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Jonathan Pokluda - Your Enemy Is Real

March 12, 2026 | 27:29

Jonathan Pokluda - Your Enemy Is Real
The author of “Your Story Has A Villain” shares his personal journey through scripture to properly understand the spiritual forces warring among us.
#Enemy #Satan #Devil #Lies #Deception #Temptation #SpiritualWarfare #PositiveThoughts #NegativeThoughts #VoiceofGod #Truth #JamesRobison #BettyRobison #JonathanPokluda

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Life Today with James Robison | Jonathan Pokluda - Your Enemy Is Real | March 12, 2026
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  • Male announcer: the following program is sponsored by friends
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  • Of life outreach international and the friends
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  • And partners of tbn.
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  • Announcer: your story has a villain, and you need to prepare
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  • For spiritual warfare.
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  • Jonathan pokluda: maybe getting laid off, maybe a breakup, maybe
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  • A sickness, maybe a death of someone, you know, that car
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  • Wreck or that bad news comes and what do we do?
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  • We got our shield up, what do we do?
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  • We go, "oh no," put our shield down, and then he comes full
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  • Force, boom boom boom boom, shooting you from every angle
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  • With the lies with the deception, the distraction.
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  • Announcer: next.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • James robinson: you know it's a joy to welcome you to our show.
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  • I'm grinning because i've learned how to pronounce a
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  • Czechoslovakian name.
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  • I can't say czechoslovakia, but pokluda, jonathan pokluda, is
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  • That right?
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  • Jonathan: you nailed it.
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  • James: that's a miracle.
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  • Jonathan: you got it so good.
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  • James: see, miracles never cease.
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  • "your story has a villain," boy oh boy.
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  • "identify spiritual warfare and learn how to defeat the
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  • Deceiver," the liar, the divider, the destroyer, the
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  • Father of death, and we can, can't we, jonathan?
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  • Jonathan: we absolutely can.
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  • Greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world.
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  • James: i'm telling you.
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  • The stage is set in my opinion for the greatest awakening
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  • In history.
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  • Okay, i want you to tell us what you're doing.
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  • You have a great church in waco.
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  • You have a great ministry.
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  • I want everyone not only to be able to get this book, and
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  • Matter of fact, if you just help us give somebody a drink of
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  • Water and you ask for it, we'll send it to you 'cause we wanna
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  • Bless you.
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  • But jonathan, tell us what you want us to hear today.
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  • Jonathan: yes, one, i just wanna thank you guys for having
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  • Me here.
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  • This is amazing.
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  • I know there are rulers of nations that have sat in this
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  • Chair, and so i'm humbled to be here with both of you.
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  • I was watching you backstage.
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  • You remind me so much of my amazing wife too, and just so
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  • Delightful to sit here in front of you guys.
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  • I moved, our family moved to waco six years ago.
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  • And i don't have a charismatic background, a
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  • Pentecostal background.
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  • Really in coming to the faith, i didn't think much of the holy
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  • Spirit or even the supernatural, as embarrassing that as that is,
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  • You know, they say father, son, and holy bible.
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  • I was just kinda, i took the bible and i was just learning it
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  • And i wanted to know everything the word of god said.
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  • And when you would get to the demons, that would kinda, ah,
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  • That was something was happening there.
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  • I don't really know much about that.
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  • And six years ago we moved to waco and i was preaching.
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  • I was like, there's a stronghold here.
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  • There's a unique spiritual battle being fought here, and i
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  • Could feel it.
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  • I could tell it in my time with the lord.
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  • James: you got a religious university that's a good
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  • Stronghold for the enemy.
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  • Jonathan: there was a spirit of religion there, and i felt it
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  • Upon me, and i kept saying that in sermons and people would say,
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  • "what do you mean by that, pastor?
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  • What do you mean?"
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  • And i said i don't know.
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  • And so that sent me on a three year research assignment where i
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  • Just took everything in the scripture that it said about
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  • Spiritual warfare, and i'm, you know, i don't claim to be the
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  • Smartest guy, and a lot of times the holy spirit will teach me
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  • Something before i can teach anybody else.
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  • And so i just sat there and i said i wanna really
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  • Understand this.
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  • I wanna understand everything god has told us about this and
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  • You see right there the enemy comes to steal, kill, and
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  • Destroy but jesus says, "i've come so that they might have
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  • Life and have it to the fullest."
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  • And i thought, you know, i want the abundant life, the full life
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  • That jesus came here to offer us and i understand that my story
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  • Has a villain.
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  • There's an enemy out there or enemies who hate me and they
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  • Hate my children and they hate my family and they hate my
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  • Marriage and they hate our ministry.
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  • And so what does it look like for us to defend ourselves
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  • Against them?
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  • And so as i began to write that down as the holy spirit would
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  • Download that to me through the word of god and i would put pen
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  • To paper, this book, "your story has a villain" was born.
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  • James: and don't you think it's really important for people to
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  • Realize the enemy is a deceiver, but the enemy has a voice.
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  • And in the spiritual realm it's like right now we're sitting in
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  • A studio.
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  • This studio is full of hundreds of voices from many different
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  • Channels, and you can tune a channel and hear those voices.
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  • Well, there are two major voices.
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  • There's the voice of life and the voice of death.
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  • There's the voice of truth and the voice of deception, and they
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  • Both communicate and you tune in.
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  • And the enemy is a master at capturing people's attention and
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  • Capturing their ears and speaking words of deception.
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  • One of the most powerful things i learned about spiritual
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  • Warfare is all your thoughts are not your own.
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  • They are put there by a deceiver or by the voice of truth, and
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  • You can recognize them and receive what they offer and the
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  • Enemy that deceives gives division, destruction, death.
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  • He is the father not only of lies but of death.
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  • Jonathan: it says, "we demolish all arguments and take every
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  • Thought captive and make them obedient to christ."
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  • And so as you put on the spiritual armor, there's a
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  • Reason that we start with the belt of truth, the breastplate
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  • Of righteousness, the feet fitted with the readiness of the
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  • Gospel, the helmet of salvation and the shield of faith which
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  • Extinguishes the fiery darts of the enemy, and the sword of the
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  • Spirit, which is the word of god, and we never stop praying.
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  • I think prayer is the key that opens the chest so that we can
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  • Put on the armor.
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  • But i wanna go for a second to this shield of faith because i
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  • Think there's something really fascinating that happens here in
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  • The word of god.
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  • I believe god is telling us something.
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  • So paul writes this to the church in ephesus, and he's
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  • Probably chained to a roman soldier and using this as an
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  • Illustration of what it looks like to walk in the full
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  • Spiritual armor.
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  • James: he says that shield will quench the fiery darts.
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  • Would those fiery darts not be fiery words of deception?
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  • Jonathan: that's right.
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  • The lies that the enemy tells us he's a liar.
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  • He's constantly trying to deceive us.
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  • And so he says the solution that's gonna protect us from the
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  • Enemy's attacks is our faith, our belief in god.
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  • Like you said, tuning into that voice 'cause you got two voices,
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  • You got competing voices, but tuning into, okay, lord, i wanna
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  • Listen to you and when my, you know, if my kids are lost in a
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  • Mall or on the beach or anywhere, you know, and i'm
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  • Like, "weston, weston," and they, you know, someone's
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  • Saying, "hey, look at this, hey, come here, hey little boy."
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  • Like, "weston, listen to the voice of the father."
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  • So i want him to tune in to the voice of god.
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  • And so this is my faith.
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  • Now this, it's interesting paul says that to the church in
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  • Ephesus, but then peter, peter in 1 peter 5 says, "your enemy
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  • The devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone
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  • To devour, resist him, standing firm in the faith."
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  • Here's that word again, faith is our protection from
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  • Satan's attack.
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  • Now, if it was just paul and just peter, that would be
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  • Interesting, but then in luke 22 you have jesus, and jesus says
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  • To peter, he says, "peter, satan has asked me to sift you like
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  • Wheat," to which i would be like, "just say no.
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  • Just tell him no, jesus.
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  • Just say no, make like an eighties drug campaign and just
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  • Say no," you know, but he doesn't.
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  • He says, "so i will pray for you that your faith will not fail."
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  • Now we see that word again three times.
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  • There's something to this idea that our trusting in the father
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  • Is our protection from the enemy's lies, from our
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  • Protection from the enemy's attacks, so i really believe
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  • That he wants us, and you guys know this, he wants us to put
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  • Our shield down.
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  • That's what you know, and then he does that through
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  • Discouragement through circumstances, maybe getting
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  • Laid off, maybe a breakup, maybe a sickness, maybe a death of
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  • Someone, and what happens when that--.
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  • James: he uses deception, but he also uses deception of
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  • Distraction that take you away and the distraction can be a
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  • Magnificent attraction.
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  • It can even be something that god made that is in fact
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  • Beautiful, but it is not to be an unhealthy attraction that
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  • Takes us away from the ability to hear the father and to shield
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  • The darts of the enemy.
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  • Jonathan: that's right.
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  • James: excuse me.
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  • Jonathan: you know, no, it's perfect, and you know, that car
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  • Wreck or that bad news comes and what do we do?
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  • We got our shield up and what do we do?
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  • We go, "oh no.
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  • Oh no."
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  • We put our shield down and then he comes full force, boom boom
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  • Boom boom, shooting you from every angle with the lies with
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  • The deception, the distraction, and you know one thing that i
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  • See in the younger generation right now, the deconstruction,
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  • You know, they're just out there like, "what do i believe about
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  • God, you know, i'm not sure.
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  • I'm spiritual but not religious" and really trying to look at
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  • Every tiktok and instagram reel trying to figure out their new
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  • Faith, you know, some new spirituality.
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  • And i think in those moments we have to go back to, okay, what
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  • Is true?
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  • What's the truth that i can stand on?
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  • Jesus says, "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • No one gets to the father except through me."
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  • And so we found the cornerstone.
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  • We found the strong foundation.
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  • We go back to the reality that god loved us so much that he
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  • Gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish
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  • But have eternal life, and i have to preach that to myself
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  • Every single day, returning to the gospel and just the love of
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  • God through his son.
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  • Betty robinson: i think one thing i've come to realize
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  • Through years, a lot of years, 81 years of growing and when we
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  • Came right before my 19th birthday, kept coming to know
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  • Jesus because of james's testimony.
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  • And just realizing because i grew up in the baptist church i
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  • Tried to be good all the time but i did that because i was
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  • Afraid of god.
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  • I didn't realize after i got saved i really had an armor i
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  • Could put on and wear.
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  • I read it in the bible, but i didn't think that was for
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  • Me necessarily.
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  • But when i realized that god gave us a defense, him, his
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  • Armor to wear and put on, and we didn't have to allow the enemy
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  • To come in and a lot of those darts that he puts that are from
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  • The inside out like i was so fearful.
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  • A lot of things somebody around me might not know that.
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  • I was intimidated.
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  • Jonathan: i saw in your book that you talked about that.
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  • Betty: yeah, i was intimidated, you know, and so it wasn't
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  • Necessary material things that people would say, "oh, she's
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  • Being attacked."
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  • I knew about them though, but until i realized that we have a
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  • Deliverer and that's jesus christ and that i can stand
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  • Against the enemy, yes, he will bring those thoughts of
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  • Fear again.
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  • But i now know how to battle him and i know how to stand and that
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  • Makes a big difference.
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  • Jonathan: you don't have to be afraid.
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  • You do have to be aware.
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  • That's what i would just say to our viewers, you don't have to
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  • Be afraid.
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  • Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world, but you
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  • Do have to be aware that there is a spiritual battle all
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  • Around you.
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  • You have a villain.
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  • You have an enemy that seeks to--he wants to hinder your
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  • Relationship with jesus and he wants to push you to isolation.
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  • He wants to keep you from church.
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  • He wants to keep you from serving.
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  • He wants you to think that your neighbor is your enemy or your
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  • Boss or your coworker.
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  • No, no, no, our battle is not a flesh and blood.
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  • It's against spiritual beings.
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  • These are ancient, brilliant beings who have studied your
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  • Family line for thousands of years, and they, you know,
  • 00:11:54.737 --> 00:11:59.341
  • They're crafty.
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  • James: yes, they are, but you do not have to be deceived by them.
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  • If you know the word, you know his word, his word reveals the
  • 00:12:03.712 --> 00:12:08.150
  • Lies and the liar, and i'm telling you, the beautiful thing
  • 00:12:08.150 --> 00:12:12.988
  • Is, is coming to hear the father's voice so clearly that
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  • You know he never leaves you.
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  • He is, and you can hear him.
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  • I honestly believe that we can develop a relationship with the
  • 00:12:20.863 --> 00:12:24.400
  • Father that it is very conversational, and i don't want
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  • People to think that i'm exaggerating or making it up,
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  • But i'm telling you, i hear his whisper, i hear him talk, i hear
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  • Him sometimes speak very forcefully.
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  • I always hear him speak with indescribable love and the
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  • Deepest compassion, not only for me but that compassion to flow
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  • Through me toward others, and he's put it in me.
  • 00:12:48.791 --> 00:12:52.595
  • And i believe that he directs my thoughts, he directs my steps,
  • 00:12:52.595 --> 00:12:56.866
  • He directs and redirects my desires, my attractions
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  • From distractions.
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  • Attraction to what he wants.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • Jonathan: it does.
  • 00:13:06.342 --> 00:13:07.710
  • I mean, he's always speaking, and i think he wants us to
  • 00:13:07.710 --> 00:13:10.779
  • Hear him.
  • 00:13:10.779 --> 00:13:12.114
  • He wants to be heard more than we desire to hear him.
  • 00:13:12.114 --> 00:13:15.517
  • And i wanna go back to something i said early on.
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  • I'm so thankful for a church i got saved here in dallas at a
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  • Church and i'm so thankful for the ways that they taught me the
  • 00:13:21.724 --> 00:13:25.928
  • Word of god and to esteem the word of god.
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  • And i'm sure it was my hardheadedness that was just
  • 00:13:28.497 --> 00:13:31.333
  • Missing the okay but the spirit of god wants to speak to you, he
  • 00:13:31.333 --> 00:13:34.670
  • Wants to illuminate the things of god through the word of god
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  • And the people of god.
  • 00:13:37.273 --> 00:13:39.808
  • And i love that relationship that i believe marks your life
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  • Is you are a man who walks with jesus listening to the father.
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  • What is it you want from, you know, where do you want me
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  • To go?
  • 00:13:52.388 --> 00:13:53.722
  • What does faithfulness look like?
  • 00:13:53.722 --> 00:13:55.057
  • And i think it's so important for our viewers to understand
  • 00:13:55.057 --> 00:13:58.327
  • That you can't always determine obedience by the outcome or even
  • 00:13:58.327 --> 00:14:01.964
  • The preconceived outcome.
  • 00:14:01.964 --> 00:14:04.133
  • Sometimes when god wants to fight a giant, he raises up a
  • 00:14:04.133 --> 00:14:07.436
  • Boy with a slingshot.
  • 00:14:07.436 --> 00:14:08.804
  • He doesn't do things always in a way that makes the most sense to
  • 00:14:08.804 --> 00:14:12.007
  • Us in our logical pragmatism.
  • 00:14:12.007 --> 00:14:15.344
  • Sometimes he's like, "hey, i want you to go, i want you to go
  • 00:14:15.344 --> 00:14:18.480
  • Share the gospel with that homeless person or i want you to
  • 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.983
  • Go share the gospel with that executive in the corner office."
  • 00:14:20.983 --> 00:14:24.486
  • And if he asks us to do it, we need to walk over there and say,
  • 00:14:24.486 --> 00:14:27.156
  • "hey, listen, i've got some good news for you.
  • 00:14:27.156 --> 00:14:29.658
  • And you mentioned this, you know, being at the precipice of
  • 00:14:29.658 --> 00:14:36.265
  • A great awakening or the greatest awakening of
  • 00:14:36.265 --> 00:14:39.301
  • Our generation.
  • 00:14:39.301 --> 00:14:40.669
  • And i really, i'm seeing it everywhere i go and if you have
  • 00:14:40.669 --> 00:14:44.473
  • The gift of evangelism, i just wanna encourage you with this
  • 00:14:44.473 --> 00:14:47.409
  • That it seems to me that god has just swung open the hearts of
  • 00:14:47.409 --> 00:14:51.313
  • Men and women everywhere because i'm sharing the gospel with uber
  • 00:14:51.313 --> 00:14:54.316
  • Drivers and servers and security guards and everywhere i go
  • 00:14:54.316 --> 00:14:57.953
  • Talking about jesus and it just seems like people are really
  • 00:14:57.953 --> 00:15:01.690
  • Interested in that message.
  • 00:15:01.690 --> 00:15:03.058
  • They're like, "you mean i can live forever?
  • 00:15:03.058 --> 00:15:04.626
  • You're telling me 2025 years ago this carpenter was born in
  • 00:15:04.626 --> 00:15:08.464
  • Bethlehem and reset the calendar and then lived in nazareth and
  • 00:15:08.464 --> 00:15:11.800
  • Became the single most polarizing character in the
  • 00:15:11.800 --> 00:15:14.370
  • History of history?
  • 00:15:14.370 --> 00:15:15.738
  • And people, whether they have an islamic background or a hindu
  • 00:15:15.738 --> 00:15:18.540
  • Background or buddhist background, whatever it is,
  • 00:15:18.540 --> 00:15:20.843
  • They're atheists, you know, agnostic, they're like, "yeah,
  • 00:15:20.843 --> 00:15:24.446
  • Tell me more about that."
  • 00:15:24.446 --> 00:15:25.814
  • It's just a new day.
  • 00:15:25.814 --> 00:15:27.149
  • James: he's alive and god is using people right now you never
  • 00:15:27.149 --> 00:15:29.885
  • Would have dreamed he would use.
  • 00:15:29.885 --> 00:15:31.620
  • And i've spent my life pouring his life into people that had
  • 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:35.190
  • Never heard what they need to hear, and you're seeing the
  • 00:15:35.190 --> 00:15:38.227
  • Effects of what he did in their lives through the truth shared.
  • 00:15:38.227 --> 00:15:42.731
  • I mean the unadulterated truth shared in unconditional love has
  • 00:15:42.731 --> 00:15:47.436
  • Changed him to where now they're in leadership circles even in
  • 00:15:47.436 --> 00:15:51.573
  • Our national cabinet.
  • 00:15:51.573 --> 00:15:53.642
  • I look at it and i think, "god, i feel like i picked many of
  • 00:15:53.642 --> 00:15:56.812
  • These people."
  • 00:15:56.812 --> 00:15:58.147
  • Because i was sowing seeds in the lives of people who had
  • 00:15:58.147 --> 00:16:02.251
  • Leadership places and leadership ability, but they didn't
  • 00:16:02.251 --> 00:16:05.854
  • Understand the voice of wisdom and the voice of truth but when
  • 00:16:05.854 --> 00:16:09.358
  • It was poured on them in love consistently with deep
  • 00:16:09.358 --> 00:16:12.628
  • Conviction nonstop, it began to change 'em and now then it is
  • 00:16:12.628 --> 00:16:17.166
  • Touching the whole world.
  • 00:16:17.166 --> 00:16:18.901
  • We are seeing some positives.
  • 00:16:18.901 --> 00:16:20.702
  • I believe the stage is set for the greatest spiritual awakening
  • 00:16:20.702 --> 00:16:25.407
  • In the history of the world.
  • 00:16:25.407 --> 00:16:26.775
  • I believe that with all my heart.
  • 00:16:26.775 --> 00:16:29.111
  • His will can be done on his earth.
  • 00:16:29.111 --> 00:16:31.814
  • Can we just commit together that we will be trusting him for
  • 00:16:31.814 --> 00:16:35.818
  • That, that we will be asking god to show us how we can help his
  • 00:16:35.818 --> 00:16:39.421
  • Followers and his family fulfill his dream on his earth.
  • 00:16:39.421 --> 00:16:45.594
  • Can we agree to that?
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  • Father, i thank you so much.
  • 00:16:47.062 --> 00:16:48.597
  • I just think this guy is so full of you, and i just pray you
  • 00:16:48.597 --> 00:16:51.800
  • Bless every single thing he does and bless him down there
  • 00:16:51.800 --> 00:16:54.036
  • In waco.
  • 00:16:54.036 --> 00:16:55.404
  • I pray that university down there will explode with
  • 00:16:55.404 --> 00:16:57.339
  • Your truth.
  • 00:16:57.339 --> 00:16:58.707
  • Wouldn't that be something if every church would explode with
  • 00:16:58.707 --> 00:17:02.010
  • Your love and your truth just flowing like a river of life, in
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  • Jesus's name.
  • 00:17:06.181 --> 00:17:07.549
  • Now, that's a prayer we can all agree with.
  • 00:17:07.549 --> 00:17:09.918
  • I want you to know that if you will help us give water to
  • 00:17:09.918 --> 00:17:15.124
  • People who've never had clean water, just help us, and you'd
  • 00:17:15.124 --> 00:17:18.927
  • Like to have this book and you ask for it, we'll send it
  • 00:17:18.927 --> 00:17:21.063
  • To you.
  • 00:17:21.063 --> 00:17:22.431
  • "your story has a villain," boy, does it ever, but we can walk
  • 00:17:22.431 --> 00:17:26.135
  • Over that villain like dust, like a serpent you can crush,
  • 00:17:26.135 --> 00:17:31.006
  • Like a scorpion you can crush.
  • 00:17:31.006 --> 00:17:33.041
  • We can do that, and we do it in this life because there's no
  • 00:17:33.041 --> 00:17:37.146
  • Enemy in the next one, so let's become overcomers now.
  • 00:17:37.146 --> 00:17:41.316
  • We are drilling water wells.
  • 00:17:41.316 --> 00:17:43.452
  • And right now we have the first time that it looks like if we
  • 00:17:43.452 --> 00:17:47.523
  • Don't have a miracle this last week response, everybody
  • 00:17:47.523 --> 00:17:52.561
  • Watching, and i prayed a long time for everybody watching to
  • 00:17:52.561 --> 00:17:56.131
  • Give something, but i'm telling you, we really need, we need all
  • 00:17:56.131 --> 00:17:59.234
  • Of you who can drill a well to drill one, $4800 and everybody
  • 00:17:59.234 --> 00:18:03.438
  • Can give $48 and give ten people water the rest of life we
  • 00:18:03.438 --> 00:18:07.376
  • Need it.
  • 00:18:07.376 --> 00:18:08.844
  • But betty, what would you say to all of our viewers to help them
  • 00:18:08.844 --> 00:18:12.281
  • Understand how precious these people are, how much god loves
  • 00:18:12.281 --> 00:18:15.751
  • Them, and why we've traveled to 40 countries, most of them many,
  • 00:18:15.751 --> 00:18:19.655
  • Many times at war, and it's very dangerous, but it's always
  • 00:18:19.655 --> 00:18:24.426
  • Dangerous for people who have dirty water because it's killing
  • 00:18:24.426 --> 00:18:27.663
  • Them, and we can change that.
  • 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:29.031
  • We can give them that miracle.
  • 00:18:29.031 --> 00:18:30.365
  • Betty: we can, and you know, i hope you'll do what you can.
  • 00:18:30.365 --> 00:18:32.834
  • Any gift that god puts on your heart to give,
  • 00:18:32.834 --> 00:18:35.704
  • It will be used wisely, i promise you.
  • 00:18:35.704 --> 00:18:38.941
  • It will give a drink of water to a thirsty child.
  • 00:18:38.941 --> 00:18:42.844
  • You know, when we go into a restaurant, james,
  • 00:18:42.844 --> 00:18:45.480
  • They'll always come up and say, "what would you like to drink?"
  • 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.016
  • I'll name off all these different drinks, i always say,
  • 00:18:48.016 --> 00:18:51.820
  • "just water."
  • 00:18:51.820 --> 00:18:53.655
  • It's not just water for them, it's life for them.
  • 00:18:53.655 --> 00:18:57.159
  • It's so much more.
  • 00:18:57.159 --> 00:18:59.094
  • Please join with us.
  • 00:18:59.094 --> 00:19:00.596
  • We desperately need your help now in times like this when
  • 00:19:00.596 --> 00:19:04.132
  • We're struggling to make sure we can drill the wells everywhere
  • 00:19:04.132 --> 00:19:07.636
  • They need to be drilled.
  • 00:19:07.636 --> 00:19:09.004
  • So join with us.
  • 00:19:09.004 --> 00:19:10.339
  • Please ask god what you can do.
  • 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:12.241
  • Give your best.
  • 00:19:12.241 --> 00:19:13.575
  • James: please make the best gift you can.
  • 00:19:13.575 --> 00:19:15.844
  • Some of you've never made a gift.
  • 00:19:15.844 --> 00:19:18.313
  • I hope you'll make one now and keep making
  • 00:19:18.313 --> 00:19:20.082
  • Them the rest of your life to give life.
  • 00:19:20.082 --> 00:19:23.051
  • Would you please make the gift god put on your heart?
  • 00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:26.688
  • We've got some beautiful gifts to send you,
  • 00:19:26.688 --> 00:19:28.190
  • I promise you, that will bless you.
  • 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:31.526
  • Thank you so much for doing it.
  • 00:19:31.526 --> 00:19:33.161
  • Announcer: every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne
  • 00:19:34.563 --> 00:19:38.000
  • Disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age
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  • Of five.
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  • Through mission water for life, you can give mothers hope and
  • 00:19:42.271 --> 00:19:45.574
  • Children a future as we provide clean, fresh drinking water,
  • 00:19:45.574 --> 00:19:49.878
  • Free from the fear of death.
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  • With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350
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  • Water wells this year.
  • 00:19:56.251 --> 00:19:58.053
  • Your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for
  • 00:19:58.053 --> 00:20:01.456
  • Five children.
  • 00:20:01.456 --> 00:20:02.791
  • A gift of $48 will help provide for ten, and $144 will help
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  • Provide life-giving water for 30 people for a lifetime.
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  • With a gift of any amount, we'll send you "discovering the joy of
  • 00:20:11.366 --> 00:20:15.504
  • Reading god's word."
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  • Whether you've read the bible for years or are just beginning,
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  • This book invites you to experience scripture in a fresh,
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  • More intimate way.
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  • Photography, making god's word visible in action.
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  • Finally, please consider a gift of $1200 to help provide water
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  • For 250 people or a gift of $4800 to help sponsor a complete
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  • Well and request life's beautiful 2026 bronze sculpture,
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  • This is the last week.
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  • Please call, write, or make your gift online.
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  • James: i think it's very important that i let you know
  • 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:07.456
  • This is the last week now for this water for life campaign.
  • 00:21:07.456 --> 00:21:12.694
  • And if we're going to do it, the 350 wells, father, we need
  • 00:21:12.694 --> 00:21:16.598
  • A miracle.
  • 00:21:16.598 --> 00:21:18.066
  • We need a miracle today.
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  • You can be the source of that miracle.
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  • If you would like to have jonathan's book and you ask for
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  • It, we'll send it to you.
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  • What he shares will help you overcome.
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  • Jonathan, thanks for being with us.
  • 00:21:29.077 --> 00:21:31.046
  • I believe that god is gonna bless your ministry more than
  • 00:21:31.046 --> 00:21:33.448
  • Ever, and i'm praying that we'll just be partners in seeing the
  • 00:21:33.448 --> 00:21:37.919
  • Next great spiritual awakening.
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  • Jonathan: thank you so much.
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  • James: amen.
  • 00:21:40.889 --> 00:21:42.224
  • Thank all of you for sharing life today.
  • 00:21:42.224 --> 00:21:45.293
  • What a blessing you are.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jennifer rothschild: hi, i'm jennifer rothschild, and i wanna
  • 00:21:53.635 --> 00:21:56.104
  • Tell you what happened when my son clayton was about eight
  • 00:21:56.104 --> 00:21:59.307
  • Years old.
  • 00:21:59.307 --> 00:22:00.675
  • You see, i had been blind since i was a teenage girl, so here i
  • 00:22:00.675 --> 00:22:04.746
  • Was, a young mom, and obviously i couldn't see my son's face.
  • 00:22:04.746 --> 00:22:10.152
  • I couldn't see a lot of things that i needed to do as a mom,
  • 00:22:10.152 --> 00:22:12.988
  • But one thing that was especially challenging--and
  • 00:22:12.988 --> 00:22:15.791
  • Sometimes it was humorous--was trying to find games that i
  • 00:22:15.791 --> 00:22:20.128
  • Could play with my son where, obviously, he didn't have, like,
  • 00:22:20.128 --> 00:22:24.399
  • The, you know, clear advantage of just smearing his mom.
  • 00:22:24.399 --> 00:22:29.871
  • So, this day clayton found a new game that he
  • 00:22:29.871 --> 00:22:33.608
  • Thought we could play together.
  • 00:22:33.608 --> 00:22:34.943
  • So, i'll never forget as we're sitting on his blue bedroom
  • 00:22:34.943 --> 00:22:37.779
  • Carpet, clayton opens up the box and he lays out the game board.
  • 00:22:37.779 --> 00:22:42.617
  • And then he puts each little man on the game board, and we began
  • 00:22:42.617 --> 00:22:47.055
  • To play the game.
  • 00:22:47.055 --> 00:22:48.523
  • Well, as we began to play this game, of course, i couldn't see
  • 00:22:48.523 --> 00:22:52.294
  • What was on the game board, so i'm trying to move little men.
  • 00:22:52.294 --> 00:22:54.963
  • And as i'm moving men, i'm knocking things over, marbles
  • 00:22:54.963 --> 00:22:58.233
  • Are rolling, and our frustration was growing.
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  • And finally i said to clayton, "son,
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  • You need to pick a new game.
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  • You need to find a game that you know that we've played before
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  • That we can play together."
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  • Well, clayton was really quiet as he started to
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  • Clean up this game.
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  • And you know how it is when you love somebody and you know
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  • Somebody, that even in their silence, you can really tell
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  • Their little--their wheels are turning, like they're thinking
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  • Of something.
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  • And so, as clayton dutifully picked up each piece and put it
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  • In the game box, as he folded up the board and finally was about
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  • To put the lid on, he broke his silence, and he said something
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  • That surprised me.
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  • And before i tell you what he said, you need to understand
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  • Something about him.
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  • He's just a little boy, and he had just learned stories about
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  • Jesus and how jesus healed people.
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  • Well, he had only known his mommy being blind, and he knew
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  • That jesus could heal his mom's blindness.
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  • And so, he would pray, that little boy would pray every day,
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  • "dear god, please heal mommy's eyes."
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  • And i knew how important healing was to clayton.
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  • And, of course, i believed jesus could heal me too, and so as
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  • Clayton finally put the lid on the game board, he said, "mom, i
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  • Was thinking.
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  • I don't think god will heal you here on earth."
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  • I was so surprised, 'cause i knew how important healing was
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  • To him, and so i said, "what do you mean, clayton?
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  • Why do you think god would never heal me here on earth?"
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  • And clayton said, "because if god healed you here on earth,
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  • You might love earth more.
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