identity in life
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  • Desires you to reach out to him today.
  • 00:28:00.790 --> 00:28:04.894
  • So what i'd like to do is pray with you
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  • To start your journey.
  • 00:28:07.730 --> 00:28:09.698
  • It's just a first step, but it's a crucial one.
  • 00:28:09.698 --> 00:28:12.101
  • It's acknowledging before god your need and how you're hurt,
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  • And how you need his loving embrace.
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  • So pray with me now.
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  • If you're feeling that tug,
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  • That's the holy spirit of god speaking to you,
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  • That he desires relationship with you.
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  • Nothing can separate you from his love. pray with me now.
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  • Lord jesus, i come before you and you know all that i carry.
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  • You know what i've been a victim of.
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  • You know the decisions i've made.
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  • You know how i've made my circumstances worse
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  • As i've sought to cope.
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  • Lord god, this day, today,
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  • I come before the throne and i say, "lord, i need you.
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  • Jesus, i don't just come before you
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  • So my circumstances change.
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  • I desire you and my life.
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  • I want to give my soul, my very being to you,
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  • Because i realize i was created
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  • In the image of god for a purpose.
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  • And it's not to be an addict, it's to live for you.
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  • So lord jesus, today i repent of my sins
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  • And i commit my life to you.
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  • And now, lord, i ask you to lead me and guide me
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  • By the holy spirit."
  • 00:29:26.575 --> 00:29:28.577
  • And lord, for those who just prayed with me,
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  • I do pray your holy spirit acts and moves
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  • In a loving, gentle, compassionate, and powerful way
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  • As you reveal your love to them.
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  • In jesus' name i pray, amen.
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  • Now, as i said, this is just the start of a journey
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  • For you and we'd like to help you.
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  • We have something we want to offer you.
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  • It's called "a new day."
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  • It will help you understand the prayer you've prayed
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  • And what's next, and remind you
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  • And teach you about god's love for you.
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  • Give us a call, 1-800-700-7000,
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  • You can go to cbn.com/anewday,
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  • And we will rush this out to you.
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  • I'm so glad you've made that decision
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  • To have jesus in your life.
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  • God bless you. terry?
  • 00:30:09.218 --> 00:30:10.619
  • - well, coming up later, their business was tanking
  • 00:30:11.854 --> 00:30:14.390
  • And a variable mortgage was taking them down with it.
  • 00:30:14.390 --> 00:30:18.060
  • So how did this couple get out of debt?
  • 00:30:18.060 --> 00:30:21.030
  • Well, stay tuned to find out.
  • 00:30:21.030 --> 00:30:23.265
  • And then also ahead, he stepped into oncoming traffic,
  • 00:30:23.265 --> 00:30:27.236
  • Was hit by a car, and sent flying into the air.
  • 00:30:27.236 --> 00:30:30.739
  • His horrified mother witnessed it all.
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  • See what she does to save her son.
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  • Plus, andrew and i are going to be praying for you.
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  • That's later on today's "700 club."
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  • (thrilling music)
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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 i had
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  • As a child of feeling like a boy.
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  • I began to transition. 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 to the lord
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  • Night after night after night, i had a clear vision
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  • Of jesus christ himself getting down on one knee.
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  • He reached his hand into the pit and he said,
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  • "do you trust me?"
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  • I took his hand. 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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  • "i came to give you life."
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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 give me a doctor
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  • Who knows me and understands what's going on."
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  • And gordon said, "if you want to be healed right now,"
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  • 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,
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  • "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.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • (gentle music)
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  • (gentle music continues)
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  • (gentle music continues)
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  • (gentle music continues)
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  • - rent, two car payments, daily living expenses,
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  • And a whopper of a mortgage on a land purchase.
  • 00:34:53.902 --> 00:34:57.172
  • That's what larry and stephanie larson were juggling
  • 00:34:57.172 --> 00:34:59.575
  • When their business began to tank.
  • 00:34:59.575 --> 00:35:01.843
  • Here's what they did to wipe out all their debt
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  • And to build more business than ever.
  • 00:35:04.413 --> 00:35:07.416
  • - [narrator] larry and stephanie larson lived
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  • A comfortable life in southern california
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  • The first few years of their marriage,
  • 00:35:12.221 --> 00:35:14.189
  • Larry was an aerospace engineer with a dream
  • 00:35:14.189 --> 00:35:16.692
  • Of branching out and having his own business,
  • 00:35:16.692 --> 00:35:19.161
  • And soon he founded coaction consulting.
  • 00:35:19.161 --> 00:35:22.297
  • - i remember just sensing the lord say,
  • 00:35:22.297 --> 00:35:24.967
  • "this is what you should do."
  • 00:35:24.967 --> 00:35:26.702
  • We've done ventilators, consumer electronics
  • 00:35:26.702 --> 00:35:30.239
  • Like iphone accessories,
  • 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:32.374
  • Connected devices that connect to the cloud.
  • 00:35:32.374 --> 00:35:35.944
  • - [narrator] then, several of larry's partners bowed out
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  • And business dwindled,
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  • Slashing the larson's once six-figure income.
  • 00:35:40.048 --> 00:35:43.518
  • Stephanie continued to get work as a hairstylist,
  • 00:35:43.518 --> 00:35:46.255
  • Which allowed her to build into the couple's savings.
  • 00:35:46.255 --> 00:35:48.824
  • Yet the bills kept coming.
  • 00:35:48.824 --> 00:35:50.459
  • Rent, two car payments, daily living expenses,
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  • And the biggest one, a variable monthly mortgage
  • 00:35:53.729 --> 00:35:56.465
  • On land they bought to build a home.
  • 00:35:56.465 --> 00:35:58.934
  • - when i saw what i was putting into principle
  • 00:35:58.934 --> 00:36:02.104
  • Versus what i was paying an interest,
  • 00:36:02.104 --> 00:36:04.773
  • I got sick to my stomach and i felt like,
  • 00:36:04.773 --> 00:36:07.175
  • "oh my gosh, what if we never pay this off?"
  • 00:36:07.175 --> 00:36:10.479
  • - [narrator] later when one of larry's projects failed,
  • 00:36:10.479 --> 00:36:13.181
  • He had no income to report on his taxes.
  • 00:36:13.181 --> 00:36:15.984
  • He had to use his company credit card
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  • To keep the business going.
  • 00:36:17.686 --> 00:36:19.521
  • Still, in the midst of the uncertainty,
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  • The couple tithed from stephanie's income.
  • 00:36:21.823 --> 00:36:24.526
  • - i actually loved doing it.
  • 00:36:24.526 --> 00:36:26.228
  • I loved tithing. i loved being able to give to the lord.
  • 00:36:26.228 --> 00:36:30.232
  • It's a form of worship to him.
  • 00:36:30.232 --> 00:36:32.367
  • - that was just a way in which i saw that blessing
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  • Could come back, and i wanted blessing in my life
  • 00:36:35.370 --> 00:36:39.207
  • - [narrator] as they tithed, stephanie's business prospered
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  • And they saw god provide their basic needs.
  • 00:36:41.877 --> 00:36:44.579
  • Yet larry still questioned why his company was struggling,
  • 00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:47.649
  • And the couple was in a financial slump.
  • 00:36:47.649 --> 00:36:49.951
  • - i just got to the point where i'm like,
  • 00:36:49.951 --> 00:36:51.586
  • "you know? i'm not going to realize my dreams in life."
  • 00:36:51.586 --> 00:36:55.691
  • Like, "they're just not going to happen."
  • 00:36:55.691 --> 00:36:58.193
  • - [narrator] he began reading and studying the bible
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  • More in depth.
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  • Larry says, as his mind was being renewed,
  • 00:37:01.263 --> 00:37:03.832
  • He figured out what his problem was.
  • 00:37:03.832 --> 00:37:06.501
  • - i was trying to get god's blessing by being obedient
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  • Versus receiving god's blessing by promise.
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  • He was always there.
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  • Even in moments that i didn't experience peace or joy,
  • 00:37:16.411 --> 00:37:21.216
  • It was there, it was accessible.
  • 00:37:21.216 --> 00:37:23.352
  • It was like a bank account that i wasn't drawing on.
  • 00:37:23.352 --> 00:37:26.555
  • And i began to just rely on god's promise.
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  • "no, this situation's not going to mess things up
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  • In the business.
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  • He's going to take care of this situation."
  • 00:37:33.428 --> 00:37:35.731
  • - [narrator] meanwhile, stephanie was going
  • 00:37:35.731 --> 00:37:37.332
  • Through some serious esophagus issues.
  • 00:37:37.332 --> 00:37:40.335
  • It was during that time that she discovered "the 700 club"
  • 00:37:40.335 --> 00:37:43.538
  • And started watching continually.
  • 00:37:43.538 --> 00:37:46.041
  • - i couldn't find any other ministry that was putting out
  • 00:37:46.041 --> 00:37:49.878
  • Hope, hope testimonies where something impossible happened.
  • 00:37:49.878 --> 00:37:54.950
  • I remember one day i came across a video
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  • Through youtube of cbn.
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  • Terry said, "there's someone out there right now.
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  • You have been having an issue with your stomach
  • 00:38:03.825 --> 00:38:06.895
  • And the acids in your stomach.
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  • Something isn't right there
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  • And it's caused a lot of problems for you.
  • 00:38:11.533 --> 00:38:13.034
  • The doctors don't really know what it is,
  • 00:38:13.034 --> 00:38:15.404
  • But the lord's healing you
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  • And you're going to be able to eat again."
  • 00:38:17.105 --> 00:38:18.673
  • I said, "i'm claiming this."
  • 00:38:18.673 --> 00:38:20.208
  • I haven't had one issue ever since.
  • 00:38:20.208 --> 00:38:24.179
  • - [narrator] the couple became cbn partners.
  • 00:38:24.179 --> 00:38:26.815
  • - i felt so blessed by them that i wanted to give to them.
  • 00:38:26.815 --> 00:38:29.451
  • I remember i called their prayer hotline
  • 00:38:29.451 --> 00:38:32.020
  • And they asked me,
  • 00:38:32.020 --> 00:38:33.455
  • "oh, like do you want to become, you know, a partner?"
  • 00:38:33.455 --> 00:38:37.325
  • And i was like, "yeah."
  • 00:38:37.325 --> 00:38:38.827
  • I was like, "why hasn't anyone asked me this before?"
  • 00:38:38.827 --> 00:38:42.397
  • You know?
  • 00:38:42.397 --> 00:38:43.832
  • - cbn's ministry really renewed her mind and got her...
  • 00:38:43.832 --> 00:38:47.436
  • I watched it happen, got her in an atmosphere of faith
  • 00:38:47.436 --> 00:38:50.906
  • That i really believe released god's healing over her.
  • 00:38:50.906 --> 00:38:55.377
  • I feel like it washed over to me too.
  • 00:38:55.377 --> 00:38:58.647
  • As she was having more faith,
  • 00:38:58.647 --> 00:39:00.048
  • I was starting to have more faith.
  • 00:39:00.048 --> 00:39:02.017
  • - [narrator] stephanie's healing led them both
  • 00:39:02.017 --> 00:39:03.852
  • To surrender control,
  • 00:39:03.852 --> 00:39:05.420
  • Putting no faith in their savings account
  • 00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:07.355
  • Or earning potential and totally trusting god
  • 00:39:07.355 --> 00:39:09.658
  • With their future and their finances, especially their debt.
  • 00:39:09.658 --> 00:39:13.728
  • - the lord said, "you're going to keep tithing,
  • 00:39:13.728 --> 00:39:15.530
  • You're going to keep giving, but now i want you
  • 00:39:15.530 --> 00:39:18.133
  • To become aggressive about paying off your debt.
  • 00:39:18.133 --> 00:39:21.069
  • And then as you're doing that, i'm going to help you."
  • 00:39:21.069 --> 00:39:24.773
  • I immediately believed.
  • 00:39:24.773 --> 00:39:26.708
  • I just put everything toward debt.
  • 00:39:26.708 --> 00:39:29.311
  • And then within three to four months
  • 00:39:29.311 --> 00:39:31.780
  • Of making that commitment,
  • 00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:33.114
  • I somehow had 12,000 extra dollars
  • 00:39:33.114 --> 00:39:38.186
  • That i honestly can't tell you where it came from.
  • 00:39:39.421 --> 00:39:42.390
  • I'm like, "god is in this." you know?
  • 00:39:42.390 --> 00:39:45.160
  • - [narrator] it wasn't long before the mortgage
  • 00:39:45.160 --> 00:39:46.728
  • On the larson's land and all of their other debt
  • 00:39:46.728 --> 00:39:48.964
  • Was completely wiped out.
  • 00:39:48.964 --> 00:39:50.932
  • Larry got a new contract and their savings was replenished.
  • 00:39:50.932 --> 00:39:54.469
  • They moved to tennessee,
  • 00:39:54.469 --> 00:39:55.871
  • And today larry is getting more business than ever,
  • 00:39:55.871 --> 00:39:58.373
  • Stephanie doesn't have to work unless she wants to,
  • 00:39:58.373 --> 00:40:00.876
  • And now the couple has the home they always wanted.
  • 00:40:00.876 --> 00:40:03.979
  • - now it's almost like
  • 00:40:03.979 --> 00:40:06.281
  • Some of my dreams have happened so quickly,
  • 00:40:06.281 --> 00:40:09.117
  • It's caused another problem where it's like,
  • 00:40:09.117 --> 00:40:11.419
  • "oh great, what should i dream about next?"
  • 00:40:11.419 --> 00:40:14.356
  • - the more that we have stepped out in faith
  • 00:40:14.356 --> 00:40:17.759
  • And risked with the lord,
  • 00:40:17.759 --> 00:40:19.995
  • The more he has shown himself faithful.
  • 00:40:19.995 --> 00:40:24.132
  • If you want to get out of debt,
  • 00:40:24.132 --> 00:40:25.433
  • The way to get out faster is to give.
  • 00:40:25.433 --> 00:40:29.337
  • Anything that you're giving,
  • 00:40:29.337 --> 00:40:30.839
  • You are giving him an opportunity to bless it
  • 00:40:30.839 --> 00:40:34.209
  • And multiply it and use it for his kingdom.
  • 00:40:34.209 --> 00:40:36.878
  • (inspirational music)
  • 00:40:36.878 --> 00:40:39.648
  • - one of the things that this couple talked about
  • 00:40:39.648 --> 00:40:42.017
  • That's so significant is that, in following god,
  • 00:40:42.017 --> 00:40:45.554
  • In seeking after him to find his ways, they let go.
  • 00:40:45.554 --> 00:40:49.624
  • When we let god be in charge of our lives,
  • 00:40:50.792 --> 00:40:53.094
  • It's so much richer, so much more satisfying,
  • 00:40:53.094 --> 00:40:56.131
  • So much more fulfilling.
  • 00:40:56.131 --> 00:40:57.899
  • So through truth, biblical truth that they learned,
  • 00:40:57.899 --> 00:41:01.503
  • They began to change the way that they manage their money.
  • 00:41:01.503 --> 00:41:04.873
  • In giving following god's word,
  • 00:41:04.873 --> 00:41:07.909
  • They began to meet the needs of other people.
  • 00:41:07.909 --> 00:41:09.844
  • God puts us in family for a reason.
  • 00:41:09.844 --> 00:41:12.881
  • We just want to say we'd love to have you be part
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  • Of the cbn family because our goal is to stop controlling,
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  • Let god reach out, meet the needs of others,
  • 00:41:19.321 --> 00:41:22.591
  • And draw closer to jesus christ.
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  • Let's do that together,
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  • Because we can change the world when we do that.
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  • If you join the 700 club, it's 65 cents a day, $20 a month.
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  • That's a general club membership.
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  • We have lots of club levels you can join at.
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  • You see them there.
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  • That top line is the general membership.
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  • Maybe you're already a 700 club member,
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  • Why don't you go up to 700 club gold?
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  • You can't imagine the difference it makes.
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  • Or you could become a 1000 club member at $84 a month.
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  • You can see we have a 2500 club level, a founder's level.
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  • Ask god what he'd have you do and then pick up your phone,
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  • - all right, well up next, severe brain damage.
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  • That's the doctor's greatest fear when a boy hit by a car
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  • Is admitted to the emergency room.
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  • See how the results of his brain scan astound everyone
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  • When we come back.
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  • And terry and i are going to be praying for you
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  • We want you to join us, please, so stay with us.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - [announcer] we get it. your life is crazy right now.
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  • - i started drinking alcohol
  • 00:44:39.788 --> 00:44:41.756
  • Under the pretense of "i'm celebrating."
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  • I wasn't celebrating, i was medicating myself.
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  • I felt completely defeated and broken.
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  • I was weak in my relationship with god
  • 00:44:51.399 --> 00:44:53.601
  • And i was just a weak human being.
  • 00:44:53.601 --> 00:44:56.304
  • And god got further and further away.
  • 00:44:56.304 --> 00:44:58.540
  • When you feel his presence and you walk away from it,
  • 00:44:59.874 --> 00:45:02.577
  • There's guilt, there's shame,
  • 00:45:02.577 --> 00:45:04.412
  • But there's also sort of a sense
  • 00:45:04.412 --> 00:45:06.214
  • That it'll never happen for you again.
  • 00:45:06.214 --> 00:45:09.350
  • My daughter, who was 12 at the time,
  • 00:45:09.350 --> 00:45:11.686
  • She said, "daddy, i want you to be happy.
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  • I want you to know jesus."
  • 00:45:14.289 --> 00:45:15.723
  • (soft dramatic music)
  • 00:45:15.723 --> 00:45:17.625
  • God started to reveal himself to me again,
  • 00:45:17.625 --> 00:45:20.728
  • And he started to melt away the ice that was my heart.
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  • I'm trying to talk people into this life
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  • That is second to none.
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  • This life of feeling christ's presence in your life.
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - [interpreter] when i was a young girl,
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  • I went to fetch water for my mother.
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  • The weight of the water made my neck hurt so bad
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  • I just poured the water out
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  • And went home with an empty container.
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  • The stream is very far, and i go four times a day.
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  • I get home exhausted.
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  • I feel terrible drinking that water
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  • And giving it to my family.
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  • We often get intense stomachache and vomit.
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  • When my son was three, he got very sick from the water.
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  • Thank you operation blessing for giving us a new life.
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  • When you came, we were all so grateful
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  • We could not hold back our joy.
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  • I've never had this kind of water before.
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  • Every time i drink it, i feel good and healthy.
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  • With the well this close,
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  • Even my daughter can easily fetch water.
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  • We are healthy and we are happy.
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  • Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  • It really frustrated me because my quality of life
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  • 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 and exhale,
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  • 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,
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  • (gentle music)
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  • - "i just watched my son die right in front of me."
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  • That's what paris fisher thought when her son was hit
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  • By a car on the highway.
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  • Panic ensued, and this mom went into overdrive
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  • Pleading for her son's life.
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  • - [narrator] august 8th, 2021.
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  • The routh family were on their way to their annual vacation,
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  • Camping in myrtle beach, south carolina.
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  • As always, they prayed before getting on the road.
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  • - and we would just pray for travel (indistinct),
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  • That we would be a bold witness
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  • For everybody that would come in contact
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  • While we're out and on vacation and everything else.
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  • - [narrator] almost two hours into the trip,
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  • They stopped for gas in a bite to eat.
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  • While there, the father, mike,
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  • And their oldest daughter stayed at the gas station
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  • As the mom, paris, started across the busy intersection
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  • With their younger children.
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  • After crossing the first two lanes safely,
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  • Paris and calais stopped when they saw oncoming traffic.
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  • However, fisher didn't look
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  • And stepped in front of an oncoming car.
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  • (car tires screeching)
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  • - i saw what was about to happen and i said,
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  • "fisher, look right."
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  • And he was thrown to the air.
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  • He landed on his head. he landed in a crumple.
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  • I thought to myself, the thought crossed my mind,
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  • "you just watched your son die right in front of you."
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  • - [narrator] frantic, paris called 911.
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  • By now, mike and rebecca had run to their side.
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  • - you go immediately thinking the worst.
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  • (thrilling music)
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  • What would he look like? would i be able to talk to him?
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  • He was anguishing in pain and crying,
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  • And it's a time that you realize there is nobody
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  • But god that can help you at that point.
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  • - i was just praying and begging god for his life.
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  • (thrilling music)
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  • And just saying, "please don't take him from me."
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  • - [narrator] the paramedics arrived within minutes.
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  • After stabilizing fisher,
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  • They put him along with his mom in an ambulance
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  • And headed toward mcleod regional medical center,
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  • A trauma 1 facility.
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  • By now, friends, family, and their church
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  • Had been told to pray for fisher.
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  • - i wanted to let him know
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  • We had many people praying for him.
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  • (soft dramatic music)
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  • And then the other thing that was really on my heart,
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  • I said, "fisher, i love you."
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  • - [narrator] in the er, doctors' biggest fear
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  • Was that he'd suffered severe brain damage.
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  • - [paris] we waited for those test results to come back,
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  • And that was anguishing time to wait.
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  • - [narrator] finally, the results.
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  • Other than a mild concussion, bruises,
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  • And road rash, fisher would be fine.
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  • - there was no broken bones, no skull fracture,
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  • No brain bleed.
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  • There was no problems shown on the ct scan.
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  • Just never say thank you enough to god
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  • That we're able to all be together
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  • And that we still have fisher with us.
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  • - i just started thinking about the goodness
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  • Of god in our life.
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  • All the glory, all the credit, everything was to him.
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  • - [narrator] seven hours later, fisher was released.
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  • Although bandaged up, in some pain, and a little foggy,
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  • He and the family were able to continue their vacation.
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  • After a couple of days' rest,
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  • Fisher was enjoying all the activities he loved.
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  • He even went swimming.
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  • - i realized how much worse it could have been
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  • And what i was protected from,
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  • And i was thankful to god that i was alive
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  • And that i was able to go on vacation still.
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  • - as i looked at him, i just kept going back
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  • To the goodness of god
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  • In that there was so many things that had to be aligned
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  • For him to be able to be standing there like he was.
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  • - [narrator] since then, fisher has completely healed
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  • And has no residual effects from the concussion.
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  • Police reports would later conclude the car was going
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  • Almost 30 miles an hour
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  • And he was thrown 15 feet in the air
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  • Before landing on his head.
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  • The doctors said it was a miracle he survived.
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  • - prayer definitely had something to do
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  • With me just being okay.
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  • If you pray and are sincere about what you are praying,
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  • You will receive an answer.
  • 00:51:57.058 --> 00:51:58.759
  • - we put god in a box, and if we'll trust him
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  • And we'll put our life in his hands fully, he will bless us.
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  • - we can never say thank you enough for god
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  • To heal our son, to give us this miracle.
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  • God is faithful. he is trustworthy.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • - what an answer to prayer.
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  • I think of that worship song that we sing,
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  • "his goodness is running after me."
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  • His goodness ran after that family
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  • And it's running after you as well.
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  • I don't know what your needs are today,
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  • But we love to take some time on this program
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  • To just ask god to meet you right where you're at,
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  • To speak into that place of need.
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  • I want you to know you don't have to have
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  • Your condition mentioned to receive healing from the lord.
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  • When we pray at this time all together,
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  • We're coming before the throne of god, coming to our father,
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  • And we're asking him to meet us at our point of need
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  • To touch us with the power that only he has to give.
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  • And so pray expectantly with us today.
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  • But first here's another answer to prayer.
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  • For about three weeks, wayne,
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  • Who lives in seneca, south carolina,
  • 00:53:05.059 --> 00:53:06.827
  • Experienced intermittent severe pain in his neck
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  • Accompanied by a clogging in his left ear.
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  • One day, his walk through his neighborhood
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  • With his dog was cut short by severe neck pain
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  • And he had to stop at a park bench.
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  • Wayne arrived back home in time to watch "the 700 club"
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  • And, andrew, you gave a word of knowledge
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  • About someone with severe neck pain.
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  • You described his symptoms perfectly.
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  • Wayne received the word, began praising god,
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  • And was suddenly pain-free.
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  • As he turned his head back and forth as you asked him to do
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  • Or asked the person to do,
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  • He felt a small popping sound in his left ear
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  • And it immediately opened.
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  • So both conditions answered like that.
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  • - well, wayne, thank you for letting us know.
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  • We celebrate with you.
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  • We're humbled to play even a small part
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  • In communicating what god is doing.
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  • Here's another. terry, this one really struck me.
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  • Esther of rockledge, florida,
  • 00:53:54.909 --> 00:53:56.577
  • Was sick with severe stomach pain.
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  • She was lying down with her right hand on her stomach.
  • 00:53:58.646 --> 00:54:01.415
  • "the 700 club" was on and she heard terry say,
  • 00:54:01.415 --> 00:54:03.784
  • "there's a lady by the name of esther.
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  • She has her right hand on her stomach.
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  • God is healing her."
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  • Esther jumped up from the couch and said, "that's me."
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  • She started praising god and speaking in the holy spirit.
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  • All her stomach pain left.
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  • Praise the lord. we want to pray for you now.
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  • We want to pray for you now. please join with us.
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  • Heavenly father, we come before you in the name of jesus.
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  • And there is a massive army now
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  • Watching this show and praying together.
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  • A massive army.
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  • And we raise our sword of the spirit
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  • And we combat the enemy now in jesus' name.
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  • You tell us to wear the armor,
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  • So we have our sword of the spirit,
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  • Which is the word of god.
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  • And lord, you tell us you are the god of the impossible.
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  • You make things possible.
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  • And lord, we believe today for healing for people.
  • 00:54:57.671 --> 00:55:01.208
  • In the name of jesus.
  • 00:55:01.208 --> 00:55:03.344
  • Where it looks bleak, where it looks dark,
  • 00:55:03.344 --> 00:55:06.080
  • Where the medical diagnosis is grim,
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  • Father god, we have hope today that you're on the throne,
  • 00:55:08.115 --> 00:55:12.286
  • You listen, you care, and you will act and move
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  • In the name of jesus.
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  • Thank you, father.
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  • - yeah, there's someone, you have a condition
  • 00:55:19.794 --> 00:55:21.095
  • With your hair follicles.
  • 00:55:21.095 --> 00:55:22.663
  • It's not alopecia, though. i don't really know what it is.
  • 00:55:22.663 --> 00:55:25.599
  • But your hair is falling out and become very thin.
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  • God's healing that condition for you.
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  • You're just going to notice that it's starting to fill in,
  • 00:55:31.439 --> 00:55:34.875
  • To grow again, and that condition is gone.
  • 00:55:34.875 --> 00:55:37.945
  • Someone else, you have all of the glands in your neck
  • 00:55:37.945 --> 00:55:41.348
  • And down into your shoulders are swollen.
  • 00:55:41.348 --> 00:55:44.318
  • Some kind of infection that you're dealing with.
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  • God's just healing that for you right now.
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  • You're going to feel that warmth come in,
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  • You can turn your neck again without it hurting
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  • Because of that swelling.
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  • You're healed in jesus' name.
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  • - father god, i speak the words of isaiah,
  • 00:55:56.564 --> 00:55:58.899
  • That no weapon formed against families,
  • 00:55:58.899 --> 00:56:02.269
  • Against people in this audience shall prosper.
  • 00:56:02.269 --> 00:56:04.705
  • No weapon formed by the enemy shall prosper.
  • 00:56:04.705 --> 00:56:08.008
  • And church and people watching, it's time to rise up.
  • 00:56:09.310 --> 00:56:12.680
  • It's time to rise up and pray
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  • And have bold confidence in your god.
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  • Thank you, jesus. there's someone watching.
  • 00:56:18.385 --> 00:56:20.087
  • I think you're next to your husband who's in a hospital bed
  • 00:56:20.087 --> 00:56:21.856
  • And you're looking at him and you're almost detecting
  • 00:56:21.856 --> 00:56:23.958
  • Or feeling like he's a mangled mess.
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  • God's going to restore him. - [terry] thank you, jesus.
  • 00:56:25.493 --> 00:56:27.194
  • - in the name of jesus, he hears your cry.
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  • He's a compassionate god
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  • And you're going to see a mighty work
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  • In your husband's life and body in jesus' name.
  • 00:56:33.033 --> 00:56:35.970
  • - very young couple, you have two young children,
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  • And you are facing a financial crisis.
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  • Believe god.
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  • Give what you're able to, but trust him, let go,
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  • Stop trying to control it,
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  • And just receive his provision for you.
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  • He is jehovah jireh, the lord your provider.
  • 00:56:51.218 --> 00:56:54.121
  • - someone with a stabbing, stabbing pain in your lower back.
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  • It's debilitating. you're just unable to be mobile.
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  • And jesus is healing you now.
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  • You've been praying earnestly for healing,
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  • And he's healing you now.
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  • Someone else has an issue, when they're bleeding,
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  • The bleeding just doesn't stop
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  • And it goes on and on and on,
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  • And you're being healed of that condition.
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  • And someone else is crying out
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  • That they're just not holy enough to pray.
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  • They're not good enough to participate in prayer
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  • Or receive a touch from god.
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  • And the lord wants to point you to the cross
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  • Where jesus sacrificed himself on your behalf.
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  • He is worthy. he is worthy.
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  • And we can participate in his love and his kingdom
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  • Because of his sacrifice and resurrection.
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  • Thank you, jesus, for hope in you.
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  • It's in jesus' name we pray. amen.
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  • If you've experienced a miracle, we want to hear from you.
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  • You know that 1-800-700-7000 is the number to call
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  • And let us know.
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  • Or if you need prayer, call that number.
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  • Here words from jeremiah,
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  • "behold, i am the lord, the god of all flesh.
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  • Is there anything too hard for me?"
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  • God bless.
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  • (uplifting music)
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